2009 is a year of milestones for Matt Groening: his 55th birthday, The Simpsons’ 20th anniversary, and the fourth (and possibly final) Futurama movie, Into The Wild Green Yonder. The year demands a certain amount of reflection, though it takes little effort to see the effect of his work. The Simpsons has had a seismic impact on pop culture; it redefined the television landscape after it debuted as a series on Fox in 1989, and it’s become one of the most important and successful series in history, with a legion of dialogue-quoting fans that outnumbers the world’s armies. And Groening has had considerable success elsewhere. He still writes and draws his comic, Life In Hell (which predates The Simpsons by more than a decade) every week, even as the newspapers that carry it die off. His second animated series, Futurama, debuted in 1999 and ran for four seasons before Fox canceled it, but as with Family Guy, robust DVD sales and syndication gave Futurama new life. It returned in 2007 as a direct-to-DVD movie, Bender’s Big Score, which was subdivided into half-hour episodes for Comedy Central. Three more films followed: The Beast With A Billion Backs and Bender’s Game in 2008, and Into The Wild Green Yonder in March 2009. Before its release, Groening spoke to The A.V. Club about the future of Futurama, the hostility of humor, and why The Simpsons isn’t as funny as you remember it.
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