Remember how, when the first direct-to-DVD Futurama movie Bender’s Big Score came out, I was so elated that it took a squad of twenty dudes with tranquilizer guns and stern demeanors to calm me down?

Shoooooooot heeeeerrrrr!!!
Well, I am literally going into elation-induced cardiac arrest as I write these words, because this news story says Comedy Central is most assuredly, definitely, for real, not a tease this time going to be airing 26 spankin’ new episodes of Futurama starting in the middle of next year.Mere words, limited as they are when it comes to describing the soaring heights of human emotional responses, cannot do justice to the joy I feel at learning this news.

Here are some facts to help you realize why Futurama is so awesome.

Facts About Futurama That Prove it is Awesome

• Futurama is a better show than The Simpsons, as measured by a percentage of the total number of episodes that are great.
• Futurama has more references to Star Trek than any show except Star Trek.
• “We tore the universe a new space-hole, all right, but it’s clenching shut fast.” GENIUS
• Watching Futurama will make you lose weight, except in your wang which will grow significantly, plus it will save you gas money.
• Futurama is emphatically not a show about a soul-devouring harridan, her emasculated husband and their brood of unexceptional children.

I’m setting my TiVo now, people. (FACT: I only have a vague awareness of what TiVo is. I do not personally have TiVo. I don’t even have cable. I’ll be watching the new Futurama episodes at somebody else’s house, assuming my neighbors haven’t changed their locks and/or gotten a dog.)

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