Talking Futurama - The Eric Rogers Interview

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🗓️ 12 December 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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No, you're not seeing things—as a special holiday bonus for all of our pals on the Talking Simpsons free feed, we're giving away a free sample of our Talking Futurama miniseries in the form of an interview with one of the show's writers. If you enjoy this and want to hear all of Talking Futurama—along with too many other things to mention here—head on over to patreon.com/talkingsimpsons and sign up today. Thanks!

Good news, everyone! For our first ever Talking Futurama interview, we're talking to the great Eric Rogers, who acted as assistant to the writers for the first two production seasons, wrote of the "Terror at 500 Feet" segment of Anthology of Interest I, and returned for the Comedy Central reboot of Futurama as a regular writer of episodes. Listen in as we talk to Eric about his journey into the world of TV writing, what it was like to be on the Futurama staff from the very beginning, the difficulties of working with Fox, and more! And if you enjoyed this interview, please let Eric know—he's @EricRogersHere on Twitter.

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0:00.0	Oh, hoi, hoi everybody and welcome to our, I believe, first talking Futurama interview.
0:13.0	I'm one of your hosts the Stronger than Gumb Hercules Bob Mackie who's with me today as always.
0:19.0	You know I'll say this on a future podcast Bob repeated,
0:21.0	I'm a big robot and I demand a big podcast interview and
0:24.8	speaking in which soon you'll hear us talk to the writer of that anthology of
0:28.8	interest segment Eric Rogers and Eric Rogers was an assistant to the writers for the first two production seasons of Futurama from like the very first episode onwards after the pilot and he would later go on to write for the comedy central episodes We talked to him for about 30 to 40 minutes
0:44.7	about his time with the show, the show's Rocky History with Fox, and what it was like to finally
0:50.1	race to the rank of writer for Futurama.
0:52.8	Yeah, it was great talking to Eric.
0:54.2	Eric's fun on Twitter too.
0:55.7	You'll say it at the end, but follow him on Twitter
0:57.6	at Eric Rogers here.
0:59.5	He has been very helpful to just this podcast for like questions of hey in the early days what
1:05.4	about this joke what about that joke because not only is he a professional
1:08.9	television screenwriter in his own right but he also was a witness to all of the
1:14.8	writers coming up with those jokes so he was there on the ground floor and he
1:19.8	gave us some really great insight into those early years especially if you trauma and
1:24.3	the comedy central years too like so he was it was just super awesome to talk to you
1:29.6	know a professional writer who also was a witness to all of the crazy stuff, the ups and downs of
1:36.4	future drama like Eric was.
1:37.8	All that Harvard magic floating around in the air.
1:40.5	But yes, as we always do, we'll ask you if you enjoy the interview please let Eric know he is at Eric Rogers here on Twitter and Eric is spelled ERIC so
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