I have seen the “Futurama,” and it is buttocks

Friend to Your Mayor Joe Rhodes is rightfully proud of his story on “Futurama’s” resurrection via DVD (“Bender’s Big Score” comes out today, with three more direct-to-video disks due out in the next year). He writes:

“I am 12 years old. And thus was very proud of getting this quote into my Futurama story in the NYT today:

"‘There is a profusion of buttocks,’ Mr. Cohen admits. ‘We pushed it a little bit in the buttocks department.’"

(For those who desire context: Portions of the story take place on a nude-beach planet filled with alien backsides.)

An interesting portion of the story discusses how it was possible to produce these films for DVD with a budget similar to its primetime incarnation and expect to be profitable (though the films will eventually be turned into episodes that will air on Adult Swim), particularly in light of the producers crying poor over the residual debate during the ongoing writers strike.

I advised Mr. Rhodes that were he to have his own blog, he could write the word “buttocks” to his heart’s content. Though I, personally, prefer the word “douchebag.”