Courtland Lewis > Quotes

“BENDER: Dying sucks butt! How do you living beings cope with mortality? LEELA: Violent outbursts. AMY: General sluttiness. FRY: Thanks to denial, I’m immortal! BENDER: Damn it, I’m supposed to be perfect. Inspector 5 gave me his blessing! [He pulls out his scrap of paper and looks at it.] How could he bring me into this world knowing I’m gonna die? ZOIDBERG: So you wish you were never born, maybe? BENDER: Yes, anything less than immortality is a complete waste of time! ZOIDBERG: Then suicide it is. Step into my office. I’ll give you a nice Kervorking.   This”
― Courtland Lewis, Futurama and Philosophy: Pizza, Paradoxes, and... Good News!

“The truth is Matt Groening and David X. Cohen created a program that was much more than your typical cartoon. In fact, they created the gold standard of high-quality TV. The quality of Futurama has been recognized both by its fans and its peers. It has won five Emmys, seven Annie Awards, and two Writers Guild of America Awards, as well as receiving two Environmental Media Awards. With crisp 3-D animation and challenging storylines that engage issues in philosophy, mathematics, physics, normalcy, and the environment, Futurama has forever changed the public’s perception of what’s possible with a TV cartoon.”
― Courtland Lewis, Futurama and Philosophy: Pizza, Paradoxes, and... Good News!

“order to preserve freedom, we must allow for unpopular ideas and forms of expression.”
― Courtland Lewis, Futurama and Philosophy: Pizza, Paradoxes, and... Good News!

“Futurama has prominently engaged some of the toughest and most controversial environmental issues of our time, and it’s given us a glimpse of how twenty-first-century damage done by society to the environment will affect the thirty-first century.”
― Courtland Lewis, Futurama and Philosophy: Pizza, Paradoxes, and... Good News!