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=v= Futurama returned last week with its first "feature-length epic" release, "Bender's Big Score." It's gone directly to DVD, and will later air as four serial episodes, an arrangement that the creators say couldn't have happened in past years, and probably won't happen in the future when all-digital formats will be instantaneously pirated. (That said, pirated copies of "Bender's Big Score" are already on the Internet.)

There was a particularly interesting story in WiReD, which includes this little tidbit:

"We'd have to search the fan sites to check references we'd forgotten," says Patric Verrone, a Futurama writer. For instance, in one episode a character casually explains that all videotapes were erased hundreds of years before by the Second Coming of Jesus. None of the writers could remember the specific year. But a Web fan had created a detailed timeline of the show, which noted that the resurrection and erasure occurred in 2443.

Wanna know how big a geek I am? That's my timeline he's talking about. Also, I must confess that when I read about the DVD release, one of my first thoughts was that this means it will escape the fate of videotapes 436 years from now.