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Lewis Morton
Lewis "Lew" Morton is an American television writer. He has written for several shows, including ''Saturday Night Live'' (from 1993-1995), ''NewsRadio'', ''Family Guy'' and ''Futurama''. He worked as a producer for ''Undeclared'', but never authored any episodes. He also executive produced the film '' Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story''. During his time on ''Futurama'' Lewis wrote twelve episodes, making him and writer Ken Keeler the two writers who wrote the most episodes on that show as well as the most known. Lewis also went to the same primary school as David X. Cohen. Morton also attended Harvard University, where he worked on ''The Harvard Lampoon''. Awards 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) on Futurama. 2002 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) on Futurama. Nominated 2001 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program on Futurama. 1999 Emmy for Outstanding Anima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Big Piece Of Garbage
"A Big Piece of Garbage" is episode eight in season one of '' Futurama''. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on 11 May 1999. The episode was written by Lewis Morton and directed by Susie Dietter. Ron Popeil guest stars in this episode as himself. Nancy Cartwright also has a brief cameo as a Bart Simpson doll. Much of the episode is a spoof of the 1998 film ''Armageddon''; however, instead of Earth being threatened by an asteroid, it is threatened by a giant ball of garbage. Plot Professor Farnsworth invites the crew of Planet Express to join him at the Academy of Inventors' annual symposium, where inventors display their latest creations. He will be presenting his invention, the Deathclock, which displays the date of a person's death after that person's finger is stuck into the machine. At the symposium, the crew encounter one of Farnsworth's former students, Professor Ogden Wernstrom. When he was still a student, Wernstrom received an A-minus on a pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heartbreak Dog
The fourteenth season of ''Family Guy'' aired on Fox in the United States from September 27, 2015, to May 22, 2016. The season contained 20 episodes. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. Season 14 contains the series' 250th episode, which is the season premiere. Guest stars for the season include Joe Buck, Kyle Chandler, Glenn Close, Anil Kapoor, Kate McKinnon, John Mellencamp, Ed O'Neill, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. During this season, the guys head to South Korea after discovering Quagmire's past as a Korean soap-opera star ("Candy, Quahog Marshmallow"), Chris becomes a registered sex offender ("An App a Day"), Stewie has a nightmare and sends Brian into his mind to find the root of the problem ("A Lot Going on Upstairs"), Stewie builds a robot friend ("Guy, Robot"), Peter's drunken antic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopedia Griffin
"Encyclopedia Griffin" is the 11th episode of the thirteenth season of the animated sitcom '' Family Guy'', and the 242nd episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on February 15, 2015, and is written by Lew Morton and directed by Jerry Langford. Plot After someone steals Stewie's tricycle, Peter sets out to find who did it. He and his friends interrogate a child in the neighborhood and find the child who stole it. The successful feeling, and being hired to find another child's baseball cards, inspire them to open a detective agency. They take cases such as a gumball machine that takes a child's money. Pursuing a rash of thefts, they watch hidden camera footage of Chris sneaking in and taking things. Searching his room, they find a life-size female doll made out of the stolen items as he arrives to protect "Heather." The doll creeps out Lois and she thinks it may be a reflection of her sex life with Peter. Peter has a talk with Chris and finds that the doll is not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder On The Planet Express
"Murder on the Planet Express" is the twenty-fourth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom '' Futurama''. It originally aired on Comedy Central on August 21, 2013. The episode was written by Lewis Morton and directed by Frank Marino. In this episode, the crew get trapped aboard the Planet Express ship with a horrific alien creature. The episode's title derives from ''Murder on the Orient Express'' and parodies ''Alien'' and '' The Thing''. Plot Fry accuses Bender of using his toothbrush to polish his buttocks, and purchases a spy camera to check. At the Planet Express offices, Hermes accuses Zoidberg of eating his lunch. Leela accuses Amy of using her punching bag for golf ball practice. In turn, Amy accuses Leela of using her golf club to pound dents out of the Planet Express ship. The crew gathers together later that day, and Fry publicly accuses Bender. He shows the others the video he recorded, but it turns out that although Bender was not using his toothbru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calculon 2
"Calculon 2.0" is the twentieth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom '' Futurama''. It originally aired on Comedy Central on July 24, 2013. The episode was written by Lewis Morton and directed by Stephen Sandoval. Calculon (who died in "The Thief of Baghead") is backed up and put into the body of a new robot so he can return to ''All My Circuits'', only to learn that his over-the-top acting was never appreciated. Plot It has been a year since Calculon killed himself in a failed attempt to win an acting competition by making a death scene more realistic. Fry and Bender are so dissatisfied with Calculon's replacement Vaxtron on ''All My Circuits'' that they resolve to resurrect Calculon. Bender exhumes Calculon's body on live television, and Farnsworth organizes an occult ritual to return Calculon's soul to his body. The Robot Devil practically gives Fry and Bender Calculon's soul as Calculon has been driving him crazy with badly performed Shakespeare-style monol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Late Philip J
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV
"Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV" (also known as "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television") is the sixth episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series '' Futurama''. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on August 3, 2003. The episode's plot revolves around Bender's outlandish behavior on the television program '' All My Circuits''; after he lands a spot on the show, he is quickly criticised by members of the public for setting a poor example for children. Bender eventually sees the critics' point of view after he realizes children imitated his behavior and stole his belongings, and sets out to put a stop to his own behavior. Plot After a robot actor on ''All My Circuits'' malfunctions, an open casting call is held for a replacement. Bender attends the audition and while the other actors are on, he boos them and chants his own praises through the door. Easily swayed, Calculon gives him the part. On the air, Bender sings, dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthology Of Interest II
"Anthology of Interest II" is the 18th episode of ''Futurama''s Futurama (season 3), third season . It originally aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network in the United States on January 6, 2002. This episode, as well as the earlier "Anthology of Interest I", serves to showcase three "imaginary" stories. Plot Professor Farnsworth hauls out his What-If Machine again, fine-tunes it, and the crew takes a look at three alternative realities. I, Meatbag Bender Bending RodrÃguez, Bender asks what would happen if he were human. The simulation opens with Hubert J. Farnsworth, Professor Farnsworth announcing that he has invented a process of reverse Petrifaction, fossilization, which can turn robots and machines into organic life-forms. He uses his process on Bender, who is transformed into a human. After a short period of adaptation, Bender's self-control is overwhelmed by his new senses of taste and touch, and he goes on a binge of eating, smoking, partying, and drinking alcoh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cyber House Rules
"The Cyber House Rules" is the ninth episode in season three of the American animated television series '' Futurama''. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 1, 2001. The title comes from the John Irving novel ''The Cider House Rules''. Plot Leela is invited to a reunion at her old orphanarium. She initially dreads seeing the people who made fun of her eye as a kid, but she decides rubbing her success in their faces would be very satisfying. Leela attempts to wave her impressive lifestyle in the other orphans' faces, but they quickly resume making fun of her eye. But Adlai Atkins (voiced by guest star Tom Kenny), the only other success story from the orphanarium, shoos them away. Adlai, now a phaser eye surgeon, offers to rework Leela's face to make her look normal, and she jumps at the chance, in spite of Fry's objections. Meanwhile, Bender adopts twelve orphans for the $100-a-week-per-child government stipend. The operation is a success, and L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon Women In The Mood
"Amazon Women in the Mood" is the first episode in season three of '' Futurama''. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 4, 2001. Plot Amy has been receiving phone calls for a year, where the caller stammers and then hangs up. The calls are from Kif, who loves Amy but is too nervous to speak. Zapp realizes that Amy and Leela know each other, and asks them on a double date with him and Kif. Leela agrees as a favor to Amy, and they go to a restaurant aboard a space liner. Kif uses Zapp's boorish pick-up lines, offending Amy. To prevent her and Leela from leaving, Kif sings karaoke. Amy is touched, but Zapp pushes Kif off the stage and sings poorly to Leela, causing the passengers and crew of the ship to flee the restaurant. Zapp crashes the ship into the planet Amazonia, where the Amazonians, a race of giant, muscular, tribal women, capture them. Fry and Bender travel to Amazonia to rescue their friends but are also captured. Fry, Zapp, and Ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother's Day (Futurama)
"Mother's Day" is fourteenth episode in the second season of the American animated television series '' Futurama''. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 14, 2000. Plot Every Mother's Day, robots made in Mom's Friendly Robot Company factories around the world give gifts, money, and cards to the owner of the corporation, Mom. Despite extensively promoting the holiday, Mom actually hates the day and is in an even more bitter mood this year, remembering a romantic affair that had ended 70 years prior. Such doomed romance had been with a younger Professor Hubert Farnsworth, then an employee of Mom's Friendly Robot Company. When Mom insisted that the Professor's latest design, a children's toy named Q.T. McWhiskers, be changed to an eight-foot-tall death machine to be sold on the intergalactic arms market, the Professor, enraged, stormed out of the room, and they had not seen each other since. In revenge, Mom attempts to become the "supreme overlord of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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