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>what happened
Groening and Cohen somehow convinced themselves that (A) there's that strong of a demand for more Futurama and that (B) they still knew how to write the show the same way they did at the turn of the millennium.
B also applied to the Comedy Central run, but at least that one wasn't preceded by as huge of a gap. There was a 10-YEAR GAP between "Meanwhile" and Hulurama. These new episodes NEVER had a chance