Season five, maybe? I was at a friends so I can't easily check.
The reef upon which the show seemed to founder was (according to whichever of Grant or Naylor they were interviewing) the processes of casting, which in the US produced a lily white cast of good-looking guys (except that they were going to use the same actor for Kryton) and script-writing, which involved a lot of writers getting input.
Interestingly, one of the scriptwriting clans that was brought in was from THE SIMPSONS. I would be very curious if any of them later worked on FUTURAMA, which isn't much like RD but which could be said to have similarities if you squint at it: low status characters, many ethnic, who work in space. Lead character is a refugee from a past era, who got to the future through a screw-up.
Hmmm. If Fry is Lister, who is Rimmer? Leelah? And does that make Bender the Cat?
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The reef upon which the show seemed to founder was (according to whichever of Grant or Naylor they were interviewing) the processes of casting, which in the US produced a lily white cast of good-looking guys (except that they were going to use the same actor for Kryton) and script-writing, which involved a lot of writers getting input.
Interestingly, one of the scriptwriting clans that was brought in was from THE SIMPSONS. I would be very curious if any of them later worked on FUTURAMA, which isn't much like RD but which could be said to have similarities if you squint at it: low status characters, many ethnic, who work in space. Lead character is a refugee from a past era, who got to the future through a screw-up.
Hmmm. If Fry is Lister, who is Rimmer? Leelah? And does that make Bender the Cat?