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Futurama - Bender's Big Score
Phil LaMarr does the voice of Hermes on Futurama. In the DVD movie Bender’s Big Score, Hermes ends up a decapitated head in a jar, in classic Futurama style. This got Lamar thinking of Fox-related puns.
Phil LaMarr on Futurama: Bender's Big Score
“To be reunited with Hermes' head,” he mused. “Hermes Head? Wait a minute, that's a different show I think. But that sounds like a Futurama reference doesn't it? Like in the future, after Herman's Head, there was Hermes' Head.”
After many years away from Hermes, LaMarr enjoyed the reunion. “It was fantastic. It was so good for all of us to be back together again. We had a nice long layoff there. It's always nice to come back from the dead.”
The voice came back like no time had passed. “We did it for four years. It's pretty much ingrained, plus the fact that it's on cable constantly.”
The Futurama movies will be split into four individual episodes for broadcast. If they don’t make sense on their own, LaMarr says not to worry about it. “It's sort of like when the film goes by, there's always a black. Your eye just covers it up. Your mind doesn’t want to hear it. It's going to be the same thing with the fans. They love the show so much, they won't care that it makes no sense. No, I'm kidding.”
A live-action actor as well as voice artist, LaMarr makes no preference between the two worlds. “You know what I found? There's less difference between a good animated show and a good feature film than there is between a bad one of either and a good one. Bad cartoon is closer to a bad movie than a good cartoon is to a good movie.”
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