White America’s economical structure inherently involves the ‘status quo’, in other words, the comforting idea of the “Jim Crow era” industries that they’re inclined toward and used to. America’s “ traditional culture” stems from oppression; to steal, and undermine others for your own selfish gains, and racist…

Chase is certainly laying the groundwork!

At this point, all the actors should be getting a chunk of the back-end.

Ok, I never comment, but I feel like this situation warrants it.

DiMaggio doesn’t have a right to speak for them by saying he thinks the whole cast is underpaid. That’s insulting.

This take is reminiscent of those anti-union videos they made us watch at my retail gig. “Advocating for higher wages for everyone is an insult to your fellow workers who are (outwardly, anyway) content to work for less! Why do you have to sow discord in our happy corporate family?”

I don’t think he’s implying that West and Sagal undervalue their work, I think he’s pointing out that the industry underpays voice actors as a whole (which it absolutely does.)

“It’s insulting to suggest your coworkers should be paid more” isn’t a great take

Saying he thinks the entire cast is underpaid is not “speaking for them.” That’s an opinion on industry practices; he’s not directly commenting on the other castmembers’ decisions to sign on (at least not here), and while there is room to infer, it’s still much more inference than implication. Your comment comes…

Sure he does. People take way less than their labor is actually worth all the time, it’s one of the big issues of our time and part of the whole minimum wage conversation. It’s not insulting to say that they should be paid more, it’s insulting that they don’t get paid fair wages from the jump, even if they’re…

I don’t really get this point - there are lots of people who are great at their jobs and have a ton of experience who accept underpaying jobs. And there’s a lot of reasons why that may be the case - maybe they don’t know what they’re really worth, maybe they do but are happy with the status quo, maybe they value perks…

I think what he may be getting at is that no one from Futurama is making anywhere close to Simpsons voice-over coin.

They treated him like an animal, and that’s what he became!

To shreds you say?

First Bender, then Flexo, then Fry.

Can’t they just get whoever played Flexo to voice Bender?

Multiple fine endings! I’m as big a fan of the show as anyone, but I just can’t see another revival going well, even if they could get DiMaggio back. It hit a few high points in the last revival but was mostly mediocre and that’s probably the absolute best case scenario for this one.

Two fine endings!

Just an FYI, there’s also currently a big negotiation going on right now with the Animation Guild and the AMPTP. Voice actors aren’t part of the Animation Guild BUT more and more folks have been low-key throwing their support behind them. I don’t know if John’s holdout is part of that, but there are other behind the…

Things should be allowed to end.
Futurama had a fine ending.  Time to just let it rest.