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New to Fox's animation menu, "Bob's Burgers" is worth sampling

There's a new addition to Fox's "Animation Domination" block, and while it is about an oddball working-class family and does have some crude low humor, "Bob's Burgers" (8:30 tonight) has a different feel than the "The Simpsons" and all the Seth MacFarlane stuff that surrounds it.

Deadpan is the word I'm going for; low-key works too. And while not fall-down hilarious "Bob's Burgers" has enough quirkiness, smarts and slow-burn lines to say it has the potential to get better and better.

Tonight's episode introduces Bob (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) and his family on the event of the grand re-re-reopening of their burger joint. (You can tell by the all the re's that Bob is both hapless and perhaps, not the best businessman.)

It's back to the "Futurama"

Following in the footsteps of "Family Guy," Matt Groening's "Futurama" gets resurrected Thursdays at 10, because of great success in reruns and on DVD, particularly 4 DVD movies.

Unlike "Family Guy," it isn't being resurrected on Fox. Instead you can watch it on cable station Comedy Central (Perhaps, Fox's animation cash is sitting in Seth MacFarlane's pocket?)

So there will be 26 new episodes of the adventures of Philip  J. Fry (Billy West), a pizza delivery boy accidentally frozen in suspended animation in the year 2000, who wakes up  a thousand years later. He's still crazy for Leela (voiced by Katey Sagal), the hottest one-eyed pilot you'll ever meet and is buds with Bender (John DiMaggio), a crude (as in nasty) robot. In fact, all the original cast returns.

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