Futurama (1999– )

Fry, a pizza guy is accidentally frozen in 1999 and thawed out New Year's Eve 2999.

Creator:

Matt Groening

Stars:

Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio

Won 6 Primetime Emmys. Another 7 wins & 26 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Billy West	...	Philip J. Fry (111 episodes, 1999-2012)
Katey Sagal	...	Turanga Leela (111 episodes, 1999-2012)
John DiMaggio	...	Bender (111 episodes, 1999-2012)
Tress MacNeille	...	Linda (109 episodes, 1999-2012)
Phil LaMarr	...	Hermes Conrad (104 episodes, 1999-2012)
Lauren Tom	...	Amy Wong (102 episodes, 1999-2012)
Maurice LaMarche	...	Morbo (101 episodes, 1999-2012)
David Herman	...	Scruffy (92 episodes, 1999-2012)

Storyline

Phillip Fry is a 25-year-old pizza delivery boy whose life is going nowhere. When he accidentally freezes himself on December 31, 1999, he wakes up 1,000 years in the future and has a chance to make a fresh start. He goes to work for the Planet Express Corporation, a futuristic delivery service that transports packages to all five quadrants of the universe. His companions include the delivery ship's captain, Leela, a beautiful one-eyed female alien who kicks some serious butt, and Bender, a robot with very human flaws.

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Plot Keywords:

alien | robot | delivery boy | doctor | new york city | 

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Taglines:

The future is here!

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Official Sites:

Comedy Central [us] Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 March 1999 (USA)

Also Known As:

Aloha Mars!

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Curiosity Company, The, 20th Century Fox Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min 30 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Dolby Digital (seasons 6-)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Bender's first words were, "Bite my shiny metal ass."

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Goofs

In Season 4 Episode 12 "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" Fry mentions the Star Trek films attracts negative attention because the show was banned long before then, and apparently saying the show's name is forbidden. In Season 3 Episode 8 "That's Lobstertainment!" at an Oscar awards ceremony a featured film is titled "Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation" and no mention of Star Trek being forbidden is made.

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Quotes

Turanga Leela: Just make a simple cake. And this time, if someone's going to jump out of it, make sure to put them in after you cook it.

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Crazy Credits

The production company logo shown at the very end of the show is "30th Century Fox".

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Connections

Featured in Obscurus Lupa Presents: Top 10 Hottest Animated Dogs (2012)

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Soundtracks

"Tom Sawyer"
by Rush
Episode: {"Anthology Of Interest 2" (2002) (ep. #4.3)}

User Reviews

All hail, the NEW king of animated series.

While the later episodes of The Simpson's have suffered, Futurama has matured, far more quickly than the Simpson's did, into a fantastic work of animation.

The similarities between the Simpson's are obvious and not to be ignored. A show as good as The Simpson's was is ripe for theft and Futurama, the brainchild of Matt Groening, borrows well from the former show. Bender is the Homer Simpson, devoid of responsibility, yet, as this lack of responsibility is placed in a robot, we do not have to feel anger at his wayward ways.

Leela is the far less annoying Marge. Less annoying for the simple facts. A) She has something resembling a personality, something that Marge definitely suffered from. and B) You can listen to her speak without wanting to kill yourself.

Fry however grounds the show with the emotional base that made the Simpson's great. A Pizza delivery boy from the 20th century transported forwards in time 1000 years into a world that he knows nothing about. While our imaginations might find it a little too easy coming to terms with the future and all the few new inventions that go with it (Perhaps a nod to how poor an inventor Farnsworth is that there seems nothing overly unusual about this future), we forgive this minor blip and embrace Groening new world vision.

As with The Simpson's, Groening has given us a host of superb background characters. Zoidberg the lobster Doctor, Amy daughter of money, Hermes the Jamaican limbo champion who keeps the business together and of course Zap Brannigan, the genius of lacklustre. All of these characters are easily the match of Chief Wiggum, Smithers, Krusty, Frink, etc.

Groening, clearly by taking the best writers from the Simpson's with him when he jumped ship, has done the impossible and found an animated series that is superior to the unsurpassable Simpson's. Groening's world is a good one. And so is his show.