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4 Futurama direct-to-DVD movies have been released; each one written to work as 4 'to-be-continued' episode-segments each. Some of these segments have aired on Comedy Central who now own the syndication rights to Futurama, the series. Some segments are still yet to air. There are 16 in total (4 from each movie, 4 movies in total).

The show's comeback is a definate possibility. Matt Groening, David X. Cohen and Billy West have all expressed a strong desire to continue making the show and Fox are currently in talks with the show's producers about the possibility of a new season being produced. Whether or not this will amount to anything is unknown, but given the healthy sales of the DVD movies (David X. Cohen stated that Fox used the phrase "greatly exceeded our expectations" when talking about the DVD sales with him recently), which were produced as a way of 'testing-the-water' for how well new Futurama would do, it is extremely likely that Futurama will return either in the form of another season of the TV show, another run of DVD movies or a theatrical film (something David X. Cohen has wanted to do since the show began).

Four seasons of the show were produced; however, Fox aired the show at rather inconsistent intervals and often replaced the show with sports games so lots of unaired episodes were left over. They decided to just air these episodes as a fifth season. Hence there are four production seasons (considered the show's true seasons) and five airing seasons.

It's debateable whether or not the 16 episode-segments of the 4 dvd movies produced count as a new season themselves. If this were the case, there would be 5 production seasons and 6 airing seasons. Each movie features 4 production codes like the ones assigned to episodes which can be seen during the end credits. This would suggest that officially the movies do count as a 5th production season. The production codes are 5ACV01-5ACV04 for Bender's Big Score Parts 1-4, 5ACV05-5ACV08 for The Beast With a Billion Backs Parts 1-4, 5ACV09-5ACV12 for Bender's Game Parts 1-4 and 5ACV13-5ACV16 for Into the Wild, Green Yonder Parts 1-4 respectively.

Fox owns the majority of legal rights and such, however Matt Groening maintains the creative rights to the show.

Comedy Central currently own the syndication rights to the show.

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In several episodes, Bender gives his name as "Bender B. Rodriguez", and reveals in "Luck of the Fryish" that "Bending" is his middle name, as in "Bender Bending Rodriguez". This name is also used for him in "The Cyber House Rules", when the orphanarium of Leela's childhood is renamed "The Bender B. Rodgriguez Orphanarium", in honor of his generous donation of "1200 wing-wangs".

However, in an easter egg found in the Season 1 DVD set, creator Matt Groening gives Bender's true name as "Bending Unit 22", and there's at least one on-screen written reference to him by this name in "The Deep South". Near the end of the episode, Bender is awarded a check for catching a record-breaking fish, and the check is made out to "Bending Unit 22".

The use of "Bending Unit 22" on a check made out to Bender suggests that this is his proper name, however, he is more frequently referred to in the series as "Bender B. Rodriguez", so which name is actually his full name is up for debate.

Turanga is not necessarily her first name, but rather her surname. Similar to some Asian traditions, the surname, or family name, comes first, then the individual's first name. You can see this by the way her name and her parents' names are written (Turanga Leela, Turanga Morris, Turanga Munda).

Leela's name apparently comes from a 1949 piece of music by Olivier Messiaen, the Turangalîla-Symphonie. According to Wikipedia, he came by the name of the piece via two Sanskrit words, turanga and lîla, which roughly translate into English as "love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm, life, and death." Some sources say Messiaen's original program notes described Turangalîla as "superhuman, overflowing, dazzling and abandoned" -- character traits also of Futurama's Leela.

In "Mother's Day," Mom says that he has the same "lovely shade of milky white." They are never to be seen in any episode, though.