Futurama.
Futurama is an animated
science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and
David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the
adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J.
Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years,
finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the
retro-futuristic 31st century. The series was envisioned by Groening in the
late 1990s while working on The Simpsons, later bringing Cohen aboard to
develop storylines and characters to pitch the show to Fox.
In the United States, the
series aired on Fox from March 28, 1999, to August 10, 2003, before ceasing
production. Futurama was then aired in reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim
from 2003 to 2007, until the network's contract expired. It was revived in 2008
as four direct-to-video films; the last of the four was released in early 2009.
Comedy Central entered into an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television to
syndicate the existing episodes and air the films as 16 new, half-hour episodes,
constituting a fifth season.
In June 2009, producing
studio 20th Century Fox announced that Comedy Central had picked up the show
for 26 new half-hour episodes, which began airing in 2010 and 2011. The show was renewed for a seventh season,
with the first half airing in June 2012 and the second set for early summer
2013. It was later revealed that the seventh season would be the final season,
as Comedy Central announced that they would not be commissioning any further
episodes. The series finale is set to air on September 4, 2013, though Groening
has said he will try to get it picked up by another network.
Throughout its run,
Futurama has received critical acclaim. The show has been nominated for 17
Annie Awards and 11 Emmy Awards, winning seven of the former and five of the
latter. It has also been nominated four times for a Writers Guild of America
Award, winning two for the episodes "Godfellas" and "The
Prisoner of Benda", been nominated for a Nebula Award and has received
Environmental Media Awards for episodes "The Problem with Popplers"
and "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular".[9] Futurama-related
merchandise has also been released, including a tie-in comic book series and
video game, calendars, clothes, and figurines.
Characters:
Philip J. Fry (Billy West)
Fry is a dim-witted,
immature, slovenly, yet good-hearted pizza delivery boy who falls into a
cryogenic pod, causing it to activate and freeze him just after midnight on
January 1, 2000. He re-awakens on New Year's Eve, 2999, and gets a job as a cargo
delivery boy at Planet Express, a company owned by his only living relative,
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth. Fry's love for Leela is a recurring theme
throughout the series.
Turanga Leela (Katey Sagal)
Leela is the competent,
one-eyed captain of the Planet Express Ship. Abandoned as a baby, she grew up
in the Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium believing herself to be an
alien from another planet, but learns that she is actually a mutant from the
sewers in the episode "Leela's Homeworld". Prior to becoming the
ship's captain, Leela worked as a career assignment officer at the cryogenics
lab where she first met Fry. She is Fry's primary love interest. Her name is a
reference to the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen.
Bender Bending Rodriguez(John DiMaggio)
Bender is a foul-mouthed,
heavy-drinking, cigar-smoking, kleptomaniacal, misanthropic, egocentric,
ill-tempered robot manufactured by Mom's Friendly Robot Company. He was
originally programmed to bend girders for suicide booths, and is later
designated as assistant sales manager and cook, despite lacking a sense of
taste. He is Fry's best friend and roommate.
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth(Billy
West)
Zapp Brannigan is the
incompetent, extraordinarily vain captain of the DOOP starship Nimbus. He is a
satirical pastiche of Captain Kirk and William Shatner. Although Leela
thoroughly detests him, Brannigan—a self-deluded lady's man—pursues her
relentlessly, often at great personal risk. Brannigan was dishonorably
dismissed from the DOOP in Brannigan Begin Again but was reinstated in the same
episode. He was originally going to be voiced by Phil Hartman, but Hartman died
before production could begin.
Kif Kroker (Maurice LaMarche)
Zapp
Brannigan's 4th Lieutenant and long-suffering personal assistant, Kif is a
member of the amphibious species that inhabits the planet Amphibios 9. Although
extremely timid, he eventually works up the courage to date Amy. Kif is often
shown sighing in disgust at the nonsensical rantings of his commanding officer.
Dr. John A.
Zoidberg (Billy West)
Zoidberg is a
lobster-like alien from the planet Decapod 10, and the neurotic staff physician
of Planet Express. Although he claims to be an expert on humans, his knowledge
of human anatomy and physiology is woefully inaccurate. Zoidberg's expertise
seems to be with extra-terrestrial creatures. He is homeless, penniless,
and—despite being depicted as Professor Farnsworth's long-time friend—held in
contempt by everyone on the crew, except Fry.ccc.
Amy Wong (Lauren Tom)
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Amy is an incredibly
rich, blunt, spoiled, ditzy, and accident-prone long-term intern at Planet
Express. She is an engineering student at Mars University and heiress to the
western hemisphere of Mars. Born on Mars, she is ethnically Chinese and is
prone to cursing in Cantonese and using 31st-century slang. Her parents are the
wealthy ranchers Leo and Inez Wong. She is promiscuous in the beginning of the
series and eventually enters a monogamous relationship with Kif Kroker. In the
show's sixth season, she acquires her doctorat
Hermes Conrad (Phil LaMarr)
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Hermes is the Jamaican
accountant of Planet Express. A 36th-level bureaucrat (demoted to level 37
during the series) and proud of it, he is a stickler for regulation and
enamored of the tedium of paperwork and bureaucracy. Hermes is also a former
champion in Olympic Limbo, a sport derived from the popular party activity. He
gave up limbo after the 2980 Olympics when a young fan, imitating him, broke
his back and died. Hermes has a wife, LaBarbara, and a 12-year-old son, Dwight
Zapp Brannigan (Billy West)
Zapp Brannigan is the
incompetent, extraordinarily vain captain of the DOOP starship Nimbus. He is a
satirical pastiche of Captain Kirk and William Shatner. Although Leela thoroughly
detests him, Brannigan—a self-deluded lady's man—pursues her relentlessly,
often at great personal risk. Brannigan was dishonorably dismissed from the
DOOP in Brannigan Begin Again but was reinstated in the same episode. He was
originally going to be voiced by Phil Hartman, but Hartman died before
production could begin.
Mom (Tress MacNeille)
Mom is the malevolent,
foul-mouthed, cruel, and narcissistic owner of MomCorp, the thirty-first
century's largest shipping and manufacturing company, with a monopoly on
robots. In public, she maintains the image of a sweet, kindly old woman by
speaking in stereotypically antiquated statements and wearing a mechanical fat
suit. She occasionally launches insidious plans for world domination and
corporate takeover. She has a romantic history with the Professor which left
her bitter and resentful. She has three bumbling sons, Walt, Larry, and Igner
(modeled after the Three Stooges), who do her bidding despite frequent abuse,
and often infuriate her with their incompetence. In Bender's Game, it is
revealed that Igner's
Nibbler (Frank Welker)
Nibbler is Leela's pet
Nibblonian, whom she rescued from an imploding planet and adopted early in the
series. Despite his deceptively cute exterior, Nibbler is actually a highly
intelligent super-being whose race is responsible for maintaining order in the
universe. He is revealed in "The Why of Fry" to have been directly
responsible for Fry's cryogenic freezing. While the size of an average house
cat, his race is capable of devouring much larger animals. He defecates dark
matter, which until Bender's Game is used as fuel for space cruisers in the
series.
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