Futurama is an animated American science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening (The Simpsons) and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. 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 a thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retrofuturistic 31st-century.
In the United States, the series aired from March 28, 1999 to August 10, 2003 on Fox before ceasing production. Futurama was then aired in reruns on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, from January 2003 to December 2007, when the network’s contract expired. It was revived in 2007 as four straight-to-DVD 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 new episodes in an episodic format.
Comedy Central began airing Futurama on January 2, 2008, with new episodes starting on March 23, 2008.[3] On June 9, 2009, producing studio 20th Century Fox announced that Comedy Central had picked up the show for 26 new half-hour episodes scheduled to begin airing on June 24, 2010.
Oh man,I’ve been waiting forever for this! I advise everyone to take off their nostalgia goggles for this one, since theyre still not in the groove. WHOO more futurama!
Season six? There were only four seasons. The Professor’s kid was the only clone; in one episode he and Hermes’s son take over Planet Express - by the end of the show everything is back to normal.
My only bother with this is I liked the way the series wrapped up it’s run. Fry finally got Leela’s attention. Hopefully the new episodes find a creative way to not ruin that ending… because of course it can’t stay that way for the show to work the same way, a good part of the humor was Fry’s always trying and usually failing (in ways that ranged from minor and amusing to huge and heart-breaking). Really this was for me the best-written of Fox’s animated shows.
I still laugh my ass off for the episode where Zoidberg has to go back to his planet to mate - not only a rip off of the Ponn Farr episode of Star Trek, but before they fight they have to play the national anthem - and the music is the fighting music from same episode of Star Trek! Speaking of which… how about the Star Trek episode? … The end of the episode Jurassic Bark, if that doesn’t bring a tear or two, you’re not human. Time Keeps On Skippin’ isn’t much better. Not every ep was great, but the ones that are good really stand out.
I am so happy they are bringing it back and with the original voice actors. I always thought it was so much better than The Simpsons. And that’s not saying The Simpsons suck, I just think they let him do more with Futurama that made it truly unique.
