Futurama

Futurama (1999–2003, 2007–2013) is an animated television series created by Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. Set in the year 3000, a 20th century human who was frozen in the year 1999 awakes to find himself in the future, where he finds new friends who are coworkers at the Planet Express delivery company.

Season 1	Season 2	Season 3
Space Pilot 3000	I Second That Emotion	Amazon Women in the Mood
The Series Has Landed	Brannigan, Begin Again	Parasites Lost
I, Roommate	A Head in the Polls	A Tale of Two Santas
Love's Labors Lost in Space	Xmas Story	The Luck of the Fryrish
Fear of a Bot Planet	Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?	The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz
A Fishful of Dollars	Lesser of Two Evils	Bendless Love
My Three Suns	Put Your Head on my Shoulders	The Day The Earth Stood Stupid
A Big Piece of Garbage	Raging Bender	That's Lobstertainment
Hell Is Other Robots	A Bicyclops Built For Two	The Cyber House Rules
A Flight to Remember	A Clone of My Own	Where the Buggalo Roam
Mars University	How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back	Insane in the Mainframe
When Aliens Attack	The Deep South	The Route of All Evil
Fry and the Slurm Factory	Bender Gets Made	Bendin' in the Wind
	Mother's Day	Time Keeps on Slippin'
	The Problem With Popplers	I Dated a Robot
	Anthology of Interest I	A Leela of Her Own
	War Is the H-Word	A Pharaoh to Remember
	The Honking	Anthology of Interest II
	The Cryonic Woman	Roswell That Ends Well
		Godfellas
		Future Stock
		The 30% Iron Chef

Season 4	Season 6	Season 7
Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch	Rebirth	The Bots and the Bees
Leela's Homeworld	In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela	A Farewell to Arms
Love and Rocket	Attack of the Killer App	Decision 3012
Less Than Hero	Proposition Infinity	The Thief of Baghead
A Taste of Freedom	The Duh-Vinci Code	Zapp Dingbat
Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV	Lethal Inspection	The Butterjunk Effect
Jurassic Bark	The Late Philip J. Fry	The Six Million Dollar Mon
Crimes of the Hot	That Darn Katz!	Fun on a Bun
Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles	A Clockwork Origin	Free Will Hunting
The Why of Fry	The Prisoner of Benda	Near Death Wish
Where No Fan Has Gone Before	Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences	31st Century Fox
The Sting	The Mutants Are Revolting	Viva Mars Vegas
Bend Her	The Futurama Holiday Spectacular	Naturama
Obsoletely Fabulous	Neutopia	2-D Blacktop
The Farnsworth Parabox	Benderama	Fry and Leela's Big Fling
Three Hundred Big Boys	Ghost in the Machines	T.: The Terrestrial
Spanish Fry	Law and Oracle	Forty Percent Leadbelly
Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings	The Silence of the Clamps	The Inhuman Torch
	Yo Leela Leela	Saturday Morning Fun Pit
	All the Presidents' Heads	Calculon 2.0
	Möbius Dick	Assie Come Home
	Fry Am the Egg Man	Leela and the Genestalk
	The Tip of the Zoidberg	Game of Tones
	Cold Warriors	Murder on the Planet Express
	Overclockwise	Stench and Stenchibility
	Reincarnation	Meanwhile

About Futurama

• Well, "Futurama" started with Fry getting frozen on New Year's Eve 1999 and waking up 1,000 years later, and then as it's gone forward in time, we're in 3013 now. And on the other hand, the characters haven’t aged!
• David and I talked about all the characters and worked together. My drawing style is actually pretty simple and crude -- I can't draw beautiful women, not even beautiful cyclops women -- so I turned my drawings over to real artists and let them make them better, and then I took those drawings and messed with them. There's nobody who's really sexy on "The Simpsons," but I learned that the animators could draw women in the "Simpsons" style who looked beautiful -- which was a great surprise to me! So I wanted to see if I could create a science fiction heroine -- except I wanted to mess with the fanboys, so I gave her one eye. The original Leela was far more conventionally sexy, in cartoon form. There's something about cartoonists and animators when it comes to drawing beautiful women they give them noses that are microscopic, and I gave her a nose more like Olive Oyl's, more in that direction. The animators were aghast at this revolting horror character -- you don't even notice it now. You probably can't even picture it, it's just a nose. And then she was dressed like Ripley from the first "Alien" movie.

With "Futurama," I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our original plan was never to have Fry and Leela get together, we finally just said, "You can only string the fans along so far."

• With "Futurama," I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really really difficult. Science fiction as comedy is tough to pull off, because so much science fiction is about genre and less about character. Which is one of the traditional criticisms of science fiction, that it's weak on character. The jokes are just a little harder [to write].
  • Matt Groening [1]

See also

• Futurama: Bender's Big Score
• Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
• Futurama: Bender's Game
• Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

External links

• Futurama quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Futurama at TV.com
• Futurama Quotes on Twitter