Futurama
Futurama (1999–2003, 2007–13) 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.
About Futurama[edit]
- 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]
Cast[edit]
Main Cast
- Billy West: Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, Dr. Zoidberg, Richard Nixon, Leo Wong, various
- Katey Sagal: Turanga Leela
- John DiMaggio: Bender, Flexo, Robot Santa, Elzar, Barbados Slim, Joey Mousepad, Randy, Sal, Url, various
- Lauren Tom: Amy Wong, Inez Wong, various
- Phil LaMarr: Hermes Conrad, "Bubblegum" Tate, Preacherbot, various
- Maurice LaMarche: Lrrr, Morbo, Calculon, Kif, Clamps, Hedonism Bot, Hyper-Chicken, Walt, Donbot, various
- David Herman: Scruffy, Dr. Wernstrom, Mayor Poopenmeyer, Larry, Dwayne, Roberto, Turanga Morris, various
- Tress MacNeille: Mom, Hattie McDoogal, Linda van Schoonhoven, Ndnd, Petunia, Monique, Tinny Tim, Turanga Munda, various
Supporting Cast
- Phil Hendrie: Waterfall family
- Tom Kenny: Yancy Fry, Jr., Abner Doubledeal, various
- Dawnn Lewis: LaBarbara Conrad
- Kath Soucie: Cubert Farnsworth, various
- Frank Welker: Nibbler, various animals and aliens
- Bumper Robinson: Dwight Conrad
Frequent Guest Stars
- Dan Castellaneta: Robot Devil
- Coolio: Kwanzaa-Bot
- Al Gore: Himself
- Stephen Hawking: Himself
- Leonard Nimoy: Himself
- George Takei: Himself
- Nicole St. John: Sally
See also[edit]
- Futurama: Bender's Big Score
- Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
- Futurama: Bender's Game
- Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
External links[edit]
- Futurama quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Futurama at TV.com
- Futurama Quotes on Twitter
