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Along with the employees of Planet Express, Futurama includes a large array of characters, which include co-workers, media personalities, business owners, extended relatives, townspeople, aliens, and villains. Many of these characters were created for one-time gags, background scenes, or other functions, but later gained expanded roles.
The name Futurama comes from a pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes , the Futurama pavilion depicted how he imagined the world would look in 1959. [ 37 ] Many other titles were considered for the series, including Aloha, Mars! and Doomsville , which Groening notes were "resoundly rejected, by everyone ...
The American animated science fiction sitcom Futurama, created and developed by Matt Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company, originally aired from March 28, 1999, to August 10, 2003 before being effectively cancelled.
After a series of disastrous hijinks, Zapp takes command of the restaurant and crashes it into the planet Amazonia, where the Amazonians, a tribe of giant, muscular women, capture them. Fry and Bender try to rescue their friends but are also captured. On the way to the Amazonians' leader, Zapp, Bender, and Fry make fun of the Amazonians' culture.
Leela serves as captain of the Planet Express Ship, proving herself to be a skilled officer and often rescuing her less-talented coworkers from peril. Leela is an avid environmentalist. In " Love's Labour Lost in Space ", Leela and crew are sent to Vergon 6, a planet that is about to collapse because of mining.
Zoidberg is named after an Apple II game that series writer David X. Cohen created in high school called Zoid, similar to the game Qix.The game was rejected by Broderbund. [2] [3] [4] One of Cohen's inspirations for the character of Dr. Zoidberg was the fact that Star Trek character Leonard McCoy, the ship's doctor, frequently administered medical treatment to aliens such as Spock, so Cohen ...
"My Three Suns" is the seventh episode in the first season of the American animated television series Futurama. The episode originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 4, 1999. The plot focuses on Fry as he becomes emperor of an alien world, only to find himself in need of rescue when the previous emperor is discovered to be ...
This is a list of guest stars who appeared on Futurama, an animated comedy created by Matt Groening. Like Groening's other animated show, The Simpsons, Futurama features a large number of celebrity guests contributing their voices to the show, whether as themselves or as fictional characters. This list does not include those celebrities whose ...