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A view of the many secondary and tertiary characters in Futurama, as seen in Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder. This article lists the many characters of Futurama, an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
A table of one of the "alien" alphabets used in Futurama TV cartoon show, made by using the standard Times Roman font and the "Futurama Alien Alphabet One v1.6" font by Darrell Johnson & Leandro Pardini, available at Futurama-Madhouse. The layout of this table was influenced by File:Alien decoder.png by en:User:WillMak050389 (though not the same).
The name Bender was chosen by creator Matt Groening as an homage to John Bender (played by Judd Nelson), a character in The Breakfast Club.In that film, John Bender told Principal Vernon (Paul Gleason), "Eat my shorts," an eventual catchphrase for another Groening creation, Bart Simpson.
In September 2016, Futurama characters and content would be playable in a crossover free-to-play digital collectable card video game Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards, which also contained characters and content from other 20th Television Animation properties; particularly Family Guy, American Dad!, King of the Hill, Bob's Burgers, and ...
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 ...
Matthew Abram Groening (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ n ɪ ŋ / GRAY-ning; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator.He is best known as the creator of the television series The Simpsons (1989–present), Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2023–present), [1] and Disenchantment (2018–2023), and the comic strip Life in Hell (1977–2012).
Sarah Silverman guest stars as Michelle, Fry's 20th century girlfriend in the episode "The Cryonic Woman" and the first DVD movie, Futurama: Bender's Big Score. Penn Jillette guest stars in Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder. Series creator Matt Groening starred as himself for the first time in the show in "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences".
The opening caption quote, "Not sure if new episode or just rerun of episode I watched drunk," along with the picture of Fry squinting (taken from the season 2 episode "The Lesser of Two Evils") is a reference to the Futurama Fry internet meme. The meme was also referenced in advertisements for the seventh season leading up to the premiere.