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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.
Philip J. Fry (voiced by Billy West), primarily known by his surname Fry, is the main protagonist of the series.He is a 20th-century pizza delivery boy in New York City who, after getting dumped by his girlfriend and being stuck in a dead-end job, is cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999, waking up 1000 years later just before the year 3000.
The Futurama video game was released shortly after the airing of the 72nd and final episode of the Fox's run of the series in August 2003. The game's story and dialogue were written by J. Stewart Burns , and the voice direction was by David X. Cohen .
Joel Keller of Decider praised Futurama for its seamless return, noting that the series retains its original charm and characters even as their relationships evolve. They found that the first episode humorously addresses the show's history of cancellations, while the second episode offers a more poignant narrative.
[6] [7] [8] An audio-only episode featuring the original cast members was released in 2017 as an episode of The Nerdist Podcast. [9] On February 9, 2022, Hulu revived the series with a 20-episode order, which premiered on July 24, 2023. [10] [11] In November 2023, the show was renewed by Hulu for two more broadcast seasons, which will air ...
[4] [7] The episode was ranked number 16 on IGN's list of the top 25 Futurama episodes in 2006. [8] [Link to precise page] Science Fiction Weekly rated the episode as their "A Pick" for its original airing in 2003, calling the episode a "superbly funny ending to the series". [3]
The title of the film is a pun on the book Ender's Game, [1] by Orson Scott Card, though the Futurama film has "very little to do with the subject material" of the book. [2] Conversely, the 1985 book also used "Bender" as a mocking pun for "Ender", but Matt Groening stated [3] this is not the original inspiration for Bender's name.
[13] [14] Futurama was then watched for 356 million minutes in the week of September 2 to September 8, 2024, making it the ninth most-streamed original show. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Whip Media 's viewership tracking app, TV Time , which monitors data from over 25 million users worldwide, reported that Futurama was the second most-streamed original series ...