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Futurama is an American sitcom series creаted by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen, is an animated television show that focuses on the lives of delivery boy Fry, Leela, and Bender in the futuristic 31st century.

Seconds after New Year's Eve 1999, Fry falls into a Cryogenic tube and is frozen for 1000 years, being released on December 31st 2999.

Running

Original Run

The Original run of Futurama was from March 28th 1999 with Space Pilot 3000. The show ran for four seasons, before FOX decided to drop the show. The final episode of the original run was released December 12th 2004 with The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings. In the episode, Leela says "I want to see how it ends." making this the last thing spoken in the original series.

DVD Movie Comeback

On April 26th 2006, Groening stated that numerous people, including Cohen and many writers and actors were returning to make 4 DVD Movies. These started with Bender's Big Score and ended with Into the Wild Green Yonder. They were released on TV as four part episodes. In Bender's Big Score, Hermes declared that the executives who dropped the company's contract have since been fired and ground into a fine pink powder. The DVD are classed as Season Five. The DVDs proved to be successful, so Comedy Central declared a new series was to be made with 26 new episodes over two seasons, beggining with Season Six. On the offical Futurama web site (http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/futurama/index.jhtml), it is said to be aired on June 24, 2010.

Reborn on Comedy Central

Once the last DVD movie ended, season six later would have been announced to air on the Comedy Central channel. Season 6A started on June 24, 2010 and continued throughout the summer with its Christmas special being its latest episode. Season 6B will return at in 2011. In 2012 select ABC and other local channels accquired the rights to broadcast Futurama on Monday mornings, however after the episode The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings it skips ahead to Rebirth,

Comedy Central have since renewed the show for a seventh season. Season 7A will air in 2012 with 7B airing in 2013.

Main Characters

  • Philip J. Fry: During his early life, he took a job as a delivery boy for a pizza parlor and was frozen in a cryogenic lab for a thousand years. Reawakened, he found himself as a delivery boy once again as part of the Planet Express Crew. He also has a cool hair style! He is a lazy guy who is driven for excitement and has a love interest for Turanga Leela
  • Bender Bending Roderiguez: A bumbling and foul-mouthed robot whose born in Mexico found his life to have been created for nothing more than bending girders for suicide booths. The drunk, smoking gambler decided to kill himself while meeting Fry only to get a job at Planet Express which he may be rebellious and go on his own habits like gambling.
  • Turanga Leela: Growing up at an orphanage, she left and became a "destiny assignment" officer After learning to quit, she became captain of the Planet Express and became successful. She once thought she was an alien but she is actually a mutant. She was once tricked into making love with Zapp Brannigan, but she resents and rejects him and prefers to be with Fry.
  • Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth: A scientist who once worked at Mom's Friendly Robot Company, he was the founder of Planet Express and took his crew(s) on deliveries which were dangerous. He was also an inventor of some failed inventions. He is however a specist and a man with multiple personality flaws that are countless.
  • Doctor John A. Zoidberg: An alien doctor who does not know much about human anatomy. He was the very first employee of Planet Express and is the loneliest and most innocent of the crew. He dreams of being a comedian and has a very huge appetite for food. Even though he is often bullied by his coworkers, he considers everyone in Planet Express to be his friend and is very poor.
  • Amy Wong: A used to be obese Planet Express intern working for Farnsworth. She is the daughter of a very wealthy couple living in Mars and is in love with alien Kif Kroker. She is a cutey no matter what she does to her body. She was a college student at Mars University and graduated with the highest honors. She was only hired as an intern by Farnsworth because she has the same blood type as him.
  • Hermes Conrad: The accountant of Planet Express. He was once a former jamaican limbo champion and dreams of winning the olympic gold medal for limbo. He often bullies Dr. Zoidberg and usually deducts his pay for no reason. He is also a beaureaucrat who is not wanting to have his rank drop down. He is Bender's creator and has a huge dark past of being "Inspector 5"
  • Scruffy Scruffington: The lazy and cool collected janitor of Plantet Express. He is a man who often reads dirty magazines and is in fact a zombie, though he clearly does not look like one. He does not participate very often in the Planet Express crew's wacky misadventures
  • Nibbler: Leela's pet Nibblonian. He is smarter than what he pretends to be and has a wise view on the universe. He is also a reliable fuel source for the planet express ship i.e his own excrement, which is in fact dark matter
  • Cubert Farnsworth: The child clone of Hubert Farnsworth. He was intended to take over Planet Express as successor after Professor Farnsworth retires but Cubert has dreams of his own. He usually hangs out with his best friends, Dwight Conrad and Tinny Tim.
  • Mom: The evil business tycoon who is obsessed with taking over Planet Express and make a monopoly out of it. She is a multitrillionaire who used to have Farnsworth as an employee and lives with her three sons who are the equivalent of the three stooges
  • Zapp Brannigan: The arrogant, selfish, and egotistic captain of the Nimbus. He treats Kif Kroker like a slave and flirts with Leela very often. He is also a womanizer and pervert and loves to express his pride to DOOP. He also loves to be on the frontline for any war and alien invasion that is coming his way.
  • Kif Kroker: The extremley shy assistant to Zapp Brannigan. Even though he has been abused by Zapp, he has very incredible fighting skills and is passionatley in love with Amy Wong. He is tired of being Zapp's slave and prefers to make out all the time with Amy than serve Zapp's personal desires.
  • Lrrr: The wannabe alien overlord of Omicron Persei 8, who wants to win over his wife Ndnd's affection and would do anything to achieve it, even if it means invading earth. He pretends to be a tough guy to satisfy his wife but he is in truth a sensitive man with a deep love for animals and is in fact a crybaby.
  • Ndnd: The bossy and impatient wife of Lrrr. She wants Lrrr to invade planets for her and has a rocky marraige with him. Ndnd believes that she can nag her husband all the time and gets extremley jealous when someone other than Ndnd nags Lrrr.
  • Dwight Conrad: The estranged son of Hermes and LaBarbara Conrad. He dreams of being a beaureaucrat like his father and is already making progress by being the newspaper delivery boy. He is also best friends with Cubert Farnsworth and Tinny Tim.
  • LaBarbara Conrad: The rowdy wife of Hermes Conrad and Dwight Conrad's mother. She often rebukes Hermes and Dwight when they do any kind of misdeed or prank. She also supports Hermes' dream of winning the Olympic gold medal for limbo and trains him to compete against his archrival Barbados Slim

See Also

References

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