Futurama was canceled at Fox because the network spent years — essentially from before the show even hit television sets — walking it down the road to the chopping block. Fox and Groening butted heads over Futurama from the very beginning. During an interview with Mother Jones , Groening was asked about working in Hollywood i. He had some not-so-great things to say: "You can't believe what babies people are. It's really like being in junior high school.
It's in Fox's best interest for this show to be a success, but they'd rather mess with the show and have them fail, than allow creators independence and let them succeed They don't like The Simpsons at Fox. When Futurama was originally coming down the pike, Groening wanted Futurama to air at PM on Sundays, directly after The Simpsons and ahead of The X-Files in order to give the show the best chance to find a large audience.
This seemed like a no-brainer — but Fox disagreed, for whatever reason, choosing instead to show only two episodes of Futurama in the Sunday night lineup before moving the series to a "possibly deadly" Tuesday night time slot. By the time the second season of Futurama came around, Fox moved the show back to the PM Sunday spot in which the first two episodes aired. Then, in a move that alienated audiences further, Fox shifted the show again in the middle of the season — this time bumping it up to PM on Sunday.
Storyline Edit. Fry is a twenty-five-year-old pizza delivery boy whose life is going nowhere. When he accidentally freezes himself on December 31, , he wakes up one thousand years in the future, and has a chance to make a fresh start. He goes to work for the Planet Express Corporation, a futuristic delivery service that transports packages to all five quadrants of the universe.
His companions include the delivery ship's Captain, Leela, a beautiful one-eyed female alien who kicks some serious butt, and Bender, a robot with very human flaws. The future is here! Did you know Edit. Goofs The elements Bender claims to be constructed out of change throughout the series though given Bender's nature, it's possible he's lying. This became an in-joke amongst the writers in later episodes.
Quotes Fry : You know the worst thing about being a slave? Crazy credits Though the cartoons shown on the giant monitor are usually old, vintage cartoons most likely public domain , on at least one instance a clip from a Simpsons short from the Tracey Ullman Show was used Matt Groening created both Futurama and the Simpsons. Alternate versions Originally, one episode had a scene where Fry pulls down his pants and moons the business magnate Mom of Mom's Friendly Robots.
Her original dialogue was, "You call that an anus? Connections Edited into The Lost Adventure User reviews Review. Top review. All hail, the NEW king of animated series. While the later episodes of The Simpson's have suffered, Futurama has matured, far more quickly than the Simpson's did, into a fantastic work of animation. The similarities between the Simpson's are obvious and not to be ignored. A show as good as The Simpson's was is ripe for theft and Futurama, the brainchild of Matt Groening, borrows well from the former show.
Bender is the Homer Simpson, devoid of responsibility, yet, as this lack of responsibility is placed in a robot, we do not have to feel anger at his wayward ways. Leela is the far less annoying Marge. Less annoying for the simple facts. A She has something resembling a personality, something that Marge definitely suffered from. Fry however grounds the show with the emotional base that made the Simpson's great. A Pizza delivery boy from the 20th century transported forwards in time years into a world that he knows nothing about.
While our imaginations might find it a little too easy coming to terms with the future and all the few new inventions that go with it Perhaps a nod to how poor an inventor Farnsworth is that there seems nothing overly unusual about this future , we forgive this minor blip and embrace Groening new world vision. As with The Simpson's, Groening has given us a host of superb background characters. Zoidberg the lobster Doctor, Amy daughter of money, Hermes the Jamaican limbo champion who keeps the business together and of course Zap Brannigan, the genius of lacklustre.
Groening, clearly by taking the best writers from the Simpson's with him when he jumped ship, has done the impossible and found an animated series that is superior to the unsurpassable Simpson's. Groening's world is a good one. M att Groening could do no wrong in The Simpsons was still both witty and money-spinning, and he could get any project he wanted greenlit — even a sci-fi comedy cartoon called Futurama.
On board the Planet Express spaceship with the immature and slovenly Fry were cyclops orphan Leela, drunken robot Bender, clumsy intern Amy and incompetent alien medical lobster Dr Zoidberg: a crew of misfits seemingly designed to connect directly to the types of misfits who watch cartoon science fiction.
Present-day celebrities made cameos as preserved heads in jars, which was a lot more satisfying than how The Simpsons handled them. Unlike some shows aimed at nerds that just shouted science words and played a laugh track bazinga! Jokes about superdupersymmetric string theory or written in binary code were included for viewers with the nerd credentials to recognise them.
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