Futurama

-Comedy Futurama follows the adventures of 25-year old Phillip Fry, a New York City pizza delivery boy who, accidentally gets cryogenically frozen on New Year’s Eve in 1999 and wakes up in the Big Apple a thousand years later, on December 31, 2999. He is befriended by the tough yet kind and beautiful alien Cyclops, Turanga Leela and an alcohol-powered bending robot called Bender, who is addicted to liquor, cigars and stealing. All three find employment with Farnsworth’s Planet Express Delivery Service which happens to be owned by Hubert J. Farnsworth who is Phillip’s great, great, great to the nth degree nephew. Fry, Leela, Bender and their co-workers go around the galaxy, facing all sorts of risks and dangers, just to deliver packages and perform charitable deeds for tax deduction purposes.

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Rich Moore Talks About the Return of 'Futurama'

August 18, 2007

The characters of Futurama The animated series, Futurama, is slated to return on the small screen early next year, and supervising director Rich Moore is hoping that the upcoming DVD movies will be enough to get more viewers to tune in the show the second time around.

“I think the idea is to capture new fans,” Moore said of their intentions with the Futurama movies, adding that the first one, Futurama: Bender's Big Score, has “lots of action” and “great Bender Zoidberg moments.” He also promised that although the movies will revolve around the old characters, it will still be accessible to viewers who are not so familiar with the show.