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Pixa. club7/27/2023 In the episode "A Clone of My Own", the Professor clones himself to produce a successor, Cubert Farnsworth, whom he treats like a son. Although he is depicted as a brilliant scientist and inventor, at more than one-hundred and sixty years old he is extremely prone to age-related forgetfulness and fits of temper. Farnsworth (Billy West) – Professor Farnsworth, also known simply as "the Professor", is Fry's distant nephew. He is originally programmed to bend girders for suicide booths, and is later designated as assistant sales manager and cook, despite lacking a sense of taste. Bender Bending Rodriguez (John DiMaggio) – Bender is a foul-mouthed, heavy-drinking, cigar-smoking, kleptomaniacal, misanthropic, egocentric, ill-tempered robot manufactured by Mom's Friendly Robot Company. Her name is a reference to the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen. Prior to becoming the ship's captain, Leela works as a career assignment officer at the cryogenics lab where she first meets Fry. Abandoned as a baby, she grows up in the Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium believing herself to be an alien from another planet, but learns that she is actually a mutant from the sewers in the episode "Leela's Homeworld". Turanga Leela (Katey Sagal) – Leela is the competent, one-eyed captain of the Planet Express Ship.Fry's love for Leela is a recurring theme throughout the series. He reawakens on New Year's Eve of 2999, and gets a job as a cargo delivery boy at Planet Express, a company owned by his only living relative, Professor Hubert J. Fry (Billy West) – Fry is a dimwitted, immature, slovenly, yet good-hearted and sentimental pizza delivery boy who falls into a cryogenic pod, causing it to activate and freeze him just after midnight on January 1, 2000. Episodes usually feature the central trio of Fry, Leela, and Bender, though occasional storylines center on the other main characters. Charactersįuturama is essentially a workplace sitcom, the plot of which revolves around the Planet Express interplanetary delivery company and its employees, a small group that largely fails to conform to future society. In 2013, TV Guide ranked Futurama as one of the top 60 Greatest TV Cartoons of All Time. Futurama-related merchandise has also been released, including a tie-in comic book series and video game, calendars, clothes and figurines. It has also been nominated four times for a Writers Guild of America Award, winning two for the episodes "Godfellas" and "The Prisoner of Benda", been nominated for a Nebula Award and has received Environmental Media Awards for episodes "The Problem with Popplers" and "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular". The show has been nominated for 17 Annie Awards and 12 Emmy Awards, winning seven of the former and six of the latter. Throughout its run, Futurama has received critical acclaim. Cohen stated that the episode "Meanwhile" would be the last episode of season 7 and also the series finale. While Groening has said he will try to get it picked up by another network, David X. The series finale aired on September 4, 2013, officially ending the series. It was later revealed that the seventh season would be the final season, as Comedy Central announced that they would not be commissioning any further episodes. The show was renewed for a seventh season, with the first half airing in June 2012 and the second set for early summer 2013. In June 2009, producing studio 20th Century Fox announced that Comedy Central had picked up the show for 26 new half-hour episodes, which began airing in 20. Comedy Central entered into an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television to syndicate the existing episodes and air the films as 16 new, half-hour episodes, constituting a fifth season. It was revived in 2008 as four direct-to-video films the last of which was released in early 2009. Futurama also aired in reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim from 2002 to 2007, until the network's contract expired. In the United States, the series aired on Fox from March 28, 1999, to August 10, 2003, before ceasing production. The series was envisioned by Groening in the late 1990s while working on The Simpsons, later bringing Cohen aboard to develop storylines and characters to pitch the show to Fox. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Futurama is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
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