10/08 - I know it needs Updating, they went back ingto production but not on a series in case you didn't know, but have planned 4 (?) movies. So far: the first being; "Benders Big Score", "Beast with a billion backs", "Benders Game" and #4 to be; "Into the Wild Green Yonder" due early 2009. I'll update when I can. Oh yah, in case you've been living in a cave, the series is on DVD as well as pulp released by Groening's Bongo Comics.

If you are unfamiliar with Futurama, here is a little history lesson I edited to bring you up to date.

'Futurama Season 1' premiered on March 28th 1999 with 'Space Pilot 3000' - the only episode Matt Groening himself (in cooperation with David X. Cohen) wrote. While the core characters are introduced in that episode, Amy, Hermes and Dr. Zoidberg had to wait for the second one. The 9th and last episode of Season 1 - 'Hell is other robots' - was aired May 18th 1999 and continued the Simpsons tradition to include some musical part now and then.

Futurama is the first Matt Groening's TV Animation series after the first well known TV Cartoon series, The Simpsons. Futurama uses High level Animation standards including awesome 3D scenes and Computer Coloring. Some of the jokes of the series will be difficult to understand if you expected Simpsons style jokes. Figure out everything (hidden jokes, messages or images) the first time you see an episode is almost impossible. The structure of the show (races, places, facts and time) is well done but not perfect (the writer states - which shows they are not a informed fan).

Futurama develops around Philip J. Fry, a NYC pizza delivery boy with no future. On December 31 of 1999, Fry delivered a pizza to a Cryogenic Laboratory. he discovered that the address was a phony so sat down and started eating the pizza during the new years countdown. The call, it turns out, was thought to be a crude joke. sitting down and enjoying the pizza & soda, Fry fell backwards into an open cryogenic cabinet and got Frozen for a thousand years. But to us faithful, we know that Fry didn't fall into the cryo chamber but was pushed by a dark matter pooping alien, Nibbler, to help save the universe from the "Brains" in the future.(It's too involved to explain here, watch the series reruns or DVD's.)

When Fry was awakened, he was in the year 3000. There's were he met Turanga Leela, an one-eyed Cryogenic counselor that used to assign jobs to the unfrozen people and implant them a career chip. Leela discovers Fry has a relative still alive in the future, his great(x26) nephew Pro Hubert J. Farnsworth. But when Fry found out that he was going to be a delivery boy once again, he ran off.

Figuring he would contact his nephew, Fry comes upon what he thought was a phone booth. Why waiting in line, Fry agees to share the booth with a robot [Bender - a girder bending bot]. To his horror, Fry soon discovered he was in a suicide booth. Barely emerging unscathed, he befriends the suicidal robot.

They became friends quickly but suddenly Leela and the police find them and they ran off again, going this time under New NYC, into the old NYC ruins. After a short pursuit, Fry gives up with an explaination that convinces Leela to remove her own chip and help Fry find his nephew who was sure to give them new jobs.

The group confronted the Professor at his business, Planet Express, they were able to convince him (through DNA test) that Fry was his uncle. With the police closing in, they escaped using the professors Starship. In space, the Professor gave them a job in the delivery company that he created, called Planet Express. At the end, Fry ends working as a delivery boy once again.

The show took the adventurers across and throughout the universe saving and destroying as needed for the story plots. The series was cancelled by FOX even when Futurama won an Emmy award for "Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) with the show "3ACV19 - Roswell That Ends Well" and again in 2003 for "4ACV07 - Jurassic Bark". Cartoon Network demonstrated that with decent advertising the show can do anything and has been showing the reruns with great success.