Futurama 1999 scifi tv show

Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio, American science fiction

Futurama (1999, United States)

1999United States

Categories: space explorationplanet explorationparallel universesextraterrestrial lifeartificial intelligencealternate realityalternate historyalien speciesalien artifactsspace travel1990s sci-fi

Running time: 22 minutes

Language: English

Philip J. Fry, a pizza boy in year 1999 is unhappy with his life and while making final delivery on New Year?s Eve he accidentally ends up in the criogenic machine that frozes him for 1000 years. When he finally wakes up in year 3000 the world has changed and he is hoping to make a fresh start in this new reality. Unfortunately the jobs are assigned by special officers and Fry is chosen to work as delivery boy... While trying to espace from this fate he meets one special robot - Bender.

Comedy sci fi series surrounding the crew of delivery spaceship that do their job with a little skills, a lot of luck and some fun. Series developed by the creator of The Simpsons in many ways is similiar to famous cartoon series. The style, the humour, the unusual characters are similiar, but here with the help of 1000 years difference the creators were able to really spread their wings and devise the world filled with quite unusual adventures and characters, not to mention entire worlds with their own rules.

Is is great series, but with few quite important snags - first of all soon after the first series the crew makes almost no deliveries anywhere, so the scripts all take place in the New New York ans they seem more like classic sitcoms scripts than science fiction ones. And another thing - with all the universes available and whole population of the world the creators seem to be stuck with same set of 20-30 characters that keep popping up in most of the episodes and movies. And the last thing - the same problem that is present with the Simpsons - the series is running much longer than creators had ideas for and the stories became very repetitive (f.e. the moment that Fry got frozen in the criogenic machine was used at least 4 times in different configurations).

Overall good science fiction show, good comedy show, but creators might have used some new ideas.

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Full Futurama

Creators of Futurama

Matt Groening

screenplay

David X Cohen

screenplay

Cast of Futurama

Billy West

as Philip J. Fry

Katey Sagal

as Turanga Leela

John Di Maggio

as Bender

Phil LaMarr

as Hermes Conrad

Tress MacNeille

as Mom

Billy West

as Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

Billy West

as Dr. Zoidberg

Lauren Tom

as Amy Wong

Tress MacNeille

as Linda

Maurice LaMarche

as Morbo

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