Futurama is an animated science fiction series from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. The show originally premiered on FOX in 1999 and has seen revivals on Comedy Central and Hulu.
References
- In The Muppet Show Comic Book: Pigs in Space, a Muppetized version of Bender appears in Café Fred, arm wrestling with Tom, Dick, and Harry.
Episode Mentions
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Into the Wild Green Yonder (February 24, 2009) The Professor has a Tickle-Me "Bender", a spoof on the Tickle Me Elmo craze. |
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Möbius Dick (August 4, 2011) Leela drives the Planet Express ship directly through "Tickle Me Elmo's Fire". |
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The Tip of the Zoidberg (August 18, 2011) Zoidberg attempts to cure Fry of several ailments including "Simpsons Jaundice", Garfield Syndrome and Muppet Gangrene: "It's not easy being gangrenous." |
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Fun on a Bun (August 2, 2012) A holographic history presentation at Germany's Oktoberfest states that primitive man once hunted the woolly mammoth, referred to in German as the "Schüfel-üfagus." |
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31st Century Fox (August 29, 2012) The opening title caption reads "Today's Episode Brought To You By The Letter [alien letter]." |
Comic Mentions
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The Fry and the Furious! issue #44 (Jul 2009) Fry is forced to take a test on parallel universe parking with a group of Frys from alternate dimensions. Fry variants include a werewolf, a gender-swap, a robot, and a Muppet. |
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Fry Cook issue #51 (Sep 2010) Kif reads a book entitled "It's Not Easy Being Green and Under Glass", with a picture of Kermit on the front. |
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Trouble with Trilogies issue #55 (May 2011) Lord Manumahnuh is based on Mahna Mahna. |
Connections
- Buzz Aldrin voiced himself in "Cold Warriors"
- Hank Azaria voiced Harold Zoid in "That's Lobstertainment" and his regular Simpsons characters in "Simpsorama"
- Roseanne Barr played a hologram of herself in "Three Hundred Big Boys"
- LeVar Burton voiced himself in "The Futurama Mystery Liberry"
- Nancy Cartwright voiced Bart Simpson in "Simpsorama"
- Dan Castellaneta voiced the Robot Devil, and Homer Simpson in "Simpsorama"
- Dick Clark voiced himself in "Space Pilot 3000"
- Coolio voiced Kwanzaa Bot in "A Tale of Two Santas," "Bender's Big Score," and "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular"
- Craig Ferguson voiced Susan Boil in "Attack of the Killer App"
- John Goodman voiced the Robot Santa in "Xmas Story"
- Tim Gunn voiced himself in "Attack of the Clothes"
- Mark Hamill voiced the Chanukah Zombie in "Bender's Big Score"
- Chris Hardwick voiced Klaxxon in the audio podcast episode "Radiorama"
- Stephen Hawking voiced himself in "Anthology of Interest I", "Crimes of the Hot", "The Beast with a Billion Backs" and "Reincarnation"
- Penn Jillette voiced himself in "Into the Wild Green Yonder"
- Julie Kavner voiced Marge Simpson in "Simpsorama"
- Phil LaMarr voiced Hermes Conrad and various voices
- Rich Little voiced himself (imitating Howard Cosell) in "Raging Bender," and "Bender's Game"
- Lucy Liu voiced herself and various Lucy Liu-bots in "I Dated a Robot," and herself again in "Love and Rocket"
- Leonard Nimoy voiced himself in multiple episodes
- Bill Nye voiced himself in "Rage Against the Vaccine" and "Attack of the Clothes"
- Conan O'Brien voiced himself in "Xmas Story"
- Patton Oswalt voiced Unattractive Giant Monster in "Benderama"
- William Shatner voiced himself in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
- Yeardley Smith voiced Lisa Simpson in "Simpsorama"
- Patrick Stewart voiced the Huntmaster in "31st Century Fox"
- Tara Strong voiced Tonya in "Stench and Stenchibility"
- Snoop Dogg voiced Chief Justice Snoop Dogg in "Into the Wild Green Yonder"
- Wanda Sykes voiced Bev in "The Bots and the Bees"
- George Takei voiced himself in various episodes
- Danny Trejo voiced Doblando in "The One Amigo"
- Patric Verrone served as a writer, and producer on the series
- Sigourney Weaver voiced the Planet Express ship in "Love and Rocket"
- Frank Welker performed Nibbler, Seymour Asses, and various other creature sounds