Futurama

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Futurama is an American cartoon created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen (also a writer for The Simpsons). It is located in New New York City during the 31st century. The shows were first shown on Fox Network on March 28, 1999, until August 10, 2003. Old episodes are now seen on Adult Swim (a part of Cartoon Network) and Too Funny To Sleep (a part of TBS) in the United States, on Teletoon in Canada, on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom plus Sky One, Sky Two and Sky Three in the UK and Republic of Ireland, on Fox8 and Network Ten in Australia (before it was on the Seven Network), on Pro 7 in Germany and on Canal Fox in Latin America, including Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, etc. In 2008 Comedy Central will begin showing new episodes. Also, 4 DVD movies are being made.

The show is about Philip J. Fry, a New York City lazy teenager and pizza delivery boy, who froze himself by mistake on New Year's Eve, 1999. He wakes up one thousand years later on New Year's Eve, 2999, and finds himself in New New York City. Fry wants to get a new job, though in the end he is forced to be a delivery boy. Fry tries to escape from his job and afterwards goes to Planet Express, a small delivery company that goes around the galaxy owned by his distant nephew, where he becomes a delivery boy. The show then describes the adventures of Fry and the other workers as they go around the universe making deliveries.

[edit] Characters

• Turanga Leela (Katey Sagal)- a cyclopes (a creature with only one eye) who is one of Fry's friends.
• Bender Bending Rodriguez (John DiMaggio)- a bending robot who is Fry's best friend
• Professor Hubert Farnsworth (Billy West)-an inventor and head of Planet Express
• Dr. John Zoidberg (Billy West)- a crustation-like creature from another planet and worker at Planet Express
• Hermes Conrad (Phil LaMarr)- a Jamaican accountant and worker at Planet Express
• Amy Wong (Lauren Tom)- a young girl whose family lives on Mars and is worker at Planet Express