History Trivia / Futurama

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: A coffee enema is something that sounds highly unlikely, but [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_enema it's actually been done for quite some time]].
** The Klingon Embassy being Pink was intended as a joke, contrasting the ProudWarriorRace with a stereotypically girly pink embassy. However, in WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries, Klingons did were Pinkish-purple uniforms.

* UnfinishedEpisode: There was supposed to be an OriginsEpisode for Scruffy the Janitor in the final season of the first revival.

* ViewersAreGeniuses: Turanga Leela is named after the ''Turangalîla Symphonie'' -- a piece of orchestral music by Olivier Messiaen. If you knew of the piece or of the composer without having to check Google, you are either a devoted classical music fan or an academic (or both).

* TheOtherDarrin:
** Robot Santa was originally played by Creator/JohnGoodman in "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E4XmasStory Xmas Story]]". Creator/JohnDiMaggio took over the character starting with "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E3ATaleOfTwoSantas A Tale Of Two Santas]]" as Goodman was unavailable to reprise the role.
** Also in "A Tale of Two Santas", Creator/MauriceLaMarche voices the Robot Devil, whereas he is voiced by Creator/DanCastellaneta in all of his other appearances.
** Michelle is voiced by Creator/KathSoucie for her brief appearance in the pilot, and Creator/SarahSilverman took over the role for all of her other appearances.
** Dwight Conrad is voiced by Creator/BumperRobinson in his first two appearances, and Creator/PhilLaMarr, who also voices Hermes, voices the character for all his subsequent appearances.
** Harold Zoid, is voiced by Creator/HankAzaria in "That's Lobstertainment", and Creator/MauriceLaMarche in "The Beast with a Billion Backs".
** Leo Wong was originally voiced by Creator/BillyWest and Scoop Chang was originally voiced by Creator/DavidHerman and then Creator/MauriceLaMarche. Starting with the Hulu run, both characters were recast and are now voiced by Feodor Chin.
** URL and Barbados Slim were originally voiced by Creator/JohnDiMaggio. Starting with the Hulu run, both characters were recast and are now voiced by Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson.
** The entire Latin American Spanish voice cast (except for Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan) was replaced for the movies and Seasons 5, 6, and 7 of the show due to the Mexican voice acting strike.
** While most of the cast of the Latin American Spanish dub returned for Season 8, Zoidberg got a new voice actor due to the retirement of Carlos Águila back in 2021. He is now voiced by Ulises Maynardo Zavala.
** In the Italian dub:
*** In Season 6, Professor Farnsworth was recast from Sergio Graziani to Creator/MinoCaprio, due to the former's retirement. As Caprio was already the voice of Professor Wernstrom, the latter character was recast to Creator/GiorgioLopez.
*** In the second half of Season 7, Bender was recast from Creator/DarioPenne to Creator/PaoloBuglioni due to the former not being able anymore to keep up the voice pitch he used for the character. Zoidberg was also recast from Claudio Fattoretto to Creator/AngeloNicotra due to the former's death.
*** In Season 8, Leela, Bender, and Zoidberg were respectively recast from Pinella Dragani, Paolo Buglioni, and Angelo Nicotra to Tiziana Avarista, Carlo Valli, and Creator/PaoloMarchese due to Dragani and Nicotra's retirement and Buglioni's decision of not voicing cartoons anymore outside of animated movies.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', sharing a lot of the same creatives between the two shows, though Groening and Cohen went out of their way to make sure the show wasn't just "[[RecycledWithAGimmick The Simpsons IN SPACE]]". ''The Simpsons'' was largely based on tropes and ideas from the 50s and 60s having a fairly anachronistic portrayal of suburbia and the American nuclear family, based on Groening's youth. ''Futurama'' on the other hand deals with a more grown-up early adult and mid-20s world and deals with office culture, workplace and corporate control, and the changes that technology can bring to society. The tenor of ''The Simpsons'' is that it stays essentially the same despite the passing of many real-world decades and updating of cultural references, the tenor of ''Futurama'' is that the future is constantly in flux and keeps changing and nothing can be taken for granted.

** "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E2InAGaddaDaLeela In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]" is credited as being written by "Carolyn Premish", which seems to be a pseudonym of David X. Cohen. He was present on the DVD commentary despite not being credited on this episode, and stated in a Reddit AMA that he regrets this episode and feels it went 'too far'. The episode was co-written by Matt Groening, whose only other Futurama writing credits are on episodes co-written by Cohen.
** "How the West Was 1010001" was written by Ken Keeler under the pseudonym "Nona di Spargement".

** Bound to happen with any long-running show that makes joking comparisons to technology of the time. One of the most glaring examples would be in "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E12WhenAliensAttack When Aliens Attack]]" when the crew were unable to find a VHS of a show called 'Single Female Lawyer' (due to most VHSs being damaged during the second coming of Jesus). No more than a year after the episode aired, VHSs were pretty much overshadowed by the superior DVD format, and a decade after that, most TV shows can be easily found online in one format or another (legally or otherwise).

* AlanSmithee: "How the West Was 1010001" was written by Ken Keeler under the pseudonym "Nona di Spargement".

* OutOfOrder: Only a quarter of the show's episodes were aired in intended sequence in both the Fox and Comedy Central runs. Just take a look at [[http://theinfosphere.org/Episode_Listing_(broadcast_order) the broadcast order]] and compare it to [[http://theinfosphere.org/Episode_Listing_(branded_order) the production order]]. The main regions of the scrambling are broadcast seasons 3 through 5 (which are a jumble of production seasons 2 through 4), as well as broadcast season 8 (the second half of production season 6). This creates the occasional continuity problem: "Leela's Homeworld", in which Leela finds out the truth about her parents, ended up airing ahead of several episodes produced beforehand, and "Jurassic Bark" contains a moment of {{Foreshadowing}} for "The Why of Fry", which is only a few episodes later in production order but several months later in broadcast order.

** Bound to happen with any long-running show that makes joking comparisons to technology of the time. One of the most glaring examples would be in "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E12WhenAliensAttack When Aliens Attack]]" when the crew were unable to find a VHS of a show called 'Single Female Lawyer' (due to most VHS's being damaged during the second coming of Jesus). No more than a year after the episode aired, VHS's were pretty much overshadowed by the superior DVD format, and a decade after that, most TV shows can be easily found online in one format or another (legally or otherwise).

** Bender's DoAnythingRobot capabilities are due to accidentally getting electrocuted in the first episode. He never dreamed of doing anything but bending girders beforehand.

** The Hulu run of the series drops references to Hulu in the intro after the third episode in countries where it is on Creator/DisneyPlus's Star/More Entertainment or Star+ instead.

** The Hulu run of the series drops the Hulurama LogoJoke in the intro after the third episode in countries where it is on Creator/DisneyPlus's Star/More Entertainment or Star+ instead.

* SpoiledByTheMerchandise: A set of odd egg-shaped pins of various characters was promoted at San Diego Comic-Con 2023 shortly before the Hulu revival released. This is a tie-in to the egg toy segment of "[[Recap/FuturamaS8E9RThePrinceAndTheProduct The Prince and the Product]]", the ninth episode of that season. One of the pins resembles the baby Fry egg that only appears at the very end of that segment.

* SpoiledByTheMerchandise: A set of odd egg-shaped pins of various characters was promoted at San Diego Comic-Con 2023 shortly before the Hulu revival released. This is a tie-in to the egg toy segment of "The Prince and the Product," the ninth episode of that season. One of the pins resembles the baby Fry egg that only appears at the very end of that segment.

* BillingDisplacement: As of Season 8, Creator/JohnDiMaggio is billed above Creator/BillyWest in the credits. While both actors voice prominent characters, West is still more prominent in the show proper, voicing three main characters ([[TheProtagonist Fry]], Farnsworth and Zoidberg) and numerous secondary characters compared to [=DiMaggio=]'s one main character (Bender) and comparatively smaller list of secondary characters. However this is only the case for episodes that focused primarily on Bender since in some episodes, West (which was the case in the first 7 seasons) and Creator/KateySagal are credited above before him.

** "[[Recap/FuturamaS8E5RelatedToItemsYouveViewed Related to Items You've Viewed]]" portrays Alexa as taking over the universe, and Mom not caring because it is making her billions. Ironically, [[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/ Alexa was a massive loss leader for Amazon the year before this episode]], and the future for standalone voice assistants in general looks very dim, turning this idea into {{Zeerust}}.

** The Hulu run of the series drops the Hulurama LogoJoke in the intro after the third episode in countries where it is on Disney+'s Star/More Entertainment or Star+ instead.

** The Hulu run of the series drops the Hulurama LogoJoke in the intro after the third episode in countries where it is on Disney+'s Star/More Entertainment instead.

** The Hulu run of the series drops the Hulurama LogoJoke in the intro after the third episode in countries where it is on Disney+ instead.