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13	->''"Welcome to the world of tomorrow!!"''
14	-->-- '''Terry'''
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16	[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Good news everyone, we're going to describe]] ''Futurama'' [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere here]]!
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18	Created by Creator/MattGroening and co-developed by ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' writer David X. Cohen, this FantasticComedy of an AnimatedSeries follows the life of Philip J. Fry (Creator/BillyWest), a pizza delivery boy in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. Right as the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 1999, Fry falls into a cryogenic tank and gets frozen for a thousand years. He emerges from his cryo-nap on the morning of December 31, 2999 to find a world of space travel, robots, aliens, mutants, and a buttload of new technology. After making friends with a suicidal, hedonistic robot named Bender (Creator/JohnDiMaggio) and a buxom, take-no-prisoners cyclops named Leela (Creator/KateySagal), Fry tracks down his closest living relative -- Professor Farnsworth (West), an elderly MadScientist and Fry's great-great-something-nephew -- and becomes a delivery boy for Planet Express, Farnsworth's package delivery business, which allows him to have all kinds of adventures.
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20	Upon ''Futurama''[='=]s release, many people expected "''The Simpsons'' [-[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in SPACE!]]-]", but the show proved those fears unfounded soon enough. It also started as a FishOutOfTemporalWater series, but as Fry got used to everything (which didn't take long), it became an ensemble comedy set in the future. (Fry still regularly [[TheWatson needs strange futuristic concepts explained to him]], though.)
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22	''Futurama'' has a well-established {{canon}} -- which plays into numerous episodes at times -- and the occasional dramatic moment hidden amidst the comedy. Episodes notable for such moments include "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E19RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell That Ends Well]]," "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E10TheWhyOfFry The Why of Fry]]," "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E12TheSting The Sting]]," "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E4TheLuckOfTheFryrish The Luck of the Fryrish]]," "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E7JurassicBark Jurassic Bark]]" (whose DownerEnding had the producers getting hate mail from viewers who had cried), and "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E10ThePrisonerOfBenda The Prisoner of Benda]]" (which popularized ''a new mathematical theorem for brain switching'').
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24	A large portion of the original writing staff, all of whom had college-level educations, left all potential breaks from reality up to the RuleOfFunny and inserted numerous [[GeniusBonus mathematical, engineering, and scientific jokes]] (ranging from subtle to extremely obscure) into the show.
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26	Although the show parodied almost every popular sci-fi franchise under the sun at some point, it's particularly fondly remembered among {{Trekkie}}s for its frequent [[AffectionateParody affectionate ribbing]] of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', with several episodes even being {{Whole Plot Reference}}s to classic episodes of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series]] -- like "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E15TheProblemWithPopplers The Problem with Popplers]]" ("[[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles The Trouble with Tribbles]]"), "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E5WhyMustIBeACrustaceanInLove Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]" ([[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime "Amok Time"]]), and [[Recap/FuturamaS4E17SpanishFry "Spanish Fry"]] ("[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain Spock's Brain]]"). These homages eventually culminated in the episode-length ''Star Trek'' tribute "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E11WhereNoFanHasGoneBefore Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]", where ''every'' then-surviving member of the original series' main cast (except Creator/JamesDoohan) guest stars [[AsHimself as themselves]].
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28	The show has gone through a wide variety of different formats but is generally considered all part of the same ongoing narrative:
29	* The original run on Creator/{{Fox}} lasted four seasons from 1999 to 2003. The network cited disappointing ratings as the reason for its cancellation, but the creative staff cited its [[FridayNightDeathSlot poor timeslot]].
30	* Four direct-to-DVD movies released between 2007 and 2009. High ratings with reruns on Creator/AdultSwim spurred this development, the films were later cut up into a sixteen-episode "fifth season."
31	* {{Uncanceled}} by Creator/ComedyCentral in 2010 due to the success of the DVD movies, producing two additional seasons to end in 2013. Depending on the media releases and the streaming services regarding the four movies this incarnation is either seasons five and six or seasons six and seven (some even break the two Comedy Central seasons into four seasons, for simplicities sake TV tropes lists it as seasons six and seven).
32	* {{Uncanceled}} again by Creator/{{Hulu}} in 2023, as the creative team has repeatedly said they have more stories to tell. The new incarnation started airing July 23rd, 2023.
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34	In 2014, the series had a crossover with ''The Simpsons'' titled "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E6Simpsorama Simpsorama]]"; this was followed by a 2017 one-off audio drama on the Podcast/NerdistPodcast called "Radiorama" (to promote the [[DefunctOnlineVideoGames now-defunct]] mobile game ''Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow''). ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' had a rather WeirdCrossover (even by Fortnite standards, then again, it's not the first time they [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty crossed over with an adult cartoon]], [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy and wouldn't be the last]]) with the show two days after the season premiere.
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36	Tropes related to the ''Futurama'' comic book series by Bongo Comics have [[ComicBook/{{Futurama}} their own page]]. See [[Recap/{{Futurama}} here]] for the Episode List.
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38	----
39	!!I, Troputer, have decided on the fate of the scroller. Troputer sentences you...to DEATH ''("Gasp!")'' ...by JustForFun/{{TROPE OVERDOSE\|d}} ''("[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Alright! Whoo!]]")'' [[note]]("Whimper..." "What are you, gay?")[[/note]]
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41	[[index]]
42	* Futurama/TropesAToD
43	* Futurama/TropesEToH
44	** [[EvenEvilHasStandards/{{Futurama}} Even Evil Has Standards]]
45	** [[Flanderization/{{Futurama}} Flanderization]]
46	* Futurama/TropesIToN
47	** [[InsaneTrollLogic/{{Futurama}} Insane Troll Logic]]
48	** [[Jerkass/{{Futurama}} Jerkass]]
49	* Futurama/TropesOToS
50	** [[ShoutOut/{{Futurama}} Shout Out]]
51	* Futurama/TropesTToZ
52	** [[TakeThat/{{Futurama}} Take That]]
53	[[/index]]
54	----
55	->''"Farewell from the world of tomorrow!!"''

Context WesternAnimation / Futurama