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17 unusual facts about Futurama


2000 Rose Bowl

The animated series Futurama occasionally references this game, as part of a running gag that the mother of the protagonist (Phillip J. Fry) is a devout football fan.

Alex Johns

Johns is best known for his work as the co-executive producer of more than seventy episodes of the animated television series Futurama.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

In the episode of Futurama "Overclockwise", Mom tells the Hoverfish "Bring me the clock of Bender Rodriguez" in reference to the film.

Decision 3012

Travers was sent back from fifteen years in the future (using a copy of the time travel code from Futurama: Bender's Big Score) to stop Nixon from winning this election.

Double Mersenne number

In the Futurama movie The Beast with a Billion Backs, the double Mersenne number M {M 7} is briefly seen in "an elementary proof of the Goldbach conjecture".

Earth in the Balance

In the Futurama episode "Crimes of the Hot," Al Gore himself references the book and its "far more popular" fictional future sequel, Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower

In the animated TV series Futurama, the tower is seen in the future as wider and its face replaced with a digital clock.

Mobro 4000

The backstory of the garbage ball in episode 1x08 of Futurama, "A Big Piece of Garbage", draws directly from this event.

Modern searches for Lorentz violation

In the Futurama episode "Law and Oracle" (2011), Erwin Schrödinger is pulled over by cops for violating Lorentz invariance, by going 15 miles per hour over the speed of light.

Old New York

Futurama, a television show set in "New" (31st century) New York, built on the ruins of "Old" (21st century) New York

Omicron Persei

Omicron Persei is perhaps best known from the animated television series Futurama, where it is the solar system of the Omicronians- a race of giant horned toad creatures.

Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants

This episode was nominated for a 2002 Emmy for outstanding animated program, but lost to Futurama.

Pelvic splanchnic nerves

The pelvic splanchnic nerves are featured as a key plot point in "Parasites Lost", a 2001 episode of the American animated TV comedy Futurama.

Pizzicato Five

The album would spawn two of their most loved songs: "Twiggy Twiggy" and "Baby Love Child" (the latter song finding its way onto the Futurama episode "Leela's Homeworld" as well as Adam Curtis' 2011 documentary series "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", in which it serves as title music.

Scott 3

A cover of "30 Century Man" by the Jigsaw Seen was used in the animated film Futurama: Bender's Big Score.

Supernovae in fiction

The Futurama episode Roswell That Ends Well involves the main characters being sent back in time after radiation from a nearby supernova interacts with radiation produced by metal being heated in the ship's microwave.

Tender Vittles

In the Futurama episode 3ACV11 "Insane in the Mainframe", Bender suggests that Fry retire on Tender Vittles after Fry loses his retirement fund on scratch and sniff lottery tickets.


1965 Official Guide New York World's Fair

Major exhibits in this section appear to have been General Motors' Futurama, General Electric's Progressland, IBM's dome and the Eastman Kodak Pavilion.

2052

Futurama A Big Piece of Garbage NASA sends all of Earth's garbage into space in a cluster of a giant sphere aboard a rocket (1999)

A Leela of Her Own

"A Leela of Her Own" is the sixteenth episode in the third season of the animated series Futurama and is a homage to A League of Their Own directed by Penny Marshall.

Absent-minded professor

Examples in film of absent-minded professors include "Doc" Emmett Brown from Back to the Future, the title character in the film The Absent-Minded Professor and its less successful film remakes all based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor, as well as Professor Farnsworth of Futurama and Professor Frink in The Simpsons.

Bend Me, Shape Me

American Breed's “Bend Me Shape Me” was later featured in a 2000 TV commercial for Flexon eyeglass frames (revived in 2007), as well as a 2001 TV commercial for Mercedes-Benz station wagons, a 2002 TV commercial for Gap Stretch Jeans, and the 2001 Futurama episode "Bendless Love".

Dwayne Carey-Hill

Prior to Drawn Together, he worked on Futurama, as Susie Dietter's assistant director and then promoted to a director and directed the episode "Obsoletely Fabulous".

Fictional currency

In some cases, compound interest may swell small amounts into a fortune, as happens in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells, or the Futurama episode "A Fishful of Dollars".

Fortune teller machine

In "The Honking", an episode of the animated TV series Futurama, the main characters, wishing to learn about a curse that has afflicted Bender, consult with a fortune teller machine, which, like many of the other machines of the 31st Century is sentient.

Fox cartoons

Futurama, the follow-up series from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, began in March 1999, and was later cancelled (with its last episode aired on August 10, 2003) thanks to scheduling changes (the same fate met previously by Family Guy during its original run).

James Kazama

Years later, Kazama voiced in many well known Asian movies, TV series and Animations included the most well known fictional character Dr. Zoidberg in Futurama (Cantonese version).

MacNeille

Tress MacNeille, American voice actor on The Simpsons and Futurama

Milkman joke

In the Futurama episode "A Clockwork Origin," Farnsworth remarks his water is "as sterile as my milkman-trusting father."

Peter Hixson

He has worked on cable and broadcast animation series including Real Monsters, Duckman, Wild Thornberries, Mission Hill, The Oblongs, The Simpsons and Futurama.

Pigs in a Polka

Short clips from this cartoon can be seen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode Mars University; in the Everybody Hates Chris episode "Everybody Hates Gretzky"; and in the movie Training Day.

Rich Moore

His animation directing credits include the television series The Simpsons, Futurama, The Critic, Drawn Together and Baby Blues, and the segment "Spy vs. Spy" for MADtv.

Ron Hughart

During his work on Futurama, supervising director Rich Moore said that Ron had directed some of the best scenes of violence on the show.

Russian reversal

In a 2002 episode of Futurama, "Crimes of the Hot", Fry states, "That ice dispenser is so big, the ice crushes you! Yakov Smirnoff said that."

Sobrance

Perhaps the most valuable guitar is a Resonet Grazioso/Futurama from early in the career of George Harrison.

The Sailor's Hornpipe

In the television show Futurama, the jingle for Popplers is set to the tune of The Sailor's Hornpipe (Season 2 Episode 15: The Problem with Popplers).

The Simpsons Archive

The episode capsule is a convention that has since crossed over to many other TV show fansites and newsgroups, including co-Matt Groening animation Futurama.

The Sleeper Awakes

A similar idea of growing interest on the contents of a bank account is seen in a first-season episode of Futurama entitled "A Fishful of Dollars", in which Fry finds that his bank account contains 4.3 billion dollars after leaving it with 93 cents 1000 years prior.

Travis Powers

‘’’Travis Powers’’’ is a Sound Designer/Supervising sound effects editor and Composer who has worked on several animated television series, including The Simpsons, Futurama, Dilbert, The PJs, The Critic, The Tracey Ullman Show, Mission Hill and King of the Hill.

Viasat 4

Its main focus is on entertainment, sports and documentaries, transmitting series such as Most Shocking, Stargate Atlantis, The 4400, Star Trek, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Riches, UEFA Champions League matches and Futurama, with short news bulletins from P4 on weeknights.

We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It

The songs "Pink Sunshine", "Fast Forward Futurama" and "International Rescue" were all co-written by Liam Sternberg.

Welshy

Welshy, fictional character in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", a 2002 episode of the Futurama animated TV series

Where It's At

An adaptation of the song in Futurama was also used with Bender playing the 'washboard' in various parts, the same episode in which Beck makes an appearance throughout the show.