* Moriarty appears as a holographic character in the Futurama episode " Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch ", where he comes out of the Holoshed of the Nimbus with Attila the Hun, Jack The Ripper, and Evil ( Abraham ) Lincoln.

In Futurama Season 4, Episode 16 " Three Hundred Big Boys ", Kif gives Amy a watch that is shortly after swallowed by a whale named Mushu.

Futurama is widely held to have first introduced the general American public to the concept of a network of expressways connecting the nation.

Bel Geddes expounds upon his design in his book Magic Motorways, stating, “ Futurama is a large-scale model representing almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country – across mountains, over rivers and lakes, through cities and past towns – never deviating from a direct course and always adhering to the four basic principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy .” He had acknowledged this in the belief that “ A free-flowing movement of people and goods across our nation is a requirement of modern living and prosperity .”

He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell ( 1977 – 2012 ) as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons ( 1989 – present ) and Futurama ( 1999 – 2003, 2008 – present )

In Futurama he is said to have invented the technology to keep heads alive in jars.

** Futurama: The series ' protagonist, Fry, is accidentally cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999.

* In the " Fear of a Bot Planet " episode of the animated science fiction TV series Futurama, the Planet Express crew is ordered to make a delivery on a planet called " Chapek 9 " which is inhabited solely by robots.

This stereotype is popular in pop culture, with tin foil hats making appearances in movies such as Signs and Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder.

* A reference is made to the conjecture in the Futurama straight-to-DVD film The Beast with a Billion Backs, in which multiple elementary proofs are found in a Heaven-like scenario.

* In Futurama, The Democratic Order of Planets ' " Brannigan's Law " is a parody of the Prime Directive, and prohibits interfering with undeveloped worlds.

* 7-Eleven is parodied in the Futurama television series, as a convenience store called 7 < sup > 11 </ sup >.< ref >

* In Futurama when Fry and Bender are searching for a new apartment, one of the options is an Escher-like design.

The voice and humor of Queer Duck character Bi-Polar Bear – voiced by Ren & Stimpy and Futurama actor Billy West – is also done in the style of Paul Lynde, as was the supervillain The Scoutmaster in the Simpsons episode Radioactive Man.

The Freedonian national anthem is alluded to in the Futurama episode " Bend Her ".

* In issue # 22 of Futurama Comics, in the last panels, Jor-El is seen warning the science council that Krypton is about to explode.

* In the show Futurama, the outfit of Philip J. Fry is based on Jim's outfit.

* In the second episode of the first season of Futurama, " The Series Has Landed ", a Moon carnival ride named " The Goophy Gopher Revue " is said to have been sponsored / owned by " Monsanto ".

Tress MacNeille ( born June 20, 1951 ) is an American voice actress best known for providing various voices on the animated series The Simpsons, Futurama, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Disney's House of Mouse, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Rugrats, All Grown Up !, Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers, and Dave the Barbarian.

" Her TV roles include characters on The Simpsons, where she voices Agnes Skinner, Brandine Spuckler and Lindsey Naegle, and Futurama, in which her main role is the character Mom.

The pottery wheel scene is very well known and often parodied, most notably in Saturday Night Live, Family Guy (" The Story on Page One "), All's Well, Ends Well, Naked Gun 2½, Loaded Weapon 1, The Penguins of Madagascar, Futurama (" Bendless Love " and " Bender's Game "), Community (" Beginner Pottery "), Victorious (" Survival of the Hottest "), Wallace & Gromit (" A Matter of Loaf and Death "), 6teen (" Unhappy Anniversary ") and Ellen (" Alone Again ...

Doctor John A. Zoidberg is a fictional character in the television series Futurama.

* In Matt Groening's cartoon series Futurama, " smizmar " is used as a term for a third sex, the name for the individuals whom inspire the feeling of love ( and thus conception, for that species ), regardless of genetic relationship, to Kif Kroker's species, the Amphibiosians.

The popularity of the Futurama exhibit fit closely with the fair ’ s overall theme “ The World Of Tomorrow ” not just in its emphasis on the future, but also in its redesign of the American landscape.

The Futurama exhibition was subsequently presented as one of the 1939 New York World Fair ’ s main attractions, as it was the “ Number one hit show .” It captured the fancy of the public and critics alike, with journalists competing to find adequate words to convey Bel Gedde ’ s “ ingenuity ”, “ daring ”, “ showmanship ”, and “ genius ”.

* In the Futurama episode " The Luck of the Fryrish ", a short clip shows the first man on Mars with a spacecraft that resembles the Mars Habitat Unit.

The tubes in Futurama are also used to depict the endless confusion of bureaucracy: an immense network of pneumatic tubes connects all offices in New New York City to the " Central Bureaucracy ", with all the capsules being deposited directly into a huge pile in the main filing room, with no sorting or organization.

Futurama would be revived with four direct-to-DVD films between 2007 – 2009 and would return as a series in 2010 on Comedy Central.

He guest starred as The Robot Devil in three episodes of Futurama, as well as the film The Beast with a Billion Backs.

The character Leela from Futurama was a foundling, given to the Ophanarium and a note in an alien language to make people believe that she was an alien, and not a mutant ( who would have been forced to live in the sewers, with the other mutants ).

There the < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 36, 000 square foot ( 3, 300 m² )</ span > Futurama exhibit, designed by famed industrial designer and theater set designer Norman Bel Geddes, transported fair visitors over a huge diorama of a section of the United States that was designed with a stunning array of miniature highways, towns, 500, 000 individually designed homes, 50, 000 miniature vehicles, waterways, and a million miniature trees of diverse species.

Later generations have attempted to recapture the impression it made in fictional and artistic treatments, sometimes seriously, as in 1939: The Lost World of the Fair, a mixed non-fiction and fictional book by David Gelernter, or World's Fair, by E. L. Doctorow, but often with ironic intent, notably in Matt Groening's show Futurama which was named after the GM exhibit.

It has also been nominated four times for a Writers Guild of America Award, winning two for the episodes " Godfellas " and " The Prisoner of Benda ", been nominated for a Nebula Award and has received Environmental Media Awards for episodes " The Problem with Popplers " and " The Futurama Holiday Spectacular ".

Fox strongly disliked the episode, but after negotiations, Groening received the same independence with Futurama.

* In an episode of Futurama called " Godfellas ", the robot Bender finds himself doomed to drift through space, during which time he etches a modified version of the Pioneer plaque, with himself towering menacingly over the human figures, so that " When I'm found in a million years, people will know what the score was.

* New New York, in Futurama New New York is built on Old New York and numerous storylines involve journeys down into the still preserved remains of the city and confrontations with its inhabitants.

Almost everybody in the Futurama universe speaks English, with no explanation being given, though it is possibly because Earth seems to be a fairly dominant planet in galactic politics.

* The animated television show Futurama takes place 1000 years from the date of the series ' creation, with the first episode taking place on Tuesday, December 31, 2999 ( with scenes at the start taking place on the same date in 1999 ).

He has an extensive voice acting career, with major roles spanning animated series Justice League / Justice League Unlimited, Futurama, Samurai Jack.

LaMarr reprised his role as Hermes Conrad in the Futurama movies Bender's Big Score, The Beast with a Billion Backs, Bender's Game, and Into the Wild Green Yonder.

After 20 years since The Simpsons animation departed to Film Roman, Klasky Csupo started to have its animation credit in the ending credits of a Dexter's Laboratory music video (" Dee Dee and Dexter " by They Might Be Giants ) and Futurama ( Rough Draft Korea first, then Film Roman third with the 4th season and on ).