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 ).

Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, the Futurama pavilion depicted how he imagined the world would look in 1959.

Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, the Futurama pavilion depicted how he imagined the world would look in 1959.

The reason the concept was originally under consideration for the " What if ..." scenario was that when Groening and Cohen originally created Futurama they decided there would not be any time travel ; however they changed their mind and decided to go forward with the idea.

" Though Groening had previously stated that he would never give up the comic strip, in 2009 he indicated that due to troubling times for print newspapers and constant involvement with The Simpsons and Futurama, he would likely one day drop the strip.

Nearly five years later, Cohen would team with Matt Groening to develop Futurama, where he would serve as writer or co-writer of six episodes and executive producer and head writer of the series ' entire run.

It was a huge springboard for many cartoonists and animators who would later become famous, including John Kricfalusi ( creator of The Ren and Stimpy Show ), Bruce W. Timm ( producer of Batman: The Animated Series ), Jim Reardon ( writer for Tiny Toon Adventures, Wall-E and director of many Simpsons episodes ), Tom Minton ( writer and producer for many Warner Bros. television cartoons, including Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Baby Looney Tunes and Duck Dodgers ), Lynne Naylor ( co-founder of Spümcø, character designer for Batman: The Animated Series and storyboard artist for The Powerpuff Girls and Cow and Chicken among other work ), Rich Moore ( animation director for The Simpsons and Futurama ), Andrew Stanton ( director of Finding Nemo and Wall-E ) and others.

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 .”

Examples of the evil goatee's appearances in other media include Bender's " evil twin " Flexo in Futurama and a 2009 episode of The Colbert Report featuring Stephen Colbert and Dan Maffei wearing fake goatees while pretending to be evil versions of themselves.

However, he refused to contribute to the Futurama episode " Where No Fan Has Gone Before " or allow his image to be used in it, and was " replaced " in the episode by the created character " Welshie " who was ultimately given the redshirt treatment.

In the Futurama film Bender's Big Score, Cartman's head can be seen in a jar at the Head Museum while Lars and Leela feed Charles de Gaulle on their date.

One of Cohen's inspirations for the character of Dr. Zoidberg was the fact that Star Trek character Bones, the ship's doctor ( Leonard McCoy ) frequently administered medical treatment to aliens such as Mr. Spock, so Cohen wished human characters in Futurama to be in the uneasy situation of being treated by an alien doctor.

In the 2003 episode " Bend Her " of the animated comedy Futurama, Devil's Island is seen to have gained sufficient autonomy to enter the 3004 Olympics ; the athletes appear to be wearing striped prison uniforms.

The Oblongs is the fourth series to be revived as a result of Adult Swim ; other series include Family Guy, Futurama, and Home Movies before its ultimate cancellation in 2004.

* In the Futurama episode " A Bicyclops Built for Two ", a creature resembling a purple Yithian can be seen as a would-be bride.

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.

It can even be heard in the background of car commercials and television shows such as The Amazing Race, and Futurama.

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.

In Futurama: The Game, which may not be considered canon, the Professor laments that the crew never remembers to charge anyone for the deliveries.

However, some 12-rated shows can be shown before 21: 00, such as The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, Doctor Who, and Futurama.

In 2012, the season will be re-released as Futurama: Volume 1, with entirely different packaging to match the newer season releases.

The Simpsons and Futurama had two crossover mini-series in which the Futurama characters become trapped in a Simpson comic book and then upon escaping cause characters from The Simpsons, as well as many other literary characters, to be brought into the Futurama universe, this being the only way, according to editor Bill Morrison, " in which fictional characters ( could ) interact with " real " ones.

A parody of Lum and Ten can be seen in the street in an issue of the Futurama comic.

* Futurama: on the episode Möbius Dick, where the aircraft tail, which couldn't be initially found in Lost, is shown to be placed in the fictional Bermuda Tetrahedron.

She introduces a new gift to Santa Claus, which turns out to be The Robot Santa from Futurama.

* The Futurama episode " The Duh-Vinci Code " reveals Leonardo to be an alien from Planet Vinci, which is inhabited by brilliant intellectuals of human appearance.

* In " Jurassic Bark ", the seventh episode of the fourth season of animated comedy Futurama, Seymour-the adopted dog of Philip Fry, a man accidentally cryogenically frozen and revived in the far future-is revealed to have waited for the remaining years of his life outside the pizza delivery restaurant where Fry worked, vainly awaiting his master's return.

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.

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.

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

* 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, the Nimbus is equipped with a " holoshed ", a parody of the holodeck.

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.

* 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 ).