* Blotto, Bender ( Futurama ) was went by this nickname while in the Robot Mafia in Season 2, Episode 13: " Bender Gets Made " because " It's gritty, it's got street cred.

*" Parasites Lost ", Episode 2 of Season 3 of Futurama, is another Fantastic Voyage parody.

The animated television series Futurama makes continued reference to the product Soylent Green, including in season 4, episode 11, when Bender challenges Chef Elzar, and to such variations as Soylent Cola.

* In the 1990s Nickelodeon sitcom, Kenan & Kel, the season 4 episode, " Futurama ", takes place in the year 3000.

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Lauren Tom ( born August 4, 1961 ) is an American actress and voice actress perhaps best known for her roles as Lena St Clair in The Joy Luck Club, Julie in the TV series Friends, and for providing the voices for both mother and daughter characters on two animated TV comedy series: on Futurama she voices Amy Wong and her mother Inez, and on King of the Hill she voiced Minh & Connie Souphanousinphone.

" Jurassic Bark ", episode 7 of season 4 of the animated television series Futurama has an extended homage to Hachikō, with Fry discovering the fossilized remains of his dog, Seymour.

Shared story credits: " The Day the Earth Stood Stupid " and the Futurama made-for-DVD movies " Bender's Big Score ", " The Beast with a Billion Backs, " Bender's Game " ( both story and part 4 of the teleplay ) and " Into the Wild Green Yonder ".

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However, airings in syndication on Adult Swim and Comedy Central increased the show's popularity and led Comedy Central to commission a series of Futurama direct-to-DVD films, which the network later rebroadcast as 16 episodes, season five.

William Richard " Billy " West ( born April 16, 1950 ) is an American voice actor and musician best known for his voice-work on The Ren & Stimpy Show, Doug and Futurama, as well as for being the guitarist and singer-songwriter for a band called Billy West and The Grief Counselors.

" 22 Short Films about Springfield " in turn inspired the Futurama episode " Three Hundred Big Boys ".

" " 22 Short Films About Springfield " also helped inspire the Futurama episode " Three Hundred Big Boys ".

* In the Futurama episode " Three Hundred Big Boys ", a stem cell rejuvenated Professor Farnsworth orders a " mild farina " in a restaurant – after talking about " living life on the edge " to his date.

* Bender's Big Score, the first full-length Futurama movie

* In the 2007 Futurama movie, Bender's Big Score, Professor Farnsworth falls for a lottery scam, giving away his personal details on the Internet after he thought he had won the lottery.

** 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 ( 2000 )

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.

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.

In the film Futurama: Bender's Big Score Leela falls in love with a seemingly perfect man, Lars, and they soon become engaged.

West also voices Lars Fillmore in Futurama: Bender's Big Score, who is a time travel duplicate of Fry with an injured larynx, and therefore, a slightly altered voice.

Futurama has returned to the theme of time travel twice since ; in Futurama: Bender's Big Score, although the cause of time travel is different, and in " The Late Philip J. Fry ", which involves a time machine that can only travel forwards in time-to specifically avoid creating a paradox.

He is best known for his voicework in Futurama as Kif Kroker, as Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters, Verminous Skumm and Duke Nukem in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Big Bob Pataki in Hey Arnold !, Dizzy Devil in Tiny Toons, The Brain in Animaniacs and Pinky and The Brain, and his portrayal of Mr. Freeze in Batman: Arkham City.

LaMarche has appeared in many films, including dubbing the voice of Orson Welles over Vincent D ' Onofrio's on-camera performance in Ed Wood ; Pepe Le Pew in Space Jam ; supplying the voice of the Alec Baldwin puppet in Team America: World Police, and reprising his roles from Queer Duck and Futurama in the direct-to-video films Queer Duck: The Movie and Futurama: Bender's Big Score, respectively.

Both the metric system and attitudes in the U. S. toward the metric system are a target of humorous jabs in shows such as The Simpsons, Futurama and The Big Bang Theory.

Other animated movies Tom has voiced include Mulan II, Kim Possible: The Secret Files, Kim Possible Movie: So The Drama, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker and the four Futurama movies: Bender's Big Score, The Beast with a Billion Backs, Bender's Game and Into the Wild Green Yonder.

A segment of Walker's song " 30 Century Man " appears in the 2007 animated feature Futurama: Bender's Big Score, in which a short animated sequence illustrates Walker's lyric " shakin ' hands with Charles de Gaulle.

* In the Futurama episode A Big Piece of Garbage, the second garbage ball is expected to hit Earth by the year 4000.

He also wrote the direct-to-DVD Futurama movies Bender's Big Score and Into the Wild Green Yonder.

* Futurama: Bender's Big Score ( film: teleplay, co-writer script )

* Futurama: Bender's Big Score ( 2007 )-( co-production with 20th Century Fox ; Direct-to-video )

* A part of the song plays at the end of the Futurama episode " A Big Piece of Garbage ", when the credits are being shown.

* 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.

* An episode of Futurama, " Roswell That Ends Well ", takes place in 1947 Roswell, New Mexico when Fry accidentally gets the crew transported back in time, and the authorities mistake Bender's disassembled body for a UFO and apprehend Dr. Zoidberg as an alien.

The series has also been parodied on The Simpsons and notably in the Futurama episode " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ", which was described by Wired magazine as a " touchstone " for fans.

* In the Futurama episode " Crimes of the Hot ", scientists began to drop a massive sized block of ice in the ocean to combat global warming every now and then until 3002, when Earth's orbit was moved, thus cooling the atmosphere dramatically.

* 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 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 ".

* In the Futurama episode " The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings ", the Robot Devil sings at one point " I will marry her now and confine her to Hell, How droll!

The suspenseful bandage removal sequence has been parodied on three Fox TV animated sitcoms: The Simpsons (" Pygmoelian " and " Gone Maggie Gone "), Family Guy (" He's Too Sexy for His Fat ", " Meet the Quagmires "), and Futurama (" The Cyber House Rules ").

* " Love and Rocket ", an episode of Futurama

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

The character has since made a couple of brief cameos: the Animaniacs episode " Boot Camping " has a character looking very much like Private Snafu, and the Futurama episode " I Dated a Robot ", shows Private Snafu on the building mounted video screen for a few seconds in the opening credits.

* Felix appeared in opening credits of Futurama episodes " How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back ", " The Lesser of Two Evils " and " War Is the H-Word ".

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 ".

* 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.

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

For example, an episode of Futurama that dealt with a character's devotion to Star Trek is named " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ", a level in the videogame Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time is called " Starbase: Where No Turtle Has Gone Before ", and an episode of DuckTales parodying Star Trek is entitled " Where No Duck Has Gone Before ".

In the Futurama episode " Fear of a Bot Planet ", the robotic policemen along with the loudspeaker use the sound samples of " Get the humanoid!

* In the Futurama episode " Xmas Story ", 2809 was the year of the first Xmas massacre, caused by an evil robotic Santa Claus which was built by Mom's Friendly Robot Company in 2801.

* According to Futurama episode " Lethal Inspection ", the Sith Invasion takes place in the year 2865.

* 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.

* 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.