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.

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

* 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.

" During the end credits, Kif Kroker is shown as Balok, even though no such scene appeared in the Futurama episode.

The Gadsden Flag is also seen in the " Futurama " episode " All the President's Heads " where it is shown at the New New York Head Museum and again at the same location save Bender Bending Rodríguez changing the flag to a picture of him -- cigar in one hand, other hand pointing at his posterior -- with a colonial spelling of his catchphrase " Bite my shiny metal ass " underneath.

A short clip from the Clutch Cargo episode " Space Station " is shown on a TV screen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode " A Flight to Remember ".

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

Siouxsie Sioux was particularly influential on the dress style of the Gothic rock scene ; Paul Morley of NME described Siouxsie and the Banshees's 1980 gig at Futurama: " was modeling her newest outfit, the one that will influence how all the girls dress over the next few months.

The animated series, Futurama, had an episode where the characters travel between " Universe 1 " and " Universe A " via boxes containing each universe ; and one of the major jokes is an extended argument between the two sets of characters over which set were the " evil " ones.

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.

* 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.

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.

* In the Futurama episode The Late Philip J. Fry, the Professor, Bender and Fry travel in the Professor's Time Machine in which they find a five-times over Post-Apocalyptic future in the year 10, 000.

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.

Sometimes these categories cross over, as with Futurama Fry, and costanza. jpg, a popular reaction face of George Costanza from Seinfeld.

Futurama was an exhibit / ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair designed by Norman Bel Geddes that tried to show the world 20 years into the future ( 1959 – 1960 ).

* 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 ).

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 ).

This age suggests that the world of Futurama progresses in years with the real world.

In the film Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, Wernstrom mentions that Farnsworth is a recipient of the Fields Medal, which is awarded only to scientists under 40 years of age.

* The TV show Futurama mainly takes place in the last two years of the 30th century ( 2999 – 3000 ) in the first two seasons and in the third season and beyond in takes place in the first years of the 31st century ( 3001 – 3011 ).

* 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.

A few years later, Gore began to make a number of television appearances in which he displayed a willingness to poke fun at himself, such as in episodes of Futurama and Saturday Night Live.

* The TV show Futurama mainly takes place in the last two years of the 3rd millennium and the 30th century ( 2999 – 3000 ) in the first two seasons and in the third season and beyond in takes place in the first years of the 31st century ( 3001 – 3011 ).

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.

After spending a few years researching science fiction, Groening got together with Cohen in 1997 and developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000.

Keeler was instrumental in the creation of Futurama, and served as a co-executive producer in its first three years, and as an executive producer in its fourth year.