Futurama (Fox, 1999 – 2003)
This animated comedy series was from the same team as The Simpsons. Fry is a pizza delivery boy that gets cryogenically frozen accidentally. He awakens in the year 3000 and must adapt to life in the 31st century. He ends up working for his great-great (x20) nephew’s intergalactic delivery company.
The cast was rounded out with Leela, a cyclops and Fry’s crush; Bender, a beer guzzling robot; Zoidberg, a crustacean-like alien and Zapp Brannigan, a general who thinks he’s God’s gift to women.
Futurama has won 7 Annie Awards, 6 Emmy Awards, 2 Writers Guild of America Awards and 2 Environmental Media Awards. In 2010 at San Diego’s Comic-Con International, Guinness World Records named Futurama with the record for the “Current Most Critically Acclaimed Animated Series.”
For reasons unbeknownst to the rest of us mere mortals who are not Fox executives and against the wishes of the die-hard fans, Futurama was cancelled after five seasons. As the animated series Family Guy began to pick up steam, Matt Groening, the series creator of Futurama released several straight-to-DVD Futurama movies. Comedy Central revived Futurama from 2009, but, ultimately, cancelled the series in 2013.
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