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Futurama (season 7)
The seventh season of '' Futurama'' consisted of 26 episodes split equally across two broadcast seasons: 7-A and 7-B. It premiered on Comedy Central on June 20, 2012. A box set containing the 13 episodes of Season 7-A was released as ''Futurama: Volume 7'' and another box set containing the 13 episodes of Season 7-B was released as ''Futurama: Volume 8''. On April 22, 2013, Comedy Central announced that it would not be renewing ''Futurama'' for any more seasons, making 7-B the final season of the series to air on the network. The season finale aired on September 4, 2013. Hulu greenlit a Season 8 in February 2022, which will be scheduled to premiere in 2023. Episodes Comedy Central chose to air some parts of season 7 out of production order. This list is depicted in production order as this is the order used in ''Volume 7'' and ''Volume 8'' and intended by the producers. According to the commentaries in ''Volume 7'', " 31st Century Fox" (7ACV11) and " Viva Mars Vegas" (7ACV12) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futurama Volume 7
''Futurama'' is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of the professional slacker Philip J. Fry, who is cryogenically preserved for 1000 years and revived on December 31, 2999. Fry finds work at an interplanetary delivery company, working alongside the one-eyed Leela and robot Bender. The series was envisioned by Groening in the mid-1990s while working on ''The Simpsons''; he brought David X. Cohen aboard to develop storylines and characters to pitch the show to Fox. Following its initial cancelation by Fox, ''Futurama'' began airing reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, which lasted from 2003 to 2007. It was revived in 2007 as four direct-to-video films, the last of which was released in early 2009. Comedy Central entered into an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television to syndicate the existing episodes and air the films as 16 new, half-hour episodes, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Weinstein
Josh Weinstein (born May 5, 1966) is an American television writer and producer, known for his work on the animated comedy series ''The Simpsons''. Weinstein and Bill Oakley became best friends and writing partners at St. Albans School; Weinstein then attended Stanford University and was editor-in-chief of the ''Stanford Chaparral''. He worked on several short-term media projects, including writing for the variety show ''Sunday Best'', but was then unemployed for a long period. Weinstein and Oakley eventually penned a spec script for ''Seinfeld'', after which they wrote " Marge Gets a Job", an episode of ''The Simpsons''. Subsequently, the two were hired to write for the show on a permanent basis in 1992. After they wrote episodes such as "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)", "Bart vs. Australia" and " Who Shot Mr. Burns?", the two were appointed executive producers and showrunners for the seventh and eighth seasons of the show. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fun On A Bun
"Fun on a Bun" eighth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom ''Futurama''. It originally aired on Comedy Central on July 30, 2012. The episode was written by Dan Vebber and directed by Stephen Sandoval. Additional Oktoberfest music was provided by polka band Brave Combo. Plot Professor Farnsworth takes the Planet Express crew to Germany for Oktoberfest. Fry is disappointed to discover that the celebration has become much more refined since the 20th century, and he gets intoxicated and performs " The Chicken Dance", embarrassing his fellow workers, particularly Leela, who breaks up with him. Meanwhile, Bender discovers that Elzar is there, ready to win the sausage-making challenge using pork that has been aged over 3000 years. Bender is determined to win the event, and takes a despondent Fry with him in the Planet Express ship to look for woolly mammoths frozen in a nearby glacier within Neander Valley, believing that meat aged over 30,000 years should certainly win. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Keeler
Ken Keeler is an American television producer and writer. He has written for numerous television series, most notably ''The Simpsons'' and ''Futurama''. According to an interview with David X. Cohen, he proved a theorem that appears in the ''Futurama'' episode "The Prisoner of Benda". Education and early career Keeler studied applied mathematics at Harvard University, graduating ''summa cum laude'' in 1983. He then gained a master's degree from Stanford in electrical engineering before returning to Harvard. He earned a PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1990. His doctoral thesis was "Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation". After earning his doctorate, Keeler joined the Performance Analysis Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Career Keeler soon left Bell Labs to write for David Letterman and subsequently for various sitcoms, including several episodes of ''Wings'', ''The Simpsons'', ''Futurama'', and '' The Critic'', as well as the short-lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Avanzino
Peter Avanzino (born May 26, 1962) is an American animation director. He has directed several episodes of ''Futurama'', and served as supervising director on the 6th and 7th seasons of the series. Avanzino works for Rough Draft Studios in Glendale, California. He has also directed episodes of ''Drawn Together'', ''Duckman'', ''The Wild Thornberrys'', '' Sit Down, Shut Up'', and ''The Ren & Stimpy Show''. He was also a storyboard artist on ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' and ''The Simpsons''. Also, he directed the Christmas movie "How Murray Saved Christmas." Avanzino currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife and kids. Credits Supervising Director * ''Drawn Together'' * ''Duckman'' * ''Napoleon Dynamite'' * '' Sit Down, Shut Up'' (with Rich Moore) * ''Futurama'' (seasons 6-present) * ''Clash-a-Rama'' (season one) * ''Disenchantment'' (with Dwayne Carey-Hill) Director * How Murray Saved Christmas 2014 ''Sit Down, Shut Up'' *"Helen and Sue's High School Reunion" ''Drawn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Six Million Dollar Mon
"The Six Million Dollar Mon" is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom '' Futurama''. It originally aired on Comedy Central on July 25, 2012. The episode was written by Ken Keeler and directed by Peter Avanzino. Plot Hermes starts performance reviews so that he may rid Planet Express of its worst employee, implying that this will be Zoidberg. Upon completing the review and finding the entire crew lackluster, Hermes determines he is the worst-performing employee, spending too much time reviewing performance. He fires himself and has the Central Bureaucracy replace him with a robot to handle the accounting for Planet Express. Hermes begins to feel useless. This is compounded by the fact that he and LaBarbara are attacked by the psychotic robot Roberto and only saved by the robot police officer URL. After Roberto is executed, Hermes goes to a black market "upgrade" shop run by Yuri and obtains a robotic upgrade. He finds the upgrade helps to improve his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rowe
Michael Rowe (born 1960) is an American television writer, producer and comedian. He has written for ''Becker'', ''The Nanny'', '' Futurama'', '' Paranormal Action Squad'' and '' Family Guy'', as well as writing the episode of ''The PJs ''The PJs'' is an American adult animated stop-motion black sitcom created by Eddie Murphy, Larry Wilmore, and Steve Tompkins. It portrayed life in an urban public housing project, modeled after the Cabrini–Green housing projects in Chicago. ...'', "A Race to His Credit". Filmography As Boxer his opponents were ;''Michael Rowe VS'' *"Tommy o'connor" *"Seanie o'leary" *"Rory o'halloren" *"Mike Tyson" ;''He on all of these fight'' References External links * 21st-century American comedians American television producers American television writers American male television writers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American screenwriters 1960 births 21st-century American male writers {{US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Butterjunk Effect
"The Butterjunk Effect" is the sixth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom '' Futurama''. It originally aired on Comedy Central on July 18, 2012. The episode was written by Michael Rowe and directed by Crystal Chesney-Thompson. Plot The ''Planet Express'' crew are assigned to return the "stolen" Moon rocks from the Apollo missions to the Moon. There, they attend a "Butterfly Derby" where women in butterfly wingsuits battle and wrestle each other in midair; competitors are eliminated upon touching the arena floor. When the announcer Abner Doubledeal asks for amateur challengers to the current reigning champions, Leela and Amy step forward. They are severely trounced by their opponents on their first attempt, but Doubledeal nonetheless adds them to the Butterfly Derby Roster as a new team, the Wingnuts. The pair are unable to improve on their first performance and lose all of their matches until they see the champions buying and using Nectar, a substance that hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zapp Dingbat
"Zapp Dingbat" is the fifth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom '' Futurama''. It originally aired on Comedy Central on July 11, 2012. The episode was written by Eric Rogers and directed by Frank Marino. Plot Leela invites the Planet Express crew and the other sewer mutants to her parents Morris and Munda's 40th anniversary, where everyone learns that they met at Brown University, where Morris was a laid-back surfer (aided by having ten toes on each foot), while Munda obtained a PhD in exolinguistics, the study of alien languages; the two fell in love and Munda put aside her future studies. However, during the anniversary celebration, Munda reveals a long-standing bitterness to Morris over his disinterest in her career and disinterest in exploring the universe now that sewer mutants are allowed to leave Earth's sewers. She divorces him and moves in with Leela. Now that Munda is free to see the alien worlds she always studied, Leela takes her to a space bar. Za ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Vebber
Dan Vebber is an American writer best known for his television work on animated shows such as ''The Simpsons'', ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'', '' Futurama'', ''Daria'', ''Napoleon Dynamite'' and '' American Dad!''. He was also a writer on '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. Vebber was nominated for Emmy Awards in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014, winning an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 2011. Vebber got his start as a cartoonist, writer, and editor at ''The Daily Cardinal'' and ''The Onion'' in the early 1990s. Filmography ''The Simpsons'' episodes * "The Book Job" (2011) * "Lisa the Veterinarian" (2016) * " Frink Gets Testy" (2018) * " 101 Mitigations" (with Rob LaZebnik & Brian Kelley) (2019) * " Thanksgiving of Horror" (2019) * " Bart the Bad Guy" (2020) * " The Last Barfighter" (2021) * " Boyz N the Highlands" (2022) * " Step Brother from the Same Planet" (2022) ''Futurama'' episodes * “ The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz” (2001) * “ Love and Rocket” (2002) * “ The Route ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thief Of Baghead
"The Thief of Baghead" is the fourth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom '' Futurama''. It originally aired on Comedy Central on July 4, 2012. The episode was written by series co-producer Dan Vebber and directed by Edmund Fong. Plot The crew go to the aquarium where Bender becomes obsessed with snapping pictures of celebrity actor Calculon. The crew is frustrated by the finickiness of Bender's photography, especially that he uses a film camera instead of digital. After reviewing the photos, Zoidberg suggests that Bender become a paparazzi photographer for a celebrity gossip magazine. Though his career is lucrative, he becomes determined to take a photo of the most lauded and mysterious actor, Langdon Cobb. Cobb is considered the greatest actor on Earth, but wears a paper bag over his head, disguising his face in all his roles and public appearances. Bender manages to sneak past Cobb's fungus-based guard dog and takes a picture of him without his paper bag. Cob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patric Verrone
Patric Miller Verrone (born September 29, 1959) is an American television writer and labor leader. He served as a writer and producer for several animated television shows, most notably ''Futurama''. Schooling and pre-television career Verrone graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1981 where he was an editor of the ''Harvard Lampoon''. He graduated from Boston College Law School in 1984 after serving as editor of the Boston College Law Review. He practiced law in Florida and California before becoming a television writer. Career in television Verrone began his career as a variety show writer, which included a late 1980s job as monologue writer for ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''.Patric Verrone interview with Shannon Muir f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
