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This article lists the many characters of ''Futurama,'' an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century. Along with the employees of Planet Express, ''Futurama'' includes a large array of characters, which include co-workers, media personalities, business owners, extended relatives, townspeople, aliens, and villains. Many of these characters were created for one-time gags, background scenes, or other functions, but later gained expanded roles. Other characters started as background characters, and have been used to personify new roles later on in the series. The main characters are listed first; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futurama Season 6
The sixth season of ''Futurama'' originally aired on Comedy Central from June 24, 2010, to September 8, 2011, and consisted of 26 episodes. The Season (television), season marks the change of networks from Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox to Comedy Central. The first 13 episodes (known as Season 6-A) aired during 2010, and the remaining 13 episodes (known as Season 6-B) aired during 2011. This makes the episode "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" the mid-season finale, despite airing almost twelve weeks after ''Futurama'' The Mutants Are Revolting, 100th episode. The final episode of the season, "Reincarnation (Futurama), Reincarnation", aired on September 8, 2011 as a three-segment Canon (fiction), non-canonical special after the official season finale. The first 13 episodes of the season have been released on a box set called ''Futurama: Volume 5'', on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. It was released in the United States and Canada, on December 21, 2010, and on UK DVD on boxing day 2011. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Farnsworth
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, commonly referred to in-show as either Professor Farnsworth or simply Professor, is a fictional character in the American animated television series ''Futurama''. The mad scientist proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service for whom the main characters work, he is the great (×30) grandnephew of series protagonist Philip J. Fry. He alternates between intelligence and amoral senility due to his greatly advanced age (the exact value of which has differed across episodes). He demonstrates a mastery of any field of science necessary for the series' plots and is suggested to be one of the most brilliant inventors on Earth. However, he falls asleep constantly, and he routinely sends his crews on suicide missions. Character A self-described mad scientist, the Professor is a senile, amoral, deranged, and unpredictable old man (160 years old as of " A Clone of My Own") with very thick glasses and a gift for creating doomsday devices and atomic s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John DiMaggio
John William DiMaggio ( ; born September 4, 1968) is an American actor. His various voice roles include Bender on ''Futurama'', Jake the Dog on ''Adventure Time'', Marcus Fenix in the ''Gears of War'' series, Dr. Drakken on '' Kim Possible'', Hak Foo in '' Jackie Chan Adventures'', The Scotsman on '' Samurai Jack'', Brother Blood on ''Teen Titans'' and ''Teen Titans Go!'', Shnitzel on '' Chowder'', Fu Dog on '' American Dragon: Jake Long'', Hammerhead and Sandman on '' The Spectacular Spider-Man'', Aquaman on '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold'', King Zøg on ''Disenchantment'', Jocktopus on ''Fish Hooks'', Wakka and Kimahri in '' Final Fantasy X'', Rath in the '' Ben 10'' franchise, Crosshairs, Leadfoot, Nitro Zeus, Transit and Stratosphere in the ''Transformers'' film franchise, and Gonza in the English version of ''Princess Mononoke''. Early life Born and raised in North Plainfield, New Jersey, DiMaggio graduated from North Plainfield High School in 1986. He is of Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bender (Futurama)
Bender Bending Rodríguez (designated in-universe as Bending Unit 22, unit number 1,729, serial number 27160571,729 is the smallest Taxicab number, number that can be represented as the sum of two cubes in two ways, 1³ + 12³ = 9³ + 10³, serial number 2716057 = (952³ - 951³Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes?, Simon Singh, BBC News, 15 October 2013/ref>) is one of the main characters in the animated television series ''Futurama''. He was conceived by the series' creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, and is voiced by John DiMaggio. He fulfills a comic, antihero-type role in the show, and is described by fellow character Leela (Futurama), Leela as an "Alcoholism, alcoholic, Prostitution, whore-mongering, Chain smoking, chain-smoking gambler". According to the character's backstory, Bender was built in Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico (the other characters refer to his "swarthy Latin Americans, Latin charm"), his name a reference to Bending (metalworking), bending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katey Sagal
Catherine Louise Sagal (born January 19, 1954) is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing Peggy Bundy on '' Married... with Children'' (1987–1997), Leela on '' Futurama'' (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2023–present), Cate Hennessy on '' 8 Simple Rules'' (2002–2005), Gemma Teller Morrow on the FX series '' Sons of Anarchy'' (2008–2014), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2011, and Louise Goldufski-Conner on '' The Conners'' (2018–2025). Early life Sagal was born on January 19, 1954, in Los Angeles to a show business family with five children. Her mother, Sara Zwilling, was a singer (stage name Sara Macon), producer, and television writer who died of heart disease in 1975, and Sagal's father, television director Boris Sagal, was born in the modern-day city of Dnipro, Ukraine, and emigrated from the Soviet Union. Her mother had Amish ancestors. In 1977, Sagal's father married dancer/actress Marge C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leela (Futurama)
Turanga Leela is a fictional character from the List of animated television series, animated television series ''Futurama''. Leela is spaceship captain, pilot (aeronautics), pilot, and head of all aviation services on board the ''Planet Express Ship''. Throughout the series, she has an on-again, off-again relationship with Philip J. Fry, the central character in the series. The character, voiced by Katey Sagal, is named after the ''Turangalîla-Symphonie'' by Olivier Messiaen. She is one of the few characters in the cast to routinely display competence and the ability to command, and routinely saves the rest of the cast from disaster. However, she suffers extreme self-doubt because she has only one eye and grew up as a bullied orphan. She first believes herself an Extraterrestrial life in fiction, alien, but later finds out she is the least-mutated sewerage, sewer mutant (fiction), mutant in the history of 31st-century Earth. Her family (particularly her parents' accent (phon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy West
William Richard Werstine (born 1952), known professionally as Billy West, is an American voice actor, comedian, radio personality, impressionist and musician. His voice roles include Bugs Bunny in the 1996 film ''Space Jam'', the title characters of ''Doug (TV series), Doug'' and ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', and several subsequent projects. He also voiced Disney characters, including Ellyvan the Elephant in ''Jungle Junction'', Bashful in ''The 7D'', and the ''Futurama'' characters Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, and many more. In commercials, he voices the Red M&M's, M&M and formerly voiced Buzz for Honey Nut Cheerios. West also voices other established characters such as Elmer Fudd, Popeye, Shaggy Rogers, Rocket Raccoon, Muttley, and Woody Woodpecker. He was a cast member on ''The Howard Stern Show'', during which time he was noted for his impressions of Larry Fine, Marge Schott, George Takei, and Jackie Martling. Early life William Richard Wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Into The Wild Green Yonder
''Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder'' is a 2009 American direct-to-video adult animated science fiction comedy-adventure film based on the animated series ''Futurama'', and the fourth and final of the direct-to-DVD films that make up the show's fifth season. The film was written by Ken Keeler, based on a story by Keeler and David X. Cohen, and directed by Peter Avanzino. Guest stars include Phil Hendrie, Penn Jillette (credited with Teller), Snoop Dogg, and Seth MacFarlane, who sings the theme song. In the movie, Leela becomes an outlaw when she and a group of ecologically-minded feminists attempt to save an asteroid of primitive life forms and the Violet Dwarf star from being destroyed, while Fry joins a secret society and attempts to stop a mysterious species known as the "Dark Ones" from destroying all life in the universe. The title itself is a reference to the U.S. Air Force Song, the main chorus of which describes reaching "Into the wild blue yonder". The DVD and B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bender's Game
''Futurama: Bender's Game'' is a 2008 American direct-to-video adult animated science fantasy comedy film and the third of the four ''Futurama'' films that make up the show's fifth season. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 4, 2008. According to the '' Beast with a Billion Backs'' DVD commentary, the film, which spoofs ''Dungeons & Dragons'', was in production when ''Dungeons & Dragons'' creator, Gary Gygax, died. The film contains a post-credits tribute to Gygax in the form of a title card and a clip of him from the episode "Anthology of Interest I". Elements of J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'' and George Lucas' ''Star Wars'' are also parodied. The title of the film is a pun on the book ''Ender's Game'', by Orson Scott Card, though the ''Futurama'' film has "very little to do with the subject material" of the book. Conversely, the 1985 book also used "Bender" as a mocking pun for "Ender", but Matt Groening stated this is not the original inspiration for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beast With A Billion Backs
''Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs'' is a 2008 American direct-to-video adult animated science-fiction film based on the animated series ''Futurama'', and the second of four straight-to-DVD films that make up the show's fifth season. The film was released in the United States and Canada on June 24, 2008, followed by a UK release on June 30, 2008 and an Australian release on August 6, 2008. The title refers to a euphemism for sexual intercourse—" the beast with two backs". Comedy Central aired the film as a "four-part epic" on October 19, 2008. The movie won an Annie Award for "Best Animated Home Entertainment Production". Plot A month after the universe was ripped open, people decide to go on with their lives. Amy and Kif get married. Fry starts dating a girl named Colleen, but breaks up with her when he discovers she has many other boyfriends. At a conference, Professor Farnsworth proposes an expedition to investigate the anomaly. When Bender explores the anomal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
