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Creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening, is responsible for this new animated series, Futurama.

Set in the year 3000, the series follows Fry (voiced by Billy West), a 25-year-old New York pizza delivery boy whose life is going nowhere. When he is accidentally cryogenically frozen on New Year's Eve 1999 and awakens an entire millennium later on New Year's Eve 2999, he has a chance to make a fresh start.

The future in which he finds himself is full of airborne freeways, rocket ships, talking heads in jars, dangerously addictive soft drinks and Stop 'n' Drop suicide booths, which allow customers to choose their mode of death, from 'quick and painless' to 'slow and horrible'. Fry, fortunately, soon meets up with Bender (voiced by John DiMaggio), a totally corrupt, hard-drinking, cigar-smoking, pornography-reading robot, and Leela (voiced by Katey Sagal), a beautiful, one-eyed alien martial arts expert, to help him make sense of this new environment.

Initially Fry's Fate Assignment Officer, Leela leaves and runs off with Fry and Bender, and the three of them find themselves joining Planet Express, an intergalactic courier company.

Episodes:
View full Episode Guide.
Keywords:
Animation, Drama, Cartoon, Animated
Cast (unconfirmed):
Katey Sagal.... Turanga Leela
John Di Maggio.... Bender / Additional Voices
Phil LaMarr.... Hermes Conrad / Additional Voices
Lauren Tom.... Amy Wong / Additional Voices
Maurice LaMarche.... Lt. Kif Kroker / Morbo / Calculon / Walt / Lrrr / Raoul / Donbot / iHawk / Horrible Gelatinous Blob / Additional Voices
Tress MacNeille.... Mom / Linda the Newsanchor / Tinny Tim / Hattie / Monique / Nd-Nd / Petunia / Turanga Munda / Additional Voices
Billy West.... Philip J. Fry / Prof. Hubert J. Farnsworth / Dr. Zoidberg / Zapp Brannigan / Leo Wong / Smitty / President Richard Nixon's Head / Additional Voices
David Herman.... Mayor C. Randall Poopenmayer / Professor Ogden Wernstrom / Turanga Morris / Larry / Dwayne / Additional Voices
Frank Welker.... Nibbler / Animal Voices / Others
Dawnn Lewis.... LaBarbara Conrad
Bumper Robinson.... Dwight Conrad
Dan Castellaneta.... The Robot Devil
Leonard Nimoy.... Himself
Nichelle Nichols.... Herself
Kath Soucie.... Cubert
Al Gore.... Himself
Conan O'Brien.... Himself
Donovan.... Himself
E. Gary Gygax.... Himself
Hank Aaron.... Himself / Hank Aaron XXIV
Directors (unconfirmed):
Ron Hughart
Brian Sheesley
Peter Avanzino
Bret Haaland
Susie Dietter
Mark Ervin
Chris Louden
James Purdum
Swinton O. Scott III
Rich Moore
Wesley Archer
Patty Shinagawa
Jeffrey Lynch
Chris Sauve
Dwayne Carey-Hill
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 Family Guy [Animation, 1999]

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