Im about to properly watch futurama for the first time. The popular animated series gets allnew halfhour episodes this summer. May 25, 2019 futurama may be one of the best scifi comedies out there, spanning 7 seasons. Season five, which consisted of the feature films, proved a big enough hit for comedy. The adventures of a late20thcentury new york city pizza delivery boy, philip j. Fox broadcasting company broadcast many episodes of the original four production seasons of futurama out of order though the first season was aired completely in order, resulting in five broadcast seasons.
The best episode of futurama from each season, ranked. Understanding difference between dvd order and aired order. Over the course of seven seasons, four tv movies, six emmys, and one illconceived cancellation, futurama created a sardonic, clever universe. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at planet express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retrofuturistic 31st century. Fry, who reawakens in 31st century new new york after a cryonics lab accident. Fry, a pizza delivery boy, is accidentally frozen in.
Honestly, watch the seasons in the most obvious order. Hatched from matt groenings brain, futurama follows pizza guy philip j. Futuramas cancellation may only be temporary, heres why. Now part of the planet express delivery crew, fry travels to the farthest reaches of the universe with his robot buddy bender and cyclopsian love interest leela, discovering freaky mutants, intergalactic conspiracies and other strange stuff. Another factor that is unique to futurama is that different tv companies broadcast different episodes and series in their own order, so there isnt a defacto standard. Cohen, steve fritz, newsarama 15 october 2009, comedy central june programming highlights, the futon critic 23 april 2010, next. Benders big score the beast with a billion backs benders game into the wild green yonder thats the order. Some countries broadcast futurama in the intended fourseason order. A january 2011 press release indicated that the last 26 episode order was for seasons six and seven. Just got the first season on sale, looking into what ill be seeing in the future, noticed itunes lists 10 seasons and four movies. Since the show is still produced by 20th century fox television.
Futurama 4 movie collection into the wild green yonder benders game the beast with a billion backs futurama. Reruns of the show still refer to this order when giving episode number. Season five, which consisted of the feature films, proved a. Futurama is an animated sciencefiction comedy show, which was also created by matt groening. For the episode list according to the broadcast order see list of futurama episodes by broadcast order. The movies did well enough to convince comedy central to order brandnew futurama episodes, and the series was formally revived in 2010.
Seasons one to four are the episodes that aired on fox, season five is the madefordvd movie season on comedy central, the movies are shown as fourpart episodes with parts cut to make room for commercials, and seasons six and seven are the comedy central episodes. Fox aired them out of order and broke them up into five seasons eps 19. Is there a certain viewing order for the futurama movies. The simpsons, season 31 2019 rick and morty, season 4 uncensored 2019 family guy, season 18 2019 american dad, season 15.
The problem, though, is that, during futurama s original airing fox routinely moved episodes around, broadcast them in different orders, and arbitrarily set up seasons that were different from the production. References back to the futurama w cocreator david x. Numerous references have been made to the show throughout the run in the simpsons as well as futurama making references to the simpsons. The first twenty seasons are available on dvd in regions 1, 2, and 4, with the twentieth season released on both dvd and bluray in 2010 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series.
Catch up on episodes of futurama, which airs on syfy. Futurama limited complete series collection seasons 1,2,3,4,5. Zapp, kiff, and bender try to capture the feministas. Except where stated and where direct contradictions arise, it is assumed that production order of episodes is the same as chronological order. Many people have compared the futurama main characters with the main simpsons characters such as bender is futuramas homer.
Mar 05, 2009 the fourth and final futurama directtodvd movie has just been released, aptly named into the wild green yonder. Season 6b of futurama consists of the final thirteen episodes of the original sixthseason order. The episodes they were cut into do appear, however, as broadcast season 6. After the cancellation of futurama by the fox network, a series of four straighttodvd movies. Sep 08, 2010 the movies are the 6th season of the series. Fry, who is cryogenically preserved for years and is revived in the 31st century. Now, it seems they are calling them seasons 6a and. The series has landed, 4th april 1999, 1acv02, us tx. The films aired as specials in the branded order or season 0 according to comedy centrals schedule. Into the wild blue yonder is really required for series continuity, as it feeds directly into the first season five episode, rebirth, but all of the other movies add to. On april 22, 20, comedy central cancelled futurama, announcing a series finale date of september 4, 20.
Nothing less than the fate of human and robotkind is at stake as the futurama crew takes on the beast with a billion backs. At madison cube garden watching a blernsball game, bender complains about the poor treatment of robots. I have seen some episodes over the years and really liked them, but i never got around to watching the entire series. My personal ranking of the futurama episodes from best to worst. Fry, leela, bender, and the rest of the planet express crew have been through tons of wild adventures together. These are the episodes of futurama, here listed in broadcast order fox and comedy central often aired futurama in a different order than the production order during the original run. Watch in the production order, not the airdate order there are several storylines where this actually does matter. Essentially, fox wanted to try to give the series a slightly different flow than the producers originally envisioned, so they moved stuff around accordingly. Season 6 list of futurama episodes futuramas fifth season is composed of the tv edits of the four directtovideo films, split into.
While there are many, many things that we hope are in santas metaphorical bag of goodies this holiday season, getting futurama back on the. Fox broadcast the episodes out of the intended order, resulting in five aired seasons. Futurama is an american adult animated science fiction sitcom created by matt groening that aired on fox from march 28, 1999 to august 10, 2003 and on comedy central from march 23, 2008 to september 4, 20. Following the four films considered the fifth season of the show, comedy central has broadcast a sixth season of twentysix episodes, split over 2010. Since the show is still produced by 20th century fox television, this is not subject to change. Its also nice to see the last episode be climactic, like youd expect. The cancellation, initial airing schedule that contradicts the production order, and the season. You really should watch them in order of production. Futurama still stands as one of the best animated series of all time, and even though it saw a slight decline in quality when it was brought back on comedy central years after fox canceled it, it still produced some great episodes, filled with hilarious character moments, creative story beats, and emotional endings related.
I also think it had more of an emotional feel than the first three seasons. Then continue on after the movies with the new rebirth series. Fox broadcast it out of the intended order as five seasons. This list follows the season box sets, which feature. The fourth and final futurama directtodvd movie has just been released, aptly named into the wild green yonder. Futurama is as funny and endearing as ever in its sixth season. Seasons one to four are the episodes that aired on fox, season five is the madefordvd movie season on comedy central, the movies are shown as fourpart episodes with parts cut to make room for commercials, and seasons six and seven are the comedy central episodes this list is presented in production order, which is also used on the dvd boxsets. Futurama tv14 science fiction, animation, sitcom, comedy, adult animation tv series 1999 while delivering pizza on new years eve 1999, philip j. They cast the temperamental calculon in the lead role, who demands an oscar for his performance, but the movie doesnt go over well with audiences. Fox and comedy central often aired futurama in a different order than the production order during the original run. Zoidberg reunites with his uncle, silent hologram star harold zoid, and the two of them set out to make a movie together. Worlds of tomorrow is out now wherever you download stuff.
Episode listing broadcast order the infosphere, the. Benders big score benders game into the wild green yonder the beast with a billion backs and should i watch them inbetween the seasons of the series or are they seperate stories with no important references to the series. The series follows the adventures of slacker philip j. This list is in production order for the first four seasons on fox, primarily because this is the order used on the dvds, as intended by the artists, and it helps avoid plot inconsistencies. This list follows the season box sets, which feature the episodes in the original. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. Theyre only there to clean up, polish the balls or. List of futurama episodes simple english wikipedia, the. Dec 18, 2014 while there are many, many things that we hope are in santas metaphorical bag of goodies this holiday season, getting futurama back on the air would be the best good news ever, everyone. The problem, though, is that, during futuramas original airing fox routinely moved episodes around, broadcast them in different orders, and arbitrarily set up seasons that were different from the production. Fry, is accidentally cryonically frozen and thawed out one thousand years into the future. Fry, leela, bender, and the rest of the planet express crew have been through tons of. Futurama is a fox animated television series, which originally aired on the network from march 28, 1999 to august 10, 2003.
Watch 14 then season 5 is the four movies, watch them in their release order, and then finish off with 6 and 7. Dont get me wrong, seasons had classics, but i think season 4 had the most. After the cancellation of futurama by the fox network, a series of four straighttodvd movies were produced. Under the production order, there are 7 different seasons, with the 5th season being the 4 films. After being axed in 2003, futurama was resurrected for a series of four dvd movies and then two extra seasons. The events of the episodes the why of fry, benders big score, all the presidents heads and decision 3012 resulted in changes to the futurama timeline. I understand thetvdb is the master source, but in this case you can choose dvd release, or aired release on the website, and the dvd releases list doesnt actually match the dvd. Fry voice of billy west in his adventures as a 31stcentury interstellar delivery boy along with cyclopean captain leela katey sagal and bender the boozy robot john dimaggio. The seventh and final series of the animated comedy wraps up the adventures of fry voice of billy west, leela voice of katey sagal, bender voice of john dimaggio, and the entire planet. The movies were released between november 27, 2007 and february 24, 2009, and aired on comedy central in the united states between march 25, 2008 and april 25, 2009, as well as on sky1 in the united kingdom on august 30, 2009. Sunday timeslot caused the show to often be preempted by sports and usually have a later than average season premiere.
Volumes 14, aired on fox from 19992003 four straight to dvd movies later hacked into episodes for comedy central 20082009 volumes 58, aired on comedy central 201020 all discs are sd versions, even though 2 of the movies and volumes 58 were released in hd. The original 72episode run of futurama was produced as four seasons. Sep 17, 20 after being axed in 2003, futurama was resurrected for a series of four dvd movies and then two extra seasons. Futurama, season 8 2011 futurama, season 3 2000 futurama, season 7 2010 futurama, season 2 1999 the beast with a billion backs 2008 futurama, season 4 2001 viewers also bought see all.
All four original production seasons are available on dvd. Each movie is actually 4 episodes combined which were originally released to direct to dvd movies. Futurama, season 8 2011 futurama, season 3 2000 futurama, season 7 2010 futurama, season 2 1999 the beast with a billion backs 2008. Futurama may be one of the best scifi comedies out there, spanning 7 seasons. Episode listing branded order the infosphere, the futurama wiki. The last season received a rating of 92%, and an 8. This list includes episodes from both the original and revived runs of the show, as well as the featurelength episodes. Each movie is written as a set of four standard halfhour episodes.
Oct 08, 2019 over the course of seven seasons, four tv movies, six emmys, and one illconceived cancellation, futurama created a sardonic, clever universe filled with unique characters and the occasional. Comedy central also chose to air the parts of season 6 and 7 out of order as well. I certainly dont have anything against season 4, but i think that season was at its absolute best when it was going for the weird scifi episodes ie. The movies were released between november 27, 2007 and february 24, 2009, and aired on comedy central in the united states between march 25, 2008 and april 25, 2009, as well as on sky1 in the united kingdom on august. Fry goes undercover working for wong, but cant tell leela he is really on her side. It is officially labelled season 6b by comedy central. These are the episodes of futurama, here listed in broadcast order. With billy west, john dimaggio, katey sagal, tress macneille. Fry, a pizza delivery boy, is accidentally frozen in 1999 and thawed out on new years eve 2999. Futurama still stands as one of the best animated series of all time, and even though it saw a slight decline in quality when it was brought back on comedy central years after fox canceled it, it still produced some great episodes, filled with hilarious character moments, creative story beats, and emotional endings. All 125 episodes of matt groenings futuristic animated comedy. The films do not appear on this list as they were not broadcast. The american animated science fiction sitcom futurama, created by matt groening for the fox. After the cancellation of futurama by the fox network, a series of four straightto dvd movies.
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