Also known as "Why Futurama is one of the coolest cartoons ever?"
Futurama is an animated production, created and produced by The Simpsons creator, Matt "kickass" Groening. Focusing on the character Philip J. Fry being frozen for a thousand years (you'll have to watch the episode: The Why of Fry, to learn why.), upon being thawed-out Fry is probed and prodded before being given a mandatory job assignment. Which being only qualified for one job his entire life (delivery boy) Fry escapes the Cryogenic Lab and makes his way to the underground ruins of old New York.
Ok, so if that isnt cool enough for you, he runs into a Gambling, Alcoholic, Whore mongering, Cigar smoking Pimp Robot, named Bender Bending Rodriguez; But his friends call him Bender for short.
Still not convinced Futurama is the coolest?
Well get this, Fry and Bender are being chased by a large-rack, one-eyed alien chick named Turanga Leela; did I mention the head of president Richard Nixon is also after them? Sure, sure, that may not be quite enough for you, well wait until the fourth episode of the series... wait until Zapp Brannigan, think Captain Kirk with no people skills, but still retains all the pent-up boning urges.
Not counting the number of awards the show has won, including Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program in 2002 for the episode Roswell that Ends Well; which I should mention features Fry going back in time and killing his grandfather and inadvertently performing the horizontal rump, making Fry his own grandfather.
NOT COUNTING ALL OF THAT. The show has THE most well formed and excellent Voice Cast, ranging from the talents of Billy "Ren & Stimpy" West, John "Gears of War" DiMaggio to even Katey "Peg Bundy" Sagal.
So is Futurama the best Animated program of all time? Thats debatable. But what isn't is that Futurama is 10 and 1... being cancelled by backwards network executives definitely wasn't cool.
- Dan
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