Futurama is evergreen. Identical to its sister collection, The Simpsons, the present has all the time had one thing to say about present occasions.
Because of its sci-fi underpinnings, nonetheless, Futurama is ready to take a well timed challenge and make it into one thing grander, extra fantastical, and much more foolish. The periodically-cancelled collection has been round since 1999, which suggests its social commentary runs the gamut from parodies of FedEx to the rise of iPhones; making it one thing of a time capsule for the advance of the digital age.
What 12 months is Futurama set in?
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The sci-fi collection is ready 1000 years sooner or later. The primary episode sees Philip J. Fry (Billy West) get frozen whereas on a pizza supply to a cryogenics service. Because it occurs, he’s chilled at midnight on January 1, 2000, and awakens on the day of December 31, 2999.
In contrast to The Simpsons, characters repeatedly acknowledge the passage of time (although they nonetheless don’t appear to age). Barring episodes wherein the solid time travels, the collection all the time takes place a thousand years into the long run. So, the occasions of Bender’s Massive Rating passed off in 3007 as a result of that movie was launched in 2007, whereas the present reboot is ready within the 12 months 3023.
The place and when can I watch new episodes of Futurama?
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Futurama has just lately been revived by Hulu, the place the collection is streaming in its entirety. The present airs new episodes weekly on Mondays. The present season is definitely addressing the 10-year hole between the present’s final finale and its present revival head-on; within the premiere, titled “The Unimaginable Stream,” it’s revealed that the solid was caught in a time loop for a number of years.
After they’re lastly freed, Professor Farnsworth (West) pokes enjoyable on the crew’s lack of ageing within the meantime, exclaiming that science doesn’t have all of the solutions. In fact, he then admits that science does have all of the solutions and proclaims the 12 months to formally be 3023.
The most recent episode, “Youngsters of a Lesser Bathroom,” additionally follows up on a plot level from 20 years in the past. Approach again in “Kif Will get Knocked Up a Notch”, Kif (Maurice LaMarche) and Amy (Lauren Tom) turned mother and father. Kif’s species, nonetheless, solely reunite with their mother and father in 20 years’ time. Now that it’s been 20 years in real-time, it’s time to test in on their brood.