Groening stuck to his guns and allowed the show to develop along the vision that both he and the show’s writing staff wanted. Fox immediately ordered 13 episodes, but Groening and Cohen soon ran into trouble with the network, which had problems with some of the show’s darker aspects such as Bender’s behavior towards others and the appearance of suicide booths. Groening started conceiving of the idea for the show in the mid-1990’s when Fox expressed interest in having him create another animated series after the runaway success of “The Simpsons.” He brought on Cohen to help develop the show and pitched the series to the network in April of 1998. John Zoidberg (West), a lobster-like alien physician whose knowledge of human anatomy is questionable at best and is also dirt poor, Hermes Conrad ( Phil LaMaar), a Jamaican bureaucrat whose love of accounting is just as big as his love of limbo-ing and Amy Wong ( Lauren Tom), a ditzy astrophysics graduate student who’s also an heiress to the western hemisphere of Mars. The rest of the Planet Express crew consists of Dr. As he starts to put his life back together he is joined by Professor Hubert Farnsworth, his senile, grand-nephew who employs him at Planet Express delivery company, Turanga Leela ( Katey Sagal), a sexy cyclops space captain and Bender ( John DiMaggio), a robot bending unit who also specializes in alcoholism, larceny and various other felonies. On Decemhe accidentally gets himself frozen in a cryogenic tube and awakens on the same day 1,000 years later. Fry ( Billy West), a pizza-delivery boy in 1999 whose life is going nowhere fast. The show was the brainchild of “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening and developed by Groening and “Simpsons” writer David X. Click through our photo gallery above and see where your favorite episode is ranked. To mark this momentous celebration, we encourage you to grab a Slurm, hop into a Freedom Day tub, turn on a marathon of “Everybody Loves Hypno-toad” and enjoy our photo gallery of the top 40 episodes of the Emmy winning sci-fi animated comedy, ranked worst to best. Good news everyone! This year marks the 21st anniversary of “Futurama’ premiering on television.
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