Futurama

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This article is about the real-world TV series. For other uses, see Futurama (disambiguation).

Futurama is an animated science-fiction comedy show, that was also created by Matt Groening. Numerous references have been made to the show throughout the run of The Simpsons as well as Futurama making references to The Simpsons. Many people have compared the Futurama main characters with The Simpsons main characters such as Bender is Futurama's Homer.

A running joke is that on The Simpsons, Futurama is a fictional cartoon show. On Futurama, however, it is The Simpsons that is a fictional cartoon show.

Futurama in The Simpsons

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Cohen's pseudnoymn is David "Watch Futurama" Cohen. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|212 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Mayored to the Mob" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Üter wears a Futurama T-shirt at the "Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|11 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|241 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Missionary: Impossible" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bender appears in a FOX telethon. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|12 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|257 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"HOMЯ" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|In the couch gag, the Simpsons come out from tubes are deposited onto the couch via tubes Marge, Homer, Lisa, Maggie and Fry come out but Fry is sucked up, with Bart put down in Fry's place. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|250px | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|14 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|294 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bender is one of the TV characters Bart hallucinates and sees the kids turns into. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|296 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Helter Shelter" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|A model of the Planet Express Ship can be seen on Comic Book Guy's shelf. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="4;"|15 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|322 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bender's name appears on a videotape fighting Killhammad Aieee. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|330 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"My Big Fat Geek Wedding" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Matt Groening appears as himself at the Comic Book convention, billed as the creator of Futurama. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|331 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Catch 'Em If You Can" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|In the video store, there's a poster for Futurama in the background. |- | style="text-align: center; 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The episode's title is a reference to Futurama as well. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Moe's clone was made out of Moe's back fat, just like how Cubert was made. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|18 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|394 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Homerazzi" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Sideshow Mel eats the American Flag just as Dr. Zoidberg did in "A Taste of Freedom". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|19 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|411 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"That '90s Show" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Homer says that Matt Groening created Futurama at the time. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|20 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|424 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Treehouse of Horror XIX" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bart, when looking for a present for Lisa, picks up a bottle of Somber String with a crude picture of Fry being hanged on the front of it. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|21 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|445 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Treehouse of Horror XX" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Hubert Wong, a reference to Hubert Farnsworth and Amy Wong, is seen. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|22 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|481 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The title screen gag does a parody of the Futurama opening sequence where the Planet Express ship flies across the screen while a small piece of music from the Futurama opening theme is played before The Simpsons theme takes over. |- | style="text-align: center; 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"| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|495 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|"Holidays of Future Passed" Template:TableBodyBottom | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The Ultranet is very similar to and may draw inspiration from Futurama's Internet. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|504 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|"Beware My Cheating Bart" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Fry and Leela are on a distant planet. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The writing on the wall during the show Stranded is the alien language from Futurama. It translates to: "WATCH FUTURAMA THURSDAYS AT 10". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|24 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|513 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"A Tree Grows in Springfield" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|A box with the Slurm logo is seen. Slurm is a soft drinks brand from Futurama. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|The Simpsons Wrestling | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Leela and Bender are among the public in Kang and Kodos spaceship. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|The Simpsons Game | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bender and Zoidberg appear as enemies in the level "Five Characters in Search of an Author". One of the achievements for the game is called "Back to the Futurama" with Bender as the picture. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"| | style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid #b0a266; background-color: #f0e3a2;" colspan="3" rowspan="2"|Comic Book Guy's Book of Pop Culture | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Comic Book Guy is shown to have a "Bender blender" in his kitchen. "Bite my shiny metal ass!" also appears as one of the quotes listed in "CBG's Greatest Quotes of All Time!" section. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|In "The Springfield Police Department's Evidence Locker!" section, one of the items seen is a TV playing cheap knock-off DVDs. The DVD playing is called "Future Guy" and shows Brian as Nibbler and Peter Griffin as Zoidberg. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|Bart Simpson #14 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|There is an advertisment featuring Fry on the back cover of the comic book Homer is reading. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|Everything's Bartchie! | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Barchie was then chased away from Memory Lane by Bender for he has looked too much into the future.

The Simpsons in Futurama

Picture Season Episode number Episode name Reference 1 1 "Space Pilot 3000" When Fry passes through an underwater tube, Blinky briefly appears in the water below him. Also, in an early storyboard of this episode, Fry is watching The Simpsons. 7 "My Three Suns" One of Bender's badges at the bottom of his sash has a profile of Homer. 8 "A Big Piece of Garbage" On the trash asteroid, a pile of Bart Simpson dolls can be seen. Bender picks up one and hears Bart say his catchprase, "Eat my shorts". Bender complies and eat them and mimics Homer in saying "Mmm... shorts". Nancy Cartwright voiced the Bart Simpson doll. 9 "Hell Is Other Robots" When Fry and Leela open the door to the Robot Hell, a heart with an arrow through reads "H.S. 4 M.B.". This means "Homer Simpson for Marge Bouvier" (later Simpson). 11 "Mars University" Homer and Bart toys appear as prizes at the "Coney Island College". 13 "Fry and the Slurm Factory" Bart, Lisa, and Maggie appear in the opening sequence on the TV screen in one the Tracey Ullman short, "Making Faces". 2 18 "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" The opening subtitle is "From the network that brought you 'The Simpsons'." 3 36 "The Luck of the Fryrish" Bart's head appears on the shelf. 50 "Anthology of Interest II" Bender's human alter-ego bears a striking resemblance to Homer. 4 56 "Leela's Homeworld" Bart is a part of the hot air balloon the main characters use to escape the sewers. 61 "Jurassic Bark" The hole of the miniature windmill is closed until further notice due to someone being inconsiderate and creating an unsanitary condition. This this is a reference to "Natural Born Kissers" in which Homer and Marge have sex at a mini golf windmill. Bender's Big Score Apu and Manjula's heads appear in the head museum. The Beast with a Billion Backs The end credits show the actor's name, together with an array of pictures of the characters they voiced. This is similar to The Simpsons Movie. 6 90 "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" Bender mentions that a censor chip canceled shows like "The Pimpsons". 99 "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" Bender asks Matt Groening's head when the second Simpsons Movie is coming out, and after being shot, he shouts "D'oh!". 106 "The Tip of the Zoidberg" Fry develops a condition called "Simpsons jaundice", which turns his skin yellow. He then says "Ay carumba!". Futurama Conquers The Universe In Leela & Amy in Hostile Makeover, the wig Amy puts on Leela about halfway through the comic is the same style as Marge's. Secret Santa In Secret Santa, while the Planet Express crew are browsing the internet, an image of Bart can be seen.

• In reference to the longevity of the show, it was stated that in the year 3000 The Simpsons are still on the air and keep producing original episodes even over one thousand seasons.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Official website
• Futurama at the Internet Movie Database
• Futurama at Wikipedia
• Futurama at the Infosphere

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