I loved this show when it was on, so I bought the DVD when it finally came out. But what do you know? The geniuses at Fox canned the program in 2002 and aired recycled episodes held out by NFL broadcasts that were touted as "all-new," until the effective cancellation in August 2003.
It revolves around Philip J. Fry, a loser New York pizza-delivery boy who on New Year's Eve 1999, delivers a pizza to a cryogenics lab, mistakenly falls in a capsule, is frozen in time, and travels to the year 2999. We are now in "New New York" and shortly after he is unfrozen by lab assistants, meets the moderately sexy Taronga Leela, a cyclops who talks like a human-being, looks like one, but then again, she only has one giant eye. Right after, he encounters Bender, a smart-mouth cigar-smoking, beer-swilling robot with his signature catch-phrase "Bite my shiny metal ass!" Fry then discovers his great-great-great(30X) grand-nephew, the senile Professor Hubert Farnsworth, head of the Planet Express space-delivery program. He'll hire the trio and then we'll meet the others.
From there, it gets better, with the lobster-crab-octopus creature (Dr. Zoidberg), a Martian-Chinese girl (Amy Wong), and the brilliant Jamaican bureaucrat, (Hermes Conrad). (Fellow watchers, gotta love Zapp and Kif).
I loved the show for its far-out humor, futuristic concepts, and Matt Groening's alien language, but then-again, it's Fox.
It revolves around Philip J. Fry, a loser New York pizza-delivery boy who on New Year's Eve 1999, delivers a pizza to a cryogenics lab, mistakenly falls in a capsule, is frozen in time, and travels to the year 2999. We are now in "New New York" and shortly after he is unfrozen by lab assistants, meets the moderately sexy Taronga Leela, a cyclops who talks like a human-being, looks like one, but then again, she only has one giant eye. Right after, he encounters Bender, a smart-mouth cigar-smoking, beer-swilling robot with his signature catch-phrase "Bite my shiny metal ass!" Fry then discovers his great-great-great(30X) grand-nephew, the senile Professor Hubert Farnsworth, head of the Planet Express space-delivery program. He'll hire the trio and then we'll meet the others.
From there, it gets better, with the lobster-crab-octopus creature (Dr. Zoidberg), a Martian-Chinese girl (Amy Wong), and the brilliant Jamaican bureaucrat, (Hermes Conrad). (Fellow watchers, gotta love Zapp and Kif).
I loved the show for its far-out humor, futuristic concepts, and Matt Groening's alien language, but then-again, it's Fox.