Figures from Futurama

The characters in the animated television series Futurama are mostly residents of New New York at the beginning of the 31st century. The main plot of the individual episodes is carried out by the befriended employees of the Planet Express company . Similar to The Simpsons, there are a number of minor characters that reappear at irregular intervals. This makes it possible for the series to establish itself through these running gags and work out character traits more finely.

main characters

Philip J. Fry

Fry is from our day, born in 1974, and wakes up in the future after a cryostatic 1000 years of deep sleep. He hardly misses his previous life, as he didn’t particularly like his job as a pizza delivery person or his fellow human beings: while his parents didn’t consider it necessary to look for their missing son, there were frequent conflicts with his brother Yancy; his girlfriend Michelle cheated on him. The only living thing he mourns is a dog that has run into him. Fry thinks he's the only one who misses him. His entire family does it, and Fry's brother Yancy even names his son Philip after his missing uncle, who will become the first person on Mars in 2024.

In 3000 Fry became a parcel delivery man for Planet Express , the parcel service of his only living relative, Professor Hubert Farnsworth. His work colleagues quickly become his most important people. Fry is unhappily in love with his spaceship commander Leela and lives in the extremely spacious closet of his best friend, the amoral robot Bender. The figure was created by Groening as an antihero . Fry, who is his own grandfather as a result of a journey through time and a love affair with his grandmother, is lazy, unpunctual and unhygienic, and his intellect is rather poor. His few interests include video games as well as the television landscape, which he is very knowledgeable about. He often shares Bender's morally reprehensible views, but Fry always does the right thing in an emergency.

Matt Groening Fry gave the name Philip as a tribute to his late friend Phil Hartman . The abbreviation of his middle name "J." is a trademark of Matt Groening, which he also used for Bart J. and Homer J. Simpson from the series The Simpsons . Groening took the J as an abbreviation in turn from Jay Ward , who gave a number of his cartoon characters with a middle name, which is abbreviated with "J.", for example Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show . What the "J." in Fry's name stands for has been left open. Fry's outfit, consisting of a red jacket, white shirt, blue jeans and black sneakers, goes back to the outfit of James Dean in the film , according to Groening ... because they don't know what they're doing .

Turanga Leela

Turanga Leela, called Leela, is the competent pilot of the Planet Express delivery space ship . She says she is 25 years old. Its most striking external characteristic is that, like a cyclops, it has only one big eye. She ties her purple hair in a ponytail with a hair tie , and her usual clothing consists of a white tank top, black, tight-fitting trousers and dark gray boots.

Leela is the child of Turanga Morris and Munga , mutants from the New York underworld. Since she differs from non-mutant people only in her one-eyedness, her parents saw the possibility of giving her a better life on the surface and abandoned her on the level of an orphanage. There she grew up believing that she was an alien of unknown race, possibly the last of her kind. Only in the course of the fourth season of the series do they and the viewer find out their true origin. Leela had a difficult childhood in the orphanage. She is repeatedly teased by other orphans for being one-eyed. As a teenager she learned " Arcturanic Kung Fu ". Despite excellent performance in this martial art, she received no support from her misogynist teacher Master Phnog; however, she became an excellent fighter.

Leela first worked at Applied Cryogenics , the cryonic laboratory where Fry spent his thousand years of cold sleep. There she was as Destiny Zuweiserin (in English original. Fate Assignment Officer ) responsible for assigning people through implanted chips permanently a profession. However, she gave up this job when she met Fry and joined him and Bender at Planet Express , where she has been working as a pilot ever since.

Leela is considered to be extremely responsible and caring, but can also be impulsive and irascible in certain situations. She is both knowledgeable and reliable, and somewhat over-cautious; insofar her character is in direct contrast to the Frys. Her love for animals is expressed when she accepts the voracious nibbler as a pet. Although Leela is portrayed as an extremely attractive woman, she is frustrated single - certainly also because her one-eyedness puts off many men. Her permanent admirers include v. a. Fry and Zapp Brannigan , with whom she had a one night stand . Leela usually chooses men who all quickly turn out to be unsuitable for her. So there is never a deeper and longer relationship, to their chagrin. But there are always moments in which a romantic mood develops between Fry and her, in which the two are usually interrupted before a kiss or something similar occurs. Fry tries hard to establish a closer relationship, but whenever he tries to show his affection for her, his efforts are destroyed or Leela is otherwise distracted. It wasn't until the end of the fifth season that the two became a couple.

The name is an allusion to the Turangalîla Symphony by Olivier Messiaen . Groening had long planned to create a one-eyed female character and regards Leela as an artistic challenge. Due to the large eye, expressions in the brow and forehead area cannot be correctly represented, which forces the draftsman to work out the character with other stylistic devices.

Bender bender Rodríguez

Bender, whose full name is Bender Bieger Rodriguez (originally Bender Bending Rodríguez ), is a humanoid robot of the type Bending Unit 22 and Fry's best friend. Its name is derived from the English verb " to bend " (German: "biegen") and alludes to his original work of bending steel girders for suicide cells. In American slang , the term also stands for alcohol and drug abuse.

It was built by Mom's Friendly Robot Company in Tijuana , Mexico around 2998 and has the production number 1729 . A 6502 CPU from MOS Technology works in his brain .

Bender's character is the consistent reversal of the common notion of how human-like robots will be and act in the future. So Bender is not neutral, unemotional and altruistic, but selfish, self-absorbed, lazy, immoral and disrespectful. In addition, it has a number of idiosyncrasies that are completely pointless for a robot because they are too human: for example, it is ticklish, superstitious and not free from giddiness, speaks in its sleep, falls in love or has hiccups. He leads a vicious life by human standards, consuming tons of alcohol, cigars, and robotic pornography and loving gambling. He also enjoys insulting, stealing from or cheating on others. His favorite saying (and his first line of text in the series) is “You can lick my shiny metal ass ” (English: “ bite my shiny metal ass ”). Ironically, however, Bender has a soft spot for cute creatures like birds and turtles. His relationship to alcohol is the opposite of that in humans, as benders fail to function without regular consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Bender is a fan of the TV chef Elzar and a passionate hobby cook himself. Since he as a robot lacks the ability to taste , the meals he prepares are mostly inedible. Nevertheless, he (at least temporarily) receives the post of ship's cook at Planet Express .

Bender's body consists of a cylindrical trunk, a cylindrical head with a spherical top and tube-like arms and legs. He has three fingers on each hand and an antenna in the middle of his head. To enable various gags, new buttons or gadgets appear on it in individual scenes . The inside of its trunk, in particular, which is accessible via a large flap door, regularly contains new functions - but mostly Bender simply uses this body part to hide stolen property there. Just as the functionality of his body parts varies depending on the story or gag, the composition of his metal body consists of various metal variations according to his own specifications.

Bender is very distinctive and has become an independent figure in the USA, who also appears in other contexts outside of the Futurama universe, for example in an interview with Al Gore about the future or in conjugations with other comic series. Although numerous sequences were cut out by Bender for television broadcasts in the American market, mostly obscene or cynical remarks, this character is mainly responsible for the reputation of viciousness that Futurama has in America.

Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

Prof. Farnsworth is Fry's 160 year old future relative and head of the delivery company Planet Express Delivery Service . This was founded by him to finance his research and crazy inventions. His most important inventions include the Planet Express spaceship with its dark matter drive, which does not move the spaceship, but the universe around the spaceship, the odoroscope (in the original Smelloscope ), with which it is possible - contrary to all physical things Basic requirements - to absorb the smells of distant objects in space, a universal translator who only translates into an "incomprehensible dead language" - in the American original and in the German translation it is French, in the French translation it is German - as well as a "What-would." -if-machine "(" what-if-machine ") that produces stories of interest . According to the professor, however, it is "not worth the gold it is made of". In addition, more inventions are always built in as little gags. Example: “Good news, friends. I taught the toaster to feel love. "

Farnsworth has no qualms about sending his employees on the most absurd and dangerous missions. Professor Farnsworth always opened a meeting with the words "Good news, friends" (in the original: " Good news, everyone " ), which is rarely true. He was worked out as a macabre and cold-blooded figure who acts out of stubborn motives or naive amorality, but who is essentially benign. So he works together with the others and is helpful, provided he can understand the situation correctly. He is described as of poor origin and, as a young scientist, had several affairs with Mom, the unscrupulous owner of the robot factory, towards whom he is masochistically sketched. In the third Futurama film, Bender's Game , you learn that Moms is Farnsworth's youngest son.

He has a young clone named Cubert whom he treats like his son. The professor's name is reminiscent of the American inventor Philo Farnsworth , a pioneer of television .

Dr. John Zoidberg

Dr. Zoidberg is a human-sized, crab-like alien from the planet Decapod 10 and the company doctor for Planet Express . However, he has neither a medical degree nor basic knowledge of human physiology or anatomy - he obtained his doctorate in art history. It has special characteristics of marine animals: instead of hands and feet, it has scissors; in danger it tends to splash ink. In addition, during the mating season of his species, a comb rises up on his forehead, and he occasionally walks sideways in a crab walk or changes his shell. He also produces pearls that he has to keep choking up from his throat.

The character of the character wasn't fully worked out at the beginning of the series and has changed a lot. It was initially based on an analogy to Dr. "Pill" McCoy from Star Trek created: While McCoy had to treat strange aliens, Zoidberg, as a decapoid, is completely overwhelmed with the medical needs of humans (quote: "The bones! The bones! I always forget the thing with the bones!"). Originally, the figure seems strange due to the absurd strangeness to which human culture is so incomprehensible that it can hardly provide meaningful contributions in conversations and openly sweeps out any private motivation. Zoidberg's motives are therefore always transparent. So he has an irrepressible appetite and does not stop at food leftovers from the garbage can, as he knows little about human customs. He has poor social skills due to great communication difficulties and thus contributes to slapstick . The character was later developed into the loser type, the resulting comedy increasingly comes to the fore. Zoidberg is severely underpaid, which leads to depression . However, he always remains transparent in his motifs and involuntarily shows his unsuccessful wishes for wealth or recognition.

During the sixth season, the figure will be further elaborated. So we learn that Zoidberg and the professor met in 2929 on a mission carried out on behalf of Mom. There his life was saved by the professor. The two have been best friends ever since. It also shows in flashbacks that Zoidberg used to have hair and was extremely popular. He even had an affair with the attractive female member of the former crew.

Zoidberg got its name based on the video game "Zoids", which was published for the Apple II , among others . David X. Cohen , executive producer of Futurama, spent most of his high school years playing the game. “ Zoidberg is an homage to that wasted three-year period. ”(German:“ Zoidberg is an homage to these three wasted years. ”) Like Fry, Zoidberg is only addressed by his last name.

Hermes Conrad

Hermes is Jamaican and the conscientious bureaucrat for the company. He has a Jamaican wife named LaBarbara and a son, Dwight. For Team der Erde he took part in the Olympic Games 2980 in the Limbo discipline . He loves bureaucracy more than anything, although he does not value efficiency. Instead he issues nonsensical applications and immediately destroys them again. He doesn't care about workers' rights and treats Planet Express employees like slaves; He also tolerates that Fry, Bender and Zoidberg do not have the slightest qualification for their work as a spaceship crew.

Like Zoidberg, this figure was originally created for a different purpose, was called Dexter and was not a Jamaican. The final form lives from the striking prejudices that Jamaicans face in the USA: They are considered the epitome of absolute unreliability and indifference. Hermes reminds us on many occasions of the Jamaican culture, but instead of drug abuse and idleness mostly shows dutiful over-punctuality, goes to bed on time and drinks milk. He's also a very familiar person.

Amy Wong

Amy Wong joined Planet Express as an intern while studying engineering at Mars University . She is a native Martian of Chinese descent and belongs to the wealthy Mars Wongs family . She has the same blood type as Professor Farnsworth, which is why he likes to have her around.

Amy is the most attractive employee at Planet Express and has dated Bender (who dropped her after their relationship was legalized) and Fry, who felt besieged by her, among others. Most of the time she has a relationship with DOOP Lieutenant Kif Kroker. Amy is clumsy, romantic, and very naive. Her favorite pastimes are partying, shopping, and being John Malkoviching . She belongs to the “Kappa Kappa Wong” student fraternity and is a javelin thrower on the Mars University team. She also has an obscene tattoo on her left upper arm, which we can not see with our "primitive, low-definition televisions" . She later received her PhD in applied physics with Prof. Farnsworth as a PhD supervisor .

Amy was originally planned by Groening in the first script with character traits of Tank Girl , but was later realized as a decent, somewhat simple-minded girl, because otherwise she would not have set herself apart from Leela clearly enough. Amy often has mishaps, she is more sexually active, but also more naive than the others.

The most important minor characters

Zapp Brannigan

Zapp Brannigan is the captain of the DOOP spaceship Nimbus and considers himself irresistible. He's had an affair with Leela and never tires of mentioning it to her. Since then he has tried to urge her to make another act of love. In battle, Captain Brannigan mostly relies on simple suicide missions. So he defeated a horde of insurgent killer robots by having them kill so many of his own men until the robots programmed kill limit was reached and they switched themselves off. He is also known for defeating inferior opponents in bloody battles, such as the pacifists from the Gandhi Nebula . Furthermore, according to his own statements, he leads the heroic battle between good and neutral. Captain Brannigan is the author of the strategy book "Brannigan's Big Book of War", which he equates with Sun Tzu's strategy classic The Art of War . As a rule, Zapp wears a very short velor uniform and no underwear. The character is described as cynical, selfish, overconfident, sexually suggestive, cowardly, and obnoxious.

According to Matt Groening, Zapp Brannigan's character is based on the idea that James T. Kirk would not be the captain of the Enterprise from the Star Trek series , but rather his actor William Shatner .

Kif Kroker

Kif is an alien from the planet Amphibios IX and first officer on the spacecraft Nimbus . He has a rather small body shape and has no bones, instead his body is supported by a system of fluid-filled bladders. Like some geckos , he can run along walls and ceilings, for example to save himself from the women of the planet of the Amazons who are eager for “Snu Snu” (sex) or to impress someone. He has a chameleon-like camouflage reflex in which his color matches that of the background, which he cannot control when nervous.

Kif is Amy Wong's friend. He already met her on the Titanic II spaceship , but their relationship only began on the planet of the Amazons. By chance he became pregnant by Leela and gave birth to many children who, for about 20 years, swim around in a pool on Kif's home planet in a tadpole- like shape. He is often depressed and despises his superior Zapp Brannigan (which he usually expresses in the form of a deep sigh), as this kif never pays the due respect. It is not uncommon for him to take on thankless tasks for Zapp Brannigan, especially those relating to Zapp's personal hygiene and physical well-being. Kif and Zapp don't appear in all episodes.

Nibbler

Nibbler is Leela's pet and excretes dark matter that is used as fuel for spaceships. In the series it initially appears as if Nibbler is a stupid omnivore - the planet on which Leela’s group found Nibbler was marked by its cravings for all sorts of living beings; not infrequently he eats many times larger forms of existence within a few seconds - but it is revealed in the course of the series that Nibbler came to Earth on purpose, sent by his race (one of the oldest and wisest races in the universe, which was 17 years before the Big Bang existed) to spy out possible attacks by a vicious race of giant brains. He's also the one who made sure that Fry was frozen in 1999. Nibbler ordered the pizza, which Fry delivered to the cryostasis company, and also blew on the chair Fry was sitting in, causing it to fall over and into the freezer. In the episode Philip J. Fry: VIP, however, Fry travels back in time and blows the chair over himself at the end, whereas in the first episode, if you look closely, you can see the shadow of Nibbler when Fry's chair tilts. After every story in which Nibbler spoke to the other characters, he erases their memories. He did this until the first film, Bender's Big Score ; there he forgets it, and the others also know about his abilities in the following episodes.

Mom

Mom is the owner of Mom's friendly robot company and the richest person in 3000. She has a monopoly on manufacturing robots and other items. Despite her enormous wealth, Mom is devious and constantly in a bad mood. She then lets her anger out on her sons Walt , Larry and Igner , the latter is the son of Professor Farnsworth, in the form of slaps. In public, she hides her true character under a fat suit and maintains the image of the amiable old lady. She was in a relationship with Professor Farnsworth 70 years ago. Since he ditched her, she is mostly in a bad mood.

Other recurring minor characters

The following part of the list contains other recurring minor characters.

Barbados Slim: Hermes' gigantic arch-rival Barbados Slim defeated him at the Olympic Games 3004 in Limbo and won the Olympic gold medal. This makes him the only one to date who has managed to combine the Olympic gold medals in the limbo and sex disciplines. He was once married to Hermes' current wife LaBarbara , who calls him "my mahogany god".
Beelzeboter: Beelzeboter (in the original Robot Devil ) is the robot devil and, as such, the boss of robot hell . The series is not about an otherworldly , but extremely real place, which is located under an abandoned amusement park called “Reckless Ted's Funland” in New Jersey and is accessible via a horror cabinet called “Inferno”. His job is to torture robots there who are members of his religion Robotology and have sinned. Although Beelzeboter's appearances are mostly highly dramatic and effective, he doesn't seem to have any supernatural abilities. He is a virtuoso violin player and above average for a robot.

Calculon: Calculon is a famous robot actor. He is 1000 years old and was known as David Duchovny among others . He is the star of the robot soap Alle Meine Stromkreise (original: All my Circuits ). In one episode, he has a relationship with the sex-changed Bender and even wanted to marry him.
Dwight Conrad: Dwight is the thirteen year old son of Hermes and LaBarbara Conrad . He is close friends with Cubert Farnsworth . Dwight lashes out at his father in many ways, including finding bookkeeping and bureaucracy entertaining. He wears dreadlocks and a t-shirt showing the Jamaican flag.
LaBarbara Conrad: LaBarbara is Hermes Conrad's wife. She is significantly taller than him, has a slim figure and always wears very revealing clothes. LaBarbara and Hermes usually only address each other with “man” and “woman”.

Donbot: → see robot mafia

Elzar: Elzar is a four-armed blue Neptunian, a famous chef with his own posh restaurant and a TV show. His biggest fan and opponent is Bender . It is the comic adaptation of the television chef Emeril Lagasse , the clips in Futurama relate to individual well-known programs, and many of Elzar's phrases have been adopted from Lagasse. Other jokes go back to Alain Ducasse , such as " That's why you always should use high quality cooking items " in reference to Ducasse's quote: "A pan is good if you can easily hit someone with it."

Cubert Farnsworth: Cubert is Professor Farnsworth's clone . He created it in 2989 from a tumor on his back and bred it in vitro for twelve years so that it could take on its scientific legacy. Cubert looks very similar to the professor, whom he calls "father", but has a pig nose because he was trapped in a test tube that was too narrow for too long; Cubert's hair is very reminiscent of that of his great great ... great-uncle Fry . Cubert is arrogant, pompous and condescending to the Planet Express crew. His only friend is Dwight Conrad .
Flexo: Like Bender, Flexo is a Bending Unit 22 robot , so it sounds like this and looks exactly the same, apart from a little goatee on the chin. Flexo has a habit of first saying the opposite of what he actually feels and then correcting himself, for example by first insulting the other person, then laughing and adding: "Oh, I just want to annoy you, my boy, you are a nice guy ”or“ you're all right, good to see you again. ”Flexo was married to the female robot Angleyne but was divorced. After Bender had a romance with Angleyne, the two find each other again.

Al Gore: → see heads of celebrities

Hedonism bot: The hedonism bot is a golden robot that combines the typical properties of hedonism and decadence . He was built lying on a chaise longue and with a bowl on his round belly, from which he constantly eats grapes. He also wears a golden laurel wreath on his bald head .
Hypnosis toad: The hypnosis toad (originally Hypnotoad ) has the ability to hypnotize people and animals. She owns her own TV show, but it got boring from season 3.

Klemmer: → see robot mafia
Heads of celebrities

Linda: Linda is Morbo's clueless co-host who laughs despite Morbo's bad humor.
Lrrr: Lrrr is the ruler of Omicron Persei 8 , a planet 1000 light years from Earth. If he's not busy watching Earth TV programs that are 1,000 years old, he often threatens to destroy them. He is very violent but easy to fool. At times his sentimental streak also comes to the fore. On the other hand, he wants to eat Fry's "human horn" (his nose) as an aphrodisiac to revive the relationship with his wife. Since Fry's penis is even bigger than his nose, which Bender tells him, he wants to eat Fry's lower horn. Furthermore, Lrrr makes himself ridiculous again and again, for example by expressing his private life in front of the camera supposedly switched off or by getting himself into a drug intoxication by eating a stoned hippie.

Joey Mousepad: → see robot mafia
Morbo: Morbo is the news monster ("Newsweekmonster") of Entertainment and Earth Invasion Tonite and other broadcasts on the Television Network . In his actual activity, however, he is a scout for the planned invasion of Earth by his race, which he often expresses through his hateful remarks towards the human race.

Ndnd: And is the wife of Lrrr .
Richard Nixon: → see heads of celebrities

Pazuzu: is a gargoyle created by Professor Farnsworth that once saved his life ( The Source of Aging ) and later freed him from prison ( The Age of the Tentacle ). The name is an allusion to the demon Pazuzu from Mesopotamian mythology.
C. Randal Poopenmeier: Poopenmeier is the Mayor of New New York.

Randy

Robot devil: → see Beelzeboter

Sal: Sal is a recurring supporting character in the Futurama universe. The fat, lazy, grumpy worker is always shown in different employment relationships without it being clear whether he is doing these at the same time or whether he is frequently fired. His jobs are always tedious and monotonous and are done badly by him. His outward appearance corresponds to the cliché of the representative of the white trash : He wears a dirty, white men's undershirt from under which his fat belly oozes out, and trousers that cannot grip his bottom, plus a red baseball cap; he's unshaven, has dark circles and always has a cigarette in the corner of his mouth. In the English original he speaks the New York dialect and puts words in the plural that should be in the singular and vice versa.
Santa claus: Santa Claus is a Santa Claus robot that was originally built by the toy industry to give gifts to the children of the earth. Due to a program error, however, his standards are set too high, so that he classifies everyone as naughty and wants to punish them with death by his rocket launchers or automatic firearms. He wreaks a devastating inferno on Earth every Christmas, while he spends the rest of the year on Neptune.
Scruffy: Scruffy is the caretaker of the Planet Express building. He owns 40,000 Planet Express shares. Although it is more common, no one really seems to know it. He has no social contact with the other Planet Express employees. You never actually see him doing his caretaker job, he usually lies lazily in a chair and reads "National Pornographic" and the like. In addition, he always speaks of himself in the 3rd person.

Tinny Tim: Tinny Tim is a homeless, crippled robot in the form of a child. The character and name are an allusion to the character of Tim Cratchit ("Tiny Tim") from Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Story ; “Tinny” means “pewter” (made of tin ) in English . Tinny Tim's right leg is too short, instead of his right arm he has a wooden crutch. He is always and in every situation extremely friendly and adores Bender , who, however, hurts him more or less deliberately in almost every scene. In the original he speaks with an English accent.
Turanga Morris and Munga: Turanga Morris and Munga are Leela's parents. They are mutants and at one time abandoned their daughter in front of the orphanage to enable her to have a better life "on" earth. They live in the sewers under the city. Did you dive for the first time in the episode Feel the Chip? standing in the sewer with a group of other mutants. At the time, the viewer does not yet know that they are Leela's parents.

Professor Ogden Wernstrom: Wernstrom is Farnsworth's rival . He is also a scientist and is often ridiculed by Farnsworth for his "young" age (he is also over 120 years old). He was once a student of Prof. Farnsworth and declared his hostility to him when he received the grade 1 from him for formal errors in a paper. When he appears or is mentioned, Farnsworth utters a scornful, drawn-out "Wernstrom!"
Leo and Inez Wong: Leo and Inez are Amy's parents. They own the entire western hemisphere of Mars. They have become very rich through breeding Buggalo and are constantly pushing their daughter to finally give them a grandchild.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Exclusive - Q&A With Matt Groening and David X. Cohen Pt. 1. In: Internet pages of Comedy Central . June 22, 2010, accessed on September 21, 2010 (video of an interview with Matt Groening and David X. Cohen ).
↑ Matt Groening: “ Oh, and Fry's wearing James Dean's outfit in 'Rebel Without a Cause'. ”(German:“ Oh, and Fry wears James Dean's outfit in '... because they don't know what they're doing'. ”) In: DVD audio commentary on Season 1, Space Pilot 3000 (2002). 20th Century Fox. (English; online transcription from The Infosphere , accessed March 28, 2012).
↑ Episode 15: Brannigan, Start Again
↑ ^a ^b Episode 56: The Orphan of the Year
↑ Episode 41: In the Eyes of an Orphan
↑ Episode 21: Like a Wild Bender
↑ ^a ^b ^c Episode 1: Time and Space 3000
↑ Episode 36: The Happiness of Philip J. Fry
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Episode 38: Bender - up to your ears
↑ Episode 17: Xmas Story
↑ Episode 13: The Party with Slurm McKenzie
↑ ^a ^b Episode 9: A real hell spectacle
↑ ^a ^b Episode 26: Alone against the Robot Mafia
↑ ^a ^b Episode 31: That weird honking
↑ ^a ^b Episode 3: Finding an Apartment in New New York
↑ Episode 57: Love and Rockets
↑ Episode 72: The Devil's Hands
↑ Episode 7: The Galaxy of Terror
↑ ^a ^b ^c Episode 23: Like the father like the clone
↑ ^a ^b Episode 8: Garbage makes inventive
↑ ^a ^b Episode 18: The strange behavior of sexually mature crustaceans during the mating season
↑ Episode 93: The Da-Blödi-Code
↑ ^a ^b David X. Cohen: Audio commentary of the English version of Episode 2: His first flight to the moon
↑ Episode 106: The Top of the Zoidberg
↑ Episode 103: Möbius Dick
↑ Episode 10: Panic on Spaceship Titanic
↑ Episode 6: The Secret of the Anchovies
↑ Episode 96: Kitty
↑ Episode 60: Who's Cool Here?
↑ ^a ^b Episode 19: The Election to Miss Universe
↑ Episode 20: Valentine's Day 3000
↑ Episode 16: Separated from head and body

[cc-groening-cohen-1-1] Exclusive - Q&A With Matt Groening and David X. Cohen Pt. 1. In: Internet pages of Comedy Central . June 22, 2010, accessed on September 21, 2010 (video of an interview with Matt Groening and David X. Cohen ).

[Episode_1_Audiokommentar-2] Matt Groening: “ Oh, and Fry's wearing James Dean's outfit in 'Rebel Without a Cause'. ”(German:“ Oh, and Fry wears James Dean's outfit in '... because they don't know what they're doing'. ”) In: DVD audio commentary on Season 1, Space Pilot 3000 (2002). 20th Century Fox. (English; online transcription from The Infosphere , accessed March 28, 2012).

[Episode_15-3] Episode 15: Brannigan, Start Again

[Episode_56-4] Episode 56: The Orphan of the Year

[Episode_41-5] Episode 41: In the Eyes of an Orphan

[Episode_21-6] Episode 21: Like a Wild Bender

[Episode_1-7] Episode 1: Time and Space 3000

[Episode_36-8] Episode 36: The Happiness of Philip J. Fry

[Episode_38-9] Episode 38: Bender - up to your ears

[Episode_17-10] Episode 17: Xmas Story

[Episode_13-11] Episode 13: The Party with Slurm McKenzie

[Episode_9-12] Episode 9: A real hell spectacle

[Episode_26-13] Episode 26: Alone against the Robot Mafia

[Episode_31-14] Episode 31: That weird honking

[Episode_3-15] Episode 3: Finding an Apartment in New New York

[Episode_57-16] Episode 57: Love and Rockets

[Episode_72-17] Episode 72: The Devil's Hands

[Episode_7-18] Episode 7: The Galaxy of Terror

[Episode_23-19] Episode 23: Like the father like the clone

[Episode_8-20] Episode 8: Garbage makes inventive

[Episode_18-21] Episode 18: The strange behavior of sexually mature crustaceans during the mating season

[Episode_93-22] Episode 93: The Da-Blödi-Code

[Episode_2_Audiokommentar_Cohen-23] David X. Cohen: Audio commentary of the English version of Episode 2: His first flight to the moon

[Episode_106-24] Episode 106: The Top of the Zoidberg

[Episode_103-25] Episode 103: Möbius Dick

[Episode_10-26] Episode 10: Panic on Spaceship Titanic

[Episode_6-27] Episode 6: The Secret of the Anchovies

[Episode_96-28] Episode 96: Kitty

[Episode_60-29] Episode 60: Who's Cool Here?

[Episode_19-30] Episode 19: The Election to Miss Universe

[Episode_20-31] Episode 20: Valentine's Day 3000

[Episode_16-32] Episode 16: Separated from head and body