Futurama / Season 1

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Season 1 of Futurama
Episodes 13
Country of production United StatesUnited States United States , South Korea (animation)
Korea SouthSouth Korea 
First broadcast March 28, 1999 - November 14, 1999 on Fox
German-language
first broadcast		 September 4, 2000 - November 20, 2000 on ProSieben
Season 2   ▶
► Episode list

The first production season of Futurama , a US science fiction - animated series consists of 13 episodes, the first from 28 March 1999 at the American broadcaster Fox were seen. Fox adhered to the order of production, but only broadcast nine episodes as a contiguous broadcast season and moved the remaining four to the second broadcast season.

One episode of the season was nominated for an Emmy and another for an Annie Award .

Episodes

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		German title
subtitle 		Original title
Subtitle 		Director script First broadcast
No.
( total ) 		St. No.
( St. ) 		Original version German
dubbed version
1  1  Time and space 3000
in color 		Space Pilot 3000
In color 		Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo David X. Cohen , Matt Groening 1  1  1  28 Mar 1999 04th Sep 2000
On New Year's Eve 1999, Philip J. Fry , who works for a New York pizza service, delivers a pizza to a cryonics lab. At midnight he accidentally falls into an open cold coffin and is put into a cold sleep, from which he only wakes up on New Year's Eve 2999. He is brought before a one-eyed officer named Leela , who is supposed to assign him a permanent career. He is in turn determined to be the delivery boy by computer. Fry is dissatisfied with this and flees into the city, now New New York . In search of his only living descendant, Professor Farnsworth , Fry meets and becomes friends with the suicidal robot Bender , who has just given up his work. Eventually, Leela put both of them underground. Leela, who hates her job too, takes the side of the job deserters. Together, the trio locates Professor Farnsworth, who runs an intergalactic delivery company called Planet Express . With his spaceship they flee from the police at midnight. After all, Fry, Leela and Bender join Planet Express .
2  2  His first flight to the moon
In Hypno-Vision 		Episode Two: The Series Has Landed
In Hypno-Vision 		Peter Avanzino Ken Keeler 2  1  2  0Apr 4, 1999 Sep 11 2000
Fry, Leela and Bender are introduced to their employees at Planet Express : Company doctor Dr. Zoidberg , intern Amy Wong and accountant Hermes Conrad . When a captain is chosen for the company's spaceship, Leela is chosen. The first mission of the new crew is a delivery order to the moon . Fry notes that Moon flights are not risky expeditions more but pleasure trips to a built there amusement park . Knowledge of the events surrounding the Apollo program was lost in the 31st century, instead musicals about whalers on the moon are shown. Fry is shocked by this; he wants to explore the lunar surface outside the theme parks, stolen to a car of a ride and leaves with Leela against their will, the undeveloped terrain. On the run from an angry Moon Farmer and the day-night boundary they discover the-lost lunar module of Apollo 11 and finally rescued by Amy.
3  3  New New York Apartment Rentals
As shown on TV 		I, Roommate
As Seen on TV 		Bret Haaland Eric Horsted 3  1  3  0Apr 6, 1999 Sep 18 2000
Fry, who has previously lived at Planet Express , is supposed to find his own apartment. After an unsuccessful search, Bender lets him live in his apartment, which is one square meter and therefore uncomfortable for Fry. When an acquaintance of the professor dies, Fry moves into Bender's apartment. However, Bender's antenna interferes with television reception and so Bender has to move out again. He feels very uncomfortable alone and turns to Fry in despair. Fry then moves back in with Bender and this time discovers that Bender has a closet that is the size of a normal apartment and decides to live there.
4th  4th  Encounter with Zapp Brannigan
Areawise GK [Mind Controlled] aired 		Love's Labors Lost in Space
Presented in BC [Brain Control] where available 		Brian Sheesley Brian Kelley 4th  1  4th  Apr 13, 1999 25 Sep 2000
The crew flies to a planet by commodities - mining has been hollowed out and threatens to collapse now, there to save animals. After collecting two of each species, they discover a specimen of a new, previously unrecorded species. Left alone with the rest of the animals in the ship's storeroom, it eats them up and excretes a lump of black matter . Leela decides to keep it as a pet and calls it "Nibbler".
5  5  Planet the Robots
This time with free extraterrestrial nudity 		Fear of a Bot Planet
Featuring gratious alien nudity 		Peter Avanzino, Carlos Baeza Heather Lombard, Evan Gore 5  1  5  Apr 20, 1999 0Oct 2, 2000
Leela, Fry and Bender are supposed to deliver a package on a planet inhabited exclusively by robots who superstitiously fear and hate people. Through Bender's guilt, Fry and Leela are captured and are supposed to be executed. During the escape, they leave the package behind; it contains much-needed nuts , which is causing the robots to change their minds about humans.
6th  6th  The secret of the anchovies
Loading ... 		A Fishful of Dollars
Loading… 		Ron Hughart, Gregg Vanzo Patric M. Verrone 6th  1  6th  Apr 27, 1999 0Oct 9, 2000
By paying interest on his tiny credit balance in 1999, Fry has become a millionaire. He wants to celebrate this with pizza, but his favorite topping is no longer there because the anchovies are extinct. He buys the last can at an auction. Big entrepreneur Mom fears that he wants to use the anchovies to make a perfect robot oil, which would destroy her monopoly. It drives Fry into economic ruin without getting to the anchovies. When she learns that he only wants to eat the fish, she lets him go.
7th  7th  The Galaxy of Terror
Presented in DOUBLEVISION (when drunk) 		My Three Suns
Presented in DOUBLE VISION (where drunk) 		Jeffrey Lynch, Kevin O'Brien J. Stewart Burns 7th  1  7th  0May 4, 1999 Oct 16, 2000
After Fry has delivered a package on the desert planet Trisol, he drinks an unknown, water-like liquid from an unguarded bottle, not knowing that this is the ruler of a civilization of liquid individuals, and thus becomes the emperor's legitimate successor. During the coronation ceremony, it is discovered that the old ruler in Fry's belly survived. He orders Fry to be slit open so he can leave his body. Fry and his friends hide in the palace and make Fry cry until the old Emperor has left Fry's body in tears.
8th  8th  Garbage makes inventive
Mr. Bender's wardrobe provided by ROBOTANY 500 		A Big Piece of Garbage
Mr. Bender's Wardrobe by ROBOTANY 500 		Susie Dietter Lewis Morton 8th  1  8th  May 11, 1999 Oct 23, 2000
Using the scentoscope , an invention of Prof. Farnsworth, with which one can smell distant objects, Fry discovers a huge, smelly ball that is hurtling towards the earth. It consists of garbage that was shot from the earth into space in the 21st century. After the attempt to destroy the garbage ball fails, a duplicate is said to be shot at it in order to dissuade it from its path. New Yorkers who recycle everything also learn to produce rubbish.
9  9  A real hell spectacle
Damned by the space pope 		Hell Is Other Robots
Condemned by the Space Pope 		Rich Moore Eric Kaplan 9  1  9  May 18, 1999 Oct 30, 2000
To overcome his addiction to electrical surges, Bender joins the sectarian church of Robotology and changes his life. His colleagues are annoyed by his new, celibate existence, however, so that they seduce him into his old, vicious lifestyle. Thereupon Bender is taken to robot hell by the robot devil, from which Fry and Leela finally save him.
10  10  Panic on the spaceship Titanic Filmed
at the original location 		A Flight to Remember
Filmed on location 		Peter Avanzino Eric Horsted 10  2  1  26 Sep 1999 0Nov 6, 2000
The crew goes on a trip on the Titanic spacecraft . To protect herself from Captain Zapp Brannigan's advances , Leela pretends to be engaged to Fry. Amy also fakes a relationship with Fry to prevent her parents from matching her up. She gets closer to first officer Kif Kroker , and Bender falls in love with a lady from the robot aristocracy. When the ship plunges into a black hole , the passengers take refuge in escape pods. But Bender has to leave his beloved behind.
11  11  The Mars University Experiment
Aired in Martian on SAP 		Mars University
Transmitido en Martian en SAP 		Bret Haaland J. Stewart Burns 11  2  2  0Oct 3, 1999 Nov 13, 2000
Professor Farnsworth is experimenting at Mars University with Gunther, an ape who is extremely intelligent when wearing a hat even by human standards. Fry enrolls there to be a decent college dropout, and Bender disrupts his old fraternity . Before Gunther has to decide whether he wants to be smart with the hat or be happy without it, the hat is damaged so that Gunther is only moderately intelligent with it.
12  12  When aliens attack
Proudly made on earth 		When Aliens Attack
Proudly made on earth 		Brian Sheesley Ken Keeler 12  2  3  0Nov 7, 1999 Nov 20, 2000
In 1999, Fry mishandled the broadcast of the law series Single Female Lawyer . Around 1000 years later and 1000 light years away, the rulers of the planet Omikron Persei 8 are watching the series. Angry about the interruption, they threaten the destruction of the earth if the rest of the episode is not shown immediately. The Planet Express crew produced a bumbling ending for the episode.
13  13  The party with Slurm McKenzie
LIVE from Omicron Persei 8 		Fry and the Slurm Factory
LIVE from Omicron Persei 8 		Ron Hughart Lewis Morton 13  2  4th  Nov 14, 1999 Nov 17, 2000
Fry wins a party with the advertising icon Slurm McKenzie from soft drink manufacturer Slurm . Before that, there is a factory tour where Fry, Leela and Bender break away from the group and discover the unsavory secret behind Slurm. The professor, who then wants to stop the distribution of Slurm, is stopped by Fry, who is still addicted. The episode, including the title, is a parody of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , the first film adaptation of the short story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl . The characters in the factory who are paid to pretend to work, the Grunka Lunkas, are reminiscent of the Oompa Loompas from the film; the guide, Glurmo, wears Willy Wonka-style clothing and speaks in a voice that sounds like Gene Wilder's . Slurm McKenzie, the Slurm party snail, is a parody of Spuds MacKenzie , the Bud Light advertising character.

Guest appearances

analysis

The first three episodes can be understood as an introduction to the topic. The first shows the main character's “journey through time” from the 20th to the 31st century and introduces the central trio of Fry, Leela and Bender, alongside Professor Farnsworth. The second episode introduces the other main characters with Zoidberg, Hermes and Amy and introduces the viewer to the Planet Express company . After the third episode, Fry has found an apartment and the starting point for the following episodes is complete.

First broadcast and audience numbers

Cover photo from Futurama shown at the beginning of the opening sequence

The pilot episode Zeit und Raum 3000 first aired on Fox on March 28, 1999. With 19 million viewers, it broke records, the second episode reached 14 million viewers. Fox then moved the series from Sunday to Tuesday evening, whereupon the audience numbers fell below 9 million. After the ninth episode was released on May 18, 1999, Fox paused the broadcast and showed the remaining four episodes at the beginning of the second season. The time slot was moved back to Sunday. In addition, Fox paused the second season broadcast for four weeks after the second episode, The University of Mars Experiment . On average, each episode of the first season was seen by 8.9 million television viewers when it first aired. The German dubbed version of Season published ProSieben from 4 September to 20 November 2000 in a weekly broadcast rhythm and a slightly different order.

reception

For the script for the second episode, His First Flight to the Moon , writer Ken Keeler was nominated for an Annie Award in the Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production category. With the eighth episode, Trash Makes Invention , Futurama was nominated for an Emmy for the first time , here in the category Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less) . Neither of the two nominations resulted in an award.

Publication on storage media

Futurama was released on DVD in the order and seasons of production , and the episodes of the first four seasons were also released on Video CD and VHS .

The DVD edition of the first season was released in DVD region 1 on March 25, 2003, in region 2 on January 28, 2002 and in region 4 on November 27, 2002. The bonus material on the DVD includes audio commentary on all episodes and deleted scenes from six episodes, a short documentation of the production, an animatic and a script for the pilot episode as well as various concept drawings.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Top 25 Futurama Episodes . Retrieved June 14, 2007.
  3. ^ Nancy Basile: Futurama Pictures . Retrieved September 14, 2007.
  4. ↑ Andreas Cirikovic: social criticism in the American animated series: The example of the Simpsons, South Park and Futurama . GRIN Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-640-47575-9 , pp. 66 ( books.google.de - Master's thesis).
  5. ↑ Futurama: "Simpsons" cut with bulging eyes and an overbite. In: Spiegel Online . August 31, 2000, accessed May 12, 2008 .
  6. ↑ Groening's Gripe. April 1999, archived from the original on August 24, 2000 ; accessed on May 13, 2008 (English).
  7. ↑ Final ratings for the 1998–1999 TV season. Archived from the original on October 29, 2009 ; accessed on September 5, 2011 (English).
  8. ↑ List of Annie Award nominees and prize winners 1999. International Animated Film Society (1999, English).
  9. ^ Awards for Futurama. In: IMDb . Retrieved June 17, 2010 (English).
  10. ↑ a b Tal Blevins: Futurama Volume One. In: IGN.com . March 7, 2003, accessed September 5, 2011 .