24 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Futurama
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06/02/2015
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Get your nerd on with some obscure facts about FOX's Futurama!
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Fry’s outfit is modeled after James Dean’s famous red jacket from Rebel Without A Cause. -
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The line “Why not Zoidberg” is never uttered in the show. -
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Leela’s full name Turanga Leela is named after Olivier Messiaen’s 1948 “Turangalîla-Symphonie.” -
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There is an episode that consists entirely of the Hypnotoad. It’s 22 minutes long and ends with a voiceover saying “the audience will wake up remembering nothing and feeling refreshed.” -
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The alien language in the background has been changed twice because fans kept figuring it out. -
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Professor Farnsworth is named for Philo Farnsworth, inventor of the first working television. -
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The planet express ship is supposedly modeled to look like its pilot, Leela. -
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The title Futurama comes from a 1939 General Motors World’s Fair exhibt about “the world of tomorrow.” -
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In one episode, the cast switched bodies and the writers had to actually invent a new mathematical theorem to get them back in their bodies again. -
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Bender is named after John Bender from The Breakfast Club -
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Fry’s voice actor Billy West is responsible for pretty much every famous character of the past 20 years. -
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The robot cop that says “aww yeah” all the time is named Officer URL. -
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Fry’s dog Seymour is based off a real dog named Hachikō who waited for his master for 10 years. -
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Leela’s armband is called a “Wristlojackimator.” -
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Shockingly, Frank Welker, the actor who voices Nibbler, used to voice Megatron in Transformers. -
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Phillip J. Fry is named for Phil Hartman, who sadly passed away before the show began. -
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Zapp Brannigan’s voice is based on Phil Hartman’s characters from The Simpsons. -
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Anywhere you see an owl is where you’d normally see a rat, implying owls in the future are the new vermin. -
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Al Gore’s a pretty huge fan of the show himself, appearing several times. -
20.
Stephen Hawking voices himself on both Futurama and The Simpsons, but not Family Guy. -
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Kirsten Gore, Al Gore’s daughter, has written for Futurama. -
22.
Bender’s first words coming out of the factory were, “Bite my shiny metal ass.” He’s also drinking a beer. -
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Matt Groening claims the idea for Futurama came to him while listening to the song “Robot Blues” by The Incredible String Band. -
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FOX hated the idea of using 30th Century FOX at the end of Futurama episodes until Matt Groening went ahead and bought the rights to it.
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