Futurama was an animated American cartoon series created
by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X.
Cohen (also a writer for The Simpsons). Set in "New
New York City" in the year 3000, it was introduced
on the Fox Network and received airplay between March
28, 1999 and August 10, 2003. Futurama now appears in
syndication on the Cartoon Network and the TBS Superstation
in the US, Sky One and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom,
TeleToon in Canada and on Foxtel in Australia. Spoiler
warning: Plot or ending details follow. The series begins
with Philip J. Fry (usually shortened to Fry), a New York
City slacker who is cryogenically frozen "by accident"
on New Year's Eve, 1999. One thousand years later, he
is defrosted, and finds himself in New New York on December
31, 2999. Fry's attempt to escape from his now-mandatory
job assignment as a delivery boy ends when he is hired
on at Planet Express, a small intergalactic package delivery
company run by his distantly descended nephew. The series
covers the adventures of Fry and his colleagues as they
travel around the universe making deliveries on behalf
of Planet Express.
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