Futurama

Futurama is an animated television series created and developed by Matt Groening (creator ofThe Simpsons) with David X. Cohen (also a writer for The Simpsons). Set in New New York City in the 31st century, it was introduced on the Fox Broadcasting Company and received airplay between 28 March, 1999 and 10 August, 2003. It is currently in syndication on Comedy Central in the United States, on Teletoon in Canada, on Sky1 and Sky2 in the United Kingdom, and on Fox8 and Network Ten in Australia.

The series begins when Philip J. Fry, a New York City slacker and pizza delivery boy, is cryogenically frozen by accident on New Year's Eve, 1999 or New Years Day, 2000 (for the first few seconds). He is defrosted one thousand years later on New Years Eve, 2999 and finds himself in New New York City. Fry thinks he has a chance at a new life, only to find himself being permanently assigned a career as a delivery boy. Fry's attempts to escape from his now-mandatory job assignment end at Planet Express, a small intergalactic package delivery company run by his distantly descended nephew, where he is hired on as a delivery boy. The series covers the adventures of Fry and his colleagues as they travel around the universe making deliveries on behalf of Planet Express.