Futurama

Futurama is an American animated science fiction comedy series created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after accidentally being cryogenically frozen for 1,000 years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century. The series was envisioned by Groening in the mid-1990s while working on The Simpsons; he later brought David X. Cohen aboard to develop storylines and characters to pitch the show to Fox.

Why There's Good News

 * 1) Great mix of 2D animation and CGI.
 * 2) There are tons of unforgettable, hilarious, emotional and enjoyable episodes, including:
 * 3) * Space Pilot 3000 (the series premiere)
 * 4) * The Series Has Landed
 * 5) * Hell Is Other Robots
 * 6) * A Flight to Remember
 * 7) * Fry and the Slurm Factory
 * 8) * Xmas Story
 * 9) * How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
 * 10) * The Problem with Popplers
 * 11) * Anthology of Interest I and II
 * 12) * War is the H-Word
 * 13) * Amazon Women in the Mood
 * 14) * Parasites Lost
 * 15) * The Luck of the Fryrish
 * 16) * The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
 * 17) * Insane in the Mainframe
 * 18) * Time Keeps on Slippin' 
 * 19) * A Pharaoh to Remember
 * 20) * Roswell That Ends Well
 * 21) * Godfellas
 * 22) * Leela's Homeworld
 * 23) * Jurassic Bark
 * 24) * Crimes of the Hot
 * 25) * Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles
 * 26) * The Why of Fry
 * 27) * Where No Fan Has Gone Before
 * 28) * The Sting
 * 29) * The Farnsworth Parabox
 * 30) * Three Hundred Big Boys
 * 31) * The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings (the first series finale)
 * 32) * Rebirth (the first new episode after the series was revived by Comedy Central)
 * 33) * Lethal Inspection
 * 34) * The Late Philip J. Fry
 * 35) * The Prisoner of Benda
 * 36) * Law and Oracle
 * 37) * The Tip of the Zoidberg
 * 38) * Cold Warriors
 * 39) * Overclockwise (the third series finale)
 * 40) * Game of Tones
 * 41) * Murder on the Planet Express
 * 42) * Stench and Stenchibility
 * 43) * Meanwhile (the fourth series finale)
 * 44) Likable characters such as Fry, Turanga Leela, Bender Bending Rodriguez, Amy Wong, Professor Hubert Farnsworth and Doctor John Zoidberg.
 * 45) Clever humor based on science-fiction parodies and references. This ranges from subtle ones like using the same sound effects of the doors from Star Trek to Captain Zapp Brannigan, who is a full-on parody of Captain James T. Kirk from the same series.
 * 46) The voice acting is good, featuring talented voice actors like Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Katey Sagal, Lauren Tom and Tress MacNeille.
 * 47) It has some heartwarming and tear-jerking moments as well, most notably "Jurassic Bark", the episode where Fry finds the fossilized remains of his pet dog.
 * 48) Countless pop-culture references done well.
 * 49) The show's humor is well-done, and mixes well with the more dramatic moments without coming off as forced.
 * 50) Great writing.
 * 51) A nice and catchy theme song that perfectly fits the show’s futuristic vibe.
 * 52) The show managed to have not one, not two, not three, but four series finales, and each one served as a good way to end the series, with "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and "Meanwhile" being regarded as some of the best episodes of the show.
 * 53) Amazing character development, best demonstrated with Fry's maturation over the course of the series; he went from being repulsed by Leela's body putting on dozens of pounds (after Amy took control of it) in "The Prisoner of Benda" to giving a heartwarming speech about how he'll never stop loving Leela no matter how much her looks will change in "Leela and the Genestalk".
 * 54) * Speaking of "Leela and the Genestalk", Finn and Jake from Adventure Time made a funny cameo appearance in that episode.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The show has had a few bad or mediocre episodes (especially in the Comedy Central era), including:
 * 2) *Bend-Her
 * 3) *Neutopia
 * 4) *The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
 * 5) *A Leela of Her Own
 * 6) *Decision 3012
 * 7) *Spanish Fry (depending on your view)
 * 8) *The Route of All Evil
 * 9) *In-a-Gadda-Da-Leela
 * 10) *That's Lobstertainment!
 * 11) *Attack of the Killer App
 * 12) Seasons 6 and 7, while not bad overall, saw a small decline in quality mainly due to the minor flanderization of some characters, the occasional bad episode and continuity errors.
 * 13) Some episodes can be quite mean-spirited, as the show sometimes goes too far with the torment and bullying of some characters such as Zoidberg and Kif Kroker.
 * 14) The show does not take some concerning issues such as rape, incest and suicide seriously, as it made some disturbing and unfunny jokes about them.

Trivia

 * Kif and Zapp's relationship was based on the question of "what if Spock hated Kirk?".
 * In "Attack of the Killer App", there was a scene where Fry said "Shut up and take my money!", which became an internet meme.
 * Most of the Futurama writers have PhD in various degrees whether it's physics or math.
 * An actual real-life mathematical theorem called The Futurama Theorem was invented by Futurama writer Ken Keeler (who holds a PhD in applied mathematics), purely for use in the Season 6 episode "The Prisoner of Benda".
 * A scene in Matt Groening's third animated show Disenchantment has a scene where Fry, Professor Farnsworth and Bender are seen in the forward time machine, which is not only a reference to the episode "The Late Philip J Fry", but also makes both shows part of the same timeline.