In the episode, fry attempts to make it on time to a birthday dinner date for. The forward time machine is a time machine invented by professor farnsworth. Fry agrees to travel one minute into the future in farnsworths new time machine right before a big date with leela, but they wind up going far into the future with. Fry is the seventh episode of the sixth season of the animated series futurama. Roswell that ends well is the 19th episode in the third season of the american animated television series futurama. Fry, there is no robot takeover until many years later. At this point, some of you would already be eying the door, which. Fans of futurama are often drawn to the show for two reasons the sharp writing, and the time travel aspect. Perhaps the capstone of the season was the late philip j.
Fry comedy central owns all rights to futurama, this is just a video, think of it as. I think fry should go back to his time because after a few years in the futur you start to see his family treat him like crap,but you also see how his family missis him,for example the episode when they try to get his clover back in the graveyard realy toched because it turned out to be his nephew. The story of that episode saw the trio travel forward through time billions of years into the future, past the end of the universe and through the creation of another, identical universe and then again, because they slightly overshoot the first time. With billy west, katey sagal, john dimaggio, tress macneille.
Theres no reason here, and on a series thats never been afraid to be smart, thats. There is an episode featuring actual time travel in every production. Though its more episodic than serialized, little hints about the shows. At the very end of the simpsons episode, the show does an. Futuramas final episode makes me a fry and leela shipper.
See detailed descriptions in the futurama episode guide. Spending your time in a hole in the ground may provide the illusion of nonchronological travel to others. That time futurama was reborn as a video game, anime. It originally aired on comedy central on july 29, 2010. All the main characters have died, come back, and lived alternate lives so many times now that theres no point worrying who the original leela and fry are. Billy west, katey sagal, john dimaggio, tress macneille. As futurama was dropped from the february and may sweeps the last 8 episodes were aired during the summer postseason time. Professor farnsworth invents a time machine that can only travel forward in time, but not back again, hopefully to avoid creating confusing and disgusting paradoxes. Something else must have happened to stop the takeover of earth by robots in what seems to be less than 100 years, since in the late phillip j. Nearly 20 years after its premiere, rewatching futurama today makes it clear that it was far, far ahead of its time.
This episode revolved around a time travel device created by professor farnsworth that allows whomever presses it to go back to the previous 10 seconds but only the previous 10. Its the entire theme of the episode, and they chuck it. While they dont do much as far as character relationships go, a lot of my favorite futurama episodes occur when they go to a planet of liquid people or what would happen if you had a robot as a. And we got to have the satisfaction of them going right back to the beginning of the episode to grow old all over again. This is the song from season 6 episode 7 the late philip j. Forward time machine the infosphere, the futurama wiki. Given the ability to work with parallel universes and time travel, plus a cast of aliens, robots and mutants, futurama can regularly deliver twilight zonestyle twists with their simpsonssize. Futurama debuted its second series finale this week, offering fans a fond farewell to its long, successful run. The events of any one episode, especially a time travelalternate universe episode, should be viewed as one of. Episode 15, time keeps on slipping maybe the best episode of the entire series, this one is neatly divided into a few parts.
Watch all the presidents heads season 3000, episode 108 of futurama or get episode details on. It originally aired on the fox network in the united states on december 9, 2001. The episode played with all of our favorite tropes time travel, the romance, bender being bender, the professor and his zany inventions. Almost a year ago sting, from john deley and the 41 players. Season 5 futurama season 6 consists of the four madefordvd movies cut into 16 episodes total. The original 72episode run of futurama was produced as four seasons.
The forwards time machine was a temporal navigation device invented by professor farnsworth in 3010. Of the more recent run, i guess id have to go with the episode the late philip j. It is able to go forwards in time, but is unable to travel backwards. Professor farnsworth invents a time machine that can only travel forward in time, but. They do not ever return to their own time, merely to an identical copy, two universes further. While fry struggles to find the source of the alien tones in his dreams, the real world turns into a nightmare. Futurama has done time travel before, and far better than this, because those older episodes were made with the understanding that time travel is an overused trope in scifi, and that any story which wants to use it, should do so for damn good reason. He is sidetracked by professor farnsworth and bender, who force him to test out the professors time machine, which only goes forward in time.
The professor, along with fry and bender were originally supposed to test drive the machine by going forward one minute into the future. Fry, which was a huge time travel extravaganza, where fry, bender, and. In this episode, futurama deals with a different kind of time travel than episodes such as. Why roswell that ends well is the best episode of futurama. However, they accidentally end up going forward 6,990 years and are forced to use the machine to keep going. The plot centers on an accidental time travel event that results in the main characters participating in the roswell ufo incident in 1947. Written by lewis morton and taking inspiration from sciencefiction classics such as flight to forever, the time machine, and last and first men, this episode is another futurama tale of time travel. They are supposed to go one minute into the future but the professor slips and they go. Its one of futuramas classic meldings of high concept scifi and emotional character.
That time futurama was reborn as a video game, anime, and more. This article examines all manners of time travel used and paradoxes that may. I thought in the episode they figured out the solution. When they travel forward in time, there is an era wherein robots are killing what is left of humanity, but thats millions of years in the future. Like several of futuramas alltime great episodes, meanwhile relies on time travel but. Farnsworth takes advantage of the time travel to kill adolf hitler, a classic temporal paradox. The best episode of futurama from each season, ranked. If futurama really is over for good, last nights meanwhile was a strong episode to go out on. When they first go back in time, and they re trying to figure out what happened, the professor says some idiot mustve put metal in the microwave and goes on to say other things and mentions gravitons and graviolis. The machine is only capable of traveling into the future, specifically in order to avoid creating temporal paradoxes such as accidentally having sex with ones grandmother.
Choosing the best episode of futurama is incredibly difficult even the worst episode of futurama is better than pretty much any episode of anything else, because it has bender in it. The crew members alter history when they travel back in time to the american revolution. Futuramas final episode makes me a fry and leela shipper at last. An accident causes a supernova which sends the crew back in time to 1947, where they land in roswell, area 51. Start your free trial to watch futurama and other popular tv shows and movies including new releases, classics, hulu originals, and more. Because the machine had no reversetimetraveling function, the three were marooned in the future until they decided to continue further down the timeline. Why roswell that ends well is the best episode of futurama choke on that, causality.
Fry, a pizza delivery boy, who was accidentally cryogenically frozen in 1999, and awakens in the year 3000, finding much has changed, and, yet, is. The futurama episode the why of fry reveals who the other is, but doesnt explain why shes so important, raising a question that has been bugging. In the episode, fry attempts to make it on time to a birthday dinner date for leela. Ranking all the futurama episodes best to worst imdb. Chronological time travel is the simplest form, as it requires no technological involvement, everyone everywhere already travels through time at a rate of one second per second. The speed in which they can travel in spaceships seems way higher than lightspeed, despite it being stated in one episode that their spaceship can only travel up to 99% of the speed of light. Fry agrees to travel one minute into the future in farnsworths new time machine right before a big date with leela, but they wind up going far into the future with no way to go back in time.