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Futurama is an animated American cartoon series created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen (a writer for The Simpsons). Set in "New New York" in the year 3000, it was introduced on the Fox Network, originally airing from March 28, 1999 to August 10, 2003. It is slated to return to the air with new episodes on Comedy Central in 2008, and is currently rerun on Comedy Central, on Teletoon in Canada, Channel Ten in Australia, and both Sky One and Channel 4 in the U.K.

The series begins with Philip J. Fry, a New York City slacker and pizza delivery boy, who is accidentally cryogenically frozen on New Year's Eve, 1999. He is unfrozen 1000 years later, on 2999-12-31, and finds himself in New New York. Fry's attempt to escape from his now-mandatory job assignment as a delivery boy ends when he is hired at Planet Express, a small intergalactic package delivery company ran by his distantly descended nephew, 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.