Heather Lombard and Evan Gore
A Fishful of Dollars
Patric M. Verrone
My Three Suns
J. Stewart Burns
A Big Piece of Garbage
Lewis Morton
Hell Is Other Robots
Eric Kaplan
A Flight to Remember
Eric Horsted
Mars University
J. Stewart Burns
When Aliens Attack
Ken Keeler
Fry and the Slurm Factory
Lewis Morton
Season Two
(Aired: November 21st 1999 to December 3rd 2000)
I Second That Emotion
Patric M. Verrone
Brannigan, Begin Again
Lewis Morton
A Head in the Polls
J. Stewart Burns
Xmas Story
David X. Cohen
Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?
Eric Kaplan
The Lesser of Two Evils
Eric Horsted
Put Your Head on My Shoulders
Ken Keeler
Raging Bender
Lewis Morton
A Bicyclops Built for Two
Eric Kaplan
A Clone of My Own
Patric M. Verrone
How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
Bill Odenkirk
The Deep South
J. Stewart Burns
Bender Gets Made
Eric Horsted
Mother’s Day
Lewis Morton
The Problem with Popplers
Darin Henry and Patric M. Verrone; Teleplay by Patric M. Verrone
Anthology of Interest I
Eric Rogers, Ken Keeler, and David X. Cohen
War Is the H-Word
Eric Horsted
The Honking
Ken Keeler
The Cryonic Woman
J. Stewart Burns
Season Three
(Aired: January 4th 2001 to April 14th 2002)
Amazon Women in the Mood
Lewis Morton
Parasites Lost
Eric Kaplan
A Tale of Two Santas
Bill Odenkirk
The Luck of the Fryish
Ron Weiner
The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz
Dan Vebber
Bendless Love
Eric Horsted
The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
Jeff Westbrook and David X. Cohen; Teleplay by Jeff Westbrook
That’s Lobstertainment!
Patric M. Verrone
The Cyber House Rules
Lewis Morton
Where the Buggalo Roam
J. Stewart Burns
Insane in the Mainframe
Bill Odenkirk
Leela’s Homeworld
Kristin Gore
The Route of All Evil
Dan Vebber
Bendin’ in the Wind
Eric Horsted
Ken Keeler
I Dated a Robot
Eric Kaplan
A Leela of Her Own
Patric M. Verrone
A Pharaoh to Remember
Ron Weiner
Anthology of Interest II
Lewis Morton, David X Cohen, Jason Gorbett, and Scott Kirby
Roswell that Ends Well
Stewart Burns
Godfellas
Ken Keeler
Future Stock
Aaron Ehasz
The 30% Iron Chef
Jeff Westbrook
Season Four
(Aired: January 12th 2003 to August 10th 2003)
Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
Bill Odenkirk
Love and Rocket
Dan Vebber
Less than Hero
Ron Weiner
A Taste of Freedom
Eric Horsted
Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television
Lewis Morton
Jurassic Bark
Eric Kaplan
Crimes of the Hot
Aaron Ehasz
Teenage Mutant Leela’s Hurdles
Jeff Westbrook
The Why of Fry
David X. Cohen
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
David A. Goodman
The Sting
Patric M. Verrone
Bend Her
Michael Rowe
Obsoletely Fabulous
Dan Vebber
The Farnsworth Parabox
Bill Odenkirk
Three Hundred Big Boys
Eric Kaplan
Spanish Fry
Ron Weiner
The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings
Ken Keeler
Season Five: The Films
Bender’s Big Score
(Released November 27th 2007; Aired: March 28th 2008)
Ken Keeler and David X. Cohen; Teleplay by Ken Keeler
The Beast With a Billion Backs
(Released June 24th 2008; Aired: October 19th 2008)
Eric Kaplan and David X. Cohen; Teleplay by Eric Kaplan
Bender’s Game
(Released: November 4th 2008; Aired: April 26th 2009)
Eric Horsted and David X. Cohen; Teleplay by Eric Horsted, Michael Rowe, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen, and Patric M. Verrone
Into the Wild Green Yonder
(Released February 24th 2009; Aired: August 30th 2009)
Ken Keeler and David X. Cohen; Teleplay by Ken Keeler
Season Six
(Aired: June 24th 2010 to September 8th 2011)
Rebirth
David X. Cohen and Matt Groening; Teleplay by David X. Cohen
In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
Carolyn Premish and Matt Groening; Teleplay by Carolyn Premish
Attack of the Killer App
Patric M. Verrone
Proposition Infinity
Michael Rowe
The Duh-Vinci Code
Maiya Williams
Lethal Inspection
Eric Horsted
The Late Philip J. Fry
Lewis Morton
That Darn Katz!
Josh Weinstein
A Clockwork Origin
Dan Vebber
Ken Keeler
Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
Patric M. Verrone
The Mutants Are Revolting
Eric Horsted
The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
Michael Rowe
The Silence of the Clamps
Eric Rogers
Möbius Dick
Dan Vebber
Law and Oracle
Josh Weinstein
Benderama
Aaron Ehasz
The Tip of the Zoidberg
Ken Keeler
Ghost in the Machines
Patric M. Verrone
Neutopia
J. Stewart Burns
Yo Leela Leela
Eric Horsted
Fry Am the Egg Man
Michael Rowe
All the Presidents’ Heads
Josh Weinstein
Cold Warriors
Dan Vebber
Overclockwise
Ken Keeler
Reincarnation
Aaron Ehasz
Season Seven
(Aired: June 20th 2012 to September 4th 2013)
The Bots and the Bees
Eric Horsted
A Farewell to Arms
Josh Weinstein
Decision 3012
Patric M. Verrone
The Thief of Baghead
Dan Vebber
Zapp Dingbat
Eric Rogers
The Butterjunk Effect
Michael Rowe
The Six Million Dollar Mon
Ken Keeler
Fun on a Bun
Dan Vebber
Free Will Hunting
David X. Cohen
Near-Death Wish
Eric Horsted
31st Century Fox
Patric M. Verrone
Viva Mars Vegas
Josh Weinstein
Naturama
Eric Rogers, Michael Saikin, and Neil Mukhopadhyay
Forty Percent Leadbelly
Ken Keeler
2-D Blacktop
Michael Rowe
T.: The Terrestrial
Josh Weinstein
Fry and Leela’s Big Fling
Eric Rogers
The Inhuman Torch
Dan Vebber
Saturday Morning Fun Pit
Patric M. Verrone
Calculon 2.0
Lewis Morton
Assie Come Home
Maiya Williams
Leela and the Genestalk
Eric Horsted
Game of Tones
Michael Rowe
Murder on the Planet Express
Lewis Morton
Stench and Stenchibility
Eric Horsted
Meanwhile
Ken Keeler
Specials
Everybody Loves Hypnotoad
(Appears on the DVD: Bender’s Big Score)
Futurama: The Lost Adventure (Appears on the DVD: The Beast with a Billion Backs)
The Voice Actors
Dan Castellaneta:
Robot Devil
John DiMaggio:
Bender
Flexo
URL
Elzar
Various Characters
Phil Hendrie:
Free Waterfall Senior
Free Waterfall Junior
Old Man Waterfall
Frieda Waterfall
David Herman:
Scruffy
Odgen Wernstrom
Slurms McKenzie
Mayor Poopenmeyer
Turanga Morris
Tom Kenny:
Yancy Fry
Maurice LaMarche:
Kif
Lrrr
Orson Welles
Morbo
Calculon
Walt
Various Characters
Phil LaMarr:
Hermes Conrad
Lionel Preacherbot
Helper
Dawnn Lewis:
LaBarbara Conrad
Tress MacNeille:
Mom
Slurm Queen
Guenter
Linda
Various Characters
Bumper Robinson:
Dwight
Katey Sagal:
Leela
Kath Soucie:
Cubert
Michelle
Various Characters
Lauren Tom:
Amy Wong
Inez Wong
Frank Welker:
Nibbler
Lord Nibbler
Billy West:
Philip J. Fry
Professor Farnsworth
Doctor Zoidberg
Zapp Brannigan
Various Characters
The Twenty-First-Century Planet Express Crew
GREG AHRENHOERSTER enjoys exchanging Futurama references with his two teenage children, much to the confusion of his younger daughter and patient wife. He contributed chapters to Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture and SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy: Soaking Up Secrets Under the Sea! He’s a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Waukesha and chair of the University of Wisconsin Colleges English department, which is a lot like pimping, but you rarely have to use the phrase “upside your head.”
JASON BUCHANAN received his PhD in 2011 from Purdue University. When not caring for his dogs, which eat almost as much as Nibbler, he writes about contemporary British literature. His work has been published in the journals Modern Drama and Geographies of Gender, a collection of essays about gender roles in Ireland. He’s currently a professor at the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola in Lima, Peru.
DAN BURKETT hails from New Zealand, but is currently sprunging his way towards a PhD in Philosophy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He first saw Futurama in the waning years of the last millennium and has avidly followed the show ever since. Dan specializes in the philosophy of time travel, morality, the human mind, and rock’n’roll. He’s taught widely on these subjects and has presented his research at a number of international conferences. When he’s not unraveling the mysteries of time and space, Dan enjoys playing the guitar, dining on Mexican food, and evading the clumsy assassination attempts of his future grandchildren.
TIMOTHY M. DALE is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. He teaches political philosophy and his research interests include democratic theory, political messaging in popular culture, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He’s co-editor of Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent in American Popular Culture, co-author of Political Thinking, Political Theory, and Civil Society, and co-editor of the collection Homer Simpson Ponders Politics: Popular Culture as Political Theory. He spends most of his time trying to be less Neutral and more like Zapp Brannigan.
JOHN M. DEPOE is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he teaches and publishes on topics related to epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. In his free time he imbibes a dangerous amount of Slurm and tries to keep up with his favorite show, “All My Circuits.” John aspires one day to join the prestigious faculty of Mars University.
CHARLENE ELSBY is a PhD Candidate at McMaster University, currently cavorting in the philosophy of the Greeks of old.
JOSEPH J. FOY is Associate Professor and Associate Campus Dean at the University of Wisconsin–Waukesha. He’s the editor of Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture and SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy: Soaking Up Secrets Under the Sea!, and co-editor of Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent through American Popular Culture and Homer Simpson Ponders Politics: Popular Culture as Political Theory. Foy’s biggest dream is to journey to the land of the Grunka Lunkas so that he can tell them he hates them.
As one of the few survivors of Zapp Brannigan’s attack on the pacifists of the Gandhi nebula, RUSSELL HAMER would CO (cowardly object) to joining any armed forces. Instead, he spends his time playing video games with his wife, or working to complete his PhD at Marquette University, where he also teaches. In the year 2013, RYAN JENKINS was a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He studied mostly normative and applied ethics. But one night while laboring diligently on his dissertation in the campus biology lab, he fell backwards into a cryogenic freezer. When he emerged in 3013, he was distraught to learn that all of the problems of philosophy had been definitively solved. He has since taken up delivering pizzas to the moon.
KARL LADEROUTE is a graduate student in philosophy at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He’s intensely studied Nietzsche for a number of years, and after long philosophical reflection, Karl thinks Hedonism Bot probably has the best philosophy of life of any of the characters on Futurama.
COURTLAND LEWIS is co-editor (with Paula Smithka) of Doctor Who and Philosophy: Bigger on the Inside. He’s a passionate teacher dedicated to spreading the joy of philosophy. In order to achieve this goal he teaches at Owensboro Community and Technical College, mentors young kids, and regularly attends sci-fi conventions to speak on the importance of philosophy.
DANIEL P. MALLOY is a lecturer in philosophy at Appalachian State University. His research focuses on issues in ethics. He has published numerous chapters on the intersection of popular culture and philosophy, particularly dealing with the illustration of moral questions in movies, comic books, and television shows. We entrusted the writing of Daniel’s bio to Humorbot 5.0. FUNNY BIO LINE NOT FOUND.
JAMES J. MICIC is an MA graduate from the University of the West of England. He is interested in metaphysi
cs, ontology, some ancient Greek philosophy, and a whole lot of German Idealism. Being such a massive fanboy of Matt Groening, the anticipation of a new science-fiction Groening animated show nearly killed him, but dear God Entity, it was worth the wait—his first viewing of that episode is still as vivid as ever.
JOSHUA MILLS-KNUTSEN earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Kentucky and is currently teaching at Bellarmine University and Indiana University Southeast, while searching for a tenured position, grant money, and at least five graduate students (ethnicity open). When not writing on Futurama or playing baseball with his son, he spends his time with the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Immanuel Kant on morality. Despite being somewhat of a Brain himself, he assures everyone that he has no interest in destroying the universe, even if the thoughts of others are sometimes painful to bear.
BRIAN ONISHI is currently pursuing his PhD in Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He received his Master’s in Philosophy from Duquesne University and his Bachelor’s from Biola University. His research interests include Phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, and Foucault, with special interest in applying the methods of Phenomenology to environmental philosophy. He began watching Futurama as a mental relief from philosophy. Obviously, that didn’t work out very well. He also introduced Futurama to his oldest daughter (honestly, could anyone wish for a better father) when she was three months old. It quickly became her favorite show and continues to be a means of father-daughter bonding.
NICK OSCHMAN is a twenty-first-century PhD student in philosophy at Marquette University. His current interests focus on the collaboration of ideas between Islamic and Jewish thinkers in the medieval period. He’ll subsequently be out of a job when the First Amalgamated Church is founded and all of the world’s major religions become one. In his downtime, he travels to Nashville on his Scooty Puff, Jr. to visit his fiancée Lauren. There, they enjoy watching marathons of Hypnotoad and playing with their pet Nibblonian Henry.
JERRY PIVEN has taught courses on philosophy, psychology, and religion at Case Western Reserve University, the New School For Social Research, and New York University, though his most important sermons and spiritual work are conducted at the tribblonian Church of Trek and the Zen monastery of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Despite being a protégé of Zapp Brannigan, Dr. Piven owns neither a girdle nor a toupée (having donated those to his Hollywood relatives), and can in fact pilot space bistros where no fan has gone before. He’s the author of Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Mortal Terror, The Madness and Perversion of Yukio Mishima, and sundry other works on equally festive subjects. His latest work is Slaughtering Death: On the Psychoanalysis of Terror, Religion, and Violence.
DEBORAH PLESS received her BA in Philosophy from Hamilton College and her MFA in Screenwriting from New York Film Academy. She’s also contributed to Doctor Who and Philosophy: Bigger on the Inside, and runs a blog called “Kiss My Wonder Woman.” Currently, she teaches creative writing and story analysis at an educational co-operative, and is independently researching how many movies a person can watch before their head explodes. She firmly believes that the brain slugs are our friends and are here to help us.