Accord­ing to the Fox Store site; ““Futu­rama” takes its name from the Gen­eral Motor’s exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair. The exhibit depicted a futur­is­tic land­scape. The char­ac­ter Fry’s unspo­ken first name is Philip, which is a trib­ute to the late Phil Hart­man. The late actor was orig­i­nally cast to do the voice of Zapp Bran­ni­gan. Accord­ing to cre­ator Matt Groen­ing, the hieroglyphic-like let­ters appear­ing in var­i­ous loca­tions through­out the open­ing ani­ma­tion DO mean some­thing — it is up to loyal view­ers to fig­ure it out! Some of the sound effects used in the show are taken from other sci-fi tele­vi­sion series, such as “Star Trek” (1966) and “The Jet­sons” (1962).”

Inter­est­ing, huh? Well, if you enjoy Futu­rama like I do please go buy your copy today by vis­it­ing the Fox Store or pur­chas­ing it in par­tic­i­pat­ing stores. There is noth­ing bet­ter than this show, except for the obvi­ous showrun­ner The Simp­sons. Both by the same cre­ator, Matt Groen­ing, whom I actu­ally met at the San Diego Comic Con­ven­tion in 2002.

His son, William Groen­ing, was beg­ging for some break­fast. As my mem­ory recalls, Matt replied with; “Wasn’t the beef jerky enough this morning?”

It’s these moments that fur­ther proves that life is goofy.