Futurama Season 11 Trailer
Roselee Kruppa
Hulu's recent reboot of the witty sci-fi animated series "Futurama" has been greeted with much love, nostalgia, and fanfare and now after last summer's wild Season 11, we're about to board the Planet Express once again for more zany adventures with Fry, Leela, Bender, Professor Farnsworth and the whole 31st century crew.
20th Television Animation and Hulu Originals have just revealed a rowdy new trailer and vibrant key art poster for "Futurama" Season 12 which will again be comprised of ten weekly episodes executive produced and overseen by the award-winning series creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen.
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First conceived by "The Simpsons'" Groening and Cohen, "Futurama" originally aired on Fox back in 1999 and has gone through numerous revivals and iterations on Comedy Central and its Adult Swim content block before eventually being successfully resurrected by Hulu last year.
"Futurama" depicts the interplanetary experiences of a normal pizza delivery guy named Philip J. Fry who accidentally falls into a cryogenic chamber during a New Year's Eve 1999 pizza delivery order. He's thawed out and awakens from a Rip Van Winkle-like 1,000-year snooze into a spectacular world of incredible science fiction advancements where he encounters and a one-eyed mutant called Leela and Bender, a snarky hard-drinking robot.
"On this orbit around the sun, our occasionally heroic crew embarks on mind-bending adventures involving birthday party games to the death, the secrets of Bender's ancestral robot village, A.I. friends (and enemies), impossibly cute beanbags, and the true 5 million-year-old story behind the consciousness-altering substance known as coffee. And, of course, the next chapter in Fry and Leela's fateful, time-twisted romance."
Soon after the conclusion of "Futurama" Season 11 in September of last year, Hulu doubled-down on the popular series in the wake of its enthusiastic fan reception and greenlit two more seasons, which should carry it through Season 14 into 2025 with an additional 20 episodes!
"Futurama's" Season 12 vocal cast includes the superb talents of John DiMaggio as Bender, Billy West as Fry, Prof. Farnsworth and Dr. Zoidberg, Katey Segal as Leela, Tress MacNeille as Leela's mom, Linda and Nerdbot, Phil LaMarr as Hermes, Lauren Tom as Amy, and Maurice LaMarche portraying Calculon, Kif and Morbo.
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As I watched the Futurama season 12 trailer, I found myself surprisingly grateful that certain things had made the cut, which makes me look forward to the coming run of episodes even more. Several aspects of Futurama make me laugh, but there's one in particular that never fails to hit the mark for me. Thankfully, the trailer teases that I won't be disappointed when Futurama season 12 hits Hulu on July 29.
For me, the Futurama season 12 cast will have an easy job topping the show's last outing. While Futurama season 11's ending was interesting, I feel like the writers favored the sci-fi elements of the show over the comedic parts. As a result, the overall vibe felt off. Even if they plan to do the same in the upcoming season, the trailer has already promised me at least a few of my favorite kind of laughs.
The Futurama season 12 trailer includes brief glimpses of new inventions from Professor Farnsworth that fall just short of the mark. For instance, the jetpacks worn by the Planet Express crew may look like they'd allow the wearer to take flight, but their true purpose is to slow the descent of a head-first plummet toward the ground at the very last minute - and they barely manage that.
Another new Farnsworth breakthrough gets much more screen time in the trailer, with his Frankenstein's Monster-inspired lifeform boasting many of the facets of a sentient being, but it is also missing a head. These two "inventions" surely can't be the only new additions to Farnsworth's litany of almost-successes, and I welcome the potential slew of intentionally underwhelming reveals from the professor.
I love the way the professor invariably sets the bar so high with every "Good news, everyone!" just to present to his friends and employees that he's been working on something that is ever so slightly off-base. There's no denying Farnsworth is an incredibly intelligent man, but Futurama brilliantly makes use of the character's senility to ensure there's almost always a fault or a sense of disappointment with anything he showcases.
What's even better is that I often forget to expect that his latest contraption could be anything less than flawed. I get to enjoy the wonder of an incredible sci-fi device before being brought crashing back down to Earth in an amusing cloud of familiar and oddly welcoming despondency. If Futurama ever stops the awful Farnsworth inventions coming, that's the day I stop watching.
When I saw the Futurama season 12 episode titles, my eye was drawn to one in particular, and it immediately made me think of my favorite episode and made me hope that it's going to be revisited in the coming run. Futurama has made use of almost every sci-fi trope there is, but there's one that it has barely touched upon. Hopefully, if I'm right, an upcoming installment will rectify that issue while also giving me a blast from the past. I've been waiting for the show to return since Futurama season 11's ending, and with any luck, it'll be worth the wait.
With Futurama season 12's release date now revealed as July 29, speculation surrounding the next run of episodes can begin in earnest. The Futurama season 12 trailer reveals many exciting new locations for the Planet Express crew to visit, but there's nothing to stop Hulu from bringing back characters and plots from the show's storied history. I have several theories that I've formulated by looking at both the trailer and the episode titles, but one of my hypotheses gets me far more excited than the others.
Futurama season 12, episode 5, "One is Silicon and the Other Gold," may seem like a strangely encoded title to some fans of the show, but it immediately brought to mind my favorite episode. The title is a play on a line of dialogue from Futurama season 5, episode 10, "The Farnsworth Parabox." The multiverse episode has the main members of the Futurama cast meeting various versions of themselves, but spending more time in one alternate reality than others. When the show's main Bender bids farewell to his golden counterpart, the duo share a poetic farewell.
The delivery is hilariously earnest considering the character(s) uttering their emotional goodbye(s), and it always stuck in my mind. While the line is a reference to an old folk song adapted from a 19th-century Welsh poet named Joseph Parry, Futurama season 12 could be eating its own tail with a nod to its past. If so, the "One is Silicon and the Other Gold" could mean a return to the multiverse, or at the very least, a comeback from the golden Bender from "The Farnsworth Parabox."
The decision to drop "silver" from the title and replace it with "silicon" makes me think that something will happen to Bender to account for the word being swapped out. One of my most salient theories is that Bender will become an organic, silicon-based lifeform rather than a robot. If so, it weirdly wouldn't be the first time Futurama has transformed Bender into a living being. Futurama season 4, episode 3, "Anthology of Interest, Part II," included a short story called "I, Meatbag," that showed what would happen if Bender became human.
Interestingly, the events of "I, Meatbag" and the episode at large aren't technically canon. The characters merely watch Bender's hypothetical human existence on Professor Farnsworth's "What-If Machine." So, if Bender were to transform into a silicon-based lifeform, it could have a greater impact on the larger Futurama universe. That being said, the What-If Machine is made of gold. Therefore, my theory about "One is Silicon and the Other Gold" being about Bender's transformation could also tie into Farnsworth's invention.
I love Futurama's sense of humor, and I love multiverse stories, so "The Farnsworth Parabox" is the perfect combination for me. In addition, the show has revisited other sci-fi tropes like time travel, robots, and space travel time and time again, and yet the multiverse has been used incredibly sparingly. So, addressing the multiverse concept in Futurama would be a brilliant way to honor the show's history while also essentially keeping things fresh.
There's also the matter of multiverse stories being very popular at the moment. As well as the MCU being in the middle of a huge multiverse saga, other standalone stories like Apple TV+'s Dark Matter make full use of traveling between different versions of the same world as the narrative unfolds. So, in a way, it could be argued that "The Farnsworth Parabox" was ahead of its time. That being said, multiverse stories predate the episode by a long way, but that doesn't mean Futurama season 12 shouldn't embrace the trope once again.
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