Futurama Is Still Helping Us Face The Future
We didn’t know it would be the last gasp of ‘90s optimism; all we knew was that, on this day in 1999, Philip J. Fry was cryogenically frozen, and creator Matt Groening gave us an iconic series with a staying power that’s rivaled that of The Simpsons.
Futurama followed delivery boy and classic lovable idiot Fry on his adventures in New New York 1,000 years in the future, a world unrecognizable to our own, yet not terribly different either. To rewatch the pilot and the early seasons that followed is to risk a few nostalgic pains along with the laughs, since indicators of all that ‘90s excitement for the new millennium are rampant.
