Space Pilot 3000 (1999)

Directed by

Gregg Vanzo, Rich Moore

Country

United States

Runtime

22 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A pizza delivery guy named Philip J. Fry is cryogenically frozen and wakes up in the year 3000. He meets new friends and explores a strange future world full of robots and aliens.

quirkyhumoroussci-fiwhimsicalfast-pacednostalgicwittysatirical

What happens

"Space Pilot 3000" is the pilot episode and series premiere of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 28, 1999. The episode focuses on the cryogenic freezing of the series protagonist, Philip J. Fry, and the events when he awakens 1,000 years in the future and is the first episode to be set in the 30th century. Series regulars are introduced and the futuristic setting, inspired by a variety of classic science fiction series from The Jetsons to Star Trek, is revealed. It also sets the stage for many of the events to follow in the series, foreshadowing plot points from the third and fourth seasons. The episode was written by series creators and developers David X. Cohen and Matt Groening, and directed by Rich Moore and Gregg Vanzo. Dick Clark and Leonard Nimoy guest starred as themselves. The episode received generally positive reviews with reviewers noting that while the episode started slow, the series merited further viewing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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