'Futurama' Is Back To Be Back Baby In New Trailer For Hulu Revival
The new ten episode season premieres July 24
Shut up and take our attention (and money). Fry and Leela and the rest of the Planet Express crew are on their way back around again. As hinted before the weekend and promised on Monday, Hulu released the first trailer for the latest Futurama revival, production season 8A, broadcast season 11.
The trailer starts with the arrival at Fulu’s offices, immediately cutting to what is probably Fry welcoming Leela to their new apartment which probably isn’t in Fulu but edited to make it seem that way. They also abuse the guard as they enter. After Bender ends up on the Planet Express ship windshield, the meta nature of how nothing will have changed physically in the ten years since the show last ended will be addressed. Similar to the demise of the Box Network executives in Bender’s Big Score or the “comedy central channel” of the Panama Wormhole in “Rebirth”, and it seems to involve a mishap in extensive work on the forwards time machine from “The Late Philip J. Fry”, but the exact straightforward details will come when the episode releases. The crew is even fighting alongside Fry’s egg salad sandwich parasites in what is most definitely “Parasites Regained”.
There are explosions, ejections, invasions and would you look at that? The new COVID variant just dropped! Yeah “Rage of the Vaccine” gets an easily identifiable segment, followed by “How the West Was 1010001”, which actually brings cryptocurrency and the blockchain along. The sandworm shows up too. There are a bunch more out-of-context scenes that are difficult to pinpoint their source episodes. We do get to see Fry and Leela try to get cozy in the creepy presence of Mom’s Alexa-equivalent device, which is nice. A new poster has also been released.
The entire cast is returning, including Billy West as Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, and Dr. Zoidberg; Katey Sagal as Leela; John DiMaggio as Bender, Tress MacNeille as Mom; Maurice LaMarche as Kif and Morbo; Lauren Tom as Amy; Phil LaMarr as Hermes; and David Herman as Scruffy. Basically, everybody’s back, but the only change is Billy West has relinquished Leo Wong. Created by Matt Groening and developed by him and David X. Cohen, Futurama originally ran on Fox for four production seasons and 72 episodes from 1999-2003. It was first revived for four direct-to-video films from 2007 to 2009, leading to 2 seasons and 52 episodes from 2010 to 2013 on Comedy Central. Hulu announced its revival last February, and the season premieres on July 24. Season 8B aka broadcast season 12 will also be ten episodes and stream in 2024. Watch the trailer below.
