Space Pilot 3000

            On March 28, 1999, "Space Pilot 3000" was aired on Fox. This is the pilot episode of Futurama, written by David X. Cohen and Matt Groening. The story revolves around a New York pizza delivery guy named Philip J. Fry, or simply, "Fry" who is also known as the "shut up and take my money" meme. Fry despises his life and on New Year's Eve of 2000, he is finally given a chance to get a new life. A new life in the future, 1000 years after, to be exact.  

            After being trapped in the cryogenic freezer for a thousand years, Fry steps into the 31st century without knowing exactly what happened to him. He realized it only after he saw the most famous indicator of "stepping into the future": flying cars. Then he meets  a purple-haired cyclop who tries to embed a microchip into his hand to designate his career. He becomes very upset at becoming a delivery boy yet again and runs away from her. This leads him to a suicide booth which he thought was a phone booth and becomes friends with a robot after barely escaping their doom. He finally reaches his nephew, Professor Farnsworth, who is also the only living relative he has. All of them are unemployed and branded as fugitives of the law which forces them to ride Professor Farnsworth's spaceship to escape the police on their tails. The episode ends with Fry becoming a delivery boy as his career again...and he took the news with a big grin on his face.

            Futurama also shows glimpses of different futuristic equipments: heads who could talk inside jars, intergalactic spaceship, and the public transportation called ET3 (Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies) which are vacuum tubes found around the city and gets you in places much faster than subways or cars.

            Futurama portrays a future where humans can enjoy different kinds of technology. Regarding the method used for time travelling, the cryogenic freezing is definitely the best one out there. Cryogenic freezing has been said to be the "real" time travel method as it has been experimented on some animals, most of which were successful. If we wait long enough, we might not even notice that we have reached "the future."

Work Cited:

Space Pilot 3000- The Infosphere, The Futurama Wiki. n.d. (2014, January 13). Retrieved from The Infosphere, The Futurama Wiki: http://theinfosphere.org/Space_Pilot_3000#cite_ref-com-mg-timemachine_0-0

BALIGNASA, Catherine S.

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Section: THX