Futurama. Volume one [videorecording] / [created by Matt Groening ; developed by Matt Groening, David X. Cohen ; written by David X. Cohen ... et al. ; directed by Rich Moore ... et al. ; the Curiosity Company].
Title from container. Voices, Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio ; guest stars, Tress MacNeille, Dave Herman, Kath Soucie, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr, Maurice LaMarche ; special appearances, Dick Clark, Leonard Nimoy, Pamela Anderson, Ron Popeil, Dan Castellaneta, Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz. Originally broadcast as the first 13 episodes of the television program Futurama in 1999. Region 1; Dolby digital surround; full frame. Bonus features include: full-length audio commentary on all 13 episodes; animatics, script and storyboards for the pilot episode; deleted scenes from selected episodes; behind-the-scenes featurette; concept art gallery (videos and stills).
Contents:
disc 1. Space pilot 3000 -- The series has landed -- I, roommate -- Love's labours lost in space. disc 2. Fear of a bot planet -- A fishful of dollars -- My three suns -- A big piece of garbage -- Hell is other robots. disc 3. A flight to remember -- Mars University -- When aliens attack -- Fry & the Slurm factory.
Summary:
In this sci-fi spoof, Fry, a slacker pizza delivery man, mistakenly ends up in a cryogenics lab and is accidentally frozen on New Year's Eve 1999. When he is awakened on New Year's Eve 2999, he must learn to adapt to life in the 31st century. He meets his great ... great nephew Hubert J. Farnsworth and goes to work for him at the Planet Express Corporation, a futuristic delivery service that transports packages throughout the universe. Fry, his friend Bender, an alcoholic robot, Leela, a beautiful, one-eyed alien and the ship's captain, and the rest of the crew have numerous adventures as they travel through space delivering packages.
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