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This is a weird one. It looks distinctly familiar to one Simpsons. No wonder about that, thecreator (Matt Groening) produced this too. The series begins with Philip J. Fry, a New York City slacker and pizza delivery guy, who cryogenically freezes himself by accident on New Year’s Eve, 1999. He is defrosted one thousand years later on New Year’s Eve, 2999, and finds himself in New New York City. Fry thinks he has a chance at a new life, only to get himself permanently assigned a career as a delivery boy.

Fry’s attempts to escape from his now-mandatory job assignment end at Planet Express, a small intergalactic package delivery company run by his distantly descended nephew, where he is hired on as a delivery boy. The series covers the adventures of Fry and his colleagues as they travel around the universe making deliveries on behalf of Planet Express.

The futuristic time frame allowed the show’s writers to be creative with their humor by introducing ideas and events from pulp science fiction of the mid 20th century into the series.