Futurama
Warning: Spoilers ahead forFuturamaseason 12, episode 3, “The Temp.”
As a result, it becomes difficult to gauge how much time has passed overall.
The passage of time inFuturamais generally quite linear.
The in-universe year of each episode largely depends on when it first aired.
Similarly, it’s 3024 in “The Temp,” because it first aired in 2024.
This is fine most of the time, as it’s nothing new in animated sitcoms.
It lets more stories be told without having to worry about character lifespans and the general progression of life.
Instead, it’s one of those odd scenarios that just have to be accepted.
Farnsworth bids Fry farewell by saying, “Enjoy Amazonia!”
Futurama follows the exploits of Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy from 1999 who is cryogenically frozen for 1000 years. Waking up in the year 3000, Fry befriends a cyclops named Leela and a roguish robot named Bender, and the three find employment with Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery service. Their work takes them to all corners of the universe, exploring space and the future as imagined by Matt Groening and the creators of The Simpsons.
Without it, Fry would never have made it to the future in the first place.
As a result, the same confusing experience that happens in “The Temp” is prevented from happening.
