Episodes have revealed more about the backstories of its characters while bringing backsupporting characters from early seasons ofFuturama.
Both shows are sardonic approaches to specific genres, focusing on the growth of unscrupulous characters into better people.
While sinking further away from their own reality, the Planet Express Ship passes by several different realities.
However, this doesn’t meanFuturamaandDisenchantmentare connected through a single timeline, as some theories argue.
Conversely, the absurd technological advances and alien species ofFuturamaalso likely can’t threaten the fantasy realm ofDisenchantment.
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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.
Simpsons and Futurama creator Matt Groening dabbles into fantasy with Disenchantment, an animated satirical television series created for Netflix. The show follows disheveled and rebellious princess Bean and her partners in crime, an elf named Elfo and a demon named Luci. Bean’s quest to avoid her royal duties involves copious amounts of alcohol, compromising situations, and more as she slowly finds herself in the unlikely heroine role.
