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"I, Roommate" is the third episode in the first season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 6, 1999. The title of the episode is a reference to collected short stories written between 1940 and 1950 by author Isaac Asimov titled I, Robot.
Philip J. Fry (voiced by Billy West), primarily known by his surname Fry, is the main protagonist of the series.He is a 20th-century pizza delivery boy in New York City who, after getting dumped by his girlfriend and being stuck in a dead-end job, is cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999, waking up 1000 years later just before the year 3000.
Professor Farnsworth is voiced by Billy West, using a combination of impressions of Burgess Meredith and Frank Morgan. [5] West has stated that the voice for Farnsworth is meant to be a bit shaky and that when developing the voice he came up with "a combination of all the wizard-type characters you heard when you were a kid, Burgess Meredith and Frank Morgan in The Wizard of Oz."
Radiorama is a special podcast episode of Futurama made for the Nerdist Podcast to help promote Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow reuniting the entire Futurama cast as well as special guest star Chris Hardwick as the villain, Klaxxon. The podcast was released on September 14, 2017. The episode was written by David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler and Patric M ...
Broadcast of old episodes began in September 2011. [103] On September 19, 2011, WGN America began re-running Futurama, carrying it until 2014. [104] Futurama doubled its viewership in syndication in 2012. [105] Due to the uncertain future of the series, there have been four designated series finales.
Philip J. Fry, commonly known mononymously by his surname Fry, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the animated series Futurama.He is voiced by Billy West using a version of his own voice as he sounded when he was 25.
The third season of Futurama began airing on January 21, 2001 and concluded after 22 episodes on December 8, 2002. The entire season is included within the Volume Three DVD box set, which was released on March 9, 2004. The complete 22 episodes of the season have been released on a box set called Futurama: Volume Three, on DVD and VHS.
Sean Gandert of Paste rated the episode a 7.1. While he found the eyePhone jokes to be clever, he refers to the Boil plotline as "a horrifically stupid joke that dominates and largely ruins the second part of the episode". [5] The episode is the origin of the "shut up and take my money" meme. [6] [7] [8]