Futurama Cast Answer The 50 Most Googled Futurama Questions

Why does Hermes hate Zoidberg?

Good question, why?

Why do you hate me so much?

'Cause you are a stinky lobster.

[beep]

Hi, there.

Phil Lamar, the voice of Hermes Conrad.

Hi, I'm Lauren Tom and spleesh, I play Amy,

and I also play my mom.

Hi, Billy West, the voice of Philip J. Fry,

pizza delivery boy

and Professor Hubert Farnsworth, 147-year-old [groaning]

and the voice of Zapp Brannigan.

Now everybody go take a nap

and improve the quality of life around here, won't you, eh?

And we're gonna try and answer the most Googled questions

about our show Futurama.

I hope there's something to eat in this box.

[all laughing]

[upbeat music]

Are Futurama and the Simpsons made by the same people?

Yes. Yes, Matt Groening

and a bunch of Harvard alumni.

Exactly, I don't know why the geniuses

are always kind of shy and sweet,

but that's what it seems like anyway.

Well, I wish people this smart made more movies.

Exactly. I wish all of society

was like that.

How about that?

Here's one.

Are Fry and Leela married.

I think they did get married, yes?

Absolutely they did.

Finally, yes, after going through so much romance

and so many ups and downs,

and you don't need two eyes just to be married.

Right, how is Fry related to the Professor?

Well, he's the great, great, great, great, great, great,

[Phil] great, forever great. Uncle.

Nephew, great nephew.

Fry is older than the professor though.

Which year is Futurama currently in?

Isn't it a thousand years from this year?

Yes, which is.

Oh, is that right? So it would be 3000.

3025?

Well, we started. Oh, that's right.

The show in 1999,

And the first episode was in 3099.

Wait, '99, but I got married in 97.

No, I'm sorry, it was 2999.

Okay. Right before,

and new year was 3000.

Okay. We're not math majors.

Something like that.

We didn't go to Harvard.

No. [Phil laughing]

Okay.

Why don't you read it?

What's Amy Wong's Home Planet?

Oh, thank God I know one.

Mars, we own half of it.

Her family owns half of Mars.

They own a herd of buggalo.

It must be nice. Yeah, and it's,

and it's interesting in Futurama,

Mars is where people with good money live,

not just green people.

[Lauren laughing]

Yes, and there's also, it's the home of Mars University.

Yes, the best school

that's like the Harvard of the universe, right?

[Phil laughing]

How did Hermes lose his body?

Doing limbo under swords.

Is that right? Mm hmm.

Oh, my God, I blocked that out.

Yeah. Wow.

He got, cut him, and then got his head cut off.

Seriously? Oh my God.

But he got it back though, right?

Yeah.

Okay. In the next episode

or at the end of that episode?

In the end of that episode. Okay, good.

Yeah, we can't let anything happen to him.

No. What instrument

does Fry try to learn?

I think, well it was an instrument,

a really cool looking instrument called the Holophonor,

and what it does is it plays notes that become visuals.

Oh, I love that. It's very beautiful,

very psychedelic, and he wants to demonstrate his love

through music and notes and visuals for Leela

who missed the whole thing.

And yes, it was all for nothing.

Like most love I've ever known.

No, come on now. [Phil laughing]

What's the title of the first episode?

Uh oh, I need help.

Ah, the title of the first episode was Space Pilot 3000.

Is that right?

Okay, very good, Phil.

The series has landed.

And it's probably more about Fry

wanting to be a pilot in space

as opposed to just referring to the first episode of a show.

Right, right.

And that was a long time ago.

And we watched that pilot at the Observatory.

That's right, it was so beautiful.

They screened it on the ceiling,

and we all just like laid back and watched.

It was just, it was such a magical night.

Ah, that's for you Phil.

This question was, does Hermes eat

more than just Manwiches?

Yeah. Be careful.

Of course. Like what?

He eats lots of other things.

I mean, 'cause his wife cooks well.

That's right.

Does he eat. La Barbara?

Yeah. Does he eat jerk chicken?

Yeah.

How about jerk pork? Yeah.

Do you like that in real life?

Yeah. Well, I don't have

his hair or his stuff. [Lauren laughing]

I don't, I don't eat like my cartoon character.

No?

Where is Fry from?

Well, he appears to be from New York City.

Right.

At least that's where he lived

when he was delivering pizzas,

but I think his family might be from.

That's even where he went to school in eight.

Yeah. His personality

seems more like Midwest to me. Old New York.

Like down to earth, you know, just so down to earth.

He's all over the place, and he's kind of needy,

but his heart's in the right place.

How old is Leela?

Never tell a thing like that.

I don't know, she looked like, when he first met her,

she looked like she was about 30 maybe.

Yeah. Yeah.

Still a baby.

How old is the Professor? Ah that one,

we might actually know.

Now we talked about this.

He's 147, but he's older now

because that's how old he was when we started.

Right, right, he was 147 in 2999.

Okay, how did Futurama start?

It started in the mind of Matt Groening.

Yeah.

I remember in 1964 or five,

I went to the New York World's Fair,

and I rode on a ride called the Futurama.

Oh really? And that's where the name

of the show came from.

Oh. Really?

Oh wow. Yeah, it was

General Motors had a ride called Futurama.

Did you talk to Matt about that?

Oh sure. Oh!

Wow. And I remember

riding on it when I was about 11,

and it showed you what the future was gonna look like.

Boy, did they lie?

Boy, were they wrong.

Damn, I wish I'd Googled that.

How rich is Fry?

Well, he's been super rich.

He was, when? Because he had

some sardines or anchovies rather.

Oh. That were worth

tons of money in the future.

I forgot that. Right.

Who ordered the pizza?

Ah, I know.

Who?

You mean at the place where he got frozen?

Where, yeah, in the cryogenics lab.

Oh.

Pizza delivery for Icy Wiener.

Oh yeah! Oh my gosh, I can't.

Icy Wiener.

It was a prank.

Ladies and gentlemen, here's the first person

to memorize his cartoon script.

[Lauren laughing]

Who is Agnew?

Well, if anybody knows their history,

he was Nixon's vice president.

Oh. But he's the headless body

of Agnew in the show.

So I don't know how he growls.

He growls like Frankenstein. [Billy growling]

[Phil laughing]

I do Richard Nixon in the show,

and I don't sound anything like him.

I'm like, [Billy growling]

but I saw the debate between Nixon and Kennedy in 1962.

And Kennedy looked like a game show host.

And Nixon looked like a sweat hog.

He was sweating and his hair was matted,

and they did extreme closeups.

And you could see the hair growing out of his pores.

He was like, I wanna be President of the United States

because, [Billy growling]

and I said to my mom,

mom, he looks like he's gonna turn into a werewolf.

[Phil laughing]

And so that's why I howl like a werewolf doing Nixon.

[Billy growling]

I am Richard M. Nixon, President of Earth.

And [Billy growling and howling]

That bastard drafted me in 1980 by the way, in 1980, 1970.

And to this very day in the Nixon Library

runs a continuous loop of all the Nixon stuff

I did on Futurama, in his library.

So I won. Ah!

What Olympic sport did Hermes compete in?

He did the Olympics, he did limbo.

Of course he did.

How did he do?

Hmm, he did really good. Yeah?

Well, he was almost there up against the bigger guy.

But hopefully in the future

that will be added to the Olympics.

Chuck that for us.

Chuck it. Yay!

Oh hey.

Oh shoot, I'm gonna need help.

What is Amy's obscene tattoo?

Do you guys know?

I only have one?

I didn't know she had a tattoo.

What is it?

Do I have two?

Gimme a hint.

Slippery when wet. No.

No.

[Interviewer] Part of the running gag

is that we never actually see what it is.

Oh!

So that's just for me to know and you to find out.

And she knows more about the show than we do.

How do you feel now?

Ah, good.

So I don't have to answer that, do I?

How long can humans live?

Well-- In Futurama?

I mean. A long time.

Long time. On Mars?

Well, how old is the Professor

when Fry gets to the future? 147 years old.

So in a thousand years, we'll all live hundreds of years.

As long as you eat dog food.

[all laughing]

Turns out dog food is a health food in the future.

No, not, I don't know.

I'm just making stuff up.

Is Leela an alien or a mutant?

She's a mutant. Right, she calls herself

an alien, but she's actually a mutant.

Yes, and. Which is why

her family lives underground.

And that's why she's a cyclops.

Her family is, they're the nicest people.

They just look really weird.

But, you know, who's to judge?

I already, I already told you why Nixon howls.

Why does Nixon howl? I howl

because I have big jowls. [Billy growling]

Why is he called Bender?

Because he bends things.

Well, because he was programmed

to bend things. Bend, yeah.

Constructively.

He's Mexican actually, he was made in Mexico.

Right. HO in Mexico.

He, um. Yes, with the help

of inspector number five.

Right, you have to know the show.

It runs all the time.

You can sleep to it.

Or perhaps he's called Bender.

'cause in Matt Groening's other show,

there was a character named Homer.

So there's gotta be a character

that people are gonna love whose name ends with er.

How many kids does Bender have?

Who the hell knows?

I don't know.

None, right?

[buzzer rings]

Does he have any?

He doesn't breed.

This is for you, lovely.

Oh, this question is, how did Hermes get his groove back?

Well, 'cause he was facing problems

with the bureaucracy organization.

He tried to straighten them out

and taught them that when push comes to shove,

you gotta do what you love,

even if it's not a good idea.

You requisitioned your groove back.

Right. That's right.

That's right. What does the

J stand for in Fry's name?

John? I don't know

if it was ever addressed.

I do know that it's a longstanding cartoon tradition

to give a character the initial J.

Really? Yeah,

like Rocket J. Squirrel.

Oh. Homer J. Simpson.

Bullwinkle J. Moose.

Philip J. Fry.

It's a, you know, a cartoon thing.

You wouldn't understand. [Phil and Lauren laughing]

What ancient civilization did Bender become Pharaoh of?

Yipes, yipes, yipes.

I feel like I have to go download that episode

to answer that question.

Amazonia?

I feel embarrassed because I don't remember.

I don't remember. I'm old.

What do you want?

What is the Nibbler's species secret power?

You got me on that one.

I don't know. Why don't you help me?

You see me sitting here dying. [Lauren laughing]

[Interviewer] He can wipe people's minds.

Secret power?

Oh. He what Nibblican.

Wipe people's minds.

He can read white people's minds.

[all laughing]

I wish I could do that.

[all laughing]

What mathematical principle was made for Futurama?

I don't know anything about math.

We'd have to ask David X. Cohen.

Yeah, we'd have to ask David X. Cohen.

He's our math genius. [buzzer sounding]

Should I call him?

He has a math club that meets once a week

and they just solve problems.

What are you doing?

I was looking for my phone. Oh.

To call David X. Cohen. This isn't phone a friend.

We don't have that here.

Oh, we don't have? No.

What was the original title for Futurama?

Hmm.

You said it was named Wasn't it always

just Futurama? After that ride.

That was the name of the ride,

and that's the name of the show.

But I don't know what the original title of the show was.

Simpsons in Space? No.

No.

I love that you went to all this trouble

to make these cards that we're just

They looks so nice. Throwing on the floor.

Where does Fry work?

He delivers pizzas.

He works at Panucci's Pizza.

Planet Express.

Oh, but in the future

he delivers things to people in a spaceship.

Oh, he works for the Planet Express.

Planet Express.

Thank you. That was an easy one.

What if Fry stayed in the past?

I don't know what if any of us stayed.

He'd be in a bad mood

'cause he was not happy about his life.

No, he was not. Back in the past

before he froze.

No, he was not.

And what if I stayed in the past?

I don't know.

But if I had done anything different,

none of us would be here.

That's right. How many times

has he died, Fry?

Oh gosh, I don't know.

I don't know the answer to that.

Do you?

Has he ever?

[Interviewer] At least 22 times.

What, really?

[buzzer rings]

Yeah, I like that.

That does seem like a lot.

Wow. I like that.

What does Scruffy read?

Oh, I think he'd read girly magazines.

Right, some girly magazine.

Yeah, he reads girly magazines.

Well, good for him.

Good for him.

He's not one of our best employees.

Is Zoidberg ever a good doctor?

No.

Define good. But,

and he's definitely never a well paid doctor.

No, and I think the funniest thing about him

is that he's a doctor, and he's poor.

That's hellaciously funny. And an alien

and working on bodies differently than his planet.

Yes, that's hellaciously funny to me,

that he's a doctor and he's poor.

I never met a poor doctor in my life.

It's probably cause he gets paid in food, not money.

What role does Kif play in Zapp's missions?

Well, Kif is sort of a.

Second in command, right?.

A second in command, under officer,

an errand boy, you know, just.

My Kiffy.

Yeah, he gets demeaned by Zapp Brannigan,

who is lout, deliciously stupid.

He's very much fun to play because he's that way.

Who killed Agnew?

Nah, I don't know.

[buzzer dings]

I don't remember.

Oh, you can, you can, this is a big reveal.

You tell us what this.

Oh, this question. Wait till you hear this.

This question is, why does Hermes hate Zoidberg?

Good question, why?

Why do you hate me so much?

Because you are a stinky lobster.

Well, he doesn't, I don't think he hates Zoidberg,

but he just doesn't like Zoidberg.

Nobody likes Zoidberg.

I like Zoidberg.

Don't lie to Zoidberg.

Nobody, I said.

They only liked the stupid fryer, the robot.

Yeah, Amy wasn't even gonna marry him.

That's true.

I had a girlfriend, but she couldn't smell.

That's why I had a girlfriend.

Yeah, Hermes has problems with Zoidbergs

because he's an inefficient employee.

There'd be no drama.

You know, we need that stuff.

We need the through lines

and the emotional resonance between the characters.

Do I sound like I know what I'm talking about?

[Lauren laughing]

Always.

Those are all the questions.

Can I keep this? [cross talking]

Why, you gonna put your lunch in it?

Yes.

I just wanna take the lighting home with me.

I wish I could just walk around with that.

I wanna find a food truck.

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