Oh I highly recommend it. Especially if you're a scifi fan. The show is written by smart geeks, basically. So not only do you get tons of Star Trek and Star Wars jokes, but you get math and science jokes too, all in the context of history and pop culture with a side of black humor.
I don't know what you know about it, but the premise is that a loser of a person, Philip J Fry, a pizza delivery boy, delivers a pizza to a science lab and gets accidentally cyrogentically frozen on New Year's Eve, 1999. He wakes up in the year 3000. basicaly, he has to adapt to all the changes so you see everything through his eyes. The best episodes focus on his past or when he tries to fit in, or when he struggles to express his feelings for one of the other characters named Leela. Most of the show is based on old scifi cliches :)
A couple of quotes:
Chief Giant Brain: Pathetic human race. Arranging their knowledge by category just made it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands! Ha ha ha ha!
Episode concerning a trip to the moon... Narrator: No one really knows when, where, or how man landed on the moon... Fry: I do! Narrator: ...but our Fungineers imagine it went something like this... [Animatronic whalers emerge from a lunar lander] Animatronic whalers: [singing] We're whalers of the moon. Animatronic gophers: We carry a harpoon. Animatronic whalers, Animatronic gophers: But there ain't no whales, so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune. Fry: That's not how it happened. Leela: I don't see you with a Fungineering degree.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Most video tapes were damaged in 2047 during the second coming of Jesus.
On a random note, all of this reminds me that I really want to watch Star Wars again.
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I don't know what you know about it, but the premise is that a loser of a person, Philip J Fry, a pizza delivery boy, delivers a pizza to a science lab and gets accidentally cyrogentically frozen on New Year's Eve, 1999. He wakes up in the year 3000. basicaly, he has to adapt to all the changes so you see everything through his eyes. The best episodes focus on his past or when he tries to fit in, or when he struggles to express his feelings for one of the other characters named Leela. Most of the show is based on old scifi cliches :)
A couple of quotes:
Chief Giant Brain: Pathetic human race. Arranging their knowledge by category just made it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands! Ha ha ha ha!
Episode concerning a trip to the moon...
Narrator: No one really knows when, where, or how man landed on the moon...
Fry: I do!
Narrator: ...but our Fungineers imagine it went something like this...
[Animatronic whalers emerge from a lunar lander]
Animatronic whalers: [singing] We're whalers of the moon.
Animatronic gophers: We carry a harpoon.
Animatronic whalers, Animatronic gophers: But there ain't no whales, so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune.
Fry: That's not how it happened.
Leela: I don't see you with a Fungineering degree.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Most video tapes were damaged in 2047 during the second coming of Jesus.
On a random note, all of this reminds me that I really want to watch Star Wars again.