The plot of which animated sit-com revolves around the employees of the 'Planet Express' delivery company?
"Three Hundred Big Boys ""Three Hundred Big Boys"" is the sixteenth episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series ""Futurama"". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on June 15, 2003. Set in a retro-futuristic 31st century, the series follows the adventures of the employees of Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company. In this episode, Earth president Richard Nixon issues every citizen with a $300 tax rebate; the Planet Express crew each ponder how they shall spend their money. The episode was inspired by ""22 Short Films About Springfield"", an episode of ""The"
"and joins Fry and Bender as job deserters. The three track down Professor Farnsworth, founder of an intergalactic delivery company called Planet Express. With the help of Professor Farnsworth, the three evade the police by launching the ""Planet Express Ship"" at the stroke of midnight amid the New Year's fireworks. As the year 3000 begins, Farnsworth hires the three as the crew of his ship. Fry inquires at what his job is, and learns that he will be traveling into space and throughout the universe ... as a delivery boy. Fry, ironically, cheers at his new job. While the plot"
"Love and Rocket ""Love and Rocket"" is the third episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series ""Futurama"". It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 10, 2002. The show is a Valentine's Day-themed episode that centers on Bender's relationship with the artificial intelligence of the ""Planet Express Ship"". The subplot involves Fry trying to express his feelings for Leela thorough the use of Valentine's Day candy. The episode parodies """". A few days before Valentine's Day, the Planet Express crew tries to land a delivery contract with Romanticorp, a company that"
"Planet Express staff decide to decorate for what is now called Xmas, which includes cutting down an Xmas tree (which are now palm trees, since pine trees are extinct). Fry’s moping about his first Xmas without his family unknowingly agitates Leela, who has not felt happy about Xmas since she was an orphan, and storms off in tears. When the others call him out on his mistake, Fry goes to buy a present to cheer Leela up. They warn him to be back before sundown, or else he will be killed by a murderous robotic Santa Claus. In the year"
"Professor Farnsworth Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, or simply Professor, is a fictional character in the American animated television series ""Futurama"". Farnsworth is the mad scientist proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service, for whom the main characters work. He is the great (×30) nephew of Philip J. Fry, the series' protagonist. He alternates between intelligence and amoral senility due to his greatly advanced age. He demonstrates a mastery of any field of science necessary for the series' plots, and is suggested to be one of the most brilliant inventors on Earth. However, he falls asleep constantly, and he is implied"
"and seeking quiet from her disruptive crewmates, Leela takes the Planet Express ship elsewhere to write. She returns to the orphanarium with her story at the same time as Abner Doubledeal, CEO of the TV station ""Tickleodeon"", comes to pitch new television shows to the children. The orphans are unimpressed with the new shows, but they enjoy Leela's new story, called ""Rumbledy-Hump"" and using colourful characters and morals, prompting Doubledeal to persuade Leela to write an educational children's television series based on her story. ""Rumbledy-Hump"", which is filmed in the Planet Express building and performed by Leela and the crew,"
"written by Ken Keeler, based on a story by Keeler and David X. Cohen, and directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill. Special appearances include Coolio as Kwanzaa-bot, Al Gore as himself, Mark Hamill as Chanukah Zombie, Tom Kenny as Fry's older brother Yancy, and Sarah Silverman returning as Fry's ex-girlfriend Michelle (having previously voiced the role in ""The Cryonic Woman""). Two years after Box Network executives canceled Planet Express' contract, the executives are fired and Planet Express is back ""on the air."" As the crew celebrates, Hermes is decapitated, causing his wife LaBarbara to leave him. His head is placed in a"
"satellite. His idea is to infect his pet guinea pig with the cold virus and see if can be cured by exposure to cosmic rays. A rival competitor, Josh Gedgie, learns of Fry's entry and decides to create an experiment about the common cold as well. In the present day, the pathogens of the cold are detected and Planet Express is quarantined. Bender, who is immune to biological illness and forced to take care of the sick crew, becomes exasperated and breaks through the quarantine after being sneezed on by Zoidberg, spreading the virus across Manhattan. Richard Nixon becomes concerned"
"new jobs, Fry, Leela, and Bender are introduced to the other Planet Express employees: Doctor John A. Zoidberg, intern Amy Wong, and bureaucrat Hermes Conrad. It becomes apparent that the ship needs a captain, and Leela is chosen. On their first mission, a delivery to the Moon, Fry undergoes severe culture shock. No longer a daring voyage of exploration, lunar travel has become a day trip to an amusement park called Luna Park. By the 31st century, the actual details of Project Apollo are lost and have been replaced by musicals about whalers on the moon and goofy gophers. This"
"Issue #82 was distributed via the Futuramaland app, and will not be physically printed. In the year 3000, the crew of the Planet Express delivery company make cargo shipments to unusual planets, as well as having adventures back on Earth. The main characters include Philip J. Fry, a slacker from the 20th century who was cryogenically frozen for 1,000 years, cycloptic ship captain Leela, and an alcohol-fueled, troublemaking robot Bender. The comic will often make more use of supporting or minor characters than the series, such as Zapp Brannigan, Cubert Farnsworth, the Robot Devil and Inez Wong. Each issue consists"
"with her ability to pilot the ""Planet Express Ship"" (beyond crashing into the odd billboard) or her mastery of martial arts. She is very athletic and in great physical condition, with most males (of any species) unable to match her in physical combat. Originally a career placement officer for new defrostees at a cryogenics lab in the year 2999, Leela quit her job after meeting Philip J. Fry, a defrostee from 1999, and Bender, a high-tech job-deserting girder bending robot. Together they are employed as the crew for Planet Express, an intergalactic delivery business run by Hubert J. Farnsworth. Leela"
"all three segments. Coolio reprises his role as Kwanzaabot in the third segment. Series producer David X. Cohen has compared the episode to ""The Simpsons"" ""Treehouse of Horror"" series. Robot Santa attacks the Planet Express building on Xmas Eve, explaining in song how the holiday should be celebrated. The crew are inspired to revive the pine tree, which became extinct in the 2200's with seeds from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. However, the seeds have been contaminated by a biological weapons repository neighboring the vault, causing pine trees to grow and spread at a rapid rate until they cover the"
"Planet Express crew takes a trip to the local shopping mall. Trying to buy the product he saw in his dreams, Fry realizes he is broke. At the same time, Bender is arrested for shoplifting. As the crew scrounges up bail money, Fry notices that the bank where he used to have an account has remained in business. He still has his ATM card and remembers his PIN code: the price of a cheese pizza and large soda at Panucci's Pizza, where he used to work. The account had contained 93 cents in 1999, but after accruing interest at 2.25%"
"comic. In the episode ""Love and Rocket"" the ""Planet Express Ship"" is equipped with a personality unit which allows it to speak and interact with the crew. The ship is voiced by Sigourney Weaver in what executive producer David X. Cohen described as ""a pretty abstract role."" During the episode the ""Planet Express Ship"" and Bender begin dating. This situation presented many challenges for the production staff, particularly a difficulty in portraying emotions between the two beings because they were so different in size. Even with this concern, Cohen jokes that Weaver's performance as a spaceship was ""moving."" Much of"
"animated series won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series for this episode. On stardate 6063.4, following a signal from a mysterious probe, the Federation starship ""Enterprise"" is immobilized by an alien whose ship resembles a winged serpent. The alien claims to be Kukulkan, god of the ancient Maya and Aztec peoples of Earth. He says that he is actually a very long-lived, benevolent entity who wants the humans to worship him, as the Mayas and Aztecs did. Upon resistance by the crew, he proclaims them ""thankless"". Kukulkan transports Captain Kirk, Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy, Chief Engineer Scott"
"crew to recover two of each kind of animal native to the planet for breeding purposes à la Noah's Ark. As the crew arrives in the Vergon system, they find a security cordon put in place around the planet by the starship Nimbus, which Leela recognizes as the flagship of famed space captain Zapp Brannigan. Upon docking with the ship and coming aboard, the Planet Express crew meet Zapp and his long-suffering executive officer, Lieutenant Kif Kroker. Though Leela is initially flattered to meet Zapp, relations later turn sour when Zapp rejects Leela's request for help in saving the animals"
"enigmatic television commercial. Annoyed, Zoidberg sells his stock to That Guy for a sandwich, exclaiming, ""Net gain for Zoidberg!"". After draining the company's funds and its employees' morale, That Guy announces that he is selling Planet Express to Mom. The takeover begins at the orbiting Intergalactic Stock Exchange, and all the Planet Express employees vote against it. Unfortunately, the stock That Guy bought from Zoidberg gave him a controlling interest and That Guy outvotes them. Mom and her sons vote for the merger. However, before the final approval takes place, That Guy abruptly succumbs to a lethal attack of boneitis,"
"Neutopia (Futurama) ""Neutopia"" is the twentieth episode of the sixth season of the animated sitcom ""Futurama"", and the premiere of Season 6-B. It is the twentieth episode of the sixth season in production order, and the 108th episode in broadcast order. It aired on Comedy Central in the United States on June 23, 2011. Planet Express faces foreclosure and to raise money, Professor Farnsworth, Fry, Bender, Zoidberg, Hermes and Scruffy take advantage of a contract clause to force Leela, Amy, and LaBarbara to pose for a pin-up calendar. This plan does not work out, so the company converts into a"
"and again [the creators] hit on some clever high jinks."" Writing for the ""Lakeland Ledger"", Evan Levine thought that the show had a promising premise, but thought that its humor was mean-spirited. The Brothers Flub The Brothers Flub is an animated television series produced by Sunbow Entertainment and co-produced by Ravensburger. It aired in the United States of America on the television network Nickelodeon. The show's title characters are a pair of alien brothers named Guapo and Fraz, both of whom work as couriers, who travel throughout their universe to deliver packages to a different planet in each episode of"
"unable to retrieve the ice, the Earth is forced to search for other ways to solve their global warming problem. In 2003, the episode was nominated for an Environmental Media Award. On Earth, the days are getting hotter and hotter. The crew, looking for an explanation, watch an old movie about global warming. The film explains a temporary solution for global warming was found by dropping a mountainous slab of ice into the ocean on a regular basis to cool it. The Planet Express crew is assigned the task of gathering a new slab of ice to drop in the"
"seed contamination grow out of control. The second segment is based on ""Robanukah"" (a holiday based on Chanukah, made-up by Bender to avoid work), in which Bender leads the crew on a search for petroleum oil in order for him to celebrate the holiday. In the third and final segment, the Planet Express crew go in search of beeswax, in order to create traditional beeswax candles for Kwanzaa. Each segment features recurring elements, including an environmental theme, a song, and the segment ending with the characters dying. Al Gore reprises his role as his own head in a jar in"
"his messy instincts. Fry is promoted to Executive Delivery Boy, and no longer goes on actual deliveries. After Bender discovers the illicit affair and tries to blackmail them, Morgan downloads his personality and intelligence to a floppy disk, turning him into a mindless drone. She then sends the disk off to the Central Bureaucracy for filing. Hermes discovers Spa 5 is actually a forced labor camp, and begins to use his natural managerial skills to reorganize the camp for efficiency, to the torment of his fellow workers. The rest of the Planet Express staff infiltrate the Central Bureaucracy in order"
"combination of St. Elmo's fire and Tickle Me Elmo, a popular children's toy from the 1990s. Right before the episode ends, while the Planet Express crew and others, who have emerged from the space whale, are off screen, apparently killing it, Zoidberg is approached by Candy, who seductively hints at a past relationship; Zoidberg runs a comb through his hair and styles it the same way as The Fonz, and ends the episode with his famous catchphrase, ""Aaaay!"" ""Möbius Dick"" originally aired on August 4, 2011 on Comedy Central. In its original American broadcast, ""Möbius Dick"" was viewed by an"
"four featured in the ""Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection"", indicating it is one of Matt Groening's four favorite episodes. In 2013, it was ranked number 8 ""as voted on by fans"" for Comedy Central's Futurama Fanarama marathon. The Sting (Futurama) ""The Sting"" is the twelfth episode of season four of the American animated television series ""Futurama"". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on June 1, 2003. In the episode, the Planet Express crew is sent to collect space honey, and find themselves in a harrowing battle with giant bees. The episode's plot originated from the"
"safely. After the match, the Planet Express crew recovers Fry believing him to have fully transformed into an insect by the liquid. But soon, the insect shell cracks open revealing a delirious and still human Fry inside. Zack Handlen of ""The A.V. Club"" gave the episode a ""B-"", describing it as, ""passable, but not particularly inspiring."" The Butterjunk Effect ""The Butterjunk Effect"" is the sixth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom ""Futurama"". It originally aired on Comedy Central on July 18, 2012. The episode was written by Michael Rowe and directed by Crystal Chesney-Thompson. The Planet Express"
"Fry and Leela deliver the crate, barely surviving a gang battle between the Blips and the Cruds, the two main gangs on the planet. They return to the ship only to find that thieves have bot-jacked Bender, having made off with all of his body except his eyes and mouth. Bender's RoJack leads the police to the chop-shop of Yuri, who provides them a list of the buyers of Bender's parts. The Planet Express crew search the galaxy and find all of the parts except for Bender's ass, which turns out to have been on the freighter Floatwell when it"
"The Brothers Flub The Brothers Flub is an animated television series produced by Sunbow Entertainment and co-produced by Ravensburger. It aired in the United States of America on the television network Nickelodeon. The show's title characters are a pair of alien brothers named Guapo and Fraz, both of whom work as couriers, who travel throughout their universe to deliver packages to a different planet in each episode of the series. It ran from January 17, 1999 until January 8, 2000. ""The Brothers Flub"" takes place in outer space. The show's title refers to its two central characters: a pair of"
"Möbius Dick (Futurama) ""Möbius Dick"" is the fifteenth episode of the sixth season of the animated sitcom ""Futurama"", and originally aired August 4, 2011 on Comedy Central. The episode was written by Dan Vebber and directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill. In the episode, the Planet Express crew pass through an area in space known as the Bermuda Tetrahedron, where many other ships passing through the area have mysteriously disappeared, including that of the first Planet Express crew. While exploring the area, a mysterious four-dimensional space whale devours the ship's engine, leaving them stranded in the area. The ship's captain, Leela, becomes"
"realizing that there are no further scientific questions to answer. Fry cheers him up by saying that he has yet to solve ""why"" the laws of the universe are what they are and not something else, thus giving scientists a reason to keep looking for answers about the universe. The third and final segment is drawn in an anime style. A race of gelatinous aliens who can only communicate through body language is angered by the destruction of the diamondium comet, which they worship as a god, and attack Earth in retaliation. The Planet Express crew attempts to relay a"
"plans to show a larger conspiracy behind Fry's journey to the future. In the movie """", it is revealed that the spacecraft seen destroying the city while Fry is frozen are piloted by Bender and those chasing him after he steals the Nobel Peace Prize. At the end of the episode, Professor Farnsworth offers Fry, Leela and Bender the Planet Express delivery crew positions. The professor produces the previous crew's career chips from an envelope labeled ""Contents of Space Wasp's Stomach"". In a later episode, ""The Sting"", the crew encounters the ship of the previous crew in a space beehive."
"The Sting (Futurama) ""The Sting"" is the twelfth episode of season four of the American animated television series ""Futurama"". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on June 1, 2003. In the episode, the Planet Express crew is sent to collect space honey, and find themselves in a harrowing battle with giant bees. The episode's plot originated from the writers wanting to do a story where it seemed as though a major character had died. The episode was then produced faster than normal and was well received by critics. Professor Farnsworth warns the crew their next"
"Planet Express Ship. The pair, still lacking memories of each other, nevertheless make peace with each other and embrace in a kiss. The two warring sides are inspired by this act of affection and decide to end the conflict before Fry and Leela's memories are fully restored. A new and much-less-refined Oktoberfest celebration is restarted and the episode ends as Fry sits back while Leela performs the ""Chicken Dance"", allowing her to embarrass him for a change. Zack Handlen from ""The A.V. Club"" gave the episode a B grade. Max Nicholson of IGN an 8/10 ""Great"" rating, stating the episode"
"mission, to collect honey from giant space bees, was the mission which killed his previous crew. Though Bender and Fry grab at the opportunity to opt out of the mission, Leela takes offense and drags them along. At the hive, Leela paints Bender like a bee to deceive the real bees while she and Fry collect the honey. The crew discover the remains of the previous Planet Express crew and ship, but Leela insists that they press on. After gathering the honey, Leela decides to bring home a baby queen bee. On the way out, Bender inadvertently insults the hive's"