9. Futurama – Xmas Story
USA/Season 2/1999Aired on Fox
Futurama is a brilliantly weird show, an enlivened science fiction satire set 1,000 years later, a reality where robots star in dramas and researchers have sped up light in an offer to make planetary travel more proficient. At last, this is a show about a man (Fry) caught 1,000 years later, spending his first Christmas away from everything and everybody he’s ever cherished, looking for recharged association with far off relative Professor Farnsworth, one-peered toward freak and love interest Leela, and robot companion Bender.
Regardless of whether we’ve moved ten miles not far off or 1,000 years into what’s to come, that is an assumption we would all be able to share, and this scene is an extraordinary early case of Futurama playing for the show just as satire.