Futurama Logo 'Near-Death Wish'

by Eric Horsted
Futurama Cast

THERE’S NO BISMUTH LIKE SHOW BISMUTH

Fry wins a prestigious ‘Clippie Award’ for his work as a delivery boy (mainly because the other nominees are dead), but gets upset when his nephew, Professor Farnsworth, doesn’t bother to show up to watch the ceremony. Learning that the professor’s parents are still alive in a virtual reality retirement home on the Near Death Star, Fry decides to visit them. Using VR Fry, Leela and Bender enter the old folks’ home; Fry quickly hits it off with his relatives, Ned and Velma, allowing them to believe he is their grandson for simplicity. Returning to the real world, Fry inadvertently disconnects Ned and Velma from the matrix that uses their sleeping bodies as batteries; as the Near Death Star security guards open fire, Fry and his friends are forced to use his relatives to make their escape. Back at Planet Express, Fry reunites Ned and Velma to their son; but Professor Farnsworth is furious, and vows to have nothing to do with them after the way they treated him as a child. It seems that the Farnsworth family hides a tragic secret…

Billy West (Philip J. Fry / Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth / Doctor John Zoidberg / Documentary Narrator / Smitty), John Di Maggio (Bender [Bender Bending Rodriguez / Bending Unit 22] / Randy / URL), Katey Sagal (Captain Turanga Leela), Lauren Tom (Amy Wong / Ruth), Phil LaMarr (Hermes Conrad), Tress MacNeille (Esther / Tinny Tim / Teen Robot), Maurice LaMarche (Yuri / Sunset Squad Chaser), David Herman (Ned Farnsworth / Fatbot / Scruffy), Dawnn Lewis (Tank / Juiced-up Butterfly Fighter), Estelle Harris (Velma Farnsworth)

Directed by Lance Kramer
Produced by Claudia Katz
Executive Producers David X. Cohen and Matt Groening


TX (US): 15th August 2012

Notes:
*Featuring Philip J. Fry, Bender, Captain Turanga Leela, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Doctor Zoidberg, Amy Wong and Hermes Conrad