Calling all Futurama fans and artists!
The official Futurama social channels have launched a fan art contest, and the prize is nothing to sneeze at. Share your original Futurama fan art for a chance to have it featured at San Diego Comic-Con and to win $1,000.

There are two ways to enter:
Instagram: follow @futuramaonhulu, post your artwork to your feed, tag @futuramaonhulu, and include #FuturamaContest in your caption.
Facebook: follow the Futurama Facebook page and comment on the official contest post with your artwork.

One entry per person/account. Entries are only accepted between July 9 at 9 AM PT and July 12 at 11:59 PM PT, so you'll have to get those styluses moving fast. Full rules are over at rules.dja.com/futuramacontest.

Good luck to everyone entering, and if you win, remember who told you about it first!

With the new season coming up on August 3, I have decided to move forward with the restoration project I started three years ago with some of my students. I tasked them with taking the code from the old CGEF and porting it into Next.js instead. The old code was Perl, which was only maintainable by our own tech god [-mArc-], who is no longer actively maintaining the site. I have replaced him with mARC 7G, who will now be taking on the role of lead technical contributor in his place!

In any case, first of all, a shoutout to Ortwin, Bo, Robbe, and Yaseen (who sadly passed away a year after completing his project). They helped me in a huge way by creating the first prototype. Since then, it has been lying on my hard drive doing nothing. Then I realized that I could use AI to fill in the missing gaps, so, full disclosure, I used Claude Code to finish up what they started. I know a lot of people dislike the use of AI, but without it, I would not have been able to accomplish this feat. The usage of AI is justified in my opinion with full disclosure, and it is not to be used to generate art (I promise I will not do this on this website).

You will notice that a lot of parts of the code are now marked as legacy content. Because I think CGEF has become a source of nostalgia and has historical value, I decided to bring back all the old content, but with a banner stating that it will no longer be updated. If anyone still needs those Nokia 3210 ringtones or Winamp skins from 20 years ago, yeah, they are still there!

Now enjoy the almost fully restored version of Can't Get Enough Futurama!

Bite my shiny metal bricks!
Good news, everyone! If you have ever wanted to build the Planet Express headquarters on your own desk, now is your chance. Brickcraft has put their Futurama Planet Express HQ brick set up for limited preorders, so the famous green delivery building can finally take its place next to your other nerdy shelf treasures.

You can grab it straight from Brickcraft or over at Target. Preorder numbers are limited, so do not wait around like Fry stuck in a cryo-tube for a thousand years.

Sadly, it does not come with an Angry Dome... which, frankly, makes me kind of angry. TO THE ANGRY DOME! Whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop!

In memory of Figueira Júnior
Sad news today. Figueira Júnior, the Brazilian voice actor who gave Philip J. Fry his voice in the Brazilian dub of Futurama, has passed away on June 27, 2026, following a cardiac arrest.

For many fans his voice was a part of their childhood. Beyond Fry, he is perhaps best remembered as the unforgettable Brazilian voice of Android 17 in Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super, bringing that calm confidence to the character, just as he brought humor and heart to Fry. Behind every iconic character is a voice that makes them unforgettable, and Figueira Júnior gave the Brazilian Futurama fans memories that will live on forever.

Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends, colleagues, fans and the entire Brazilian dubbing community during this difficult time. Thank you for the memories, the emotion and the voice that will never be forgotten.

Rest in peace, Figueira Júnior. 🕊️💙

Good news, everyone!
Twenty-seven years ago today, on March 28, 1999, Futurama made its debut on Fox with the very first episode, "Space Pilot 3000." Written by David X. Cohen and Matt Groening and directed by Rich Moore and Gregg Vanzo, the pilot introduced us to a hapless 20th-century pizza delivery boy named Philip J. Fry, who gets accidentally cryogenically frozen on New Year's Eve 1999 and wakes up a thousand years later in the year 3000.

In just twenty-two minutes, the episode had to introduce an entire universe: Fry stumbles into a job as a delivery boy for Planet Express, meets his short-tempered one-eyed coworker Leela and the delightfully immoral robot Bender, and tracks down his own great-great-great-...-nephew, the ancient Professor Farnsworth. It also gave us Leonard Nimoy playing his own disembodied head in a jar, Dick Clark ringing in the New Year one last (extremely long) time, and a certain tiny alien's shadow sneaking past in the background for the sharp-eyed among us.

"Space Pilot 3000" set the tone for everything that followed: jokes flying by faster than you can catch them, a surprising amount of heart buried under all the cynicism, and a boy-and-his-dog story most of us still aren't emotionally ready to think about. Twenty-seven years, several cancellations, and just as many miraculous revivals later, the crew of Planet Express is still out there delivering packages to the edge of the universe.

Crack open an Olde Fortran Malt Liquor and raise a glass with us today. Happy anniversary, Futurama!

Good news! Futurama will be coming back with DiMaggio on board. DiMaggio and the Futurama producers have managed to work things out, and the original voice of Bender will be returning for the revived series.

I'M BACK, BABY! So damn grateful for the love and support of fans and colleagues alike during this whole time (especially my wife, Kate), and I cannot wait to get back to work with my Futurama family. #Bendergate is officially over, so put it on the back of a shelf behind Xmas decorations, or maybe in that kitchen drawer with all of the other crap you put in there like old unusable crazy glue, or maybe even put it in a jar you save farts in. Whatever floats your boat, I don’t care, you get the picture. I’M BACK, BABY! BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS!

Now we can finally start looking forward to the re-re-re-revival of futurama!

John DiMaggio has given a small update on twitter.

I've been thinking about everything that's been going on these past months and just to be clear, I don't think that only I deserve to be paid more. I think the entire cast does.

Negotiations are a natural part of working in show business. Everyone has a different strategy & different boundaries. Their "price." Some accept offers, some hold their ground. Bender is part of my soul & nothing about this meant to be disrespectful to the fans or my Futurama family. It's all about self-respect. And honestly, being tired of an industry that's become far too corporate and takes advantage of artist's time & talent.

Look, I wish I could give you every detail so you would understand, but it's not my place. Thanks again for the love everyone. Still hoping for the best.

In the meantime I'll be in New Orleans shooting interview with a vampire for AMC - and very grateful to be! Thanks...

We 100% stand with John and other talented voice actors. Professional voice actors have been taken for granted for far too long. They deserve the recognition and be paid accordingly. If they want this new Futurama season to be a success they have to respect the ones that made it big. We as fans will not stand for anything else.

John DiMaggio has been tweeting around the subject of him possibly not voicing our beloved Bender:

Oh, hi…
Why Futurama star John DiMaggio won't voice Bender in Hulu revival | https://t.co/AZMAa4YSba https://t.co/NF4EhtGyui

— John DiMaggio (@TheJohnDiMaggio) February 11, 2022

tl;dr: It's because of money! And damn right he should be getting a lot of money. All the voice actors should! This would be exactly what bender would do!