‘Futurama’ Season 14 Will Pay Tribute to One of the Sci-Fi Show’s Best Guest Stars

Ahead of Season 14's premiere on Hulu and Disney+, Futurama's creative team and cast gathered for a Q&A hosted by Collider at the Walt Disney lot in Burbank, offering fans a behind-the-scenes look at the long-running animated series. The event, and its accompanying interview, underline the show's remarkable longevity, having survived multiple cancellations across nearly three decades to remain a fixture of contemporary streaming television.

Participants included creator Matt Groening, showrunner David X. Cohen, producer Claudia Katz, supervising director Peter Avanzino, and voice cast members Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom and David Herman. Discussion topics ranged from new generations discovering the show online, to favourite "nerd" Easter eggs such as the mathematically rigorous brain-swap puzzle in the episode "The Prisoner of Benda" (solved with an original theorem devised by writer Ken Keeler), as well as the newly announced extended holiday specials and a teased crossover episode with Groening's other series, Disenchantment. The title also references a planned tribute in the new season to one of the show's memorable recurring guest stars.