Space Pilot 3000
- Episode aired Mar 28, 1999
- TV-PG
- 23m
IMDb RATING
8.6/10
5.2K
YOUR RATING
A down-on-his-luck pizza delivery guy is accidentally frozen on New Year's Eve 1999 and wakes up in the year 3000.A down-on-his-luck pizza delivery guy is accidentally frozen on New Year's Eve 1999 and wakes up in the year 3000.A down-on-his-luck pizza delivery guy is accidentally frozen on New Year's Eve 1999 and wakes up in the year 3000.
Billy West
- Philip J. Fry
- (voice)
- …
Katey Sagal
- Turanga Leela
- (voice)
John DiMaggio
- Bender
- (voice)
- …
Dick Clark
- Dick Clark's Head
- (voice)
Tress MacNeille
- Suicide Booth
- (voice)
David Herman
- Terry
- (voice)
- (as Dave Herman)
- …
Kath Soucie
- Michelle
- (voice)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBender takes Fry to hide inside the Head Museum saying, "it's free on Tuesdays." December 31, 2999 will be a Tuesday.
- GoofsApplied Cryogenics is part of "Old New York" and therefore should be buried under ground when Fry is unfrozen in year 3000 in "New New York".
- Crazy credits30th Century Fox Television.
- Alternate versionsA joke about "JFK Jr. Airport" was changed to "Radio City Mutant Hall" when the episode was re-run after John Kennedy Jr.'s death.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 'Futurama': Welcome to the World of Tomorrow (1999)
- SoundtracksTheme from Futurama
Composed by Christopher Tyng
Featured review
Alright! I'm a delivery boy!
Does a great job of introducing the series. We are thrown into the wacky world of the year 3000 without much preamble at all - which is good. We get thrown right in just like Fry does.
It seems the year 3000 is just like the year 2000 but with crazy space stuff. Nobody has trouble communicating with Fry or can spot him on sight as being not from that time. The logic of the show in regards to the progression of future technology is decidedly haphazard and random - they will just chuck in what they need when they need it for an episode.
Proves that there are lots of jokes to be made with potentially endless imagination. I remembered pretty much every line even though I haven't seen it since I was young.
We get a sense for the kind of insane things that will be introduced in the series : various aliens, charismatic robots, bizarre inventions (suicide booth), sewer monsters, talking heads in jars that eat fish food. We see that the show doesn't really care about making logical sense but will rely on odd things and wacky jokes to work.
Leela is introduced as Fry's complicated love interest and we see the beginnings of that. I like the 1BDI joke.
Bender is introduced as Fry's only friend and we get a good idea about his sassiness and anger issues.
Farnsworth is introduced as the absentminded old professor.
Fry as a protagonist is introduced as being of clearly lower intelligence. He's pretty much a blank slate as a main character. He just exists because we need a character to react to the craziness of the future. So I would predict future episodes will succeed or fail based on giving him something interesting to react to. This opener definitely had no shortage of ideas!
It seems the year 3000 is just like the year 2000 but with crazy space stuff. Nobody has trouble communicating with Fry or can spot him on sight as being not from that time. The logic of the show in regards to the progression of future technology is decidedly haphazard and random - they will just chuck in what they need when they need it for an episode.
Proves that there are lots of jokes to be made with potentially endless imagination. I remembered pretty much every line even though I haven't seen it since I was young.
We get a sense for the kind of insane things that will be introduced in the series : various aliens, charismatic robots, bizarre inventions (suicide booth), sewer monsters, talking heads in jars that eat fish food. We see that the show doesn't really care about making logical sense but will rely on odd things and wacky jokes to work.
Leela is introduced as Fry's complicated love interest and we see the beginnings of that. I like the 1BDI joke.
Bender is introduced as Fry's only friend and we get a good idea about his sassiness and anger issues.
Farnsworth is introduced as the absentminded old professor.
Fry as a protagonist is introduced as being of clearly lower intelligence. He's pretty much a blank slate as a main character. He just exists because we need a character to react to the craziness of the future. So I would predict future episodes will succeed or fail based on giving him something interesting to react to. This opener definitely had no shortage of ideas!
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Details
- Runtime23 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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