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The animated science fiction bear witness Futurama presents a satirical look at politics and current diplomacy in a number of its episodes. Series creator Matt Groening intended from the start that Futurama would lampoon not merely the conventions of science fiction, but elements of nowadays-twenty-four hours life, serving as a class of political and social satire.^{[1] [ii] [3] [iv]}

Earth government [edit]

The World flag, "One-time Freebie".

The near pregnant modify in global politics presented in Futurama'due south view of the 31st century is that the whole of Earth is governed by a single united regime. This united government has many similarities to the present-day United States' political arrangement; its capital is Washington, D.C., it is a two-party system of the "Fingerlican" and "Tastycrat" parties with a number of inconsequential third parties, the government is headed past a president, and there are references to a constitution and an expanded beak of rights. In the episodes "The Twenty-four hours the Earth Stood Stupid" and "A Head in the Polls" third parties mentioned include the "Rainbow Whigs", "Antisocialists", the "Voter Apathy Party", "Reform Political party", the "Light-green Party", "Brain Slug Party", "Dudes for the Legalation of of Hemp" [sic], "Balderdash Infinite Moose Political party", "National Ray-Gun Association", "People for the Ethical Handling of Humans", and "One Cell, One Vote".

Citizens of Globe are referred to every bit "Earthicans". In the episodes "When Aliens Attack" and "Album of Interest Ii" at that place is show that the Countries of Globe are all the same bound to the U.N. (the UN New York Offices announced in "When Aliens Attack"), headed by the Earth President. Each member appears to remain private, sending their own representative to the United nations and maintaining many of their own cultures and languages, just also show bear witness of multiculturalism (France at present speaks English and French is apparently a expressionless language, for example). It is not articulate how much power the countries really have in the Earthican government, though information technology appears that remnants of many U.S. states, for instance, have survived into the 31st century, including "New New York", "New New Jersey", "Nukevada", "Penn Republic" and "Sylvania".

"Old Freebie", the name of Earth's flag, contains the thirteen stripes of the Flag of the United States and the Grand Wedlock Flag simply instead of the 50 stars or the Union Flag in the canton it has a flick of the globe, with North and South America prominently centered. In the episode "A Taste of Freedom", Doctor Zoidberg eats the flag, causing an interplanetary incident. This reflects several controversies surrounding the desecration of the American flag.

The former U.S. Supreme Courtroom has become the Earth's Supreme Court. Co-ordinate to Richard Nixon'south head, the Globe's Supreme Court is the "one place where the Constitution doesn't hateful squat". The current Chief Justice is Snoop Dogg while the other members of the Supreme Court are several preserved, jar heads of the members of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1990s, like Scalia, Thomas or Ginsburg, while the other members are singers or actresses such every bit Björk or Katey Sagal (who voices Leela). Myrtle Fu, a female person guess who resembles Judge Judy, was the last non-head in jar Justice at the Supreme Court. Abe Vigoda was likewise a member of the Court. In "Into the Wild Dark-green Yonder", Leela and her environmentalist cohorts are convicted of various crimes because, while all v female justices vote to acquit, each female justice has but half a vote as the crimes committed were gender-related.

Presidency [edit]

The President of World is introduced in the episode "When Aliens Attack", in the person of President McNeal. In a case of mistaken identity, McNeal is vaporized by invading Omicronians. In a after episode, "A Head in the Polls", a presidential ballot is held. Initially two clones, John Jackson and Jack Johnson, run for the presidency, representing the "Fingerlican" and "Tastycrat" parties respectively. Later in the episode, Richard Nixon enters the running, his living head preserved in a glass jar and mounted on Bender'southward previously pawned body.^[5] At first Nixon's caput is presented in a positive light, an attempt by the writers to betoken out laudable elements of the real Richard Nixon'due south political career.^{[6] [7]} Still, it is shortly revealed that Nixon's head has evil intentions, planning to "sell children'southward organs to zoos for meat" and "go into people's houses at night and wreck upwards the place!" His campaign is nearly undone afterwards Fry, Leela and Bender tape his confession and utilize it to bribery him into giving back Bender's body, but he wins by a single vote after overwhelming support from Earth'south robotic voters in response to his colossal new robot trunk.^[3]

Nixon's caput reappears equally President of Earth in numerous subsequent episodes. Nixon runs for office a third fourth dimension in "Decision 3012" against a candidate from the time to come, Chris Travers, sent back to prevent Nixon from destroying the world with his political decisions (Nixon demands the candidate's "world certificate", parodying the controversy over Barack Obama's birth certificate).^[eight] Nixon loses, but this causes a time paradox causing his challenger to disappear, and he wins by default. Series creator Matt Groening has expressed pleasance at beingness able to go along poking fun at Nixon thirty or 40 years after he was in office.^[9]

Nixon'southward head'south subsequent appearances in Futurama are oft used for satirical humor. An example is the episode "Three Hundred Big Boys", where Nixon gives a $300 tax rebate to every Earthican, spoofing the rebate that was office of the Economic Growth and Revenue enhancement Relief Reconciliation Deed of 2001.^[10]

Other themes include voting and participating in the political process. In "A Head In The Polls", Fry debates if he should vote, proverb "like one vote always made a difference" after which Leela tells him about a robot candidate who won an ballot by 1 vote.^[three] Later in the episode, neither Fry, Bender, nor Leela cease upwards voting after Fry and Leela forgot, and Bough cannot vote as he is a registered felon. Nixon, with a "gigantic missile-firing bionic torso" wins the presidency by one robot vote.

Democratic Order of Planets (D.O.O.P.) [edit]

The Futurama universe has a cooperative interplanetary organization known every bit the Autonomous Order of Planets or D.O.O.P..^[1] First mentioned in the episode "Love'southward Labours Lost in Space", it is explored in more than particular in "Brannigan Brainstorm Once more", in which it is compared to the present-day United Nations and the Federation from Star Trek.^[5] The D.O.O.P. flag is styled on the flag of the United Nations with ii olive branches representing peace, replacing the earth image with an atom diagram with the give-and-take "doop" in lowercase in the center.^[11] The D.O.O.P. maintains a military adequacy, nigh often led past Zapp Brannigan. The typography of D.O.O.P. is identical to that used by the one-hit wonder of the same name. Combating this group are a "rampaging alien race" that wants to have over Earth for commercial purposes named the Omicronians.^[1]

Environmentalism [edit]

Episodes with environmental themes include "A Big Piece of Garbage", "The Problem with Popplers", "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz", "Crimes of the Hot", "Fun on a Bun", "Attack of the Killer App" (partially), and "Fry Am the Egg Man."

Quondam Vice President of the U.s.a. and prominent environmentalist Al Gore is a recurring invitee star, due in role to his daughter Kristin Gore'southward involvement in the evidence as a staff author and story editor. He has appeared as himself in story segments fix in the early 21st century ("Album of Interest I" and Bender's Big Score) and as his own head in a jar in the 31st century ("Crimes of the Hot" and Bender's Big Score). His portrait as well adorns the $500 bill (written prior to the controversial election in 2000), and he is described as the "inventor of the environs, and get-go "Emperor of the Moon."

Global warming [edit]

The episode "Crimes of the Hot" centers around the upshot of global warming. The temporary solution of cooling the Earth with giant ice cubes dropped periodically into the bounding main is no longer possible because Halley's Comet, the source of the water ice, has been mined completely hollow. At a scientific conference, led past Al Gore, Professor Farnsworth reveals that beer-powered robots, including Bender, are the source of electric current global warming, and President Nixon and Professor Wernstrom attempt to destroy all robots on Earth past tricking them to convene on the Galapagos Islands for a party, and then bathe the islands in electromagnetic waves from a satellite in space. Fry, Leela, and Farnsworth go far in time, and Farnsworth tells every robot to aim their exhaust ports upward and expel their gasses, creating a makeshift engine that pushes Globe abroad from the sun, thus cooling Globe and causing the electromagnetic beams to miss. The episode was nominated for the Environmental Media Award in 2003.^[12] Al Gore's appearance in the episode was likewise listed as one of the 20 best animated politicians by The Boston Phoenix.^[13]

Al Gore's interest with the show continued subsequently it was cancelled in 2003. In promoting the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, the producers of Futurama were approached to brand a short animated trailer, starring Al Gore and Bender. This trailer was released online,^[xiv] and is included as an actress on the DVD of Bough's Big Score, with a commentary runway by Al Gore, David 10. Cohen and serial creator Matt Groening.^[fifteen] An Inconvenient Truth used a clip from the episode "Crimes of the Hot" to humorously explain how global warming works.^[16]

In "Xmas Story" Leela explains that snowfall however exists in the future because, even though global warming occurred, "nuclear winter canceled it out."

Conservationism [edit]

The episode "The Birdbot of Water ice-Catraz" tackles the issues of pollution and its effect on wildlife. In a parody of the Exxon Valdez oil spill,^[17] a tanker spaceship (piloted past a sober Bender) spills its cargo of "dark affair oil" on a penguin colony on Pluto. The dark affair actually functioned equally an aphrodisiac, or every bit the environmentalist puts it "a Penguin Spanish fly", so rather than killing the penguin population, the pollution vastly increases the speed and rate of their breeding, as fifty-fifty the males were producing eggs. This leads the conservationists, who originally ready out to save the wildlife and make clean upward the oil spill, to resort to hunting the penguins to forbid them starving from overpopulation. The episode'south stance on the issue of hunting was influenced by some of the writers on The Simpsons, which has also presented multiple viewpoints on controversial problems.^[xviii]

The episode "The Trouble with Popplers" addresses conservationism in a similar fashion: it focuses primarily on the animal rights move, parodying People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals with Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment (M.East.A.T.) a vegan activist grouping that, among other things, attempt to teach carnivorous animals to swallow tofu. This episode won an Environmental Media Award in 2000.

The Futurama movie Into the Wild Green Yonder showcases the fight betwixt conservationism and the interests of big business concern; the construction of the universe's largest behemothic mini golf class (headed by Amy'southward male parent, Leo Wong) threatens to destroy 12% (an unabridged branch) of the Milky way. An environmental survey headed past Professor Farnsworth and the Futurama crew discovers an asteroid full of primitive life, orbiting a violet dwarf star. Even so, Farnsworth has been bribed past Leo, and declares the destruction 'environmentally friendly', leading to plans for the dwarf star to be imploded, creating a blackness pigsty. This leads to two groups trying to sabotage this plan – a group of eco-feminists, who are joined past Amy, Leela and LaBarbara Conrad, who first destroying equipment, machines and sections of the golf game course, and even accidentally impale Nixon's love vice-president, Agnew. The second group is the Legion of Madfellows, a hush-hush arrangement of mind readers, of which Fry joins. They prophesize a new green age, headed by a resurgence in the life force Chi, which they believe will be started past the asteroid and the dwarf star. A resurgence in the Chi would halt the extinction rate, and increase the variety of life by preserving endangered species DNA and reintroducing extinct life forms through the Encyclopod. Fry is given the responsibility to preserve and protect it at all costs.

Social and other issues [edit]

The episode "Proposition Infinity" depicts an attempt to legalize "robosexual marriage," or wedlock between robots and humans, after Bough and Amy fall in love. It closely parodies the events surrounding, as well equally arguments for and against, Suggestion 8 of California from the 2008 election. Ultimately, "robosexual spousal relationship" is legalized with this "time to come civil rights movement."^[19] However, upon existence passed, Bender breaks upwards with Amy due to her want for a monogamous relationship. The episode "Bend Her" depicts Bender transitioning to compete as a woman in the Olympics, as a parody of the inclusion of transgender women in sports. It has been criticized for promoting sexist and transphobic stereotypes.^{[20] [21] [22]}

Throughout the Futurama episodes there is a theme of, as series creator Matt Groening put it in 1999, a "corporate, commercial, confusing world where the military is just as stupid every bit it is currently" with a "corrupt megacorporation" named MomCorp which is run by a "scrawny elderly woman" who is very rich "from manufacturing Mom's Erstwhile-Fashioned Robot Oil."^[23] This theme is expanded by characters being "thoroughly inundated by advertisement, particularly subliminal advertisement that comes out of your pillow into your dreams" and having "ridiculous-just-absurd tech gadgets" that don't piece of work as they were expected to, non improving the economy.^[24]

Additionally, people are tested to find out what they would be "best at in life," as shown in "Space Pilot 3000" and other episodes, a choice that Bender, Fry, and other characters pass up, wanting to "get against their programming, whether or non they will be successful."^[23]

The show too criticized jingoism in "A Taste of Freedom", lampooned groups like Parents Television receiver Council and Parents Against Media Violence with groups like "Fathers Against Rude Television" and criticized the star system in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television receiver" and "Calculon ii.0" while addressing the controversy effectually genetically-modified nutrient in "Leela and the Genestalk".^{[25] [26] [27]}

Elsewhere in the show, the place of robots in man society and sentient robots are as well addressed every bit issues which fit with the science fiction genre.^{[xix] [28] [29] [thirty] [31]}

Other than this, numerous episodes accost the themes of time travel, including "Mobius Dick", "All the Presidents' Heads", "Roswell That Ends Well" and "Space Airplane pilot 3000", plagiarism and exploitation in "Yo Leela Leela", and 3-D printing in "40 Percent Leadbelly". Additionally, in "The Mutants Are Revolting", the "mutants" engage in a revolution to demand their rights to live on the surface, an outcome which may reference the Stonewall riots.

Reaction [edit]

The Boston Phoenix included the episode "A Head in the Polls" in a list of the best political satires in animation.^[13]

During the 2022 presidential election in the The states, vocalism role player Billy West read quotes of Donald Trump'south doctor in the vocalisation of Dr. Zoidberg.^[32] He also read quotes from Trump in the vocalisation of Zapp Brannigan.^{[33] [34] [35] [36]} Also during the election, there were popular memes which imposed Trump's quotations onto images of the captain of the Nimbus, Zapp Brannigan.^[37]

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7. ^ Cohen, David X (2002). Futurama season 2 DVD commentary for the episode "A Caput in the Polls" (DVD). 20th Century Pull a fast one on. We went through everything most Nixon that we all remembered from about 8th grade history.
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10. ^ Cohen, David Ten (2003). Futurama flavor 4 DVD commentary for the episode "3 Hundred Big Boys" (DVD). 20th Century Fox. At the time Eric Kaplan and I commencement met to talk over this episode, at that place was a very big story in the news that President George Westward. Bush had decided to refund $300 in taxation coin like this to all the taxpayers in America.
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