Futurama - Futurama From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Futurama is an American animated sitcom that follows Philip J. Fry after he is cryogenically frozen at midnight, December 31, 1999, and is revived a thousand years later in the year 2999. The series was created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen and produced by The Curiosity Company for the Fox Network.