Futurama powers down Wednesday night until next summer. Patrick Stewart is probably going to need the breather. Image courtesy Comedy Central
The thespian who played Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard joins Bender in a not-so-jolly robot fox hunt in “31st Century Fox,” the first of Futurama‘s back-to-back midseason finale episodes Wednesday.
And let’s just say that the real thing is not really his thing.
"In real life, Patrick Stewart is actually an anti-fox hunt crusader," Futurama executive producer David X. Cohen told Wired earlier this summer as the seventh season of The Sci-Fi Toon That Wouldn’t Die booted up.
“31st Century Fox” airs Wednesday night alongside “Naturama,” which anthropomorphizes Futurama‘s snarktastic space messengers as animals locked in sexual struggle (see a clip below).
In “Naturama,” Fry, Leela and Zap navigate a salmon love triangle, Bender battles back hordes of haters encroaching on his elephant seal harem and Professor Farnsworth faces down extinction and solitude as a Galapagos tortoise.
Cohen told Wired that Futurama‘s artists nearly went metaphorically extinct after first seeing how far they were being asked to push their impressive skill sets. It’s one of those episodes where “our animators have heart attacks and collapse in front of us after we hand them the script,” he said. “Because they have to redesign the entire universe and all of the characters three times instead of once. These episodes are always our favorites, but they're difficult.”
Futurama‘s back-to-back midseason finale airs Wednesday night at 10 p.m./9 p.m. Central on Comedy Central. (The remaining episodes of Futurama arrive next summer.)
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