In “A Big Piece of Garbage,” the eighth episode of “Futurama” (first aired on May 11, 1999), it was revealed that 20th-century Earth solved its overflowing landfill problem by balling up all the world’s trash, attaching it to a high-powered rocket, and launching it into space.
It turns out this was only a temporary fix, as, thanks to the gravitational caprices of comets, the big ball of garbage returned to Earth a millennium later.
In order to investigate the returning garbage ball, Fry (Billy West), Leela (Katey Sagal), and the robot Bender (John Dimaggio) must walk across its surface in space suits.
They come across a…The post Matt Groening Thinks Futurama Is More ‘Real’ Than The Simpsons appeared first on /Film.
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