Season 14 will show that the far-flung future can still get even stranger, as the synopsis promises "a non-stop onslaught of swaggering space pirates, lab-grown meats, sexy scams... plus the shocking return of Dr. Zoidberg's lost love!" Our first stills center not on the usual crew, but on everyone's favorite lecherous, egotistical, supremely idiotic captain Zapp Brannigan, seen spritzing up for the new season. Evidently, he's getting involved in the aforementioned space piracy, given his new bandana and eye shadow, but even he is horrified by what's going on among the stars. The Planet Express crew, meanwhile, descends into all sorts of weird adventures, taking part in a Steamboat Willie parody — perhaps part of a new anthology — and hearing a potentially grim diagnosis for Professor Farnsworth. Unsurprisingly, Bender hogs plenty of the spotlight himself in the images, between a shocking close-up, a little dance sequence using his mop as a pole, and a scene putting up missing posters for Nibbler that Leela will not be pleased with.
Starting in 1999, Futurama has taken 21st-century pizza boy Phillip J. Fry on a fateful journey from a cryo chamber in the Big Apple to the 31st-century city of New New York, built atop the remains of his old hometown. He's since resumed his destined job as a delivery boy with Planet Express, met his great-great-great... grandnephew, Farnsworth, began a rollercoaster romance with the one-eyed Leela, been on countless adventures across the cosmos, and even saved the universe on multiple occasions. Yet, even after all that and a wild Season 13 that saw him and his friends experience the "rapture," try to counteract global warming with a volcano, and venture to see the birth of a new universe, Season 14 is out to prove there's still so much left to explore in this world.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz
Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like?
Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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01
How do you lead when the stakes couldn't be higher?
The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
AI absorb everything — every variable, every pattern — and move only when I know the path forward.
BI read the room, make the call, and own the consequences. Hesitation costs more than mistakes.
CI rally people. A cause needs a voice, and I refuse to let fear be louder than conviction.
DI assess the threat, establish what needs doing, and get it done without waiting for permission.
EI don't lead. I act. Others can follow or not — I'm already moving.
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02
What is your greatest strength in a crisis?
The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
APrescience — the ability to see further ahead than anyone else and plan accordingly.
BImprovisation — I'm at my best when the plan falls apart and I have to invent a new one.
CConviction — I know what I'm fighting for, and that certainty doesn't waver under fire.
DComposure — I stay functional when everyone around me is falling apart. Panic is a luxury.
EEndurance — I outlast things. I take the hit and keep moving long after others have stopped.
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03
What is the thing you'd sacrifice everything else for?
Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
AThe survival and dignity of my people — even if I have to become something frightening to ensure it.
BThe safety of my crew — every single one of them. No one gets left behind.
CFreedom — for my people, for every world still crushed under the weight of an empire.
DThe truth — what actually happened, what's actually out there, whether anyone believes me or not.
EThe one person — or the one memory — that still makes any of this worth surviving for.
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04
How do you relate to the people around you?
Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
AWith intensity and distance — I care deeply, but the weight I carry makes closeness complicated.
BWith warmth and irreverence — I take the mission seriously, not myself.
CWith directness and trust — I say what I mean, and I expect the people I work with to rise to it.
DWith professional care but clear limits — I'll protect you, but I won't pretend we're family.
EWith wariness that slowly becomes loyalty — I don't trust easily, but when I do, it holds.
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05
You're facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do?
How you respond when you're the only one who sees it defines everything.
APrepare in silence. If they won't listen, I'll be ready when they finally have to.
BKeep pushing until someone listens — and if no one does, handle it myself.
CBuild the case, find the allies, and make the threat impossible to ignore.
DDocument everything. The truth matters even if no one believes it yet.
EStop trying to convince anyone. Survive it. That's the only argument that counts.
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06
What has your heroism cost you personally?
Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they'd pay it again.
AMy innocence — I've seen what I'm capable of, and I can't unsee it.
BPeople I loved — the command chair has a view, but it's a lonely one.
CA normal life — I gave up everything ordinary the moment I chose the cause.
DMy sense of safety — I know exactly what's out there now, and I can't pretend otherwise.
EAlmost everything — and I'm still not sure what I'm carrying it all for. But I keep going.
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07
How do you feel about the rules of the world you're in?
Every hero has a relationship with the system. What's yours?
AI understand them deeply — and I know exactly which ones must be broken, and why.
BI respect the spirit of them and bend the letter when the situation demands it.
CThe system is the problem. I'm not here to work within it — I'm here to dismantle it.
DI follow protocol until protocol stops being useful. Then I make the call myself.
EThe rules collapsed a long time ago. What's left is instinct, and mine are reliable.
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08
When everything is on the line, what keeps you going?
The answer is the most honest thing about you.
ADestiny — or something that feels so much like it that the difference no longer matters.
BThe people on my ship — their faces, their trust, the fact that they're counting on me.
CThe belief that what we're fighting for is worth every sacrifice, including this one.
DSheer refusal to let it win — whatever it is. I don't stop. That's just who I am.
EI'm not sure anymore. But the road is still there, and I'm still on it.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified
Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you're capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
- You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
- You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn't ask for but can't escape.
- Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
- That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won't, is exactly you.
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you've always believed there's a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
- You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
- Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you've earned it.
- Kirk's genius isn't tactical — it's human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
- That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you're fearless, but because giving up simply isn't something you're capable of.
- You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
- You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you've never looked back.
- Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
- That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone's hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
- You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
- Ripley's heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn't have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
- You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn't there.
- When it counts, you don't flinch. That's everything.
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
- You don't ask for help, don't need validation, and don't wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
- Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it's earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
- Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
- That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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The Simpsons mastermind Matt Groening created the long-running sci-fi comedy, developing the project with David X. Cohen and executive producing with Ken Keeler and Claudia Katz. Season 14 once again sees the same beloved voice cast back in the pilot's seat, including Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom, Tress MacNeille, David Herman, and more. As always, expect a fair few guest stars to appear throughout the intergalactic adventures, too. The Hulu revival alone has already been packed with big names like Guillermo del Toro, Victor Wembanyama, Maria Bamford, Bill Nye, LeVar Burton, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kyle MacLachlan, Kathy Griffin, Danny Trejo, Ego Nwodim, and more.
Futurama Season 14 has a high bar to clear coming off of Season 13, which debuted as the highest-rated run of the series in over a decade. It currently owns a perfect 100% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and a less rosy, but still solid 64% from audiences, showing that, over 25 years later, there's still dark matter left in the tank of the Planet Express ship. Viewers have also been eager to come along for the ride since the first Hulu season in 2023, giving the streamer a potent one-two punch of adult animated comedy revivals alongside the recent King of the Hill continuation. What lies after Season 14 remains a mystery at this point, though Cohen previously teased to ComicBook.com last year that this run does feature an emotional episode written as a potential series finale, the sixth such potential send-off for the seemingly-unkillable show. He said at the time:
"So we’re not in any emergency situation now, but we have already been writing the finale for next year, 2026, as another possible series finale. Which will be our sixth, I believe where at the time we wrote it, it could have been our series finale. So yes, it’s getting much harder. Early on usually we would lean on Fry and Leela, what does their future hold? Now that we know a little bit more about that, we want to keep that bittersweet tone. I never want to say we’re gone forever. I like to think the characters live on whether we’re seeing them or not. But I do like to end on with some genuine emotion. So next year we do delve a bit into Fry’s childhood, which is another area that has been pretty emotional, I think, in some other episodes. I think it works pretty nicely."
Futurama Season 14 premieres on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ on August 3, with new episodes dropping every Monday. Check out the first images above and stay tuned here at Collider throughout the coming weeks for more new looks at the hottest film and television titles from our summer preview series.
Release Date
March 28, 1999
Network
FOX, Comedy Central, Hulu
Directors
Peter Avanzino, Brian Sheesley, Crystal Chesney, Frank Marino, Edmund Fong, Stephen Sandoval, Bret Haaland, Rich Moore, Ron Hughart, Dwayne Carey-Hill, Raymie Muzquiz, Mark Ervin, Susie Dietter, Gregg Vanzo, Swinton O. Scott III, Ira Sherak, James Purdum, Corey Barnes, Lance Kramer, Ray Claffey, Chris Sauve, Jeffrey Lynch, Pat Shinagawa, Wes Archer
Writers
Eric Rogers, Dan Vebber, Maiya Williams, David A. Goodman, Ron Weiner, Aaron Ehasz, Kristin Gore, Brian Kelley, Evan Gore, Heather Lombard, Jason Gorbett, Michael Saikin
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Billy West
Fry / Professor Farnsworth / Zoidberg / Zapp Brannigan (voice)
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Image via Hulu
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