John DiMaggio Movies

Everyone in the Planet Express offices is tired of sloppy Fry hanging around all the time and making messes. He tries to stay at Bender's place in Robot Arms Apartments, but it doesn't work out. He makes Bender look for a better apartment but his robotic characteristics keep ruining things. After a slight reenactment of The Odd Couple, Fry ends up living in the closet. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

On December 31, 1999, deadbeat pizza delivery boy Fry (voice of Billy West) gets accidentally cryogenically frozen until the year 3000. When he emerges, cyclops alien Leela (voice of Katey Sagal) is ordered to implant a chip in his hand for a life assignment. When he finds out that he's ordered to be a delivery boy again, he escapes. He is rightfully baffled by the future world and mistakes a suicide booth for a phone booth, where he meets the lovably debauched robot, Bender (voice of John DiMaggio). Fry and Bender go underground to the ruins of old New York, but Leela catches up with them. When Fry gives himself up, Leela decides to take out her life assignment chip and join them. They find Fry's only living relative, Professor Farnsworth (voice of Billy West), and get new jobs making deliveries with the Planet Express company in the Professor's space ship. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

While trying to relax on the beach, the Planet Express crew gets involved in an alien attack from the planet Omicron Persei 8. Zapp Brannigan leads the counterattack to destroy the mothership, but he destroys the Hubble telescope instead. It turns out that all the aliens want is the season finale of the television show "Single Female Lawyer." Unfortunately, when the show was supposed to air back in 1999, Fry delivered a pizza to FOX and accidentally knocked the station off the air. To appease the aliens, the crew decides to re-create the final episode with Leela playing Jenny McNeal, the "Single Female Lawyer." ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

The first episode of the second season of Futurama is a take on the Hollywood blockbuster romance Titanic. During the Planet Express company vacation, the whole crew goes on a luxury space cruise. Leela pretends that Fry is her boyfriend in order to thwart the advances of the ship's captain, Zapp Brannigan. Amy also pretends that Fry is her boyfriend, so that her parents will stop trying to find her a husband. Meanwhile, Bender romances the rich old robot lady Countess De La Roca. This episode marked the first appearance of Hermes' wife, LaBarbara (voice of Dawnn Lewis), as well as Amy's parents, Leo (voice of Billy West) and Inez Wong (voice of Lauren Tom). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Zapp Brannigan accidentally explodes the Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP) and he loses his rank in a court sentence after Leela testifies against him. He and his assistant, Kif Kroker, become homeless vagrants, so Professor Farnsworth hires them to work for Planet Express. While delivering pillows to a high-gravity planet, Zapp convinces Fry and Bender to overthrow Leela so that he can be captain. When they eagerly comply, Zapp takes over and leads the crew into an attack on the Neutral Planet. Scared of dying, Fry and Bender turn on Zapp and make Leela captain again. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

In this parody of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Fry tries to find a golden bottle cap in his favorite beverage, Slurm. He tries using the professor's latest invention that can see through metal, but he ends up swallowing a golden bottle cap and winning the contest. The crew gets to go on a tour of the Slurm factory and party with Slurms McKenzie, the party slug mascot who is sick and tired of constantly partying. Fry gets thirsty on the tour and falls into the Slurm river, so Leela and Bender try to save him. They all go down a drain and discover that Slurm is really made from the secretions of a giant queen slug. They are captured, but Slurms saves them. Pamela Anderson guest stars as the voice of blonde "Slurm Babe" Dixie. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Fry is sad about his first Christmas away from his family and Leela is sad because she's the only one of her species in the galaxy. Fry wants to comfort her, but he just ends up making her feel worse. To make up for it he goes out to buy her a present, despite warnings that an evil Robot Santa Claus (voice of John Goodman) is on a killing spree to judge the naughty from the nice. Fry gets Leela a parrot at a pet store, but it flies away out the window of a tall building and she ends up having to save his life again. Meanwhile, Bender pretends to be a hobo so he can get free alcohol at the liquor kitchen for homeless robots. Conan O'Brien guest stars. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

This tech-world biopic traces the fortunes of personal-computer companies Apple and Microsoft from their obscure dorm-room and backyard origins to their very public battle for corporate supremacy. Writer/director Martyn Burke follows the parallel lives of Microsoft founder Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall) and Apple co-founders Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Steve Wozniak (Joey Slotnick) -- the former a crafty Harvard dropout, the latter a pair of hippies with jobs at Hewlett-Packard and a yen to sell miniature versions of corporate mainframes to small businesses and at-home enthusiasts. Much like the personal-computer industry itself, the action starts with Apple then gradually shifts to Microsoft. The former plot thread recounts how Jobs and Wozniak "borrowed" key concepts from a Xerox computer lab, eked out their success as countercultural businessmen, and finally fell out with one another over the pressure of success. The latter thread focuses on the way Gates learned from, then surpassed, the brains behind Apple and turned his company into the global powerhouse that it is today. Based on Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine's Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, the film actually focuses only on that book's final chapters. Produced for cable channel TNT, Pirates of Silicon Valley debuted June 18, 1999. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Fry has a dream with a commercial in it, and everyone develops a strange urge to go shopping. Bender gets arrested for shoplifting, but the crew doesn't have enough money to bail him out of jail. Fry decides to look up his old bank account, which has since accrued billions of dollars in interest over the last thousand years. He spends his money frivolously and goes to a 20th century-style auction. He bids on a can of extinct anchovies and wins over the corporate tycoon Mom (voice of Tress MacNeille), known as "the world's most huggable industrialist." Needing the anchovy oil to run her robot oil business, Mom comes up with a scam to rob Fry by making him think it's really the year 2000. Pamela Anderson guest stars. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Professor Farnsworth submits his Death Clock in the Academy of Inventors ceremony, but his old rival Wernstrom tells him that he already submitted it last year. The Professor quickly comes up with another invention called the Smell-O-Scope, a device which can smell any object in space. He doesn't win any awards, but he builds it anyway. Fry uses the Smell-O-Scope to detect a big piece of garbage left over from the 20th century. It seems to be hurling through space and headed right for New York City. The Professor comes up with an idea to knock out the garbage ball with another big piece of garbage. Since the year 3000 is trashless, it's up to Fry to teach the crew about the value of throwing things away. Ron Popeil guest stars. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

The detectives investigate when a man claims that his current house guest has been robbing gas stations and slashing the attendants. In another case, Diane (Kim Delaney) and Jill (Andrea Thompson) go after a band of gypsies who've been scamming elderly people. But the episode's biggest development (and the one that will mold the direction of the rest of NYPD Blue's seventh season) occurs when Diane again crosses paths with disingenuous drug task-force officer Denby (Scott Cohen) -- whom she sees conversing with a man who looks exactly like Jill's deceased ex-husband, drug trafficker Don Kirkendall. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

While visiting Past-O-Rama, Fry is mistaken for an employee and has to park an antique 20th century car. He crashes it and ends up meeting Flexo, a joking robot that looks just like Bender only he has a goatee. Bender and Flexo become friends and go to the robot strip club, but Fry thinks that he's evil. He joins the Planet Express crew on a sensitive mission to deliver an important atom to the Miss Universe Pageant. Fry stays up all night to watch over Flexo, but he ends up falling asleep during his own shift. When they get to the pageant, the atom has been stolen and Flexo is gone. Everyone looks for him, leading to a battle between the two robots. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide