Warning: Contains spoilers for Futurama Season 12, Episode 10!
One major multiverse fan theory has plagued Futurama For years now, and the show just confirmed that it’s actually true in the season 12 finale. Although Futurama Featuring all kinds of different settings and storylines, the series has some common themes and ideas throughout, such as the multiverse. Many fans of Futurama have theorized that the show did not have a continuous timeline, with the episodes instead chronicling different versions of the Planet Express crew from across the multiverse, something that season 12 finally confirmed.
Futurama Season 12, Episode 10, “Different” is the final episode of the second season of Hulu’s revival of the classic animated sitcom. In this episode, the gang accidentally destroys the Planet Express ship, meaning they have to bury it at sea. However, the ship graveyard is actually a cosmic multiversal sea, with Frey’s interaction with the sea leading to a series of strange events occurring. Invisible ships, visions from other timelines and more are seen throughout the episodeWith the twist revealing that the Planet Express crew we’ve been following throughout “Other” isn’t the main version of the show.
Futurama just confirmed that the entire show takes place across different timelines in a shared multiverse
The biggest fan theory has just been confirmed
As it turns out, Futurama Season 12’s finale confirmed that the entire of Futurama Takes place on different timelines in a shared multiverse. While plunging into the Mulliversall Sea, the Planet Express crew sees visions of other timelines that have not been seen before. However, the multiverse also features clips from episodes we’ve seen before. Additionally, Frey’s interactions with the multiverse caused him to begin having visions of his life with Leela from the original Futurama Finale, “Meanwhile,” with Farnsworth erasing the memories in the season 11 premiere.
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So, while it seems that Not everyone Futurama Episode takes place in the same universeIt is not clear which episodes take place in which universe. It could be that each one Futurama Episode takes place in its own universe, or it may be that several collections of connected episodes take place in the same universe, such as the various Futurama Movies. Opening the multiverse in the Futurama Universe is exciting, but it complicates many aspects of the show.
Futurama’s new multiverse reveal makes the non-canon anthology episodes canon
Clips are shown in the episode
Although it was previously believed that each Futurama Episode is canon, there was one notable exception: the anthology episodes. FuturamaThe various anthology episodes feature the Planet Express gang in self-contained stories that often parodies things like books, toys, and TV shows, although they haven’t previously been considered canon to the main. Futurama Timeline. However, “Other” sees clips from episodes like “Saturday Morning Fun Pit” being played as part of the Multiversal Sea, implying that they are canon to the Futurama Multiverse.
The addition of the non-canon anthology episodes makes Futuramas multiverse even more complicated. The “Anthology of Interest” episodes are presumably not set in separate universes, as the framing device features Farnsworth making a machine that displays the events of hypothetical situations. Meanwhile, Episodes like “Saturday Morning Fun Pit,” “Naturama,” and season 12’s “The Futurama Mystery Library” are presumably set in different universesWith each segment focusing on a stylized Futurama Parody universe. It is clear that there are still many questions to be answered about this Futurama Multiverse, with it is currently impossible to sort the various Futurama timelines.
Futurama’s Multiverse Changes The Show Forever (Even Though It Was Around Season 3)
It’s a massive part of the show now
Discover that FuturamaThe episodes taking place across a multiverse had some major implications on the show, changing the series forever. Viewers can no longer take it for granted that either Futurama Episodes takes place after the previous one, as it may be the case that specific pieces of Futurama Take place in specific universes. Things like character development and continuity will never be the same after “Different,” and hopefully Futurama Season 13 will clarify a few things.
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However, this is not the first time that Futurama has featured the multiverse. Futurama Season 3’s “I Dated a Robot” sees the Planet Express crew discover a parallel universe where everyone is a cowboy. Meanwhile, “The Farnsworth Parabox” featured an entirely new cast of Futurama Variants. While the series has toyed with the multiverse in the past, Futurama Season 12 is the first time it has been confirmed that episodes took place in different universes.