High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for a thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express delivery company, an interplanetary delivery company in the retrofuturistic 31st-century.