Summary: Features every episode from the second season of the television comedy. 'I Second That Emotion', 'Brannigan, Begin Again', 'A Head In The Polls', 'Xmas Story', 'Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love?', 'The Lesser Of Two Evils', 'Put Your Head On My Shoulders', 'Raging Bender', 'A Bicyclops Built For Two', 'A Clone Of My Own', 'How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back', 'The Deep South', 'Bender Gets Made', 'Mother's Day', 'The Problem With Popplers', 'Anthology Of Interest i', 'War Is The H-Word', 'The Honking' and 'The Cryonic Woman'.

This collection presents the entire second season of Matt Groening's Futurama in all its absurd, sci-fi glory. The perilous adventures of the Planetary Express team--including Fry (voiced by Billy West), Leela (voiced by Katey Sagal), and Bender (voiced by John Di Maggio)--continue, largely due to their own incompetence. Episodes include "I Second That Emotion," "A Head in the Polls," "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love

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Matt Groening's second series of the 31st century sci-fi sitcom Futuramamaintained the high scripting standards of the first as well bringing improved digital animation. Couch potato Fry now seems thoroughly reconciled to his new existence, transported 10 centuries hence to "New New York" and working for Professor Farnsworth's delivery service. He's surrounded by a cast of freaks, including the bitchily cute Amy (with whom he has a romantic brush) and Hermes, the West Indian bureaucrat. Most sympathetic is the one-eyed Leela (voiced by Katey Sagal). Like Lisa Simpson, she is brilliant but unappreciated; she finds solace in her pet Nibbler, a tiny creature with a voracious, carnivorous appetite. By contrast, Bender, the robot, is programmed with every human vice, a sort of metal Homer Simpson with a malevolent streak.

In one of the best episodes, Bender is given a "feelings" chip in order to empathise with Leela after he flushes Nibbler down the toilet. Elsewhere, Fry falls in love with a Mermaid when the team discover the lost city of Atlanta, Fry and Bender end up going to war after they join the army to get a discount on gum, and John Goodman guest stars as Santa Claus, an eight-foot gun-toting robot. Brimful with blink-and-you'll-miss-them hip jokes (such as the sign for the Taco Bellevue hospital) and political and pop satire, Futuramaisn't a stern warning of things to come but rather, as the programme-makers put it, "a brilliant, hilarious reflection of our own materially (ridiculously) over-developed but morally under-developed society."

On the DVD:Futurama's four-disc package presents the show in 4:3 with a Dolby Digital soundtrack. Among the many extras here are audio commentaries, storyboards, trailers, mock ads for "Soylent Chow" and "Human Rinds" and deleted scenes, including one from "Bender Gets Made" in which he seeks to evade the Robot Mafia by changing his identity. --David Stubbs

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Audio Commentary For Each Episode, Animatics, Deleted Scenes, Storyboard, Still Gallery, Concept Art, Alien Alphabet, Futurama Season One Trailer, Sponsor Clips
Subtitles:	English, French, Italian
Year:	1999
Release Date:	November 11, 2002
Runtime:	414 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	22253 D V D
Keywords:	Season, Animated, Comedy, Two, Box, General, Four, Set, Futurama, Animation, Tv, Discs
Genre:	Comedy