@@VinluvAntonHandesbukia Silly silly redditor. First off, a PhD doesn't make you an economics expert, second off, the factors that led to the recession hadn't yet shown themselves in 1999, so unless they were able to see the future, they wouldn't know
@@realkekz they definitely used that year on purpose. if there was no joke in it they wouldnt have used it. all they had to do was be paying attention to the economy. theres people who report on it and make these predictions. they didnt have to do that themselves.
it's amazing how flawless this pilot was. Pilots are notoriously hard to make. A lot of great shows have mediocre pilot episodes but this just stands out
That's how you know this is edited together. Nibbler WAS NOT there for the original airing of the final pilot episode. People really like pushing the narritive that it was all planned. It was not. It'd be pretty cool if it was but I'm sick of people pushing cool sounding theories and silencing actuality.
@@JamesR624 Lol chill dude. Nibbler's shadow is there in the original. Look at an old vhs recorded version if you think the pilot episode was edited later to include it.
@@JamesR624 he was definitely not there for the first episode! NOT THERE! I’ve seen every episode so many times it’s only in the memory when nibbler tells him but it’s not in the actual first episode
There's so many great jokes in this storyboard version of the pilot already! The dialogue in this is almost the same as the final version, plus even here the models are really polished, you can even see that they already have wireframe renders of the 3D animation this early in production. Idk why, this stuff is just really impressive to me for some reason.
I bet the CG stuff was started as soon as the story board was created. This was thrown together with VO to give to the animators who were probably foreign based something to get started on.
One of my favorite pilot episodes. You know everything important about the show within the allotted time and it never feels like you've wasted any time doing it
@@EllRiver Lol what do you mean conspiracy theory? Nibbler and his role in Fry’s freezing was always planned and was even blatantly explained in one of the episodes. It’s not much of a theory, it’s a fact of the show
@@ngls The biggest clue is how fluid the animation is compared to everything else. They move in ways that would be insanely difficult to draw in full, and way too advanced to draw for a storyboard.
*Fun seeing the neat little differences, sometimes just unused takes of lines, other times new lines entirely. I immediately noticed the lack of “You stink loser!” and Fry’s yelps in the freezer being done by what sounds like either a staff member or Matt Groening, but certainly not Billy West.*
@@brendopls Lmao assuming they were the same person is just as retarded if you thought two people in real life with the same name were the same person. Only its even more asinine because this is the internet and there's way more people than whatever backwater your dunce ass crawled out of.
Wow dude you can tell whoever storyboarded this is a great artist. The volume every character has is outstanding, and there's a great variety of points of view. I don't think it was ever topped in that regard, the show got flatter as it went on
They tend to do this a lot during animatics for animated shows; they’ll switch between the original voice actor and then placeholder lines for voice lines that haven’t been completed yet. I could be wrong but I recall animatics for SpongeBob being the exact same way.
I laughed at it so hard, it really is a solid Fry moment I mean regardless of this being a segueway to the intro theme - I would have enjoyed this quote so much better
How ironic that when this first aired it was a neat show about the future, but now 20 years later we're here looking back on it with nostalgia missing what once was and the time we had back then. It's amazing when a show's concept can grow with the audience and be seen from two different perspectives from the airing and then the post airing. Also, looking back on this show I kinda realize how hard they dropped the concept of the career chips considering it was the entire drive of the series being kicked off.
Exactly, I wish they showed that in at least 1 scene in the show instead of it being knocked over in Old New York. Although there is a scene showing the before and after of Fry's house, and they included the Empire State Building not being there in the after portion, as it was knocked down, and I enjoyed that little detail.
What a polished animatic. I haven't seen the pilot in a year or two and I didn't notice any changes except one (I don't remember the "most disasters happen without a warning" joke).
@@nobody-tj1mv I agree with this. I'd much rather a show be short but have a good send-off than to have it become a zombie like the Simpsons and Family Guy.
Is it my imagination or did the person who composed the music for the series use this storyboard as a reference and he sampled the voices from this before the final product is ready?
Music cues and themes can be developed early but they aren’t refined and cut to time until picture lock. You would never want to work from a Leica because it’s timing is pretty loose beyond overall runtime.
@@seronymus Leicas are storyboards edited to voice over and rough sound effects that are handed off to animation. Sometimes also called animatics. It's what this video is.
Yeah, probably because now people is used to see super clean boards that are almost animated which mirrors the final product. The original storyboards of this pilot are more loose and off model.
I'm just getting started watching this, and to me this workprint of Space Pilot 3000 looks like an extended, longer prototype of what the episode here's supposed to originally look like.
0:27 "Even my grandma got past the first monkey, and she thought this was a cigarette machine!" That's a great line, I kinda wish they kept it 😂 0:36 It's even more tragic this way, because Fry wasn't even supposed to be working. _And,_ if Michelle had picked him up instead of standing him up (and cheating on him, and dumping him), he wouldn't have been around to get sent on this delivery. 3:363:43 This reaction seems more accurate to Fry's character, rather than immediately realizing it's the far future and he'll never see anyone from his old life again. But I guess it probably dampens the impact of the reveal. 5:58 "He don't look too good for his age" 😂 8:54 I love this! Honestly, if you're from the past, it would be cool to be able to see the Empire State Building's uppermost levels up close without having to go inside! 9:14 This is such a cute thing for Fry to do. And I love how confused the robot/machine is about it. 20:59 The extended New Year's Rockin' Eve sequence is kinda fun, but I understand why they cut it short. 23:15 This is a fun line! I sorta wish they kept it in. But it probably hurts the pacing a little bit. 24:02 This is a cute scene!
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The "Favorite suicide booth since 2008" joke is even funnier with the hindsight of the recession.
I just realized the show came out in 1999. I seriously thought they were joking about the financial crisis.
I mean the jokes were written by PhD owners. They could of predicted the economy quite easily.
@@VinluvAntonHandesbukia Silly silly redditor. First off, a PhD doesn't make you an economics expert, second off, the factors that led to the recession hadn't yet shown themselves in 1999, so unless they were able to see the future, they wouldn't know
@@realkekz I’m not a redditor you Freudian Dip.
@@realkekz they definitely used that year on purpose. if there was no joke in it they wouldnt have used it. all they had to do was be paying attention to the economy. theres people who report on it and make these predictions. they didnt have to do that themselves.
it's amazing how flawless this pilot was. Pilots are notoriously hard to make. A lot of great shows have mediocre pilot episodes but this just stands out
I think it also helps that the crew had almost a decade of experience working on the Simpsons under thier belt
Leela's a pilot 😛
@@justina1909 That doesn’t make it any less of an amazing introduction episode tho
well it's an important episode to the series
Futurama is flawless
"Hey, my bike's gone!"
It's amazing how many great jokes get cut for time on this show
Joke that got replaced with was longer
He already saw his bike getting stolen. That was pointless
@@yalkn2073 Mmmm. I don't think he did notice. The guy yells "happy new year!", but Fry doesn't react to that OR his bike getting stolen.
That would’ve been the best joke in the episode hands down
I understand cutting it to make room for Fry dawning on how everything in his life is gone, but I feel he could’ve said it after the intro-
"Do not tip the delivery boy"
That shit legitimately hurt me lol
Even going back to the pilot's storyboarding Nibbler was there... Neat...
That's how you know this is edited together.
Nibbler WAS NOT there for the original airing of the final pilot episode.
People really like pushing the narritive that it was all planned. It was not. It'd be pretty cool if it was but I'm sick of people pushing cool sounding theories and silencing actuality.
@@JamesR624 Lol chill dude. Nibbler's shadow is there in the original. Look at an old vhs recorded version if you think the pilot episode was edited later to include it.
@@JamesR624 he was definitely not there for the first episode! NOT THERE! I’ve seen every episode so many times it’s only in the memory when nibbler tells him but it’s not in the actual first episode
@@JakeTheZig it’s not there I’ve seen the originals
@@NB-ir1me I double checked it before I posted my comment. You're just going off of an old memory. You're wrong, buddy. Sorry
It's neat to see Fry was at work waiting on his girlfriend. The limousine scene makes more sense.
iiWNMii It makes more sense than when you see her in Hollywood with that actor in the year 3000
Its a taxi 🚖
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@Repent to Jesus Christ Repent to Jesus Christ
Your timestamp is my response.
this pilot had more detail than the released one i think
There's so many great jokes in this storyboard version of the pilot already! The dialogue in this is almost the same as the final version, plus even here the models are really polished, you can even see that they already have wireframe renders of the 3D animation this early in production. Idk why, this stuff is just really impressive to me for some reason.
Behinds the scenes stuff is cool! It's like learning how a magic trick is done.
Yeah its a awesome technique iron giant production used. It's makes animation a lot easier since most of the work is already done.
I bet the CG stuff was started as soon as the story board was created. This was thrown together with VO to give to the animators who were probably foreign based something to get started on.
We gotta remember this was Matt Groening, so he had millions $$$ to throw around after the success of the Simpsons
@Repent to Jesus Christ Repent to Jesus Christ Ligma Deezus Christ
If I had a nickel for every time I've heard Fry say "I.C. Wiener."
Probably three or four
@@reptile1677 Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it’s happened that often.
@@reptile1677 Pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.
… Aw crud
@@reptile1677 no, it’s been waaaaaaaaaay more than that
13:41 Yes, December 31st, 2999 is, indeed, a Tuesday
Hah that’s in fact such great attention to detail
One of my favorite pilot episodes. You know everything important about the show within the allotted time and it never feels like you've wasted any time doing it
This is the closest I'll get to a free future a episode 1
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2:17 Nibbler's shadow was planned even in the storyboard
Good lord the conspiracy theorists aren't here.
See, with this storyboard, I can actually tell where Nibbler's shadow was supposed to be and is in the final episode. Now I get it.
@@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire Ya, but your going to have people claim that itd fake.
@@EllRiver Lol what do you mean conspiracy theory? Nibbler and his role in Fry’s freezing was always planned and was even blatantly explained in one of the episodes. It’s not much of a theory, it’s a fact of the show
@@adolfknitler2457 people claim that's fake and he was never in the pilot.
this is one of the cleanest animation pilots i've ever seen
I mean, they were fresh off of the Simpsons
Kinda crazy that they rendered the tools in the suicide booth in 3D. You’d think they wouldn’t bother with cgi until later.
how can you tell?
@@ngls The biggest clue is how fluid the animation is compared to everything else. They move in ways that would be insanely difficult to draw in full, and way too advanced to draw for a storyboard.
Same with the blimp.
I suspect those were added in post when this was made ready to be put on the DVD as a special feature.
The importance of the cgi adds to the atmosphere
oh my gosh x3
hey my bike's gone! @ 3:30
was replaced with, *"My family, my friends, everyone I know is dead - neat!*
I think that bike version was better
Actualy he says oh my god 2 times first then oh my gosh once
It wasn’t that it was “my family, my girlfriend, everyone I know is gone……. WAHOO!”
the bike one is a good line. they could have incorporated both
“My parents, my co-workers, my girlfriend. I’ll never see any of them again. Yahoo!”
4:55
*Leela:* “Yep, it’s December 31st 2999.”
*Fry:* “Oh my God! A million years.”
i think it was 4 year hes wahc wong
I could watch the whole series this way
It feels all practical and cost-effective.
*Fun seeing the neat little differences, sometimes just unused takes of lines, other times new lines entirely. I immediately noticed the lack of “You stink loser!” and Fry’s yelps in the freezer being done by what sounds like either a staff member or Matt Groening, but certainly not Billy West.*
Unrelated but do I know you? I have a mutual on twitter named Riley who’s big into the Beatles lmao
@@brendopls *same profile pic and everything? Draws Ren and Stimpy a lot? Nope, never heard of him*
@@rileyalt1251 hm must be someone different, I don’t think they draw ren and stimpy. I might still try to find you tho :D
@@brendopls Lmao assuming they were the same person is just as retarded if you thought two people in real life with the same name were the same person. Only its even more asinine because this is the internet and there's way more people than whatever backwater your dunce ass crawled out of.
@@LickMyMusketBallsYankee ok
I love that only the top half of the empire state building is showing, because the rest is probably still in old new york
Wow dude you can tell whoever storyboarded this is a great artist. The volume every character has is outstanding, and there's a great variety of points of view. I don't think it was ever topped in that regard, the show got flatter as it went on
2:26 I like how they didn't have Fry's voice actor do this part lol
they probably had him, but he just didn't make the fry voice
The fry voice is very similar to his real voice so it's more likely they didn't have him (Billy West)
@@skygalvan1880 ok
@@skygalvan1880 it was probably mat groening or david x cohen then
They tend to do this a lot during animatics for animated shows; they’ll switch between the original voice actor and then placeholder lines for voice lines that haven’t been completed yet. I could be wrong but I recall animatics for SpongeBob being the exact same way.
damn, even just the storyboard is enough to captivate me for a half hour. good show
13:31 The fact that I'm JUST catching the 1BDI joke now... LOL! I'll always love this show.
I like how they knew that nibler would push him in by the outlined shadow... it’s pretty prominent!
Even though I keep watching clips of Futurama here on UA-cam, I find this so nostalgic
Did you know the cast and crew worked on Zombie College?
2:18 you can see the drawing for nibblers shadow
I can’t believe I’ve only been recommended this now. Nice to see the pilot version
"you stink dude! Even my gramma got past the first monkey, and she thought this was a cigarette machine!" had me rolling.
IMO the “Hey my bikes gone!” Is way funnier than what they went with
@@alexanderzerka8477 It was replaced with "My friends, my family. Everyone I know is gone! - Neat."
@@TanakaMoon instead of "neat" he actually says "WAHOO!"
@@tiablue9106 Oof, my bad. It's been a while since I've watched Futurama
@@TanakaMoon no prob, there are many jokes that are just: (dramatic revelation)(pause)(fry reacts in an unfitting manner)(end of scene) lol
I laughed at it so hard, it really is a solid Fry moment
I mean regardless of this being a segueway to the intro theme - I would have enjoyed this quote so much better
The number of visual gags in this storyboard is actually amazing
Very good upload, so many jokes hit exactly the same as they did in the full pilot.
yeah man feels just right. funny seeing you here though!
How ironic that when this first aired it was a neat show about the future, but now 20 years later we're here looking back on it with nostalgia missing what once was and the time we had back then.
It's amazing when a show's concept can grow with the audience and be seen from two different perspectives from the airing and then the post airing.
Also, looking back on this show I kinda realize how hard they dropped the concept of the career chips considering it was the entire drive of the series being kicked off.
And the auto repairing tea cups etc. The longer the show went on the less futuristic it was.
The career chip thing was still there and it even mattered in some episodes, but they did relax on it.
I love that even in the pilot the old Planet Express crew died via space wasp
I love how its different here with Leela and Bender looking at each other
Yeah the show was developed back in 97, they planned almost the entirety of this show before making the pilot.
It is amazing how different it sounds without music.
“NO ONE MAKES FUN OF MY NOSE” is fucking hilarious
I love how Fry's voice literally changes when he gets in the cryo pod.
Man this really shows just how much care they put into this show
2:18
So cool that nibbler was there all along!
Weird seeing Fry's reaction to Leila after getting used to her eye myself lol
I was just thinking that lol. But I guess everyone when watching the pilot for the first time is weirded out at first
Also reminded me of that episode where she gets two eyes and it’s super uncanny lol
13:30 "This is officer 1B-DI"
Me: One B D I? One BDI... ONE BEADY EYE WAIT A MINUTE
December 31st 2999 lands on a Tuesday the writers never let a clever detail go to waste
My mans really made a UA-cam channel, uploaded one video, and left.
The Empire State Building joke is super funny and even helps foreshadow that bit about Old New York!
Exactly, I wish they showed that in at least 1 scene in the show instead of it being knocked over in Old New York.
Although there is a scene showing the before and after of Fry's house, and they included the Empire State Building not being there in the after portion, as it was knocked down, and I enjoyed that little detail.
7:30 After seeing this a hundred times I never asked: Did Leela know Fry adjusted the timer?
Noman Andersmith He probably told her about it at a later point.
she probably figured out herself after she woke up from her power nap
she was probably too focused on catching fry to think about it
Not like her co workers wouldn't have found her and let her out anyway though..
Hadn't Futurama be cancelled in 2003 they would probably talk about that
What a polished animatic. I haven't seen the pilot in a year or two and I didn't notice any changes except one (I don't remember the "most disasters happen without a warning" joke).
23:08 "If they try to take off, give em an ass-full of laser." lol
Even in the animatic, the weapons in the suicide booth are animated so well
I just wish Futurama was still being produced. 😔
I don't. The show ended with a good, well-made and sentimental episode. A great way to finish it without being destroyed.
The idea that shows should last forever is unhealthy and leads to worse art than you'd get if the creators get to frequently move on to new projects.
@@nobody-tj1mv I agree with this. I'd much rather a show be short but have a good send-off than to have it become a zombie like the Simpsons and Family Guy.
New futurama season is planned in Hulu
@@theworldofbms7923And it's coming in two weeks.
It’s interesting seeing little bits of extra scenes that weren’t in the episode
2:19 you see nibblers shadow
Officer 1BDI
This show was destined for greatness from the start
You can hear the voice actors in the background
9:48
Bender's first of many of his most famous line in the entierty of the run of whole show
"Bite my shiny metal ass."
One of the greatest animated shows
Plot twist: I. C. Wiener is still waiting for that pizza
“I must’ve been frozen for months!”
I'm so glad they decided to colorize it and add music.
8:58 they definitely had an idea of undeground New York since the pilot
Is it my imagination or did the person who composed the music for the series use this storyboard as a reference and he sampled the voices from this before the final product is ready?
voices are the first thing done, then the storyboard. probably music was the last thing
I think that's what they all do?
Music cues and themes can be developed early but they aren’t refined and cut to time until picture lock. You would never want to work from a Leica because it’s timing is pretty loose beyond overall runtime.
@@EnigmaticPenguin Leida?
@@seronymus Leicas are storyboards edited to voice over and rough sound effects that are handed off to animation. Sometimes also called animatics. It's what this video is.
it has many different lines from what we saw in the show but way different in this
People are calling this a storyboard, but this animatic was built from Key Layout drawings
Yeah, probably because now people is used to see super clean boards that are almost animated which mirrors the final product. The original storyboards of this pilot are more loose and off model.
You do realize this is basically the entire episode for free
3:36 I think I actually prefer this to what we got in the final version. It’s so perfect 😂
the ghostly “hello! Pizza delivery” trips me out
3:43, *I've must have been frozen for months*
Me: DOES THAT LOOK LIKE MONTHS TO YOU???
Ok that bike line was pretty good!
With the lack of audio it makes it feel like a old point and click game
24:56 "content of Space wasps stomach "
oh how things changed
First it was wasps, then it was bees, then it was a fourth dimensional space whale...
@@a_donut i don't remember the bee part
@@finden3362
Skip to 2:55
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Its from the episode “The Sting”
@@a_donut to be fair I think all 3 of these crews were meant to be different ones
@@m2cscream That makes more sense, I think I remember the whale being the first crew now
I can't help but feel sad watching this, I miss Futurama it was my childhood.
The suicide booth referencing 2008 is kinda spooky tbh
No bg music really gave the whole thing a very unique vibe
I remember watching this back in 2009 on the DVD.
I love the extra voice recordings that never made the cut. Very neat. 📷
Ohh man! Is being a while since I saw this. I still have the DVD boxes with this little gem
they had an advert for mom here, damn, they had a lot of ideas set in place
Zero wonder why this got greenlit. That was incredible!
All these amazing jokes and yet the one gag that consistently makes me crack up is "Monkey Fracas Jr"
Funny part is Dec 31, 2999 is actually on a Tuesday 😂
And December 31st, 1999 is on a Friday. Really amazing
I love the million years line.
The pilot episode was so long ago, the voice acting was probably recorded on tape, which is why you can hear the tape echo.
At 0:28, a little boy from Futurama who got voiced by Kath Soucie.
Fry's probably happy because he doesn't have to deliver anything that's pizza.
In the Cryonic Woman episode too it’s clear that his career chip would have made him a pizza delivery boy too, he really did dodge a bullet lmao
Leela kept the chip after all
There are a lot of interesting things in this but did anybody notice that the Slurm sign says “It’s highly addictive” in English instead of Alienese.
I also like that they put arrows to indicate that objects are moving.
@@kingdonut6675 this is an animatic, its so the animators can know what movements the characters/background are making
@@kingdonut6675 Literally everyone does that. That's how storyboards work.
I'm just getting started watching this, and to me this workprint of Space Pilot 3000 looks like an extended, longer prototype of what the episode here's supposed to originally look like.
9:25 made me chuckle...
Me too
why dose bender sound more depressed in this
lmao
john dimaggio was getting into the role. and bender was written less of the savy jerk he is today.
Well he just tried to kill himself
this was the first episode of the entire show so..
5:35 This is actually unsettling.
Edit: Found an early promo where this was animated! Fry's eyes glowed green, which makes more sense in context.
Hey guys I found this awesome UA-cam channel where you can pirate Futurama episodes it’s awesome
When the deadline is tomorrow and you ran out of budget
"I guess the owls ate my potpourri" is one of those subtle character-building jokes
Watching this as an adult it hits different
I wonder if Fry ever tells Leela he wound the clock back to 5 minutes.
This was quite a treat
I always thought it was amazing that the one building survived 3000 years, even through 2 lots of rebuilding society
And, presumably, without any further power failures.
I can't believe suicide booths are 25 cents in the year 3000. It's like paying a penny or less to die.
I know a guy who'll do it for free!
@@williamruiz5965 🤣
1:29 no power failures since WHEN???!?!?!?!
I fucking love this. Thank you for uploading it!
When fry reminds you of Marty GREAT SCOTT
0:27 "Even my grandma got past the first monkey, and she thought this was a cigarette machine!" That's a great line, I kinda wish they kept it 😂
0:36 It's even more tragic this way, because Fry wasn't even supposed to be working. _And,_ if Michelle had picked him up instead of standing him up (and cheating on him, and dumping him), he wouldn't have been around to get sent on this delivery.
3:36 3:43 This reaction seems more accurate to Fry's character, rather than immediately realizing it's the far future and he'll never see anyone from his old life again. But I guess it probably dampens the impact of the reveal.
5:58 "He don't look too good for his age" 😂
8:54 I love this! Honestly, if you're from the past, it would be cool to be able to see the Empire State Building's uppermost levels up close without having to go inside!
9:14 This is such a cute thing for Fry to do. And I love how confused the robot/machine is about it.
20:59 The extended New Year's Rockin' Eve sequence is kinda fun, but I understand why they cut it short.
23:15 This is a fun line! I sorta wish they kept it in. But it probably hurts the pacing a little bit.
24:02 This is a cute scene!
13:31 They have jokes crammed in literally every corner, don't they?