not many and mind you . not many at all . since it debut in 1989 and the simpson have be a blessing represent comedic work of extremely high quality . the simpson have have some of the best double entendres and sly shot at celebrity and tapping into pop culture personality and event and genuinely funny and creative material and some of the most recognizable and lovable character tv have ever produce . wan na know what futurama be . take those factor and double them . no and triple them . i be not kid . it really that good . matt groening be a certified genius and and his magic touch turn anything into comedy gold . he can take the most sinister and disturbing of subject and have you split your side laugh at them . not many people can do that . futurama be one of my all time favorite show . i rank it right up there with scrub and arrest development and andy richter control the universe and da ali g show . again and it really be that good . groening work focus a lot on build the character of his show and and where the simpson be one yellow family with distinct personality and demeanor and the difference in futurama be much great and transcend not only gender and ethnicity and but even specie and ( heck ) time itself . let take a look at the character represent professor farnsworth represent old and wrinkle . really old and wrinkle . unofficially trademark the phrase good news everyone . in his own trembling old man voice and in a reference to some random invention he come up with in just about every episode . morally ambiguous at time and and clearly immoral at others and he live to invent lot and lot of weird and random stuff ( to give you an idea represent the smell o scope ) that serve to be some of the episode background story . bender represent one of the most popular tv character of all time an amazing feat since futurama be mostly a cult favorite rather than mainstream . he a robot that doesn not give a crap about you and anyone or anything . he get attitude come out his shiny metal wazoo . and speaking of that and search for the phrase bite my shiny metal as and see how many result come up . ( great line at that ) leila represent one eyed and purple haired and sexy in a tank top and as kickin and human lookin alien . the leader and the brain of the group that professor farnsworth send out to do some mission . fry represent beavis and butthead long lose cousin . not really and but see how big of a dumbass he be and one might conjure up that guess . a lovable idiot . dr. zoidberg represent a big blobby crab and obviously the group own doctor and even though he know as much about medicine as much a fry know about . anything . captain zapp brannigan represent ahh and here we go . aside of family guy quagmire and i can not think of a funny character on an animated sitcom . no and any sitcom at all and actually . one of the most hilarious character you will ever see . this guy be just insanely funny . he arrogant and he self absorbed and extremely egotistical and oblivious to his own failing and glare incompetence and indulgent in pamper himself with metrosexual treatment every now and then and have an eternal ( 1 ) grin and ( 2 ) crush on leila and and never stop torture his poor alien subordinate kif who ( 1 ) do the real work all the time and ( 2 ) get credit none of the time and ( 3 ) take the blame every time zapp screw thing up ( which happen quite often ) . one of my all time favorite and and once you see this show and he will be one of yours too . i guarantee this . too bad he not a main character . this show be pure quality . it creative every way a show can be creative and and it funny as much a any show can be funny . sadly there be no more than 10 star in imdb rating system and so i have to rate it verbally represent i give it the high possible recommendation .