Everything about Futurama totally explained
Futurama is an
Emmy Award-winning
animated American sitcom created by
Matt Groening, and developed by Matt Groening and
David X. Cohen for the
Fox network. The series follows the adventures of a former
New York City pizza delivery boy
Philip J. Fry after he's accidentally
frozen, seconds after the start of a new millennium, on
January 1,
2000 and is revived one thousand years in the future.
In the United States, the series aired from
March 28,
1999 to
August 10,
2003 on
Fox before ceasing production.
Futurama was then aired on
Adult Swim on
Cartoon Network, from January 2003 to December 2007, when the network's contract expired. The series was revived in 2007 as four
straight-to-DVD films which would then be split into a sixteen-episode fifth season.
Comedy Central entered into an agreement with
20th Century Fox Television to syndicate the existing episodes and air the films as new episodes in an episodic format. Comedy Central began airing Futurama on
January 2,
2008, with new episodes starting on
March 23,
2008.
The name "Futurama" comes from a pavilion at the
1939 New York World's Fair. Designed by
Norman Bel Geddes, the
Futurama pavilion depicted what he imagined the world to look like in 1959.
Cast and characters
Futurama is essentially a workplace
sitcom whose plot revolves around the Planet Express delivery company and its employees. Episodes invariably feature the central trio of Fry, Leela and Bender, though storylines centered on the other main characters are common.
Philip J. Fry (Billy West): Philip J. Fry is a pizza delivery boy who accidentally becomes frozen just after midnight on January 1, 2000, reawakening on New Year's Eve, 2999. He gets a job as a cargo delivery boy at Planet Express, a company owned by his closest living relative, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth. Fry is, through actions which he takes in the episode "Roswell That Ends Well", his own grandfather.
Bender Bending Rodríguez (John DiMaggio): Bender is a foul-mouthed, alcoholic, cigar-smoking, kleptomaniacal, misanthropic, egocentric, ill-tempered, pessimistic robot originally programmed to bend girders for suicide booths. He is Fry's best friend and roommate.
;Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, a.k.a. The Professor (Billy West): Born April 9, 2841, Professor Hubert Farnsworth is Fry's distant nephew. Farnsworth founded Planet Express to fund his mad scientist-esque experiments and inventions. He clones himself to create a successor, Cubert Farnsworth.
Dr. John A. Zoidberg (Billy West): Zoidberg is a lobster-like alien from the planet Decapod 10 and is the neurotic and self-conscious staff physician of Planet Express. Although he claims to be an expert on humans, his knowledge of human anatomy and physiology is woefully inadequate. Zoidberg is basically penniless and held in contempt by virtually all.
;Amy Wong (Lauren Tom): Amy is an incredibly rich, blunt, spoiled and extremely accident-prone long-term intern at Planet Express. She is an engineering student at Mars University and heiress to the western hemisphere of Mars. Though born on Mars, she's ethnically Chinese, prone to frequently cursing in Cantonese and overuses 31st century slang. Her parents are Leo and Inez. Although initially portrayed as somewhat promiscuous, she eventually develops a relationship with Kif Kroker.
Hermes Conrad (Phil LaMarr): Hermes is the Jamaican accountant of Planet Express. A bureaucrat and proud of it, he's a stickler for regulation. Hermes is also a former champion in Olympic Limbo, a sport derived from the popular dance and similar to the track event of hurdling. He has a wife, LaBarbara, and a 12-year-old son, Dwight.
Setting
Futurama is set in New New York at the turn of the 31st century, in a time filled with technological wonders. The city of New New York has been built over the ruins of present-day
New York City, referred to as "Old New York". Various devices and architecture are similar to the
Populuxe design.
Global warming, inflexible
bureaucracy and
substance abuse are a few of the subjects given a 31st century exaggeration in a world where the problems have become both more extreme and more common.
Numerous technological advances have been made between the present day and the 31st century. The ability to keep heads
alive in jars was invented by
Ron Popeil (who has a guest cameo in "
A Big Piece of Garbage") which has resulted in many historical figures and current celebrities being present; this became the writers' excuse to feature and poke fun at celebrities in the show. Curiously, several of the preserved heads shown are those of people who were already dead well before the advent of this technology. One the most prominent examples of this anomaly being
Richard Nixon who died in 1994. The Internet, while being fully immersive and encompassing all senses--even featuring its own digital world (similar to
Tron or
The Matrix), is slow and largely consists of
pornography,
pop-up ads, and "filthy"
chat rooms. Some of it's edited to include educational material ostensibly for youth.
Television is still a primary form of entertainment. Self-aware robots are a common sight, as well as being the main cause of global warming thanks to their alcohol-powered systems.
The wheel is obsolete (no one but Fry even seems to recognize the design) having been forgotten and replaced by hovering vehicles and a network of large, clear
pneumatic transportation tubes.
Futurama's setting is a backdrop, and the writers are not above committing
continuity errors if they serve to further the gags. For example, while
the pilot episode implies that the previous Planet Express crew was killed by a space wasp, the later episode "
The Sting" is based on the crew having been killed by space bees instead. The "world of tomorrow" setting is used to highlight and lampoon issues of today and to parody the science fiction genre.
Society and culture
Earth is depicted as being multicultural to the extent where there are a wide range of human, robot, and extraterrestrial beings shown in the series who interact with the primary characters. In some ways the future is depicted as being more socially advanced than Fry's, and thus the audience's, reality. The future is often shown, though, to have many of the same types of problems, challenges, mistakes and prejudices of the present. Robots make up the largest "minority" in the series. They are often treated as second-class citizens, Many robots live in apartments specially constructed for robots, with rooms the size of a typical coat closet and closets the size of typical rooms. Sewer mutants are mutated humans who must live in the sewers by law. They hold
urban legend status and are regarded as fictional by some members of the public.
Religion is still a prominent part of society, although the dominant religions have evolved. A merger between the
major religious groups of the 20th century has resulted in the First Amalgamated Church, while
Voodoo is now mainstream. New religions include
Oprahism,
Robotology, and the banned religion of
Star Trek fandom. Religious figures in the series include
Father Changstein-El-Gamal, the
Robot Devil,
Reverend Preacherbot and passing references to
The Space Pope. While very few episodes focus exclusively on the religious aspect within the
Futurama universe they do cover a wide variety of subjects including predestination, prayer, the nature of salvation, and religious conversion. Numerous other
galaxies have been colonized or have made contact by the year 3000. Mars has been
terraformed and is home to Mars University as well as tribes similar to
Native Americans.
The heads of the past presidents from
George Washington to
Bill Clinton and many famous, and infamous, people from our era are placed in jars. These heads are displayed in the National Head Museum. They are fed food in a similar way to fish.
Linguistics
There are two alternative alphabets that appear often in the background of episodes, usually in the forms of
graffiti, advertisements or warning labels. Nearly all messages using alternative scripts translate directly into English. The first alphabet consists of abstract characters and is referred to as Alienese, The second alphabet uses a more complex
modular addition code, where the "next letter is given by the summation of all previous letters plus the current letter". The codes often provide additional jokes for fans dedicated enough to decode the messages. In the French dubbing of the show,
German is used as the extinct language instead.
Humor
Although the series utilized a wide range of styles of humor including:
self-deprecation,
black comedy,
off-color humor,
slapstick, and
surreal humor; its primary source of comedy was its
satirical depiction of everyday life in the future and its
parodical comparisons to the present. The series contrasted "
low culture" and "
high culture" comedy; for example, Bender's
catchphrase is the insult "Bite my shiny metal
ass" while his most terrifying nightmare is a vision of a
number 2, a joke referencing the
binary numeral system. These jokes included
mathematical jokes--such as "
Loew's -plex" (
aleph-null-plex) movie theater, Over its run, the series passes references to
quantum chromodynamics (the appearance of
Strong Force-brand
glue),
computer science (two separate books in a closet labeled
P and NP respectively, referring to the possibility that P and NP-complete problem classes are distinct),
electronics and
genetics (a mention of Bender's "
robo-, or RNA"). The show often features subtle references to classic
science fiction. These are most often
Star Trek - many soundbites are used in the series as an
homage or the black rectangular monolith labeled "Out of Order" in orbit around Jupiter (a reference to
Arthur C. Clarke's ). Bender and Fry sometimes watch a television show called
The Scary Door, a humorous
pastiche of
The Twilight Zone. Also, the sewer Mutants from New New York worship a nuclear warhead in reference to the film
Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
Opening sequence
Much like the
opening sequence in The Simpsons with its
chalkboard,
sax solo and
couch gags,
Futurama has a distinctive opening sequence featuring minor gags. As the show begins, the word "Futurama" is displayed across the screen along with a joke disclaimer such as "Painstakingly drawn before a live studio audience", "Presented in Doublevision (Where Drunk)", "Condemned by the Space Pope", "Filmed on location", or "Dancing Space Potatoes? YOU BET!" After flying through downtown New New York and past various recurring characters, the Planet Express Ship crashes into a large screen showing a short clip from a classic cartoon. These have included clips from
Looney Tunes shorts, cartoons produced by
Max Fleischer, a short section of
The Simpsons from a
Tracy Ullman episode, and the show's own opening sequence in
The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings. In
Bender's Big Score, the opening clip is from the first Futurama episode where Fry gets frozen.
The
Futurama theme song was written by
Christopher Tyng and is based on the song "Psyché Rock" by
Pierre Henry. The theme is played on the
tubular bells but is occasionally remixed for use in specific episodes including a version by
The Beastie Boys used for the episode "
Hell Is Other Robots" in which they guest starred. With
The Simpsons the network has no input. Groening explains, "When they tried to give me notes on
Futurama, I just said: 'No, we're going to do this just the way we did
Simpsons.' And they said, 'Well, we don't do business that way anymore.' And I said, 'Oh, well, that's the only way I do business.'" After negotiations, he received the same independence with
Futurama.
Production process
It takes six to nine months to make an episode of
Futurama.
Each episode began with the writers discussing the story in a group. Then a single staff writer wrote an outline and then a script. Once the first draft was finished, the writers and executive producers got together with the actors to do a table read. At this point the voice recording was also started and the script is out of the writers' hands.
Broadcast
When it came to deciding when the show would air, Groening and Cohen wanted
Futurama to be shown at 8:30 Sunday nights, following
The Simpsons. The network disagreed, opting instead to show two episodes in the Sunday night lineup before moving the show to its regular time slot on Tuesday. Beginning its second broadcast season
Futurama was again placed in the 8:30 Sunday spot, but by mid-season the show was moved again. This time
Futurama began airing in the 7:00 p.m. Sunday timeslot, its third position in under a year.
Due to the 7:00 p.m. Sunday timeslot, the show was often pre-empted by sports and usually had a later than average season premiere. It also allowed the writers and animators to get ahead of the broadcast schedule so that episodes intended for one season were not aired until the following season. By the beginning of the fourth broadcast season all the episodes to be aired that season had already been completed and writers were working at least a year in advance.
Ratings
When
Futurama debuted in the Fox Sunday night line-up at 8:30 p.m. between The Simpsons and The X-Files on March 28, 1999, it managed 19 million viewers, tying for 11th overall in that week's Nielsen Ratings. The following week, airing at the same time, Futurama drew 14.2 million viewers. The show was then moved to Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. Futurama's first episode airing on Tuesday drew 8.85 million viewers. Though its ratings were well below
The Simpsons, the first season of
Futurama rated higher than competing animated series:
King of the Hill,
Family Guy,
Dilbert,
South Park and
The PJs.
When
Futurama was effectively cancelled in 2003, it had averaged 6.4 million viewers for the first half of its fourth broadcast season.
Cancellation
Even by the fourth season
Futurama was still being aired erratically. This was parodied in the opening sequence of the last episode of Season 4 with a picture of Fry, Leela and Bender captioned, "See You On Some Other Channel." Due to being regularly pre-empted by sporting events, it became difficult to predict when new episodes would air. This erratic schedule resulted in Fox not airing several episodes that had been produced for seasons three and four, instead holding them over for the fifth season. Although
Futurama was never officially canceled, midway through the production of the fourth season, Fox decided to let it go out of production and told the writers and animators to look for new jobs.
Fox's decision to stop buying episodes of
Futurama led Rough Draft Studios, the animation producers, to fire its animators.
Futurama wasn't included in Fox's fall 2003 lineup.
Syndication
In
January 2003,
Cartoon Network began airing
Futurama episodes as the centerpiece to the expansion of their
Adult Swim cartoon block. In October 2005,
Comedy Central picked up the exclusive cable syndication rights to air
Futuramas 72-episode run at the start of 2008, following the expiration of Cartoon Network's contract. It was cited as the largest and most expensive acquisition in the network's history. It is currently airing every night, followed by
South Park. A recent Comedy Central teaser trailer announced the return of Futurama March 23, 2008,
which will be
Bender's Big Score divided into four episodes followed by the other three movies.
International syndication
The Series aired on the
Seven Network in
Australia when the show first began but was left off-air for a few years until 2005. It was then picked up by
Network Ten which aired repeats of the series until late 2007. The series is also shown most days on subscription based channel
FOX8.
In the
United Kingdom, repeats are broadcast on the digital channels
Sky One,
Sky Two and
Sky Three on weekends which previously aired the continuous run of seasons 1-4. Repeats were also shown on
Channel 4 until late 2005.
In
Latin America, the show is re-run by the cable channel Fox, during prime time Monday through Friday.
In
Canada, certain syndicated episodes are shown on
YTV Monday to Thursday in prime time and each day of the week at or after midnight.
In
Germany, all episodes were aired on
ProSieben.
In
Malaysia, episodes of the first two seasons were originally aired on
TV3, while episodes from the last two seasons were aired on
8TV after a rather long hiatus between TV3's airing of the last episode of season 2 and 8TV's airing of the first episode of Season 3. Both channels aired the show late at night, around 10:30 PM, with the appropriate ratings, as indication that the series wasn't suitable for minors. Nevertheless, some episodes were not aired for unknown reasons. Additionally, Futurama was also available on the Asia-wide
Star World network.
DVD movies
When Comedy Central began negotiating for the rights to air
Futurama reruns, Fox suggested that there was a possibility of also creating new episodes. Negotiations were already being made with the possibility of creating two or three
straight-to-DVD films. When Comedy Central committed to sixteen new episodes, it was decided that four films would be produced. On
April 26,
2006, Groening noted in an interview that co-creator David X. Cohen and numerous writers from the original series would be returning to work on the movies. All the original voice actors still take part in the series. In February 2007, Groening explained the format of the new stories: "[Thecrew is] writing them as movies and then we're going to chop them up, reconfigure them, write new material and try to make them work as separate episodes."
The first movie,, is written by
Ken Keeler and Cohen, and includes return appearances by the
Nibblonians, Seymour, Barbados Slim,
Robot Santa,
the "God" space entity,
Al Gore, and
Zapp Brannigan. It was animated in widescreen and was released on standard DVD on
November 27,
2007, with a
Blu-ray disc release to follow.
Futurama: Bender's Big Score was the first DVD release for which 20th Century Fox implemented measures intended to reduce the total carbon footprint of the production, manufacturing and distribution processes. Where it wasn't possible to completely eliminate carbon output
carbon offsets were used. They refer to the changed processes as "
carbon neutral".
According to
Rich Moore the titles of the other three movies are,, and .
Impact
References to Futurama in popular culture
- Futurama is referenced numerous times in Groening's first series The Simpsons. Squeaky Voiced Teen is once seen attempting suicide, jumping off a cliff screaming "Why did they cancel Futurama?". Bender has also had numerous cameos, the most notable in an episode named in reference to Futurama. Fry has also appeared in The Simpsons, during a couch gag. In addition, when Matt Groening appeared on the episode of The Simpsons entitled "My Big Fat Geek Wedding," he was identified as the creator of Futurama, as The Simpsons doesn't exist as a television program in its own diegesis. Also in the Simpsons episode "That 90's Show" Homer says to Bart and Lisa A struggling Matt Groening created Futurama.
In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore uses a scene from the episode "Crimes of the Hot" during his initial explanation of global warming. The Futurama cast and crew also made an animated promo titled "A Terrifying Message From Al Gore", featuring Gore and Bender. Al Gore is a recurring guest star in Futurama, his daughter Kristin Gore Cusack being a regular writer and story editor, and he's said that Futurama is his favorite show. The promo is included on the DVD release of .
In an episode of The PJs, Fry's face can be seen on a milk carton as a missing person, referencing Fry's disappearance after being frozen. This was an act of reciprocation for an advertisement of The PJs etched into a manhole cover in the Futurama episode "I Second That Emotion".
The Slurm logo, a popular beverage in Futurama, can be seen on a vending machine being thrown by the Young Avengers' Hulkling.
The Planet Express Ship appears in the Dark Horse Comics miniseries Outer Orbit, and the theme from Futurama was heard in the background of a scene on the moon in The Adventures of Pluto Nash. Also, in Alan Moore's "Top Ten" (issue 11), a discolored Fry, Leela, and Bender can be seen in the background of one of the frames.
A droid with the name "Probulator" appears in the Lucas Arts/Sony Online Entertainment online game .
In the Family Guy Star Wars special Blue Harvest, Bender can be seen in the background drinking in the Mos Eisley Cantina. Also in the beginning of, a reporter from Entertainment Weekly asks Stewie if FOX had any plans of bringing back Futurama.
In an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force entitled "Bible Fruit" the characters of Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shake have a discussion about watching Futurama.
Awards
| Wins |
Nominations Outstanding Directing in an Animated Television Production
Emmy Awards:
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation
Outstanding Animated Program
- 2002 — "Roswell That Ends Well"
Environmental Media Awards:
Comedy — TV Episodic
Writers Guild of America Award:
Animation
Annie Awards: Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Program
- 1999 — Futurama. The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Television
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production
Outstanding Achievement in a Primetime or Late Night Animated Television Program
- 2000 — Futurama. The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Television
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television Production
Outstanding Achievement in a Primetime or Late Night Animated Television Production
- 2001 — Futurama. The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Television
Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Production
- 2003 — Futurama. The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Television
Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production
Outstanding Writing in an Animated Television Production
- 2004 — Patric Verrone for episode "The Sting".
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Emmy Awards: Outstanding Animated Program
Outstanding Music and Lyrics
- 2004 — The song "I Want My Hands Back" for episode "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings"
Nebula Award:
Best Script
Writers Guild of America Award:
Animation
- 2004 — Patric Verrone for episode "The Sting"
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Media
DVD releases
Full season releases
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released all 4 seasons of Futurama on DVD in order:
| DVD Name |
Ep # |
Release dates |
Additional Features |
| Region 1 |
Region 2 |
Region 4 |
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13 |
March 25 2003 |
January 28 2002 |
November 27 2002 |
This three disc boxset includes the 13 episodes from production season 1. Bonus features include commentary on every episode, Animatics for "Space Pilot 3000", Deleted scenes, Script/storyboard for "Space Pilot 3000", Featurette, Interactive still gallery (stills & video) and easter eggs. |
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19 |
August 12 2003 |
November 11 2002 |
May 13 2003 |
This four disc boxset includes the 19 episodes from production season 2. Bonus features include commentary on every episode, deleted scenes, easter eggs, still gallery/concept art, alien alphabet. |
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22 |
March 9 2004 |
June 2 2003 |
September 24 2003 |
This four disc boxset includes the 22 episodes from production season 3. Bonus features include commentary on every episode, deleted scenes, animatics, still gallery/character art, 3D models from rough draft sequences, easter eggs. |
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18 |
August 24 2004 |
November 24 2003 |
November 24 2003 |
This four disc boxset includes the 18 episodes from production season 4. Bonus features include commentary on every episode, deleted scenes from 16 episodes, storyboard, character art and "How To Draw" galleries, animatics, 3-D Models, pencil tests, easter eggs. |
Note: Each of the box sets represent one of the four production seasons of the series. However, Fox spread out the series over 5 television seasons, often airing the series out of production order. Of note: after the production of Futurama was originally canceled, Fox aired the 16 previously unaired episodes, all from production seasons three and four, as a "season 5", running sporadically between November 2002 and August 2003. The box sets restore the episodes to production order.
Other DVDs
Films
| DVD Name |
Release dates |
Additional Features |
| Region 1 |
Region 2 |
Region 4 |
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November 27 2007 |
April 7 2008 |
March 5, 2008 |
Bonus features include complete commentary, full-length episode of Everybody Loves Hypno-Toad, Futurama math lecture, and promo for An Inconvenient Truth starring Bender and Al Gore. |
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June 302008 |
August 6, 2008 |
Bonus features include complete commentary, animatic, deleted scenes, storyboards, blooper reel, record sessions, 3D models with audio description, Celebrity featurette: David Cross, Bender or Cast reads credits, new character design sketches. |
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Comic books
First started in November 2000, Futurama Comics is a comic book series published by Bongo Comics based in the Futurama universe. While originally published only in the US, a UK, German and Australian version of the series is also available. Other than a different running order and presentation, the stories are the same in all versions.
Much like the TV series, each comic (bar the US episode #20, see below) has a caption at the top of the cover. For example: "Made In The USA! (Printed in Canada)". Some of the UK and Australian comics have different captions on the top of their comics (for example, the Australian version of #20 says "A 21st Century Comic Book" across the cover, while the US version doesn't have a caption on that issue). All series contain a letters page, artwork from readers and previews of other Bongo Comics coming up.
The Futurama comics may not be canonical per se. While they do draw from the Futurama universe, the events portrayed within them don't necessarily have any effect upon the continuity of the show.
Toys, games and figurines
While relatively uncommon, several action and tin figurines of various characters and items from the show have been made and are being sold by various hobby/online stores. When the show was initially licensed plans were made with Rocket USA to produce wind-up, walking tin figurines of both Bender and Nibbler with packaging artwork done by the original artists for the series. The Bender toys included a cigar and bottle of "Olde Fortran Malt Liquor" and featured moving eyes, antenna and a functioning compartment door; it received an "A" rating from Sci Fi Weekly. A can of Slurm cola actually contains a deck of cards featuring the Planet Express crew as the face cards. A two deck pack of cards was also released.
I-Men released two packs of 2.5 inch high figures: Fry and Calculon; Zoidberg and Morbo; Professor Farnsworth and URL; Robot Devil and Bender; Leela and Roberto. Each figure comes with a corresponding collectable coin that can also double as a figure stand.
The collectible releases include a set of bendable action figures, including Lieutenant Kif Kroker, Turanga Leela, and Bender. There have also been a few figures released by Moore Action Collectibles, including Fry, Turanga Leela, Bender, and the Planet Express Ship. In late 2006, Rocket USA brought out a limited edition 'super' heavyweight die cast Bender. Another special edition Bender figure was released at the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) in 2006; the figure was called "Glorious Golden Bender".
Toynami is currently producing new Futurama figures. The first series of the Toynami figures is separated into 3 waves; wave one, released in September 2007, featured Fry and Zoidberg, while wave two, released January 2008, consisted of Leela and Zapp. The third wave will include Bender and Kif and currently has no release date. Each figure comes with build-a-figure pieces to assemble the Robot Devil.
Video game
On September 15 2000, Unique Development Studios acquired the license to develop a Futurama video game for the consoles and handheld systems. Fox Interactive signed on to publish the game. Sierra Entertainment later became the game's publisher, and it was released on August 14, 2003. Versions are available for the PS2 and Xbox, both of which use cel-shading technology, however, the game was subsequently canceled on the Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance in North America and Europe.
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