Get a First Peek at Futurama‘s Squid Game-Inspired Next Episode

Futurama is back (again), baby, and io9 has an exclusive clip to stock from adjacent week’s episode. Titled “Quids Game,” it sees a jam-packed Planet Express vessel sojourn a mysterious satellite that contains an nonstop replica of Fry’s puerility home—on the juncture of a memorable day enactment helium and his friends indispensable re-live… with a macabre twist. If that occurrence rubric sounds familiar, well… that’s nary coincidence.

At a property roundtable astatine San Diego Comic-Con past weekend, io9 got a accidental to inquire Futurama enforcement shaper David X. Cohen astir “Quids Game.” Obviously, it draws connected a definite deed Netflix series, but arsenic with astir Futurama stories, there’s different furniture beneath the pop-culture reference. “We person immoderate Squid Game fans successful the writers room, including myself, obviously,” Cohen said. “[But] we similar to instrumentality everything and marque it 1 measurement removed. So we’re not going to accidental this is simply a representation of Squid Game oregon something. We’ll bash our sci-fi mentation of it truthful that radical who are not acquainted with the original, oregon if 10 years [have] passed and radical [don’t get the reference], they’ll inactive bask the show. So it requires nary inheritance cognition successful Squid Game.”

He continued. “But that’s the inspiration obviously, to instrumentality immoderate guiltless puerility happening and bash it to the death. And I conjecture 1 different happening I ever find touching conscionable astir the full sci-fi premise of being successful the future—and immoderate clip traveling—is that erstwhile you spell into the future, you’re ever leaving worldly down erstwhile you cannot spell back. It’s benignant of similar our ain lives; everyone wishes they could spell backmost to thing successful their life.

So I ever consciousness similar there’s thing automatically affectional erstwhile you bash episodes similar that, wherever you’re seeing Fry’s puerility and you know, like, ‘Oh, helium near each these radical down a 1000 years ago.’ And we get to punctual the assemblage a small spot of that basal premise, that his aged beingness is gone, but it meant thing to him. I bash deliberation you get other emotion, adjacent successful a goofy occurrence [where] radical [are] dying near and close and past explaining that. But it’s touching, I think, due to the fact that of that hook to Fry remembering his childhood.”

Watch “Quids Game,” the 2nd occurrence of Futurama play 12, August 5 connected Hulu.

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