For all of his academic work on mind-boggling scientific concepts, Stephen Hawking ... In TV animation Futurama, the perennially dim Phillip J Fry asked Prof Hawking: "Aren't you that physicist ...

Physicist and author Stephen Hawking appeared as himself, perhaps obviously, thrice on Futurama, and is part of the four-timers club on The Simpsons. For Futurama's mermaid-focused Season 2 ...

It's also significant because it includes the popular Futurama character Scruffy, the janitor at Planet Express who turns into a zombie. Stephen Hawking and Al Gore also played themselves in this ...