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Futurama is a 1999-2003 US TV-series. The show is loosely based on the
late 1970s / early 1980s show Buck Rogers,
with the same concept of a 20th century man frozen for 500-1000 years.
Comics are published as well.
Eric Raabe, 22 October 2007,
and Eugene Ipavec, 25 February & 26 March 2005
image by António Martins, 12 September 2003
The Earth's Flag from the animated TV series is shown on The Leela Zone Futurama fansite.
In this particular episode (A taste of freedom), Dr. Zoidberg gets the death-penalty because he ate the flag.
J. Patrick Fischer, 25 January 2003
Since it is just a regular US flag with an image of
Earth (Americas showing) instead of the stars, I suppose it fits within the
historical / satyrical setting of the series.
António Martins, 12 September 2003
A [simplified] version of this flag is visible in the
episode The
Tip of the Zoidberg, along with
a MomCorp flag (see screenshot).
Aleksandar Nemet, 16 October 2011
In the show Buck Rogers, the uniforms also
feature an Earth flag that is essentially a US flag with an Earth in
the star field instead of stars. However, the stripes on the Buck
Rogers Earth flag seem to zig-zag slightly.
Eric Raabe, 22 October 2007
![[Earth vertical flag]](../images/f/fic-fea2.gif) image by António Martins and Eugene Ipavec, 1 March 2005 |
This flag appears at the back of the Earth Legislature chamber in the
episode When Aliens Attack. The vertical-hoist equivalent of the regular
Earth flag, presumably. Eugene Ipavec, 1 March 2005 |
![[Mongols]](../images/f/fic-futr19.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 5 July 2005
In the episode The Cryonic Woman, Fry and Bender borrow the
spaceship for a joyride, inadvertently dragging along the entire Planet Express
building, to which they are unknowingly moored by an unbreakable diamond
tether. A brief sight gag has the building smashing a hole in the Great Wall of
China, instantly causing nomadic warriors on horseback to flood through. The
flag they carry is that of Mongolia, except with altered
colors — gold/yellow/gold instead of red/blue/red, and the soyonbo
in red insted of yellow.
Eugene Ipavec, 5 July 2005
![[Foulded Gadsden flag]](../images/f/fic_gdfu.gif)
image by António Martins, 19 November 2011
In the episode All
the Presidents' Heads, the Futurama crew travels several
times through time, but once they finally come back, it is shown that Bender
changed the Gadsden flag in the past to his version.
Aleksandar Nemet, 1 October 2011
It shows the rattlesnake replaced with the likeness of Bender the robot, likewise in an aggressive stance, and the legend changed to read «Bite my fhiny metal aff» — this is supposed to read «Bite my shiny metal ass», with letters "f" standing for the correct sharp "s": "ſ" (the proper spelling for the last word would have been "aſs", however).
Please note that after distorting the flag shape (~3:4) the robot likeness
looks more deformed than
in the
original, for faulty perspective due to the intentionally
"rough" drawing style of Futurama.
António Martins, 19 November 2011
At the torchlighting ceremony of the 3004 Olympic (the Bend Her
episode), small flags waved by audience members are visible. A number of flags
can be seen being waved by spectators in that scene, including those
of: the UK, Canada, Brazil, Belgium,
Chile, South Korea and Sweden.
T. Mike, 17 February 2005,
and Eugene Ipavec, 19 February 2005
On the same scene as the modified Gadsden flag
is another historical U.S. flag, the "Betsy
Ross" design of the national flag. It too differs, having the canton taking
up only 6 stripes, not 7, although that's probably negligence, not
more of Bender's mischief in the fictional altered present/future.
(Screenshot)
António Martins, 19 November 2011
![[Cyberia]](../images/f/fic-fcyb.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 25 February 2005
The flag of Cyberia is seen in the Bend Her episode, flown at
the 3004 Olympics: Light blue field with centered darker blue diamond. Inside
the diamond is a device consisting of a grey (or maybe silver) vertical 4
fingered robot fist clenching a yellow lightning bolt.
(screengrab).
T. Mike, 17 February 2005
![[Decapodia 10]](../images/f/fic-fdc2.gif) image by Eugene Ipavec, 26 February 2005 |
In the episode Why Must I Be a Crustacean In Love?,
a vertical, dark-purple swallowtail with a thin
light-purple border is visible behind the Decapodian elder in the
arena while he presides over Fry's & Zoidberg's fight to the death.
(screengrab
from GotFuturama). T. Mike, 17 February 2005, and Eugene Ipavec, 26 February 2005 |
![[Decapodia 10]](../images/f/fic-fdc1.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 26 February 2005
At the spaceport, in the episode Why Must I Be a Crustacean In Love?,
a long, narrow pink flag can be seen, with the lower fourth taken up
by blue waves, cresting from left to right. It appears above the welcome
booth at the Decapodia spaceport. I think this might be a festival flag
for the Mating Frenzy.
T. Mike, 17 February 2005,
and Eugene Ipavec, 26 February 2005
![[Decapodia 10]](../images/f/fic-fdc3.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 26 February 2005
There's also a different, furled flag in A Taste of
Freedom (screengrab). It can be seen in the ambassador's office.
The flag is a rather festive design with twin narrow purple stripes on a violet background.
T. Mike, 17 February 2005,
and Eugene Ipavec, 26 February 2005
![[Decapodia 10]](../images/f/fic-fdce.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 26 February 2005
A further Decapodian flag pop up in the episode The Taste of
Freedom, in which the Decapodians invade Earth.
It can be seen flying from the top of the Mobile Opression Palace
This is likely the flag of
the Decapodian occupation government of Earth — it looks like an attempt to
combine Nazi and Soviet symbols,
with a white disk on a dark red field bearing a hammer in the grasp of a Decapodian claw.
Eugene Ipavec, 26 February 2005
The design seems to be similar to a real-world
flag, that of Russian neo-Nazi soviet-nostalgic organization National Bolshevik Party.
The design is another case of a Mock variation of
a (neo)Nazi flag.
António Martins, 12 & 15 September 2003
![[Devil's Island]](../images/f/fic-fdis.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 28 February 2005
A 3004 Olympics participant in the episode Bend Her.
Apparently an independent state by then.
A field of vertical green and dark blue stripes — four and five,
respectively — overlaid with the device of a yellow-eyed, bright-red
devil's head in profile, facing left. (Screengrab)
Eugene Ipavec, 28 February 2005
![[Globetrotters planet]](../images/f/fic-fhgt.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 25 February 2005
The episode A taste of freedom shows The Globetrotters' Homeworld flag
(see Screengrab).
T. Mike, 17 February 2005
The Globetrotter Homeworld — The Harlem Globetrotters are a
contemporary U.S. trick-basketball team. In Futurama they have their own
planet, from whence they occasionally emerge to challenge hapless Earthlings
to pick-up games. The flag appears on embassy row in The Taste of Freedom.
It's actually a rather nice design, based on
the Stars-and-Stripes motif of Globetrotter uniforms.
Eugene Ipavec, 25 February 2005
![[Klingons]](../images/f/fic-fkln.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 24 February 2005
The episode A taste of freedom shows a Klingon flag
(Screengrab).
T. Mike, 17 February 2005
For those who may be unaware, the Klingons
(from the TV show Star Trek) are an empire of uber-violent
warriors who live for nothing but valor on the battlefield and honor in death.
The humor inherent in giving them a purple-daisy-on-pink flag (to say nothing
of making the Klingon Embassy look like a Barbie Dream House) should now
become evident.
Eugene Ipavec, 18 February 2005
![[Nation of Joe&]](../images/f/fic-fnoj.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 28 February 2005
The flag of the Nation of Joe is seen in the Bend Her episode,
flown at the 3004 Olympics; a nation apparently consisting of one guy named Joe:
Red field with Joe's head in the center, facing right — a rather
strange expression on his face.
(screengrab
from www.Gotfuturama.com).
T. Mike, 17 February 2005,
and Eugene Ipavec, 28 February 2005
![[Neutrals]](../images/f/fic-neut.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 24 February 2005
The planet as seen in the episode Brannigan Begin Again.
(Capital: Neutropolis; Motto: "Live Free Or Don't").
The flag can be seen in the president's office, as well as on embassy
row in The Taste of Freedom.
Eugene Ipavec, 24 February 2005
I believe their flag is grey, based on the episode The Taste of Freedom.
The color of the embassy was grey, and the flag matched the embassy color,
grey.
Zachary Harden, 4 November 2004
From a symbolic standpoint, grey would indeed make it neutral in a "black
or white" context.
Marc Pasquin, 4 November 2004
The flag is completely beige
(Screengrab).
T. Mike, 17 February 2005
The Omicronians appear to have some kind of banner (vexilloid?) in the
Spanish Fry; episode
(Screengrab).
T. Mike, 17 February 2005
![[Unidentified aliens]](../images/f/fic-fnos.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 25 February 2005
The flag of the nasally endowed — and rather sensitive about it
— aliens that invade Earth in one of the Futurama comic books.
Eugene Ipavec, 25 February 2005
![[DOOP]](../images/f/fic-doop.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 1 March 2005
DOOP stands for Democratic Order of Planets. The interstellar government of
the year 3000 in the comedy series Futurama, and a satire of Star
Trek's Federation. The flag is broadly in the UN style, with DOOP centered in
lowercase in a deliberate retro-70s font; the field is a darker blue, though.
The whirly-atoms symbol over
which 'DOOP' is superimposed bears a striking resemblance to that
of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy
Agency.
Eugene Ipavec, 2 November 2004
Dark blue field, with a light green wreath, "doop" in yellow lowercase letters in the center surrounded by three overlapping red ovals, probably representing planetary orbits. One oval has two red dots on it.
This flag is seen in the Brannigan, Begin Again
episode: When Brannigan is court-martialed, he makes Kif wave this flag behind
him to add drama to his farewell speech.
T. Mike, 17 February 2005
![[DOOP emblem]](../images/f/fic)fdop.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 1 March 2005
The coat of arms first appears in the episode Brannigan Begin Again,
as does the flag. Simply the 'DOOP' symbol in an oval blue shield.
The only difference from the flag is that the small spheres in the elliptical
orbits in the center of the symbol are larger and golden.
Eugene Ipavec, 1 March 2005
![[DOOP roundel]](../images/f/fic)fdpr.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 1 March 2005
There's a DOOP spacecraft roundel too. It shows up fairly often
— every episode that features the "Nimbus". A simplified, unicolored
version of the logo.
Eugene Ipavec, 1 March 2005
![[Red field, black letters spelling MOM]](../images/f/fic-futr20.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 12 February 2006
The company flag of Mom's Friendly Robot Company — a division
of the megaconglomerate Momcorp, and the manufacturer of one of the
series' cast members, Bender the debauched robot, appears in the episode
Mother's Day. (Mom at Gotfuturama)
Eugene Ipavec, 12 February 2006
This is most probably a flag of the MomCorp owned by the Mom, although
there is already a flag of MomCorp
presented.
Here is a screenshot
with visible flag together with Earth flag
Wikipedia has more about this
episode The Tip of the Zoidberg and the fictional
character Mom.
Aleksandar Nemet, 16 October 2011
![[Future Olympic flag]](../images/f/fic-fioc.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 28 February 2005
The IOC flag seen at the 3004 Olympics — in the episode "Bend Her" — has
an extra two rings, for a total of seven. The idiosyncratic use of
colors and overlaps is reproduced as they appear onscreen.
Eugene Ipavec, 28 February 2005
Probably as a joke, but also getting around very strict IOC restrictions on
non-olympic use of the official symbol.
David Kendall, 18 February 2005
![[Space pirates]](../images/f/fic-fspr.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 26 March 2005
The Space Pirates, who have a part in the opening scenes of episode
Godfellas. Points of interest include a three-eyed skull,
odd curved-pennant shape and the choice of maroon instead of black, presumably
for enhanced visibility in space.
Eugene Ipavec, 26 March 2005
![[UFE]](../images/f/fic-fufe.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 1 March 2005
An UFE national flag that appears at the 3004 Olympics. It's included for the
sake of completeness. The design looks like Djibouti, but the
details are wrong.
Eugene Ipavec, 1 March 2005
