No one is going to argue that Futurama has any illusions of being even remotely realistic. Between the energy beings, the wide cast of bizarre aliens, mutants, and anthropomorphic robots, you can’t really argue that anything in the show is trying to mirror anything remotely close to “real life” at all. That is probably why these realistic busts of Futurama characters by deviantART-ist artanis-one are so awesome and, let’s be honest, disturbing.

Can you imagine if Zoidberg actually looked like that? It’s hard to picture him as the clown of the crew when you’re staring into the face of a realistic lobsterman. Imagine what his claws look like. “Woob woob woob” suddenly gets a little more sinister. I’m not even going to bring up Nibbler. You can see that for yourself.

Inspired by the above illustration by Kate Yampolskaya, a bunch of creative (and anonymous) people on the Internet Photoshopped some more awesome Futurama/Simpsons crossovers in the same vein.

77 years after Charles Guthrie amputated a dog’s head and sewed it onto the neck of another dog and made everyone really depressed after reading that bit of sentence, scientists patented a device to preserve severed heads. Yep, just like Futurama.

Good news, everyone! Someone has made a Futurama wedding cake. Alan Teo, who snapped the photo, writes:

Attended my friends’ wedding over the weekend. Both the bride and groom are über-Futurama fans. So naturally, they had to incorporate their favourite show into the wedding somehow. Needless to say, it’s easily the most awesome cake I’ve ever seen.

Check it out fully sized after the jump.

It’s been a rocky road for everyone’s favorite soon-to-be-retro-futuristic prime-time cartoon show, what with the cancellation, the network changes, the semi-return, and then the full return. But Futurama is finally coming up on its 100th glorious episode, and, as you can see, someone’s planning a party.

(The rest of this post contains plot spoilers for this week’s upcoming Futurama episode. On the other hand, if you click through, you’ll be able to grab a desktop-sized version of the image above. Choose wisely.)

LG Display has submitted a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission indicating they’re going to start producing a 9.7 color e-paper display and a 19 inch flexible e-paper display.

Companies tend to pump out neat prototypes that get shown off at events like the Consumer Electronics Show, but this is one of the first times in recent memory that “futuristic” technology familiar from film, such as the newspaper in Minority Report, will actually be put into production (and by the end of the year!).

We all knew the writing staff of Futurama was brainy but this is something else. To work out the ridiculous brain switching plot line from last night’s hilarious episode, writer Ken Keeler (who also just happens to have a PhD in mathematics) ended up writing and proving an entirely new theorem. This is probably the most impressive bit of side work from a TV writer since a writer of Desperate Housewives discovered a new species or the staff of Full House developed a vaccine for a specific strain of syphilis.

Bouletcorp has winningly mashed up Futurama with the animation style of Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki.

The wide-eyed cat-bus from My Neighbor Totoro + the lush leafiness of Princess Mononoke + Bender Bending Rodríguez = some shiny metal grass.

Sharp eyed (eared?) Roberto Baldwin of MacLife.com caught a bizarre discrepancy between the on-air showing of this week’s episode of Futurama, and the one that was posted online afterward: the audio of the final joke of the show was completely removed.

The last joke was the only one in the show that was specifically about… uh. Well, I guess it’s kind of a punchline, so we’ll talk about it after the jump.

Matt De Lanoy: man with too much time on his hands, or man with just the right amount of time on his hands? Looking at the images both above and below, we’re thinking the latter. This five foot-by-seven foot model of New New York from the recently returned Futurama wasn’t built in a day. It’s a project that has been in the making for over two years, according to De Lanoy on his Flickr gallery for the display.

It’s hard to get a sense of just how detailed this is from the wide-shots, and hard to get a sense of how massively epic it is from the close-ups. And there are too many great photos of it for us to show you them all here, so definitely head over to the aforelinked Flickr. De Lanoy didn’t just do buildings, but he populated the city with characters, even one-eyed Leena complete with custom head.