Filmed in Flatbush: Futurama

While it wasn't technically "filmed" in Flatbush, one episode of Matt Groening's "Futurama" featured more Ditmas Park references than the shows that actually do take over our streets. In the episode, ("The Luck of the Fryrish"- season 3, episode 10), Fry travels back to his old neighborhood, Ditmas Park, where he grew up in a fixer upper (left) in the 20th century. Now in the future it looks exactly the same as when his parents bought it. Mary Kay says, "A little TLC and $1.5 million and it's all yours!"

To get all the way out to South Brooklyn, Fry's robot friend Bender turns into a B train. In the video below you can see the writers' vision of the Newkirk Ave B,Q station in the future: dilapidated, but at least the red polls are still standing! Little did they know, the station would receive a 2-year renovation to keep it from ever looking like that. As Fry and crew are walking through the neighborhood, this funny exchange occurs:


Fry: On that corner, some guy with a bushy beard handed out a socialist newsletter!
Bender: Was it poorly zeroxed?
Fry: You better believe it!

If this episode didn't air in March of 2001, a couple years before Vox Pop opened, I would've thought that was a reference to Sander Hicks.



Thanks to James for the tip! Check out other posts from our "Filmed in Flatbush" series here.