One day in February 2003, there was a massive disturbance in the force, as if the voices of millions of geeks suddenly cried out in anguish. They’d just learnt that Matt Groening’s animated science-fiction series, Futurama, had been cancelled in its fourth season by the bigwigs at Fox Television. The off-the-wall television show originally ran for a respectable four seasons between 1999 and 2003, but was never as much of a hit as Groening’s other show, The Simpsons. Everyone knows The Simpsons’ catch phrases, but