Good news, everyone! is back for season 12. It’s been a long, strange journey to get here: Matt Groening’s follow-up to premiered in 1999 on Fox, where it lasted for four seasons before getting canceled. was then revived as four straight-to-DVD movies — , , , and — which later aired on Comedy Central, where the show was rescued and aired from 2008 until 2013.
The series was saved again in 2023 by , and “Hulurama” has already been renewed through season 14. But for now, let’s stick to season 12. Here’s everything you need to know about the new batch of episodes, including plot details and the premiere date.
Plot Last season, Fry, Leela, Bender, & Co. took on an Amazon-like company formed by Mom; caught a ; and get turned into toys (that was a weird one). In season 12 (which is technically the second half of season eight if you go by , but let’s stick with Hulu’s season designations for the sake of ease), the gang “embarks on mind-bending adventures involving birthday party games to the death, the secrets of Bender’s ancestral robot village, A.
I. friends (and enemies), impossibly cute beanbags, and the true 5 million-year-old story behind the consciousness-altering substance known as coffee,” according to the plot synopsis provided by the streamer. There’s also more about Fry and Leela’s relationship.
Fry and Leela are currently living together (and were even ), something the writers thought would never happen. “Oh, we’ll have Fry be this idiot.