Alienese

Alienese, the alien written language seen throughout the show, was created as an in-joke to see how fast fans could decipher it.

The first language, a simple substitution cipher, was solved almost instantly.

The second language is much more complicated, but was solved thanks to the determination of Futurama's audience.

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Appearances

Episodes

• "Opening Sequence"
• "Space Pilot 3000"
• "The Series Has Landed"
• "My Three Suns"
• "Fry & the Slurm Factory"
• "Xmas Story"
• "The Lesser of Two Evils"
• "A Bicyclops Built for Two"
• "A Clone of My Own"
• "Bender Gets Made"
• "Anthology of Interest I"
• "War Is the H-Word"
• "Parasites Lost"
• "The Luck of the Fryrish"
• "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid"
• "The Cyber House Rules"
• "Bendin' in the Wind"
• "I Dated a Robot"
• "Anthology of Interest II"
• "The 30% Iron Chef"
• "Leela's Homeworld"
• "Less Than Hero"
• "A Taste of Freedom"
• "Crimes of the Hot"
• "The Why of Fry" although it isn't really show alienese, but it shows other symbols on the pillars in the temple on Nibbler's home planet.
• "Spanish Fry"
• "Lethal Inspection"
• "The Late Philip J. Fry"
• "The Six Million Dollar Mon"

Movies

• "Bender's Big Score"
• "The Beast with a Billion Backs"
• "Bender's Game"
• "Into the Wild Green Yonder"

Comics

• "The Owner of Mars Attacks!"
• "DOOP The Right Thing!"
• "Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?"
• "New Year's Rockin' Evil"
• "The Bender You Say"
• "The Time Bender Trilogy: Part 1"
• "The Read Menace!"

Other Media

Alienese has made one cameo on The Simpsons. In "Beware My Cheating Bart", Homer gets hooked on a parody of Lost. In a brief scene allowing the viewer to see the screen, alienese is shown on a Boulder with the actors of the parody staring at it. The text is, in English, "Watch Futurama Thursdays at 10."

The indie roguelite game Enter the Gungeon features a character that talks in Alienese (messages, reddit post).

External links

• Alienese Decoder WebApp - A webapp to translate to and from Alienese.
• Alienese Decoder Android App - An android app to translate to and from Alienese.