[Smithy]

: The Simpsons will host a different crossover installment, and it involves… Futurama. Simpsons executive producer Al Jean announced at the show’s Comic-Con panel on Saturday that the two shows will join forces for an episode that will be recorded next month. It is slated to air on Fox as either the season 25 finale in May 2014 or as the season 26 premiere in fall 2014.

Speaking with EW after the session, Jean revealed the reasoning behind the blending of these two worlds. “Futurama is such an easy fit,” he says. “It’s really funny, and their show lends itself to any variety of plot lines. By having them on, we have a little freedom… The biggest thrill for me is that we don’t have to adjust the animation style.”

The plot will revolve around bad boys Bender and Bart: “Bender has to come back from the future to kill Bart because there’s something that Bart does now that makes the future really, really, really bad,” Jean continues. “Tip of the hat to Harlan Ellison.” (Ellison, by the way, will lend his voice to a different episode this season.)

The Futurama cast members who will visit The Simpsons include Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, and Maurice LaMarche. (Tress MacNeille will also be heard in the episode, as she’s also a voice actor for The Simpsons.) And DiMaggio has played Bender before on The Simpsons; he recorded a brief cameo as the foul-mouthed robot for a season 16 episode.

Comedy Central is currently airing the seventh and final season of Futurama. The series finale airs in September.

Think this'll probably work better than a simpsons/fg crossover

[Matt]

Amazing - hope this helps pave the way for Futurama to survive... somehow

[Shaun]

almost like they're running out of ideas

[Jordan.]

It didn't sound too bad until

“Bender has to come back from the future to kill Bart because there’s something that Bart does now that makes the future really, really, really bad,”

[Roy Mars III]

Futurama is too good of a show for the Simpsons to be in

[Samuel.]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

Futurama is too good of a show for the Simpsons to be in

[2].

[Ramsay]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

Futurama is too good of a show for the Simpsons to be in

Indeed

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

Futurama is too good of a show for the Simpsons to be in

Agreed

Totally underrated

[Z]

Originally Posted by Shaun

almost like they're running out of ideas

Sounds like it... but they've been going for an incredibly long time with The Simpsons, it's not surprising.