NFT jokes aside, Futurama is still very much beloved ... Jones becoming a snake handler? “My fear of robots eventually turned into a love of all things futuristic,” Groening explained.

In 2001, animated US comedy Futurama played with the idea of people falling in love with robots, in an episode where Fry fell in love with a Lucy Lui-bot. Go back even further, and the 1973 film ...