In this episode, the Planet Express crew comes to the present to prevent an incident in the future.
John DiMaggio, David Herman, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Katey Sagal, Lauren Tom, Frank Welker, and Billy West reprised their roles from that series.
Principal Skinner shows a time capsule to be opened a thousand years later and tells each student to put something inside.
Lisa doubts that Bender is from the future, since present-day technology is relatively advanced, so she takes him to Professor Frink.
A communication hologram appears showing rabbit-like creatures attacking New New York in the future.
They go to dig up the capsule, but the creatures damage the time travel portal, sending everyone but Maggie and Bender to the future.
[2] In an interview with Entertainment Weekly about the episode, Groening said, "That was a really tough one to negotiate, because I had to talk to myself."
'"[3] The episode revealed that The Simpsons aliens Kang and Kodos are a lesbian couple.
Al Jean told Entertainment Weekly: "People are asking: is this episode canon?
In response to a sign in the episode showing Ralph Wiggum to have died in 2017, Jean said that it was in reference to the episode "Holidays of Future Passed" in which Ralph requires clones as his stupidity causes him to die in accidents.
"[7] Darren Franich of Entertainment Weekly stated, ".. .where 'The Simpsons Guy' fell down the meta-rabbit hole, 'Simpsorama' mostly settled for simple gags, with a hit ratio that was better than Futurama season 6 but not quite up to the standards of Futurama season 4.
[9] Re-Recording mixers Tara Paul and Mark Linden were nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation for this episode at the 67th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.