Reincarnation

"Reincarnation", is the one hundredth and fourteenth episode of Futurama, the twenty-sixth and last of the sixth production season and the thirteenth and last of the eighth broadcast season. It was for some time thought to be the 'series finale', but the announcement of the upcoming seventh production season proved otherwise.

Story
In 3 mini-stories, Futurama is re-envisioned in 3 alternative animation styles - traditional style,  and  style.

Production
Much like "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and Into the Wild Green Yonder, this episode is written 'as if' it was the last episode ever of Futurama, and once again, they have put Ken Keeler in charge of writing the episode, as with "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and "Into the Wild Green Yonder".

The episode was originally titled "Ressurection", but it was changed to the current title in the process.

The episode is a three-parter and presumably non-canon, as with the Anthology of Interest episodes and "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular". The episode is divided into three different classic animation styles, in which the series will be "re-incarnated" in each: a black-and-white style, a low resolution video game style, and an  action style.

The episode was early on planned to be production episode 25 of season 6 (6ACV25), the second-to-last, but was in November 2010 changed to be the 26th episode - the season finale.

The Countdown to Futurama released six items from the episode: concept art of Bender in  style was released on 10 June, 2011; concept art of Nibbler in Fleisher style on 11 June; concept art of Fry in  style on 12 June; storyboard of a battle between a robot and a wizard from the anime style on 13 June; concept art of Leela and Bender in anime style on 14 June; a video clip from the anime sequence on 21 June.

David X. Cohen announced in a June, 2011 interview that "Reincarnation" was one of his favourite episodes of the broadcast season. He also said that they had licensed actual existing music to fit the different sequences - jazz for the Fleisher one, actual anime scores for the anime one, and video game music for the video game one - and that the anime sequence will be screened on the 2011.

Trivia

 * It is among the few one-word titled media.
 * Stephen Hawking will guest star.

Continuity

 * The concept of owls as pests is revisited.

Allusions

 * The space robot Zagtar looks similar to a.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Fry
 * Debut: Evil Wizard (disputed canon)
 * Hermes
 * Leela
 * Stephen Hawking's head
 * Nibbler
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Debut: Zagtar (disputed canon)
 * Zoidberg