DEVO to Guest Star on the 100th Episode of 'Futurama'

For their 100th episode, Futurama is getting a heavy dose of retro.

The sci-fi animated comedy from Simpsons creator Matt Groening was canceled in 2003 but is returning to the air with new episodes this summer—and futuristic rockers DEVO will be joining Fry, Leela and the gang for the show’s 100th episode.

The show’s executive producer, David X. Cohen, revealed a few details in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. Cohen said the band shows up to tackle a very important political issue in the Futurama world—mutant rights. When Leela’s parents are treated as second-class citizens due to their mutant status, DEVO frontman Mark Mothersbaugh and his bandmates, who have mutated themselves, join the fight for mutant equality.

With the mutant-equality plot line, we can assume then that the band won’t be appearing as disembodied heads, as musical guests like Beck, the Beastie Boys and Snoop Dogg (who, on the show, is also the Supreme Court Justice of Earth) have in the past.

The new season of Futurama starts June 24 on Comedy Central. DEVO will be busy, too, with a North American tour this summer, including a date at Lollapalooza.

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