# [off-topic] Futurama/Turangalila *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Mar 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan Rabin *03 Mar 2002, 18:30* James Jordan supposes correctly that the name of the Futurama character Turanga Leela is derived from the title of the work by Messaien. I checked with my friend Jeff Westbrook, who used to write for the show; and he checked with Matt Groening, its creator: > At 12:01 PM -0800 3/1/02, Jeffery Westbrook wrote: > Checked with Matt. The name Turanga Leela is indeed based on the Messiaen > opera. Apparently it was a favorite of his a while ago. OK, I owe the list some Wolfe content. -- Dan Rabin ---