In case you hadn't noticed, owls are kind of big in the future. Not in an early 2010s "omg owls r soooo cute" way; more of a "oh my god the owls are taking over and they can't be stopped", type thing.
Owls are the pests of tomorrow in the world of Futurama, but they're more than just a stand-in for city pigeons or rats - there's an actual in-world reason behind their newfound pest status.
Anyone who's stayed in a city will know that rats and pigeons can sometimes be a problem, and New York is no exception. In the world of Futurama though, it's revealed that NYC took to introducing wild owls into the eco-system to deal with their pests.
The program went horribly awry however, as the owls proceeded to settle into the Big Apple and breed at an unprecedented scale, eventually changing their behaviour from nocturnal predators to daytime scavengers.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
