While wishing William Shatner a happy birthday (his 80th is today) voice actor Maurice LaMarche announced (while in his bathrobe) that he has finished negotiating his contract and Futurama will be back for a seventh season!

We can only hope that it’s a full season and not a half season like the last three. I’ve been slowly catching up on season five which just hit DVD and Blu-ray recently and it’s just as good or even better than I remember the show being in the first place. And since it’s airing on Comedy Central as opposed to Cartoon Network or Fox it has a little bit of a sharper edge to it, also.

Maurice LaMarche provides voices for characters like Morbo, Kiff Kroker, Calculon, and everyone’s favorite Hyper Chicken. He might be best known as the voice of Brain from Animaniacs (and Pinky and the Brain).

The point of his video, though, was to highlight International Talk Like William Shatner day, which takes place on Shatner’s birthday. It seems like as fitting a holiday as any.