Good news, everyone!

Hypnotoad is back…and so is “Futurama.”

The new season, starting Thursday, makes it seem like the show was never gone. Instead, the writers act like the show was stored, unchanged, in some sort of cryogenic freezing chamber for a few years.

Before you watch the premiere episodes, you should not expect it to pick up right where it left off in 2003 with the season 5 “The Devil’s Hands are Idle Play Things,” technically the last episode. Rather, the opening scene takes viewers to the moment when the Planet Express ship was rocketing toward a wormhole as seen in the last scene of the straight-to-DVD movie “Into the Wild Green Yonder.”

During the seven-year break between television episodes, four movies were released depicting what was going on in the year 3000. There is still debate between fans as to whether to give the DVDs their own season credit and claim those films as a full season (Comedy Central currently splits each 90-minute movie into four parts to air), or if season 6 will be welcomed to the world of tomorrow this Thursday.

But fear not dear viewer, you don’t have to watch the four movies released in 2008 and 2009 to know what you’re watching on Comedy Central. To get you caught up you should know a few things: Leela and Fry are in love and actually act upon their feelings…actually that’s about it; everything else is much the same. Bender still wants you to bite his shiny metal ass, Professor Farnsworth is still inventing controversial machinery and Earth continues to hail the preserved head of Richard Nixon as its president.

Not much has changed in the year 3000. But, overall, the animation is a bit better, the dialogue is cable-appropriate and static backgrounds are a thing of the past.

Watch two new episodes back-to-back at 9 p.m. Thursday, on Comedy Central.