Batman’s Adam West and Burt Ward to Guest on Futurama

Comedy Central announced today that Adam West and Burt Ward, who played Batman and Robin in the 1966 television series, will appear on the network’s fan-favorite animated comedy Futurama, which is entering its final season on the network.The last (at least for now) batch of new episodes of Futurama return to air beginning on June 19 at 10 p.m. EST.Aside from the character sketches shown at right and below, Comedy Central didn’t give fans much sense of what role the characters might play in the episode, which will debut in August and is titled “Leela and the Genestalk.”