Alienese, the Futurama Alien Alphabet

Alienese is the alien alphabet that Futurama’s writers hid in shop signs, billboards and graffiti from the very first episode, a running puzzle for attentive fans. The first alphabet (AL1) is a simple substitution cipher, cracked by viewers within days of the 1999 premiere.

The show’s writers, famously stacked with mathematicians, later introduced a second alphabet (AL2) that requires modular arithmetic to decode. Krunes uses the classic AL1 style, so your message becomes a background gag worthy of the year 3000.