Listmania! - Part IV
Subject: my favourite episodes of Futurama
There are presented in chronological order, with brief descriptions alongside to help those who don’t recognize the episode by title alone.
Space Pilot 3000 – The series pilot/opener, where Fry is inadvertently cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999, awakening 1000 years in the future. Faced with the prospect of being a delivery boy again, Fry teams up with Bender to escape career counselor Leela
The Series Has Landed - After delivering a package to an amusement park on the moon, Fry shows Leela how to appreciate the celestial body while Bender and Amy must try and recover the keys to the ship
Fear of a Bot Planet - Bender delivers a package to a planet inhabited solely by human-hating robots and becomes an idol to them. Fry and Leela, disguised as robots, endeavor to help Bender escape
Hell Is Other Robots - To break his addiction to electricity, Bender converts to Robotology. But when he reverts back to his old ways, he is sent to Robot Hell for eternal damnation at the hands of the Robot Devil
When Aliens Attack - The Omicronians invade Earth, demanding to see the lost final episode of the 1999 TV show "Single Female Lawyer". The Planet Express crew must re-enact the episode to appease the invading aliens
A Head in the Polls – Richard Nixon (well, his head anyway…) revives his political career and runs for the presidency of Earth, using Bender’s stolen body to boost his popularity
Raging Bender – Bender is recruited by the Ultimate Robot Fighting League, but things turn sour when he is instructed to intentionally lose his next match
A Clone of My Own – The Professor makes a clone of himself – Cubert – to carry on his life’s work, but when Cubert refuses to cooperate, a despondent Farnsworth is forced into premature retirement on the Near-Death Star
The Deep South - A fishing trip takes a turn for the worse when a colossal mouth bass drags the ship to the bottom of the sea. There, Fry falls in love with a mermaid, and the crew discovers the sunken city of Atlanta
Mother’s Day - Mom reprograms the world's robots to rebel against humanity. The only hope of salvation is Mom's old flame - Professor Farnsworth, who must rekindle his romance with Mom in order to save mankind
The Problem with Popplers - The crew discovers an irresistible source of food on a distant planet, and brings it back to Earth to be sold at the Fishy Joe's restaurant chain. But when it's discovered that they’re actually Omicronian babies, the Omicronians demand recompense
Anthology of Interest I – Using the Professor's "What-If" Machine, Bender discovers what it would be like if he were 500 feet tall, Leela discovers what it would be like if she were more impulsive, and Fry discovers what would happen if he never came to the future
Amazon Women in the Mood – Having crashed on the all-female planet Amazonia, Fry, Kif and Zapp Brannigan are judged by the ruling Femputer and sentenced to death by “snu-snu” (a.k.a. sex with the giant natives)
Parasites Lost – A shrunken crew journeys into Fry’s body to eradicate a worm infestation
The Day the Earth Stood Stupid - Earth is invaded by super-intelligent flying brains, who sap the Earth's populace of their intelligence. They are eventually defeated by the one person immune to their powers: Fry
Anthology of Interest II – Once again using the “What-If” Machine, Bender discovers what it would be like if he were human, Fry discovers what it would be like if life were more like a video game, and Leela discovers what it would be like if she found her true home
Roswell That Ends Well – The crew accidentally travels back in time to 1947 and crashes in Roswell, New Mexico
Godfellas - Accidentally lost in space after being shot out of the ship's torpedo tube, Bender becomes inhabited with tiny alien life forms, but has trouble playing God to their unyielding prayers
Future Stock – An unfrozen 1980s Wall Street corporate exec replaces Farnsworth as CEO of Planet Express, whereupon he sells the company to Mom’s Friendly Robot Corporation and puts everyone out of a job
A Taste of Freedom - When Dr. Zoidberg is sentenced to death for publicly devouring an Earth flag, the Decapodians (his people) invade Earth in order to teach the populace the true meaning of freedom
Where No Fan Has Gone Before - Fry leads the crew on a quest across the galaxy to regain the forbidden 79 episodes of the original Star Trek, where they encounter the cast of the show - as well as their captor, an obsessive fan named Melllvar
Three Hundred Big Boys - A $300 refund for all taxpayers results in a series of interconnected stories, following the Planet Express crew's endeavours to spend their money
There are presented in chronological order, with brief descriptions alongside to help those who don’t recognize the episode by title alone.
Space Pilot 3000 – The series pilot/opener, where Fry is inadvertently cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999, awakening 1000 years in the future. Faced with the prospect of being a delivery boy again, Fry teams up with Bender to escape career counselor Leela
The Series Has Landed - After delivering a package to an amusement park on the moon, Fry shows Leela how to appreciate the celestial body while Bender and Amy must try and recover the keys to the ship
Fear of a Bot Planet - Bender delivers a package to a planet inhabited solely by human-hating robots and becomes an idol to them. Fry and Leela, disguised as robots, endeavor to help Bender escape
Hell Is Other Robots - To break his addiction to electricity, Bender converts to Robotology. But when he reverts back to his old ways, he is sent to Robot Hell for eternal damnation at the hands of the Robot Devil
When Aliens Attack - The Omicronians invade Earth, demanding to see the lost final episode of the 1999 TV show "Single Female Lawyer". The Planet Express crew must re-enact the episode to appease the invading aliens
A Head in the Polls – Richard Nixon (well, his head anyway…) revives his political career and runs for the presidency of Earth, using Bender’s stolen body to boost his popularity
Raging Bender – Bender is recruited by the Ultimate Robot Fighting League, but things turn sour when he is instructed to intentionally lose his next match
A Clone of My Own – The Professor makes a clone of himself – Cubert – to carry on his life’s work, but when Cubert refuses to cooperate, a despondent Farnsworth is forced into premature retirement on the Near-Death Star
The Deep South - A fishing trip takes a turn for the worse when a colossal mouth bass drags the ship to the bottom of the sea. There, Fry falls in love with a mermaid, and the crew discovers the sunken city of Atlanta
Mother’s Day - Mom reprograms the world's robots to rebel against humanity. The only hope of salvation is Mom's old flame - Professor Farnsworth, who must rekindle his romance with Mom in order to save mankind
The Problem with Popplers - The crew discovers an irresistible source of food on a distant planet, and brings it back to Earth to be sold at the Fishy Joe's restaurant chain. But when it's discovered that they’re actually Omicronian babies, the Omicronians demand recompense
Anthology of Interest I – Using the Professor's "What-If" Machine, Bender discovers what it would be like if he were 500 feet tall, Leela discovers what it would be like if she were more impulsive, and Fry discovers what would happen if he never came to the future
Amazon Women in the Mood – Having crashed on the all-female planet Amazonia, Fry, Kif and Zapp Brannigan are judged by the ruling Femputer and sentenced to death by “snu-snu” (a.k.a. sex with the giant natives)
Parasites Lost – A shrunken crew journeys into Fry’s body to eradicate a worm infestation
The Day the Earth Stood Stupid - Earth is invaded by super-intelligent flying brains, who sap the Earth's populace of their intelligence. They are eventually defeated by the one person immune to their powers: Fry
Anthology of Interest II – Once again using the “What-If” Machine, Bender discovers what it would be like if he were human, Fry discovers what it would be like if life were more like a video game, and Leela discovers what it would be like if she found her true home
Roswell That Ends Well – The crew accidentally travels back in time to 1947 and crashes in Roswell, New Mexico
Godfellas - Accidentally lost in space after being shot out of the ship's torpedo tube, Bender becomes inhabited with tiny alien life forms, but has trouble playing God to their unyielding prayers
Future Stock – An unfrozen 1980s Wall Street corporate exec replaces Farnsworth as CEO of Planet Express, whereupon he sells the company to Mom’s Friendly Robot Corporation and puts everyone out of a job
A Taste of Freedom - When Dr. Zoidberg is sentenced to death for publicly devouring an Earth flag, the Decapodians (his people) invade Earth in order to teach the populace the true meaning of freedom
Where No Fan Has Gone Before - Fry leads the crew on a quest across the galaxy to regain the forbidden 79 episodes of the original Star Trek, where they encounter the cast of the show - as well as their captor, an obsessive fan named Melllvar
Three Hundred Big Boys - A $300 refund for all taxpayers results in a series of interconnected stories, following the Planet Express crew's endeavours to spend their money
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