Futurama Episode Guide

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Episode Guide

Futurama: Season 5 (2008)

  • Season 5 Episode 16: The Wild Green Yonder - Part Four

    Part four of four. Hutch takes Fry to an abandoned cavern where he meets the Grand Curator. He is sent on a mission to prevent the destruction of the dwarf star by finding a substance called green chi which is located within the endangered star system

  • Season 5 Episode 15: The Wild Green Yonder - Part Three

    Part three of four. Fry goes undercover to work with Wong and cannot tell Leela he supports her cause for fear of sabotaging the operation. Elsewhere, Bender plans to apprehend Leela and the eco-warriors in exchange for a cash payout

  • Season 5 Episode 14: The Wild Green Yonder - Part Two

    Part two of four. Leela makes a stand when she discovers the Wongs are planning to build the world's largest miniature golf course with a black 18th hole, which will result in the destruction of innocent life forms. Elsewhere, Fry is kidnapped by a homeless man who takes him to the Great Hall of the Ancient Legion of Mad Fellows

  • Season 5 Episode 13: The Wild Green Yonder - Part One

    Part one of four. The Planet Express crew travels to Mars Vegas to visit Amy's parents' new casino, but when everyone arrives they are confronted by an eco-feminist group staging a protest. Amy's father defuses the situation by causing an explosion, during which Fry is knocked unconscious, and when he awakes he discovers he can hear people's thoughts

  • Season 5 Episode 12: Bender's Game - Part Four

    Part four of four. The gang does battle with the Tunnelling Horror and Fry continues on his mission to eradicate the anti-crystal, but is soon drawn to its promise of power. In a face-off with Mom, he transforms into a dragon and finds the secret weapon to finish the job once and for all

  • Season 5 Episode 11: Bender's Game - Part Three

    Part three of four. Fry and the gang are sucked into Bender's alternative reality, where Leela turns into a centaur and Farnsworth becomes the Great Wizard of Grayfarn. On their mission to destroy the anti-crystal, they finally make their way to the Cave of Hopelessness, where they come up against a marauding band of enemies

  • Season 5 Episode 10: Bender's Game - Part Two

    Part two of four. Mom makes an official announcement about the dark matter shortage, but privately assures her son that the crisis is merely a money-making scam. Farnsworth's history with Mom is revealed, and he claims to have a crystal to render dark matter useless - but cannot remember where he left it

  • Season 5 Episode 9: Bender's Game - Part One

    Part one of four. Bender becomes addicted to Dungeons & Dragons, and starts to believe he is really a character from the game - causing him to be committed to a robot asylum. Meanwhile, Leela enters a demolition derby against the wishes of Prof Farnsworth, who punishes her by fitting a collar that administers an electric shock in response to inappropriate thoughts

  • Season 5 Episode 8: Beast With a Billion Backs - Part Four

    Part four of four. Monster Yivo confesses his love for humanity and invites everyone to move into his abode to make amends after Leela discovered his initial motive was to reproduce. Bender is unimpressed when he learns robots are not allowed and decides to take action against the invader

  • Season 5 Episode 7: Beast With a Billion Backs - Part Three

    Part three of four. The creature uses a tentacle to control Fry as it dominates the Earth and makes him its messenger, but when the invader announces its good intentions Leela searches for an ulterior motive. Meanwhile, Bender becomes disillusioned with the League of Robots

    Thursday 3rd December 1:00am EST - Comedy Central
  • Season 5 Episode 6: Beast with a Billion Backs - Part Two

    Part two of four. President Nixon chooses not to listen to Professors Farnsworth and Wernstrom when they discover the anomaly destroys electrical devices and orders offensive action. Bender is inducted into the League of Robots after becoming Calculon's official stalker, while a heartbroken Fry decides to leave the universe

    Wednesday 2nd December 1:00am EST - Comedy Central
  • Season 5 Episode 5: Beast With A Billion Backs - Part 1

    Part one of four. The Planet Express gang is stunned when a planet-sized monster with amorous intentions appears after a gateway to another universe opens

    Tuesday 1st December 1:00am EST - Comedy Central
  • Season 5 Episode 4: Bender's Big Score Part 4

    Part four of four. The aliens convince President Nixon to relinquish control of the planet, leading the invaders to command every human to leave the Earth. Fry and the gang are forced to take refuge on Neptune before working up the courage to fight back

  • Season 5 Episode 3: Bender's Big Score Part 3

    Part three of four. The aliens now own everything on Earth and remove the obedience virus from Bender as he informs them he carried out their will and killed his friend, but Fry surprises everyone when he reappears at his own memorial service. Meanwhile, Lars proposes to Leela

  • Season 5 Episode 2: Bender's Big Score Part 2

    Part two of four. The email-scamming alien invaders start looting history and order Bender to kill Fry when the heartbroken former delivery boy uses the time code to travel to the year 2000. Meanwhile, Leela's relationship with Lars continues to bloom

  • Season 5 Episode 1: Bender's Big Score Part 1

    Part one of four. The Earth is invaded by unscrupulous alien telemarketers, Hermes loses his head in a limbo contest involving sabres and a code tattooed on Fry's backside reveals the key to time travel. With the voices of Billy West and Katey Sagal

Futurama: Season 4 (2002 - 2003)

  • Season 4 Episode 18: The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings

    Fry grows desperate to win Leela's love and affection, so makes a deal with the Robot Devil to become a famous musician

  • Season 4 Episode 17: Spanish Fry

    Fry is beamed aboard a spaceship, only to return the next day without his nose. Leela teams up with a surprise visitor to tackle the aliens responsible, who are intent on plundering the human face

  • Season 4 Episode 16: Three Hundred Big Boys

    When the government hands out $300 to each Earthican, things start to get out of hand as they blow it in a series of bizarre ways. With the voice of guest star Roseanne

  • Season 4 Episode 15: Farnsworth Parabox

    Professor Farnsworth wants to destroy a hideous experiment, but when he asks Leela to guard a forbidden box overnight, Fry and Bender are desperate to sneak a peek. Finally, she surrenders to her curiosity and opens it, throwing her into a parallel universe

  • Season 4 Episode 14: Obsoletely Fabulous

    When the Professor buys a new environmentally friendly robot to help around the office, a jealous Bender runs away, washing up on an island free from technology and inhabited by defunct models

  • Season 4 Episode 13: Bend Her

    The 3004 Olympics are in full swing and cheating is rife among the competitors - so an ever-hopeful Bender decides a sex change will win him a gold medal

  • Season 4 Episode 12: The Sting

    The crew is dispatched to collect honey and Fry is killed by a giant space bee, leading to Leela being tormented with guilt and turning to the honey for comfort

  • Season 4 Episode 11: Where No Fan Has Gone Before

    The cast of the original Star Trek series stars in a special episode in which Fry tries to resurrect the long-running saga, after he learns it was banned in the 23rd century

  • Season 4 Episode 10: The Why of Fry

    Fry is taken to Nibbler's home planet, where he discovers he has a genetic abnormality that makes him uniquely qualified for a mission to save the universe - and discovers the truth of what really happened on the night he was cryogenically frozen

  • Season 4 Episode 9: Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles

    The Planet Express crew comes into contact with a strange substance which makes everyone behave like teenagers. The Professor finds it difficult to reverse the process - but Leela discovers she has a chance to experience the happy childhood she always wished she'd had

    Wednesday 2nd December 9:00pm EST - Comedy Central
  • Season 4 Episode 8: Crimes of the Hot

    Rapidly rising temperatures threaten all life on Earth, so an emergency conference is convened in Japan. Professor Farnsworth admits responsibility for the crisis, claiming love distracted him from observing proper emission standards on his prototype robot. With the guest voice of Al Gore

  • Season 4 Episode 7: Jurassic Bark

    Fry tries to clone his beloved dog Seymour after he stumbles on the animal's fossilised remains in a 20th-century pizzeria recreated by archaeologists - but a jealous Bender sets out to thwart him

  • Season 4 Episode 6: Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV

    Bender finds fame as a TV superstar, but a protest group disapproves of his example to children, and orchestrates a campaign to get him sacked

  • Season 4 Episode 5: A Taste of Freedom

    Dr Zoidberg is sentenced to death for committing a serious breach of etiquette during Freedom Day celebrations, prompting the Decapodians to take their revenge by enslaving the whole world

    Sunday 29th November 11:00pm EST - Comedy Central
  • Season 4 Episode 4: Less Than Hero

    Fry and Leela discover that Dr Zoidberg's miracle cream imparts special powers, and join forces with Bender to form a superhero team

  • Season 4 Episode 3: Love and Rocket

    As Valentine's Day approaches, Bender's romance with the Planet Express ship puts the crew in jeopardy. Featuring the voices of Sigourney Weaver and Lucy Liu

  • Season 4 Episode 2: Leela's Homeworld

    Leela finally learns the truth about her parents and her own identity when she is named Orphan of the Year

  • Season 4 Episode 1: Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch

    Kif becomes pregnant and has to return to his homeland to give birth - while Amy questions his commitment to parenthood

Futurama: Season 3 (2001 - 2002)

  • Season 3 Episode 22: 30 Per Cent Iron Chef

    Bender attempts to become a cordon bleu chef, but finds it hard to create gourmet meals - until he is befriended by a mysterious space hobo who gives him a vial containing the 'pure essence of flavour'

  • Season 3 Episode 21: Future Stock

    A cryogenically frozen man from the 1980s becomes boss at Planet Express, and his first decision throws the company's future into doubt

  • Season 3 Episode 20: Godfellas

    Bender is accidentally shot into space and discovers a microscopic civilisation. The tiny aliens declare him their god - but his attempts to help them soon go awry

  • Season 3 Episode 19: Roswell That Ends Well

    Fry is shocked to realise he has become his own descendant after the Planet Express ship travels through time to Roswell in 1947, while Dr Zoidberg is captured by the military

  • Season 3 Episode 18: Anthology of Interest II

    The Professor fine-tunes his What-If machine, allowing the gang members to see how their lives could have turned out. Leela asks about her true home, and Bender finds out what it means to be human, while Fry wonders what life would be like in a video game

    Sunday 29th November 3:30am EST - Comedy Central
  • Season 3 Episode 17: A Pharaoh to Remember

    Bender's yearning to become a memorable figure prompts him to turn into a tyrannical pharaoh on Osiris 4 - so his friends try to bring him back down to earth

  • Season 3 Episode 16: A Leela of Her Own

    Leela flies the flag for women's sport by becoming the first female major league blernsball player. With the voices of Billy West and Katey Sagal

  • Season 3 Episode 15: I Dated a Robot

    Fry falls in love with a virtual robot modelled on actor Lucy Liu that he downloads from the internet. His worried friends try to shut down the website to rescue him, but are sidetracked when they discover her head at the company's office. Sci-fi animation, with the voice of Lucy Liu

  • Season 3 Episode 14: Time Keeps on Slipping

    The Professor creates a mutant basketball team - and accidentally disrupts the space-time continuum. Animated comedy, with the guest voices of the Harlem Globetrotters

  • Season 3 Episode 13: Bendin' in the Wind

    Fry and Bender salvage a Sixties camper van and restore the vintage vehicle to its former glory. With the guest voice of Beck

  • Season 3 Episode 12: The Route of All Evil

    Bender gets down to the serious business of home brewing, while Planet Express faces tough competition from a rival delivery company set up by Cubert and Hermes' son Dwight

  • Season 3 Episode 11: Insane in the Mainframe

    Fry is wrongly convicted of bank robbery and sent to an asylum for the criminally insane, where he is brainwashed into believing he is a robot - at which point the authorities decide he is cured and release him

    Monday 30th November 10:00pm EST - Comedy Central
  • Season 3 Episode 10: Where the Bugaboo Roam

    Amy's new boyfriend Kif hopes to impress her parents by retrieving their livestock after the herd is stolen by marauding Martians

    Monday 30th November 10:30pm EST - Comedy Central
  • Season 3 Episode 9: Cyber House Rules

    Fed up with feeling like an outcast, Leela has a second eye grafted on to her face and Bender tries to get rich quickly by adopting 12 children after learning about the government's seemingly lucrative stipend. Animated sci-fi comedy, with the voices of Billy West and Katey Sagal

  • Season 3 Episode 8: That's Lobstertainment!

    Dr Zoidberg persuades his long-lost uncle to make a film. Bender tricks Calculon into financing and starring in the film on the premise that he would be guaranteed an Oscar. However, the movie is a complete flop and Calculon threatens to kill Dr Zoidberg's uncle unless he somehow wins an award

  • Season 3 Episode 7: The Day the Earth Stood Stupid

    Earth is invaded by brain spawn that have been destroying other planets, and begin robbing all humans of their intellect. Leela informs Fry it is his job to save the day, as he is the only one immune to their enemy's powers

  • Season 3 Episode 6: Bendless Love

    A sleepwalking Bender causes havoc at Planet Express by indiscriminately bending things in the middle of the night - so Professor Farnsworth sends him off to the Bending Factory, where his uncontrollable urge is put to good use

  • Season 3 Episode 5: Birdbot of Ice-Catraz

    Leela refuses to transport a consignment of hazardous cargo, so Professor Farnsworth puts Bender in command. However, he soon loses concentration and spills the shipment over a planet inhabited by penguins

  • Season 3 Episode 4: Luck of the Fryrish

    Fry visits the ruins of Old New York in search of the seven-leaf clover which brought him good luck in the 20th century, and resorts to digging up his brother Yancy's grave to find it

  • Season 3 Episode 3: A Tale of Two Santas

    The gang accidentally freezes the evil robot Santa, giving Fry the opportunity to revive the traditional jolly image of a bearer of good tidings and gifts

  • Season 3 Episode 2: Parasites Lost

    As a result of eating a suspicious egg sandwich, Fry experiences strange side-effects - becoming stronger and more intelligent. Professor Farnsworth is convinced the changes are caused by worms he has ingested, and persuades the others to shrink themselves and enter Fry's body to defeat them

  • Season 3 Episode 1: Amazon Women in the Mood

    Self-obsessed Starfleet captain Zapp Brannigan crashes the ship into a planet inhabited by a race of giant women, and the crew are sentenced to death - forcing Fry to look to Bender for help. With the voice of Bea Arthur

Futurama: Season 2 (1999 - 2000)

  • Season 2 Episode 19: The Cryonic Woman

    Fry meets an old girlfriend who comes out of deep freeze in the year 3000. Her life went downhill after Fry left her, so she decided to be cryogenically frozen, but finds it hard to adjust to the future. Featuring the guest voice of Pauly Shore

  • Season 2 Episode 18: The Honking

    Bender inherits a haunted castle, but falls victim to a curse and turns into a car, which according to legend will attack its closest friends. Animated sci-fi comedy, with the voices of Katey Sagal, Billy West and John DiMaggio

  • Season 2 Episode 17: War Is the H-Word

    Bender and Fry volunteer for military duty to enjoy the benefits of soldiers' discounts on various goods - but unfortunately for them, war breaks out the same day. Not to be outdone, Leela also decides to join the ranks, and creates quite a stir - especially in the eyes of her commander Zapp Brannigan

  • Season 2 Episode 16: Anthology of Interest Number One

    Fry, Leela and Bender use the Professor's 'What If' machine to see what would happen if their fondest wishes were granted. With the guest voices of former US vice president Al Gore, physicist Stephen Hawking and Star Trek actor Nichelle Nichols

  • Season 2 Episode 15: The Problem with Popplers

    The Planet Express team bring delicious aliens back to Earth, where the human population soon becomes addicted to them - leading to the threat of intergalactic war

  • Season 2 Episode 14: Mother's Day

    New New York's robots celebrate Mother's Day by lavishing presents on Mom, the founder of the company that made them. Unfortunately, the matriarchal inventor plans to use their devotion in a scheme to take over the world

  • Season 2 Episode 13: Bender Gets Made

    Bender tires of life on the straight and narrow and joins a cartel of robot gangsters - who order him to show his loyalty by stealing a consignment of Zuban cigars from a delivery ship

    Monday 7th December 12:00am EST - Comedy Central
  • Season 2 Episode 12: The Deep South

    The friends' ship sinks during a fishing trip, leaving them stranded at sea - where Fry falls in love with a mermaid who leads them to the lost city of Atlanta. With the voice of Sixties pop star Donovan

  • Season 2 Episode 11: How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back

    Hermes is elated to hear the Central Bureaucracy Division is planning an inspection, convinced he will be promoted. However, an unforeseen disaster puts an end to his dreams of climbing the corporate ladder - and reduces the office to rubble for good measure

    Sunday 6th December 11:30pm EST - Comedy Central
  • Season 2 Episode 10: A Clone of My Own

    The Professor uses his 150th birthday party to announce his retirement and stuns everybody by choosing his own clone as heir - but the obnoxious creation has a hidden agenda

  • Season 2 Episode 9: A Bicyclops Built for Two

    Leela fears her people will die out if she fails to mate with the only known male of her species. Even though he is not exactly what she had hoped for, she considers marrying him. Fry persuades Bender to accompany him to the Forbidden Valley, where they make a startling discovery

  • Season 2 Episode 8: Raging Bender

    Bender becomes a successful wrestler, and enjoys the prestige it brings - until he is instructed to take a dive against an opponent trained by Leela's old mentor. Guest starring Rich Little

  • Season 2 Episode 7: Put Your Head on My Shoulders

    Fry is involved in a crash and wakes up to find Zoidberg has been forced to graft his head onto Amy's body in order to save his life

  • Season 2 Episode 6: Lesser of Two Evils

    Bender's duplicate joins a mission to deliver a valuable atomic tiara to the Miss Universe pageant, but it goes missing in transit

  • Season 2 Episode 5: Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?

    Zoidberg's hormones go into overdrive during the mating season, prompting Fry to give him the benefit of his experience at wooing the opposite sex

  • Season 2 Episode 4: Xmas Story

    A murderous robotic Santa targets Fry and Leela at Christmas, while Bender does a good deed by volunteering to work at a shelter for the homeless. With the voices of John Goodman and Conan O'Brien

  • Season 2 Episode 3: A Head in the Polls

    The price of titanium shoots up after a mining disaster, so Bender tries to cash in by pawning his body - unwittingly giving Richard Nixon the chance to make a political comeback. With the voice of Claudia Schiffer

  • Season 2 Episode 2: Brannigan, Begin Again

    Zapp Brannigan gets thrown out of the service for wiping out a space conference, so decides to join the Planet Express team - inspiring Fry and Bender to plot a mutiny against Leela

  • Season 2 Episode 1: I Second That Emotion

    Bender flushes Nibbler down the toilet in a jealous rage, leaving the rest of the gang to trawl the sewer system in search of him. As punishment, Professor Farnsworth fits the robot with an empathy chip which forces him to experience the same emotions as Leela, who is overcome by sadness at the loss of her beloved pet

Futurama: Season 1 (1999)

Futurama: Special

  • Welcome to the World of Tomorrow

    Behind-the-scenes insight into the making of Matt Groening's follow-up to the hit animation series The Simpsons. Narrated by Tania Bryer

Futurama:

  • Beast with a Billion Backs

    Feature-length episode. A planet-sized tentacled alien from another universe takes over the Earth and uses its ability to control Fry to command an entire religion. Fry then tries to persuade the inhabitants of Earth to abandon the planet and live in a pseudo-heaven, leaving the robots of the world to inherit it

    Friday 4th December 1:00am EST - Comedy Central

Futurama: Feature-Length

  • Bender's Big Score

    Feature-length episode. The Earth is invaded by unscrupulous alien telemarketers, Hermes loses his head in a limbo contest involving sabres, and a code tattooed on Fry's backside reveals the key to time travel. With the voices of Billy West and Katey Sagal