The Best Episodes Directed By Peter Avanzino
Every TV Episode Directed by Peter Avanzino Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Peter Avanzino Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Peter Avanzino is "Stimpy's Fan Club", rated 9/10 from 2 user votes. It was "written by John Kricfalusi". "Stimpy's Fan Club" aired on 4/24/1993 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Meanwhile".
9.0/10 2 votes#1 - Stimpy's Fan Club
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/24/1993
Ren is jealous of Stimpy's constant stream of fan mail, so Stimpy makes his pal the president of his Fan Club, causing Ren delusions of grandeur, and ultimately, insanity.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: John Kricfalusi
8.5/10 39 votes#2 - Meanwhile
Season 7 Episode 26 - Aired 9/4/2013
Professor Farnsworth invents a button that can take a person 10 seconds back in time, inadvertently causing major consequences.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.2/10 42 votes#3 - The Late Philip J. Fry
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 7/29/2010
The Professor invents a one-way time machine. He, Fry and Bender go forward 1,000 years accidentally, and keep traveling forward in time until a backwards time machine has been invented.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Lew Morton
8.2/10 40 votes#4 - Parasites Lost
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/21/2001
When Fry becomes infested with parasitic worms that make him stronger and smarter, he finally finds the perfect way to profess his feelings to Leela. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew goes on a journey into Fry's body to eradicate the worms.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Eric Kaplan
8.0/10 1 votes#5 - A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 3/1/2006
The roommates help Xandir prepare to come out to his parents, with role-playing exercises.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Christian McLaughlin
7.8/10 6 votes#6 - The Other Cousin
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/1/2004
The roommates get a surprise family visitor. Toot, Wooldoor and Xandir abuse Ling-Ling.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Reid Harrison
7.7/10 28 votes#7 - The Impossible Stream
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 7/24/2023
Fry risks permanent insanity when he attempts to binge-watch every TV show ever made.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Patric M. Verrone
7.5/10 45 votes#8 - Xmas Story
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/19/1999
To apologize for an inconsiderate remark, Fry searches for the perfect Xmas gift for Leela, all the while trying to avoid the murderous SantaBot, whose standards for niceness are astronomically high.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: David X. Cohen
7.5/10 36 votes#9 - Insane in the Mainframe
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 4/8/2001
Accused of robbing a bank, Fry and Bender plead insanity and are both sent to a robot insane asylum. While Bender and his buddy Roberto plan an escape, Fry is brainwashed into thinking that he is a robot.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
7.4/10 40 votes#10 - Bender Gets Made
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/30/2000
Bender takes a new job in the Robot Mafia, but his loyalty is tested when he goes along on the robotic gangster's efforts to rob the Planet Express ship.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.4/10 65 votes#11 - The Series Has Landed
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/4/1999
For the crew's first mission, they must deliver a crate full of toys for an arcade game to the moon. Fry is very excited, while it is not really a big deal in the year 3000. Fry tries to persuade Leela to go exploring on the moon, while Amy tries to recover the keys to the Planet Express Ship.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.3/10 54 votes#12 - Fear of a Bot Planet
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/20/1999
Fry and Leela disguise themselves as robots to find Bender after he fails to return from a delivery to a robot planet, only to learn that he has become a celebrity in a culture which fears humans.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Evan Gore
7.3/10 51 votes#13 - A Flight to Remember
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1999
The Planet Express crew take a space cruise vacation. Leela tells Captain Zapp Brannigan that Fry is her boyfriend and Amy tells the same thing to her parents. Bender falls in love with a rich female robot. Problems start when the spaceship approaches a black hole.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.2/10 33 votes#14 - Reincarnation
Season 6 Episode 26 - Aired 9/8/2011
Futurama is reconceived in three alternate animation styles: classic black-and-white, old-school videogame, and Japanese anime.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Aaron Ehasz
7.2/10 24 votes#15 - Love's Tender Rampage
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/17/2018
Elfo lies to hide his feelings for Bean, but things get complicated when she tries to help him by sending the knights on a quest.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Jeny Batten
7.2/10 11 votes#16 - Hot Tub
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/2004
When the roommates move in, Clara offends Foxxy after assuming she's the house servant.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Dave Jeser
7.1/10 36 votes#17 - Spanish Fry
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 7/13/2003
Fry is abducted by aliens, who harvest his nose as an aphrodisiac. The crew traces Fry's missing nose to Lrrr, leader of the Omicronians, who decides that Fry's "lower horn" would be a much better aphrodisiac to jump start his stagnant marriage with Ndnd.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
6.8/10 33 votes#18 - The Six Million Dollar Mon
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 7/25/2012
Hermes replaces parts of his body with robotic counterparts so as to increase his productivity.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
6.8/10 9 votes#19 - The Unbearable Lightning of Bean
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/2022
Lonely Zøg searches the forest for his true love, Ursula the Bear, who's got a secret. Elfo, Luci and Bean stumble upon the site of an ancient battle.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Adam Briggs
5.0/10 1 votes#20 - Super Nanny
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/7/2005
Captain Hero faces off against Super Nanny, and Ling-Ling grapples with his cultural identity.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Dave Jeser