9.0/102 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
8.5/1040 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
8.2/1043 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: Ken Keeler
8.2/1041 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
8.0/101 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
7.8/106 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
7.7/1029 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
7.5/1046 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
7.5/1037 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
7.4/1066 votes#10 - 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
7.4/1041 votes#11 - 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
7.3/1055 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
7.3/1052 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
7.2/1034 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
7.2/1011 votes#15 - 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
7.2/1024 votes#16 - 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
7.1/1037 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
6.9/1034 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
6.8/109 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
5.0/101 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
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"Stimpy's Fan Club" is the best rated episode directed by Peter Avanzino. It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. It was written by John Kricfalusi. It aired on 4/24/1993 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Meanwhile".