The Best Episodes of Futurama
Every episode of Futurama ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Futurama!
The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
Top Episode Highlight
The best episode of "Futurama" is "Jurassic Bark", rated 9.5/10 from 6980 user votes. It was directed by Swinton O. Scott III and written by Eric Kaplan. "Jurassic Bark" aired on 11/17/2002 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Luck of the Fryrish".
9.5/10 6,980 votes#1 - Jurassic Bark
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 2002-11-17
Fry discovers his dog Seymour is being exhibited in a museum as a fossil, and takes it to Professor Farnsworth's lab to be revived. However, Bender is displeased with the lack of attention he has been receiving and becomes increasingly jealous of Seymour's fossil.
Director: Swinton O. Scott III
Writer: Eric Kaplan
9.4/10 5,578 votes#2 - The Luck of the Fryrish
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 2001-03-11
After a string of bad luck, Fry ventures into the decaying ruins of Old New York to regain his lucky seven-leaf clover from his childhood, only to find that his brother Yancy Fry had stolen not only the clover, but Fry's identity as well. Fry sets out to exhume his brother's body, but discovers the startling truth about Yancy instead.
Director: Chris Louden
Writer: Ron Weiner
9.3/10 4,351 votes#3 - The Six Million Dollar Mon
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 2012-07-25
Hermes replaces parts of his body with robotic counterparts so as to increase his productivity.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
9.1/10 3,667 votes#4 - Roswell That Ends Well
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2001-12-09
The combined explosions of a supernova and Fry putting metal in the microwave hurtle the Planet Express crew back in time to 1947. They land at Roswell, New Mexico, where a shattered Bender is mistaken for UFO debris, Zoidberg is taken in for an alien autopsy, and Fry accidentally kills his grandfather, Enis, in a nuclear explosion.
Director: Rich Moore
Writer: J. Stewart Burns
9.1/10 3,871 votes#5 - The Sting
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 2003-06-01
A mission to collect honey from deadly space bees apparently leads to Fry's sting-induced death. Leela is wracked with remorse, until Fry visits her in her dreams. As Leela's hallucinations intensify, she begins to suspect that she might be going crazy.
Director: Brian Sheesley
Writer: Patric M. Verrone
9.1/10 3,850 votes#6 - The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2003-08-10
Desperate to learn how to play the holophonor in order to impress Leela, Fry swaps hands with the Robot Devil. He goes on to become a skilled holophonor player, winning Leela's heart and penning an opera about her life story, but the Robot Devil still has a trick or two up his sleeve.
Director: Rich Moore
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.9/10 3,468 votes#7 - Parasites Lost
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2001-01-21
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
8.9/10 3,100 votes#8 - The Farnsworth Parabox
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 2003-06-08
Professor Farnsworth forbids the crew to look inside a mysterious box. Leela can't resist taking a peek, discovering the box to be a gateway to a parallel universe.
Director: Ron Hughart
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
8.8/10 3,616 votes#9 - Godfellas
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 2002-03-17
Bender is accidentally shot out of the ship's torpedo tube and becomes lost in space. Floating through the ethereal darkness, Bender becomes inhabited with tiny alien life forms, but has trouble playing God to their unyielding prayers.
Director: Susie Dietter
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.7/10 2,860 votes#10 - The Why of Fry
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 2003-04-06
Still unable to impress Leela, Fry sadly suspects that he has no importance in life - until Nibbler takes him on a mission to prevent the brains from destroying the universe. In the process, Fry learns what really happened when he was cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: David X. Cohen
8.6/10 5,086 votes#11 - Space Pilot 3000
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1999-03-28
On New Year's Eve 1999, Pizza Delivery boy Philip J. Fry accidentally falls into a cryogenic chamber and is frozen for 1,000 years. Finally unfrozen, he explores New New York, meets his new best friend (a kleptomaniacal robot named Bender) and goes to work for his great-great-great-great-grand-nephew's space delivery business.
Director: Gregg Vanzo, Rich Moore
Writer: Matt Groening, David X. Cohen
8.6/10 3,512 votes#12 - Amazon Women in the Mood
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2001-02-04
A double-date for Kif, Amy, Zapp, and Leela ends in disaster when their orbiting restaurant crashes on planet Amazonia. The hulking female inhabitants of the planet take their male captives to the omniscient Femputer, who orders Fry, Zapp, and Kif to death by "snu-snu".
Director: Brian Sheesley
Writer: Lew Morton
8.6/10 3,119 votes#13 - Leela's Homeworld
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2002-02-17
When Bender disposes nuclear waste in the sewers, the angry mutants drag him, Fry, and Leela down to the depths to be mutated. As they attempt to escape, Leela makes an incredible discovery about her true heritage, finally meeting her parents for the first time.
Director: Mark Ervin
Writer: Kristin Gore
8.5/10 3,104 votes#14 - The Problem with Popplers
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2000-05-07
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 the so-called "Popplers" are actually Omicronian babies, the Omicronians demand recompense.
Director: Chris Sauve, Gregg Vanzo
Writer: Patric M. Verrone, Darin Henry
8.5/10 3,136 votes#15 - Anthology of Interest I
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2000-05-21
The Professor's "What-If" machine simulates Bender, Leela and Fry's wishes. 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.
Director: Chris Louden, Rich Moore
Writer: David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler, Eric Rogers
8.5/10 2,931 votes#16 - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2001-02-18
Earth is invaded by super-intelligent flying brains, who sap the Earth's populace of their intelligence. Leela is taken to Nibbler's home planet Eternia, where the Nibblonians explain that only one human is immune to the brains' powers - Fry.
Director: Mark Ervin
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
8.5/10 2,898 votes#17 - The Butterjunk Effect
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 2012-07-18
Leela and Amy become addicted to the performance enhancing drug known as "Nectar" to increase their chances of winning at the epic sport of the Butterfly Derby.
Director: Crystal Chesney
Writer: Michael Rowe
8.5/10 37 votes#18 - Meanwhile
Season 7 Episode 26 - Aired 2013-09-04
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
8.4/10 3,072 votes#19 - War Is the H-Word
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2000-11-26
Fry and Bender enlist in the army to get a soldiers discount for bubblegum. When they are called to fight a war on a planet of bouncing ball aliens, Leela disguises herself as man to enlist with them. Bender is eventually sent to parley with the enemy, but this turns out to be a ploy.
Director: Ron Hughart
Writer: Eric Horsted
8.3/10 3,507 votes#20 - Fry & the Slurm Factory
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1999-11-14
When Fry wins a free tour of the Slurm soda factory, he and his friends split off from the tour group and make a horrifying discovery concerning the "secret ingredient" that makes Slurm so addictive.
Director: Ron Hughart
Writer: Lew Morton
8.3/10 2,933 votes#21 - Time Keeps On Slippin'
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2001-05-06
While creating a team of mutants to play the Harlem Globetrotters, the Professor accidentally causes a disruption in time that threatens the existence of the universe. Meanwhile, Fry tries to win an unreceptive Leela's heart.
Director: Chris Louden
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.3/10 3,022 votes#22 - Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2002-04-21
Fry leads the crew on a quest across the galaxy to regain the forbidden 79 episodes of "Star Trek: The Original Series", where they encounter the original cast of the show - as well as their captor, an obsessive energy being named Melllvar.
Director: Pat Shinagawa
Writer: David A. Goodman
8.3/10 2,608 votes#23 - Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2003-03-30
The crew's attempts to de-age Professor Farnsworth result in everyone returning to their more youthful stages. While Farnsworth seeks out a way to re-age the crew, the newly-teenaged Leela takes the opportunity to experience the parental childhood she never had.
Director: Bret Haaland
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
8.3/10 2,418 votes#24 - Near-Death Wish
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 2012-08-15
The crew finds out Professor Farnsworth's parents are still alive on the Near Death Star.
Director: Lance Kramer
Writer: Eric Horsted
8.2/10 3,966 votes#25 - I, Roommate
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1999-04-06
When it is discovered that Philip has been living in the Planet Express office, he is forced to move out. Trying to sleep standing up in Bender's closet-sized apartment doesn't work, so they go looking for a place both can be comfortable. Unfortunately, Bender is incompatible with the ideal apartment they do find until he has a radical... modification which makes him less than happy.
Director: Bret Haaland
Writer: Eric Horsted