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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...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Jurassic Bark" is the best rated episode of "Futurama". It scored 9.5/10 based on 7282 votes. Directed by Swinton O. Scott III and written by Eric Kaplan, it aired on 11/17/2002. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Luck of the Fryrish".

  • Jurassic Bark
    9.5/107,282 votes
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    #1 - Jurassic Bark

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 11/17/2002

    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

  • The Luck of the Fryrish
    9.4/105,828 votes
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    #2 - The Luck of the Fryrish

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2001

    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

  • The Six Million Dollar Mon
    9.3/104,506 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Roswell That Ends Well
    9.1/103,832 votes
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    #4 - Roswell That Ends Well

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 12/9/2001

    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

  • The Sting
    9.1/104,019 votes
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    #5 - The Sting

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 6/1/2003

    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

  • The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
    9.1/104,000 votes
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    #6 - The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 8/10/2003

    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

  • Parasites Lost
    8.9/103,639 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • The Farnsworth Parabox
    8.9/103,245 votes
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    #8 - The Farnsworth Parabox

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 6/8/2003

    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

  • Godfellas
    8.8/103,769 votes
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    #9 - Godfellas

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 3/17/2002

    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

  • Leela's Homeworld
    8.7/103,251 votes
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    #10 - Leela's Homeworld

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/2002

    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

  • The Why of Fry
    8.7/102,972 votes
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    #11 - The Why of Fry

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 4/6/2003

    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

  • Space Pilot 3000
    8.6/105,377 votes
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    #12 - Space Pilot 3000

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/28/1999

    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

  • Amazon Women in the Mood
    8.6/103,649 votes
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    #13 - Amazon Women in the Mood

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2001

    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

  • The Problem with Popplers
    8.5/103,238 votes
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    #14 - The Problem with Popplers

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 5/7/2000

    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: Gregg Vanzo, Chris Sauve

    Writer: N/A

  • Anthology of Interest I
    8.5/103,274 votes
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    #15 - Anthology of Interest I

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/21/2000

    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: Rich Moore, Chris Louden

    Writer: David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler, Eric Rogers

  • The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
    8.5/103,061 votes
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    #16 - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2001

    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

  • The Butterjunk Effect
    8.5/103,000 votes
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    #17 - The Butterjunk Effect

    Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 7/18/2012

    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

  • Meanwhile
    8.5/1040 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • War Is the H-Word
    8.4/103,198 votes
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    #19 - War Is the H-Word

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/26/2000

    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

  • Fry & the Slurm Factory
    8.3/103,673 votes
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    #20 - Fry & the Slurm Factory

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/14/1999

    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

  • Time Keeps On Slippin'
    8.3/103,051 votes
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    #21 - Time Keeps On Slippin'

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 5/6/2001

    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

  • Where No Fan Has Gone Before
    8.3/103,135 votes
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    #22 - Where No Fan Has Gone Before

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 4/21/2002

    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

  • Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles
    8.3/102,723 votes
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    #23 - Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 3/30/2003

    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

  • Near-Death Wish
    8.3/102,504 votes
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    #24 - Near-Death Wish

    Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 8/15/2012

    The crew finds out Professor Farnsworth's parents are still alive on the Near Death Star.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Eric Horsted

  • I, Roommate
    8.2/104,190 votes
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    #25 - I, Roommate

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/6/1999

    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