8.7/1051 votesLoading...#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
8.5/1043 votesLoading...#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
8.5/1040 votesLoading...#3 - 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
8.4/1040 votesLoading...#4 - 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
8.3/1042 votesLoading...#5 - 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
8.3/1039 votesLoading...#6 - 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
8.2/1041 votesLoading...#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
8.2/1039 votesLoading...#8 - 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
8.2/1044 votesLoading...#9 - 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
8.2/1043 votesLoading...#10 - 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, Ira Sherak
Writer: Ken Keeler, Lew Morton
8.0/1093 votesLoading...#11 - 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
8.0/1041 votesLoading...#12 - 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
8.0/1037 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.9/1038 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.8/1059 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.8/1041 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.8/1037 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.8/1040 votesLoading...#18 - Anthology of Interest II
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/6/2002
When the Professor fine tunes his "What-If" machine, Bender discovers what it would be like if he were human, Fry discovers what it would be like if life were more like a video game, and Leela discovers what it would be like if she found her true home.
Director: Bret Haaland
Writer: David X. Cohen, Lew Morton, Scott Kirby, Jason Gorbett
7.8/1036 votesLoading...#19 - Three Hundred Big Boys
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 6/15/2003
A $300 refund for all taxpayers results in a series of interconnected stories, following the Planet Express crew's endeavors to spend their money.
Director: Swinton O. Scott III
Writer: Eric Kaplan
7.8/1040 votesLoading...#20 - The Prisoner of Benda
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 8/19/2010
A revolutionary invention allows the crew members to exchange minds.
Director: Stephen Sandoval
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.7/1057 votesLoading...#21 - Hell Is Other Robots
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/18/1999
During a Beastie Boys concert, Bender runs into a high school buddy, Fender. He invites him to a party, which turns out to be robots getting high off of electricity, or "jacking on". After one try, Bender is hooked.
Director: Rich Moore
Writer: Eric Kaplan
7.7/1042 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.7/1042 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.7/1040 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.7/1041 votesLoading...#25 - Lethal Inspection
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 7/22/2010
Bender learns that he suffers from a mortal manufacturing defect.
Director: Ray Claffey
Writer: Eric Horsted
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 8.7/10 based on 51 votes. Directed by Swinton O. Scott III and written by Eric Kaplan, it aired on 11/17/2002. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Luck of the Fryrish".