8.6/105,394 votes#1 - 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
8.0/104,319 votes#2 - 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
8.2/104,199 votes#3 - 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
8.1/103,996 votes#4 - Love's Labours Lost in Space
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/13/1999
On a mission intended to save endangered animals on a collapsing planet, Leela and the crew run into legendary starship captain Zapp Brannigan. A self-proclaimed ladies man, Zapp sees Leela as a potential new conquest. When the captain refuses to aid the animal rescue, Leela and her crew try to leave Zapp's starship. But Zapp throws Fry and Bender in jail, and summons Leela to his "Lovenasium". They ultimately escape and arrive on the doomed planet, where Leela finally finds love - with a cute, and very useful, creature named Nibbler.
Director: Brian Sheesley
Writer: Brian Kelley
7.8/103,773 votes#5 - 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, Carlos Baeza
Writer: Evan Gore, Heather Lombard
8.2/103,899 votes#6 - A Fishful of Dollars
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/27/1999
Fry discovers his bank account interest has made him a billionaire and buys the one thing the year 3000 doesn't have, anchovies.
Director: Gregg Vanzo, Ron Hughart
Writer: Patric M. Verrone
7.7/103,701 votes#7 - My Three Suns
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/4/1999
Delivery Boy Philip J. Fry is promoted to Emperor after accidentally drinking his fluid-based predecessor.
Director: Jeffrey Lynch, Kevin O'Brien
Writer: J. Stewart Burns
8.0/103,675 votes#8 - A Big Piece of Garbage
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/11/1999
A big piece of garbage that was released a thousand years ago is now on the way to Earth to destroy it. After Fry, Leela and Bender fail on placing a bomb on it, the city has to build another big piece of garbage, yet that may be a problem since trash doesn't exist in year 3000.
Director: Susie Dietter
Writer: Lew Morton
8.0/103,773 votes#9 - 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
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Space Pilot 3000" is the best rated episode of "Futurama" season 1. It scored 8.6/10 based on 5394 votes. Directed by Gregg Vanzo, Rich Moore and written by Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, it aired on 3/28/1999. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "The Series Has Landed".