The Best Episodes of Futurama Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.0/10(109 votes)

   #1 - Space Pilot 3000

   S1:E13/28/1999

   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.

   Directors:Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo

   Writers:Matt Groening, David X. Cohen

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   Directors:Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo

   Writers:Matt Groening, David X. Cohen
2. 

   7.5/10(78 votes)

   #2 - The Series Has Landed

   S1:E24/4/1999

   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

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   Director:Peter Avanzino

   Writer:Ken Keeler
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   7.9/10(71 votes)

   #3 - I, Roommate

   S1:E34/6/1999

   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

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   Director:Bret Haaland

   Writer:Eric Horsted
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   7.6/10(70 votes)

   #4 - Love's Labours Lost in Space

   S1:E44/13/1999

   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

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   Director:Brian Sheesley

   Writer:Brian Kelley
5. 

   7.5/10(65 votes)

   #5 - Fear of a Bot Planet

   S1:E54/20/1999

   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.

   Directors:Peter Avanzino, Carlos Baeza

   Writers:Heather Lombard, Evan Gore

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   Directors:Peter Avanzino, Carlos Baeza

   Writers:Heather Lombard, Evan Gore
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   7.6/10(67 votes)

   #6 - A Fishful of Dollars

   S1:E64/27/1999

   Fry discovers his bank account interest has made him a billionaire and buys the one thing the year 3000 doesn't have, anchovies.

   Directors:Ron Hughart, Gregg Vanzo

   Writer:Patric M. Verrone

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   Directors:Ron Hughart, Gregg Vanzo

   Writer:Patric M. Verrone
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   7.5/10(68 votes)

   #7 - My Three Suns

   S1:E75/4/1999

   Delivery Boy Philip J. Fry is promoted to Emperor after accidentally drinking his fluid-based predecessor.

   Directors:Kevin O'Brien, Jeffrey Lynch

   Writer:J. Stewart Burns

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   Directors:Kevin O'Brien, Jeffrey Lynch

   Writer:J. Stewart Burns
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   7.5/10(67 votes)

   #8 - A Big Piece of Garbage

   S1:E85/11/1999

   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

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   Director:Susie Dietter

   Writer:Lew Morton
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   7.8/10(66 votes)

   #9 - Hell Is Other Robots

   S1:E95/18/1999

   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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   Director:Rich Moore

   Writer:Eric Kaplan