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The Best Episodes of Futurama Season 3

Every episode of Futurama Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Futurama Season 3!

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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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Honking" is the best rated episode of "Futurama" season 3. It scored 7.5/10 based on 2978 votes. Directed by Susie Dietter and written by Ken Keeler, it aired on 11/5/2000. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "War Is the H-Word".

  • The Honking
    7.5/102,978 votes

    #1 - The Honking

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/2000

    When the inheritance Bender claims in the Old Country isn't quite what he expected, the Planet Express crew has to find the source of an age-old curse.

    Director: Susie Dietter

    Writer: Ken Keeler

  • War Is the H-Word
    8.4/103,182 votes

    #2 - 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

  • The Cryonic Woman
    7.4/102,851 votes

    #3 - The Cryonic Woman

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 12/3/2000

    Fry is reunited with his old girlfriend from the 20th Century, but she doesn't adapt to the 31st century as well as he has. Convincing Fry to return to the cryogenic chamber, they awaken in a barren wasteland and struggle to make a place for themselves.

    Director: Mark Ervin

    Writer: J. Stewart Burns

  • Parasites Lost
    8.9/103,619 votes

    #4 - 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

  • Amazon Women in the Mood
    8.6/103,634 votes

    #5 - 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

  • Bendless Love
    7.3/102,746 votes

    #6 - Bendless Love

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2001

    Bender's urge to bend prompts Professor Farnsworth to send him on a rehabilitation visit to a steel factory, where he falls in love with a shapely fem-bot named Angleyne. But Bender's old rival Flexo and the intrusion of the Robot Mafia threaten to throw a wrench into the proceedings.

    Director: Swinton O. Scott III

    Writer: Eric Horsted

  • The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
    8.5/103,048 votes

    #7 - 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

  • That's Lobstertainment!
    7.1/102,764 votes

    #8 - That's Lobstertainment!

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2001

    Dr. Zoidberg reunites with his uncle, silent hologram star Harold Zoid, and the two of them set out to make a movie together. They cast the temperamental Calculon in the lead role, who demands an Oscar for his performance, but the movie doesn't go over well with audiences.

    Director: Bret Haaland

    Writer: Patric M. Verrone

  • The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz
    7.5/102,709 votes

    #9 - The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2001

    A sober Bender crashes a dark matter tanker on Pluto, threatening the penguin reserve nearby. Leela helps out in the clean-up, but when the penguins begin mating out of control, drastic action must be taken to thin the herd.

    Director: James Purdum

    Writer: Dan Vebber

  • The Luck of the Fryrish
    9.4/105,793 votes

    #10 - 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 Cyber House Rules
    7.7/102,758 votes

    #11 - The Cyber House Rules

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 4/1/2001

    Leela meets up with her former orphanarium playmate Adlai Atkins, now a plastic surgeon, who offers to grant Leela surgery that will give her two eyes. Meanwhile, Bender adopts twelve orphans in order to collect $1200 in government stipends.

    Director: Susie Dietter

    Writer: Lew Morton

  • Insane in the Mainframe
    8.1/102,884 votes

    #12 - Insane in the Mainframe

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 4/8/2001

    Accused of robbing a bank, Fry and Bender plead insanity and are both sent to a robot insane asylum. While Bender and his buddy Roberto plan an escape, Fry is brainwashed into thinking that he is a robot.

    Director: Peter Avanzino

    Writer: Bill Odenkirk

  • Bendin' in the Wind
    7.3/102,779 votes

    #13 - Bendin' in the Wind

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 4/22/2001

    When Bender is paralyzed in a tragic can opener accident, he discovers his musical washboard skills and goes on tour as a member of Beck's folk-rock band, acting as a voice for broken robots everywhere. Fry, Leela, Amy, and Zoidberg tag along in Fry's antique 1960s VW Van.

    Director: Ron Hughart

    Writer: Eric Horsted

  • Time Keeps On Slippin'
    8.3/103,036 votes

    #14 - 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

  • I Dated a Robot
    7.6/102,767 votes

    #15 - I Dated a Robot

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 5/13/2001

    Fry discovers the ability to download any celebrity onto a blank robot, and chooses to download Lucy Liu, with whom he falls madly in love. Repulsed by this disgusting display of human/robot love, Leela, Bender, and Zoidberg set out to shut down Nappster.com and put an end to illegal celebrity downloads forever.

    Director: James Purdum

    Writer: Eric Kaplan