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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!

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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 employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Futurama Season 3 Episode 1 - The Honking
    7.5/10(3179 votes)

    #1 - The Honking

    S3:E1

    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

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  2. Futurama Season 3 Episode 2 - War Is the H-Word
    8.4/10(3392 votes)

    #2 - War Is the H-Word

    S3:E2

    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

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  3. Futurama Season 3 Episode 3 - The Cryonic Woman
    7.4/10(3045 votes)

    #3 - The Cryonic Woman

    S3:E3

    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

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  4. Futurama Season 3 Episode 4 - Parasites Lost
    9.0/10(3894 votes)

    #4 - Parasites Lost

    S3:E4

    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

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  5. Futurama Season 3 Episode 5 - Amazon Women in the Mood
    8.6/10(3883 votes)

    #5 - Amazon Women in the Mood

    S3:E5

    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

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  6. Futurama Season 3 Episode 6 - Bendless Love
    7.3/10(2931 votes)

    #6 - Bendless Love

    S3:E6

    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

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  7. Futurama Season 3 Episode 7 - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
    8.5/10(3252 votes)

    #7 - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid

    S3:E7

    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

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  8. Futurama Season 3 Episode 8 - That's Lobstertainment!
    7.1/10(2952 votes)

    #8 - That's Lobstertainment!

    S3:E8

    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

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  9. Futurama Season 3 Episode 9 - The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz
    7.5/10(2888 votes)

    #9 - The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz

    S3:E9

    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

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  10. Futurama Season 3 Episode 10 - The Luck of the Fryrish
    9.4/10(6207 votes)

    #10 - The Luck of the Fryrish

    S3:E10

    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

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  11. Futurama Season 3 Episode 11 - The Cyber House Rules
    7.7/10(2953 votes)

    #11 - The Cyber House Rules

    S3:E11

    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

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  12. Futurama Season 3 Episode 12 - Insane in the Mainframe
    8.1/10(3079 votes)

    #12 - Insane in the Mainframe

    S3:E12

    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

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  13. Futurama Season 3 Episode 13 - Bendin' in the Wind
    7.3/10(2968 votes)

    #13 - Bendin' in the Wind

    S3:E13

    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

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  14. Futurama Season 3 Episode 14 - Time Keeps On Slippin'
    8.3/10(3247 votes)

    #14 - Time Keeps On Slippin'

    S3:E14

    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

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  15. Futurama Season 3 Episode 15 - I Dated a Robot
    7.6/10(2965 votes)

    #15 - I Dated a Robot

    S3:E15

    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

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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 3179 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".