7.5/102,983 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
8.4/103,192 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
7.4/102,860 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
8.9/103,632 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
8.6/103,644 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
7.3/102,758 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
8.5/103,057 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
7.1/102,771 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
7.5/102,721 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
9.4/105,813 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
7.7/102,766 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
8.1/102,896 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
7.3/102,788 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
8.3/103,046 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
7.6/102,776 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
The Best Episodes of Futurama Season 3
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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 2983 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".