9.5/102 votes#1 - Thanksgiving
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1997
The Taylors go to a football game in a box seat for Thanksgiving. But Tim manages to black out all the lights.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: Eric Horsted
9.0/101 votes#2 - A Night to Dismember
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1997
Mark decides to do a horror video for his class using different scenes from old horror shows and movies, but Jill and Tim don't like the idea when they sneak a preview at Mark's video.
Director: N/A
Writer: Eric Horsted
8.0/101 votes#3 - Insult to Injury
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 4/15/1997
Tim ignores his separated shoulder to break a Bob Vila record on Tool Time with a steamroller.
Director: N/A
Writer: Eric Horsted
8.0/101 votes#4 - Tim 'The Landlord' Taylor
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1998
Al rents a house from Tim and Tim takes advantage of him as his landlord. Meanwhile, Randy and Brad buy the same shirt.
Director: N/A
Writer: Eric Horsted
8.0/101 votes#5 - The Son Also Mooches
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 4/21/1998
It's Jill's turn to worry about needing glasses as she reaches middle age. Tim worries that his mother is going to lose money on another of his brother Jeff's business schemes.
Director: N/A
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.8/1041 votes#6 - 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
7.8/1059 votes#7 - 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
7.7/1041 votes#8 - Lethal Inspection
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 7/22/2010
Bender learns that he suffers from a mortal manufacturing defect.
Director: Ray Claffey
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.5/1036 votes#9 - Stench and Stenchibility
Season 7 Episode 25 - Aired 8/28/2013
Dr. Zoidberg meets the love of his life while Bender squares off in a deadly tap dancing competition.
Director: Crystal Chesney
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.5/1047 votes#10 - Xmas Story
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/19/1999
To apologize for an inconsiderate remark, Fry searches for the perfect Xmas gift for Leela, all the while trying to avoid the murderous SantaBot, whose standards for niceness are astronomically high.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.5/1033 votes#11 - Near-Death Wish
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 8/15/2012
The Professor is deeply disturbed when his parents return from virtual retirement aboard the Near-Death Star.
Director: Lance Kramer
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.4/1041 votes#12 - Bender Gets Made
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/30/2000
Bender takes a new job in the Robot Mafia, but his loyalty is tested when he goes along on the robotic gangster's efforts to rob the Planet Express ship.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.3/1052 votes#13 - A Flight to Remember
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1999
The Planet Express crew take a space cruise vacation. Leela tells Captain Zapp Brannigan that Fry is her boyfriend and Amy tells the same thing to her parents. Bender falls in love with a rich female robot. Problems start when the spaceship approaches a black hole.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.3/1019 votes#14 - Love's Slimy Embrace
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/20/2019
Despondent because Bean dislikes him and his mother's away, Derek makes friends with a slimy sea creature. Zøg tries to contract a rich man's disease.
Director: N/A
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.2/1039 votes#15 - Lesser of Two Evils
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/20/2000
Fry suspects Bender's new buddy, a bending unit named Flexo who looks almost exactly like Bender, of being pure evil. When a valuable atom of Jumbonium goes missing, Fry suspects Flexo, but can't tell which robot is which.
Director: Brian Sheesley
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.2/1038 votes#16 - 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
7.2/1038 votes#17 - A Taste of Freedom
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 12/22/2002
In celebration of Freedom Day, Zoidberg eats the Earth flag, for which he is sentenced to death.
Director: James Purdum
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.1/1040 votes#18 - The Mutants Are Revolting
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 9/2/2010
Leela leads an army of underground mutants in a rebellion against the surface people.
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.1/1037 votes#19 - 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
7.0/1026 votes#20 - Swamp and Circumstance
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/17/2018
Bean tries her hand at diplomacy after Zøg makes her ambassador to Dankmire, Oona's kingdom and an important ally for Dreamland.
Director: Albert Calleros
Writer: Eric Horsted
7.0/1037 votes#21 - The Bots and the Bees
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 6/20/2012
Bender fathers a child with the office soda machine.
Director: Stephen Sandoval
Writer: Eric Horsted
6.9/1021 votes#22 - Children of a Lesser Bog
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 7/31/2023
Amy and Kif’s children emerge from an alien swamp.
Director: Edmund Fong
Writer: Eric Horsted
6.8/1032 votes#23 - Leela and the Genestalk
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 8/7/2013
After a rare condition causes Leela to grow tentacles, she stumbles upon a secret genetic engineering facility.
Director: Lance Kramer
Writer: Eric Horsted
6.4/1012 votes#24 - The One Amigo
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 7/29/2024
After Bender sells an NFT representing the "Concept of Bender", he feels lost and returns to his ancestral village in Mexico to rediscover himself.
Director: Andrew Han
Writer: Eric Horsted
6.4/1035 votes#25 - Yo Leela Leela
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 7/21/2011
Leela becomes a Hollywood big shot after creating a hit children's television series.
Director: Frank Marino
Writer: Eric Horsted
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"Thanksgiving" is the best rated episode written by Eric Horsted. It scored 9.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Peter Bonerz. It aired on 11/25/1997 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "A Night to Dismember".