The Best Episodes Written By Eric Horsted

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   9.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - A Night to Dismember

   S7:E510/28/1997

   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.

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   #2 - Thanksgiving

   S7:E911/25/1997

   The Taylors go to a football game in a box seat for Thanksgiving. But Tim manages to black out all the lights.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - I Was A Teenage Taylor

   S6:E710/29/1996

   It's a battle of halloween pranks. First Tim scares Al, then Brad and Randy scare Jill, then a strange man shows up at the door asking to see the basement. Jill, Tim and Wilson tell the boys that years ago a man named Clifford Warren was accused of killing his brother, but because of his mental problems he was put in an insane hospital. Little do the boys know that it's a halloween prank. They invite Al to help them pull a prank on their own, but Al and Wilson pull a prank on the Taylors.

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   #4 - Tim 'The Landlord' Taylor

   S7:E142/3/1998

   Al rents a house from Tim and Tim takes advantage of him as his landlord. Meanwhile, Randy and Brad buy the same shirt.

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   7.9/10(49 votes)

   #5 - Lethal Inspection

   S6:E67/22/2010

   Bender learns that he suffers from a mortal manufacturing defect.

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   7.9/10(68 votes)

   #6 - 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.

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   #7 - War Is the H-Word

   S3:E211/26/2000

   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.

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   7.7/10(46 votes)

   #8 - Stench and Stenchibility

   S7:E258/28/2013

   Dr. Zoidberg meets the love of his life while Bender squares off in a deadly tap dancing competition.

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   7.6/10(44 votes)

   #9 - Near-Death Wish

   S7:E108/15/2012

   The Professor is deeply disturbed when his parents return from virtual retirement aboard the Near-Death Star.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Communication Breakdown

    S6:E193/11/1997

    When the boys are using the phone too much, Tim has Dennis, Harry's son, install a second line.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Insult to Injury

    S6:E214/15/1997

    Tim ignores his separated shoulder to break a Bob Vila record on Tool Time with a steamroller.

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    #12 - The Son Also Mooches

    S7:E214/21/1998

    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.

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    7.5/10(55 votes)

    #13 - Xmas Story

    S2:E812/19/1999

    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.

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    7.4/10(50 votes)

    #14 - Bender Gets Made

    S2:E174/30/2000

    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.

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    7.4/10(61 votes)

    #15 - A Flight to Remember

    S2:E19/26/1999

    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.

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    7.4/10(46 votes)

    #16 - A Taste of Freedom

    S5:E412/22/2002

    Zoidberg becomes the center of a Supreme Court case after he celebrates Freedom Day by publicly eating the Earth flag.

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    7.4/10(48 votes)

    #17 - The Bots and the Bees

    S7:E16/20/2012

    Bender fathers a child with the office soda machine.

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    7.3/10(47 votes)

    #18 - Lesser of Two Evils

    S2:E112/20/2000

    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.

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    7.3/10(48 votes)

    #19 - The Mutants Are Revolting

    S6:E129/2/2010

    Leela leads an army of underground mutants in a rebellion against the surface people.

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    7.3/10(45 votes)

    #20 - Bendless Love

    S3:E62/11/2001

    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.

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    7.2/10(44 votes)

    #21 - Bendin' in the Wind

    S3:E134/22/2001

    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.

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    7.1/10(24 votes)

    #22 - Love's Slimy Embrace

    S1:E179/20/2019

    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.

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    7.0/10(43 votes)

    #23 - Leela and the Genestalk

    S7:E228/7/2013

    After a rare condition causes Leela to grow tentacles, she stumbles upon a secret genetic engineering facility.

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    6.9/10(34 votes)

    #24 - Swamp and Circumstance

    S1:E68/17/2018

    Bean tries her hand at diplomacy after Zøg makes her ambassador to Dankmire, Oona's kingdom and an important ally for Dreamland.

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    6.8/10(32 votes)

    #25 - Children of a Lesser Bog

    S8:E27/31/2023

    Amy and Kif’s children emerge from an alien swamp.

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