8.5/1039 votes#1 - Meanwhile
Season 7 Episode 26 - Aired 9/4/2013
Professor Farnsworth invents a button that can take a person 10 seconds back in time, inadvertently causing major consequences.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.2/1039 votes#2 - Godfellas
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 3/17/2002
Bender is accidentally shot out of the ship's torpedo tube and becomes lost in space. Floating through the ethereal darkness, Bender becomes inhabited with tiny alien life forms, but has trouble playing God to their unyielding prayers.
Director: Susie Dietter
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.2/1044 votes#3 - The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 8/10/2003
Desperate to learn how to play the holophonor in order to impress Leela, Fry swaps hands with the Robot Devil. He goes on to become a skilled holophonor player, winning Leela's heart and penning an opera about her life story, but the Robot Devil still has a trick or two up his sleeve.
Director: Rich Moore
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.2/1042 votes#4 - The Late Philip J. Fry
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 7/29/2010
The Professor invents a one-way time machine. He, Fry and Bender go forward 1,000 years accidentally, and keep traveling forward in time until a backwards time machine has been invented.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.0/1041 votes#5 - Anthology of Interest I
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/21/2000
The Professor's "What-If" machine simulates Bender, Leela and Fry's wishes. Bender discovers what it would be like if he were 500 feet tall, Leela discovers what it would be like if she were more impulsive, and Fry discovers what would happen if he never came to the future.
Director: Rich Moore
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.0/1028 votes#6 - A Star Is Burns
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 3/5/1995
Film critic Jay Sherman is among the judges at the Springfield Film Festival, which Mr. Burns conspires to win by bribing some judges.
Director: Susie Dietter
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.8/1039 votes#7 - The Prisoner of Benda
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 8/19/2010
A revolutionary invention allows the crew members to exchange minds.
Director: Stephen Sandoval
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.8/1025 votes#8 - El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 1/5/1997
After eating a dish laced with potent peppers during the chili cookoff, Homer has hallucinations where a mystical coyote urges him to find his soulmate.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.7/1026 votes#9 - Treehouse of Horror VII
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/1996
A Halloween trilogy. This time, Bart meets his "pure evil" Siamese twin; Lisa's science project attacks Bart; aliens Kang and Kodos invade as Clinton and Dole's replicas just before the 1996 Presidential election.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.5/1047 votes#10 - When Aliens Attack
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/1999
The Omicronians invade Earth, demanding to see the lost final episode of the 1999 TV show Single Female Lawyer. The Planet Express crew must re-enact the episode to appease the invading aliens.
Director: Brian Sheesley
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.5/1026 votes#11 - Brother from Another Series
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/1997
When Sideshow Bob is released from prison, his brother Cecil puts him in charge of building Springfield's new hydroelectric dam.
Director: Pete Michels
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.4/1066 votes#12 - The Series Has Landed
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/4/1999
For the crew's first mission, they must deliver a crate full of toys for an arcade game to the moon. Fry is very excited, while it is not really a big deal in the year 3000. Fry tries to persuade Leela to go exploring on the moon, while Amy tries to recover the keys to the Planet Express Ship.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.4/1043 votes#13 - 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
7.3/1040 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
7.3/1028 votes#15 - Two Bad Neighbors
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1996
Homer resents being upstaged when former president George Bush moves into the neighborhood. After Bush spanks Bart, an all-out prank war ensues.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.2/1041 votes#16 - Put Your Head on My Shoulders
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 2/13/2000
Fry's brief relationship with Amy is forcibly prolonged when a near-fatal car crash leaves Fry's head grafted to Amy's left shoulder. Meanwhile, Bender cashes in on Valentine's Day by starting a dating service.
Director: Chris Louden
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.2/1033 votes#17 - Overclockwise
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 9/1/2011
Bender is overclocked, gradually becoming more powerful in computing ability, until eventually becoming omniscient and able to foresee events in the future.
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.1/1037 votes#18 - Crimes of the Hot
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 11/10/2002
The rapid increase in global warming is traced to a ventilation flaw that Professor Farnsworth failed to correct in his first robot prototype. As a result, all robots are ordered to be destroyed, but Bender refuses to go without a fight.
Director: Dwayne Carey-Hill
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.1/1037 votes#19 - Spanish Fry
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 7/13/2003
Fry is abducted by aliens, who harvest his nose as an aphrodisiac. The crew traces Fry's missing nose to Lrrr, leader of the Omicronians, who decides that Fry's "lower horn" would be a much better aphrodisiac to jump start his stagnant marriage with Ndnd.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.1/1015 votes#20 - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/2021
Bean, Elfo and Luci become trapped in an underground world full of eerie little creatures — and Queen Dagmar. Zøg tries to thwart a plot against him.
Director: Brian Sheesley
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.0/1033 votes#21 - The Tip of the Zoidberg
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 8/18/2011
The crew learns shocking secrets of how Professor Farnsworth and Dr. Zoidberg met.
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Writer: Ken Keeler
6.8/1033 votes#22 - The Six Million Dollar Mon
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 7/25/2012
Hermes replaces parts of his body with robotic counterparts so as to increase his productivity.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
6.6/1032 votes#23 - Forty Percent Leadbelly
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 7/3/2013
Bender meets his hero, a famous folksinger who has been in jail 30 times, and wants to duplicate his success. This means duplicating his guitar too, which he tries to steal from a maximum-security prison, but fails, so instead resorts to 3D-printing technology to duplicate the guitar — again resulting in horrible consequences.
Director: Stephen Sandoval
Writer: Ken Keeler
6.5/1020 votes#24 - How the West Was 1010001
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 8/7/2023
Bender and the crew head west to join the bitcoin mining rush.
Director: James Kim
Writer: Ken Keeler
6.3/1022 votes#25 - The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/1997
Troy McClure presents three Simpsons spinoff spoofs: In "Chief Wiggum, P.I.," Chief Wiggum becomes a New Orleans detective. Next, Grampa Simpson's soul is trapped inside Moe's Love tester machine in "The Love-Matic Grampa." Finally, the Simpson family hosts a '70s-style variety show.
Director: Neil Affleck
Writer: Ken Keeler
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"Meanwhile" is the best rated episode written by Ken Keeler. It scored 8.5/10 based on 39 votes. It was directed by Peter Avanzino. It aired on 9/4/2013 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Godfellas".