8.5/1040 votes#1 - Meanwhile
Season 7 Episode 26 - Aired 9/4/2013
Fry asks Leela to marry him, and they face their destiny together as the Professor's latest invention alters the fabric of time.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.2/1043 votes#2 - The Late Philip J. Fry
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 7/29/2010
The Professor invents a one-way time machine that takes the crew ever further into the future with no hope of returning.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.2/1044 votes#3 - The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 8/10/2003
Fry makes a deal with the Robot Devil so he can become a skillful musician and win Leela's heart.
Director: Rich Moore
Writer: Ken Keeler
8.2/1039 votes#4 - 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
8.0/1041 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
7.8/1025 votes#7 - 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
7.8/1040 votes#8 - 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
7.7/1027 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
7.2/1034 votes#16 - Overclockwise
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 9/1/2011
Bender evolves into a godlike being after vastly increasing his processing power.
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.2/1041 votes#17 - 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
7.1/1037 votes#18 - Crimes of the Hot
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 11/10/2002
When Earth is jeopardized by global warming, the crew attends a conference in Kyoto hosted by Al Gore's head.
Director: Dwayne Carey-Hill
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.1/1037 votes#19 - Spanish Fry
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 7/13/2003
When Fry succeeds in retrieving his nose, which was taken by aliens, another appendage of his is placed in peril.
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
7.1/1034 votes#21 - The Tip of the Zoidberg
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 8/18/2011
The crew uncovers a dark secret concerning a covert mission undertaken by the Professor and Dr. Zoidberg many years earlier.
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Writer: Ken Keeler
6.9/1034 votes#22 - The Six Million Dollar Mon
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 7/25/2012
Fed up with his inferiority to machines, Hermes replaces his body parts with mighty mechanical upgrades.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Ken Keeler
6.6/107 votes#23 - Otherwise
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 9/30/2024
When Fry proposes to Leela, he is overcome by a near-fatal attack of déjà vu.
Director: Ira Sherak
Writer: Ken Keeler
6.6/1033 votes#24 - Forty Percent Leadbelly
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 7/3/2013
At a maximum security prison, Bender meets a famous folk singer and attempts to make a copy of his precious guitar.
Director: Stephen Sandoval
Writer: Ken Keeler
6.5/1021 votes#25 - 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
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"Meanwhile" is the best rated episode written by Ken Keeler. It scored 8.525/10 based on 40 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, "The Late Philip J. Fry".