The essential episodes of Futurama
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Futurama — each pick states its reason.
- 01
A delivery boy frozen in the year 1999 awakens in the year 3000. Phillip J. Fry delivers a pizza to a Cryogenics lab on New Years eve, only to discover that it is a prank delivery and then accidentally falls into a open cryogenics chamber, is put to sleep and wakes up in the far future.
- 02
The crew encounters infamous space captain Zapp Brannigan.
- 03
Aliens threaten to devour mankind after the crew unknowingly sells their young as fast food.
- 04
The Professor creates a What-If machine that answers every question.
- 05
The crew gets stranded on a planet of Amazonian women.
- 06
Fry travels to Old New York to retrieve his lucky clover.
- 07
Fry must make sure his grandfather survives in Roswell, NM, or he himself will cease to exist.
- 08
Bender becomes a tyrannical leader of a planet that resembles ancient Egypt.
- 09
Bender gets lost in space and becomes a god to a race of tiny aliens.
- 10
Zoidberg is sentenced to death for eating Earth's flag on Freedom Day.
- 11
The Professor's one-way time machine takes the crew further into the future, with no hope of return.
- 12
Fry enters an infinite loop when he proposes to Leela using a time travel button.
- 13
Fry risks permanent insanity when he attempts to binge-watch every TV show ever made.
- 14
When Fry proposes to Leela, he is overcome by a near-fatal attack of déjà vu.
- 15
A conspiracy theory makes shocking claims about the basement of the local pizzeria.
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