futurama episodes

Futurama Season 5, Episode 16 – The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings

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Fry, in an effort to win Leela’s love, makes a deal with the Robot Devil to become a gifted musician. He has tried to take holophonor lessons, but his teacher claimed he had “stupid fingers.” Bender realizes that the Robot Devil is the only one to help. Fry makes a deal only to regret it immediately as it comes with a hefty price.
wikipedia.org summary:
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.
imdb.com summary:
Fry makes a deal with the Robot Devil so he can get robot hands to play the holophoner and impress Leela. In a twist of fate, Fry trades hands with the Robot Devil and writes a masterpiece opera about Leela. However, the Robot Devil has evil plans of his own.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 15 – Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television

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When a young star of the hit robot soap opera “All My Circuits” literally falls to pieces, Bender seizes his chance for stardom. Along with Fry and Leela, Bender sabotages the auditions and secures a spot on the show. As a result of Bender’s misbehavior, the Nielsen numbers rise, making Bender a star. When a new group, Fathers Against Rude Television (F.A.R.T.) plans a Million Dad March to protest his character, Bender realizes his effect on kids.
wikipedia.org summary:
“All My Circuits” holds an audition to replace the part of Calculon’s son, and Bender lands the part. Soon, Bender’s uninhibited behavior proves to be a bad influence on children, and an outraged Bender leads a protest group to get himself banned from the airwaves.
imdb.com summary:
Bender becomes a star on his favorite soap opera by forgetting his lines and reverting to character, but becomes concerned about the effect he is having on the audience.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 14 – Obsoletely Fabulous

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When Fry, Bender and the Planet Express gang attend Roboticon 3003 – the world’s largest robot trade show – the Professor purchases the new “Robot 1-X”, which threatens to render Bender obsolete. Feeling inadequate, Bender returns to MomCorp for an upgrade, but becomes terrified that the procedure will erase his robo-humanity. In desperation, he escapes from the factory and becomes a castaway on a tropical island that seems uninhabited… or is it? Violence ensues.
wikipedia.org summary:
Bender is incompatible with Professor Farnsworth’s new Robot 1-X, but rather than get an upgrade, Bender escapes to a desert island to start his life anew. There, he meets several other outdated robots and receives a downgrade, then leads his new comrades in a rebellion against technology.
imdb.com summary:
The introduction of a new type of robot makes Bender rethink his devotion to technology.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 13 – Bend Her

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:51:40 +0000

Bender faces his greatest challenge when he tricks his way into the 3004 Earth Olympian and wins several events, but he must endure the final and most revealing test to receive his medals. When Bender has a date with a major robot celebrity, Calculon, he sees this as an opportunity to be wined and dined like never before. When Bender realizes there’s an inequity of feelings, he enlists Fry’s and Leela’s help to stage a “soap opera death”.
wikipedia.org summary:
In order to compete in the Fembot’s division of the 3004 Olympics, Bender is surgically rebuilt to become a woman. Her trashy behavior catches the eye of Calculon, with whom she develops a strong and confusing celebrity relationship.
imdb.com summary:
Bender enters the Olympics as a Fembot and has modifications to maintain the illusion, leading to a romantic encumbrance with a soap opera star.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 12 – Spanish Fry

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:50:28 +0000

When the Planet Express gang goes camping in the woods for their company outing and Fry goes searching for an encounter with his favorite legendary figure, Bigfoot — he is beamed aboard a spaceship and returned the next day without a nose. Fry learns that humans everywhere have been losing their noses and aliens are profiting for the sale of “human horns.” A suggestion from Leela and a surprise visitor aim at keeping the human face safe.
wikipedia.org summary:
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.
imdb.com summary:
After being abducted by “human horn” poachers, Fry goes on a search for his missing nose.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 11 – Three Hundred Big Boys

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:49:48 +0000

As a result of Zapp Brannigan’s victory over the Arachnid home-world, Richard Nixon’s head gives everyone a $300 refund from the silk surplus. Leela, the Professor, Bender, and Fry find wacky ways to spend the money. When things gets too hot at Zapp’s celebration dinner, Fry saves the day.
wikipedia.org summary:
A $300 refund for all taxpayers results in a series of interconnected stories, following the Planet Express crew’s endeavors to spend their money.
imdb.com summary:
Everyone on Earth gets $300 after the spoils of a military victory are distributed. The members of the Planet Express staff spend it on different things, with varying degrees of success.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 10 – The Farnsworth Parabox

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:45:48 +0000

When the Professor conducts an experiment so hideous that he wants his apparatus destroyed in the thermonuclear inferno of the sun, he has Leela guard the two-foot cubic box overnight so that no one opens it and sets it off. Fry and Bender try their best to sneak a peek but it is Leela who finally gives in and opens the box. Drawn into the power of the box, Leela is thrown into a parallel universe, which has duplicates of the Planet Express gang – including Leela.
wikipedia.org summary:
Professor Farnsworth forbids the crew to look inside a mysterious box. Leela can’t resist taking a peek, discovering the box to be a gateway to a parallel universe.
imdb.com summary:
Prof. Farnworth creates a box which contains an entire universe and sends Leela into it, where she discovers another Planet Express with a few notable differences.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 9 – The Sting

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After arriving at an asteroid field in deep space, Fry, Leela and Bender attempt to collect honey produced by vicious space bees. Leela decides to take a baby queen bee that incidentally kills Fry! While at Fry’s funeral, guilt-ridden Leela has a romantic dream that causes her to believe that Fry is still alive. As Leela’s bizarre dreams continue to develop, she sinks into a much stranger sleep.
wikipedia.org summary:
A mission to collect honey from deadly space bees apparently leads to Fry’s sting-induced death. Leela is wracked with remorse, until Fry visits her in her dreams. As Leela’s hallucinations intensify, she begins to suspect that she might be going crazy.
imdb.com summary:
Sent on the same mission which caused the deaths of the previous Planet Express crew, Leela mourns the apparent death of Fry.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 8 – The Why of Fry

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:44:33 +0000

Fry feels really down as Leela is head over heels because of Chaz, the Mayor’s Aide. While on her date, Leela asks Fry if he could walk Nibbler, and he reluctantly agrees. When he says how unimportant he feels, Nibbler speaks and takes him to his home planet. There, Fry learn about his genetic abnormality that qualifies him for a mission to save the universe. While on this mission, we learn what really happened on the night Fry was frozen.
wikipedia.org summary:
Still unable to impress Leela, Fry sadly suspects that he has no importance in life – until Nibbler takes him on a mission to prevent the brains from destroying the universe. In the process, Fry learns what really happened when he was cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999.
imdb.com summary:
Fry learns that his accidental freezing 1004 years earlier wasn’t an accident and he is given a choice that could prevent its happening, but at a cost.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 7 – Teenage Mutant Leela’s Hurdles

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:43:00 +0000

When Fry and the Planet Express gang realize that at 161 years old, the Professor has become too crotchety to handle, they decide he needs to be “youth-a-sized”. Traveling to an asteroid, they register the Professor at a posh resort where their full-body bath in searing hot tar is guaranteed to turn back the clock. Through a series of unfortunate accidents, the bath covers not only the Professor but also everyone else and all are affected by the treatment. Back at Planet Express, a now 53-year-old Professor tries to keep a now 13-year-old Fry and other kids under control while looking for a way to reverse the effects of the tar treatment. Meanwhile, “the kids” all react to their newfound youth, including Leela, who decides she could have a taste of the childhood she never had as an orphan
wikipedia.org summary:
The crew’s attempts to de-age Professor Farnsworth result in everyone returning to their more youthful stages. While Farnsworth seeks out a way to re-age the crew, the newly-teenaged Leela takes the opportunity to experience the parental childhood she never had.
imdb.com summary:
After an overdose at a health club makes the Planet Express staff get younger and younger, they have to find a mysterious Fountain of Aging. Meanwhile, Leela experiences the teenage life she never had with her parents.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 6 – Less Than Hero

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:42:21 +0000

Suffering from aches and pains, Fry and Leela turn to Dr. Zoidberg who gives them a “miracle cream” that he bought long ago from a traveling salesman. Lo and behold, when they try it out, it actually is a miracle cream that gives them superpowers. Fry and Leela decide to become superheroes with Bender as the third member of their team.
wikipedia.org summary:
Dr. Zoidberg’s mysterious miracle cream gives Fry and Leela superpowers. Teaming up with Bender, they form the New Justice Team, under the respective alter egos of Captain Yesterday, Clobberella, and Super King. But Leela’s new duties as a superheroine put a strain on her relationship with her parents.
imdb.com summary:
After using a tube of “miracle cream” Fry and Leela gain super powers and form “The New Justice Team” along with Bender.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 5 – Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:24:38 +0000

Amy’s romance with Kif takes a twist when he gets pregnant. As Amy questions her commitment Kif, he must return to his ancient, mysterious homeworld to give birth in the same muddy swamp where he was born.
wikipedia.org summary:
Amy’s relationship with Kif leads to pregnancy… Kif being the pregnant one. But Amy fears that she won’t be able to handle the burdens of motherhood, much to Kif’s dismay.
imdb.com summary:
Amy is distressed when her alien boyfriend Kif becomes pregnant.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 4 – A Taste of Freedom

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:23:56 +0000

Dr. Zoidberg is accused of flag desecration when, at a Washington D.C. celebration, he cannot restrain himself from eating a large flag. After Zoidberg is sentenced to death, his people send an invasion force to enslave the people of Earth and teach them the meaning of freedom.
wikipedia.org summary:
When Zoidberg publicly devours an Earth flag, he is sentenced to death for his anarchic behavior. Before the sentence can be carried out, the Decapodians come to Zoidberg’s aid by invading Earth, teaching the populace the true meaning of freedom.
imdb.com summary:
Dr. Zoidberg’s exuberant celebration of Freedom Day makes him Public Enemy #1.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 3 – The Route of All Evil

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:23:20 +0000

Cubert – the clone of the Professor – and Dwight – Hermes’ son – are suspended from school for illegal use of the AV equipment. Upon their return to the Planet Express, they form a business — a competing delivery company that threatens the existence of Planet Express. Meanwhile, Leela, Fry and Bender brew up a batch of homemade beer.
wikipedia.org summary:
Farnsworth’s clone Cubert teams up with Hermes’ son Dwight to launch a newspaper delivery business. Farnsworth and Hermes scoff at the kids’ efforts – until the delivery boys accumulate enough capital to buy out Planet Express. Meanwhile, Fry and Leela use Bender to brew their own homemade beer.
imdb.com summary:
Prof. Farnsworth’s and Hermes’ 12 year old sons combine forces to take over Planet Express, but their ambition is more than their ability and they need their fathers’ help to save the day.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 2 – Jurassic Bark

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:22:24 +0000

Fry and Bender discover that the exact pizzeria Fry worked at before coming to the 30th century is on display as part of a 20th century exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. Fry is horrified when he sees his dog, Seymour, petrified among the artifacts in the exhibit. Fry reacts with protest and learns that there is a possibility to clone his “best friend” back to life. Bender perceives Seymour as a threat to his friendship with Fry and gets his own Robo-puppy as competition.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry discovers his dog Seymour is being exhibited in a museum as a fossil, and takes it to Professor Farnsworth’s lab to be revived. However, Bender is displeased with the lack of attention he has been receiving and becomes increasingly jealous of Seymour’s fossil.
imdb.com summary:
Fry’s old work place, Panucci’s Pizza, has been unearthed and preserved as a museum exhibit. Fry finds the fossilized remains of his dog Seymour and demands to take them home. Professor Farnsworth thinks he can produce a clone of Seymour and inject all of his old memories. But Bender, who has been practicing a magic act with Fry as his lovely assistant, becomes annoyed at Fry for only focusing on his dead dog.

Futurama Season 5, Episode 1 – Crimes of the Hot

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:21:42 +0000

As Earth is unable to counter its rising temperature through the usual method (the dropping of a giant ice cube into the ocean), Gore leads an emergency conference in Kyoto, Japan, where Professor Farnsworth claims responsibility for the crisis. It seems love detoured him from observing proper emission standards on his prototype robot, and that could necessitate the destruction of all its “descendants.” That includes Bender, who resigns himself to having a farewell blowout before being blown up.
wikipedia.org summary:
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.
imdb.com summary:
Planet Express is hired to scoop a slab of ice from Halley’s Comet and drop it in the ocean to combat global warming. But when they find the comet all out of ice, the inventor of the environment, Al Gore, holds a Global Warming convention. There Professor Farnsworth reluctantly admits the process was sped up by the pollution emissions of all robots. This leads President Nixon’s head to invite all of Earth’s robots to the Galapagos Islands for a big party (during which they will be destroyed).

Futurama Season 4, Episode 12 – Where No Fan Has Gone Before

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:16:25 +0000

Fry is put on trial for his life for traveling to the forbidden planet of Omega 3 to retrieve all 79 episodes of “Star Trek”, and he must defend the claim that human kind needs “Star Trek” to give them hope for the future. In the 23rd Century, “Star Trek” fans had evolved to such a level that they corrupted the world’s governments and all things “Star Trek” were then banned to Omega 3. Fry sets out on his mission with Leela, Bender and Leonard Nimoy’s head in a jar, only to discover William Shatner, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koening are living on Omega 3 under the watchful eye of Melllvar, an evil energy creature — and “Star Trek’s” biggest fan.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry leads the crew on a quest across the galaxy to regain the forbidden 79 episodes of “Star Trek: The Original Series”, where they encounter the original cast of the show – as well as their captor, an obsessive energy being named Melllvar.
imdb.com summary:
Fry learns that Star Trek had been banned on Earth centuries earlier and goes on a quest with Leonard Nimoy’s Head to find the last remaining episodes. He encounters the re-embodied cast of the original TV show who are prisoners on the planet of a very devoted fan.

Futurama Season 4, Episode 11 – 30% Iron Chef

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:15:46 +0000

Bender attempts to become a chef, and is quickly rejected by the Planet Express crew. He then turns to the chef that inspired him, Elzar, who also rejects him. Bender soon makes friends with some space hobos and, coincidentally, one of them is Helmut Spargel, formerly the world’s greatest chef. Helmut takes Bender under his wing and trains him to be a master chef by giving him a secret weapon — a crystal vial containing “the pure essence of flavor”. A now confident Bender challenges Elzar to a competition in the televised kitchen coliseum known as the “Iron Cook” show.
wikipedia.org summary:
Bender receives culinary lessons from the great chef Helmut Spargle, and puts his skills to the test on national television when he competes against Elzar on “Iron Cook”. Meanwhile, Dr. Zoidberg accidentally destroys Professor Farnsworth’s ship-in-a-bottle and pins the deed on Fry, only to be struck with remorse afterwards.
imdb.com summary:
Bender goes on a quest to learn the secret of Ultimate Flavor so he can humiliate his former idol on television.

Futurama Season 4, Episode 10 – A Leela of Her Own

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:15:01 +0000

When Leela is signed to the New New York Mets, she is thrilled to be the first female major league blernsball player. Drawing huge crowds at the games, Leela believes she is an inspirational role model to all women. What she doesn’t realize is, she has such a following because she is the worst blernsball player to ever play the game.
wikipedia.org summary:
Leela endeavors to become the first female blernsball player, but her lack of depth perception hinders her skills. Nevertheless, she becomes the pitcher for the New New York Mets, purely for her novelty value.
imdb.com summary:
A pickup game with the family-owned pizza place across the street leads to Leela being the first female Blernsball player, but she has to struggle to avoid being the worst player ever.

Futurama Season 4, Episode 9 – Futurestock

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:14:15 +0000

Fry blindly supports Planet Express’s new CEO, a slick talker from Fry’s time who emphasizes image as he takes on their biggest rival.
wikipedia.org summary:
With Planet Express in financial trouble, Fry nominates a flashy businessman from the 1980s to replace Professor Farnsworth as CEO of the company. That Guy goes on to sell Planet Express to Mom’s Friendly Robot Corporation, putting everyone out of a job.
imdb.com summary:
Fry bonds with a revived 1980s guy who takes over Planet Express and takes on Mom’s Delivery Company, but has a crisis of conscience when his new mentor plans to sell the company.

Futurama Season 4, Episode 8 – Godfellas

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:12:26 +0000

When the Planet Express Ship is attacked by space pirates, Bender, sleeping in a torpedo tube, gets launched into space. He speeds through an asteroid field and accidentally accumulates a microscopic civilization on his stomach, who declare him God, and worship him despite his constant inability to provide for their needs.
wikipedia.org summary:
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.
imdb.com summary:
When Bender is lost in space, he becomes home and spiritual leader to a race of worshipers who misinterpret his wisdom.

Futurama Season 4, Episode 7 – A Pharaoh to Remember

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:11:48 +0000

Fry, Leela, and Bender have to deliver a giant sandstone to Osiris 4, a planet resembling ancient Egypt. Once there they are enslaved to work on pharaoh Hamenthotep’s pyramid. After the pharaoh dies, Bender tricks everyone into thinking that he’s the next prophesied pharaoh.
wikipedia.org summary:
Bender fears that nobody will remember him after he dies, and sees his chance for immortality when the crew is enslaved on the planet Osiris 4. Posing as the planet’s new pharaoh, Bender orders a humongous statue built in his honor, and quickly goes mad with power.
imdb.com summary:
Fry, Leela and Bender are enslaved on the planet of the original Egyptians to build a monument to the Pharaoh. When the Pharaoh dies, Bender rewrites prophecy to take his place, but keeps Fry and Leela as slaves to build an even bigger monument.

Futurama Season 4, Episode 6 – Where the Buggalo Roam

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:10:35 +0000

After Peter wins a game of Trivial Pursuit, he is convinced he is a genius. Brian tries to bring him down to earth by telling him to take the MacArthur Genius test. Not only does the test prove he’s not a genius, but it turns out he is mentally challenged. He has a good time taking advantage of this, until he puts Lois in the hospital and the kids are taken from him.
wikipedia.org summary:
When Amy’s parents’ ranch is hit by a dust storm that blows away their herd of buggalo, Kif sets out to prove his masculinity by rounding up the herd, only to become entangled with the native Martians.
imdb.com summary:
Intern Amy Wong’s rich parents host the annual Mars Day picnic, but the original Martians have different plans, so Lieutenant Kif Kroker comes to the rescue.

Futurama Season 4, Episode 5 – Leela’s Homeworld

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:08:42 +0000

After Bender dumps toxic waste into the sewers, the mutants become angry and kidnap Bender, Fry and Leela. They suspend the crew over a radioactive lake and threaten to dump them in, altering their human genes and mutating them, but two hooded mutants save them. Leela decides to pursue the mysterious mutants, who seem to have a suspicious fixation with her.
wikipedia.org summary:
Dr. Zoidberg’s mysterious miracle cream gives Fry and Leela superpowers. Teaming up with Bender, they form the New Justice Team, under the respective alter egos of Captain Yesterday, Clobberella, and Super King. But Leela’s new duties as a superheroine put a strain on her relationship with her parents.
imdb.com summary:
Bender sets up a successful waste disposal business. But because he dumps everything in the sewers, the Sewer Mutants revolt and sentence Bender, Leela and Fry to be dumped in the Mutagenic Sewage lake. Somehow two robed mutants with an interest in Leela manage to persuade the Supreme Mutant to let them go.

Futurama Season 4, Episode 4 – Love and Rocket

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Futurama Season 4, Episode 3 – Anthology of Interest II

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:04:48 +0000

Love is in the air when Bender finds himself involved in a shipboard romance….with the ship. When the Professor upgrades the Planet Express spaceship’s software with a sexy female voice (guest star Sigourney Weaver), Bender falls hopelessly in love. But when the ship discovers that Bender is unfaithful, she charts a course for self-destruction, and it’s up to Fry and Leela to save the day.
wikipedia.org summary:
The Planet Express crew ask three more questions for the What-If Machine: Bender asks what if he were human; Fry asks what if life were more like a video game; and Leela asks what if she found her true home.
I, Meatbag – Farnsworth uses his latest invention to turn Bender into a human for the Nobel Committee. Bender goes on a week-long eating binge that turns him into a thousand-pound, morbidly obese blob and dies shortly after inspiring the committee to become party animals like he had.
Raiders of the Lost Arcade – Earth is invaded by a race of aliens from Nintendu 64 in a manner similar to Space Invaders. Fry fails to stop the Nintendian invasion, but when their demands are revealed to be quarters for laundry, a compromise is reached allowing the Nintendians to mix their laundry with the Earthlings’ in exchange for the Earth’s safety.
Wizzin’ – Instead of seeing what would happen if she found her true home, Leela is knocked unconscious by the What-If Machine’s lever and dreams herself in a parody of The Wizard of Oz with herself as Dorothy, Fry as the Scarecrow, Bender as the Tin Man, Zoidberg as the Cowardly Lion, Farnsworth as the Wizard, and Mom as the Wicked Witch. Leela decides she wants to become the new Wicked Witch instead of going home, but her reign of terror and her dream are cut short when Zoidberg splashes and melts her with water.
imdb.com summary:
An anthology of three “what if” stories: what if Bender was human, what if life was more like a video game, and what if Leela found her true home.

Futurama Season 4, Episode 2 – A Tale of Two Santas

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:03:14 +0000

Bender is declared the new Santa when it is discovered that the evil Santabot has been frozen in a block of ice on Neptune. But when Bender begins delivering toys, the citizens, who are unaware that Santa is now a good guy, stage an all-out assault against him. Just when things can’t get any worse, the evil Santa’s icy tomb thaws and he escapes to exact his wrath upon the world.
wikipedia.org summary:
A Planet Express mission to Robot Santa’s colony on Neptune leaves the murderous robot trapped in the frozen sea, and Bender takes over as Santa, vowing to bring peace and goodwill to Xmas again. But when Bender is mistaken for the real Robot Santa, he is arrested and sentenced to death.
imdb.com summary:
When Fry, Leela and Bender make a delivery to Neptune, they run afoul of the robot Santa Claus. Bender takes his place, but the previous Santa’s fearsome reputation makes his job difficult.

Futurama Season 4, Episode 1 – Roswell That Ends Well

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:02:06 +0000

A supernova causes an accident which sends the crew back in time to 1947, where they land in Roswell, Area 51. Fry and Bender’s head have to go in for a rescue mission to free Dr Zoidberg and Bender’s body from an army base where Fry’s grandfather works.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry puts a metal popcorn pan in the microwave while a supernova occurs nearby, causing the radiation of both to rip open a time portal that sends the Planet Express crew back in time to Roswell, New Mexico in the year 1947. Bender’s body is broken to pieces during the crash and Zoidberg is found by the U.S. military among the debris, and both are taken to Area 51 for experimentation. The crew requires another microwave to return to the 31st century, so they try to retrieve one without altering history. Meanwhile, Fry meets his grandfather Enos and begins fearing that he will cease to exist if his grandfather is killed. While trying to save him, however, Fry accidentally brings about Enos’ death when he takes him to a house which turns out to be in the middle of a nuclear testing range. However, Fry continues to exist and ends up having sex with his would-be grandmother, only to discover that in doing so, he is now his own grandfather. Since Fry has already changed history, the rest of the crew decides to launch an attack on Area 51, retrieving Bender, Zoidberg, and a microwave by force and allowing them to return through the closing time portal back to the 31st century.
imdb.com summary:
A mishap involving a microwave oven and a supernova throws the Planet Express staff back in time to 1947 where Fry has a fateful encounter with his grandparents, Dr. Zoidberg meets Pres. Truman and Leela & Prof. Farnsworth wreck an Air Force base.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 15 – I Dated a Robot

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:36:50 +0000

Fry falls in love with Liubot (guest star Lucy Liu, “Ally McBeal”), a virtual humanoid downloaded from a computer. Disapproving of Fry’s affair with a virtual woman, Bender and Leela steal the original head of Lucy Liu from the internet company, Nappster.com, where she is being held against her will. Seeking revenge, the Nappsters unleash a mob of illegal Lucy Liu downloads to take over the city.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry discovers the ability to download any celebrity onto a blank robot, and chooses to download Lucy Liu, with whom he falls madly in love. Repulsed by this disgusting display of human/robot love, Leela, Bender, and Zoidberg set out to shut down Nappster.com and put an end to illegal celebrity downloads forever.
imdb.com summary:
Fry ignores the warnings of the Planet Express staff and starts dating a robot with the downloaded personality and holographic image of Lucy Liu. Leela and Bender make a disturbing discovery while trying to save Fry from his short-sighted decision.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 14 – Time Keeps on Slipping

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:35:40 +0000

In the 30th Century, the once entertaining Harlem Globetrotters are now feared as they will humiliate any planet in the Universe who dares to play them. Feeling up to the challenge, Professor Farnsworth creates a group of mutant basketball players to go head-to-head with the Globetrotters. Farnsworth’s secret winning ingredient is chronitons, time particles found in the Tempus Nebula. However, when the Planet Express crew removes the mutants from harvesting, they tip off the Time/Space Continuum causing forward motion of time to skip ahead.
wikipedia.org summary:
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.
imdb.com summary:
After being challenged to a game of basketball by the planet of the Globetrotters, Prof. Farnsworth creates a team of mutant, atomic supermen, but the side effects of their rapid growth endangers the universe.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 13 – Bendin’ in the Wind

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:34:22 +0000

Fry finds an old VW van at a construction site. Bender, while getting ready to put the Whale Oil can open, gets broken. While at the robot hospital, he finds Beck, and he invites him to sing with. They go on a tour, and Fry, Leela, Amy, and Zoidberg follow the bus in the van. The other broken robots consider him a hero, before their doom: being turned into tools. Meanwhile, the other crew is out of money, and are eating out of trash, until Zoidberg coughs up “Genuine Love Beads”, and start selling them for money. Bender, while singing, gets a check, and starts moving. After their van falls, he recovers the check and they head home.
wikipedia.org summary:
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.
imdb.com summary:
After being crippled, Bender gets a new career as a folk rock singer. Fry, Leela, Amy and Dr. Zoidberg follow him around the country.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 12 – Insane in the Mainframe

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:33:26 +0000

Fry and Bender are arrested for bank robbery when they get involved with one of Bender’s old robot friends, Roberto, while he’s robbing a bank. Fry and Bender are convicted of the crime and sent to an asylum for criminally insane robots. It’s a walk in the park for Bender, but Fry is tortured by being treated like a robot. When Fry is finally brain-washed into believing he is a robot, he is deemed “cured” and released. His friends back at Planet Express are horrified when Fry the robot is returned to them. Meanwhile, Roberto is busted robbing the same bank again and ends up in the asylum with Bender. He uses Bender to bust out of the asylum and accompanies his friend back to Planet Express. When the police track them down, Roberto takes the staff of Planet Express hostage. Fry turns into a battle droid and scares the mentally unstable Roberto so badly that he jumps to his death. In the battle, Fry’s arm is injured, and when he sees that he bleeds blood he comes to his senses and realizes he’s a human.
wikipedia.org summary:
Accused of robbing a bank, Fry and Bender plead insanity and are both sent to a robot insane asylum. While Bender and his buddy Roberto plan an escape, Fry is brainwashed into thinking that he is a robot.
imdb.com summary:
ry and Bender are mistakenly convicted of robbing a bank and are both sent to a robot mental institution.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 11 – The Cyber House Rules

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:32:19 +0000

When Leela rushes to the reunion of the Orphanarium where she grew up, she reunites with Adlai, a plastic surgeon who can give her the appearance of two eyes. With terrible childhood memories of her strange Cyclops look fresh in mind, Leela is convinced to undergo the surgery, while Adlai is convinced that Leela is the only one for him. Meanwhile, Bender petitions to adopt 12 orphans in order to receive a government stipend for which he has big plans. Daddy Bender and Leela see things in a new light.
wikipedia.org summary:
Leela meets up with her former orphanarium playmate Adlai Atkins, now a plastic surgeon, who offers to grant Leela surgery that will give her two eyes. Meanwhile, Bender adopts twelve orphans in order to collect $1200 in government stipends.
imdb.com summary:
Leela returns to the Orphanarium and she meets with her friend Adlai Atkins after some years, and they begin to go out. Adlai is a surgeon and operates Leela to let her have two eyes, and Bender decides to adopt all the children at the Orphanarium to get money from the Government.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 10 – Luck of the Fryrish

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:30:52 +0000

After a string of bad luck, Fry remembers back to when he was growing up in New York and his older brother, Yancy, was stealing his good ideas — until the discovery of a rare seven-leaf clover that reversed Fry’s luck. Now in the year 3001, Fry sets out in hopes of regaining his luckier days by recovering the charm from the underground ruins of Old New York and the family homestead. But strong-minded Fry becomes incensed with his unexpected discoveries.
wikipedia.org summary:
After a string of bad luck, Fry ventures into the decaying ruins of Old New York to regain his lucky seven-leaf clover from his childhood, only to find that his brother Yancy Fry had stolen not only the clover, but Fry’s identity as well. Fry sets out to exhume his brother’s body, but discovers the startling truth about Yancy instead.
imdb.com summary:
Fry goes on a quest to recover his lucky 7-leaf clover after being convinced that his brother took over his identity after he was frozen.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 9 – The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:29:58 +0000

The Professor decides to ship hazardous cargo to the outer reaches of space, but the course chartered takes the ship through some environmentally sensitive areas-including the penguin refuge on Pluto. Leela refuses to transport the dangerous cargo, so the Professor removes her from command and installs Bender as captain. While Bender is piloting the ship, he allows his attention to drift and accidentally showers the penguins with oily goop. As punishment for his crime, Bender gets 5 hours of community service helping clean up the mess.
wikipedia.org summary:
A sober Bender crashes a dark matter tanker on Pluto, threatening the penguin reserve nearby. Leela helps out in the clean-up, but when the penguins begin mating out of control, drastic action must be taken to thin the herd.
imdb.com summary:
Planet Express is hired to haul the super-tanker Juan Valdez filled with Colombian dark matter past the Plutonian penguin preserve. Leela refuses to participate and joins the environmentalist protesters on Pluto instead. The Professor puts Bender in charge, which upsets Fry. Captain Bender causes a massive oil spill and ends up hiding amongst the penguins.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 8 – That’s Lobstertainment!

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:29:00 +0000

The Professor decides to ship hazardous cargo to the outer reaches of space, but the course chartered takes the ship through some environmentally sensitive areas– including the penguin refuge on Pluto. Leela refuses to transport the dangerous cargo, so the professor removes her from command and installs Bender as captain. While Bender is piloting the ship, he allows his attention to drift and accidentally showers the penguins with oily goop.
wikipedia.org summary:
Dr. Zoidberg reunites with his uncle, silent hologram star Harold Zoid, and the two of them set out to make a movie together. They cast the temperamental Calculon in the lead role, who demands an Oscar for his performance, but the movie doesn’t go over well with audiences.
imdb.com summary:
The Planet Express staff is amazed to learn that Dr. Zoidberg is related to a famous comedian. Bender convinces a robot soap opera star to finance a movie in the hopes of getting an acting award.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 7 – The Day the Earth Stood Stupid

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:27:48 +0000

The Earth is conquered by flying brains with the power to turn normal human beings into idiots. On a distant planet, Leela learns that humanity’s single hope is Fry — the only being immune to the brains’ moron-making power. So Leela must return and enlist Fry’s help without becoming an imbecile herself.
wikipedia.org summary:
Earth is invaded by super-intelligent flying brains, who sap the Earth’s populace of their intelligence. Leela is taken to Nibbler’s home planet Eternia, where the Nibblonians explain that only one human is immune to the brains’ powers – Fry.
imdb.com summary:
When flying brains invade, Fry is the only one who can save the Earth from destruction

Futurama Season 3, Episode 6 – Bendless Love

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:26:40 +0000

When a sleep-walking, Bender causes havoc on Planet Express by indiscriminately bending things in the middle of the night. Professor Farnsworth becomes bent out of shape and sends him off to the Bending Factory where his uncontrollable need to bend becomes controlled. There, he is re-united with Flexo and meets Anglelyne, a curvaceous fembot, and sparks begin to fly!
wikipedia.org summary:
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.
imdb.com summary:
Bender has been bending stuff in his sleep, so to get his old factory urges out of his system, he takes job at a bending plant. There he falls in love with a Fembot called Angleyne. She happens to be the ex-wife of Benders evil twin Flexo, who also happens to work there.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 5 – Amazon Women in the Mood

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:25:17 +0000

When Zapp Brannigan crashes a space restaurant into Planet Amazonia, the crew discovers the planet in inhabited by a race of giant women who have found that life without the male gender is preferable. These Amazonian women worship a Fem-computer who sentences Fry and the rest of the guys to death. It is up to Bender; a man-bot and technically not a man, to intercede on the guys’ behalf. Meanwhile Kif professes his love to Amy.
wikipedia.org summary:
A double-date for Kif, Amy, Zapp, and Leela ends in disaster when their orbiting restaurant crashes on planet Amazonia. The hulking female inhabitants of the planet take their male captives to the omniscient Femputer, who orders Fry, Zapp, and Kif to death by “snu-snu”.
imdb.com summary:
After a disastrous double date, Leela, Amy, Zapp Brannigan and Kif Kroker crash land on a planet. Trying to rescue them, Fry and Bender also crash and everyone discovers the planet is populated by giant Amazon women who have a vengeful leader and an unusual means of implementing the death sentence.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 4 – Parasites Lost

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:23:54 +0000

When Fry eats an egg-salad sandwich from a vending machine at a gas station, he begins to have strange side-effects — he becomes stronger and smarter. Professor Farnsworth makes a diagnosis and concludes that Fry had ingested “intelligent worms” that have set up shop in his body. Because these worms are so smart, the regular means of flushing them out will not work. The Planet Express crew must shrink themselves to microscopic form and enter Fry’s body to fight off the intruders. Meanwhile Leela is left to divert Fry’s attention, but finds herself more and more attracted to the new man Fry has become.
wikipedia.org summary:
When Fry becomes infested with parasitic worms that make him stronger and smarter, he finally finds the perfect way to profess his feelings to Leela. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew goes on a Fantastic Voyage-esque journey into Fry’s body to eradicate the worms.
imdb.com summary:
After Fry eats a bad egg-salad sandwich, he begins acting strange. Parasites from the sandwich begin making him smarter and stronger, causing Leela to look at Fry in a new light.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 3 – The Cryonic Woman

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:22:30 +0000

When Leela accidentally leaves the keys in the ignition of the Planet Express, Fry and Bender decide that it’s the perfect opportunity to go joy-riding. This decision, unfortunately costs the entire crew their jobs — and Fry and Bender lay blame on Leela. She decides to return to her former job at the cryonic lab, but before doing so accidentally implants her job chip into Fry and his chip into her. Now Fry is in charge of assigning jobs to the recently thawed and Leela is one of the best-looking pizza delivery girls in New New York. Fry’s first assignment on the job brings him a big surprise — he unthaws Michelle, his former girlfriend from 1999, who voluntarily froze herself after Fry’s disappearance.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry, Leela, and Bender all lose their jobs at Planet Express, and they endeavor to return to their old jobs. Due to a mix-up of their career chips, Fry becomes a career counsellor at Applied Cryogenics, where he meets up with a familiar defrostee – his girlfriend from the 20th century, Michelle.
imdb.com summary:
Fry is reunited with his old girlfriend from the 20th Century, but she doesn’t adapt to the 31st century as well as he has. Convincing Fry to return to the cryogenic chamber, they awaken in a barren wasteland and struggle to make a place for themselves.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 2 – War Is the H-Word

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:21:36 +0000

Bender and Fry volunteer for military duty to enjoy the benefits of the soldiers’s discount. When war breaks out later that same day, Leela too decides to join the all-male ranks, under the guise of Lee Lemon, and creates quite a stir for her leader, Zapp Brannigan.
wikipedia.org summary:
Upon enrolling in the Earth army to get a military discount at the convenience store, Fry and Bender are whisked into war against a planet of ball-like aliens. Leela secretly enters the ranks to keep an eye on her friends.
imdb.com summary:
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, Liela 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.

Futurama Season 3, Episode 1 – The Honking

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:20:30 +0000

When Bender inherits a spooky castle from his deceased uncle, he finds himself being pursued by a terrifying, driverless car.
wikipedia.org summary:
At his late Uncle Vladimir’s estate, Bender is run over by a vicious Werecar, inheriting the curse. The only way to stop Bender’s fatal transformations is to seek out and destroy the original Werecar – the deadly Project Satan.
imdb.com summary:
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.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 20 – Anthology of Interest I

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:08:00 +0000

Professor Farnsworth creates a What-if machine, a device where a user can ask it a question and it will give a instant play of what will happen. Bender wants to know what life would be like if he were 500 feet tall, Leela wants to know what life would be like if she were more impulsive, and Fry wants to know what life would be like if he never came to the year 3000.
wikipedia.org summary:
Farnsworth invents a What-If machine that simulates the Planet Express crew’s wishes: Bender asks what if he were 500 feet (150 m) tall; Leela asks what if she were more impulsive; and Fry asks what if he never came to the future.
Terror at 500 Feet – Bender is built on another planet to be 500 feet tall and comes to Earth to wreak havoc. Desperate to put an end to Bender’s rampage, the Planet Express crew turns Zoidberg into a 500-foot tall giant who fights and kills Bender.
Dial L for Leela – Farnsworth tells Leela that she will be named his successor because she is boring and predictable. Acting on impulse, Leela kills Farnsworth and the rest of the Planet Express crew except Fry, who she has sex with to keep him quiet.
The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime – After just missing falling into the cryogenic tube, Fry discovers a wormhole that threatens to destroy the universe if Fry does not go to the future. Instead of stepping into the tube, Fry destroys it and brings about the end of the universe.
imdb.com summary:
In this episode of Futurama the Professor creates a What If machine that answers every question. The first question is what if Bender was 500 feet tall, the second is what if Leela was more impulsive, and the third is what if Fry never came to the future.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 19 – Mother’s Day

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:06:19 +0000

It’s Mother’s Day in the year 3000 and the robots celebrate the occasion by lavishing presents on Mom, who happens to be the beloved founder of Mom’s Friendly Robot Company. When Mom enlists the robots in a revolution to take over the world and make her Queen for Mother’s Day, she instructs the robots to turn against their human masters. Realizing that Mom seeks world domination, Professor Farnsworth’s seductive moves are made to save the humans.
wikipedia.org summary:
Mom reprograms the world’s robots to rebel against humanity. The only hope of salvation is Mom’s old flame – Professor Farnsworth, who must rekindle his romance with Mom in order to save mankind.
imdb.com summary:
When Mom of Mom’s Robot Factory takes control of every robot on Earth, the only man who can save the planet is Prof. Farnsworth.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 18 – The Problem with Popplers (a.k.a. My Problems with Popplers)

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:04:22 +0000

When the Planet Express crew lands on a previously undiscovered plant, they find that it is covered in a new and delicious animal life form which they call “popplers”. These edible and highly addictive “popplers” soon become a new business venture for the crew as Earthlings just can’t seem to get enough of these delicacies. The dreaded Omnicrons reveal just what these “popplers” actually are, and seek restitution for Earth’s “poppler” consumption.
wikipedia.org summary:
The crew discovers an irresistible source of food on a distant planet, and brings it back to Earth to be sold at the Fishy Joe’s restaurant chain. But when it’s discovered that the so-called “Popplers” are actually Omicronian babies, the Omicronians demand recompense.
imdb.com summary:
The Planet Express crew discovers a delicious snack food on a remote planet, but Leela has a change of heart when she discovers a disturbing fact about the snack food that endangers Earth.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 17 – Bender Gets Made (a.k.a. Bendfellas)

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:02:47 +0000

When Bender cannot pay the bill after an extremely expensive meal, he offers to work it off in the kitchen. While he’s working he is introduced to the secret robot mafia who cooks up a plan for Bender to participate in a Zuban Cigar heist. Bender is dished a deal that hits closer to home.
wikipedia.org summary:
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.
imdb.com summary:
Bender gets inducted into the Robot mafia but has a crisis of conscience when their next score involves his friends on the Planet Express ship.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 16 – The Deep South

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:00:52 +0000

A day off from work, the crew aboard the Planet Express Spaceship goes fishing. When Bender fashions a gigantic hook catching a gigantic fish, he causes the ship to sink. Once submerged, the crew finds an ancient sunken city habitated by mermaids and mermen. Fry is the first to contact them – and one of them in a romantic way.
wikipedia.org summary:
A fishing trip over the ocean takes a turn for the worse when a colossal mouth bass pulls the Planet Express ship to the bottom of the sea. There, Fry falls in love with a mermaid named Umbriel with long blonde hair, and the crew discovers the sunken city of Atlanta, Georgia.
imdb.com summary:
When the crew goes fishing, a giant fish pulls the ship under water. There they find an ancient city, where Fry falls in love with Umbriel, a mermaid.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 15 – A Clone of My Own

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:59:30 +0000

It’s Farnsworth’s 150th birthday, and a party is being held for him at Mars University. However the party makes him realize there is so much he has to do, and so little time to do it. Back home, he reveals his clone, Cubert Farnsworth, who looks and acts like an obnoxious 12 year old brat. The crew soon takes a dislike to Cubert. Farnsworth is crushed when Cubert tells him he doesn’t want to be a scientist because Farnsworth’s inventions never worked.
wikipedia.org summary:
Farnsworth celebrates his 150th birthday, but begins to grow concerned about what will become of his inventions after he is gone, so he names a clone of himself, Cubert Farnsworth, to be his successor. However, Cubert shows no interest in becoming an inventor and harshly criticizes all of Farnsworth’s ideas and inventions. Saddened, Farnsworth leaves a will revealing that he is in fact 160 years old, the age when people are taken to the Near-Death Star, a retirement home-like facility from which they never return. The crew and Cubert rescue Farnsworth while he is still unconscious, but their ship’s light-speed engines are damaged. Fortunately, a blow Cubert sustained to the head during the escape causes him to gain Farnsworth’s understanding of how the engines work. The crew safely returns to Earth, and Cubert tells Farnsworth that he has decided to follow in his “father’s” footsteps.
imdb.com summary:
Prof. Farnsworth reveals that he cloned himself years ago and introduces his clone to the Planet Express staff.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 14 – How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:57:54 +0000

Hermes, the bureaucrat assigned to the Planet Express, is on the fast track to promotion until he starts to crack under pressure and is sent away in vacation. In his place, Morgan Proctor (Nora Dunn), an attractive woman and orderly bureaucrat arrives and immediately becomes romantically entangled with Fry. When Bender discovers their secret and threatens to tell their co-workers, Morgan panics and disables his memory disk.
wikipedia.org summary:
When Hermes takes a stress-relieving vacation, replacement bureaucrat Morgan Proctor becomes infatuated with Fry. Bender threatens to publicize their affair, but Morgan removes Bender’s memory and hides it within the cavernous Central Bureaucracy.
imdb.com summary:
A meticulous substitute bureaucrat at Planet Express develops an unseemly attraction to dirty Fry while career bureaucrat Hermes Conrad goes to a vacation resort featuring forced labor. After Bender discovers the affair, only Hermes can save his personality after it is downloaded by the unscrupulous substitute.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 13 – A Bicyclops Built for Two

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:56:36 +0000

When Leela discovers that she is not the last cyclops in the Universe, she makes plans to meet with Alkazar, a male cyclops who tells Leela how she became the last female of their race. When Leela accepts Alkazar’s marriage proposal, Fry tries to convince her that Alkazar is all wrong for her and Fry and Bender set out to gather evidence before Leela walks down the aisle.
wikipedia.org summary:
Leela meets another cyclops named Alcazar, who appears to be the only other remaining member of their kind following the destruction of their home planet of Cyclopia. Leela moves into Alcazar’s castle and decides it is her duty to help rebuild their civilization with him, but he begins to treat her like a slave. Fry grows suspicious of Alcazar, but before he can persuade Leela, Alcazar proposes to her and she accepts. During the wedding, Fry and Bender discover that the planet has four other castles, each housing a different alien Alcazar had proposed to and is preparing to marry on the same day. Fry exposes the secret and Alcazar’s five brides gang up on him, forcing him to reveal his true form as a shapeshifting bug-like alien. As they leave Alcazar’s planet, Leela begins contemplating the odds of finding the planet she came from.
imdb.com summary:
After Leela meets a man named Alkazar, she finds out she is not the only Cyclops left. Alkazar takes Leela to his home planet and proposes to marry her. Meanwhile, Fry suspects Alkazar is hiding something.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 12 – Raging Bender

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:50:03 +0000

When Bender goes to the movies, he ends up wrestling around to get a better view. While brawling, he gets discovered and signs on as the featured attraction in the brutal Ultimate Robot Fighting League — with some knock-out results.
wikipedia.org summary:
Bender inadvertently defeats a champion robot boxer and is hired to become a member of the Ultimate Robot Fighting League. Leela agrees to train Bender to get back at her old sexist martial arts teacher Fnog. Bender becomes more popular with each fight he wins, which all turn out to be fixed, causing him to neglect his training. Soon, however, Bender’s popularity begins to dwindle and he is instructed to throw the next match against a giant robot called Destructor. Leela only agrees to help Bender upon learning his opponent is trained by Fnog. During the fight, Leela discovers Destructor is being controlled remotely by Fnog, who she fights and beats up. Bender tries to use this opportunity to defeat Destructor, but his opponent falls on him and he loses the match anyway.
imdb.com summary:
Bender gets into trouble with a famous wrestling robot and accidentally knocks him out. Instantly, he is offered to fight in the professional robot wrestling league and Leela talks him into it, offering to train him. Bender soon figures out how the robot wrestling business works like and enjoys being rich and popular. But soon fame takes hold of him and he’s about to pay the price for his behavior.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 11 – Lesser of Two Evils

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:47:55 +0000

The Professor hires Flexo — a new robot who, despite a goatee, is an exact duplicate of Bender — as extra security when the crew is asked to take a valuable jeweled tiara to the Miss Universe Contest. When the tiara turns up missing, Fry suspects Flexo and starts a cat-and-mouse chase throughout the pageant with Bob Barker guest starring as himself.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry goes with Amy to try out her newly purchased car on Mercury. When the car runs out of gas, the two make love while waiting for a tow truck and begin dating. Valentine’s Day approaches and Fry begins to feel smothered by Amy, but as Fry prepares to break up with her, they get into a car accident that nearly kills him. With his body severely damaged, Fry’s head is kept alive by being grafted onto Amy’s shoulder. Fry breaks up with Amy anyway upon returning to Earth, so she arranges another date that Fry is forced to attend. Before Fry can unwillingly join Amy in an intimate relationship with her boyfriend, Leela saves him by prolonging their conversation and canceling their evening plans. Fry has his head is reattached to his repaired body the next day, and he and Amy continue to remain friends.
imdb.com summary:
While at a 20th century museum, Fry runs over another bending unit, Flexo. When Flexo is hired at Planet Express as extra security for the delivery of the tiara to the Miss Universe Pageant, Fry becomes suspicious of him and keeps watch on him for most of the journey. Tired, he falls asleep while guarding the tiara and when he wakes up he discovers it has been stolen.
tv.com summary:
Fry, Leela, and Bender go to “Past-O-rama”, While there, Fry runs over Flexo, a robot that looks exactly like Bender, except for his goatee. When a expensive jewel goes missing, Fry suspects it is Flexo who stole it.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 10 – Put Your Head on My Shoulder

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:37:50 +0000

Fry finds his flirtation with Amy heating up, until Amy becomes too serious about the relationship. Fry attempts to break things off just before Valentine’s Day, but he’s interrupted when the car he, Amy and Dr Zoidberg are in crashes. As a result, Fry’s head becomes separated from the rest of his body. But thanks to Dr. Zoidberg’s quick thinking, Fry’s life is saved when his head is grafted onto Amy’s body, forcing them to spend Valentine’s Day together whether they want to or not.
wikipedia.org summary:
The Planet Express crew meets another bending robot named Flexo, who bears a striking resemblance to Bender, save for a goatee. Bender and Flexo become friends, but Fry suspects Flexo to be Bender’s evil twin. Flexo joins the crew on their way to the Miss Universe pageant to help guard a valuable Jumbonium atom, but when they arrive at the pageant, the atom is missing and Fry immediately suspects Flexo. Bender gets into a fight with Flexo to stop him until it is revealed that Bender is the one who stole the atom. The atom is recovered, but Flexo is accidentally imprisoned for Bender’s crime.
imdb.com summary:
After a horrendous accident requires his body to be rebuilt, Fry’s head is attached to the shoulder of a co-worker while Bender opens a dating service just in time for Valentine’s Day.
tv.com summary:
After a horrendous accident requires his body to be rebuilt, Fry’s head is attached to the shoulder of a co-worker while Bender opens a dating service just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 9 – Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:34:36 +0000

Dr. Zoidberg undergoes some dramatic changes when his species enters its mating season. But, when the crew travels to his home planet, the doctor discovers he needs to learn a great deal about love and women.
wikipedia.org summary:
Zoidberg’s recent aggressive behavior indicates it is mating season for his species. Zoidberg goes with the crew to his home planet of Decapod 10 for the mating frenzy, but his erotic display fails to attract any mates, including a female Decapodian and an old acquaintance of Zoidberg’s named Edna. Fry teaches Zoidberg how to win Edna’s heart through romance, but she begins to grow attracted to Fry instead upon learning that he is responsible for Zoidberg’s romantic behavior. Enraged, Zoidberg challenges Fry to a fight to the death over Edna’s affections, but the other Decapodians leave partway through the fight to participate in the mating frenzy, including Edna, who mates with the Decapodian king instead. Having missed out on the mating frenzy, Zoidberg reveals that everyone who participates in it dies after laying their eggs and apologizes to Fry.
imdb.com summary:
When Zoidberg seems to crazy, the crew realizes his body is reacting to the fact that it is mating season on his home planet. They all travel to the planet, hoping to find a mate for Zoidberg.
tv.com summary:
It is mating season for Dr. Zoidberg’s race and he can’t find a female mate. Fry sets out to teach him how to win their hearts but soon things backfire.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 8 – Xmas Story

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:27:09 +0000

While the crew takes a vacation skiing, Fry becomes depressed by how much Christmas has changed in the future. Besides the difference in pronunciation and the extinction of pine trees, jolly St. Nick is now a man to be feared. It’s Fry’s first Christmas away from home, and he has no one to share it with. Leela is also feeling lonely; growing up as an orphan has left her with no family to share the holiday. Fry is determined to cheer her up, so he goes out to find her the perfect gift. Everyone warns him to be back by sundown lest he be killed by Santa. But when Fry’s gift, a pet parrot, escapes, he neglects their warning trying to capture it. Leela then learns of his absence and runs out to get Fry before Santa Claus does. The two unite to confront the Xmas enemy.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry becomes homesick during his first 31st century Christmas, called “Xmas”. His insensitive moping hurts Leela’s feelings because she has no family to celebrate Xmas with, and she runs off in tears. Fry goes out to buy Leela a present to apologize, but the others warn him to return by sundown, or else he will encounter Robot Santa, a murderous robot who kills anyone he believes to be “naughty”, which is practically everyone. Fry finds Leela and the two reconcile, but it gets late and they are attacked by Robot Santa on their way back home. Robot Santa tries to break into the building, but everyone teams up to drive him away. Everyone celebrates their victory over Robot Santa, who threatens to return next Xmas.
imdb.com summary:
Fry learns how Christmas has changed and remained the same over the last 1000 years when a Robot Santa terrorizes New New York.
tv.com summary:
It’s Christmas (Xmas actually), and Fry realizes how different it is from what he can remember. Santa Claus is now a robot who punishes the naughty people… and he considers everyone to be naughty.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 7 – A Head in the Polls

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:40:40 +0000

Election day is drawing nearer, but Fry and Bender are unmoved by politics. While Leela convinces Fry to register to vote, Bender sees something on TV that does interest him. He learns that a titanium mine collapsed, causing the price of titanium to increase. Bender sees this as an opportunity to make some cash by selling his body, firmly convinced that life without a body is worth it for the money. He visits the Head Museum but starts to miss his body when Nixon reminisces about his own. Determined to reunite with his body, Bender sets out to buy it back. He is startled to discover that it has already been sold. He’s even more surprised when he sees Nixon on TV announcing his candidacy, using Bender’s body as his own!
wikipedia.org summary:
After the price of titanium skyrockets, Bender pawns his titanium-rich body. Now nothing more than a head, Bender begins to live glamorously until he meets the head of former president Richard Nixon, who tells him that life as a head is actually depressing. Bender decides to buy his body back, only to find it has already been bought by Nixon so that he may participate in the current election race for President of Earth. Fry, Leela, and Bender confront Nixon over Bender’s body, and Nixon rants about his devious future plans for Earth, which Bender records and uses to blackmail Nixon into giving his body back. The three believe they have defeated Nixon, but because Leela forgot to vote, Nixon wins by a single vote thanks to acquiring a new, giant war robot’s body.
imdb.com summary:
Richard Nixon’s head runs for President of Earth.
tv.com summary:
When a mine disaster traps the only supply of Titanium and 1000 robots, Bender becomes highly profitable, so he decides to sell his entire body. He later discovers that life as a simple head is boring, so he wants his body back. Elections take place, with John Jackson, Jack Johnson and Richard Nixon’s head as candidates; but Nixon is using Bender’s body.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 6 – Brannigan, Begin Again

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:32:26 +0000

The crew is to deliver a pair of scissors to DOOP’s new headquarters in the Neutral Zone for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Zapp, who is supposed to cut the ribbon, attempts to do it from afar with his ship’s laser and accidentally blows up the headquarters. As punishment, Zapp and Kif are dismissed from DOOP. They take to the streets and eventually end up on the doorstep of Planet Express. The Professor gives them their first assignment, a delivery to the high-gravity planet of Stumbos 4. Angry with Leela’s constant orders, Zapp convinces Fry and Bender to stage a coup that places himself as the captain. Unfortunately, they soon find out how inept Zapp is, though it may be too late.
wikipedia.org summary:
Zapp Brannigan and his subordinate Kif are court-martialed and dishonorably discharged after destroying the new DOOP headquarters. Unemployed, Zapp and Kif take up jobs at Planet Express. During a mission, Zapp plays upon Leela’s harsh treatment of Fry and Bender and convinces the two to stage a mutiny so that he may attack a neutral planet, hoping it will get him reinstated in the DOOP. Fry and Bender discover the plan is a suicide mission, so they free Leela and foil Zapp’s plan. Zapp later tries to take credit for the Planet Express crew’s heroics, and he and Kif are reinstated in the DOOP after Leela supports his testimony to keep Zapp away from her.
imdb.com summary:
After destroying the new DOOP space station, Capt. Brannigan is forced to make a living as a civilian. Begging a job at Planet Express, he instigates a mutiny against Leela so he can lead a suicidal charge (for Fry and Bender, at least) against his enemies, the Neutrals.
tv.com summary:
Zapp Brannigan and Kif are discharged after destroying the new DOOP headquarters. They have to find jobs at Planet Express where Zapp incites a mutiny against Leela.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 5 – I Second That Emotion

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:30:50 +0000

Bender becomes envious of all the attention that Nibbler has been receiving. The annoyance culminates when Nibbler devours Bender’s homemade cake before he can gloriously unveil it. To get rid of the pest once and for all, Bender carelessly flushes Nibbler down the toilet. Leela is heartbroken and rightfully accuses Bender of lacking remorse. However, the Professor has a way to make Bender experience human emotion. He installs an empathy chip and sets it to Leela’s emotional frequency so that Bender can understand her loss. Motivated by misery, Bender heads to the sewers to bring back the missing pet and to put an end to his new-found regret, unaware of the dangerous mutants that inhabit the underground.
wikipedia.org summary:
During Nibbler’s birthday party, Bender becomes annoyed at how little attention he is getting and flushes Nibbler down the toilet. Distraught, Leela wishes that Bender could understand human emotions, so Professor Farnsworth installs an empathy chip in Bender so that he can feel Leela’s emotions as she feels them. Leela’s sadness of losing Nibbler becomes too great for Bender, who flushes himself down the toilet to find and rescue Nibbler in the sewers. Fry and Leela follow Bender and encounter a group of sewer mutants who live in fear of a monster called El Chupanibre, believing it to be Nibbler. Nibbler returns safely, but it turns out that he is not the monster, which appears alongside him. Bender tries to fight El Chupanibre, but Leela’s fear for Nibbler’s safety immobilizes him, so he convinces her to think only about herself rather than others, which gives Bender the strength to drive off the monster. Bender’s empathy chip is later removed, though he has learned nothing.
imdb.com summary:
When Bender flushes Leela’s pet, Prof. Farnsworth affixes an emotional transponder so he can feel what Leela is feeling. Trying to make Leela feel better so he can feel better, Bender, Fry and Leela descend into the bowels of New New York to find her pet.
tv.com summary:
After flushing Nibbler down the toilet, Bender gets an empathy chip installed in his head by the professor to make him feel what Leela is feeling after losing her beloved pet.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 4 – Fry and the Slurm Factory

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:29:08 +0000

Fry becomes addicted to Slurm, the ultimate drink in the year 3000. When a contest appears on TV saying that the person who finds the golden cap in one of the cans will win a tour of the Slurm factory, Fry uses Farnsworth’s F-Ray gun that sees through anything to find it. It is at the factory where the crew discover a terrible secret behind Slurm.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry wins a contest that allows him and the Planet Express crew to tour the factory where his favorite soft drink, Slurm, is made. During the tour, Fry, Leela, and Bender stumble into the factory’s underbelly where they discover that the drink is actually the secretion of a giant worm, the Slurm Queen, as part of a money-making plot. The Queen discovers the three and, fearing her company will be ruined if the scandal is exposed, attempts to silence them, but they escape. However, Fry cannot bring himself to ruin his favorite drink, so the Planet Express crew decides to keep the plot a secret.
imdb.com summary:
Fry wins a contest to visit the factory of his favorite addictive drink, but danger ensues when he accidentally discovers the real factory.
tv.com summary:
Fry becomes addicted to Slurm, the ultimate drink in the year 3000. When a contest appears on TV saying that the person who finds the golden cap in one of the cans will win a tour of the Slurm factory, Fry uses Farnsworth’s F-Ray gun that sees through anything to find it. It is at the factory where the crew discover a terrible secret behind Slurm.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 3 – When Aliens Attack

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:27:44 +0000

While delivering a pizza to a TV station back in 1999, Fry knocks FOX off the air while showing the season finale of “Single Female Lawyer”. This upsets the aliens of Omicron Persei 8, a planet that is 1000 light years away and is just receiving the broadcast in the year 3000. Meanwhile, it’s Labor Day and the crew decides to go to Monument Beach. Everything seems well, until the Omicronians arrive on Earth and start destroying the monuments. Volunteers are called under the orders of Zapp Brannigan to battle the aliens, but fail in destroying the mother-ship. Lrrr threatens to destroy the Earth unless he sees McNeal. President McNeal is delivered to him, but Lrrr says that is the wrong McNeal and takes out a picture of Jenny McNeal. Luckily, Fry recognizes her from the TV show and the crew has to improvise and act out the series finale.
wikipedia.org summary:
Earth is invaded by aliens from Omicron Persei 8, who seemingly demand the planet hand over its president. It turns out, however, that the one they were referring to is the main character of a 20th century TV show, Single Female Lawyer, the final episode of which was disrupted before it was concluded when Fry accidentally spilled beer on a control panel from the station it was broadcast from back in 1999. The Omicronians threaten Earth to broadcast the episode or be destroyed, but because no copy of the episode exists anymore, the Planet Express crew is forced to reenact it. The resulting product is crude, but with Fry’s guidance, the Omicronians are satisfied with the ending and leave the partially-destroyed Earth.
imdb.com summary:
An ‘monumental’ attack from Lurr of Omicron Persei 8 is precipitated by the loss of a TV show signal Fry had disrupted back in 1999.
tv.com summary:
An invasion by the Omicronians demanding to watch the final episode for the 1999 TV series Single Female Lawyer, forces the Planet Express crew to re-enact it live.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 2 – Mars University

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:26:14 +0000

Fry, Leela, Bender and Farnsworth have to go to Mars University where Fry has to share a room with a talking monkey, Farnsworth’s latest invention. The monkey becomes a real headache when he starts beating Fry in all areas. Meanwhile, Bender is hanging out with nerd robots.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry attends Mars University with the intention of dropping out of college and becomes the roommate of Guenter, a monkey who is made intelligent by an electronium hat provided by Farnsworth. Fry becomes bitter rivals with Guenter and humiliates him during the parents’ reception party by releasing his unintelligent, feral parents, which makes Guenter unhappy about his current life. Guenter gradually becomes stressed to the point of taking off his hat and fleeing into the Martian jungle. Fry, Leela, and Farnsworth find him and try to make him choose between an intelligent life and the life of a normal monkey, but the three are swept into a river by Bender during a raft regatta. Guenter falls off a cliff after saving the three from falling over a waterfall using the intelligence provided by his hat. Fortunately, the hat breaks his fall and begins working at half its usual capacity, and Guenter becomes content with his now average intelligence.
imdb.com summary:
Fry matriculates at Mars University and competes with a monkey made smart by Prof. Farnsworth’s latest invention while Bender tries to make the local chapter of his robot fraternity cool.
tv.com summary:
Fry, Leela, Bender and Farnsworth have to go to Mars University where Fry has to share a room with a talking monkey, Farnsworth’s latest invention. The monkey becomes a real headache when he starts beating Fry in all areas. Meanwhile, Bender is hanging out with nerd robots.

Futurama Season 2, Episode 1 – A Flight to Remember

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:22:26 +0000

In a whole “Titanic” parody, Fry and the entire gang 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.
wikipedia.org summary:
The Planet Express crew takes a luxury cruise on the largest space ship ever built: the Titanic. On board, Bender meets the lovely robot Countess de la Roca. At first, he is only attracted to her for her wealth and pretends to be rich himself, but the two genuinely fall in love even after Bender’s secret is exposed. Meanwhile, to avoid the advances of the Titanic’s captain, Zapp, Leela pretends to be engaged to Fry. However, Amy passes herself off as Fry’s girlfriend to her parents to keep them from meddling with her love life, which makes Leela jealous. Before the fake relationships are exposed, the Titanic becomes entangled in a swarm of comets as a result of Zapp changing course and is piloted into a black hole. The Planet Express crew is safely evacuated on the ship’s escape pods, with the Countess sacrificing herself to save Bender’s life.
imdb.com summary:
Planet Express workers win a journey at a space cruiser called “Titanic”. There, Fry acts as boyfriend of Leela,who doesn’t want to be with Zapp Brannigan, and Amy, who uses Fry to tell his parents she has at least a boyfriend.They will soon have some problems with the game with Fry. Bender meets a pretty rich robot-woman, and they fall in love. The romance will be interrupted with a black hole near the cruiser.
tv.com summary:
In a whole “Titanic” parody, Fry and the entire gang 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.

Futurama Season 1, Episode 9 – Hell Is Other Robots

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:06:27 +0000

Bender gets addicted to electricity but tries to escape from the addiction by joining the church of Robotology. When he goes back to his old ways he is sent to the Robot Hell.
wikipedia.org summary:
Bender becomes addicted to electricity and ends up wrecking the Planet Express ship while steering it into an electrical storm in space, nearly killing everyone. After being confronted about his addiction, Bender realizes he has a problem and finds religion at the Temple of Robotology. He begins repenting for his evil ways, but annoys and disturbs his fellow crew members in doing so. Deciding they want the old Bender back, Fry and Leela persuade him to revert to his former self. As punishment for turning his back on his faith, Bender is sent to Robot Hell, but Fry and Leela find and save him from eternal damnation at the hands of the Robot Devil.
imdb.com summary:
Bender joins a robot church after fighting an addiction to electricity, but reverts to his pre-addictive behavior of cigars, booze and robot hookers, leading to a musical confrontation with the Robot Devil.
tv.com summary:
Bender gets addicted to electricity but tries to escape from the addiction by joining the church of Robotology. When he goes back to his old ways he is sent to the Robot Hell.

Futurama Season 1, Episode 8 – A Big Piece of Garbage

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:05:13 +0000

A big piece of garbage that was released a thousand years ago is now on the way to Earth to destroy it. After Fry, Leela and Bender fail on placing a bomb on it, the city has to build another big piece of garbage; yet that may be a problem since trash doesn’t exist in year 3000.
wikipedia.org summary:
After forgetting to bring an invention to an academic symposium and being humiliated by his arch-nemesis, Wernstrom, Farnsworth discovers another invention he attempted to substitute, the “Smell-O-Scope”, and uses it to discover than an enormous ball of garbage that was launched into space in the year 2000 is now on a collision course back to Earth. The Planet Express crew is sent to destroy it in space with explosives, but Farnsworth blunders the installation of the bomb’s timer and the plan fails. In desperation, Farnsworth proposes they deflect the ball into the Sun by launching another ball of garbage into it. Fry teaches the city how to make garbage, since everyone forgot how to do so over the centuries. The plan succeeds while the new ball flies out into the solar system, and Farnsworth regains his honor.
imdb.com summary:
When a big ball of garbage from the 21st Century returns to threaten New New York, Philip is the only expert on making the weapon to fight it.
tv.com summary:
A big piece of garbage that was released a thousand years ago is now on the way to Earth to destroy it. After Fry, Leela and Bender fail to place a bomb on it, the city has to build another big piece of garbage; yet that may be a problem since trash doesn’t exist in year 3000.

Futurama Season 1, Episode 7 – My Three Suns

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:03:41 +0000

The Professor sends the crew to planet Trisol for a delivery. Bender finally fulfills his secret dream of being a chef and prepares dinner for everyone during the trip. When they arrive, Fry is instructed not to touch anything, but Trisol is sweltering and Bender’s salty meal has made him even more thirsty. When he arrives at the palace, he spots a bottle of water by the throne. He quickly finishes it off as two pools of water morph into two guards. They inform Fry that since he just drank the emperor, he will be their new ruler. Unfortunately, his reign may be shorter than originally implied.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry is sent to make a delivery on the planet of Trisol, but is stricken by extreme thirst after traveling on foot under the planet’s three blazing suns and drinks what appears to be a bottle of water. It turns out that the “water” was in fact the emperor of the planet’s liquid-based inhabitants, and Fry is declared the planet’s new emperor. Before Fry’s coronation, Leela tries to warn him that each of the planet’s emperors have been killed and succeeded on a weekly basis, but Fry refuses to listen and Leela vows to never help him again. When the sun sets after Fry’s coronation, the Trisolians begin to glow, including the previous emperor, who is still alive in Fry’s stomach and orders him to be cut open and drained. Leela ultimately decides to help save Fry from being killed by beating him up, causing Fry to weep in pain and gradually cry out the emperor.
imdb.com summary:
Delivery Boy Philip J. Fry is promoted to Emperor after accidentally drinking his fluid-based predecessor.
Next US airings:
tv.com summary:
The crew visits an arid planet in the Galaxy of Terror distinctive for its three suns and liquid alien inhabitants. Fry, after delivering a package under the scorching heat, quenches his thirst with a bottle of cool blue liquid. Fry soon finds out he drank the planet’s royal leader and is named the new emperor. Fry abuses his newfound power, even appointing Bender second in command, until the aliens retaliate and the real battle for power begins.

Futurama Season 1, Episode 6 – A Fishful of Dollars

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:59:35 +0000

Bender gets arrested for trying to steal cans of robot oil, and Fry has to bail him out. Short on cash, he visits the bank, curious if his account is still open. Not only is it still open, but his balance has reached the amount of $4.3 billion. After much celebration, Fry treats his friends to pizza, but he’s awestruck to discover that anchovies, his favorite topping, have gone extinct. He tries to win the last can in existence at an auction. However, Mom, the most powerful person in the world, bids against him. She will do anything to get those anchovies, for they’re worth much more than Fry realizes.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry checks his bank account for the first time in a thousand years and discovers that he has become a billionaire thanks to compound interest. He goes on a massive spending spree and buys various 20th century artifacts, including the last unopened can of anchovies, which have gone extinct. Mom, a famous industrialist and oil tycoon, feels threatened that the anchovies’ oil could be used to put her out of business, so she sends her sons to steal Fry’s ATM and PIN number. Fry’s bank account is emptied and his 20th century artifacts are repossessed except for the anchovies, which Mom hopes Fry will sell to her. However, she stops interfering once she learns that Fry had intended to serve the anchovies on a pizza to share with his friends, who end up hating it.
imdb.com summary:
Fry discovers his bank account interest has made him a billionaire and buys the one thing the year 3000 doesn’t have, anchovies.
tv.com summary:
A thousand years is a long time to save up money, and Fry’s savings account has been racking up interest. When Fry discovers just how much money he has, over 4 billion dollars, he goes a little overboard. After completely redecorating the apartment, splurging on expensive spa days and treating his friends to innumerable luxuries, Fry discovers the ultimate expense; anchovies. This rare delicacy has been extinct for years, and Fry must battle the evil conglomerate known as Mom, plus Pamela Anderson’s head in a jar, to get them!

Futurama Season 1, Episode 5 – Fear of a Bot Planet

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:57:52 +0000

The crew is out watching a game of blernsball when Bender notes that the robots are only employed as service workers to do the “crap work.” He grows increasingly upset by this, but his anger is interrupted by Hermes’ report of a package that arrived. The crew returns home and learns that the package’s destination is Chapek 9. Because the planet is inhabited by robots that kill humans on sight, only Bender can make the actual delivery. Unfortunately, the robots discover that he came with humans. Leela and Fry must go save him, even though he might not be as helpless as they think.
wikipedia.org summary:
The Planet Express crew deliver a package to Chapek 9, a planet inhabited entirely by human-hating robots who kill humans on sight. Bender is sent to deliver the package alone, but is captured upon discovery that he works for humans, so Fry and Leela disguise themselves as robots and infiltrate the robot society. When they find Bender, they discover that Bender has made himself an idol among the other robots out of frustration of feeling unappreciated by his crew. Fry and Leela are captured, but Bender refuses to kill his friends. They soon learn that the planet’s government is merely using humans as a scapegoat to distract the population from a valuable lug nut shortage. The three escape the planet and Bender, remembering he forgot to deliver the package, drops it onto the robots chasing them, revealing a shower of lug nuts and causing the robots to renounce their human-hating ways.
imdb.com summary:
Fry and Leela disguise themselves as robots to find Bender after he fails to return from a delivery to a robot planet, only to learn that he has become a celebrity in a culture which fears humans.
tv.com summary:
The Planet Express crew must deliver a package to a planet inahabited entirely by a human-hating society of robots.

Futurama Season 1, Episode 4 – Love’s Labours Lost in Space

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:56:40 +0000

On a mission intended to save endangered animals on a collapsing planet, Leela and the crew run into legendary starship captain Zapp Brannigan. A self-proclaimed ladies man, Zapp sees Leela as a potential new conquest. When the captain refuses to aid the animal rescue, Leela and her crew try to leave Zapp’s starship, the Nimbus; but Zapp throws Fry and Bender in jail, and summons Leela to his “Lovenasium.” They ultimately escape and arrive on the doomed planet, where Leela finally finds love; with a cute, and very useful, creature named Nibbler.
wikipedia.org summary:
The Planet Express crew deliver a package to Chapek 9, a planet inhabited entirely by human-hating robots who kill humans on sight. Bender is sent to deliver the package alone, but is captured upon discovery that he works for humans, so Fry and Leela disguise themselves as robots and infiltrate the robot society. When they find Bender, they discover that Bender has made himself an idol among the other robots out of frustration of feeling unappreciated by his crew. Fry and Leela are captured, but Bender refuses to kill his friends. They soon learn that the planet’s government is merely using humans as a scapegoat to distract the population from a valuable lug nut shortage. The three escape the planet and Bender, remembering he forgot to deliver the package, drops it onto the robots chasing them, revealing a shower of lug nuts and causing the robots to renounce their human-hating ways.
imdb.com summary:
Leela is feeling lonely, unable to meet a worthwhile guy. Professor Farnsworth sends the crew on a tax-deductible charity mission to evacuate wildlife from the doomed planet Burgon 6. While approaching the planet, Leela is thrilled to meet the legendary Captain Zapp Brannigan, who is policing the sector. Upon closer inspection, Brannigan turns out to be a pompous dimwit (who also thinks he’s God’s gift to women). Brannigan throws the Planet Express crew in jail for violating the planet’s security cordon, but tries to seduce Leela. When his clumsy attempts to appear suave and sophisticated fail, he scores with pathetic crying. Leela gets the crew released, and they collect wildlife from Burgon 6, but the mission fails when the last animal collected turns out to be a tiny, voracious killing machine that consumes all the other animals. Leela names him Nibbler. Trapped on the collapsing planet without fuel, Leela refuses to go crawling back to Zapp. Then Nibbler excretes a lump of combustible rocket fuel, and the ship is saved.
tv.com summary:
Planet Express is in charge of delivering a package to an amusement park on the moon. Newly arrived Fry shows Leela how to appreciate the celestial body. Meanwhile Amy and Bender try to recover the keys to the spaceship.

Futurama Season 1, Episode 3 – I Roommate

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:54:49 +0000

Everyone is sick of Fry living at Planet Express, so he is forced to move out to become Bender’s roommate. The only catch is that Bender’s apartment is too small for the two. After some searching they find a great apartment. A problem arises when Bender’s antenna interferes with the TV reception as they try to watch “All My Circuits.” Bender decides to cut off his antenna so that he can live with Fry again. However, he doesn’t feel right without it, so he decides to leave and go back to his old apartment where he feels lonely. Leela tries to convince Fry to go back to the “small” apartment.
wikipedia.org summary:
Fry lives in the Planet Express building until he is kicked out for his messiness. He initially moves in with Bender, but his new apartment is little more than a cramped closet, so they both move into a more spacious and furnished apartment. During the housewarming party, it is discovered that Bender’s antenna interferes with the entire building’s satellite TV reception, and Bender is evicted while Fry stays with little regard for his friend’s troubles. Depressed, Bender goes on a self-destructive sobriety binge until he cuts off his antenna in the hopes of moving back with Fry. Realizing that Bender’s antenna is vital to his self-esteem, Fry helps Bender reattach it and moves back into Bender’s old apartment. It is then revealed that Bender’s apartment has a “closet” that is the size of a complete living suite with more than enough room for Fry, so Fry decides to move there instead.
imdb.com summary:
The Planet Express crew goes on a mission to rescue animals on Vergon 6, a planet that was mined hollow of the dark matter that filled it for fuel, and is on the verge of collapse. On the way, they meet Zapp Brannigan, who Leela is at first flattered to meet until he refuses to help them save the animals of Vergon 6 as per the law and imprisons them instead. That night, Zapp tries to seduce Leela, succeeding in getting her to sympathize with his loneliness as a captain, and she has sex with him out of pity. The next day, Zapp decides to release the crew and allows them to travel to Vergon 6, believing Leela will come crawling back to him. While collecting the animals, Leela discovers another creature not on their list and decides to save it as well, naming it Nibbler, who subsequently devours all the other animals they saved. The planet begins to collapse and the crew finds their ship is out of fuel. Leela refuses to accept Zapp’s help when he tells them Nibbler must remain behind, and the crew resigns to their fate until Nibbler excretes a pellet of dark matter, which gives them enough fuel to escape before the planet implodes.
tv.com summary:
Fry gets kicked out of the Planet Express facilities and has to look for a new place to live. With the help of Bender they find a new apartment to live. But they run into trouble when Bender’s antenna causes interference to the building’s satellite TV signal.

Futurama Season 1, Episode 2 – The Series Has Landed

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:50:56 +0000

The Planet Express crew receives a package to deliver to the moon’s amusement park. Fry can’t wait to spend the day there at Luna Park, so the crew begrudgingly caters to his excitement needs. Leela even takes him on the Lunar Rover ride for a chance to see the real moon, but this proves to be unsatisfying. Fry derails the car from its track to really experience the moon, but the two run into some unexpected trouble. Meanwhile, Bender gets thrown out of Luna Park and runs into some trouble of his own with a farmer’s robot daughters.
wikipedia.org summary:
The new Planet Express crew receives their first mission: a delivery to an amusement park on the Moon. Fry is enthusiastic about the idea of going to the Moon, but is disappointed that people only go there for the amusement park and wants to see the “real Moon.” He hijacks one of the rides with Leela, but gets them both stranded on the Moon’s surface. Low on oxygen, they take refuge in a hydroponic farm, but Bender, who was kicked out of the amusement park, makes advances on one of the farmer’s robot daughters, forcing the three to flee from the angry farmer. Fry and Leela find and take shelter in the Apollo 11 lander until all three are rescued by Planet Express intern Amy Wong.
imdb.com summary:
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.
tv.com summary:
Planet Express is in charge of delivering a package to an amusement park on the moon. Newly arrived Fry shows Leela how to appreciate the celestial body. Meanwhile Amy and Bender try to recover the keys to the spaceship.

Futurama Season 1, Episode 1 – Space Pilot 3000

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:22:14 +0000

Due to an unforeseen incident, pizza delivery boy Philip J. Fry becomes frozen in a cryogenics lab. When he awakes 1000 years later, he’s more than happy to have left behind his dismal past. He meets with an alien, Leela, to receive his permanent career assignment as a delivery boy. Fry refuses to perform the same job that had dissatisfied him in his old life, so he runs away. With the help of a robot friend, Bender, he attempts to permanently escape from Leela and her reminder of the loser he once was.
wikipedia.org summary:
Pizza delivery boy Philip J. Fry accidentally stumbles into a cryogenic freezer on December 31, 1999, and awakens one thousand years in the future on New Year’s Eve, 2999. He meets a one-eyed career counselor named Leela, who tries to assign him an eternal career as a delivery boy. Fry dislikes the idea and escapes into the city where he meets Bender, an alcoholic robot who has also abandoned his job, and the two become friends. Fry soon becomes depressed that he can never return to his old life and surrenders to Leela, but she instead decides that she also hates her job and quits. Now fugitives, the three visit Fry’s descendant, Professor Farnsworth, who helps them escape from the police on his intergalactic spaceship as the world celebrates the year 3000. Farnsworth hires the three to become his crew for his intergalactic delivery service, Planet Express, with Fry becoming a delivery boy.
imdb.com summary:
On New Year’s Eve 1999, Pizza Delivery boy Philip J. Fry accidentally falls into a cryogenic chamber and is frozen for 1,000 years. Finally unfrozen, he explores New New York, meets his new best friend (a kleptomaniacal robot named Bender) and goes to work for his great-great-great-great-grand-nephew’s space delivery business
tv.com summary:
A pizza delivery boy by the name of Philip J. Fry is cryogenically frozen by mistake on December 31, 1999 and is unfrozen in the year 2999, where he meets a cyclops career counselor named Leela, an alcoholic and bad tempered robot named Bender, and his future nephew, Professor Farnsworth.