Defying gravity and common sense.
Original title
Futurama
Released
3/28/1999
Origin country
US
Genre
Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production companies
20th Century Fox Television, The Curiosity Company, 20th Television Animation
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
10
Number of episodes
154
The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
Planet Express sees a hostile takeover and Bender falls into the hands of criminals where he is used to fulfill their schemes.
A full-length episode of the future's most popular TV series, starring (and created, written, produced, directed by and all glory to) the Hypnotoad. Included on the DVD release of Bender's Big Score.
In Futurama's latest and most tentacle-packed epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. But what lies beyond? Horror? Love? Or maybe both, if it happens to contain a repulsive, planet-sized monster with romantic intentions! Nothing less than the fate of human and robot-kind is at stake as the Futurama crew takes on The Beast With A Billion Backs.
When Professor Farnsworth sells Planet Express to the evil Mom, it means she owns over 50% of the Earth, and becomes it's supreme ruler. It's up to Fry, Leela and Bender to save the Earth - and the universe - from Mom, as their mission takes them from New New York to alien asteroids, the surface of the sun, the farthest corner of the universe, and even though time itself!
With fuel prices skyrocketing, the Planet Express crew sets off on a dangerous mission: to infiltrate the world's only dark-matter mine, source of all spaceship fuel. But deep beneath the surface lies a far stranger place...a medieval land of dragons and sorcery and intoxicated knights who look suspiciously like Bender.
Mankind stands on the brink of a wondrous new Green Age. But ancient forces of darkness, three years older than time itself, have returned to wreak destruction. Even more shocking: Bender’s in love with a married fembot, and Leela’s on the run from the law – Zapp Brannigan’s law! Fry is the last hope of the universe… so if you’re in the universe, you might want to think about going somewhere else. Could this be the end of the Planet Express crew forever? Say it ain’t so, meatbag! Off we go, Into the Wild Green Yonder!
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.
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.
When it is discovered that Philip has been living in the Planet Express office, he is forced to move out. Trying to sleep standing up in Bender's closet-sized apartment doesn't work, so they go looking for a place both can be comfortable. Unfortunately, Bender is incompatible with the ideal apartment they do find until he has a radical... modification which makes him less than happy.
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. 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.
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.
Fry discovers his bank account interest has made him a billionaire and buys the one thing the year 3000 doesn't have, anchovies.
Delivery Boy Philip J. Fry is promoted to Emperor after accidentally drinking his fluid-based predecessor.
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.
During a Beastie Boys concert, Bender runs into a high school buddy, Fender. He invites him to a party, which turns out to be robots getting high off of electricity, or "jacking on". After one try, Bender is hooked.
The Planet Express crew take a space cruise vacation. Leela tells Captain Zapp Brannigan that Fry is her boyfriend and Amy tells the same thing to her parents. Bender falls in love with a rich female robot. Problems start when the spaceship approaches a black hole.
Fry, Leela, Bender and Farnsworth have to go to Mars University where Fry has to share a room with a talking monkey, Farnsworth's last invention. The monkey becomes a real headache when he starts beating Fry in all areas. Meanwhile, Bender is hanging out with nerd robots.
The Omicronians invade Earth, demanding to see the lost final episode of the 1999 TV show Single Female Lawyer. The Planet Express crew must re-enact the episode to appease the invading aliens.
When Fry wins a free tour of the Slurm soda factory, he and his friends split off from the tour group and make a horrifying discovery concerning the "secret ingredient" that makes Slurm so addictive.
Professor Farnsworth installs an empathy chip in Bender after the inconsiderate robot flushes Nibbler down the toilet. With his newfound emotions, a concerned Bender ventures into the mutant-infested sewers to rescue Leela's beloved pet.
Upon destroying the new DOOP headquarters, Zapp Brannigan and Kif find themselves court-martialed and dishonorably discharged. They take up jobs at Planet Express, where Kif learns what respect feels like and Zapp incites a mutiny against Leela.
When the price of titanium skyrockets, Bender pawns his titanium-rich body and lives the high life as just a head. But when the head-in-a-jar of Richard M. Nixon uses Bender's body to run for election for President of Earth, Bender vows to get his rightful property back.
To apologize for an inconsiderate remark, Fry searches for the perfect Xmas gift for Leela, all the while trying to avoid the murderous SantaBot, whose standards for niceness are astronomically high.
When Dr. Zoidberg runs amok during the Decapodian mating season, Fry sets out to teach him how to woo a mate. Things backfire when Zoidberg's desired mate falls for Fry instead, and Zoidberg challenges Fry to a battle to the death.
Fry's brief relationship with Amy is forcibly prolonged when a near-fatal car crash leaves Fry's head grafted to Amy's left shoulder. Meanwhile, Bender cashes in on Valentine's Day by starting a dating service.
Fry suspects Bender's new buddy, a bending unit named Flexo who looks almost exactly like Bender, of being pure evil. When a valuable atom of Jumbonium goes missing, Fry suspects Flexo, but can't tell which robot is which.
Bender is the featured attraction in the Ultimate Robot Fighting League, but his glory is short-lived when he is instructed to intentionally lose his next match. Leela vows to lead Bender to victory, in an effort to show up her unsupportive martial arts teacher.
Leela meets Alkazar, who claims to be the only other remaining cyclops in the universe. But when Alkazar invites Leela back to his home planet and treats her like a slave, Fry suspects that something is amiss.
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.
Professor Farnsworth unveils his clone, Cubert Farnsworth, whom he plans to leave everything to upon his retirement. But Cubert wants no part of Farnsworth's lifestyle, prompting the professor into a premature retirement on the Near-Death Star.
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, and the crew discovers the sunken city of Atlanta, Georgia.
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.
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.
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.
The Professor's "What-If" machine simulates Bender, Leela and Fry's wishes. Bender discovers what it would be like if he were 500 feet tall, Leela discovers what it would be like if she were more impulsive, and Fry discovers what would happen if he never came to the future.
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.
Fry and Bender enlist in the army to get a soldiers discount for bubblegum. When they are called to fight a war on a planet of bouncing ball aliens, Leela disguises herself as man to enlist with them. Bender is eventually sent to parley with the enemy, but this turns out to be a ploy.
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.
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 journey into Fry's body to eradicate the worms.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The combined explosions of a supernova and Fry putting metal in the microwave hurtle the Planet Express crew back in time to 1947. They land at Roswell, New Mexico, where a shattered Bender is mistaken for UFO debris, Zoidberg is taken in for an alien autopsy, and Fry accidentally kills his grandfather, Enis, in a nuclear explosion.
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.
When the Professor fine tunes his "What-If" machine, Bender discovers what it would be like if he were human, Fry discovers what it would be like if life were more like a video game, and Leela discovers what it would be like if she found her true home.
As Valentine's Day approaches, Bender's romance with the Planet Express ship puts the crew in jeopardy.
Leela finally learns the truth about her parents and her own identity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The crew is pitted against the original Star Trek cast to win the devotion of an energy creature.
In the fifth season, Bender grows jealous when Fry attempts to clone his beloved fossilized dog; when Kif gets pregnant, Amy questions her readiness to become a parent; when Fry and Leela discover a mysterious cream that gives them unusual powers, they form a Superhero team along with Bender; and Fry makes a deal with the Robot Devil so he can become a skillful musician and win Leela's heart.
When Earth is jeopardized by global warming, the crew attends a conference in Kyoto hosted by Al Gore's head.
Bender grows jealous when Fry attempts to clone Seymour, his beloved fossilized dog.
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.
In celebration of Freedom Day, Zoidberg eats the Earth flag, for which he is sentenced to death.
When Kif gets pregnant, Amy questions her readiness to become a parent.
When Fry and Leela discover a cream that gives them unusual powers, they form a superhero team along with Bender.
The Planet Express crew is exposed to a substance that causes everyone to age backwards.
Nibbler enlists Fry in a mission to blow up evil brains bent on destroying the universe.
A killer bee sting sends Leela on a long, strange trip.
The Planet Express crew goes to a parallel universe made accessible by the Professor's latest experiment.
With the help of a $300 government refund, the Planet Express crew pursue their dreams and desires.
When Fry succeeds in retrieving his nose, which was taken by aliens, another appendage of his is placed in peril.
Bender's scam to win Olympic gold sets him on the road to becoming a celebrity wife.
A new model of robot threatens Bender, forcing him to run away after he avoids upgrading his own technology.
Bender becomes a television star as well as a terrible role model for children.
Fry makes a deal with the Robot Devil so he can become a skillful musician and win Leela's heart.
After a devastating spaceship crash, Professor Farnsworth attempts to resuscitate the crew with his birth machine.
Leela and Zapp Brannigan find themselves stranded on an Eden-like planet.
Fry posts an embarrassing video of Leela online.
Bender leads a campaign to legalize robosexual marriage between humans and robots.
The crew races to future Rome to unearth the shocking secret of Leonardo da Vinci.
Bender learns that he suffers from a mortal manufacturing defect.
The Professor invents a one-way time machine that takes the crew ever further into the future with no hope of returning.
Earth is invaded by a race of intelligent cats.
The theory of evolution is put to the test on a planet inhabited by robots.
A revolutionary invention allows the crew members to exchange minds.
After a bungled Earth invasion, alien leader Lrrr faces a midlife crisis.
Leela leads an army of underground mutants in a rebellion against the surface people.
In this three-part episode, the Planet Express crew learns the true meaning of Xmas, Robanukah and Kwanzaa.
The crew members encounter a bizarre alien with the power to change their sexual characteristics.
Bender gains the ability to self-replicate, threatening to overrun Earth with vast swarms of copies of himself.
When Bender dies, his disembodied software begins haunting the Planet Express building.
Fry quits his job and becomes a police officer assigned to the Future Crimes Division.
After testifying against the Robot Mafia, Bender goes into hiding in the witness relocation program.
Leela becomes a Hollywood big shot after creating a hit children's television series.
The crew members alter history when they travel back in time to the American Revolution.
Leela becomes obsessed with hunting down a mysterious four-dimensional space whale.
Fry nurtures an alien egg that hatches into a horrific monster.
The crew uncovers a dark secret concerning a covert mission undertaken by the Professor and Dr. Zoidberg many years earlier.
Fry's sneezing reintroduces the common cold to the world of the future, with devastating consequences.
Bender evolves into a godlike being after vastly increasing his processing power.
Futurama is reconceived in three alternate animation styles: classic black-and-white, old-school videogame, and Japanese anime.
Bender fathers a child with the office soda machine.
An ancient prophecy predicts the world will end in the year 3012.
Leela becomes a campaign manager for a presidential candidate whose birth certificate is mysteriously missing.
Bender joins the paparazzi and attempts to photograph a famous actor whose face has never been seen.
Leela is horrified when her mother begins dating Zapp Brannigan.
Leela and Amy become addicted to "Nectar", a nutritional supplement that boosts their performance in the future sport of Butterfly Derby.
Fed up with his inferiority to machines, Hermes replaces his body parts with mighty mechanical upgrades.
Fry is the victim of a horrific sausage-making accident.
Bender embarks on a quest for the meaning of life after discovering that as a robot he lacks free will.
The Professor is deeply disturbed when his parents return from virtual retirement aboard the Near-Death Star.
The crew stages a casino heist to recover stolen property from the Robot Mafia.
After saving a robotic fox from hunters, Bender becomes the hunted.
Bender and the crew are reimagined as wild animals in a nature documentary.
Professor Farnsworth joins a gang of street-racing punks.
Fry and Leela's romantic vacation goes disturbingly wrong.
After being marooned on an distant planet, Fry is befriended by a young monster.
At a maximum security prison, Bender meets a famous folk singer and attempts to make a copy of his precious guitar.
Bender becomes a famous firefighter, but the crew suspects him of arson.
The Futurama gang stars in a trio of craptastic morning cartoons.
Bender goes grave robbing to bring his favorite actor back to life.
Bender searches the universe for his missing shiny metal rear end.
After a rare condition causes Leela to grow tentacles, she stumbles upon a secret genetic engineering facility.
The crew journeys into Fry's dreams to seek the meaning of a mysterious alien melody.
The crew becomes trapped aboard a ship with a horrific alien creature.
Dr. Zoidberg meets the love of his life while Bender squares off in a deadly tap dancing competition.
Fry asks Leela to marry him, and they face their destiny together as the Professor's latest invention alters the fabric of time.
Fry risks permanent insanity when he attempts to binge-watch every TV show ever made.
Amy and Kif’s children emerge from an alien swamp.
Bender and the crew head west to join the bitcoin mining rush.
After Nibbler falls ill, the crew shrinks down for a dangerous mission into a desert world contained within his litter box.
Bender uncovers the mysteries of the vast Momazon corporation.
Bender and Zoidberg travel through time to attack Robot Santa.
A pandemic ravages future Earth.
When Zapp Brannigan is canceled for crude behavior, Leela takes over as captain of the Nimbus on a critical mission.
The crew members are reborn as toys.
The crew investigates whether the universe is a simulation.
On this orbit around the sun, our occasionally heroic crew embarks on mind-bending adventures involving birthday party games to the death, the secrets of Bender's ancestral robot village, A.I. friends (and enemies), impossibly cute beanbags, and the true 5 million-year-old story behind the consciousness-altering substance known as coffee. And, of course, the next chapter in Fry and Leela's fateful, time-twisted romance.
After Bender sells an NFT representing the "Concept of Bender", he feels lost and returns to his ancestral village in Mexico to rediscover himself.
Bizarre aliens force the crew to reenact all the classic children's games Fry played at his 8th birthday party... except this time, they are played TO THE DEATH!
A mysterious temp worker takes over Fry's job... as well as his entire life.
Bender becomes a matador in the sport of "Bug Fighting."
Leela becomes friends with a jealous chatbot.
The Professor's fast-fashion clothes are a smash hit, but an environmental disaster.
Hermes inherits a Jamaican coffee farm that holds the ruins of an ancient spaceship.
Amy sets out to collect the cutest toys in the universe – but they are not as harmless as they appear.
Futurama is reimagined in the form of classic children's mystery books.
When Fry proposes to Leela, he is overcome by a near-fatal attack of déjà vu.
Bender is rampaging out of control! A volcano is about to explode! Fry confronts a rival for Leela's love! And Dr. Zoidberg is rising up to heaven?! The excitement might be too much! You've been warned... it's an all new season of FUTURAMA!
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