Futurama (TV series - season 1)
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This is a list of episodes of Futurama episodes in broadcast order, from broadcast season 1.
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Space Pilot 3000
- Production Code: 1ACV01
- First Aired: 1999-03-28
- Written by: David X. Cohen, Matt Groening
- Directed by: Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo
- Opening Subtitle: IN COLOR
Celebrity voice credits
- Dick Clark - himself
- Leonard Nimoy - himself
Summary
Six seconds into the year 2000, New York pizza delivery boy Philip J. Fry delivers a pizza to a prank I.C. Wiener and is accidentally cryogenically frozen. He is defrosted in New New York City one thousand years later, on December 31, 2999. After defrosting, he is brought to fate assignment officer 1BDI Turanga Leela.
Permanently assigned the career of delivery boy, Fry flees the cryogenics facility into the city, with Leela in pursuit. While trying to track down his multiply-great-nephew, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Fry befriends a suicidal robot named Bender, meets the disembodied head of Leonard Nimoy, and discovers the ruins of old New York.
Leela abandons her job in the cryogenics facility, and joins Fry and Bender as a job deserter. The three find Professor Hubert Farnsworth, and he hires them as the new space ship crew for his package delivery service.
Quotes
- Fry: My God, it's the future! My parents, my coworkers, my girlfriend... I'll never see any of them again! (pause) Yahoo!
The Series Has Landed
- Production Code: 1ACV02
- First Aired: 1999-04-04
- Written by: Ken Keeler
- Directed by: Peter Avanzino
- Opening Subtitle: IN HYPNO-VISION
The title is a reference to Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong's transmission to NASA Mission Control that "the Eagle has landed".
Summary
Settling into their new jobs, Fry, Leela, and Bender are introduced to the other Planet Express employees: Company physician Dr. Zoidberg, intern Amy Wong, and bureaucrat Hermes Conrad.
On their first mission, a simple delivery to the Moon, Fry undergoes severe culture shock. Rather than being a daring voyage of exploration, lunar travel has become a day trip to an amusement park, and the historical accomplishments of Project Apollo have been replaced by ridiculous "fungineering" musicals about "whalers on the moon".
Attempting to see the real Moon, Fry and Leela hijack a car from the lunar rover ride, and take it offroad. Meanwhile, Amy loses the keys to the ship, and has to recover them from a video arcade crane game.
Running dangerously low on oxygen, Fry and Leela take refuge on a hydroponic farm. After Bender arrives and seduces the farmer's robot daughters, the three end up on the run, trying to out-distance both the farmer's shotgun, and the lunar terminator.
Fry and Leela take refuge in the Apollo 11 lander, and Amy rescues them, as well as Bender, with her newly-developed crane operation skills.
Quotes
- Narrator: Planet Express: our crew is replaceable, your package isn't!
- Professor: I paid to have it aired during the Super Bowl.
- Fry: Wow!
- Professor: Not on the same channel, of course.
- Bender: Yeah! Well, I'm gonna go build my own theme park. With blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the park!
- later…
- Bender: Oh, no room for Bender, huh? Fine, I'll go build my own lunar lander! With blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack! Ah, screw the whole thing!
I, Roommate
- Production Code: 1ACV03
- First aired 1999-04-06
- Written by: Eric Horsted
- Directed by: Bret Haaland
- Opening Subtitle: AS SEEN ON TV
The title, "I, Roommate", presumably comes from Isaac Asimov's novel I, Robot.
Summary
Fry has been living in the Planet Express offices since he arrived in the year 3000, and his slovenly habits have had a negative impact on his co-workers. Rather than letting Fry rot on the streets, Bender offers to let Fry move in with him.
Several days later, Fry discovers that he can't take living in Bender's 2 cubic meter apartment, and the two begin a search for living space that will satisfy them both. When one of Professor Farnsworth's colleagues dies, Fry and Bender lease his old apartment.
After discovering that his antenna interferes with the building's televisions, Bender is forced to relocate back to his old residence. Distraught at the separation from his friend, Bender goes on a self-destructive sobriety binge.
Out of concern for Bender, Fry moves back into Bender's old apartment, and discovers that Bender's oversized closet has more than enough room for a human to live comfortably.
Quotes
- Bender: I'm trying to watch my input. I need plenty of wholesome, nutritious alcohol. The chemical energy keeps my fuel cells charged.
- Fry: What are the cigars for?
- Bender: They make me look cool.
- Bender: Not enough room!? My place is two cubic meters and we only take up 1.5 cubic meters! We've got room for a whole nother two-thirds of a person!
Love's Labors Lost In Space
- Production Code: 1ACV04
- First aired: 1999-04-13
- Written by: Brian Kelley
- Directed by: Brian Sheesley
- Opening Subtitle: presented in BC [Brain Control] where available
Obviously, the title of the episode is a riff on Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost, crossed with Lost in Space.
Summary
After an unsuccessful attempt by Amy to introduce Leela to eligible bachelors at a New New York nightclub, the crew gets sent on a tax-deductible charity mission. The uninhabited planet Vergon 6 has been mined hollow, and is about to collapse. The crew is sent to recover two of each kind of animal native to the planet for breeding purposes.
Unfortunately, Vergon 6 has been declared restricted due to its undeveloped status, under Brannigan's Law (a parody of Star Trek's Prime Directive). The Planet Express crew is arrested by legendary space captain Zapp Brannigan, who immediately attempts to seduce Leela.
Leela initially rebuffs Brannigan, but eventually succumbs to pity for the desperate fool, a fact that Brannigan brings up in every later appearance in the series.
The sexually satisfied Brannigan allows the Planet Express crew to depart for Vergon 6, and the crew proceeds to collect the strange animals. While working on their checklist, they discover a small black and white creature with a third eye on a stalk. Leela decides to rescue it as well, names it Nibbler, and places it in the cargo hold with the other animals. When Fry, Leela, and Bender return with the last animal, they discover that the mystery creature has devoured all the other animals.
The planet begins to collapse, and when the crew tries to escape, they discover that the ship is out of fuel. Leela refuses to beg Zapp Brannigan for assistance, and the crew settles in for their inevitable deaths. The ship shifts to one side, and the crew discovers that Nibbler has defecated a small pellet of dark matter, which is the fuel the ship runs on. Bender tosses the ultra-dense pellet into the engine, and the crew returns safely to Earth.
Quotes
- Leela: They say Zapp Brannigan single-handedly saved the Octillion system from a horde of rampaging Killbots!
- Fry: Wow.
- Bender: A grim day for robotkind. Eh, but we can always build more Killbots.
- Zapp: "Killbots? A trifle. It was simply a matter of outsmarting them."
- Fry: "Wow, I never would've thought of that."
- Zapp: "You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down."
- Zapp Brannigan: As my protege, you should know that the only way to deal with a female adversary is to seduce her.
- Kif Kroker: [sighs]
- Zapp Brannigan: This time we are sure she's a woman, right?
- Kif Kroker: (exasperated) Yes!
Fear of a Bot Planet
- Production Code: 1ACV05
- First aired: 1999-04-20
- Written by: Evan Gore, Heather Lombard
- Co-directed by: Ashley Lenz, Chris Suave
- Directed by: Peter Avanzino, Carlos Baeze
- Opening Subtitle: Featuring GRATIOUS ALIEN NUDITY
The title comes from the album Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy
Summary
While attending a New New York Mets blernsball game, the crew is called back to the office for a delivery mission. The delivery is to Chapek 9, a planet inhabited by human-hating robots, so Bender is assigned the duty of performing the actual delivery.
Upon arriving at the planet, a resentful Bender is lowered to the surface using the ship's winch. Fry and Leela receive a rushed message from Bender, who has been captured by the robot seperatists for being a human sympathizer. Fry and Leela disguise themselves as robots, and infiltrate the robot society.
After hiding out in a robot movie theater, Fry and Leela blend in with the crowd at the opening ceremonies of the daily human hunt. There they discover Bender is alive and playing the robots' prejudice for his own benefit.
Fry and Leela reunite with an isolated Bender during the hunt, but he refuses their rescue. Before Fry and Leela can leave, the other robots arrive and they are placed on trial for being human. After being sentenced to a life of tedious work, they are dropped through a trap door, where they meet the five robot elders. The robot elders command Bender to kill Fry and Leela, but he refuses.
The robot elders reveal that humans are just being used as a scapegoat to distract the populace. Fry threatens to breathe fire on the robot elders, throwing them into a state of confusion. The crew escapes, and is pursued by a horde of robots. As the crew escapes on the winch, Bender remembers that he never actually delivered the package. The package falls to the ground, and the robots are showered in much-needed lug nuts.
Quotes
- Fry: I don't get this. Is blernsball exactly the same as baseball?
- Prof. Farnsworth: Baseball? God forbid.
- Leela: Face it Fry, baseball was as boring as mom and apple pie. That's why they jazzed it up.
- Fry: Boring? Baseball wasn't... so they finally jazzed it up.
- Bender: Admit it, you all think robots are just machines built by humans to make their lives easier.
- Fry: Well, aren't they?
- Bender: I've never made anyone's life easier, and you know it.
A Fishful of Dollars
- Production Code: 1ACV06
- First aired: 1999-04-27
- Written by: Patrick M. Verrone
- Directed by: Ron Hughart, Gregg Vanzo
- Opening Subtitle: LOADING..
Presumably the title is a riff on the Clint Eastwood/Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars.
Celebrity voice credit
- Pamela Anderson - herself
Summary
A broke Fry discovers that his old bank account is still active, and has been accruing interest for the past thousand years, bringing the balance to $4.3 billion. Fry goes on a massive spending spree, buying numerous 20th century artifacts, including the last known tin of now-extinct anchovies.
Mom, famous industrialist and owner of Mom's Old-Fashioned Robot Oil, wants to secure the anchovies for her own purposes. Anchovy oil could be used to permanently lubricate robots, and therefore represent an enormous threat to Mom's business interests.
Mom's sons Walt, Larry, and Ignar conspire with the head of Pamela Anderson to steal Fry's ATM card and PIN, which they use to bankrupt Fry. All of Fry's 20th century artifacts are repossessed, except the anchovies, which Fry had hidden in his sock.
After Mom discovers Fry intends to eat the anchovies, she stops interfering. Fry covers a pizza with the anchovies, and shares them with the rest of the Planet Express employees.
Quotes
- Fry: That's awful, it's like brainwashing.
- Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
- Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams, only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ballgames, on buses, and milk cartons and t-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree!
My Three Suns
- Production Code: 1ACV07
- First aired: 1999-05-04
- Written by: J. Stewart Burns
- Directed by: Jeffrey Lynch, Kevin O'Brien
- Opening Subtitle: PRESENTED IN DOUBLE VISION (WHERE DRUNK)
The title is a reference to the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons.
Summary
Hermes threatens to fire Bender, since Bender has no official duties at Planet Express. Inspired by the neptunian TV chef Elzar, Bender decides to be the ship's cook. Professor Farnsworth sends the crew off on a delivery to the planet Trisol, and Bender serves the crew a meal of almost pure salt.
After the ship lands, Fry is assigned the task of making the delivery trek across the desert under the planet's three blazing suns. When he arrives at his destination, the Trisolian palace, he finds it empty. Stricken with thirst, he grabs a bottle of blue liquid that is sitting on the throne and consumes it.
Armed guards storm the throne room, revealing that the bottle Fry drank was actually the emperor, in liquid form. Rather than being punished, Fry is declared the new emperor.
Fry opens the package (addressed to "Emperor"), revealing a small sign reading "Please don't drink the emperor". The high priest Merg informs Fry that as part of the coronation, Fry will have to recite the royal oath, under penalty of death.
During the pre-coronation party, Leela informs Fry that the average reign of a Trisolian emperor is only one week. When Fry refuses to listen to her warning, Leela returns to the ship, vowing not to help Fry again.
At the coronation, Fry recites the oath (with help from some notes written on his forearm), and is sworn in as Fry the Solid. As the suns set, the Trisolians begin to glow, including the former emperor Bunt, who demands that Fry be cut open and drained.
The crew (minus Leela) takes refuge in the throne room, and try to work out a way to extract the emperor without killing Fry. Bender calls Leela on Fry's behalf, but gets an inconclusive response. After Leela arrives, she begins beating Fry, causing him to cry in pain, extracting the emperor. With the emperor safely outside Fry's body, the crew is allowed to leave.
Quotes
- Prof. Farnsworth: Good news, everyone!
- Bender: Uh oh, I don't like the sound of that.
- Prof. Farnsworth: You'll be making a delivery to the planet Trisol
- Bender: Here it comes.
- Prof. Farnsworth: A mysterious world in the darkest depths of the Forbidden Zone.
- Bender: Thank you, and goodnight.
- Leela: Professor, are we even allowed in the Forbidden Zone?
- Prof. Farnsworth: Why of course! It's just a name, like the Death Zone, or the Zone of no return. All the zones have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror.
- Leela: Uh, Professor...
- Prof. Farnsworth: Off you go!
A Big Piece of Garbage
- Production Code: 1ACV08
- First aired: 1999-05-11
- Written by: Lewis Morton
- Directed by: Susan Dietter
- Opening Subtitle: Mr. Bender's Wardrobe by ROBOTANY 500
- During the closing credits, the song We'll Meet Again plays; an homage to executive producer David X. Cohen's favourite film Dr. Strangelove.
Celebrity voice credit
- Ron Popeil - himself
- Nancy Cartwright - Bart Simpson Dolls (uncredited)
Summary
When he presents a poorly-drawn sketch for a smelloscope at the Academy of Science symposium, Professor Farnsworth is publicly humiliated by his long-term rival, Ogden Wernstrom. On returning to the lab, Farnsworth vows to build the smelloscope, but quickly remembers that he already built one.
Fry begins pointing the smelloscope around, and discovers the smelliest object in the universe (a stench so foul, it ranks right off the funkometer). After calculating its path, the Professor announces that the object is on a path to collide with New New York in 72 hours. After some research, a video is produced, revealing the object to be a giant ball of garbage launched into space by New York around 2050.
After warning New New York Mayor Poopenmayer, a plan is hatched to destroy the garbage ball. The Planet Express crew is sent on a suicide mission to plant a bomb on the ball. However, Professor Farnsworth botches the installation of the timer, and the crew is forced to throw the bomb into space to save themselves.
Attempting to redeem himself, Farnsworth formulates a second plan to save the city: Launch a second ball of garbage to bounce the first one away. Using Fry's 20th century garbage-making skills, the city of New New York quickly generates a second ball of garbage, which succeeds in saving the city.
Quotes
- Leela: Should we really be celebrating? I mean, what if the second ball of garbage returns to Earth like the first one did?
- Fry: Who cares? That won't be for hundreds of years
- Professor Farnsworth: Exactly. It's none of our concern.
- Fry: That's the 20th century spirit!
Hell Is Other Robots
- Production Code: 1ACV09
- First aired: 1999-05-18
- Written by: Eric Kaplan
- Directed by: Rich Moore
- Opening Subtitle: Condemned by the Space Pope
The title seems to be a riff on a famous line ("Hell is other people") from Jean Paul Sartre's one act play No Exit.
Celebrity voice credits
- Mike Diamond - himself
- Adam Horovitz - himself
- Dan Castellanetta- Robot Devil (aka Beelzebot)
Summary
After a Beastie Boys concert, Bender attends a post-concert party where he develops an electricity addiction. Realizing he has a problem, Bender joins the Temple of Robotology, on pain of eternal damnation in Robot Hell. After being baptised, the Preacherbot welds the symbol of Robotology to Bender's case.
After Bender annoys his coworkers with his new-found religion, Fry and Leela decide to reacquaint him with his old lifestyle. They fake a delivery to Atlantic City, and tempt Bender with alcohol, prostitutes, and easy targets for theft. Bender succumbs, rips off the Robotology symbol, and tosses it away. The symbol beeps ominously as it sinks into a bowl of dip.
Later, Bender is interruped in the process of seducing three female robots by a knock at his hotel room door. When he opens the door, an orange glow spills into the room, and a pitchfork reaches into the room and knocks him out. He awakens to a greeting from the Robot Devil and finds himself in Robot Hell. Fry and Leela discover that Bender is missing, and attempt to track him down using Nibbler's sense of smell.
While in Robot Hell, the Robot Devil informs Bender that he agreed to be punished for sinning when he joined Robotology. Following Bender's scent, Fry and Leela arrive at an abandoned New Jersey amusement park, where they find the entrance to Robot Hell.
A musical number starts as the Robot Devil begins detailing Bender's punishment. As the song ends, Fry and Leela arrive, and try to bargain for Bender's life. The Robot Devil tells them that the only way to win back Bender's soul is to beat him in playing contest using a solid gold violin ( a reference to the song The Devil Went Down to Georgia. When Leela's fiddle playing pales to the Robot Devil's performance, she takes the unsportsmanlike action of beating the Robot Devil with the fiddle.
As the three flee the Robot Devil's clutches, Bender steals the wings off a flying torture robot, attaches him to his back, and airlifts Fry and Leela to safety.
Quotes
- Fry: Bender's stupid religion is driving me nuts!
- Leela: Amen.
- Professor Farnsworth: If only he had joined a mainstream religion, like Oprahism, or Voodoo.
- Leela: Who would have ever thought there was such a place as Robot Hell, and that it would be in New Jersey?
External links
- Futurama (http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/20th_Century_Fox/Television/Futurama/index.html) at the Big Cartoon DataBasesv:Futurama_-_Säsong_1