I just tooled around on sites for the top-ranked Futurama episodes, and no two media outlets even had similar lists. I was wondering what it would look like with a small group of diehard fans here.
Once the votes stop coming in, (assuming they start) I’ll tabulate the results.
Just give up to 5 episodes in a comment and we’ll see if any of the different outlets got it right.
- The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings
- Jurassic Bark
- The Luck of the Fryrish
- Future Stock
- How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
This was basically impossible to pick just 5 episodes.
I also think Bender’s Big Score is fantastic, but that’s a film or I have to pick one episode from it… which is complicated.
I also ended up only looking at the original broadcast episodes simply because the list was already too long.
- The Late Philip J. Fry
- Jurassic Bark
- Space Pilot 3000
- Godfellas
- A Pharaoh to Remember
- The luck of the fryish
- Space Pilot 3000
- The late Phillip J Fry
- Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?
- Rebirth
This is one of the hardest lists I’ve ever made. I changed my answers many times before settling.
- The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
- Godfellas
- Jurassic Bark
- The Deep South
- Amazon Women in the Mood
Edit: I know Roswell That Ends Well is the episode that won an Emmy, but Godfellas should have also.
Hell is other robots
A head in the polls
Problem with poplers
War is the H word
One of the serious ones, either Devil’s Hands, The sting, or the one that doesn’t get named.
My Choices
The Problem with Popplers 7 May, 2000 2ACV15 S02E18 28
Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences 26 August, 2010 6ACV11 S07E11 99
Crimes of the Hot 10 November, 2002 4ACV08 S05E01 62
Time Keeps on Slippin’ 6 May, 2001 3ACV14 S03E14 46
How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back 2 April, 2000 2ACV11 S02E14 24
I’m afraid I can’t remember too many episode titles off the top of my head, but you’ve definitely picked two of my favorites in How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back and The Problem with Popplers. I can’t remember the plots of your other listings, but I probably love them too.
I’d have to add on The Devil’s Hands are Idle Playthings. Magnificent episode with one of the cleverest titles I can think of.
Let’s see if this helps. Going off of memory, but here’s what they are about.
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The crew land on a random planet and are starving. They find these giant piles/pits of creatures and discover they taste good. They are Omicronian babies. They end up as a popular food, called Popplers, for humans. Lrrr takes over Earth and demands to eat Leela in retribution because she at the first Poppler.
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Pretty sure this is the one where aliens steal Fry’s nose thinking it’s an aphrodisiac. Lrrr and his wife Ndnd are having marital struggles and Lrrr buys Fry’s nose from some dealer. The rest of the episode is spent with the crew creating a romantic date for the two so fry gets his nose back. This episode also has Big Foot in it and Lrrr protecting Big Foot from the park ranger is ultimately what brings the romantic spark back.
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Can’t remember.
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Pretty sure this is the episode where they caused random time skips to happen and they spend the episode trying to fix it. It’s got the Globetrotters in it and everyone became an honorary member except for Bender because he wasn’t in the room. This episode also includes Fry getting married to Leela in a time skip, then immediately getting divorced in the next. At the end of the episode we learn Fry can pilot the ship and the gravity pump as he got Leela to marry his by spelling out a message to her with… stars? IDK, some space thing.
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This is the episode where Hermes gets demoted and leaves Planet Express. New person takes over and starts a fling with Fry because he’s so sloppy, the opposite of her. Bender finds out and the new person takes Bender’s memory and sends it to the Central Beaurocracy. They go there to get his memory back. They find out it went into the master in pile, a mountain of items, and Beaurocrat #1 flies in to see what’s going on. He gives the crew 4 minutes to sort the entire master in pile and find it else they’ll be arrested(?). Hermes comes in, sorts it, finds dirt on the new person and we get the famous line “You are technically correct. The best kind of correct” and then he flies off.
I really hope I’m right on those.
3, crimes of the hot, is the one where all the robots fart to move the planet away from the sun and stop global warming, right?
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Episode Listing, not like we need it :)
Season 1 Space Pilot 3000 28 March, 1999 1ACV01 S01E01 1 The Series Has Landed 4 April, 1999 1ACV02 S01E02 2 I, Roommate 6 April, 1999 1ACV03 S01E03 3 Love's Labours Lost in Space 13 April, 1999 1ACV04 S01E04 4 Fear of a Bot Planet 20 April, 1999 1ACV05 S01E05 5 A Fishful of Dollars 27 April, 1999 1ACV06 S01E06 6 My Three Suns 4 May, 1999 1ACV07 S01E07 7 A Big Piece of Garbage 11 May, 1999 1ACV08 S01E08 8 Hell Is Other Robots 18 May, 1999 1ACV09 S01E09 9 A Flight to Remember 26 September, 1999 1ACV10 S02E01 10 Mars University 3 October, 1999 1ACV11 S02E02 11 When Aliens Attack 7 November, 1999 1ACV12 S02E03 12 Fry and the Slurm Factory 14 November, 1999 1ACV13 S02E04 13 Season 2 I Second that Emotion 21 November, 1999 2ACV01 S02E05 14 Brannigan, Begin Again 28 November, 1999 2ACV02 S02E06 15 A Head in the Polls 12 December, 1999 2ACV03 S02E07 16 Xmas Story 19 December, 1999 2ACV04 S02E08 17 Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love? 6 February, 2000 2ACV05 S02E09 18 The Lesser of Two Evils 20 February, 2000 2ACV06 S02E11 19 Put Your Head on My Shoulders 13 February, 2000 2ACV07 S02E10 20 Raging Bender 27 February, 2000 2ACV08 S02E12 21 A Bicyclops Built for Two 6 March, 2000 2ACV09 S02E13 22 Clone of My Own 9 April, 2000 2ACV10 S02E15 23 How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back 2 April, 2000 2ACV11 S02E14 24 The Deep South 16 April, 2000 2ACV12 S02E16 25 Bender Gets Made 30 April, 2000 2ACV13 S02E17 26 Mother's Day 14 May, 2000 2ACV14 S02E19 27 The Problem with Popplers 7 May, 2000 2ACV15 S02E18 28 Anthology of Interest I 21 May, 2000 2ACV16 S02E20 29 War Is the H-Word 26 November, 2000 2ACV17 S03E02 30 The Honking 5 November, 2000 2ACV18 S03E01 31 The Cryonic Woman 3 December, 2000 2ACV19 S03E03 32 Season 3 Amazon Women in the Mood 4 February, 2001 3ACV01 S03E05 33 Parasites Lost 21 January, 2001 3ACV02 S03E04 34 A Tale of Two Santas 23 December, 2001 3ACV03 S04E02 35 The Luck of the Fryrish 11 March, 2001 3ACV04 S03E10 36 The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz 4 March, 2001 3ACV05 S03E09 37 Bendless Love 11 February, 2001 3ACV06 S03E06 38 The Day the Earth Stood Stupid 18 February, 2001 3ACV07 S03E07 39 That's Lobstertainment! 25 February, 2001 3ACV08 S03E08 40 The Cyber House Rules 1 April, 2001 3ACV09 S03E11 41 Where the Buggalo Roam 3 March, 2002 3ACV10 S04E06 42 Insane in the Mainframe 8 April, 2001 3ACV11 S03E12 43 The Route of All Evil 8 December, 2002 3ACV12 S05E03 44 Bendin' in the Wind 22 April, 2001 3ACV13 S03E13 45 Time Keeps on Slippin' 6 May, 2001 3ACV14 S03E14 46 I Dated a Robot 13 May, 2001 3ACV15 S03E15 47 A Leela of Her Own 7 April, 2002 3ACV16 S04E10 48 A Pharaoh to Remember 10 March, 2002 3ACV17 S04E07 49 Anthology of Interest II 6 January, 2002 3ACV18 S04E03 50 Roswell that Ends Well 9 December, 2001 3ACV19 S04E01 51 Godfellas 17 March, 2002 3ACV20 S04E08 52 Future Stock 31 March, 2002 3ACV21 S04E09 53 The 30% Iron Chef 14 April, 2002 3ACV22 S04E11 54 Season 4 Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch 12 January, 2003 4ACV01 S05E05 55 Leela's Homeworld 17 February, 2002 4ACV02 S04E05 56 Love and Rocket 10 February, 2002 4ACV03 S04E04 57 Less than Hero 2 March, 2003 4ACV04 S05E06 58 A Taste of Freedom 22 December, 2002 4ACV05 S05E04 59 Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television 3 August, 2003 4ACV06 S05E15 60 Jurassic Bark 17 November, 2002 4ACV07 S05E02 61 Crimes of the Hot 10 November, 2002 4ACV08 S05E01 62 Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles 17 November, 2003 4ACV09 S05E07 63 The Why of Fry 6 April, 2003 4ACV10 S05E08 64 Where No Fan Has Gone Before 21 April, 2002 4ACV11 S04E12 65 The Sting 1 June, 2003 4ACV12 S05E09 66 Bend Her 20 July, 2003 4ACV13 S05E13 67 Obsoletely Fabulous 27 July, 2003 4ACV14 S05E14 68 The Farnsworth Parabox 8 June, 2003 4ACV15 S05E10 69 Three Hundred Big Boys 15 June, 2003 4ACV16 S05E11 70 Spanish Fry 13 July, 2003 4ACV17 S05E12 71 The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings 10 August, 2003 4ACV18 S05E16 72 Season 5 Comedy Central Production code TV Broadcast # Bender's Big Score Part 1 23 March, 2008 5ACV01 S06E01 73 Bender's Big Score Part 2 23 March, 2008 5ACV02 S06E02 74 Bender's Big Score Part 3 23 March, 2008 5ACV03 S06E03 75 Bender's Big Score Part 4 23 March, 2008 5ACV04 S06E04 76 The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1 19 October, 2008 5ACV05 S06E05 77 The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 2 19 October, 2008 5ACV06 S06E06 78 The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3 19 October, 2008 5ACV07 S06E07 79 The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4 19 October, 2008 5ACV08 S06E08 80 Bender's Game Part 1 26 April, 2009 5ACV09 S06E09 81 Bender's Game Part 2 26 April, 2009 5ACV10 S06E10 82 Bender's Game Part 3 26 April, 2009 5ACV11 S06E11 83 Bender's Game Part 4 26 April, 2009 5ACV12 S06E12 84 Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1 30 August, 2009 5ACV13 S06E13 85 Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 2 30 August, 2009 5ACV14 S06E14 86 Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 3 30 August, 2009 5ACV15 S06E15 87 Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4 30 August, 2009 5ACV16 S06E16 88 Season 6 Rebirth 24 June, 2010 6ACV01 S07E01 89 In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela 24 June, 2010 6ACV02 S07E02 90 Attack of the Killer App 1 July, 2010 6ACV03 S07E03 91 Proposition Infinity 8 July, 2010 6ACV04 S07E04 92 The Duh-Vinci Code 15 July, 2010 6ACV05 S07E05 93 Lethal Inspection 22 July, 2010 6ACV06 S07E06 94 The Late Philip J. Fry 29 July, 2010 6ACV07 S07E07 95 That Darn Katz! 5 August, 2010 6ACV08 S07E08 96 A Clockwork Origin 12 August, 2010 6ACV09 S07E09 97 The Prisoner of Benda 19 August, 2010 6ACV10 S07E10 98 Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences 26 August, 2010 6ACV11 S07E11 99 The Mutants Are Revolting 2 September, 2010 6ACV12 S07E12 100 The Futurama Holiday Spectacular 21 November, 2010 6ACV13 S07E13 101 The Silence of the Clamps 14 July, 2011 6ACV14 S08E05 102 Möbius Dick 4 August, 2011 6ACV15 S08E08 103 Law and Oracle 7 July, 2011 6ACV16 S08E04 104 Benderama 23 June, 2011 6ACV17 S08E02 105 The Tip of the Zoidberg 18 August, 2011 6ACV18 S08E10 106 Ghost in the Machines 30 June, 2011 6ACV19 S08E03 107 Neutopia 23 June, 2011 6ACV20 S08E01 108 Yo Leela Leela 21 July, 2011 6ACV21 S08E06 109 Fry Am the Egg Man 11 August, 2011 6ACV22 S08E09 110 All the Presidents' Heads 28 July, 2011 6ACV23 S08E07 111 Cold Warriors 25 August, 2011 6ACV24 S08E11 112 Overclockwise 1 September, 2011 6ACV25 S08E12 113 Reincarnation 8 September, 2011 6ACV26 S08E13 114 Season 7 The Bots and the Bees 20 June, 2012 7ACV01 S09E01 115 A Farewell to Arms 20 June, 2012 7ACV02 S09E02 116 Decision 3012 27 June, 2012 7ACV03 S09E03 117 The Thief of Baghead 4 July, 2012 7ACV04 S09E04 118 Zapp Dingbat 11 July, 2012 7ACV05 S09E05 119 The Butterjunk Effect 18 July, 2012 7ACV06 S09E06 120 The Six Million Dollar Mon 25 July, 2012 7ACV07 S09E07 121 Fun on a Bun 1 August, 2012 7ACV08 S09E08 122 Free Will Hunting 8 August, 2012 7ACV09 S09E09 123 Near-Death Wish 15 August, 2012 7ACV10 S09E10 124 31st Century Fox 29 August, 2012 7ACV11 S09E12 125 Viva Mars Vegas 22 August, 2012 7ACV12 S09E11 126 Naturama 29 August, 2012 7ACV13 S09E13 127 Forty Percent Leadbelly 3 July, 2013 7ACV14 S10E04 128 2-D Blacktop 19 June, 2013 7ACV15 S10E01 129 T.: The Terrestrial 26 June, 2013 7ACV16 S10E03 130 Fry and Leela's Big Fling 19 June, 2013 7ACV17 S10E02 131 The Inhuman Torch 10 July, 2013 7ACV18 S10E05 132 Saturday Morning Fun Pit 17 July, 2013 7ACV19 S10E06 133 Calculon 2.0 24 July, 2013 7ACV20 S10E07 134 Assie Come Home 31 July, 2013 7ACV21 S10E08 135 Leela and the Genestalk 7 August, 2013 7ACV22 S10E09 136 Game of Tones 14 August, 2013 7ACV23 S10E10 137 Murder on the Planet Express 21 August, 2013 7ACV24 S10E11 138 Stench and Stenchibility 28 August, 2013 7ACV25 S10E12 139 Meanwhile 4 September, 2013 7ACV26 S10E13 140 Season 8 The Impossible Stream 24 July 2023 8ACV01 S11E01 141 Children of a Lesser Bog 31 July 2023 8ACV02 S11E02 142 How The West Was 1010001 7 August 2023 8ACV03 S11E03 143 Parasites Regained 14 August 2023 8ACV04 S11E04 144 Related to Items You've Viewed 21 August 2023 8ACV05 S11E05 145 I Know What You Did Next Xmas 28 August 2023 8ACV06 S11E06 146 Rage Against the Vaccine 4 September 2023 8ACV07 S11E07 147 Zapp Gets Cancelled 11 September 2023 8ACV08 S11E08 148 The Prince and the Product 18 September 2023 8ACV09 S11E09 149 All the Way Down 25 September 2023 8ACV10 S11E10 150 Season 9 The One Amigo 29 July 2024 9ACV01 S12E01 151 Quids Game 5 August 2024 9ACV02 S12E02 152 The Temp 12 August 2024 9ACV03 S12E03 153 Beauty and the Bug 19 August 2024 9ACV04 S12E04 154 One is Silicon and the Other Gold 26 August 2024 9ACV05 S12E05 155 Attack of the Clothes 2 September 2024 9ACV06 S12E06 156 Planet Espresso 9 September 2024 9ACV07 S12E07 157 Cuteness Overload 16 September 2024 9ACV08 S12E08 158 The Futurama Mystery Liberry 23 September 2024 9ACV09 S12E09 159 Otherwise