Futurama Episode Guide

Season 1

S01E01: Space Pilot 3000

Production Code: 1ACV01

First aired: 3/27/1999

Written by: David X. Cohen, Matt Groening

Directed by: Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo

After an accidental cryogenic freezing, Fry awakens at the dawn of the year 3000. With the help of his two new friends, a degenerate robot named Bender and a beautiful one-eyed alien named Leela, Fry defies his life assignment as a delivery boy. He tracks down his great-great-great-etc. nephew, Professor Farnsworth, who hires the three to work for his intergalactic delivery service. It's a brave new world and Fry is in for the ride of his life.
S01E02: The Series Has Landed

Production Code: 1ACV02

First aired: 4/4/1999

Written by: Ken Keeler

Directed by: Peter Avanzino

After delivering a package to an amusement park on the moon, Fry shows Leela how to appreciate the celestial body. Meanwhile Bender finds a little robot romance with a farmer's daughters, which puts the whole crew in jeopardy.
S01E03: I, Roommate

Production Code: 1ACV03

First aired: 4/6/1999

Written by: Eric Horsted

Directed by: Bret Haaland

Fry is such a slob that he is forced to move out of the Planet Express offices. But friendship makes for strange bedfellows when he moves in with Bender and discovers the nuts and bolts of living with a robot.
S01E04: Love's Labour's Lost In Space

Production Code: 1ACV04

First aired: 4/13/1999

Written by: Brian Kelley

Directed by: Brian Sheesley

While on a mission to save all the animals on a planet verging on collapse, Leela encounters Capt. Zapp Brannigan, a self-proclaimed ladies' man looking to add Leela to his list of conquests.
S01E05: Fear of a Bot Planet

Production Code: 1ACV05

First aired: 4/20/1999

Written by: Heather Lombard, Evan Gore

Directed by: Ashley Lenz, Chris Sauve, Peter Avanzino, Carlos Baeza

While delivering a package to a planet inhabited by robots, where humans are killed instantly, Bender becomes intoxicated with the robot lifestyle and must choose between becoming a celebrity of sorts or saving his friends' lives.
S01E06: A Fishful of Dollars

Production Code: 1ACV06

First aired: 4/27/1999

Written by: Patric M. Verrone

Directed by: Ron Hugart, Gregg Vanzo

Fry discovers he's a billionaire because his savings have been accruing interest for 1,000 years. Caught up in the excitement of his riches, he squanders his fortune to buy an unopened can of anchovies -- extinct since the year 2200. What he doesn't realize is that Mom, the head of a mega-conglomorate, will do anything -- even use Pamela Anderson's head-in-a-jar -- to get her hands on those anchovies.
S01E07: My Three Suns

Production Code: 1ACV07

First aired: 5/4/1999

Written by: J. Stewart Burns

Directed by: Jeffrey Lynch, Kevin O'Brien

Fry discovers he's a billionaire because his savings have been accruing interest for 1,000 years. Caught up in the excitement of his riches, he squanders his fortune to buy an unopened can of anchovies -- extinct since the year 2200. What he doesn't realize is that Mom, the head of a mega-conglomorate, will do anything -- even use Pamela Anderson's head-in-a-jar -- to get her hands on those anchovies.
S01E08: A Big Piece of Garbage

Production Code: 1ACV08

First aired: 5/11/1999

Written by: Lewis Morton

Directed by: Susan Dietter

While at a science symposium hosted by inventor extraordinaire Ron Popeil's head-in-a-jar, the Professor creates a new invention -- the Smelloscope. Initially criticized, the Smelloscope is redeemed when it reveals that a putrid celestial body is on a collision course with Earth. To make matters worse, the approaching object is a huge mass of garbage launched into space at the end of the 20th century, after New York ran out of landfill sites. The trashteroid's orbit has set it on a path of destruction and it just may take a rag-tag team of package delivery specialists to land on it and blow it up before it creates Armageddon on Earth.
S01E09: Hell Is Other Robots

Production Code: 1ACV09

First aired: 5/18/1999

Written by: Lewis Morton

Directed by: Rich Moore

After a Beastie Boys Heads concert at Madison Cube Garden, Bender goes on a bender and gets hooked on power surges. His life begins a downward spiral until he finds salvation at the Temple of Robotology. Having found religion, his polite behavior becomes so irritating to his friends that they begin to tempt him with his old vices. When he finally succumbs and returns to his old ways, he is banished to Robot Hell where, in a musical extravaganza, he faces the Robot Devil and endures tortures unimaginable to man.
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