Futurama
Ongoing Adventure Comedy Science-Fiction

Futurama

📅 Mar 1999 📺 11 Season(s)
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Synopsis

Futurama follows pizza guy Philip J. Fry, who reawakens in 31st century New New York after a cryonics lab accident. Now part of the Planet Express delivery crew, Fry travels to the farthest reaches of the universe with his robot buddy Bender and cyclopsian love interest Leela, discovering freaky mutants, intergalactic conspiracies and other strange stuff.

🎭 Stars & Actors

John DiMaggio
John DiMaggio
Bender
Katey Sagal
Katey Sagal
Leela
Phil LaMarr
Phil LaMarr
Hermes Conrad
Lauren Tom
Lauren Tom
Amy Wong
David Herman
David Herman
Scruffy
Billy West
Billy West
Scruffy
Tress MacNeille
Tress MacNeille
Linda
Maurice LaMarche
Maurice LaMarche
Kif Kroker

Why it is worth knowing

Futurama is an American animated science-fiction comedy created by Matt Groening and developed with David X. Cohen. Delivery worker Philip J. Fry is accidentally frozen in 1999 and wakes one thousand years later, where he joins the Planet Express crew. Billy West voices Fry, Professor Farnsworth and several other characters, alongside Katey Sagal as Leela, John DiMaggio as Bender, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille and David Herman. The series combines workplace comedy, scientific ideas, parody and unexpectedly emotional stories. It has been cancelled and revived more than once, so season and episode numbering can differ between broadcasters, streaming services and home releases.

Themes and ideas

What Futurama explores

The future gives Fry freedom from his old routine but also permanent separation from people he did not realise he loved. Belonging develops through a workplace filled with selfish, strange and dependable colleagues. Leela's search for identity challenges the labels assigned to her, while Bender tests whether a machine programmed with desires can choose loyalty. Science is a source of jokes and wonder, not automatic moral progress. The series repeatedly places enormous time and space beside small acts of friendship. An episode may destroy a civilisation for comedy, then ask viewers to care about one message, pet or missed relationship.

Season and episode guide

Season 1

9 episodes · 1999
  1. 1. Space Pilot 3000 (Mar 29, 1999)
  2. 2. The Series Has Landed (Apr 5, 1999)
  3. 3. I, Roommate (Apr 7, 1999)
  4. 4. Love's Labors Lost in Space (Apr 14, 1999)
  5. 5. Fear of a Bot Planet (Apr 21, 1999)
  6. 6. A Fishful of Dollars (Apr 28, 1999)
  7. 7. My Three Suns (May 5, 1999)
  8. 8. A Big Piece of Garbage (May 12, 1999)
  9. 9. Hell Is Other Robots (May 19, 1999)

Season 2

20 episodes · 1999
  1. 1. A Flight to Remember (Sep 27, 1999)
  2. 2. Mars University (Oct 4, 1999)
  3. 3. When Aliens Attack (Nov 8, 1999)
  4. 4. Fry & the Slurm Factory (Nov 15, 1999)
  5. 5. I Second That Emotion (Nov 22, 1999)
  6. 6. Brannigan Begin Again (Nov 29, 1999)
  7. 7. A Head in the Polls (Dec 13, 1999)
  8. 8. Xmas Story (Dec 20, 1999)
  9. 9. Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love (Feb 7, 2000)
  10. 10. Put Your Head on My Shoulder (Feb 14, 2000)
  11. 11. Lesser of Two Evils (Feb 21, 2000)
  12. 12. Raging Bender (Feb 28, 2000)
  13. 13. A Bicyclops Built for Two (Mar 20, 2000)
  14. 14. How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back (Apr 3, 2000)
  15. 15. A Clone of My Own (Apr 10, 2000)
  16. 16. The Deep South (Apr 17, 2000)
  17. 17. Bender Gets Made (May 1, 2000)
  18. 18. The Problem with Popplers (May 8, 2000)
  19. 19. Mother's Day (May 15, 2000)
  20. 20. Anthology of Interest I (May 22, 2000)

Season 3

15 episodes · 2000
  1. 1. The Honking (Nov 6, 2000)
  2. 2. War Is the H-Word (Nov 27, 2000)
  3. 3. The Cryonic Woman (Dec 4, 2000)
  4. 4. Parasites Lost (Jan 22, 2001)
  5. 5. Amazon Women in the Mood (Feb 5, 2001)
  6. 6. Bendless Love (Feb 12, 2001)
  7. 7. The Day the Earth Stood Stupid (Feb 19, 2001)
  8. 8. That's Lobstertainment! (Feb 26, 2001)
  9. 9. The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz (Mar 5, 2001)
  10. 10. Luck of the Fryrish (Mar 12, 2001)
  11. 11. The Cyber House Rules (Apr 2, 2001)
  12. 12. Insane in the Mainframe (Apr 9, 2001)
  13. 13. Bendin' in the Wind (Apr 23, 2001)
  14. 14. Time Keeps on Slipping (May 7, 2001)
  15. 15. I Dated a Robot (May 14, 2001)

Season 4

12 episodes · 2001
  1. 1. Roswell That Ends Well (Dec 10, 2001)
  2. 2. A Tale of Two Santas (Dec 24, 2001)
  3. 3. Anthology of Interest II (Jan 7, 2002)
  4. 4. Love and Rocket (Feb 11, 2002)
  5. 5. Leela's Homeworld (Feb 18, 2002)
  6. 6. Where the Buggalo Roam (Mar 4, 2002)
  7. 7. A Pharaoh to Remember (Mar 11, 2002)
  8. 8. Godfellas (Mar 18, 2002)
  9. 9. Futurestock (Apr 1, 2002)
  10. 10. A Leela of Her Own (Apr 8, 2002)
  11. 11. The 30% Iron Chef (Apr 15, 2002)
  12. 12. Where No Fan Has Gone Before (Apr 22, 2002)

Season 5

16 episodes · 2002
  1. 1. Crimes of the Hot (Nov 11, 2002)
  2. 2. Jurassic Bark (Nov 18, 2002)
  3. 3. The Route of All Evil (Dec 9, 2002)
  4. 4. A Taste of Freedom (Dec 23, 2002)
  5. 5. Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch (Jan 13, 2003)
  6. 6. Less Than Hero (Mar 3, 2003)
  7. 7. Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles (Mar 31, 2003)
  8. 8. The Why of Fry (Apr 7, 2003)
  9. 9. The Sting (Jun 2, 2003)
  10. 10. The Farnsworth Parabox (Jun 9, 2003)
  11. 11. Three Hundred Big Boys (Jun 16, 2003)
  12. 12. Spanish Fry (Jul 14, 2003)
  13. 13. Bend Her (Jul 21, 2003)
  14. 14. Obsoletely Fabulous (Jul 28, 2003)
  15. 15. Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television (Aug 4, 2003)
  16. 16. The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings (Aug 11, 2003)

Season 6

26 episodes · 2010
  1. 1. Rebirth (Jun 24, 2010)
  2. 2. In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela (Jun 24, 2010)
  3. 3. Attack of the Killer App (Jul 1, 2010)
  4. 4. Proposition Infinity (Jul 8, 2010)
  5. 5. The Duh-Vinci Code (Jul 15, 2010)
  6. 6. Lethal Inspection (Jul 22, 2010)
  7. 7. The Late Philip J. Fry (Jul 29, 2010)
  8. 8. That Darn Katz! (Aug 5, 2010)
  9. 9. A Clockwork Origin (Aug 12, 2010)
  10. 10. The Prisoner of Benda (Aug 19, 2010)
  11. 11. Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences (Aug 26, 2010)
  12. 12. The Mutants Are Revolting (Sep 2, 2010)
  13. 13. The Futurama Holiday Spectacular (Nov 21, 2010)
  14. 14. Neutopia (Jun 23, 2011)
  15. 15. Benderama (Jun 23, 2011)
  16. 16. Ghost in the Machines (Jun 30, 2011)
  17. 17. Law and Oracle (Jul 7, 2011)
  18. 18. The Silence of the Clamps (Jul 14, 2011)
  19. 19. Yo Leela Leela (Jul 21, 2011)
  20. 20. All the Presidents' Heads (Jul 28, 2011)
  21. 21. Möbius Dick (Aug 4, 2011)
  22. 22. Fry am the Egg Man (Aug 11, 2011)
  23. 23. The Tip of the Zoidberg (Aug 18, 2011)
  24. 24. Cold Warriors (Aug 25, 2011)
  25. 25. Overclockwise (Sep 1, 2011)
  26. 26. Reincarnation (Sep 8, 2011)

Season 7

26 episodes · 2012
  1. 1. The Bots and the Bees (Jun 21, 2012)
  2. 2. A Farewell to Arms (Jun 21, 2012)
  3. 3. Decision 3012 (Jun 28, 2012)
  4. 4. The Thief of Baghead (Jul 5, 2012)
  5. 5. Zapp Dingbat (Jul 12, 2012)
  6. 6. The Butterjunk Effect (Jul 19, 2012)
  7. 7. The Six Million Dollar Mon (Jul 26, 2012)
  8. 8. Fun on a Bun (Aug 2, 2012)
  9. 9. Free Will Hunting (Aug 9, 2012)
  10. 10. Near-Death Wish (Aug 16, 2012)
  11. 11. Viva Mars Vegas (Aug 23, 2012)
  12. 12. 31st Century Fox (Aug 30, 2012)
  13. 13. Naturama (Aug 30, 2012)
  14. 14. 2-D Blacktop (Jun 20, 2013)
  15. 15. Fry and Leela's Big Fling (Jun 20, 2013)
  16. 16. T.: The Terrestrial (Jun 27, 2013)
  17. 17. Forty Percent Leadbelly (Jul 4, 2013)
  18. 18. The Inhuman Torch (Jul 11, 2013)
  19. 19. Saturday Morning Fun Pit (Jul 18, 2013)
  20. 20. Calculon 2.0 (Jul 25, 2013)
  21. 21. Assie Come Home (Aug 1, 2013)
  22. 22. Leela and the Genestalk (Aug 8, 2013)
  23. 23. Game of Tones (Aug 15, 2013)
  24. 24. Murder on the Planet Express (Aug 22, 2013)
  25. 25. Stench and Stenchibility (Aug 29, 2013)
  26. 26. Meanwhile (Sep 5, 2013)

Season 11

10 episodes · 2023
  1. 1. The Impossible Stream (Jul 24, 2023)
  2. 2. Children of a Lesser Bog (Jul 31, 2023)
  3. 3. How the West Was 1010001 (Aug 7, 2023)
  4. 4. Parasites Regained (Aug 14, 2023)
  5. 5. Related to Items You've Viewed (Aug 21, 2023)
  6. 6. I Know What You Did Next Xmas (Aug 28, 2023)
  7. 7. Rage Against the Vaccine (Sep 4, 2023)
  8. 8. Zapp Gets Canceled (Sep 11, 2023)
  9. 9. The Prince and the Product (Sep 18, 2023)
  10. 10. All the Way Down (Sep 25, 2023)

Season 12

10 episodes · 2024
  1. 1. The One Amigo (Jul 29, 2024)
  2. 2. Quids Game (Aug 5, 2024)
  3. 3. The Temp (Aug 12, 2024)
  4. 4. Beauty and The Bug (Aug 19, 2024)
  5. 5. One Is Silicon and the Other Gold (Aug 26, 2024)
  6. 6. Attack of the Clothes (Sep 2, 2024)
  7. 7. Planet Espresso (Sep 9, 2024)
  8. 8. Cuteness Overlord (Sep 16, 2024)
  9. 9. The Futurama Mystery Liberry (Sep 23, 2024)
  10. 10. Otherwise (Sep 30, 2024)

Season 13

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!

10 episodes · 2025
  1. 1. Destroy Tall Monsters (Sep 15, 2025)
  2. 2. The World is Hot Enough (Sep 15, 2025)
  3. 3. Fifty Shades of Green (Sep 15, 2025)
  4. 4. The Numberland Gap (Sep 15, 2025)
  5. 5. Scared Screenless (Sep 15, 2025)
  6. 6. Wicked Human (Sep 15, 2025)
  7. 7. Murderoni (Sep 15, 2025)
  8. 8. Crab Splatter (Sep 15, 2025)
  9. 9. The Trouble with Truffles (Sep 15, 2025)
  10. 10. The White Hole (Sep 15, 2025)

Season 14

Brace yourselves... The future is about to get a whole lot stranger! It's a non-stop onslaught of swaggering space pirates, lab-grown meats, sexy scams... plus the shocking return of Dr. Zoidberg's lost love! You didn't see that coming, prior to being told about it just now!

1 episodes · 2026
  1. 1. TBA (Aug 3, 2026)

In-depth guide

The premise and several production eras

The pilot sends Fry into the year 3000, where he meets one-eyed career officer Leela and bending robot Bender before finding distant relative Professor Farnsworth. Planet Express becomes the show's stable base, with Hermes, Amy, Zoidberg and ship's computer joining deliveries across Earth and space. Early broadcast seasons were scheduled differently from production groups, creating numbering disagreements that continue on services. After the original network run, four feature-length stories were released and later divided into episodes: Bender's Big Score, The Beast with a Billion Backs, Bender's Game and Into the Wild Green Yonder. Comedy Central then continued the series, followed years later by a Hulu revival. New viewers should begin with Space Pilot 3000 and follow the order offered within one complete official service rather than switching numbering systems mid-run. Most episodes stand alone, but relationship changes, family discoveries and recurring villains make chronological release order worthwhile.

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A flexible voice ensemble with a stable emotional centre

Billy West makes Fry optimistic, impulsive and emotionally sincere, while giving Farnsworth, Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan completely different rhythms. Katey Sagal gives Leela authority and frustration without reducing her to the responsible person who stops everyone else's fun. John DiMaggio makes Bender loud, selfish and capable of affection he quickly denies. Phil LaMarr gives Hermes bureaucratic precision, Lauren Tom makes Amy socially relaxed and technically capable, and Maurice LaMarche gives Kif exhausted restraint beside Zapp's confidence. Tress MacNeille and David Herman supply many recurring citizens, robots and officials, helping the future feel populated by familiar comic types. The ensemble can support rapid absurdity and serious endings because character voices remain recognisable across decades of production. Fry and Leela's relationship develops slowly through different eras, while Bender's friendship with Fry often becomes most visible when one of them is absent.

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Science jokes inside a readable animated future

The visual design combines rounded retro-futurism, bright city colour and computer-assisted movement for ships and environments. New New York layers tubes, alien businesses, robots and ruins of the old city without requiring a separate explanation for every joke. Writers with advanced science backgrounds built equations, references and plausible concepts into episodes, but the immediate story works without specialist education. Christopher Tyng's theme and musical cues give the opening energy, while the title sequence uses changing joke captions and a screen showing a different short cartoon. Animation production and aspect ratio change across revival periods, yet Planet Express and the core designs provide continuity. Emotional episodes often reduce visual scale after a large premise, focusing on a photograph, fossil, song or repeated action. The series uses science most effectively when a technical idea creates a character problem rather than existing only to prove that the writers recognise it.

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Why comedy and sadness can coexist

Futurama's world treats death, cloning, time travel and planetary disaster as routine comedy, which makes its focused emotional stories surprisingly strong. Fry is ridiculous but not emotionally empty. His journey into the future is also an irreversible loss, and episodes about his brother, mother or dog reveal the cost beneath his apparent escape. Leela's history asks how a person builds identity before receiving a complete family explanation. Bender often declares that humans are inferior while depending on human attention, turning selfishness into a defence against being replaceable machinery. Some older jokes about gender, bodies and stereotypes have aged unevenly, and revival episodes vary in how sharply they update topical material. The overall series remains humane because it gives even a comic side character a private need. Sentiment is earned when it grows from a detail planted inside ordinary workplace chaos rather than replacing the comedy with a different programme.

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Numbering confusion and content guidance

Futurama is usually milder than many adult animated comedies but is not made only for young children. It contains sexual jokes, alcohol and drug references, cartoon violence, death, suicide jokes, gambling, strong occasional language and body transformation. Some episodes involve pet loss, family grief or frightening creatures. Older children and teenagers may enjoy it with guidance, depending on local ratings. The movie-length stories can be watched in their release position after the original run; services that divide them into episodes should keep the same sequence. Because the series remains active, total season and episode counts may change and platforms may count production eras differently. Do not assume that a higher season number on one service is missing content from another. Comparing episode titles is safer than comparing only season labels. The series has continuity but does not demand rapid binge viewing; one or two episodes at a time preserves its mix of comedy and occasional emotional weight.

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Frequently asked questions

Why do Futurama season numbers differ?

Broadcast order, production groups, four films divided into episodes and multiple revivals have been counted differently by networks and streaming services.

Where do the Futurama movies fit?

Watch the four films after the original network episodes and before the Comedy Central continuation, in their release order.

Is Futurama suitable for children?

It contains cartoon violence, sexual humour, alcohol, death and occasional strong themes. Older children may enjoy selected episodes, but parents should use local ratings.

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