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'''Production Number''': 2ACV15<br />
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[[Planet Express crew|The crew]] mistake [[Omicronians|Omicronian]] children for a snack food and begin selling them to the people of Earth.


==The Story==
== Plot ==
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Returning from the Planet of the Moochers, the crew has no {{cat|food and drink|food}}. After some foraging they discover a delicious, bite size, motionless {{cat|animal}}, and pack the ship full of them. the rest of the staff approve and Fry comes up with the name [[Popplers]]. Bender decides to sell them. [["Fishy" Joseph Gilman|Fishy Joe]] decides to sell them at [[Fishy Joe's|his restaurant]], paying the crew $1 a dozen. Soon over a million are sold. Hippies, led by [[The Waterfalls#Free Waterfall Jr.|Free Waterfall Jr.]], protest the eating of Popplers outside [[Planet Express]]. While getting things to throw at the protesters, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] discovers a week-old Poppler. Before Leela can throw it out, the Poppler opens its eyes and calls her "mama".
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===Act I: "We taught a lion to eat tofu."===
Returning from the Planet of the Moochers, the crew has no food. After some foraging they discover a delicious, bite size, motionless animal, and pack the ship full of them. the rest of the staff approve and Fry comes up with the name [[Popplers]]. Bender decides to sell them. [["Fishy" Joseph Gilman|Fishy Joe]] decides to sell them at [[Fishy Joe's|his restaurant]], paying them $1 a dozen. Soon over a million are sold. Hippies, led by [[The Waterfalls#Free Waterfall Jr.|Free Waterfall Jr.]], protest the eating of Popplers outside [[Planet Express]]. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] discovers a week-old Poppler, it opens it's eyes and calls her "mamma".


===Act II: "Parrots talk and we eat them, right?"===
=== Act II: "Parrots talk and we eat them, right?" ===
Leela tries to stop people from eating Popplers, and has the rest of the crew join the protesting at Fishy Joe's. Joe, Free and Leela appear on ''Datenight'' with [[Linda]] to discus wether it's okay to eat Popplers, the young Poppler joins in. The [[Omicronians]] arrive and tell the world that the Popplers are their young and announce that they'll eat the people of Earth. [[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]] and [[Kif Kroker|Kif]] begin negotiations with them. They make a deal stating that they'll only the Earthling that first ate one of their young, Leela.
Leela tries to stop people from eating Popplers, and has the rest of the crew join the protesting at Fishy Joe's. Joe, Free Waterfall Jr. and Leela appear on ''Datenight'' with [[Linda]] to debate eating Popplers, with the young Poppler joining in. The [[Omicronians]] invade Earth again and tell the world that the Popplers are Omicronian young and announce that, in revenge, they'll eat the people of Earth. [[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]] and [[Kif Kroker|Kif]] begin negotiations with the invaders to reach a peaceful settlement. A deal is struck stating that only one Earthling will be eaten, the one that first ate one of Omicronian young, Leela.


===Act III: "Try our new, extreme walrus juice!"===
=== Act III: "Try our new, extreme walrus juice!" ===
The eating of Leela is done on TV with a large audience. Zapp creates a plan to fool the Omicronians, Kif disguises an orangutan as Leela. [[Lrrr]] almost falls for it, but Free Waterfall Jr. interrupts and tells him the truth to save it. [[Ndnd]] eats it anyway. Leela is sent out to Lrrr, but the young Omicronian, now calling itself [[Jrrr]], convinces him to stop. Lrrr eats Free, to the delight of the crowd, and becomes high. The Omicronians leave. The staff has a feast of young animals to celebrate.
The eating of Leela is broadcast on TV with a large audience. Zapp devises a plan to fool the Omicronians, Kif disguises an orangutan as Leela. [[Lrrr]] almost falls for it, but Free Waterfall Jr. interrupts and tells him the truth to save the orangutan. [[Ndnd]] eats it anyway. Leela is sent out to Lrrr, but the young Omicronian, now calling itself [[Jrrr]], convinces him to stop. Lrrr, instead, eats Free Waterfall Jr., to the delight of the crowd, and becomes high. The Omicronians leave and Leela is safe. The staff has a feast of animals to celebrate, including a veal, a pig and a dolphin. The crew are disgusted by this and refuse to eat the dolphin because dolphins are intelligent. Bender assures them that this is different since this dolphin blew all his [[currency|money]] on instant lottery tickets.


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== Reception ==
==Additional Info==
On {{date|25 February}}, [[2009]], the episode was named #10 on {{w|TV.com}}'s list of top 10 ''Futurama'' episodes<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/news/tv-com-top-ten-the-best-futurama-episodes-12579/?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story|title=TV.com Top Ten: The best ''Futurama'' episodes|author=Surette, Tim|date=2009-2-25|publisher=TV.com|accessdate=2012-4-17}}</ref>. It was also named #14 on {{w|IGN}}'s list of [http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/09/top-25-futurama-episodes?page=3 top 25 ''Futurama'' episodes].
===Trivia===
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*The start of the tradition of killing [[the Waterfalls]].
*Brought to you by ''Molten Boron''.
*198 billion Popplers eaten.
**The profit that Planet Express and staff would have received from the sales comes to $16.5 billion, where the money went is unknown.
*Fry and Leela's rarely-used first names are used.


===Quotes===
== Additional Info ==
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*'''Fry''': No I'm... doesn't.
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*'''Leela''': Well, it's a type M planet, so it should at least have Roddenberries.<br/>'''Fry''': I'm experienced at foraging. I used to find edible mushrooms on my bath mat!<br/>'''Bender''': I found some rocks! You guys eat rocks, right?<br/>'''Leela''': No...<br/>'''Bender''': ''(invitingly)'' Not even if they're sautéed in a little mud?
*'''Farnsworth''': Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in... get the hell off my property!<br/>'''Free Waterfall Junior''': You can't own property, man.<br/>'''Farnsworth''': I can. But that's because I'm not a penniless hippie.
*'''Brannigan''': Hmm. A hundred and ninty eight billion babies in a few weeks. We'll need an army of super virile men scoring 'round the clock! I'll do my part. Kif, clear my schedule.
*'''Lrrr''': Where's the real female?<br/>'''Brannigan''': I'll never tell.<br/>'''Lrrr''': *cocks gun* Where is the real female?<br/>'''Brannigan''': I'll get her for you.
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===Questions===
=== Trivia ===
*Who did that?
* This episode marks the tradition of killing off members of the [[Waterfall family]].
**Fry did.
* Over 198 billion Popplers were eaten before the end of the episode. The gross income that Planet Express and staff would have received from the sales comes to $16.5 billion (before tax), but where the money went is [[Loose ends|unknown]].
* This episode marks the first usage of Fry's first name and Leela's last name (Philip and Turanga, respectively).
*[[Free Waterfall, Jr.]], despite being such an animal-lover and animal rights activist, mispronounces "orangutan" as "orangutang".


===Alien Language Sightings===
=== Allusions ===
'''Time''': <br />
* Both the title and the plot of the episode refer to the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "{{st|The Trouble with Tribbles}}".
'''Location''': <br />
* [[Roddenberries]] and the term "Type M planet" refer to the creator of ''Star Trek'', Gene Roddenberry, and the way planets are designated within the franchise.
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br />
* Fry's says to Leela that "that's the second billboard you've crashed into this week!".  This is a fourth-wall break which refers to the [[opening sequence]]'s billboard crash.
'''Translation''':
* The necklace worn by [[Free Waterfall, Jr.]] looks very similar to the {{w|Esperanto jubilee symbol}}.
(change to AL2, if necessary)
*The [[Popplers Song]] is to the tune of {{w|The Sailor's Hornpipe}}.
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===Inside References===
=== Continuity ===
*'''Fry''': Leela! That's the second billboard you've crashed into this week!
* Fry says "Parrots talk and we eat them, right?".  In "[[Xmas Story]]", [[Fry's parrot]] was killed and ended up being served by Bender as [[Xmas]] dinner.
**Refers to the introduction sequence's billboard crash.
* [["Fishy" Joseph Gilman]] states that the reason we don't eat people is because they taste lousy. But, in "[[Fry and the Slurm Factory]]", Leela reveals the existence of a soda called "Soylent Cola", whose taste apparently "varies from person to person".
**Exactly. They don't eat people because they taste lousy, but that doesn't stop them from processing them for beverages. Besides, they probably loaded Soylent Cola with a lot of sugar and artificial ingredients, like with real soda, so you can't even taste the human remains in Soylent Cola.
* Zapp's pronunciation of "{{w|guacamole}}" as "gwack-ah-mol" is a continuation of his problem pronouncing foreign loanwords, first revealed in "[[Love's Labours Lost in Space]]" ("{{w|champagne}}" as "sham-pag-in").


===Outside References===
=== Goofs ===
* "Roddenberries" ''(see Quotes)'' and the term "Type M Planet" refer to the creator of ''Star Trek'', Gene Roddenberry, and his creation.
* When Leela first discovers that Popplers are intelligent creatures, she throws Jrrr away and licks her fingers. There are five "finger-licking" sounds, even though she only has four fingers. The fourth finger-licking sound is the one with no movement to it. The fourth being the transition between licking her last finger and going to lick her thumb.
**Although this is only speculation and unconfirmed, it is likely that whoever did the finger-licking sound effect simply licked their own hand, not thinking to skip a finger in order to match the four-fingered hands of the ''[[Futurama]]'' universe.
* When the first batch of Popplers is sold and the sign starts working, it should count by twelve, as Popplers are sold in batches of twelve and it reads "over # Popplers served" and not "over # batches of Popplers served".
**This could be just a marketing and advertising decision, after all "Over # Popplers served" is much catchier than "Over #/12 bags of Popplers served". So they could treat a "Poppler" as a whole serving.
*Fishy Joe claims that "The only reason we don't eat people is because it tastes lousy!" He seems to be unaware of the number of [[soylent products]] which exist in the [[31st century]].
**Being an industry tycoon, he might be privy to some knowledge about how they *really* make soylent products. Or maybe he meant to say that Fishy Joe's restaurants don't serve humans because of the awful taste.


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<poem>'''Fry''': ''[Confused.]'' Turanga?
'''[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]]''': That's her name, Philip.
'''Bender''': Philip?</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': Well, this [[Jrrr|Poppler]] spoke to me.
'''Bender''': Well, maybe it's just like a parrot and only learned to talk as a parlour trick. Like Fry.
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<poem>'''Bender''': I'll miss you, Leela. I know you're just a carbon-based life form, but I'll always think of you as a big pile of titanium! [starts crying]
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'''Bender''': [sobs] Just like titanium!</poem>
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Season 2 episode
The Problem with Popplers
No.28
Production number2ACV15
Writers
Patric M. Verrone
StoryDarin Henry
Directors
Chris Sauve
Gregg Vanzo
Title captionFor external use only
First air date7 May, 2000
Broadcast numberS02E18
Title referenceStar Trek episode The Trouble with Tribbles
Opening cartoonUp to Mars (1930)
SponsorMolten Boron
Nomination(s)Environmental Media Awards
Comedy — TV Episodic, 2000 (won)
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)		Transcript
Storyboard

Pictures

Season 2
  1. I Second that Emotion
  2. Brannigan, Begin Again
  3. A Head in the Polls
  4. Xmas Story
  5. Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?
  6. The Lesser of Two Evils
  7. Put Your Head on My Shoulders
  8. Raging Bender
  9. A Bicyclops Built for Two
  10. A Clone of My Own
  11. How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
  12. The Deep South
  13. Bender Gets Made
  14. Mother's Day
  15. The Problem with Popplers
  16. Anthology of Interest I
  17. War Is the H-Word
  18. The Honking
  19. The Cryonic Woman
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"The Problem with Popplers" is the twenty-eighth episode of Futurama, the fifteenth of the second production season and the eighteenth of the second broadcast season. It aired on 7 May, 2000, on Fox. The crew mistake Omicronian children for a snack food and begin selling them to the people of Earth.

Plot

Act I: "We taught a lion to eat tofu."

Returning from the Planet of the Moochers, the crew has no food. After some foraging they discover a delicious, bite size, motionless animal, and pack the ship full of them. the rest of the staff approve and Fry comes up with the name Popplers. Bender decides to sell them. Fishy Joe decides to sell them at his restaurant, paying the crew $1 a dozen. Soon over a million are sold. Hippies, led by Free Waterfall Jr., protest the eating of Popplers outside Planet Express. While getting things to throw at the protesters, Leela discovers a week-old Poppler. Before Leela can throw it out, the Poppler opens its eyes and calls her "mama".

Act II: "Parrots talk and we eat them, right?"

Leela tries to stop people from eating Popplers, and has the rest of the crew join the protesting at Fishy Joe's. Joe, Free Waterfall Jr. and Leela appear on Datenight with Linda to debate eating Popplers, with the young Poppler joining in. The Omicronians invade Earth again and tell the world that the Popplers are Omicronian young and announce that, in revenge, they'll eat the people of Earth. Zapp and Kif begin negotiations with the invaders to reach a peaceful settlement. A deal is struck stating that only one Earthling will be eaten, the one that first ate one of Omicronian young, Leela.

Act III: "Try our new, extreme walrus juice!"

The eating of Leela is broadcast on TV with a large audience. Zapp devises a plan to fool the Omicronians, Kif disguises an orangutan as Leela. Lrrr almost falls for it, but Free Waterfall Jr. interrupts and tells him the truth to save the orangutan. Ndnd eats it anyway. Leela is sent out to Lrrr, but the young Omicronian, now calling itself Jrrr, convinces him to stop. Lrrr, instead, eats Free Waterfall Jr., to the delight of the crowd, and becomes high. The Omicronians leave and Leela is safe. The staff has a feast of animals to celebrate, including a veal, a pig and a dolphin. The crew are disgusted by this and refuse to eat the dolphin because dolphins are intelligent. Bender assures them that this is different since this dolphin blew all his money on instant lottery tickets.

Reception

On 25 February, 2009, the episode was named #10 on TV.com's list of top 10 Futurama episodes[1]. It was also named #14 on IGN's list of top 25 Futurama episodes.

Additional Info

Poppler song lyrics

See List of song performances#Popplers Song.

Trivia

  • This episode marks the tradition of killing off members of the Waterfall family.
  • Over 198 billion Popplers were eaten before the end of the episode. The gross income that Planet Express and staff would have received from the sales comes to $16.5 billion (before tax), but where the money went is unknown.
  • This episode marks the first usage of Fry's first name and Leela's last name (Philip and Turanga, respectively).
  • Free Waterfall, Jr., despite being such an animal-lover and animal rights activist, mispronounces "orangutan" as "orangutang".

Allusions

Continuity

  • Fry says "Parrots talk and we eat them, right?". In "Xmas Story", Fry's parrot was killed and ended up being served by Bender as Xmas dinner.
  • "Fishy" Joseph Gilman states that the reason we don't eat people is because they taste lousy. But, in "Fry and the Slurm Factory", Leela reveals the existence of a soda called "Soylent Cola", whose taste apparently "varies from person to person".
    • Exactly. They don't eat people because they taste lousy, but that doesn't stop them from processing them for beverages. Besides, they probably loaded Soylent Cola with a lot of sugar and artificial ingredients, like with real soda, so you can't even taste the human remains in Soylent Cola.
  • Zapp's pronunciation of "guacamole" as "gwack-ah-mol" is a continuation of his problem pronouncing foreign loanwords, first revealed in "Love's Labours Lost in Space" ("champagne" as "sham-pag-in").

Goofs

  • When Leela first discovers that Popplers are intelligent creatures, she throws Jrrr away and licks her fingers. There are five "finger-licking" sounds, even though she only has four fingers. The fourth finger-licking sound is the one with no movement to it. The fourth being the transition between licking her last finger and going to lick her thumb.
    • Although this is only speculation and unconfirmed, it is likely that whoever did the finger-licking sound effect simply licked their own hand, not thinking to skip a finger in order to match the four-fingered hands of the Futurama universe.
  • When the first batch of Popplers is sold and the sign starts working, it should count by twelve, as Popplers are sold in batches of twelve and it reads "over # Popplers served" and not "over # batches of Popplers served".
    • This could be just a marketing and advertising decision, after all "Over # Popplers served" is much catchier than "Over #/12 bags of Popplers served". So they could treat a "Poppler" as a whole serving.
  • Fishy Joe claims that "The only reason we don't eat people is because it tastes lousy!" He seems to be unaware of the number of soylent products which exist in the 31st century.
    • Being an industry tycoon, he might be privy to some knowledge about how they *really* make soylent products. Or maybe he meant to say that Fishy Joe's restaurants don't serve humans because of the awful taste.

Quotes

    Leela: Great, we're two days from Earth with no food!
    Bender: [He gestures to Fry and Leela.] Problem solved: You two fight to the death and I'll cook the loser! [In an undertone to Leela.] Work his gut, I like it tender.

    Leela: Well, it's a type M planet, so it should at least have Roddenberries.
    Fry: I'm experienced at foraging. I used to find edible mushrooms on my bath mat!
    Bender: I found some rocks! You guys eat rocks, right?
    Leela: No...
    Bender: [Invitingly.] Not even if they're sautéed in a little mud?

    Professor Farnsworth: Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in... get the hell off my property!
    Free Waterfall Jr.: You can't own property, man.
    Professor Farnsworth: I can. But that's because I'm not a penniless hippie.

    Professor Farnsworth: Oh, God! They're back!
    Amy: We're doomed.
    Hermes: Doooooomed!
    Bender: [Breathes in.] Doooooooooooooooooooo...

    Zapp: Hmm. A hundred and ninety eight billion babies in a few weeks. We'll need an army of super virile men scoring 'round the clock! I'll do my part. Kif, clear my schedule. [Kif takes out an Etch-A-Sketch and shakes it.]

    Lrrr: Where's the real female?
    Zapp: I'll never tell.
    Lrrr: [He pulls out a gun.] Where is the real female?
    Zapp: I'll get her for you.

    Ndnd: Would you like some Human with your salt!?

    Bender: Who wants dolphin? [The crew gasps.]
    Leela: Dolphin? But dolphins are intelligent!
    Bender: Not this one. He blew all his money on lottery tickets!

    Fry: [Confused.] Turanga?
    Amy: That's her name, Philip.
    Bender: Philip?

    Leela: Well, this Poppler spoke to me.
    Bender: Well, maybe it's just like a parrot and only learned to talk as a parlour trick. Like Fry.
    Fry: Like Fry! Like Fry!

    Bender: I'll miss you, Leela. I know you're just a carbon-based life form, but I'll always think of you as a big pile of titanium! [starts crying]
    Fry: What Bender means is, you're really brave and smart and beautiful and a great friend.
    Bender: [sobs] Just like titanium!

    Leela: Thank you, Jrrr. I hope you'll always think of me as your mom.
    Jrrr: When my speicies grows up, we eat our moms.

Appearances

(In alphabetic order)

Characters

Miscellaneous

Episode Credits

References

  1. ^ Surette, Tim (25 February 2009). "TV.com Top Ten: The best Futurama episodes". TV.com. Retrieved on 17 April 2012.
Futurama episodes/films
1ACV
(Season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
2ACV
(Season 2)		 "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "A Clone of My Own" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "Mother's Day" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Anthology of Interest I" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Honking" • "The Cryonic Woman"
3ACV
(Season 3)		 "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Parasites Lost" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "The Route of All Evil" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Roswell that Ends Well" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "The 30% Iron Chef"
4ACV
(Season 4)		 "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Love and Rocket" • "Less than Hero" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "Jurassic Bark" • "Crimes of the Hot" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" • "The Sting" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
5ACV
(Season 5)
Bender's Big Score The Beast with a Billion Backs Bender's Game Into the Wild Green Yonder
Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4
6ACV
(Season 6)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
7ACV
(Season 7)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama" • "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
8ACV
(Season 8)		 "The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"
Specials Everybody Loves Hypnotoad: "Amazon Adventure" • "The Lost Adventure" • "Simpsorama"
S01E
(Broadcast season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots"
S02E
(Broadcast season 2)		 "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory" • "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "A Clone of My Own" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Mother's Day" • "Anthology of Interest I"
S03E
(Broadcast season 3)		 "The Honking" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Cryonic Woman" • "Parasites Lost" • "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot"
S04E
(Broadcast season 4)		 "Roswell that Ends Well" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Love and Rocket" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "The 30% Iron Chef" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
S05E
(Broadcast season 5)		 "Crimes of the Hot" • "Jurassic Bark" • "The Route of All Evil" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Less than Hero" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "The Sting" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
S06E
(Broadcast season 6)		 "Bender's Big Score Part 1" • "Bender's Big Score Part 2" • "Bender's Big Score Part 3" • "Bender's Big Score Part 4" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 2" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4" • "Bender's Game Part 1" • "Bender's Game Part 2" • "Bender's Game Part 3" • "Bender's Game Part 4" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 2" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 3" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4"
S07E
(Broadcast season 7)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular"
S08E
(Broadcast season 8)		 "Neutopia" • "Benderama" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Law and Oracle" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Möbius Dick" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
S09E
(Broadcast season 9)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama"
S10E
(Broadcast season 10)		 "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
S11E
(Broadcast Season 11)		 "The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"
Specials Everybody Loves Hypnotoad: "Amazon Adventure" • "The Lost Adventure" • "Simpsorama"
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