This is a list of episodes of Futurama episodes in broadcast order, from broadcast season 4.
Roswell that Ends Well
Production code: 3ACV19
Summary
The crew takes a sight-seeing trip out to a star that it shortly to go supernova. In a hurry to get back to the show, Fry sticks non-microwavable popcorn into the galley's microwave. The microwave begins emitting a blue glow, which engulfs the back of the ship. At the same time, the star explodes, sending a red glow over the front of the ship. The two glowing fields meet, and the ship is sent hurtling through a clock-filled tunnel. The crew tries to return to Earth, but the global positioning system is missing, and Leela loses control of the ship. The ship crashes and Bender, who refused to wear his seat belt, is sent flying across the landscape, where he breaks into numerous pieces.
Fry recovers Bender's still-functioning head, and the crew returns to the ship, leaving Zoidberg to pick up the remaining pieces. That night, US military jeeps arrive, and take Zoidberg and the pieces of Bender back to their base at Roswell, New Mexico. The Professor assesses that the crew has travelled back in time to 1947, and that they are the cause of the Roswell UFO incident. Furthermore, they only have 24 hours to rescue Zoidberg, recover the rest of Bender, and locate a microwave oven to generate the radiation needed to reopen the time hole back to the year 3000.
While the Professor and Leela try to track down a microwave, Fry sneaks onto the air base. There he meets his grandfather Enos. In a misguided attempt to save his own existence, Fry begins desperately working to keep his grandfather alive. Fry drives Enos to a house in the middle of nowhere, and locks him in. Fry leaves, content that his continued existence is assured, but the house was built as part of a nuclear test, and Enos is killed by the blast.
Fry returns to town where the Professor and Leela have given up on microwave oven hunting, and escorts his grieving grandmother Mildred home. A distraught Mildred turns to Fry for affection. Fry, deciding that she can't be his grandmother, gives in. The next morning the rest of the crew discovers him, and tells him that he has just become his own grandfather. The Professor, convinced that they can't do any more damage to the timeline, decides that the best course of action is to steal the microwave radar dish from the air base, and head home.
The crew raids the air base, their superior technology making them impenetrable to 1940s weaponry. They pick up Zoidberg and recover Bender's body, steal the radar dish, and head into space. While making their escape, Bender's head falls out, and there isn't time for the crew to go back for him before the time rip closes. Arriving back in the year 3000, the crew scours the area around what was the air base, and finds Bender's still functioning head. With everything back to normal, the crew returns home.
Quotes
- Colonel: What the General means is, why did you come to Earth?
- Zoidberg: Not a day goes by I don't ask myself the same question.
- Farnsworth: Start the ship, Leela! Let's just steal the dish and get back to our own time.
- Fry: But won't that change history?
- Farnsworth: Oooh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-my-own-grandpa. Let's get the hell out of here already! Screw history!
- Farnsworth: Choke on that, causality!
A Tale of Two Santas
Production code: 3ACV03
Summary
Anthology of Interest 2
Production code: 3ACV18
Summary
Love & Rocket
Production code: 4ACV03
Summary
Leela's Homeworld
Production code: 4ACV02
Summary
Where the Buggalo Roam
Production code: 3ACV10
Summary
A Pharaoh To Remember
Production code: 3ACV17
Summary
Godfellas
Production code: 3ACV20
Summary
Futurestock
Production code: 3ACV21
Summary
A Leela of Her Own
Production code: 3ACV16
Summary
30% Iron Chef
Production code: 3ACV22
Summary
Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Production code: 4ACV11
Summary
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