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Futurama ''Futurama'' is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of the professional slacker Philip J. Fry, who is cryogenically preserved for 1000 years a ...
'', created and developed by Matt Groening and
David X. Cohen David Samuel Cohen (born July 13, 1966), better known as David X. Cohen, is an American television writer. He began working on ''Beavis and Butt-Head'', has written for ''The Simpsons'', and served as the head writer, showrunner and executive pro ...
for the
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, aired on
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from March 28, 1999, to August 10, 2003. Following a commitment from
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to produce four
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''Futurama'' films,
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announced in June 2006 that they were resurrecting the show and would air the films as new ''Futurama'' episodes, reconfiguring each film into four episodes, to constitute a fifth season. Comedy Central broadcast
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on March 23, 2008. Following the four films, Comedy Central broadcast a sixth season of twenty-six episodes, split over 2010 and 2011. A seventh season was announced in March 2011 and debuted in 2012. The show aired its final episode on September 4, 2013. In February 2022, Hulu revived the series with a 20-episode order set to premiere in 2023. The original 72-episode run of ''Futurama'' was ''produced'' as four seasons; Fox ''broadcast'' the episodes out of the intended order, resulting in five aired seasons. As consequence, the show's canon is disrupted by the ''broadcast order''. For example, the episode "
Fry and Leela's Big Fling "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" is the seventeenth episode in the seventh season of the American animated television series ''Futurama'', and the 131st episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central on June 19, 2013. The episod ...
" follows on from the ending of the previous episode in production order (which is " T.: The Terrestrial"), however, the previous episode in broadcast order is "
2-D Blacktop "2-D Blacktop" is the fifteenth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom ''Futurama''. It originally aired on Comedy Central on June 19, 2013. The episode was written by Michael Rowe and directed by Raymie Muzquiz. Professor Farnswort ...
". This was not intended by the show's creators. Moreover, different regions and networks use different ordering for the episodes. Some countries broadcast ''Futurama'' in the intended four-season order. In the UK, the first 13 episodes of the series'
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/ BD as "season five", which is entirely different to the "season five" shown by Fox. This list features the episodes in original ''production order'', as featured on the DVD box sets.


Series overview

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broadcast many episodes of the original four ''production'' seasons of ''Futurama'' out of order (though the first season was aired completely in order), resulting in five ''broadcast'' seasons.
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also chose to air the parts of season 6 and 7 out of order as well. This list follows the season box sets, which feature the episodes in the original, intended production season order, ignoring the order of broadcast.


Episodes


Season 1 (1999)


Season 2 (1999–2000)


Season 3 (2001–02)


Season 4 (2002–03)


Season 5 (2008–09)


Season 6 (2010–11)


Season 7 (2012–13)


Season 8

The first ten episodes of the revived season will include the following titles: * "The Impossible Stream" * "Rage Against the Vaccine" * "Zapp Gets Cancelled" * "The Prince and the Product" * "Related to Items You've Viewed" * "Children of a Lesser Bog" * "How the West Was 1010001" * "I Know What You Did Last Xmas" * "Parasites Regained" * "All the Way Down"


Specials


''Everybody Loves Hypnotoad''

Included on the DVD release of ''
Bender's Big Score ''Futurama: Bender's Big Score'' (or ''Bender's Big Score'') is a 2007 American adult animated science fiction comedy-adventure film based on the animated series ''Futurama''. It was released in the United States on November 27, 2007. It was the ...
'' is a full-length 22-minute episode of ''Everybody Loves Hypnotoad'', titled "Amazon Adventure", based on the fictional show produced by
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. "Amazon Adventure" begins with an establishing shot of a house, before immediately cutting to Hypnotoad hypnotizing the audience. Other establishing shots and advertisements are interspersed throughout the episode.


''Futurama: The Lost Adventure''

The ''Futurama'' video game was released shortly after the airing of the 72nd episode in August 2003. The game's story and dialogue were written by
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, and the voice direction was by
David X. Cohen David Samuel Cohen (born July 13, 1966), better known as David X. Cohen, is an American television writer. He began working on ''Beavis and Butt-Head'', has written for ''The Simpsons'', and served as the head writer, showrunner and executive pro ...
. According to Cohen, the half-hour's worth of cutscenes in the game were originally written as "the 73rd episode of the original series."Baker, Chris.
Videogames & Futurama, Part 4: The Lost Episode is on a PS2 Disc
" December 20, 2007.
These cutscenes were compiled together (along with footage of the video game being played) and released as a bonus feature on the DVD release of ''
The Beast with a Billion Backs ''Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs'' is a 2008 American direct-to-video adult animated science-fiction comedy- adventure film based on the animated series '' Futurama'', and the second of four straight-to-DVD films that make up the show's ...
''. Renamed ''Futurama: The Lost Adventure'', the episode tells of how the Planet Express crew prevented Mom from using Earth to take over the Universe.


''Futurama Live!''

''Futurama Live!'' first aired on July 11, 2012 on
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following the original broadcast of the episode "Zapp Dingbat", the public were given the chance to participate in a live chat with the Futurama cast and crew. Several previews of then-upcoming Season 7 episodes were shown during the live stream, and several details about the season were revealed, including: returning appearances by the characters Guenter and Dr. Banjo in an episode of broadcast season 10, the debut of Lrrr's son, an episode about the origins of Scruffy, a three-part episode featuring 1980s-style animation, the status of Mars, and the possibility of "
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clubs". One lucky fan even won a prize. A second episode of ''Futurama Live!'' was aired as a live Internet webcast event broadcast on September 4, 2013 on the
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website and the Nerdist
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channel as part of the Futurama series finale. It was broadcast in two parts, the first part was the pre-show hosted by Chris Hardwick and featured Futurama creator Matt Groening, series showrunner
David X. Cohen David Samuel Cohen (born July 13, 1966), better known as David X. Cohen, is an American television writer. He began working on ''Beavis and Butt-Head'', has written for ''The Simpsons'', and served as the head writer, showrunner and executive pro ...
and voice actors Phil Lamarr and
Lauren Tom Lauren Tom (born August 4, 1961) is an American actress. Her roles include Lena St. Clair in '' The Joy Luck Club'', Julie in the NBC sitcom ''Friends'', Dot in the final season of ''Grace Under Fire'', and the voices for Amy Wong in ''Futurama'' ...
. The second part was the post-series finale webcast again hosted by Hardwick with Groening and Cohen and actors Maurice LaMarche and Billy West discussing the series finale and different aspects of the show.Chris Hardwick Hosts Finale Special Live Stream
(Retrieved from Zap2it.com on September 9, 2013)


''Radiorama''

''Radiorama'' is a special podcast episode of ''Futurama'' made for the
Nerdist Podcast ''ID10T with Chris Hardwick'' (formerly ''The Nerdist Podcast'') is a weekly interview show "about what it really means to be a nerd" hosted by Chris Hardwick, once usually accompanied by Jonah Ray and Matt Mira. The audio podcasts are typicall ...
to help promote '' Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow'' reuniting the entire ''Futurama'' cast as well as special guest star Chris Hardwick as the villain, Klaxxon. The podcast was released on September 14, 2017. The episode was written by David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler and Patric M. Verrone.


Home media


See also

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" (2014) – a crossover episode of ''
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References


External links

* List of ''Futurama'' episodes by production order at The Infosphere * List of ''Futurama'' episodes by broadcast order at The Infosphere * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Futurama episodes, List of Episodes Futurama episodes, List of Futurama episodes, List of Futurama episodes, List of