The 25 Best Episodes of 'Futurama,' According to IMDb

In the concluding episode of this four-part special, our favorite interstellar delivery team has to team up with the rest of planet Earth to overthrow a trio of Scammers trying to take over the world.

In an episode inspired by the 1894 adventure novel “The Prisoner of Zenda,” Fry and the team engage in a hilarious body swapping experiment. David X. Cohen explained that the solution to the multiple body switches was solved in the writing process by writer Ken Keeler, who has a PhD in mathematics.

The planet of the Globetrotters has come to challenge Planet Express to a game of basketball! In order to secure their victory, Professor Farnsworth creates a team of mutant supermen to combat the alien athletes, but his experiments come at a dangerous cost.

In this Season One episode inspired by Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Fry wins a free tour alongside the rest of the Planet Express crew to visit the famous Slurm factory, which makes his favorite drink. But not everything is as exciting as it seems inside the factory.

As the crew get trapped aboard the Planet Express, they are killed one by one by an intergalactic monster until only Fry and Bender remain. This mysterious thriller is a doubly-inspired episode, with notes from “Murder on the Orient Express” and John Carpenter’s “The Thing.”