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

In an emotional gut-punch of an episode, the Planet Express crew journeys through Fry’s dreams to pull off a mission all the way back in the year 1999. The episode ends with a tear-jerking scene between Fry and his mother, who he hasn’t seen in over a thousand years.

Futurama can’t get enough of evil brains. One season after the war against brain-balls in “War is the H-Word,” Fry once again stands against a swarm of enemy brains, this time invading Earth. His stupidity is the only thing the flying brains cannot intercept, so it’s up to him to save the world from total destruction.

In a scam to get discount benefits, Fry and Bender join the military – but when a war breaks out and the two are enlisted to fight on the front lines against sentient brain-balls, they see the error of their ways in this darkly hilarious episode.

In this heartwarming episode, Bender discovers that he has no backup capabilities and therefore has only one life to live, so he and Hermes set out to Mexico to meet his maker and confront him for the production error. Bender never finds him, but it is revealed that Hermes made Bender years ago, and saved him from being destroyed as an infant robot.

Gore warning! Kind of. This episode deals with a delectable food source called Popplers that Planet Express finds on an alien planet. They look and taste like popcorn chicken, but Leela discovers that the popular snacks are actually infant aliens. The adult aliens menace Earth, and Leela and the team must stop the invasion before it’s too late.