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

Four brief stories are told in this episode following the creation of the Professor’s “What If?” machine, which reveals to the crew what their lives might be like under different circumstances.

While duking it out with the mutants of the underground, who’ve been spewing toxic waste, Leela learns that she is not the last cyclops from a forgotten world. Rather, she is the child of two mutants, sent aboveground to live a better life than they could give her.

After landing on a planet of massive Amazonian women, Fry, Zapp Brannigan, and first mate Kif are taken prisoner. They proceed to engage in an unending cycle of “Snoo-Snoo,” which begins to lose its luster before long.

In this, the pilot episode of “Futurama,” Philip J. Fry is an unhappy, unsuccessful pizza delivery boy who accidentally falls into a cryogenic freeze-chamber on New Year’s Eve, 1999. He wakes up in the year 3,000, and meets the Planet Express crew, run by his 30-times great-nephew Hubert J. Farnsworth.

Fry learns the unthinkable: He was frozen back in 1999 on purpose! Traveling through time, Fry has the opportunity to go back and prevent himself from being frozen, and returning to his old life. But doing so might spell the end of the world 1,000 years later.