"Where No Fan Has Gone Before" (Act One)
COMEDY
Fry, Leela and Bender crash land on a 1960's Star Trek-themed planet where the show's old film sets and props, including the actors themselves, have been collected like toys by a malevolent all-powerful nerd entity. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and the original cast lent their iconic voices to this episode.
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"Three Hundred Big Boys" (Act Three)
COMEDY
Spoofing George Bush's $300 refund check he sent every American back in 2001, this episode sees President Nixon's head doing the same in 3001. The Planet Express crew foolishly squanders their sudden influx of cash on ridiculous items, from Fry's one hundred cups of coffee to Prof. Farnsworth's facelift.
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2023 Reboot
"Children of a Lesser Bog"
ACTION, COMEDY
When Futurama was revived on Hulu, I returned to the Matt Groening series after having storyboarded on the show's original run twenty years earlier. This episode tackles parenthood as Kif must decide between spending more time with Amy and the kids, or rescuing Zapp Brannigan from a hostile planet.
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"Related to Items You Viewed"
DRAMA
Fry and Leela's relationship is put to the test after moving in together, as Fry goes overboard ordering multiples of the same items from behemoth on-line retailer Mom-azon, like five refrigerators and seven mattresses. Meanwhile, Bender is tricked into forced labor at Mom-azon's robot sweatshop factory.
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"Rage Against the Vaccine"
COMEDY
If you thought Futurama wasn't going to tackle the Covid vaccine controversy, then you don't know the show. Hermes' brilliant wife LaBarbara finds the antidote for a flu-like virus that causes Earth's population to suddenly become pissed off at everything. But first she needs to test it on her husband.
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"The Prince and the Product"
ACTION, DRAMA
This Romeo & Juliet inspired fairytale takes place in a plastic Fisher Price toy universe inhabited by two feuding societies: bathtub rubber duckies and egg shaped Weeble Wobbles. Duckie Fry and Egg Leela are star-crossed lovers caught in the middle as their clans go to war over their forbidden love.
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