Futurama (1999)

Adventure · Animation · Comedy

The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.

IMDb rating: 8.5 (280,824 votes)
Episode average: 7.6 -0.9 vs IMDb
Seasons: 14
Streaming (US): Hulu
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 14 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1999)

8.07 avg 9 episodes 8.6 → 8.1 23 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Space Pilot 3000	8.6	5,842
2	The Series Has Landed	8.0	4,645
3	I, Roommate	8.2	4,502
4	Love's Labours Lost in Space	8.0	4,236
5	Fear of a Bot Planet	7.8	4,016
6	A Fishful of Dollars	8.2	4,123
7	My Three Suns	7.7	3,905
8	A Big Piece of Garbage	8.0	3,872
9	Hell Is Other Robots	8.1	3,983

Season 2 (1999)

7.89 avg 20 episodes 8.2 → 8.5 23 min avg

Rebound

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Flight to Remember	8.2	3,845
2	Mars University	7.7	3,627
3	When Aliens Attack	8.0	3,503
4	Fry and the Slurm Factory	8.3	3,850
5	I Second That Emotion	7.6	3,370
6	Brannigan, Begin Again	7.8	3,358
7	A Head in the Polls	7.6	3,265
8	Xmas Story	8.1	3,520
9	Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?	8.0	3,343
10	Put Your Head on My Shoulders	7.5	3,129
11	The Lesser of Two Evils	7.6	3,096
12	Raging Bender	7.6	3,041
13	A Bicyclops Built for Two	8.0	3,241
14	How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back	8.0	3,154
15	A Clone of My Own	7.5	3,000
16	The Deep South	7.8	3,132
17	Bender Gets Made	7.6	2,983
18	The Problem with Popplers	8.5	3,340
19	Mother's Day	7.8	2,966
20	Anthology of Interest I	8.5	3,354

Season 3 (2000)

7.98 avg 15 episodes 7.5 → 7.6 23 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Honking	7.5	3,054
2	War Is the H-Word	8.4	3,260
3	The Cryonic Woman	7.4	2,922
4	Parasites Lost	9.0	3,805
5	Amazon Women in the Mood	8.6	3,751
6	Bendless Love	7.3	2,799
7	The Day the Earth Stood Stupid	8.5	3,127
8	That's Lobstertainment!	7.1	2,814
9	The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz	7.5	2,753
10	The Luck of the Fryrish	9.4	6,131
11	The Cyber House Rules	7.7	2,824
12	Insane in the Mainframe	8.1	2,947
13	Bendin' in the Wind	7.3	2,833
14	Time Keeps on Slipping	8.3	3,114
15	I Dated a Robot	7.6	2,827

Season 4 (2001)

7.99 avg 12 episodes 9.1 → 8.3 23 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Roswell That Ends Well	9.1	3,973
2	A Tale of Two Santas	7.7	2,768
3	Anthology of Interest II	8.2	2,912
4	Love and Rocket	7.7	2,760
5	Leela's Homeworld	8.7	3,305
6	Where the Buggalo Roam	7.5	2,659
7	A Pharaoh to Remember	7.6	2,739
8	Godfellas	8.9	3,920
9	Future Stock	7.7	2,705
10	A Leela of Her Own	6.9	2,620
11	The 30% Iron Chef	7.6	2,623
12	Where No Fan Has Gone Before	8.3	3,185

Season 5 (2002)

8.12 avg 16 episodes 7.8 → 9.1 23 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Crimes of the Hot	7.8	2,609
2	Jurassic Bark	9.5	7,684
3	The Route of All Evil	7.3	2,552
4	A Taste of Freedom	7.7	2,579
5	Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch	7.5	2,606
6	Less Than Hero	7.7	2,604
7	Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles	8.3	2,754
8	The Why of Fry	8.7	3,032
9	The Sting	9.2	4,153
10	The Farnsworth Parabox	8.9	3,352
11	Three Hundred Big Boys	8.2	2,782
12	Spanish Fry	7.6	2,553
13	Bend Her	7.2	2,599
14	Obsoletely Fabulous	7.7	2,498
15	Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV	7.5	2,504
16	The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings	9.1	4,108

Season 6 (2008)

7.48 avg 16 episodes 7.8 → 7.4 22 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Bender's Big Score: Part 1	7.8	1,064
2	Bender's Big Score: Part 2	7.9	1,030
3	Bender's Big Score: Part 3	8.0	1,023
4	Bender's Big Score: Part 4	8.2	1,054
5	The Beast with a Billion Backs: Part 1	7.3	926
6	The Beast with a Billion Backs: Part 2	7.3	913
7	The Beast with a Billion Backs: Part 3	7.3	912
8	The Beast with a Billion Backs: Part 4	7.2	921
9	Bender's Game: Part 1	7.3	878
10	Bender's Game: Part 2	7.3	871
11	Bender's Game: Part 3	7.3	869
12	Bender's Game: Part 4	7.4	875
13	Into the Wild Green Yonder: Part 1	7.4	865
14	Into the Wild Green Yonder: Part 2	7.2	855
15	Into the Wild Green Yonder: Part 3	7.3	844
16	Into the Wild Green Yonder: Part 4	7.4	874

Season 7 (2010)

7.64 avg 13 episodes 7.8 → 6.4 22 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Rebirth	7.8	2,852
2	In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela	7.1	2,574
3	Attack of the Killer App	7.6	2,612
4	Proposition Infinity	7.2	2,422
5	The Duh-Vinci Code	7.3	2,407
6	Lethal Inspection	8.5	2,967
7	The Late Philip J. Fry	9.3	4,593
8	That Darn Katz!	7.2	2,274
9	A Clockwork Origin	7.9	2,395
10	The Prisoner of Benda	8.3	2,486
11	Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences	7.2	2,148
12	The Mutants Are Revolting	7.5	2,119
13	The Futurama Holiday Spectacular	6.4	2,205

Season 8 (2011)

7.55 avg 13 episodes 7.4 → 7.9 22 min avg

Rebound

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Neutopia	7.4	2,280
2	Benderama	7.6	2,221
3	Ghost in the Machines	7.5	2,075
4	Law and Oracle	8.1	2,226
5	The Silence of the Clamps	7.5	2,059
6	Yo Leela Leela	6.8	2,071
7	All the Presidents' Heads	7.3	2,025
8	Möbius Dick	7.3	2,037
9	Fry Am the Egg Man	7.2	1,951
10	The Tip of the Zoidberg	7.7	2,081
11	Cold Warriors	7.8	2,080
12	Overclockwise	8.0	2,140
13	Reincarnation	7.9	2,309

Season 9 (2012)

7.34 avg 13 episodes 7.7 → 7.2 22 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Bots and the Bees	7.7	2,274
2	A Farewell to Arms	7.6	2,037
3	Decision 3012	7.5	2,076
4	The Thief of Baghead	7.2	1,969
5	Zapp Dingbat	7.0	1,917
6	The Butterjunk Effect	6.9	1,970
7	The Six Million Dollar Mon	7.2	1,962
8	Fun on a Bun	7.6	2,014
9	Free Will Hunting	7.3	1,910
10	Near-Death Wish	7.6	1,988
11	Viva Mars Vegas	7.5	1,881
12	31st Century Fox	7.1	1,893
13	Naturama	7.2	2,119

Season 10 (2013)

7.60 avg 13 episodes 7.2 → 9.5 22 min avg

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	2-D Blacktop	7.2	2,000
2	Fry and Leela's Big Fling	7.9	2,027
3	T.: The Terrestrial	7.3	1,919
4	Forty Percent Leadbelly	6.6	1,972
5	The Inhuman Torch	7.2	1,888
6	Saturday Morning Fun Pit	6.8	2,229
7	Calculon 2.0	7.1	1,896
8	Assie Come Home	7.1	1,884
9	Leela and the Genestalk	7.1	1,860
10	Game of Tones	8.5	2,739
11	Murder on the Planet Express	8.5	2,332
12	Stench and Stenchibility	8.0	2,261
13	Meanwhile	9.5	5,051

Season 11 (2023)

6.79 avg 10 episodes 7.2 → 8.0 24 min avg

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Impossible Stream	7.2	3,113
2	Children of a Lesser Bog	6.8	2,243
3	How the West Was 1010001	6.7	2,064
4	Parasites Regained	6.7	1,884
5	Related to Items You've Viewed	7.5	1,784
6	I Know What You Did Next Xmas	7.4	1,725
7	Rage Against the Vaccine	6.3	1,908
8	Zapp Gets Canceled	7.0	1,506
9	The Prince and the Product	4.3	2,370
10	All the Way Down	8.0	1,818

Season 12 (2024)

6.77 avg 10 episodes 6.3 → 7.4 24 min avg

Season 12 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The One Amigo	6.3	1,390
2	Quids Game	6.8	1,341
3	The Temp	7.2	1,185
4	Beauty and the Bug	6.4	1,046
5	One Is Silicon and the Other Gold	6.6	989
6	Attack of the Clothes	7.0	1,042
7	Planet Espresso	6.9	953
8	Cuteness Overlord	7.0	904
9	The Futurama Mystery Liberry	6.1	938
10	Otherwise	7.4	925

Season 13 (2025)

7.11 avg 10 episodes 6.9 → 8.1 25 min avg

Big finale

Season 13 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Destroy Tall Monsters	6.9	836
2	The World is Hot Enough	6.8	857
3	Fifty Shades of Green	6.7	750
4	The Numberland Gap	7.2	788
5	Scared Screenless	6.7	691
6	Wicked Human	7.1	696
7	Murderoni	7.0	681
8	Crab Splatter	7.4	660
9	The Trouble with Truffles	7.2	656
10	The White Hole	8.1	757

Season 14 (2026)

6.90 avg 10 episodes 6.7 → 7.2 25 min avg

Season 14 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Beef	6.7	677
2	Catfish Hunter	6.9	503
3	Our Flag Means Medical Coverage	7.2	460
4	Lords of the Ring	7.5	447
5	The Charm Offensive	6.7	417
6	Late Bloomers	6.8	395
7	Lord Nibbler in the Nothingverse	7.1	347
8	Oceans Three	5.3	415
9	A New New York Yankee in King Elfo's Court	7.6	394
10	Final Ending: The Last Conclusion	7.2	236

Futurama (1999)

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