Written by: Eric HorstedDirected by: Frank MarinoDN’s Ranking: Bad / Nonessential / ESSENTIAL “Welcome back the bedwetter of Building D, Turunga Leela!” I’ve said before that I really identify with Leela, and this is not only another great episode tearing … Continue reading Futurama, Season Seven, Episode Eight, “Yo Leela Leela”

Written by: J Stewart BurnsDirected by: Edward FongDN’s Ranking: THROW IT INTO THE FUCKING PIT / Bad / Nonessential / Essential “Wait! I found a loophole in the mortgage! If we actually pay it, we can keep the building!” Throughout … Continue reading Futurama, Season Seven, Episode Seven, “Neutopia”

Written by: Patric M VerroneDirected by: Ray ClaffeyDN’s Ranking: Bad / NONESSENTIAL / Essential “We had a parade every day. Those were dark times.” This is a pretty entertaining episode – no spectacular highs, but a fun emotional arc and … Continue reading Futurama, Season Seven, Episode Six, “Ghost In The Machines”

Written by: Ken KeelerDirected by: Raymie MuzquizDN’s Ranking: Bad / Nonessential / ESSENTIAL “Ah, Zoidberg. We’ve known each other for so long. I don’t think we even need words to understand each other.”“What?!” My take on this episode is going … Continue reading Futurama, Season Seven, Episode Five, “The Tip Of The Zoidberg”

Written by: Aaron EhaszDirected by: Crystal Chesney-ThompsonDN’s Ranking: Bad / Nonessential / ESSENTIAL “I like how it’s not killing us so far!” This absolutely deserves to be considered amongst any of this show’s hilarious scifi riffs. The grey goo scenario … Continue reading Futurama, Season Seven, Episode Three, “Benderama”

Written by: Dwayne Carey-HillDirected by: Dan VebberDN’s Ranking: Bad / NONESSENTIAL / Essential “I remember it like it was interesting.” This one is hard to rank because I think very little of its idea and emotional arc but very highly … Continue reading Futurama, Season Seven, Episode Two, “Möbius Dick”

Written by: Eric RogersDirected by: Frank MarinoDN’s Ranking: Bad / NONESSENTIAL / Essential “Earth is dangerous! I fell off my chair there once!” I do believe this episode holds to the standard of the Fox era – in terms of … Continue reading Futurama, Season Seven, Episode One, “The Silence Of The Clamps”

Written by: Michael RoweDirected by: Ray ClafferyDN’s Ranking: BAD / Nonessential / Essential “Are you regretting another wasted year?” This episode is more frustratingly weak than anything else. Interestingly, the show would never return to the What-If Machine concept in … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Thirteen, “Holiday Spectacular”

Written by: Eric HorstedDirected by: Raymie MuzquizDN’s Ranking: Bad / NONESSENTIAL / Essential “We’ve been hired to make our one hundredth delivery.”“That’s almost ten per year!” This one was a hard one to categorise because I’m not sure how I … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Twelve, “The Mutants Are Revolting”

Written by: Patric M VerroneDirected by: Crystal Chesney-ThompsonDN’s Ranking: Bad / NONESSENTIAL / Essential “It’s earlier now!” This one is never bad enough to completely skip over, but it sure is lesser Futurama. Its problem is that the overall plot … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Eleven, “Lrrconcilable Ndndifferences”

Written by: Ken KeelerDirected by: Stephen SandovalDN’s Ranking: Bad / Nonessential / ESSENTIAL “Science cannot move forward without heaps!” If you only watch two CC-era Futurama episodes, make this the other one. It’s reminiscent in structure with “Three Hundred Big … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Ten, “The Prisoner Of Benda”

Written by: Dan VebberDirected by: Dwayne Carey-HillDN’s Ranking: Bad / NONESSENTIAL / Essential “You people are as loud as you are ignorant!” This one is a bad and annoying idea that is executed way better than it has any right … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Nine, “A Clockwork Origin”

Written by: Josh WeinsteinDirected by: Frank MarinoDN’s Ranking: Bad / NONESSENTIAL / Essential “He proved that fifty years ago, and he’s been coasting on it ever since!” This episode is a pretty dumb idea that gets a pretty good execution. … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Eight, “That Darn Katz!”

Written by: Lewis MortonDirected by: Peter AvanzinoDN’s Ranking: Bad / Nonessential / ESSENTIAL “I ate both our lunches. You ordered the lobster pileup. It wasn’t cheap.”“Bam!” If you only watch one CC-era Futurama episode, let it be this one. It’s … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Seven, “The Late Philip J Fry”

Written by: Eric HorstedDirected by: Ray ClaffeyDN’s Ranking: Bad / NONESSENTIAL / Essential “What if something heavy fell on you, like a church?” This is a very rare situation where the bad bits of the episode and the good bits … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Six, “Lethal Inspection”

Written by: Maiya WilliamsDirected by: Raymie MuzquizDN’s Ranking: Bad / NONESSENTIAL / Essential “But you’re my family! Who will hug me if I achieve things?” Ah, here we go! I was tempted to bump this up to essential immediately after … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Five, “The Duh-Vinci Code”</b>

Written by: Michael RoweDirected by: Crystal Chesny-ThompsonDN’s Ranking: BAD / Nonessential / Essential “You know the floor safe where you keep ten grand? There’s five grand in there.” I’m convinced the one-two punch of this and “Attack Of The Killer … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Four, “Proposition Infinity”

Written by: Patric M VerroneDirected by: Stephen SandovalDN’s Ranking: BAD / Nonessential / Essential “Well, let’s at least throw this TV out. The batteries in the remote are getting low.” This isn’t the worst episode of Futurama ever made but … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Three, “Attack Of The Killer APP”

Written by: Carolyn PremishDirected by: Dwayne Carey-HillDN’s Ranking: Bad / Nonessential / ESSENTIAL “I saw no sign of intelligent life.”“Bummer.” One element of “Rebirth” that I chose not to go into was that it also demonstrates how much hornier the … Continue reading Futurama, Season Six, Episode Two, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela”

Written by: David X CohenDirected by: Frank MarinoDN’s Ranking: Bad / Nonessential / Essential / ??? “Uh, this is a bit awkward. Or is it?” I can’t honestly rank this episode. It’s a little bit because there are good things … Continue reading Futurama, Season Five, Episode One, “Rebirth”