Futurama: Season 3

2000 · 15 episodes · ★ 7.6

What Season 3 of Futurama

The delivery crew with the least skills, and the only ones at the Planet Express company, are back once again. Fry, Leela and the robot Bender keep taking on all kinds of odd deliveries across the known universe, and also try to make a living on Earth alongside their boss, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, and other staff members. Their new adventures lead them to uncover mysterious curses, meet more time travelers like Fry, end up on a planet of Amazonian warriors, shoot a movie, and cause a time disruption that threatens the existence of the universe.

15episodes

Nov 5, 2000Aired

May 13, 2001latest episode

5.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 The Honking
Nov 5, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.5
When the inheritance Bender claims in the Old Country isn't quite what he expected, the Planet Express crew has to find the source of an age-old curse.
Directing: Susie Dietter · Writing: Ken Keeler
3x02 War Is the H-Word
Nov 26, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.7
Fry and Bender enlist in the army to get a soldiers discount for bubblegum. When they are called to fight a war on a planet of bouncing ball aliens, Leela disguises herself as man to enlist with them. Bender is eventually sent to parley with the enemy, but this turns out to be a ploy.
Directing: Ron Hughart · Writing: Eric Horsted · Starring: Todd Susman
3x03 The Cryonic Woman
Dec 3, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.3
Fry is reunited with his old girlfriend from the 20th Century, but she doesn't adapt to the 31st century as well as he has. Convincing Fry to return to the cryogenic chamber, they awaken in a barren wasteland and struggle to make a place for themselves.
Directing: Mark Ervin · Writing: J. Stewart Burns · Starring: Pauly Shore, Sarah Silverman, Kath Soucie
3x04 Parasites Lost
Jan 21, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 8.3
When Fry becomes infested with parasitic worms that make him stronger and smarter, he finally finds the perfect way to profess his feelings to Leela. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew goes on a journey into Fry's body to eradicate the worms.
Directing: Peter Avanzino · Writing: Eric Kaplan
3x05 Amazon Women in the Mood
Feb 4, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.9
A double-date for Kif, Amy, Zapp, and Leela ends in disaster when their orbiting restaurant crashes on planet Amazonia. The hulking female inhabitants of the planet take their male captives to the omniscient Femputer, who orders Fry, Zapp, and Kif to death by "snu-snu".
Directing: Brian Sheesley · Writing: Lew Morton · Starring: Bea Arthur, Suzie Plakson, Karen Maruyama
3x06 Bendless Love
Feb 11, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.3
Bender's urge to bend prompts Professor Farnsworth to send him on a rehabilitation visit to a steel factory, where he falls in love with a shapely fem-bot named Angleyne. But Bender's old rival Flexo and the intrusion of the Robot Mafia threaten to throw a wrench into the proceedings.
Directing: Swinton O. Scott III · Writing: Eric Horsted · Starring: Jan Hooks
3x07 The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
Feb 18, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.9
Earth is invaded by super-intelligent flying brains, who sap the Earth's populace of their intelligence. Leela is taken to Nibbler's home planet Eternia, where the Nibblonians explain that only one human is immune to the brains' powers - Fry.
Directing: Mark Ervin · Writing: Jeff Westbrook
3x08 That's Lobstertainment!
Feb 25, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
Dr. Zoidberg reunites with his uncle, silent hologram star Harold Zoid, and the two of them set out to make a movie together. They cast the temperamental Calculon in the lead role, who demands an Oscar for his performance, but the movie doesn't go over well with audiences.
Directing: Bret Haaland · Writing: Patric M. Verrone · Starring: Hank Azaria
3x09 The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz
Mar 4, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.4
A sober Bender crashes a dark matter tanker on Pluto, threatening the penguin reserve nearby. Leela helps out in the clean-up, but when the penguins begin mating out of control, drastic action must be taken to thin the herd.
Directing: James Purdum · Writing: Dan Vebber · Starring: Phil Hendrie
3x10 The Luck of the Fryrish
Mar 11, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 8.6
After a string of bad luck, Fry ventures into the decaying ruins of Old New York to regain his lucky seven-leaf clover from his childhood, only to find that his brother Yancy Fry had stolen not only the clover, but Fry's identity as well. Fry sets out to exhume his brother's body, but discovers the startling truth about Yancy instead.
Directing: Chris Louden · Writing: Ron Weiner · Starring: Tom Kenny
3x11 The Cyber House Rules
Apr 1, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.5
Leela meets up with her former orphanarium playmate Adlai Atkins, now a plastic surgeon, who offers to grant Leela surgery that will give her two eyes. Meanwhile, Bender adopts twelve orphans in order to collect $1200 in government stipends.
Directing: Susie Dietter · Writing: Lew Morton · Starring: Tom Kenny, Kath Soucie
3x12 Insane in the Mainframe
Apr 8, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.6
Accused of robbing a bank, Fry and Bender plead insanity and are both sent to a robot insane asylum. While Bender and his buddy Roberto plan an escape, Fry is brainwashed into thinking that he is a robot.
Directing: Peter Avanzino · Writing: Bill Odenkirk
3x13 Bendin' in the Wind
Apr 22, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
When Bender is paralyzed in a tragic can opener accident, he discovers his musical washboard skills and goes on tour as a member of Beck's folk-rock band, acting as a voice for broken robots everywhere. Fry, Leela, Amy, and Zoidberg tag along in Fry's antique 1960s VW Van.
Directing: Ron Hughart · Writing: Eric Horsted · Starring: Beck
3x14 Time Keeps On Slippin'
May 6, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.4
While creating a team of mutants to play the Harlem Globetrotters, the Professor accidentally causes a disruption in time that threatens the existence of the universe. Meanwhile, Fry tries to win an unreceptive Leela's heart.
Directing: Chris Louden · Writing: Ken Keeler
3x15 I Dated a Robot Season Finale
May 13, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
Fry discovers the ability to download any celebrity onto a blank robot, and chooses to download Lucy Liu, with whom he falls madly in love. Repulsed by this disgusting display of human/robot love, Leela, Bender, and Zoidberg set out to shut down Nappster.com and put an end to illegal celebrity downloads forever.
Directing: James Purdum · Writing: Eric Kaplan · Starring: Lucy Liu