Futurama: Season 4

2001 · 12 episodes · ★ 7.6

What Season 4 of Futurama

The planet is gearing up for an invasion of laughs and adventures with a new series of stories starring the crew of the intergalactic delivery company Planet Express, founded by Professor Hubert Farnsworth, his distant time-traveling relative Fry, the cyclops Leela, and the robot Bender, plus student Amy Wong and Doctor Zoidberg. The crew faces trips to the past, a villainous Santa Claus, robot romances, a territorial dispute on Mars, a professional career in a futuristic sport, a Star Trek reunion, and the threat of a takeover by a large corporation.

12episodes

Dec 9, 2001Released

Apr 21, 2002Latest episode

4.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Roswell That Ends Well
Dec 9, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 8.4
A spacetime accident leaves the Planet Express crew stranded in Roswell, New Mexico in the year 1947, where a shattered Bender is mistaken for UFO debris and Zoidberg is captured as an alien specimen. Leela and the professor work to get everybody home, while Fry tries to keep his accident-prone grandfather alive.
Directing: Rich Moore · Writing: J. Stewart Burns
4x02 A Tale of Two Santas
Dec 23, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
A Planet Express mission to Robot Santa's colony on Neptune leaves the murderous robot trapped in the frozen sea, and Bender takes over as Santa, vowing to bring peace and goodwill to Xmas again. But when Bender is mistaken for the real Robot Santa, he is arrested and sentenced to death.
Directed by: Ron Hughart · Written by: Bill Odenkirk · Starring: Coolio
4x03 Anthology of Interest II
Jan 6, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 7.8
When the Professor fine tunes his "What-If" machine, Bender discovers what it would be like if he were human, Fry discovers what it would be like if life were more like a video game, and Leela discovers what it would be like if she found her true home.
Directed by: Bret Haaland · Written by: David X. Cohen, Lew Morton, Jason Gorbett · Starring: Kath Soucie
4x04 Love and Rocket
Feb 10, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 7.4
As Valentine's Day approaches, Bender's romance with the Planet Express ship puts the crew in jeopardy.
Directed by: Brian Sheesley · Written by: Dan Vebber · Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Lucy Liu
4x05 Leela's Homeworld
Feb 17, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 8.0
Leela finally learns the truth about her parents and her own identity.
Directing: Mark Ervin · Writing: Kristin Gore · Starring: Kath Soucie
4x06 Where the Buggalo Roam
Mar 3, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 7.0
When Amy's parents' ranch is hit by a dust storm that blows away their herd of buggalo, Kif sets out to prove his masculinity by rounding up the herd, only to become entangled with the native Martians.
Directing: Pat Shinagawa · Writing: J. Stewart Burns
4x07 A Pharaoh to Remember
Mar 10, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 7.3
Bender fears that nobody will remember him after he dies, and sees his chance for immortality when the crew is enslaved on the planet Osiris 4. Posing as the planet's new pharaoh, Bender orders a humongous statue built in his honor, and quickly goes mad with power.
Directed by: Mark Ervin · Written by: Ron Weiner
4x08 Godfellas
Mar 17, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 8.3
Bender is accidentally shot out of the ship's torpedo tube and becomes lost in space. Floating through the ethereal darkness, Bender becomes inhabited with tiny alien life forms, but has trouble playing God to their unyielding prayers.
Directing: Susie Dietter · Writing: Ken Keeler
4x09 Future Stock
Mar 17, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 7.5
With Planet Express in financial trouble, Fry nominates a flashy businessman from the 1980s to replace Professor Farnsworth as CEO of the company.
Directing: Brian Sheesley · Writing: Aaron Ehasz
4x10 A Leela of Her Own
Apr 7, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 6.9
Leela endeavors to become the first female blernsball player, but her lack of depth perception hinders her skills. Nevertheless, she becomes the pitcher for the New New York Mets, purely for her novelty value.
Directed by: Swinton O. Scott III · Written by: Patric M. Verrone · Starring: Bob Uecker, Hank Aaron, Dawnn Lewis
4x11 30% Iron Chef
Apr 14, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 7.4
Bender, insulted by the reception his terrible cooking receives, runs away and joins a space hobo camp, where he apprentices with a legendary former TV chef. Meanwhile, Dr. Zoidberg accidentally destroys Professor Farnsworth's prized ship-in-a-bottle and frames Fry.
Directed by: Jeff Westbrook · Written by: Ron Hughart
4x12 Where No Fan Has Gone Before Season Finale
Apr 21, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 7.8
The crew is pitted against the original Star Trek cast to win the devotion of an energy creature.
Directing: Pat Shinagawa · Writing: David A. Goodman · Starring: Walter Koenig, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes