Futurama
Season 4
12 listed hours · 1999–2003 · Fox
From the desk
How this season is filed
A frozen delivery boy wakes a thousand years later, and Groening still finds the sad note under the gag. Nerd-precision sci-fi sitcom: math jokes, robot unions, and hours that wreck you between punchlines. Fox animation with real pathos — revived, never replaced, still the smartest pizza-delivery epic on television.
TV Flash files Season 4 of Futurama (1999–2003) on Fox as a mid listed season (4; 4 of 11) — 12 listed hours, 2001-12-09–2002-04-21 from “Roswell That Ends Well” (S04E01) to “Where No Fan Has Gone Before” (S04E12). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S04E01 Roswell That Ends Well
Roswell That Ends Well: math-joke sci-fi at concert pitch, Fox animation still refusing to stay only silly.
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S04E01 Roswell That Ends Well
Fry must make sure his grandfather survives in Roswell, NM, or he himself will cease to exist.
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S04E02 A Tale of Two Santas
Bender takes over as Santa Claus to bring back Xmas spirit.
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S04E03 Anthology of Interest II
The What-If machine projects a human Bender, the world as a video game and Leela in her real home.
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S04E04 Love and Rocket
Bender and the Planet Express ship fall in love resulting in a mishap adventure when Bender jilts her.
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S04E05 Leela's Homeworld
Leela learns the truth about her parents and her identity when Bender angers a group of people with his toxic waste dumping.
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S04E06 Where the Buggalo Roam
Kif does everything possible to win Amy's parents' approval.
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S04E07 A Pharaoh to Remember
Bender becomes a tyrannical leader of a planet that resembles ancient Egypt.
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S04E08 Godfellas
Bender gets lost in space and becomes a god to a race of tiny aliens.
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S04E09 Futurestock
A 1980s businessman takes over Planet Express and threatens to sell it to a larger corporation.
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S04E10 A Leela of Her Own
Leela becomes the first -- and worst -- female blernsball player. Title sequence tagline 'Scratch here to reveal prize'.
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S04E11 The 30% Iron Chef
Bender challenges a famous chef to a cooking contest.
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S04E12 Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Fry is placed on trial for his life because he traveled to the forbidden planet of Omega 3 to rescue all 79 episodes of "Star Trek".
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