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Season 1

Pilot. Space Pilot 3000  

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9.3 Superb 54
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First aired: 3/28/1999    Production Code: 1ACV01

A pizza delivery boy by the name of Philip J. Fry is cryogenically frozen by mistake on December 31, 1999 and is unfrozen in the year 2999, where he meets a cyclops career counselor named Leela, an alcoholic and bad tempered robot named Bender, and his future nephew, Professor Farnsworth.

2. Episode Two: The Series Has Landed  

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8.8 Great 23
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First aired: 4/4/1999    Production Code: 1ACV02

Planet Express is in charge of delivering a package to an amusement park on the moon. Newly arrived Fry shows Leela how to appreciate the celestial body. Meanwhile Amy and Bender try to recover the keys to the spaceship.

Writer: Ken Keeler
Director: Peter Avanzino

3. I, Roommate  

Community Score

9.2 Superb 18
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First aired: 4/6/1999    Production Code: 1ACV03

Fry gets kicked out of the Planet Express facilities and has to look for a new place to live. With the help of Bender they find a new apartment to live. But they run into trouble when Bender's antenna causes interference to the building's satellite TV signal.

Writer: Eric Horsted
Director: Bret Haaland

4. Love's Labors Lost in Space  

Community Score

9.0 Superb 9
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First aired: 4/13/1999    Production Code: 1ACV04

On a mission intended to save endangered animals on a collapsing planet, Leela and the crew run into legendary starship captain Zapp Brannigan who locks them up for interfering.

5. Fear of a Bot Planet  

Community Score

8.8 Great 12
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First aired: 4/20/1999    Production Code: 1ACV05

The Planet Express crew must deliver a package to a planet inahabited entirely by a human-hating society of robots.

6. A Fishful of Dollars  

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9.0 Superb 12
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First aired: 4/27/1999    Production Code: 1ACV06

A thousand years is a long time to save up money, and Fry's savings account has been racking up interest. When Fry discovers just how much money he has, over 4 billion dollars, he goes a little overboard. After completely redecorating the apartment, splurging on expensive spa days and treating his friends to innumerable luxuries, Fry discovers the ultimate expense; anchovies. This rare delicacy has been extinct for years, and Fry must battle the evil conglomerate known as Mom, plus Pamela Anderson's head in a jar, to get them!

7. My Three Suns  

Community Score

8.8 Great 14
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First aired: 5/4/1999    Production Code: 1ACV07

The crew visits an arid planet in the Galaxy of Terror distinctive for its three suns and liquid alien inhabitants. Fry, after delivering a package under the scorching heat, quenches his thirst with a bottle of cool blue liquid. Fry soon finds out he drank the planet's royal leader and is named the new emperor. Fry abuses his newfound power, even appointing Bender second in command, until the aliens retaliate and the real battle for power begins.

8. A Big Piece of Garbage  

Community Score

8.8 Great 17
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First aired: 5/11/1999    Production Code: 1ACV08

A big piece of garbage that was released a thousand years ago is now on the way to Earth to destroy it. After Fry, Leela and Bender fail on placing a bomb on it, the city has to build another big piece of garbage; yet that may be a problem since trash doesn't exist in year 3000.

9. Hell Is Other Robots  

Community Score

9.2 Superb 25
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First aired: 5/18/1999    Production Code: 1ACV09

Bender gets addicted to electricity but tries to escape from the addiction by joining the church of Robotology. When he goes back to his old ways he is sent to the Robot Hell.

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