# What's your favorite new Futurama episode? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808 "2010-09-06T15:43:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/1 "2010-09-06T15:43:01Z")
What’s your favorite episode from the new season? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/2 "2010-09-08T02:39:17Z")
As of this post, my favourite (“Late Fry”) is winning, with my second favourite (“Prisoner of Benda”) in second place. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/3 "2010-09-08T03:12:10Z")
_The Late Philip J. Fry_, without question. Oddly, I’ve been watching the new ones just about every chance I get (they would air right after Burn Notice over at USA Network, another show I watch obsessively), and I know I missed one which I caught the next week (_Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences_), but somehow both _Prisoner of Benda_ and _Lethal Inspection_ both slipped completely under my radar-were they both part of a double bill where I went to bed assuming the 10:30 pm ep. was a repeat or something? :smack: I got the former during the marathon, but still haven’t been able to find the latter, which a lot of people are voting for. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/4 "2010-09-08T03:40:00Z")
I’m torn between three. As a cat person, I’m bound to love That Darn Katz! (Especially finding out that purr means duh) I also think that The Prisoner of Benda had the cleverest plotline. But I voted for Lethal Inspection. It had a very entertaining premise, but most of all I just was a sucker for that ending where Hermes saves baby Bender, and the music was just darling. “…Buy molasses candy…” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/5 "2010-09-08T03:51:12Z")
_The Late Philip J. Fry_. _Lethal Inspection_ and _A Clockwork Origin_ battle it out for second. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/6 "2010-09-08T03:54:40Z")
Rebirth. Good ol Futurama slapstick with the Futurama heart strings with it. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/7 "2010-09-08T05:03:38Z")
Damnit, I pressed the wrong button! I meant, “The Prisoner of Benda.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/8 "2010-09-08T06:46:08Z")
Let me think. I like Rebirth because I didn’t see the twist coming, oddly enough. I can’t like any episode where Zapp and Leela are together. Attack of the Killer App was great, except the boil couldn’t sing. Proposition Infinity was just too out of character for Amy and Bender. The Duh-vinci Code was okay, I guess. I don’t like the downer ending for Leo. I loved the ending of Lethal Inspection–It may have made me tear up, but not like Jurassic Bark (or worse when they undid it) The Late Philip J. Fry: Liked where they went with it, but I hated that they killed their duplicates. There was no paradox, since they were going forward in time! There’s no reason to deprive yet another universe of Fry, though it does mean we’re not necessarily the first universe. A Clockwork Origin–cute. Don’t know how the robots could forget so easily, though. Prisoner of Benda–Interesting near the start, and I felt for the characters. But the actual switching back should be obvious to everyone by now. The stupidly named one: meh. The Mutants are revolting: actually made me laugh, even if the ending made no sense. So it seems only the first one gets an unequivocated like from me. So I guess that one wins. Hurrah. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/9 "2010-09-08T11:05:16Z")
I voted for Attack of the Killer App (that was the iphone episode, right?) primarily because I’ve only had time to watch the first 3 so far, and it was heads over the first two lousy episodes. The fact that EVERYBODY else voted for a newer episode restores my faith in humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/10 "2010-09-08T11:29:06Z")
I consider “The Late Philip J Fry” to be one of the best Futurama episodes of the entire series, behind “Time Keeps on Slipping” and jostling for 2nd place with “War is the H Word” ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/11 "2010-09-08T20:59:03Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > I consider “The Late Philip J Fry” to be one of the best Futurama episodes of the entire series, behind “Time Keeps on Slipping” and jostling for 2nd place with “War is the H Word” It’s in my top 5 as well. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/12 "2010-09-08T21:18:28Z")
**Late Philip J. Fry** follwed by **Letha Inspection**. The baby bender at the end with his beer bottle bottle was the cutest thing ever. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/13 "2010-09-08T21:33:41Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Damnit, I pressed the wrong button! > > I meant, “The Prisoner of Benda.” Did you mean vote for _Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences_ by mistake? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/14 "2010-09-08T22:17:01Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > > [@RandMcnally](#): > > > > Damnit, I pressed the wrong button! > > > > I meant, “The Prisoner of Benda.” > > Did you mean vote for _Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences_ by mistake? Yes. I wanted to vote for the Prisoner of Benda but I did not. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/15 "2010-09-08T22:42:15Z")
It’s pretty clear what were the two big hits of the season: The Late Philip J. Fry - 29 votes The Prisoner of Benda - 19 votes other ten episodes combined - 11 votes ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/16 "2010-09-09T00:33:00Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > > [@Marley23](#): > > > > Did you mean vote for _Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences_ by mistake? > > Yes. I wanted to vote for the Prisoner of Benda but I did not. I believe I’ve fixed it. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/17 "2010-09-09T01:37:28Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > …I loved the ending of Lethal Inspection–It may have made me tear up, but not like Jurassic Bark ( **or worse when they undid it** ) They didn’t “undo” it. I don’t see why people think this. As soon as Fry went back in time and picked up his life where he left off in the year 2000, he became a time paradox, as did everything he interacted with, thus dooming them all. Fry’s dog included. You might argue that the fossil of Seymore was actually the doomed copy, fast fossilized by Bender’s gun, but the truth remains that the Original Seymore waited for Fry for many years, just as the ending of Jurassic Bark shows. Bender’s Big Score doesn’t cause or un-cause any event that already happened in the past. The time code merely corrects any paradox caused by its own use, including the alternate outcome of Seymore. By the way, _The Late Phillip J. Fry_ is indeed the gem of the season, and one of the top 10 in the series. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/18 "2010-09-09T02:31:40Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > > [@RandMcnally](#): > > > > Yes. I wanted to vote for the Prisoner of Benda but I did not. > > I believe I’ve fixed it. That you did, thank you. The reason I voted for the Prisoner of Benda as opposed to the Late Fry was because Prisoner game me the greatest laugh out loud laugh of the season (When Washbucket came on to Scruffy). But both episodes were very good. A real 1-2. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-new-futurama-episode/552808/19 "2010-09-09T22:40:42Z")
Anything with Scruffy is gold and the washbucket scene was the best one.