Which do you think is the worst episode of Futurama, pre-cancellation (seasons 1-4).
From my 30 seconds of Googling and my own opinion, That’s Lobstertainment has got to be pretty high up there. A Taste of Freedom is quite unpopular. Bendin’ in the Wind and Route of All Evil are quite forgettable. Jurassic Bark seems to be a very polarizing episode. A Pharaoh to Remember seems to get a lot of hate as well, though I personally kind of like it, or at least have no strong negative feelings about.
Personally I have it as a tie between That’s Lobstertainment and Bendin’ in the Wind, as those are the two that I always skip over when watching the DVDs.
“A Pharoah to Remember” and “Bend Her” are my least favorites. Even bad Futurama tends to have some redeeming value, but those two episodes were bad enough that I’ve never gone back to see if I could find any.
For me, Jurassic Bark is completely unwatchable. I saw it for the first time shortly after I had to have my cat put down and I just about cried my eyes out.
A Leela of Her Own, that one about baseball. If you’re not into baseball there’s not a lot in it, and even then I don’t recall that many good jokes in it.
Definitely second A Pharaoh to Remember, which just has Bender being a total dick for no reason, and Bending in the Wind. Too busy lining up to suck off Beck they forgot to include the funny. At least that episode which was up the Beastie Boys arse had that drug/religion plot as is A-plot which they got a few good laughs out of.
All episodes have a good line or two but I can get on board with That’s Lobstertainment. Zoidberg is great in small doses. Zoidberg-centric episodes are… less good. The Zoidberg mating one also comes to mind.
The superhero one always leaves me feeling fairly unamused.
My answer in such threads has always been “A Pharaoh to Remember” and I’ll cast my vote for that one here again. Although I will add that most of the ones named in the OP (except for Jurassic Bark) are on my “don’t bother” list as well.
Since when does Bender NEED a reason to be a total dick? It’s pretty much his entire character.
My votes, though;
A Taste of Freedom: Matt Groening’s properties have never been very good at doing political satire (cf. Bart-Mangled Banner and E. Pluribus Wiggum). Political humor is largely topical in nature, and the lead time on these shows is so long that if they’d started making an episode about, say, Herman Cain’s presidential aspirations when he was at the top of the polls, then by the time it came out next spring he’d be a historical footnote and nobody would remember what they’re supposed to be laughing at. That leaves little to base your jokes off of excpet “Yep, politics sure is WACKY!” and “Aren’t Republicans so stupid?”, and that’s just not enough to hang 22 minutes on.
Luck of the Fryish/Jurassic Bark: Goodbye madcap comedy, hello heartbreaking melodrama? I refuse to rewatch either of these episodes, and one of the best things the show has done was to retcon Seymour’s fate in Bender’s Big Score, although being killed by Bender isn’t really that much better.
Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch: Too much exposition of details we’ve never heard before and never hear about again, and an overly contrived plot with little humor (except for the sarcastic high priest). The title is contrived as well - i’m fairly sure Emeril’s 15 minutes were up years before this episode came out.
Since my least favorite character is Cubert (slightly worse than Zoidberg), I nominate the one where he and Hermes’ kid start a space paper route. All boring, no funny.
