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Futurama: Season 3

15 episodes Premiered Nov 5, 2000 Updated Sep 21, 2026

Futurama Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 15 episodes.

Previously on Futurama

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Futurama Season 2.
  • Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.

Season overview

Futurama Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 15 episodes.

Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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S3·E1 Mytharc

The Honking

Nov 5, 2000

When the inheritance Bender claims in the Old Country isn't quite what he expected, the Planet Express crew has to find the source of an age-old curse.

S3·E2 Core

War Is the H-Word

Nov 26, 2000

Fry and Bender enlist in the army to get a soldiers discount for bubblegum. When they are called to fight a war on a planet of bouncing ball aliens, Leela disguises herself as man

S3·E3 Core

The Cryonic Woman

Dec 3, 2000

Fry is reunited with his old girlfriend from the 20th Century, but she doesn't adapt to the 31st century as well as he has. Convincing Fry to return to the cryogenic chamber, they

S3·E4 Core

Parasites Lost

Jan 21, 2001

When Fry becomes infested with parasitic worms that make him stronger and smarter, he finally finds the perfect way to profess his feelings to Leela. Meanwhile, the rest of the cre

S3·E5 Core

Amazon Women in the Mood

Feb 4, 2001

A double-date for Kif, Amy, Zapp, and Leela ends in disaster when their orbiting restaurant crashes on planet Amazonia. The hulking female inhabitants of the planet take their male

S3·E6 Core

Bendless Love

Feb 11, 2001

Bender's urge to bend prompts Professor Farnsworth to send him on a rehabilitation visit to a steel factory, where he falls in love with a shapely fem-bot named Angleyne. But Bende

S3·E7 Core

The Day the Earth Stood Stupid

Feb 18, 2001

Earth is invaded by super-intelligent flying brains, who sap the Earth's populace of their intelligence. Leela is taken to Nibbler's home planet Eternia, where the Nibblonians expl

S3·E8 Core

That's Lobstertainment!

Feb 25, 2001

Dr. Zoidberg reunites with his uncle, silent hologram star Harold Zoid, and the two of them set out to make a movie together. They cast the temperamental Calculon in the lead role,

S3·E9 Core

The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz

Mar 4, 2001

A sober Bender crashes a dark matter tanker on Pluto, threatening the penguin reserve nearby. Leela helps out in the clean-up, but when the penguins begin mating out of control, dr

S3·E10 Core

The Luck of the Fryrish

Mar 11, 2001

After a string of bad luck, Fry ventures into the decaying ruins of Old New York to regain his lucky seven-leaf clover from his childhood, only to find that his brother Yancy Fry h

S3·E11 Core

The Cyber House Rules

Apr 1, 2001

Leela meets up with her former orphanarium playmate Adlai Atkins, now a plastic surgeon, who offers to grant Leela surgery that will give her two eyes. Meanwhile, Bender adopts twe

S3·E12 Core

Insane in the Mainframe

Apr 8, 2001

Accused of robbing a bank, Fry and Bender plead insanity and are both sent to a robot insane asylum. While Bender and his buddy Roberto plan an escape, Fry is brainwashed into thin

S3·E13 Core

Bendin' in the Wind

Apr 22, 2001

When Bender is paralyzed in a tragic can opener accident, he discovers his musical washboard skills and goes on tour as a member of Beck's folk-rock band, acting as a voice for bro

S3·E14 Mytharc

Time Keeps On Slippin'

May 6, 2001

While creating a team of mutants to play the Harlem Globetrotters, the Professor accidentally causes a disruption in time that threatens the existence of the universe. Meanwhile, F

S3·E15 Mytharc

I Dated a Robot

May 13, 2001

Fry discovers the ability to download any celebrity onto a blank robot, and chooses to download Lucy Liu, with whom he falls madly in love. Repulsed by this disgusting display of h