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The current season of Futurama is just great. It's shaping up to be the best season yet and it's only 7 episodes into the 12 episodes season. The Zap Branigan episode was the only one I wouldn't watch again right now. Last night was one of the best again. They introduced the SciFi concept of sequential universes as opposed to parallel universes. In the end Fry, Bender, and the Professor go so far forward in time that the universe completely burns out and decays and then a new Big Bang restarts everything exactly the way it was before. However they miss their stop and have to cycle around again and then accidentally kill the Fry Bender and Professor from that universe preventing them from going forward. Which explains why no past sequential Fry and company showed up to live take their place. So F(0) -> F(2). F(2) = Dead. F(-1) -> F(1). F(-2) = Dead. And so on. I'm not sure if that was on purpose but it was complicated and hilarious.

Here is a list of my 10 favorite past Futurama's in no order.

• How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back. Fry gets laid, Bender gets reset, and Herme's sings an awesome song.
• Amazon Women In the Mood. Branigan crashes a restaurant, Fry gets laid, and Bea Arthur is the voice a FemBot and FemPuter.

• Roswell That Ends Well. The group travels back in time through a super nova and metal in the microwave problem, Bender becomes the Roswell spaceship, and Fry gets laid and becomes his own grandpa.
• War is the H-Word. The war with the Balls. It's just a serious of ball jokes and it's great.
• The Devil's Hand are Idle Playthings. The last of the original episodes. A great love story with Fry and Lela.
• The Farnsworth Paradox. The parallel universe episode. It's very complicated
• Jurasic Bark. The most touching episode that made me cry like a baby at the end. The story of Fry's dog after he got frozen.
• Anthology of Interest II. Bender becomes human. Fry saves the world through video games. But the bit where Leela acts out the roll of Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz is easily the funniest moment of the series.

• Where No Fan Has Gone Before. A must for any Star Wars fan.
• The Problem With Poplars. The crew discovers a delicious new food source and gets rich off it, until they discovered when Popplers actually are.

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