Strider: Don't get me wrong on this. Futurama is full of incredible classic episodes.
Some people have even voiced that they think the series should have kept going.
There were however certain episodes that were... less memorable than others.
It's that handful of episodes you skip over when you're browsing through the seasons.
Tell them I hate them.
Strider: Like any long-running show, it wasn't completely flawless
and it has the occasional awkward unpleasant episode.
And just for funsies
we'll look back at these episodes in the Top Six Worst Futurama Episodes of all Time.
Why top six? Because there really aren't enough bad Futurama episodes to warrant a top 10 list.
Keep in mind this is just my personal opinion.
Ah, Bender, Fry!
Strider: If you like these episodes, good for you.
Most of them probably just struck a nerve with me. So take this list with a grain of salt.
Number 6
"Bend Her"
Bender gets a sex change and yes that is a terrible premise for an episode.
I've never wondered and never would have what benders like as a woman.
It's kind of creepy and weird not in a good way.
The celebrity Calculon then falls in love with Bender... funny?
To me this episode just felt really uncomfortable to watch.
Why are we sexualizing bender? It's like sexualizing Fry.
For the male viewers out there you'd be as limp as a dead fish for a week.
Maybe this was an episode for a female demographic or something. I mostly just found it uncomfortable.
Okay look, if I help you with this do you promise to get out of my gender and stay out?
Number five.
"Spanish Fry"
This episode makes me cringe. On the few times I've been brave enough to watch it.
Why? The majority of the episode is spent watching Fry be chased
by aliens trying to castrate him so they can use it for their weird alien sex.
I'm sorry but I don't know how this episode couldn't make you cross your legs awkwardly.
As well as that there's this kind of mean-spirited vibe throughout
the whole episode the episode always seems to be making fun of people
obsessed with their hobbies and frankly I like people who are obsessed with
their hobbies a lot of people in the YouTube community
fall into that category to some degree
episode other than Friday's Amy and they get
their heads molded together and he acts like a child over his relationship with
Amy hanging out she's getting way too serious I'm not one woman man Leela
you'll be back to zero soon enough and then Zapp dates a transsexual okay that
last one is kind of funny it's a well-meaning enough episode and
it's not particularly bitter but it's just still very uncomfortable and I
can't quite put my finger on why probably the most forgettable episode in
the series I think in the end this episode just had some really weak
writing definitely worth a skip you just corralled a bunch of stiffs at the bus
station and pocketed our money true but in the end isn't that what Valentine's
Day is really all about yeah I guess so number three
bender should not be allowed on TV the message of this episode just felt
insulting the episode focuses around Hubert junior who is by far the least
interesting or pleasant character in the series
there's just something awkward about watching these two kids obsess and drool
over TV characters it's message seems to be that kids imitate and obsess over TV
too much it then extends this message to adults obsessing and imitating TV too
much what makes you think better work I saw it on TV and that episode where
bender shot Calculon and that people loved to imitate cruelty and an uncaring
attitude because bender does it we love filth filthy rich that is it just paints
old people as sheep to a certain degree and I never get why some shows do that
yo Rio that was so terrible I think you gave me cancer number two
nutopia the entire crew gets neutered by a giant talking rock ain't that just
peachy oh and it gets better you remember how I said bender was like
sexualizing fry well here we are and not just fry you oh oh just just no
well at least they had the taste to spare us the professor oh no oh no no no
oh god no why did you need to show us that I could have lived without seeing
the professor nude with jiggly bits feast your eyes on this it's beautiful
the actual story is an episode that really didn't feel in the spirit of
Futurama it just irks me when characters we watch develop over so long suddenly
become petty and begin fighting among themselves like kids suddenly all the
male characters have biases that started to die in the forties and think the
women should be in the kitchen and the women have become outraged feminists oh
we can't trust the woman's math i know it's being over played for laughs but i
just didn't find it that funny or pleasant in your face dee comment
urinators this is angry bitterness behind this episode that i just couldn't
look past now when i say stupid things guys all laugh and buy me stuff did we
really need this bitter episode dedicated to making all guys look like
trash and did we really need oh these five episodes have been a kind you can
just write off as a bad episode but number one was so bad it's the only
Futurama episode that turns my stomach and sick
with that being said let's take a look at number war
beast with a billion backs boy oh boy do I hate this episode oh this one's right
up there with Lisa goes gaga pure garbage
remember that absolutely perfect ending we hadn't been does vixx score
well we're boned well he decided to follow that up with the worst
continuation in the entire series ironic the best episode and the worst episode
are right next to each other it was just such an unpleasant episode for me it
paints every single individual on earth as this empty husk of a creature that is
a slave to its own pleasure powerless before some great divine force an alien
breaks through that crack we saw in Bender's Big Score and starts attaching
its tentacles to the brains of every human on earth and they all love it
every human is instantly converted to the strangest drone after seeing
inverted commas true love as well as being really awkward watching this mail
sounding tentacle monster violates every human on earth granted at first I
desired only to bang out a quick cheap one with your universe we then go
through this boring date scenario with every sentient organism in the universe
kind of cute I guess we then have every person on earth joining this weird
tentacle monster in the sky in inverted commas heaven where they all see that
life below was stupid and pointless and that all that matters is having
everything they want all the time why are we so angry and jealous back in
our universe I don't know it was all so childish there's just a strange callous
emptiness to this episode that creeps me out from it I got the message that a lot
of religions give the message the humanity is powerless before a greater
divine power and that everything we do is meaningless before this greater
powers will and as you can probably guess we find that message pretty
detestable blick for some reason Leela is the only one in the universe that
isn't taken in by this everything's perfect garbage from this alien monster
am I the only one who thinks this is all a sham yes well I do too Leela there's
something very wrong about this quote-unquote heaven oh but no it just
turns out the Lila was the wrong one and now she
wants to accept the giant creepy alien monster Yivo and become a drone like
everyone else oh really this is probably gonna sound cheesy but I think love is
an amazing thing please don't stop playing fry I want to hear how it ends
and it's almost like this episode defiles over that whole concept of love
honey now I think I'll make sure I never find this movie again beast with a
billion backs is terrible it is by far the worst Futurama episode I have ever
watched that being said beast is the only really terrible episode of Futurama
the others in this list are just average by Futurama standards there isn't much
mention of these episodes by fans I imagine because we don't remember these
bad episodes fans remember episodes like Jurassic
Park and luck of the fresh because they were touched and inspired by those
episodes and in the end will forget the occasional writers slump and remember
the endless laughs and amazing moments we were left with I am really curious
that people's opinions on these episodes beasts with a billion backs particularly
it'd be great to hear other people's thoughts on these episodes thanks for
watching and I'll see you next time