Which episode got you into Futurama?

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Parasites Lost. My Brother brought over season 3 and I watched that one in the middle of my busy daily activities. Thats what got me hooked, and encouraged me to show all my friends too.

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I got hooked on futurama back in 99 when fox was first airing the show i watched all of the episodes in the right order back then.

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I liked futurama since it first aired on fox in 1999.but i didnt like it as much then as i do now since adult swim picked it up.

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i really liked fry and the slurm factory that was the first one i saw.

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hmm. The first whole episode i saw, and thus got me hooked on Futurama, was 'The route of all evil'back in 2004. I can remember laughing so much.......

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great question Y_L_B! well i'm one of the younger people here so i wasnt actually a huge fan till it was cancelled. But i'd say the episode the got me into the show was a ree-run of How Hermes at my friend Maggie's house. But what probably started my insane devotion to the show was The Problem With Poplers (also at Maggies). Odly enough, Poplers is now far from my favorite episode.
edit: I got my friend Jeremy on the show a few months ago with raging bender and loves labours. He's obsessed now. just one thing...........he doesn't know its canceled. I dont really have the heart to tell him though 
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The first episode of Futurama I saw(and remember) was the Super Hero episode, where Leela, Fry and bender form a team of heroes to "fight crime" at a personal cst to leela.
I laughed, i cried, I laughed some more, good times. Hooked me for life(though before that I still watched the show on and off).

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I first saw 'a great ball of garbage'. on C4 but got hooked recently when i got telewest and have been watching it on sky1 ever since. 

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I think it was 300 big boys.  It was amazing when fry had his 100th cup of coffee.  One of the coolest moments in cartoon history? Definitely.

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Originally posted by SORF:
great question Y_L_B! well i'm one of the younger people here so i wasnt actually a huge fan till it was cancelled.

One of the younger people? You know that I'm thirteen, right? And that I started this thread when I was eleven?  Of course, I always was a precocious little bastard...

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The very first, it was heavily advertised "from the creator of the simpsons" and averyone in school was awaiting it. If you missed an episode you didn't know what the others were talking about 

But it took several years until I watched my first episode via internet in english - I don't know which episode it was, but it was much better than the synchro. Since then I'm addicted, or something...

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Any Episode with alot of Amy in it got me into Futurama basicly 

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When i was 10 years to 11 years old i always thought futurama was stupid and every time i saw it turn on i just turned off the TV or changed the channel. But in 2003 i saw the first episode made, and just watched it because i was to lazy to get up and get the cliker to turn off the TV but after i watched it and was hooked.

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I just liked it from the first episode i saw, its just been something i like   

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Acctually the first one I watched was well... the first one! I watched it 4 years ago when I was 8. It was taped on a vhs. But I started watching it regularly when I found out it was made by matt groening

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ummmmm I think it was the why of fry

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I watched War Is The H Word,and that got me hooked.
"SURPRISE!" Also Y_L_B I'm 11 tommorow. YEAH!!!

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I can't quite remember, I know I watched the first episode when the show was relatively new, but the show wasn't a top favourite then.
Futurama really only became a favourite about 3 years ago and, if I recall, the episode that sealed it for me was "Where the Buggalo Roam".
I think a combination of the Wongs, and a small grammar joke (of sorts) were just enough for me. Heh.

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The first episode, Space Pilot 3000, was the show that got me into Futurama. I knew I would like it even before I saw it since I was a huge Simpsons fan, but I never knew i would end up liking it even more than I do the Simpsons. I must have been 8 or 9 at the time, but I still remember watching it, and it having such a great impact on me, that it was what first made me want to become a writer of some kind(even though I've decided I don't want to be a comedic writer). Futurama has definately had a huge impact on the me of today, or should I say, the me of the . . . FUTURE.

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the why of fry is the one what got me into futurama.
"3, 2, 1, will the owner of a white padiack bird..oh never mind, ZERO!"
That always cracks me up. I started watching after that.

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Hell is other Robots

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Even though the episode that got me into futurama was Leela's homeworld, i lent the dvd's to my frend and he got into them too after seeing hell is other robots.

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The first episode I ever watched was 'A Pharaoh To Remember' and after that I became hooked!

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i own all futurama dvds
i seen the seires has landed ep. a long time ago
then i seen fry and the slurm factory(my fav ep.),brannigan begin again,why must i be a crustacean in love and lesser of two evils

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I found out about this show from the WMIBACIL episode, after I saw that one, I ended up watching the episodes on FOX

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Originally posted by LoveForFry:
I remeber seeing a few episodes on fox, then losing intrest, but while on vacation I saw The Sting on adult swim, and i suddenly needed to see anything related to the show. Though while looking through old school papers, i found out I must have liked it when in elementary school, because I put it down as a favorite show.

I love quoting myself.   

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The first episode I ever saw was Where No Fan Has Gone Before...that ep. was confusing for me to understand, but it was funny, so i kept watching the show..
and kept watching and watching...
...and before i knew it, I had all the DVDs

[Reply #228 on:]

THE PILOT.

and then again when it was reaired sometime during the following week.

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I got hooked from the very first moment. The first ep.

Futurama Forever!

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Parasites Lost.

I was flipping through channels and a scene near the end chaught my attention  so i watched the rest but had no idea what it was. About a year later my friend recomended it and the first one that I saw was the same episode. Coincidence?.......I hvae no idea.

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Kif gets knocked up a notch. It's funny, cause I don't like that episode anymore. I used to, but not anymore.

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May 2005 - channel surfing with my head turned, I heard Katie Sagal's voice.  I stopped my pressing the remote button and watched.  It was a cartoon with the characters from Star Trek - Where No Fan Has Gone Before.  The first thing I said was, "What the Hell is Peg Bundy doing on a cartoon?" followed by "What the hell is this?"

Sooo...  I pressed the 'Info' button on my remote and got the name "Futurama" on Adult Swim.  The next night I watched "The Sting".  Not having any background, I thought that Fry and Leela were husband and wife by the way she was grieving over his death and of course, his protectiveness over her.  If the last scene doesn't get a tear from anybody, then they have a heart of stone.

I was hooked.  That night I found FM/TLZ, PEEL and TTP's via Yahoo.  After two hours, I went to Wal-Mart and bought all 4 seasons @ once.  I lurked for a couple of months on the sites as I watched the show from episode one to get a feeling of the series.  Now, 15 months after buying the entire series, I still find things that make me laugh.

Of course the wife thought it was stupid until she started watching it - anything that gets past her perversed Irish sense of humor gets a slim chance of being liked.  She fell in love with the Fry/Leela ship and identifies strongly with Leela.  My wife survived a terrorist attack at an early age, was shipped to Wales to live with a crazy aunt who hated Kelly and where Kelly was treated like crap because she's Irish, moved to America where she didn't know anybody, had a  string of bad relationships until she met me. 

Let me re-emphasize that point: She strongly emphasizes with Leela!  X-Mas Story was the turning point for Kelly - her first Christmas in America she didn't get a single Christmas card; she spent it alone in the dorms of her college because she had no home to go to for the holidays.  She emphasizes with the loneliness that Leela suffers.

So, in my longwinded way, "The Sting" got my attention whereas "X-Mas Story" won my wife over.

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Yeah, I remember watching the pilot during it's original airdate

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I think a lot of people started watching from the pilot.

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Originally posted by Ralph Snart:


Not having any background, I thought that Fry and Leela were husband and wife by the way she was grieving over his death and of course, his protectiveness over her.  If the last scene doesn't get a tear from anybody, then they have a heart of stone.

amen, brother. a heart of solid steel stone.  you thought Fry and Leela were husband and wife? that's cute! Who knows? maybe someday they will be...

But, that belongs to a whole 'nother thread.

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the cryonic woman

[Reply #237 on:]

Bendless Love made me like Futurama.
I liked Dr. Zoidberg's Slinky!
Than I started to like Bendin In The Wind because I was a fan of Beck.

[Reply #238 on:]

I watched about half the pilot then I saw The Luck of the Fryrish. It's offical--I'm way past being saved from the depths of Futurama fan-dom!

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I would have watched the whole series based on the strength of the first season. What hooked me and got me into the fandom was watching season four all in a row. Seeing "Leela's Homeworld," "Love and Rocket," "The Sting," and "The Devil's Hands are Idol Playthings," back to back for the first time, was a powerful experience.