Futurama (season 7)

The seventh and final season of Futurama consisted of 26 episodes split equally across two broadcast seasons: 7-A and 7-B. It premiered on Comedy Central on June 20, 2012. A box set containing the 13 episodes of Season 7-A was released as Futurama: Volume 7 and another box set containing the 13 episodes of Season 7-B was released as Futurama: Volume 8.[1]

Futurama
Season 7
DVD cover for Volume Seven (left) and Volume Eight
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	26
Release
Original network	Comedy Central
Original release	June 20, 2012 (2012-06-20) – September 4, 2013 (2013-09-04)
Season chronology

On April 22, 2013, Comedy Central announced that they will not be renewing Futurama for any more seasons, making 7-B the final season of the series. The final episode aired on September 4, 2013.[2]

Episodes

See also: List of Futurama episodes

Part		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	1	13		June 20, 2012 (2012-06-20)	August 29, 2012 (2012-08-29)
	2	13		June 19, 2013 (2013-06-19)	September 4, 2013 (2013-09-04)

Comedy Central chose to air some parts of season 7 out of production order. This list is depicted in production order as this is the order used in Volume 7 and Volume 8 and intended by the producers. According to the commentaries in Volume 7, "31st Century Fox" (7ACV11) and "Viva Mars Vegas" (7ACV12) were aired out of the intended production order because Comedy Central wanted to advertise Patrick Stewart being in the broadcast season finale.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
Part 1
115	1	"The Bots and the Bees"	Stephen Sandoval	Eric Horsted	June 20, 2012 (2012-06-20)	7ACV01	1.57[3]
Bender's fight with the new soda machine, Bev (voiced by Wanda Sykes) leads to anger-fueled sexual intercourse -- and a son.
116	2	"A Farewell to Arms"	Raymie Muzquiz	Josh Weinstein	June 20, 2012 (2012-06-20)	7ACV02	1.65[3]
The Planet Express crew uncovers an ancient Martian calendar (that looks like the one the Mayans created) that predicts that the world will come to an end in the year 3012. Meanwhile, Fry's good-intentioned acts of kindness to Leela end in disaster.
117	3	"Decision 3012"	Dwayne Carey-Hill	Patric M. Verrone	June 27, 2012 (2012-06-27)	7ACV03	1.45[4]
The head of Nixon runs for re-re-election against a competent politician who is accused of being an alien when his Earth birth certificate cannot be found.
118	4	"The Thief of Baghead"	Edmund Fong	Dan Vebber	July 4, 2012 (2012-07-04)	7ACV04	1.07[5]
Bender joins the paparazzi and attempts to photograph a famous actor whose face has to be hidden for the good of mankind.
119	5	"Zapp Dingbat"	Frank Marino	Eric Rogers	July 11, 2012 (2012-07-11)	7ACV05	1.10[6]
Leela is horrified when her mother divorces her father -- and begins dating Zapp Brannigan.
120	6	"The Butterjunk Effect"	Crystal Chesney-Thompson	Michael Rowe	July 18, 2012 (2012-07-18)	7ACV06	1.19[7]
Leela and Amy volunteer to be players in the brutal, redneck sport of Butterfly Derby and get hooked on a performance enhancer made from butterfly hormones.
121	7	"The Six Million Dollar Mon"	Peter Avanzino	Ken Keeler	July 25, 2012 (2012-07-25)	7ACV07	1.19[8]
After firing himself from Planet Express for being useless, Hermes replaces parts of his body with robotic counterparts to increase his productivity.
122	8	"Fun on a Bun"	Stephen Sandoval	Dan Vebber	August 1, 2012 (2012-08-01)	7ACV08	1.01[9]
Fry's drunken antics at an Oktoberfest (which, in 1000 years' time, has become a sophisticated affair rather than an excuse to get drunk on German beer) land him in a civilization of Neanderthals, while everyone else believes that Fry died in a sausage-making accident.
123	9	"Free Will Hunting"	Raymie Muzquiz	David X. Cohen	August 8, 2012 (2012-08-08)	7ACV09	0.99[10]
After going to college and turning to a life of crime to pay off a debt to the Robot Mafia, Bender discovers that, because he's a robot, he has no free will and sets out on a journey of being an independent thinker.
124	10	"Near-Death Wish"	Lance Kramer	Eric Horsted	August 15, 2012 (2012-08-15)	7ACV10	1.18[11]
The Professor is deeply disturbed when Fry reunites him with his long-lost parents, whom he blames for not spending time with him.
125	11	"31st Century Fox"	Edmund Fong	Patric M. Verrone	August 29, 2012 (2012-08-29)	7ACV11	1.35[12]
Bender fights for the rights of robot foxes after finding out that robot foxes are being hunted for sport.
126	12	"Viva Mars Vegas"	Frank Marino	Josh Weinstein	August 22, 2012 (2012-08-22)	7ACV12	1.07[13]
The crew stages a casino heist to recover stolen property from the robot Mafia, while Zoidberg finds a bag of ill-gotten cash in the Dumpster and blows it all at the casino.
127	13	"Naturama"	Crystal Chesney-Thompson	Eric Rogers & Michael Saikin & Neil Mukhopadhyay	August 29, 2012 (2012-08-29)	7ACV13	1.36[12]
The Futurama characters are depicted as animals in a three-part documentary episode modelled after Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Part 2
128	14	"Forty Percent Leadbelly"	Stephen Sandoval	Ken Keeler	July 3, 2013 (2013-07-03)	7ACV14	0.81[14]
Bender meets his hero, Silicon Red, a folk singer who has been in jail 30 times, during a convict transport, and uses a wireless 3D printer to duplicate his guitar, but the wireless connection between Bender's brain and the 3D printer turns his folk song about an angry space railbot hunting down Bender into a reality.
129	15	"2-D Blacktop"	Raymie Muzquiz	Michael Rowe	June 19, 2013 (2013-06-19)	7ACV15	1.40[15]
Professor Farnsworth joins a gang of street racing punks, and ends up in a two-dimensional world.
130	16	"T.: The Terrestrial"	Lance Kramer	Josh Weinstein	June 26, 2013 (2013-06-26)	7ACV16	1.02[16]
In a reverse parody of E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, Fry gets left behind on Omicron Persei 8 (which has blocked off all trade and communication with Earth) after the Planet Express crew sneak onto the planet to gather a marijuana-esque herb needed for the Professor's tea.
131	17	"Fry and Leela's Big Fling"	Edmund Fong	Eric Rogers	June 19, 2013 (2013-06-19)	7ACV17	1.49[15]
Fry and Leela's romantic vacation goes south when Leela's prior boyfriend, Sean (who has been mentioned before this episode, but not seen), drops by. Amy, Bender and Zoidberg have to rescue Fry and Leela from their vacation spot (which is an intergalactic zoo).
132	18	"The Inhuman Torch"	Frank Marino	Dan Vebber	July 10, 2013 (2013-07-10)	7ACV18	1.43[17]
Bender becomes a firefighter, and ends up housing a solar flare who wants to blow up the Earth from the inside.
133	19	"Saturday Morning Fun Pit"	Crystal Chesney-Thompson	Patric M. Verrone	July 17, 2013 (2013-07-17)	7ACV19	1.13[18]
Amid angry protests from anti-TV violence groups on the White House lawn, the head of Richard Nixon and the headless body of Spiro Agnew try to watch a Saturday morning cartoon block, featuring the Futurama gang in parodies of Saturday morning favorites from the late 1970s into the early-to-mid 1980s: A Scooby-Doo parody called Bendee Boo and the Mystery Crew featuring appearances by Larry Bird, George Takei, and the Harlem Globetrotters; a Strawberry Shortcake-meets-The Smurfs parody called Purpleberry Pond that was only made to advertise an excessively sugary cereal; and a violent G.I. Joe parody called G.I. Zapp that Nixon tries to edit for violence and offensive language.
134	20	"Calculon 2.0"	Stephen Sandoval	Lewis Morton	July 24, 2013 (2013-07-24)	7ACV20	1.23[19]
Calculon (who died in "Thief of Baghead") is backed up and put into the body of a new robot so he can return to All My Circuits, only to learn that his over-the-top acting was never appreciated.
135	21	"Assie Come Home"	Raymie Muzquiz	Maiya Williams	July 31, 2013 (2013-07-31)	7ACV21	1.19[20]
Bender searches the universe for his shiny, metal ass after an alien street gang has him stripped down to his bulb eyes and mouth grille.
136	22	"Leela and the Genestalk"	Lance Kramer	Eric Horsted	August 7, 2013 (2013-08-07)	7ACV22	1.36[21]
Leela undergoes squidification and is captured by Mom of Mom's Friendly Robot Company.[22]
137	23	"Game of Tones"	Edmund Fong	Michael Rowe	August 14, 2013 (2013-08-14)	7ACV23	1.07[23]
The Planet Express crew enter Fry's dreams and find themselves back in the year 1999 in search of a mysterious alien song.
138	24	"Murder on the Planet Express"	Frank Marino	Lewis Morton	August 21, 2013 (2013-08-21)	7ACV24	1.04[24]
The crew get trapped aboard the Planet Express ship with a horrific alien creature.
139	25	"Stench and Stenchibility"	Crystal Chesney-Thompson	Eric Horsted	August 28, 2013 (2013-08-28)	7ACV25	1.40[25]
Zoidberg falls for a flower vendor, who has no sense of smell, while Bender competes against a cute little girl in a tap dancing competition.
140	26	"Meanwhile"	Peter Avanzino	Ken Keeler	September 4, 2013 (2013-09-04)	7ACV26	2.21[26]
Professor Farnsworth invents a button that can take a person 10 seconds in the past, which complicates Fry's plans to finally marry Leela.[27]

Home release

Futurama Volume 7
Set details[28]			Special features[28]
13 episodes (Season 7-A) 2-disc DVD set/2-disc Blu-ray Disc set 1.78:1 aspect ratio Languages: English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1) (Blu-ray only) English (Dolby Digital 5.1) (DVD only) Subtitles: English SDH French Spanish			Optional commentaries for all 13 episodes Bonus Animator Commentary On "A Farewell To Arms" "Too Good for TV: A Smorgasbord of Deleted Scenes" featurettes (1 on each disc) Alternate Ending for "Zapp Dingbat" "Christopher Tyng's Big Score: A Jam Session with Futurama's Innovative Composer" featurette "Möbius Trip: Infinite Futurama Screen Loops" featurette "Futurama Karaoke: Sing Along with Your Favorite Characters" featurette
DVD release dates
Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
December 11, 2012[29]	July 21, 2014[30]	December 12, 2012[31]
Blu-ray Disc release dates
Region A	Region B Europe	Region B Australia
December 11, 2012[29]	July 21, 2014[32]	December 12, 2012[33]

Futurama Volume 8
Set details[34]			Special features[34]
13 episodes (Season 7-B) 2-disc DVD set/2-disc Blu-ray Disc set 1.78:1 aspect ratio Languages: English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1) (Blu-ray only) English (Dolby Digital 5.1) (DVD only) Subtitles: English SDH French Spanish			Optional commentaries for all 13 episodes Bonus Animator Commentary On "Game Of Tones" Precious Trimmings: A Compendium Of Deleted Scenes Futurama University Inside Futurama: The Writers' Room Of Tomorrow
DVD release dates
Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
December 10, 2013[35]	December 11, 2013[36] UK: February 2, 2015[37]	December 11, 2013[38]
Blu-ray Disc release dates
Region A	Region B Europe	Region B Australia
December 10, 2013[35]	December 11, 2013[36] UK: February 2, 2015[37]	December 11, 2013[39]

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External links

• Season 7 on the Infosphere.