Tonight is the annual inventors symposium, and the Professor is hoping that his invention is good enough to win the prize and beat Dr. Wernstrom. He presents the Smelloscope, a device that allows one to smell distant objects. Though he is laughed off the stage by his peers, the crew tests it out back at the Planet Express. Fry discovers what is believed to be the smelliest object in the universe. They learn that the object is a giant ball of garbage that was rocketed into outer space fifty years ago. Now, it's up to the Planet Express crew to figure out how to stop the garbage ball before it crashes to the earth and destroys New New York.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 8 of Futurama resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Futurama Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Space Pilot 3000
• s01e02 - The Series Has Landed
• s01e03 - I, Roommate
• s01e04 - Love's Labors Lost in Space
• s01e05 - Fear of a Bot Planet
• s01e06 - A Fishful of Dollars
• s01e07 - My Three Suns
• s01e08 - A Big Piece of Garbage
• s01e09 - Hell Is Other Robots

Futurama Show Summary

When Fry, a somewhat dim-witted 25 year-old pizza delivery boy for Panucci's Pizza is asked to make a drop at Applied Cryogenics, it's the beginning of a journey that will take him more than a thousand years into the future.

Fry falls into one of the company's capsules and doesn't emerge until the dawn of the year 3000. Here he befriends a beautiful one-eyed alien called Leela (a worker at the New York based cryogenics factory) and a degenerate robot named Bender. The trio track down Fry's great-great-great-etc. nephew, Professor Farnsworth, who hires the three to work for his intergalactic delivery service. Together they traverse the cosmos delivering goods for Planet Express, Leela serves as the ship's captain and Bender indulges in his love of booze, large cigars and pornography.