When Leela gets swept off her feet by Chaz, an aide to the Mayor, Fry falls into a deep funk thinking that she could never like a non-important guy. Adding to Fry's funk, a bizarre genetic abnormality is discovered that qualifies him for a mission to save the universe. While on this mission, we learn what really happened on Dec. 31, 1999, the night Fry was frozen. Meanwhile, Chaz leaves a bad impression while on a skating date with Leela, causing her to realize that Fry means much more to her than she ever knew.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 5 Episode 8 of Futurama resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Futurama Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Crimes of the Hot
• s05e02 - Jurassic Bark
• s05e03 - The Route of All Evil
• s05e04 - A Taste of Freedom
• s05e05 - Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
• s05e06 - Less Than Hero
• s05e07 - Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles
• s05e08 - The Why of Fry
• s05e09 - The Sting
• s05e10 - The Farnsworth Parabox
• s05e11 - Three Hundred Big Boys
• s05e12 - Spanish Fry
• s05e13 - Bend Her
• s05e14 - Obsoletely Fabulous
• s05e15 - Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television
• s05e16 - The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings

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.