3rd Season
2000-2001
#1 The Honking
#2 War Is the H-Word
#3 The Cryonic Woman
#4 Parasites Lost
#5 Amazon Women in the Mood
 		#6 Bendless Love
#7 The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
#8 That's Lobstertainment
#9 The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz
#10 Luck of the Fryish
 		#11 The Cyber House Rules
#12 Insane in the Mainframe
#13 Bendin' in the Wind
#14 Time Keeps on Slipping
#15 I Dated a Robot
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#1 The Honking: Aired Sunday, November 5, 2000

Bender's uncle dies and leaves him a haunted castle on the condition that he spend at least one night there. When Bender attempts to do so, he is run over by a vicious ancient car, the kind with rubber tires that roll along the ground. When the gang returns to New New York, a vicious killing spree by an ancient car starts. A gypsy robot tells Bender that he's been turned into a were-car, and he's destined to turn into a vicious ancient car every night at midnight and eventually kill his best friend unless he hunts down and kills the original were-car. Fry fears for his life, being Bender's best friend, and is insulted when were-Bender goes after Leela the next night. The gang hunts down the original were-Car, Project Satan, which was a sort of Frankenstein-like creation from the parts of other evil cars, and destroys it just before were-Bender kills Fry.

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#2 War Is the H-Word: Aired Sunday, November 26, 2000

Seeking servicemen's discounts, Bender and Fry join the Earth Army, only to find themselves in a war against a planet of balls, and being led by Zapp Brannigan. Leela joins the army as a man in disguise to keep Bender and Fry from getting killed, and Brannigan is disturbed when he finds himself attracted to the young accomplished private. When Bender shows bravery on the front, he is sent on a mission of peace to the balls' leaders, but little does he know that he's being used by Brannigan and Nixon as a secret carrier for a bomb. Meanwhile, Fry, as punishment for cowardice on the front, becomes Brannigan's assistant's assistant. Fry, with help from Leela, must show bravery and keep Bender from saying the trigger word, "ass," before Bender accidentally blows up an entire planet.

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#3 The Cryonic Woman: Aired Sunday, December 3, 2000

After a prank gets Fry, Leela and Bender fired, Leela pulls out their old career chips so that they can get new jobs. Mistakenly, Fry gets Leela's chip and therefore gets her old job at Applied Cryogenics. One of the people Fry unfreezes turns out to be his ex-girlfriend Michelle, and she is just as demanding and possessive as she was in the 20th century. When she finds herself uncomfortable in the 30th century, she convinces Fry to freeze himself with her and wait it out until the 40th century. When they unfreeze, they find themselves in a confusing society of children with guns where the sky is black and the cities are in ruins. Fry thinks that this is the year 4000 until the Planet Express crew finds him and explains that he's only been frozen for two days, and the desolate ruin around him is Los Angeles in the year 3000.

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#4 Parasites Lost: Aired Sunday, January 21, 2001

Fry gets worms from eating an egg-salad sandwich from a vending machine. The crew uses microscopic animatronic versions of themselves to sneak inside him and rid him of the worms while Leela distracts him. As the crew gets closer and closer to their goal, Leela realizes that she likes Fry... now that the worms have improved his brain and his body. Leela stops the crew from getting rid of the worms and quickly takes Fry back to her apartment. As they head for bed together, Fry suddenly realizes that what Leela loves is what the worms have made, not what he is, so he makes an microscopic animatronic version of himself, goes inside himself, and convinces the worms to leave. He returns to Leela's bed, but she is turned off by the regular Fry and kicks him out.

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#5 Amazon Women in the Mood: Aired Sunday, February 4, 2001

Zapp Brannigan gets Leela to join Amy and Kif Kroker on a double date, which ends with all stranded on a planet of Amazonian women. Bender and Fry come to rescue them, and the giant Amazonians catch the whole crew. Their leader, Femputer, sentences the men to death by snu-snu. Amy tries to rescue Kif while Bender tries to reprogram Femputer. Bender finds out that Femputer is really a Fembot, and he seduces her, causing her to set all the prisoners free.

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#6 Bendless Love: Aired Sunday, February 11, 2001

Bender gets a job at a bending factory and falls in love with a fembot named Angleyne. When he finds out that she's divorced from his evil twin, Flexo, he gets jealous and disguises himself as Flexo to see if she'll cheat on him. All he succeeds in doing is making Angleyne realize that she still loves Flexo, and then Bender has to save Flexo from a mob hit in order to make his true love happy. The professor ends up in a never-ending good mood when a bending accident has him permanently looking at the sky.

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#7 The Day the Earth Stood Stupid: Aired Sunday, February 18, 2001

After Nibbler gets the award for dumbest pet at a local pet show, Leela despairs, but when huge flying brains invade the earth it's Nibbler who rescues Leela and takes her to his home planet. There, Leela learns that these brains are the scourge of the universe, and going around destroying all thought by making people stupid. The only being immune to their power is Fry. Leela goes back to Earth and immediately becomes stupid like everyone else. She is just barely able to explain to Fry that he is the only person who can battle the evil brain leader. Fry confronts the big brain in the public library, where he figures out that thought hurts the flying gray matter. The brain defends itself by putting Fry and Leela into various novels, but Fry writes his own book in which he defeats the brain and tricks the brain into making it come true.

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#8 That's Lobstertainment: Aired Sunday, February 25, 2001

Dr. Zoidberg has Hollywood aspirations, so he looks up his uncle, Harold Zoid, a faded silent hologram star. Uncle Zoid asks Zoidberg for one million dollars to produce a movie to resurrect his career, and Zoidberg promises it even though he doesn't have the money. Bender tricks his favorite soap opera star, Calculon, into funding and starring in the movie, promising the ambitious robot an Oscar. The movie is a flop, but Calculon threatens to kill Zoid, Zoiderg and Bender if he doesn't win that Oscar, so Bender and Zoidberg rig the Academy Awards. However, at the last minute, Zoidberg decides to give the award to his Uncle Zoid instead of Calculon in order to make his uncle feel appreciated again. Fry and Leela miss the whole affair because they get trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits and almost die.

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#9 The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz: Aired Sunday, March 4, 2001

Leela refuses to captain a mission in which a dark-matter tanker has to be flown dangerously close to a penguin preserve on Pluto. Instead, she joins the many protestors against the mission. Bender is made captain, but his new position goes to his head and he acts like such an ass that Fry can't stand to be around him. Bender gets so depressed at the loss of his friend that he stops drinking, and therefore becomes mentally impaired. Driving like a drunk, he crashes the tanker into an ice cap on Pluto and spills tons of oil-like dark matter into the penguin preserve. His punishment is to help clean up the penguins, but after an accident his software gets reset and he ends up acting like a penguin. Meanwhile, the protestors realize that the dark-matter makes the penguins reproduce much faster than usual, and the birds are quickly using up their natural resources and over-populating Pluto. The protestors decide to go penguin hunting to prevent penguin over-population, but Bender leads the penguins in an attack on the humans.

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#10 Luck of the Fryish: Aired Sunday, March 11, 2001

Fry has been feeling very unlucky lately, and decides he needs to find that seven-leaf clover that he had back in the 20th century. As he searches through Old New York with Leela and Bender, he recalls his relationship with his older brother, Yancy. Yancy was always jealous of his little brother, Philip (Fry's first name), and stole everything from him, including his patented outer-space basket balls and outer-space break-dancing moves. When Fry finds where he hid his seven-leaf clover, and it's gone, he concludes that his brother stole it. Then he sees a statue of Philip J. Fry, the first man on Mars, and thinks that his brother not only stole his clover, but also his name and his dream of going into outer-space. When Fry goes to rob Yancy's grave to get his clover back, he is touched to find out that Yancy actually named his son after Fry, and gave his son Fry's clover and Fry's dream of going into outer space.

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#11 The Cyber House Rules: Aired Sunday, April 1, 2001

At an orphanarium reunion, Leela runs into an old classmate, Adelai, that is now a plastic surgeon, and he gives her an operation to give her the appearance of two eyes. Leela revels in her newfound ordinariness and starts dating Adelai. Meanwhile, when Bender finds out that orphans come with a government stipend, he adopts twelve of them. Despite himself, he's a good father, but when he realizes he's losing money on the deal, he decides to get rid of them. Leela and Adelai decide to adopt an orphan of their own, so they go to Bender to take one of his kids off his hands, but they have trouble deciding. Meanwhile, Bender is arrested for child endangerment. Leela finally decides she wants to adopt Bender's strangest looking child, a little girl with a third ear on her forehead. When Adelai says that he'll give the child an operation to make her look normal, Leela points out that the little girl doesn't need one, and then realizes that she didn't need one either. Leela demands her old appearance back and breaks up with the shallow doctor, while Bender donates his orphans to a new orphanarium and bids them a sad farewell.

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#12 Insane in the Mainframe: Aired Sunday, April 8, 2001

Fry and Bender are arrested for bank robbery when they get involved with one of Bender's old robot friends, Roberto, while he's robbing a bank. Fry and Bender are convicted of the crime and sent to an asylum for criminally insane robots. It's a walk in the park for Bender, but Fry is tortured by being treated like a robot. When Fry is finally brain-washed into believing he is a robot, he is deemed "cured" and released. His friends back at Planet Express are horrified when Fry the robot is returned to them. Meanwhile, Roberto is busted robbing the same bank again and ends up in the asylum with Bender. He uses Bender to bust out of the asylum and accompanies his friend back to Planet Express. When the police track them down, Roberto takes the staff of Planet Express hostage. Fry turns into a battle droid and scares the mentally unstable Roberto so badly that he jumps to his death. In the battle, Fry's arm is injured, and when he sees that he bleeds blood he comes to his senses and realizes he's a human.

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#13 Bendin' in the Wind: Aired Sunday, April 22, 2001

Fry salvages an old VW van and Bender becomes paralyzed from the neck down in a horrible can opener accident. Beck invites Bender to go on tour with him as his washboard player, and the gang goes hippie and follows in Fry's new van. Bender decides to stage a benefit for other broken robots, but at the last minute regains the use of his limbs. He tries to fake his paralysis, but is busted and discredited since he is no longer broken.

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#14 Time Keeps on Slipping: Aired Sunday, May 6, 2001

The Harlem Globetrotters arrive from their home planet and claim that they will humiliate anyone that they play in basketball. Professor Farnsworth creates a group of mutant basketball players to compete with the Globetrotters, but needs chronitons from the Tempus Nebula to age his still baby mutants. The mutants lose the game when one of them dies through a freak cannon/basketball accident and Fry takes his place, but the bigger problem is that the removal of the chronitons has started to make time slip forward, and at the rate it's going the world will end on Thursday. The Planet Express crew works together with the Globetrotters to stop the disaster, first trying to surround the Tempus Nebula with stars, and then blowing up the whole Nebula in order to create a black hole. Meanwhile, Bender has his hopes dashed of ever becoming a Globetrotter himself, and Fry finally gets Leela to fall in love with him, but then doesn't remember how he did it because it happened during a time slip.

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#15 I Dated a Robot: Aired Sunday, May 13, 2001

Fry downloads Lucy Liu's image from nappster.com onto a blank robot and falls in love with the computerized image that is programmed to love him back. His friends, who are worried about Fry, try to shut down nappster.com, and discover that the company has actually kidnapped real celebrities. They grab Lucy Liu's preserved head and try to escape, but nappster.com send an army of warrior Lucy Liu-bots after them. The gang holes up in a movie theater, where Fry's original Liu-bot uses popcorn to fight off the Liu-bot army. Fry erases his Liu-bot to please the real Lucy Liu, who has fallen for Bender.

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Other Seasons
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