15 Best Futurama Episodes

6. Time Keeps On Slippin' (Season 3, Episode 14)

Time Keeps on Slippin' features several different subplots, all working together to create one of the most mind-melting, comical and touching episodes of the entire show.

Accepting a challenge to battle the Harlem Globetrotters in a basketball match, The Professor attempts to make a team of mutants, only for his experimentation to cause time to jump forward uncontrollably.

Meanwhile, Fry try to express his feelings to Leela, Bender vies to become a Globetrotter, and the Globetrotters themselves are revealed to be as intelligent (and strange) as The Professor.

Not only are all of these developments typically, expertly crass, over-the-top and even nonsensical, the episode soars to greater heights thanks to final moments, where Fry's message of love to Leela is sucked into a black hole before she has a chance to see it.

A great addition to Fry and Leela's development, it's a seriously weird episode with the heart to back it up.