Futurama: 10 Most Annoying Little Inconsistencies

In a show like Futurama, there are always stories and narratives on several different levels. There is the story of each individual episode, and while these chapters never truly tied into each other in the same way as the likes of Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad, there were still overarching themes that stretched across seasons and the entire run in general.

This makes viewing order incredibly important, but with Futurama this is kind of all over the place. In the US, the first run of the show was spread across five seasons, while the UK released the same batch of episodes across just four, with even the running order being different.

As well as having the production order of the episodes moved around by FOX, the US also marketed and released the four straight to DVD movies as season six. The UK didn’t, keeping them separate from the season count, adding even more differences between the two sets of episode runs.

There is one run that consists of seven seasons, and one that has ten, despite having the exact same 140 episodes and four movies. Every episode has two separate season and episode numbers, which just makes things so needlessly confusing.