Episode
Futurama: A Fishful of Dollars
Overview
Fry discovers his bank account interest has made him a billionaire and buys the one thing the year 3000 doesn't have, anchovies.
Details
- Series
- Futurama
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 1999-04-27
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
A Fishful of Dollars is Episode 6 in Season 1 of Futurama. It aired on 1999-04-27. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 5: Fear of a Bot Planet
Fry and Leela disguise themselves as robots to find Bender after he fails to return from a delivery to a robot planet, only to learn that he has become a celebrity in a culture which fears humans.
Episode 7: My Three Suns
Delivery Boy Philip J. Fry is promoted to Emperor after accidentally drinking his fluid-based predecessor.
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