Roswell That Ends Well

"Roswell That Ends Well"
Futurama episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 19
Directed by	Rich Moore
Written by	J. Stewart Burns
Production code	3ACV19
Original air date	December 9, 2001
Opening caption	"Fun For The Whole Family (except Grandma and Grandpa)"
Opening cartoon	"Congo Jazz" (1930)
Season 3 episodes
January 2001 – December 2002 "Amazon Women in the Mood" "Parasites Lost" "A Tale of Two Santas" "The Luck of the Fryrish" "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" "Bendless Love" "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" "That's Lobstertainment!" "The Cyber House Rules" "Where the Buggalo Roam" "Insane in the Mainframe" "The Route of All Evil" "Bendin' in the Wind" "Time Keeps On Slippin'" "I Dated a Robot" "A Leela of Her Own" "A Pharaoh to Remember" "Anthology of Interest II" "Roswell That Ends Well" "Godfellas" "" "The 30% Iron Chef"
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"Roswell That Ends Well" is the 19th episode of the third season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 9, 2001 as the season premiere of broadcast season four. The plot centers on an accidental time travel event that results in the main characters participating in the Roswell UFO Incident in 1947.

The episode was written by J. Stewart Burns and directed by Rich Moore. "Roswell That Ends Well" scored a Nielsen rating of 3.1 during its original broadcast, and it received positive reviews from television critics. It won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (Programming Less Than One Hour) in 2002.

As the crew watches a supernova, Fry puts a non-microwaveable metal "Iffy Pop" container into the ship's microwave. This causes a reaction between the microwave radiation and the "gravitons and graviolis" from the supernova, which sends the ship to 1947. Since there was no Global Positioning System in 1947, the crew has no way to accurately navigate the ship, and crash-land in Roswell, New Mexico. Refusing to wear a seat belt like the rest of the crew, Bender is catapulted out of the front of the ship by the crash and smashed to pieces. The crew and Bender's disembodied head go to seek out a way to return to their present, leaving Zoidberg behind to pick up the pieces. Zoidberg is captured by the U.S. military and taken to Roswell Air Base for experimentation. Assuming the pieces are the remnants of a flying saucer, the military "reconstructs" Bender's body as such.

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