Which of Futurama's 4 'series finales' is the best?

Last night, the long-running animated sci-fi comedy aired its last episode. If that sounds familiar...

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Last night, after almost 15 years and 140 episodes, the animated sci-fi comedy Futurama aired its series finale — for the fourth time.

Few shows in history have had the string of unlikely cancellations and revivals that have greeted this cultishly adored series. Futurama originally aired on Fox from 1999 to 2003. In the wake of its cancellation, the show's syndicated ratings and DVD sales proved strong enough for Fox to greenlight a revival in four direct-to-DVD movies — and that was successful enough to spawn a fully revived series on Comedy Central, where it ran for two more seasons.

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Scott Meslow

Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.