The BEST episodes directed by Peter Avanzino
#1 - Born to Be Wild
The Wild Thornberrys - Season 1 - Episode 20
When Eliza sneaks out ahead of her parents in order to find a rare Sumatran rhino, she discovers that to expose his life would only lead extinction of the species. Now instead of taking the prized rhino to her parents, she must try to keep them from filming it. And the bad news is, Nigel's already on its trail!
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The Wild Thornberrys - Season 1 - Episode 12
With Nigel and Marianne off exploring bat caves, Eliza and Debbie are left at the ""eerie"" residence of colleague Dr. Renfield. Eliza becomes bent on spooking Debbie, but when her imagination gets the best of her the tables are slowly turned. By the time their parents return, the girls are convinced that the absent-minded Renfield is a vampire out to get them!
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The Wild Thornberrys - Season 1 - Episode 6
When Eliza discovers a secret temple, a group of jaguars believe that she is their long lost queen. Thrilled with her new royal position, Eliza gets in over her head and must escape the avenging jaguars.
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#4 - Stimpy's Fan Club
The Ren & Stimpy Show - Season 2 - Episode 16
Ren is jealous of Stimpy's constant stream of fan mail, so Stimpy makes his pal the president of his Fan Club, causing Ren delusions of grandeur, and ultimately, insanity.
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#6 - Aged Heat 2: Women in Heat
Duckman - Season 4 - Episode 3
Duckman is imprisoned for killing Fluffy and Uranus, again. However, he is accidentally sent to a women's prison. A dream of his comes true! In fact Duckman fits in quite well and becomes the star attraction in the warden's side business, a dance ring. Everything's going great until Suzy comes along.
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#8 - Naimina Enkiyio
The Wild Thornberrys - Season 1 - Episode 11
Challenging an ancient Maasai legend, Eliza marches into a ""haunted"" forest to prove her bravery. Now, with night falling, Eliza must place her trust in the mysterious legends of the Maasai in order to find her way safely through the dark forest.
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#9 - Parasites Lost
Futurama - Season 3 - Episode 4
When Fry becomes infested with parasitic worms that make him stronger and smarter, he finally finds the perfect way to profess his feelings to Leela. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew goes on a journey into Fry's body to eradicate the worms.
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#10 - A Room With a Bellevue
Duckman - Season 3 - Episode 6
Duckman gets placed in a mental institution after pleading temporary insanity to a charge of public ranting. He likes the strict regimentation of the institution (compared to the anarchy and choas of outside the institution) so much that he decides to have himself permanently commited. Cornfed comes to rescue Duckman from the institution, but is to late as he has already been given shock treatment. Luckily Cornfed has a book on brain surgery and gets Duckman back to 'normal'. [note: the original version of this episode has a small section where Duckman is being dragged through a room where some residents are being given a test, and Dr. Stein asks them about seeing Duckman and a question of time. For some strange reason this scene is usually cut.]
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#11 - Das Sub (a.k.a. Class Warfare)
Duckman - Season 4 - Episode 26
Convicted of fraud, Duckman is sentenced to 5,000 hours of community service. He is sent to a dangerous inner-city high school, located a half a block from his house, where he becomes a substitute teacher and it turns out that his is the most ""Dangerous Mind.""
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#12 - My Feral Lady
Duckman - Season 4 - Episode 20
Duckman purchases a mail-order bride, from Tetzloff; however, she's really a jungle savage. With Cornfed's help, they attempt to civilize her a'la My Fair Lady. He asks for her hand in marriage on a ""Surprise Proposals"" episode of Leeza and things go awry when the flashbulbs go off.
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#13 - The Once and Future Duck
Duckman - Season 3 - Episode 12
Ajax opens a rift in the time/space continuum with his clock radio. Duckman discovers from a future version of himself that his future hinges on Charles and Mambo's tuba recital. Unfortunately Duckman tries to use these visits from his future selves to make a his decisions and suddenly discover every little decision he makes has a big impact on his future.
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#14 - Insane in the Mainframe
Futurama - Season 3 - Episode 12
Accused of robbing a bank, Fry and Bender plead insanity and are both sent to a robot insane asylum. While Bender and his buddy Roberto plan an escape, Fry is brainwashed into thinking that he is a robot.
#15 - The Series Has Landed
Futurama - Season 1 - Episode 2
After joining Planet Express, Fry, Bender, Farnsworth's assistant Amy and Captain Leela must deliver their first package to the moon. Fry imagines himself walking on the moon, but he finds out that there is an amusement park on the moon - Luna Park. While lowering the package, Amy drops the ship keys inside it. Fry is the only one who wants to walk on the real moon, so he goes with Leela on an educational trip, yet he goes off the road and they are now marooned on the moon with almost no oxygen. Amy and Bender discover that the key that fell inside a crane game machine. Bender is thrown out of the park after putting his hand inside the machine. Fry and Leela arrive at a farm in the middle of the moon where they have to work for oxygen. After Bender sleeps with one of the robo-daughters of the farmer, the farmer starts chasing Fry, Leela and Bender. Amy appears just in time to save them.
#16 - A Flight to Remember
Futurama - Season 2 - Episode 1
The Planet Express crew take a space cruise vacation. Leela tells Captain Zapp Brannigan that Fry is his boyfriend and Amy tells the same thing to her parents. Bender falls in love with a rich female robot. Problems start when the spaceship approaches a black hole.
#17 - Helen and Sue's High School Reunion
Sit Down, Shut Up - Season 1 - Episode 10
When Larry plans Knob Haven High School's reunion, he persuades Alanis Morissette to attend so that Helen and Sue's all-girl band, the "Knob Girlzz," can reunite for a special performance. Meanwhile, Andrew plots revenge against Jose Canseco, Larry seeks his long lost mermaid love and Ennis tries to stop Happy from planning what he thinks is a terrorist attack.
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#18 - Xmas Story
Futurama - Season 2 - Episode 8
To apologize for an inconsiderate remark, Fry searches for the perfect Xmas gift for Leela, all the while trying to avoid the murderous SantaBot, whose standards for niceness are astronomically high.
#19 - Hot Tub
Drawn Together - Season 1 - Episode 1
The Housemates are introduced and arrive at the Drawn Together House for the first time. At first it seems like they will get along well, but a string of racist comments from Clara start a major fight.
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#20 - The Other Cousin
Drawn Together - Season 1 - Episode 5
Clara's special cousin, Bleh, comes to visit the Drawn Together house, and Captain Hero bets Spanky that he'll sleep with her for 50 bucks. Meanwhile, Xandir, Toot, and Wooldoor enjoy the immense high that the fur of a depressed Ling-Ling can provide.
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#21 - Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'
Duckman - Season 4 - Episode 14
Duckman and Cornfed become plumbers and their first job takes them to a society gathering in a mansion. While not doing his job, Duckman discovers that the cursed ""Sharon Stone"" is missing; he and Cornfed try to recover the diamond before the hostess discovers the theft. After the diamond is revealed to be missing, its curse comes into play and traps them in the mansion.
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#22 - Fear of a Bot Planet
Futurama - Season 1 - Episode 5
At Madison Cube Garden watching a blernsball game, Bender complains about the poor treatment of robots. They're only there to clean up, polish the balls or water the fields. They never get any respect. Later, Bender must deliver a package to a planet inhabited by murderous robots that kill humans on sight. He discovers a robotopia - a land where the robot is king! However, when Leela and Fry are captured, Bender must choose between protecting his celebrity status or saving his friends.
#23 - Crimes of the Hot
Futurama - Season 5 - Episode 1
The rapid increase in global warming is traced to a ventilation flaw that Professor Farnsworth failed to correct in his first robot prototype. As a result, all robots are ordered to be destroyed, but Bender refuses to go without a fight.
#24 - The Six Million Dollar Mon
Futurama - Season 7 - Episode 7
Hermes replaces parts of his body with robotic counterparts so as to increase his productivity.
#25 - Spanish Fry
Futurama - Season 5 - Episode 12
Fry is abducted by aliens, who harvest his nose as an aphrodisiac. The crew traces Fry's missing nose to Lrrr, leader of the Omicronians, who decides that Fry's "lower horn" would be a much better aphrodisiac to jump start his stagnant marriage with Ndnd.
#26 - Bender Gets Made
Futurama - Season 2 - Episode 17
Bender takes a new job in the Robot Mafia, but his loyalty is tested when he goes along on the robotic gangster's efforts to rob the Planet Express ship.
#27 - The Impossible Stream
Futurama - Season 8 - Episode 1
Fry risks permanent insanity when he attempts to binge-watch every TV show ever made.
#28 - From Brad to Worse
Duckman - Season 4 - Episode 5
Duckman finds an old high school classmate who's been homeless due to something Duckman did to him 20 years ago. Duckman's attempts to help only make things worse.
#29 - Ajax and Ajaxer
Duckman - Season 4 - Episode 8
Duckman and Cornfed are hired to perform surveillance on a laboratory that is performing experiments on intelligence formulas. Cornfed accidentally swallows a ""Get Dumb"" formula, that falls in with the plans of the scientist who created it. If Cornfed gets cured, will Ajax lose his first true friend?
#30 - A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special
Drawn Together - Season 2 - Episode 13
Xandir looks to his housemates for help in telling his parents he is gay. They do a little role-playing and, as usual, things get out of hand.
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#31 - Lost in Parking Space (1)
Drawn Together - Season 3 - Episode 7
Clara annoys her housemates by preaching about the upcoming rapture. When her housemates head off to the mall, Clara mistakenly thinks they've been taken off to heaven. In the mean time, the other housemates get themselves trapped in a compact parking space in the mall with little or no means of escape.
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#32 - Super Nanny
Drawn Together - Season 2 - Episode 7
Upon seeing the reality TV show Super Nanny, Captain Hero purposefully acts bad so he can summon Super Nanny and challenge her once and for all, because he thinks anything called super is a challenge to him. Meanwhile, Ling-Ling tries to get his driver's license. When he fails miserably, Wooldoor helps him become more "Americanized" so he can pass.
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The Wild Thornberrys - Season 2 - Episode 18
Debbie discovers Eliza ""talking"" to dingoes and threatens to tell her parents. Eliza, concerned about the possibility of being shipped back to the United States as a science experiment, seeks help from nearby Aborigines. Together they confuse Debbie into thinking it was just a bad dream.
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Shin Chan - Season 3 - Episode 32
Shin-chan eats the cream from the bun that was kept for a guest, Narita. So, Misae teaches Shin-chan how to eat his food. Misae sends Shin-chan to deliver a circular to a neighbour. Shin-chan forgets about it and gets into a conversation with the neighbour. The librarian uses her techniques to get rid of people, but it fails on Shin-chan and Misae, as they get engrossed in the books.
#35 - Wanda Moves Up
Baby Blues - Season 2 - Episode 5
Wanda and Darryl learn to appreciate each other's roles a little more, as Wanda opens her own business and Darryl becomes a stay-at-home dad.
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