Many episodes of Futurama contain a clip from another cartoon during the opening sequence. It can be seen playing on a jumbotron screen just before the show's creator credits appear.
Season 1[]
| Episode(s) | Image | Cartoon | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Space Pilot 3000" | 
|
Little Buck Cheeser | 1937 |
| "The Series Has Landed" | 
|
Baby Bottleneck | 1946 |
| "I, Roommate" | 
|
Baby Bottleneck | 1946 |
| "Love's Labours Lost in Space" | 
|
The Wacky Wabbit | 1942 |
| "Fear of a Bot Planet" | 
|
A Corny Concerto | 1943 |
| "A Fishful of Dollars" | 
|
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions | 1933 |
| "My Three Suns" | 
|
The Impractical Joker | 1937 |
| "A Big Piece of Garbage" | 
|
A Corny Concerto | 1943 |
| "Hell Is Other Robots" | 
|
Betty Boop and Grampy | 1935 |
| "A Flight to Remember" | 
|
Space Station | 1959 |
| "Mars University" | 
|
Pigs in a Polka | 1943 |
| "When Aliens Attack" | 
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Daffy – The Commando | 1943 |
| "Fry & the Slurm Factory" | 
|
Making Faces | 1987 |
Season 2[]
| Episode(s) | Image | Cartoon | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| "I Second That Emotion" | 
|
Fresh Hare | 1942 |
| "Brannigan, Begin Again" | 
|
Pigs in a Polka | 1943 |
| "A Head in the Polls" | 
|
Ko-Ko Needles the Boss | 1927 |
| "Xmas Story" | 
|
Fresh Hare | 1942 |
| "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" | 
|
My Old Kentucky Home | 1926 |
| "The Lesser of Two Evils" | 
|
Felix the Cat Trifles with Time | 1925 |
| "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" | 
|
Chick and Double Chick | 1946 |
| "Raging Bender" | 
|
Hollywood Capers | 1935 |
| "A Bicyclops Built for Two" | 
|
Hollywood Capers | 1935 |
| "A Clone of My Own" | 
|
Ko-Ko Needles the Boss | 1927 |
| "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" | 
|
Felix the Cat Trifles with Time | 1925 |
| "The Deep South" | 
|
Scrap Happy Daffy | 1943 |
| "Bender Gets Made" | 
|
Up to Mars | 1930 |
| "Mother's Day" | 
|
Bold King Cole | 1936 |
| "The Problem with Popplers" | 
|
Up to Mars | 1930 |
| "Anthology of Interest I" | 
|
Bosko Shipwrecked! | 1931 |
| "War is the H-Word" | 
|
Neptune Nonsense | 1936 |
| "The Honking" | 
|
Bold King Cole | 1936 |
| "The Cryonic Woman" | 
|
Up to Mars | 1930 |
Season 3[]
| Episode(s) | Image | Cartoon | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Amazon Women in the Mood" | 
|
Art for Art's Sake | 1934 |
| "Parasites Lost" | 
|
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp | 1934 |
| "A Tale of Two Santas" | 
|
Box Car Blues | 1930 |
| "The Luck of the Fryrish" | 
|
Boom Boom | 1936 |
| "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" | 
|
Bubbles | 1922 |
| "Bendless Love" | 
|
Little Ol' Bosko in Bagdad | 1938 |
| "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" | 
|
Art for Art's Sake | 1934 |
| "That's Lobstertainment!" | 
|
Box Car Blues | 1930 |
| "The Cyber House Rules" | 
|
Congo Jazz | 1930 |
| "Where the Buggalo Roam" | 
|
The Emerald Isle | 1949 |
| "Insane in the Mainframe" | 
|
The Mild West | 1947 |
| "The Route of All Evil" | 
|
Heep Hep Injuns | 1949 |
| "Bendin' in the Wind" | 
|
A Coy Decoy | 1941 |
| "Time Keeps on Slippin'" | 
|
The Clown's Little Brother | 1920 |
| "I Dated a Robot" | 
|
Censored | 1944 |
| "A Leela of Her Own" | 
|
The Goal Rush | 1946 |
| "A Pharaoh to Remember" | 
|
Toys Will Be Toys | 1949 |
| "Anthology of Interest II" | 
|
A Close Call | 1929 |
| "Roswell that Ends Well" | 
|
Congo Jazz | 1930 |
| "Godfellas" | 
|
Censored | 1944 |
| "Future Stock" | 
|
Jingle Jangle Jungle | 1950 |
| "The 30% Iron Chef" | 
|
Toys Will Be Toys | 1949 |
Season 4[]
| Episode(s) | Image | Cartoon | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" | 
|
It's a Greek Life | 1936 |
| "Leela's Homeworld" | 
|
Makin' 'Em Move | 1931 |
| "Love and Rocket" | 
|
Makin' 'Em Move | 1931 |
| "Less than Hero" | 
|
The Dover Boys | 1942 |
| "A Taste of Freedom" | 
|
The Queen Was in the Parlor | 1932 |
| "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" | 
|
Much Ado About Mutton | 1947 |
| "Jurassic Bark" | 
|
Hiss and Make Up | 1943 |
| "Crimes of the Hot" | 
|
Much Ado About Mutton | 1947 |
| "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" | 
|
Moonlight for Two | 1932 |
| "The Why of Fry" | 
|
Much Ado About Mutton | 1947 |
| "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" | 
|
Hiss and Make Up | 1943 |
| "The Sting" | 
|
The Queen Was in the Parlor | 1932 |
| "Bend Her" | 
|
Naughty But Mice | 1947 |
| "Obsoletely Fabulous" | 
|
Much Ado About Mutton | 1947 |
| "The Farnsworth Parabox" | 
|
The Queen Was in the Parlor | 1932 |
| "Three Hundred Big Boys" | 
|
Flop Goes the Weasel | 1943 |
| "Spanish Fry" | 
|
Much Ado About Mutton | 1947 |
| "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" | 
|
The intro itself | 1999 |
Season 5[]
| Episode(s) | Image | Cartoon | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Bender's Big Score" | 
|
Space Pilot 3000 | 1999 |
| "The Beast with a Billion Backs" | 
|
The Soup Song | 1931 |
| "Bender's Game" | 
|
Quasi at the Quackadero | 1975 |
| "Into the Wild Green Yonder" | 
|
The Fly's Bride | 1929 |
Season 6[]
| Episode(s) | Image | Cartoon | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Rebirth" | 
|
Silvery Moon | 1933 |
| "That Darn Katz!" | 
|
Scotty Finds a Home | 1935 |
| "Benderama" | 
|
Hollywood Capers | 1935 |
| "Yo Leela Leela" | 
|
The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg | 1936 |
| "All the Presidents' Heads" | 
|
Zoich | 2010 |
Season 7[]
| Episode(s) | Image | Cartoon | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Decision 3012" | 
|
The Family Album | 1930 |
| "Viva Mars Vegas" | 
|
Colorama | 1930 |
| "Forty Percent Leadbelly" | 
|
Makin' 'Em Move | 1931 |
| "T.: The Terrestrial" | 
|
Wot a Night | 1931 |
| "Leela and the Genestalk" | 
|
Rocketeers | 1932 |
| "Stench and Stenchibility" | 
|
Makin' 'Em Move/In a Cartoon Studio | 1931 |
Season 8[]
| Episode(s) | Image | Cartoon | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The Impossible Stream" | 
|
Ain't She Sweet? | 1933 |
| "Children of a Lesser Bog" | 
|
Room Runners | 1932 |
| "How the West Was 1010001" | 
|
A Is for Atom | 1953 |
| "Parasites Regained" | 
|
Betty Boop's May Party | 1933 |
| "Related to Items You've Viewed" | 
|
Betty Boop's May Party | 1933 |
| "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" | 
|
Jack Frost | 1934 |
| "Rage Against the Vaccine" | 
|
Circus | 1932 |
| "Zapp Gets Cancelled" | 
|
Chinaman's Chance | 1933 |
| "The Prince and the Product" | 
|
Soda Squirt | 1933 |
| "All The Way Down" | 
|
Pong | 1972 |
Season 9[]
| Episode(s) | Image | Cartoon | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The One Amigo" | 
|
The Robot | 1932 |
| "Quids Game" | 
|
In Dutch | 1925 |
| "The Temp" | The Office Boy | 1932 | |
| "Beauty and the Bug" | Nurse Maid | 1932 | |
| "One Is Silicon and the Other Gold" | North of Nowhere | 1927 | |
| "Attack of the Clothes" | In My Merry Oldsmobile | 1931 | |
| "Planet Espresso" | Swing You Sinners! | 1930 | |
| "Cuteness Overlord" | The Robot | 1932 | |
| "The Futurama Mystery Liberry" | Betty Boop's Ups and Downs | 1932 | |
| "Otherwise" | Balloon Land | 1935 |