The Scariest ‘Futurama’ Episode Is Also the Show’s Darkest

“Insane in the Mainframe” blends gaslighting, torture, and psychological horror for ‘Futurama’s creepiest episode.

Editor's note: The following contains subject matter surrounding mental health and psychological despair that may be triggering for some readers.

The episode, which was directed and written by regular Groening collaborators Peter Avanzino and Bill Odenkirk, is at the center of what many would consider Futurama's golden age.

It's at this point that "Insane In The Mainframe" quickly turned into a horror story for a lot of kids back in 2001: The Robot Asylum where Fry and Bender are incarcerated is a colossal gray mega building, imposing and foreboding in its uniform, homogenous structure, implied to be the size of a city and as dizzyingly hard to navigate as a maze, with no reminders of the outside world and no windows for comfort.

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