2002

In-Universe

 * A barge filled with New York's garbage starts floating around the oceans of Earth for 50 years, as no country will take it, not even "that filthy one".

Real World Production

 * 6 January
 * Episode fifty, "Anthology of Interest II", is aired.
 * 10 February
 * Episode fifty seven, "Love and Rocket", is aired.
 * 17 February
 * Episode fifty six, "Leela's Homeworld", is aired.
 * 3 March
 * Episode forty two, "Where the Buggalo Roam", is aired.
 * 10 March
 * Episode forty nine, "A Pharaoh to Remember", is aired.
 * 17 March
 * Episode fifty two, "Godfellas", is aired.
 * 31 March
 * Episode fifty three, "Future Stock", is aired.
 * 7 April
 * Episode forty eight, "A Leela of Her Own", is aired.
 * '''14 April
 * Episode fifty four, "The 30% Iron Chef", is aired.
 * 21 April
 * Episode sixty five, "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", is aired.
 * 10 November
 * Episode sixty two, "Crimes of the Hot", is aired.
 * 17 November
 * Episode sixty one, "Jurassic Bark", is aired.
 * 8 December
 * Episode forty four, "The Route of All Evil", is aired.
 * 22 December
 * Episode fifty nine, "A Taste of Freedom", is aired.