1999

In-Universe

 * Philip J. Fry spills beer on the control console at New York FOX station WNYW, knocking Single Female Lawyer off the air.
 * Fry's bank account is left with a balance of 93 cents, which after one thousand years of gathering interest, becomes $4.3 billion.
 * December 31
 * Fry is sent on a fake pizza delivery to I. C. Wiener at Applied Cryogenics.
 * Fry is frozen at the stroke of midnight when pushed by Nibbler. Wakes up in the future.

Alternate Reality

 * December 31
 * Fry bumps his head on the cryogenic tube instead of freezing himself, causing a rip in space-time.
 * The Vice Presidential Action Rangers abduct Fry and inform him that if he does not return to the cryo-tube, the universe will be destroyed.
 * Fry does not return to the cryo-tube, and the universe is destroyed.
 * Fry and the Vice Presidential Action Rangers are floating around outside the universe, they start a game of Dungeons and Dragons.

Real World Production

 * March 28
 * Futurama's pilot episode, Space Pilot 3000, is aired.
 * April 4
 * Episode two, The Series Has Landed, is aired.
 * April 6
 * Episode three, I, Roommate, is aired.
 * April 13
 * Episode four, Love's Labours Lost in Space, is aired.
 * April 20
 * Episode five, Fear of a Bot Planet, is aired.
 * April 27
 * Episode six, A Fishful of Dollars, is aired.
 * May 4
 * Episode seven, My Three Suns, is aired.
 * May 11
 * Episode eight, A Big Piece of Garbage, is aired.
 * May 18
 * Episode nine, Hell Is Other Robots, is aired.
 * September 26
 * Episode ten, A Flight to Remember, is aired.
 * October 3
 * Episode eleven, Mars University, is aired.
 * November 7
 * Episode twelve, When Aliens Attack, is aired.
 * November 14
 * Episode thirteen, Fry and the Slurm Factory, is aired. End of season one.
 * November 21
 * Episode fourteen, I Second that Emotion, is aired.
 * November 28
 * Episode fifteen, Brannigan, Begin Again, is aired.
 * December 12
 * Episode sixteen, A Head in the Polls, is aired.
 * December 19
 * Episode seventeen, Xmas Story, is aired.