Roswell That Ends Well - Broadcast and Reception

Broadcast and Reception

The episode won an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Animated Program (Programming Less Than One Hour) category in 2002, marking Futurama's first win in this category. Rich Moore also won an Annie Award for "Directing in an Animated Television Production" in 2002 and in 2006 IGN ranked the episode as the sixth best Futurama episode. In 2001 executive producer David X. Cohen noted that this was one of his favorite episodes of the series thus far. Sci Fi Weekly gave the episode an "A" grade and noted that it was "a half hour of pure entertainment". This episode is one of four featured in the Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection, marking it as one of Matt Groening's favorite episodes from the series. Claudia Katz, producer of Futurama, has also stated that this is one of her three favorite episodes of the series. Although the episode was well received by critics, it continued to do poorly in its time slot. The original airing was in 83rd place for the week with a 3.1 rating/5 share.