12/23 - SPECIAL TIME 9:30 - A Tale Of Two Santas (3ACV03) In the long-awaited-but-considered-too-violent-for-7:00 second Christmas episode, Fry, Leela, and Bender deliver Children's letters to Santa to his headquarters on Neptune, where they help the elves take over the factory, but they need a robot to deliver the toys, so Bender dresses up as Santa and makes his rounds...to an Earth that still treats Santa as evil ("What is Fox showing at 7:00?" Reruns of the first two "King of the Hill" Christmas specials)
12/30 - Luck of the Fryrish (3ACV04) Fry goes back into the depths of the ruins of New York City to find his lucky seven-leaf clover after he discovers that his brother apparently "borrowed" it on the road to great success
In most cities in the Eastern and Central time zone, whether or not this episode is "joined in progress" depends on whether or not the local Fox station shows the 4:05 Fox football game (the only one is New York at Philadelphia) or a 1:00 game. The cities that don't get a choice this time are: (* indicates that it may change status if the local game is blacked out, but don't count on it)
Full episode: Atlanta, Charlotte*, Chicago, Dallas*, Detroit*, Green Bay*, Miami*, Minneapolis
In progress if sold out, full episode if blacked out: Philadelphia (this is because if the game is blacked out, there is no other Fox game at 4:05, so the Philadelphia station has to show a 1:00 game)
In Progress: Buffalo, Cincinnati*, Cleveland, Indianapolis,
Jacksonville*, Kansas City, Memphis*, New York,
Pittsburgh, St. Louis*1/6 - Anthology of Interest 2 (3ACV18) What if...well, I'm not absolutely sure what the stories are, but from what I posted last May,... ...Bender was human? ...Fry's life was more like a video game? ...Leela found her home world? One of these is a "The Wizard of Oz" parody (I would guess the Leela story)
You know the routine...note that there's only one game on Fox that starts at 4:05 Eastern (Atlanta at St. Louis), so cities outside of NFL teams' home markets get to choose on their own whether to show that game or a 1:00 game (Arizona-Washington, Dallas-Detroit, Green Bay-NY Giants, Philadelphia-Tampa Bay, San Francisco-New Orleans). The cities that don't get a choice are: (* indicates that it may change status if the local game is blacked out, but don't count on it)
Full episode: Chicago*, Dallas, Detroit*, Green Bay, Jacksonville,
Kansas City, New Orleans*, New York*, Philadelphia,
Tampa*, Washington*In progress if sold out, full episode if blacked out: St. Louis
In Progress: Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte*, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Memphis*, Miami
1/13 - Looking at the NFL standings going into week 15, it would
be almost impossible for two AFC west-coast teams to host
games in the first round, so Fox will almost certainly show
a 4:15 Eastern game that Sunday, and Fox will not schedule
any episode in the eastern half of the country (the western
half would get an older rerun, as usual).1/20 - There has to be at least one AFC game played in the east
somewhere, as two AFC division champions have to host games
this weekend (one on Saturday, one on Sunday), so don't
expect an episode in the east today either.1/27 - Expect more of the usual, UNLESS the AFC Championship ends up
in Oakland (and the NFC Championship is not in San Francisco),
in which case CBS would most likely show the 4:15 game that
day (as they did last year), and Fox could schedule a new
episode (although they would have only one week's notice).2/3 - Fox will show the Super Bowl followed by an hour of "Malcolm in the Middle".