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A FLIGHT TO REMEMBER
Writer: Eric
Horsted
Director: Peter Avanzino
Production Code: 1ACV10
Original Air Date: September 26, 1999 |
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Filmed on Location
Professor Farnsworth decides to take all the employees of Planet Express
on a cruise of the new luxury space liner the Titanic. Zapp Brannigan is
the captain of its maiden voyage and in order to divert his advances towards
her he tells him that she is now involved with somebody - Fry. Everything
is going along fine until Amy finds her mettlesome parents are also booked
on the cruise ship and want to know where the future father of their grandchildren
is. Amy of course says that she is involved with Fry thus setting up a
kind of Three's Company meets the Titanic meets the Love Boat scenario.
Love is in the air as not only does Farnsworth have an onboard romance
but so does Bender. He falls for the rich Countess De La Rocha and he begins
courting her. He tries to hide the fact that he is poor from her but when
she finds out it only heightens their passion for one another. Zapp, not
satisfied that the present course of the Titanic is dangerous enough decides
to alter it and make it a little more daring. While at dinner it turns
out that his course change has brought them too close to a black hole which
the ship is now caught in its strong pull.
Bender goes back after the Countess while the others head for the escape
pods and finds her surrounded by fire with no way to get out. Bender rushes
in and saves her and they make a break to catch the others before the ship
is sucked into the black hole. He is a little too late as he arrives the
last pod is leaving. He and the Countess jump to barely catch the pod but
with the added weight of two robots there is not enough power to escape
the pull of the black hole. The Countess, feeling her grip loosen with
Bender, decides to sacrifice herself for the safety of Bender and the others.
Without the extra weight the pod escapes the black hole but not without
a few broken hearts and a new love blossoming between Kif and Amy.
Great parody all around of the blockbuster movie Titanic. Many scenes
stolen from that movie made their way here. Fry trying to work around having
two dates on the cruise was great as he called upon his vast knowledge
of Three's Company to help himself out. Of course this episode also sparked
the romance between Kif and Amy that has been weaved into the larger tapestry
of Futurama. What was supposed to be a one-off joke turned into something
that has been explored in later episodes and has taken both characters
in a different direction. |
MARS UNIVERSITY
Writer: J.
Stewart
Burns
Director: Bret Haaland
Production Code: 1ACV11
Original Air Date: October 3, 1999
Alternate opening theme music |
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Transmitido en Martian en
SAP
This episode marks the first opening theme music change.
On a special delivery to Mars University where Professor Farnsworth
works, Fry decides to enroll to prove that he can drop out from a real
college. He gets a new roommate in the form of a hyper-intelligent monkey
who happens to be Farnsworth's new experiment named Gunther. The professor
has developed a new device in the form of a hat that uses gamma radiation
to make the wearer of the hat super intelligent. Meanwhile Bender
decides to give some partying tips to a chapter of his old fraternity -
epsilon rhoe rhoe.
Although super intelligent and highly advanced for his species,
Gunther quickly realizes that he does not fit in anywhere. He is neither
a true monkey and is above typical monkey things like eating bananas and
swinging from chandeliers, nor is he completely human despite his intelligence.
Fry, Leela and Farnsworth decide to let Gunther make up his own mind on
how he wants to be. Luckily for them he decides to be smart again just
in time to save them from plummeting down a large waterfall to their deaths.
In the incident Gunthers intelligent hat becomes damaged and leaves him
less intelligent than before which is good for him because now he can feel
happiness. Much to the chagrin of the proffesor he decides to drop out
of Mars University and go to business school.
Plenty of great moments in this episode as the whole robot fraternity
story is a take-off of Animal House. The ending scene showing how everyone
ended up in the future is classic shown over the song Shout. I especially
liked Leela and Dean Vernon dancing together. The rivalry between Fry and
Gunther was also funny. |
WHEN ALIENS ATTACK
Writer: Ken
Keeler
Director: Brian Sheesley
Production Code: 1ACV12
Original Air Date: November 7, 1999 |
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Proudly Made no Earth
Bring me the one you call NcNeal! When a group of space aliens lands on
Earth they request for the one named McNeal to be brought to their spaceship.
President McNeal stands defiant and orders the planet Earth to attack the
invading aliens and puts Zapp Brannigan in charge or Earth's army. He in
turns calls upon all space vehicle owners to join in the fight. The battle
begins and Earth claims first victory - or so they thought. After
mistakenly destroying the Hubble telescope the aliens attack with a vengence
and start blasting all of Earths space craft away. Leela and the Planet
Express ship high tail it out of there and return to Earth. During a public
address President McNeal is captured by Zapp Brannigan and is delivered
to the aliens. When it is discovered that this is the wrong McNeal he is
disintegrated.
We learn that the aliens have been watching a Fox show Single Female
Lawyer and the transmission to the season final 1000 years ago was cut
off thus denying them the oppurtunity to see what happened in the season
final cliffhanger. Fry devises a plan to re-enact the final moments of
the season final. The aliens are somewhat satisfied and decide to leave
Earth immediately to go catch the end of a Jay Leno monologue.
The thing I like about this episode are the space scenes. It is always
a blast to see all those ships flying around as it really gives the folks
over at Rough Draft Studios a chance to give us some great 3D graphics.
The whole filming of the McNeal show is very funny as well and includes
Bender singing a rendition of the Single Female
Lawyer theme song.. |
FRY AND THE SLURM
FACTORY
Writer: Lewis
Morton
Director: Ron Hughart
Production Code: 1ACV13
Original Air Date: November 14, 1999
Guest Voice: Pamela Anderson (Dixie) |
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Live From Omicron Persei
8
Fry wins a contest put on by the soft drink Slurm and gets a free trip
to the Slurm factory to see how it is produced as well as an oppurtunity
to party with the party worm himself - Slurms McKenzie. Arriving at the
factory they are greeted by Glermo who will be their host. On the tour
they learn all sorts of neat stuff about Slurm and how it is made. What
they don't find out though is what the secret ingredient is. The hired
help at the Slurm factory are no help at all either as they pass the time
away working to songs that they sing.
Thirsty and with nothing available to drink, Fry dives into a river
of Slurm and proceeds to drown. Bender and Leela jump in after him and
all three are sucked down into a drain pipe in the Slurm river. Tasting
of the river reveals it to be not Slurm at all.
While trying to find there way out they come upon a door which holds
the true secret ingredient of Slurm and in fact its only ingredient. A
giant Slurm queen is responsible for all the contents of every can of Slurm
that goes out and she fills it with... well, you have to see it to believe
it. The three are captured and are never to leave the Slurm factory as
the Slurm queen has devised a seperate torture for each. Fry is able to
escape his torture and release Leela who in turn releases Bender. Big chase
scene to end the episode and heroic ending provided by none other than
Slurms McKenzie who can no longer live the party lifestyle. |
I SECOND THAT EMOTION
Writer: Patric
M. Verrone
Director: Mark Ervin
Production Code: 2ACV01
Original Air Date: November 21, 1999 |
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Made From Meat By-Products
Brought to you by Glagnar's Human Rinds
Bender gets fed up with Nibbler getting all the attention and for eating
the birthday cake that he made so he flushes him down the toilet. Leela
distraught wishes that Bender could feel her sorrow and would express some
remorse over what he has done. Prof. Farnsworth attaches an emotion chip
to Bender and tunes it into Leela's feelings so now he will feel everything
that she is feeling. The emotions become too much for Bender as Leela continues
to miss Nibbler - he decides to flush himself down the toilet to go after
Nibbler. Upon hearing what he has done, Fry and Leela go down in the sewer
system to help Bender find Nibbler.
Upon meeting a group of underground mutants they tell Fry, Bender and
Leela the tale of the deadly chupra nebra. Assuming the chupa nebra is
Nibbler, Leela and the others convince the underground mutants that he
is just their pet and they will help save them. Unfortunately there is
more than just Nibbler to be afraid of as the real chupa nebra shows up.
Bender fights the chupa nebra with an assist from Leela 'the virgin' who
thru her emotions Bender is able to fight el chupa nebra off and flush
him down the toilet to a sub-sub city.
The moments when Bender is acting out Leela's emotions are great -
especially when Amy takes Leela out to try and cheer her up and we find
out what Leela really thinks of Amy. The underground mutants were also
funny as was the parody of the real life chupa cabra incident from a few
years back. For added enjoyment, the good folks over at Futurama have provided
us with an alternate version of the Happy
Birthday song. Sing it at your next Birthday Party for added fun! Also
be sure to check out the Legend of El Chupa
Nibre. |
BRANNIGAN BEGIN AGAIN
Writer: Lewis
Morton
Director: Jeffrey Lynch
Production Code: 2ACV02
Original Air Date: November 28, 1999 |
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Not Y3K Compliant
During the opening ceremonies for the new DOOP headquarters, Zapp destroys
the space station and is put on trial. There he and Kif are stripped of
their rank and banished from DOOP. Penniless and alone, the two take to
the streets of New New York and try to survive as beggars. The lifestyle
doesn't fit them and they turn to Leela and the Planet Express for help.
Against Leela's wishes, Professor Farnsworth hires the two in hopes
that it will overshadow their horrendous safety record. On their first
mission, Zapp quickly establishes that he wants to be a captain again and
plots a mutiny with Fry and Bender. They overthrow Captain Leela and send
her to the ships brigg. Once again in command, Zapp sets a suicide course
for the planet Nuetrino. When Fry and Bender realize the plan they look
to Leela for help in saving themselves. Zapp and Kif jettison from the
doomed Planet Express ship leaving the others to save themselves. Can Leela
save them?
A real great episode with a nice parody of Urban Cowboy with Zapp and
Kif. The planet Nuetrino was really great as well (...'tell my wife, hello.').
Great episode for Zapp fans and Kif had some real wonderful moments as
well. |
A HEAD IN THE POLLS
Writer: J.
Stewart Burns
Director: Bret Haaland
Production Code: 2ACV03
Original Air Date: December 12, 1999
Guest Voice: Claudia Schiffer |
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From the Makers of Futurama
Coming Soon! |
XMAS STORY
Writer: David
X. Cohen
Director: Peter Avanzino
Production Code: 2ACV04
Original Air Date: December 19, 1999
Guest Voice: John Goodman (Santa-Bot) |
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Based on A True Story
Coming Soon! |
WHY MUST I BE A CRUSTACEAN IN LOVE?
Writer: Eric
Kaplan
Director: Brian Sheesley
Production Code: 2ACV05
Original Air Date: February 6, 2000
Annie Award winner for Individual Achievement in Directing |
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From the Network That Brought
You the Simpsons
It is that time again when little crustaceans think of love and... Naw,
forget about that! When Zoidberg starts acting a little aggressive it is
learned that he is full of male jelly and that it is time for him to return
to his homeworld and mate.
Upon arriving on his home planet Zoidberg, accompanied by Fry, Bender
and Leela, take in some of the sites like Zoidberg's old scuttling grounds
and the local sporting arena where they take in a bout of clogblock, or
something like that. A fighting match to the death between two decadoens.
Afterwards they head to the location of the mating ritual - the beach!
There Zoidberg dresses up to compete with other male decadoens in winning
a mate. At the end of the day Zoidberg stands alone. Depressed, he spies
an old school flame Edna who of course rejects his advances. Seeing his
friend so depressed Fry agrees to help Zoidberg fake love to win the heart
of a mate. A concept foreign to Zoidberg and his people.
What ensues is a bit of a twisted Cyrano d'bergiac wherein Fry hides
in bushes and writes letters on behalf of Zoidberg in order for him to
get Edna fall in love. Of course it backfires and soon Fry is in one serious
lip-lock with Edna in her apartment when Zoidberg comes in and catches
them red-handed. Enraged he challenges Fry to clogblock, or something like
that. The ceremony begins and Fry and Zoidberg are going at it tooth and
claw when Fry gets the upper hand and has Zoidberg in the clutches of a
giant shell cracker. At which point he releases his friend as he can not
go through with killing him. Zoidberg, however has no such problems and
proceeds to cut Fry's arm off once again throwing them into locked battle.
During all the commotion they do not notice that the stadium has emptied
and they are alone. The rest of the crowd has made their way to the beach
to start the ceremony, thereby leaving Zoidberg without a mate and alone
again. The two reconcile and head home at which time Zoidberg shows why
he is such a 'top notch' doctor. |
PUT YOUR HEAD ON MY SHOULDER
Writer: Ken
Keeler
Director: Chris Louden
Production Code: 2ACV07
Original Air Date: February 13, 2000 |
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Not Based on the Novel by
James Fenimore Cooper
After buying a new car Fry and Amy decide to take a ride on the planet
Mercury where they quickly use up the cars energy cels. While waiting for
the Septuple A to show up they realize they have alot in common about junk
and stuff. A romance develops and all is going well until Fry starts believing
that he is being smothered by Amy. Bender, after learning that people will
pay money to be set up on dates, starts a dating service.
Fry begs Leela to go with him and Amy to Europa but when she refuses
he invites Dr. Zoidberg. While cruising on the moon of Jupiter they let
Zoidberg drive the car while Amy and Fry talk in the backseat. Before he
can tell her he wants to break up with her Zoidberg crashes the car. When
he regains consciousness, Zoidberg informs him he is the only one who got
injured in the crash - he was decapitated! No need to worry though as due
to his quick thinking, Zoidberg has grafted Fry's head onto Amy's body!
Back at the Planet Express building Fry finally tells Amy he doesn't want
to see her anymore. Amy surprisingly takes the news pretty good much to
the consternation of Fry.
Since they won't be spending Valentine's Day together, Amy makes a
date. Worried to be part of the date with no date of his own Fry asks Leela
for some help. When she refuses he turns to Bender's Dating Service to
find himself a date. When his date shows up he is not to interested in
her nor is whe with him.
Fun episode that is themed towards Valentine's Day. The concluding
scene at the restaraunt is great as we learn where Bender found everybody
dates. Bender's turn as a pimp is also a great moment. Fry and Amy starting
their romance as well as the consequences of ending the affair while Fry's
head is attached to Amy's body provided for some fun situations. Of course,
Leela coming to Fry's aid at the end is also a touching moment.
Discuss this episode at the Futurama
Foundation. |
LESSER OF TWO EVILS
Writer: Eric
Horsted
Director: Chris Sauve
Production Code: 2ACV06
Original Air Date: February 20, 2000
Guest Voice: Bob Barker |
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The Show That Watches Back
Brought to you by Arachno Spores
On a trip to Past-O Rama Fry, Leela and Bender go for a joyride in
a vintage 20th century automobile and run into another bending unit, who
except for his stylish beard, looks exactly like Bender! His name is Flexo
and he, Bender and Fry quickly do up the town. They catch robot strip tease
acts, play practical jokes on Fry and pretty much make his life miserable.
Flexo seems more devious and evil than Bender and when a highly prized
single atom of jumbonian is needed to be transported, Fry becomes suspicious
of Flexo.
The jumbonian atom is to be transported to Jova 9, the site of the
Miss Universe Pageant, and is to adorn the winners tiera. Flexo is hired
on as extra security and each shipmate is to take turns guarding the rare
treasure. But when it is Flexo's turn Fry decides to keep an eye on Flexo
to make sure the atom is safe. Unfortunately, Fry falls asleep during his
shift and when he awakens the atom is gone! A massive robot hunt for Flexo
ensues that ends with the two bending units fighting it out for the safety
of the jumbonian atom. Who will win and what will happen to the loser?
What I liked best about this episode? Flexo! This guy rocks! I love
him! It is great because he really isn't just a Bender rip-off as he has
his own distinct personality. I really enjoyed the segment when Leela is
assigning watch shift hours - 'First Bender, then Flexo, then Fry.' The
robot duel was great as well - great blow by blow action! Great episode! |
RAGING BENDER
Writer: Lewis
Morton
Director: Ron Hughart
Production Code: 2ACV08
Original Air Date: February 27, 2000
Guest Voice: Rich Little, Russ Leatherman |
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Nominated For Three Glemmy's
While watching the big screen version of All My Circuits, Bender gets into
a fight with the robot who is sitting in front of him. Through luck he
knocks the robot out who turns out to be the Masked Unit - the most popular
robot in the robot fighting league Ultimate Robot Fighter. The chairman
of the league sees Bender dispose of the Masked Unit and decides to feature
him in the Ultimate Robot Fighting League. Leela offers to help train Bender
and convinces him to join after telling him her story of how she never
got a chance because in the orphanarium where she grew up her mentor, Master
Phnog, would not let her fight even though she was the best fighter because
she was a girl and did not have the will of the warrior.
Bender the Offender quickly becomes a hit in the Ultimate Robot Fighting
League and learns that he is winning because he is popular and not because
of any specail fighting talents he has. Fame quickly goes to his head and
he drops Leela as his trainer as all he cares about is being popular and
the fame it brings him. But when his popularity starts to fade and the
chairman wants him to take a dive against his next opponent Destructor,
Bender must choose between fighting or becoming the cross dressing anamoly
- the Gender Bender. Begging Leela for help she refuses until she learns
who Destructor's trainer is - Master Phnog!
After training with Leela he is still no match for Destructor and is
getting clobbered when Leela realizes that it is actually Phnog whi is
controlling Destructor. They fight under the fighting ring and when Leela
is about to get beaten by Phnog she saves the day through some quick thinking
and defeats Phnog once and for all. Bender appears to have won his bout
also but just at the critical time Destructor falls on Bender and the referee
counts him out.
Real fun episode here with some great fight sequences that were rendered
in 3D. The second appearance of the Brain Slugs and the second time in
as many episodes that Hermes falls prey to their powers. All the robot
fighters of the Ultimate Robot Fighting League are great parodies of mainstream
wrestling and the sport of wrestling as a whole. |
A BICOCLYPS BUILT FOR TWO
Writer: Eric
Kaplan
Director: Susan Dietter
Production Code: 2ACV09
Original Air Date: March 19, 2000 |
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This Episode Has Been Modified
to Fit Your Primitive Screen
Coming Soon! |
HOW HERMES REQUISITIONED HIS GROOVE BACK
Writer: Bill
Odenkirk
Director: Mark Ervin
Production Code: 2ACV11
Original Air Date: April 2, 2000
Guest Voice: Nora Dunn (Morgan Proctor) |
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As Foretold by Nostradamus
Hermes is up for inspection and he is confident that he will be promoted
to bureaucrat grade 35 while Leela plans a poker party with her former
employess from the crygenics. Bender is caught cheating and is roughed
up in Hermes office destroying it and insuring that he will fail inspection.
Grade 19 bureaucrat Morgan Proctor arrives and suspends Hermes and assigns
herself bureaucrat to the Planet Express. Hermes and LaBarbara take a vacation
on advice from Dr. Zoidberg.
The first order of business for Morgan Proctor is to evaluate the crew
and assign them new duties. During inspection a certain messy fetish of
Morgans surfaces and she engages in a torrid secret love affair with the
slob Fry. Bender catches them and is about to spill the beans to the other
employees when Morgan downloads Benders brain to floppy and sends it off
the Central Bureaucracy.
The whole Planet Express crew head for the Central Bureaucracy to find
Bender's brain but are amazed to find the central filing area is just a
mass of unfiled tubes and finding Bender's brain will be nearly impossible.
Enter Hermes who has a new found love for his job thanks to his 'vacation.'
Through song Hermes is able to retrieve Bender's brain and in the process
find an intent to date form from Morgan's past with a small little error
on it - it is stamped only 4 times and not the standard 5. Morgan is taken
away and Hermes gets his job back at the Planet Express albeit now a grade
36.
Best song from Futurama yet. This
one is a keeper. Other funny stuff is when Hermes is on top of the Planet
Express building and everybody yells for him not to jump except Bender
who yells - 'Do a flip!' Morgan's fascination with dirty, dirty boy Fry
and many of the scenes in the Central Bureaucracy were also very good. |
A CLONE OF MY OWN
Writer: Patric
M. Verrone
Director: Rich Moore
Production Code: 2ACV10
Original Air Date: April 9, 2000 |
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Coming Soon to an Illegal
DVD
At a surprise 150th birthday party for Professor Farnsworth he realizes
that his life has been a series of unfinished projects and things never
done. To lift his spirits he decides to name a successor to himself that
will carry on his lifes work. The surprise is that he names his clone -
Cubert Farnsworth - as his successor. Cubert is none to interested in carrying
on in Hubert's shoes so Professor Farnsworth decides to call upon the robots
from the Sunset Planet to take him away to where all old people go. It
seems that in the future when you reach the age of 160 you are taken away
to a secret location and never heard from again. Farnsworth has been lying
about his age and instead of turning 150 he is actually 160.
Cubert really doesn't take to being a scientist/inventor which saddens
the Professor who calls upon the robot patrol to come and take him away.
The others concoct a plan to go and rescue him. They use the Professor's
Smell-O-Scope to locate him and head on into the stars to find him. Fry
dresses up like Farnsworth while Bender and Leela dress up as robots to
get into the old peoples sanctum. Once there they locate the Professor's
cubicle and set out to save him. A chase ensues and they make it back to
the ship, but not before the robot patrol has had a chance to disable their
engines. Paniced, they try reviving the Professor to fix the ship. All
seems lost until Cubert comes upon a plan to fix the engines. The scientist
gene is awoken within him and they escape the Near Death Star.
Lots of Star Wars references in this episode. Certainly many more than
any other. For me this is what made it the most enjoyable to watch. Of
course plenty of gags made it worthwhile as well. |
THE DEEP SOUTH
Writer: J.
Stewart Burns
Director: Bret Haaland
Production Code: 2ACV12
Original Air Date: April 16, 2000
Guest Voice: Parker Posey (Umbriel), Donovan |
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A Stern Warning of Things
to Come
The term 'Deep South' takes on new meaning in this episode. On a fishing
expedition the entire Planet Express crew and ship are taken to the bottom
of the ocean by a giant fish. There Fry meets a beautiful mermaid named
Umbriel and falls in love with her. With the help of Dr. Zoidberg, the
rest of the crew track Fry down to a miraculous city under the sea which
turns out to be the fabled lost city of Atlanta.
Thru song we learn that the city of Atlanta was taken from its landlocked
life to the middle of the ocean, but was overbuilt and soon sank. For the
people who were left behind, they were turned into merpeople thanks to
the caffiene from the local Coka-Cola.
Fry suprises everyone when he announces that he intends to stay with
Umbriel under the sea but trouble arises in the bedroom and Fry is quickly
anxious to join his friends once again. |
BENDER GETS MADE
Writer: Eric
Horsted
Director: Peter Avanzino
Production Code: 2ACV13
Original Air Date: April 30, 2000 |
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Simulcast on Crazy People's
Fillings
Coming Soon! |
THE PROBLEM WITH POPPLERS
Teleplay: Patric
M. Verrone
Story: Darin Henry/Patric M. Verrone
Director: Chris Sauve/Gregg Vanzo
Production Code: 2ACV15
Original Air Date: May 7, 2000
Guest Voice: Phil Hendrie (Free Waterfall, Jr.) |
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For External Use Only
Brought to you by Molten Boron
What is the problem with popplers? They are oh so tasty that you want
to eat a bunch of them. On a return trip from the Moocher Planet and out
of food Fry, Leela and Bender stop on a nearby planet to do some foraging
- or at least find a Howard Johnsons. They come across a tasty little treat
that they fill the Planet Express ship with and head back to Earth. There
they decide to sell them and decide on the name Popplers but only after
rejecting names like Taste-Cycles. While selling them on a street corner
they are approached by Fishy Joe (owner of Fishy Joe's Restaraunt) who
wants to sell them in his chain of stores. The Popplers are a hit and people
are eating them like crazy when Leela finds out that they can talk!
Activists start protesting and a controversey arrises as to wether
or not Popplers shoule be eaten or not. Before a decision can be made the
inhabitants of Omicron-Persei 8 arrive and inform Earth that they have
been eating their young from their nursery planet and demand revenge. During
negotiations Leela is offered up to be eaten by the aliens since she was
the first to eat one of their young. This is agreed upon and Leela is scheduled
to be eaten at Madison Cubed Garden during a live broadcast! Zapp devises
a plan to substitute Leela with a double thereby saving her but an activist
hippy intervenes and protests the eating of one of 'God's creatures.' Leela
is about to be eaten when on the aliens young intervenes and spares Leela's
life.
A very funny episode here. The hippy activist was great especially
during the debate over wether or not Popplers should be eaten as well as
what his final fate is. Leela had some really standout scenes in this episode
as well and proved that she is not on the show to be the straight man to
Fry and Bender's antics. This episode also featured a jingle
for selling Popplers. |
MOTHER'S DAY
Writer: Lewis
Morton
Director: Brian Sheesley
Production Code: 2ACV14
Original Air Date: May 14, 2000 |
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LarvaeTested, Pupa-Approvedt
Who doesn't love their mother on Mother's Day? Certainly not good little
robots like Bender. Bender gives plenty of gifts to Mom on Mother's
Day to show his affection for having her create him. But when he gets there
Mom has a dastardly plan up here sleeve - or should I say bra? She wants
to become supreme emperor of Earth. Using a transponder she activates all
the robots of Earth thru their antennaes to destroy all mankind and maker
her supreme ruler. The only one who can save the day is that love-o matic
stud - Professor Hubert Farnsworth!
It seems long ago Farnsworth worked at MomCorp creating robots when
the two met eyes and were destined to the pelvis penucle. But when Farnsworth
creats his new cuddly toy that shoots rainbows out of his eyes - he and
Mom don't see eye to eye on how it should be built. She wants a fifteen
foot robot that will shoot beams out of its eyes and he wants the cuddly
little robot that shoots rainbows out. He leaves in disgust thus breaking
Mom's heart.
Farnsworth is talked into getting cuddly with Mom to get the transponder
from her bra and all is going well until that old feeling strikes again
and soon Mom and Farnsworth are doing the hokey-pokey. Having that old
feeling again turns Mom's heart warm and she decides to stop the robot
revolt and live happily ever after with Farnsworth. After the revolt Amy
spills the beans and Mom and Farnsworth again break up.
Funny stuff in this episode? Farnsworth and Mom of course - I mean
two old people getting it on - what more do you want? Farnsworth ripping
open his shirt to reveal his gold medallion as he is about to embark on
his mission of love was priceless. Also great was Mom and Farnsworth trading
barbs and insults. Great episode! |
ANTHOLOGY OF INTEREST I
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Painstakingly Drawn Before A Live Audience
3 What If stories are told thru Farnsworth's What If machine. The stories
revolve around Bender, Fry and Leela.
Bender wonders what it would be like to be 50 feet tall. After being built
by countless bender robots he leaves the place of his creation and heads
for Earth where he befriends Fry. The two spend many hours together playing
and having a good time until the giant Bender becomes a threat to society.
Farnsworth believes the only way to combat a 50 foot monster is with another
50 foot monster. Enter Zoidberg who becomes a giant after being hit with
Farnsworth's big laser. Bender and Zoidberg fight it out to the death until
Bender is impaled with a large pointy building and is killed. With his
last dying breath he gives the people of Earth something to ponder - who
really is the monster? The robot bent on destroying the human race? Or
the people who have killed a 50 foot robot?
In story number 2 Leela wonders what it would be like if she were more
impulsive - well not too impulsive at least. When Leela learns that Farnsworth
will leave everything to her when he dies, Leela pushes him into a hole
of man-eating anteaters. To cover up the murder she then murders Hermes,
then Bender, Amy, Cubert, Zoidberg, Scruffy and pretty much everybody else
at Planet Express. In order to keep Fry quiet about the murders she resolves
herself to the most impulsive move she can think of - she sleeps with Fry
to ensure his silence.
Fry wonders what life would be like had he never fell into the cryonic
chamber and come to the future. At the moment he is about to fall into
the chamber he misses and instead bumps his head, thereby staying in the
past. Wierd space fluctuations starting occuring to him where he sees some
pretty freaky characters. When he tells Stephen Hawking about his experiences
Fry is mysteriously abducted by a group called the Vice-Presidential Action
Rangers which is comprised of Al Gore, Stephen Hawking, Nichelle Nichols,
Gary Gigax and Deep Blue. They set out to get to the bottom of these wierd
disturbances. They realize that Fry should have been frozen and that will
set the universe right. At the last minute Fry rebels and the universe
is sucked into a black hole and into nothingness. There the group resigns
itself to playing Dungeons and Dragons for all eternity |
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