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THE HONKING

**Smell-O-Vision Users Insert Tubes Now**
Writer: Ken Keeler Director: Susan Dietter Production Code: 2ACV18 Original Air Date: November 5, 2000

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WAR IS THE H WORD

**Touch Eyeballs to Screen for Cheap Laser Surgery**
Writer: Eric Horsted Director: Ron Hughart Production Code: 2ACV17 Original Air Date: November 26, 2000

Bender and Fry join the military in hopes of getting military discounts on gum and other essential items when suddingly war breaks out. Soon they are training to go off to some foreign planet and defend Earth from an unseen menace. Leela tries to join but is turned down by military captain Zapp Brannigan who cannot have women in the army because they are too distracting.
During training a new recruit by the name of Lee Lemon shows up and is a top notch recruit. Zapp finds himself eerily attracted to this new recruit although cannot figure out why. On the planet Sphereon 6 Earth's military might comes face to face with their adversary - huge bouncing balls. In battle Fry's company is cornered and it is up to him to save the company, he cannot do it but Bender can. He throws his body on a large bomb and becomes a war hero.Zapp demotes him to the lowest position there is - being Kif's assistant. Bender meanwhile is promoted to chief negotiator for Earth with Henry Kissingers head, unbeknownst to him that he is carrying a bomb in his cabinet that will detonate when he says the word 'ass.' Earths army begins evacuation while Fry sees this as an oppurtunity to redeem himself with the help of Lee Lemon who turns out to be Leela in disguise.
Fry and Leela are able to stop Bender from saying the detonation word but only after Bender is able to coax the spheres into surrendering.
Parodies of Star Wars sprinkle this episode as well as Mulan in Leela's disguise and alter ego in joining the military. The bouncing balls of Sphereon were great! I have to get me one of those blasters the Earth army used - priceless!

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THE CRYONIC WOMAN

**Not A Substitute for Human Interaction**
Writer: J. Stewart Burns Director: Mark Ervin Production Code: 2ACV19 Original Air Date: December 3, 2000 Guest Voices: Sarah Silverman (Michelle)

Fry, Leela and Bender all lose their jobs at Planet Express after Bender and Fry 'borrow' the Planet Express ship for a joyride. Jobless Leela decides to implant their old career chips so that they can find jobs more easier, unfortunately she installs Fry's chip in her hand and her chip in his. Leela is now a delivery boy and Fry works at the cryogenics lab. After Bender and Fry have some fun with thawing people out (one of which is Pauly Shore - buuuuudy) they thaw Amy - Fry's girlfriend from the 20th century. They decide to start dating again but Amy has trouble adjusting to life in the year 3000 and they make a pact to re-freeze themselves to live their lives in the year 4000. They wake up in an apocolyptic wasteland and all hope looks lost. After fighting with some very young warriors - Amy and Fry again split up. Fry finds his way to Hollywood where the Planet Express gang find him and explain to him that they were actually in Pauly Shore's tube where a movie studio was transporting him to a movie premiere but when they found out that the contents of the tube are not Pauly Shore they dumped them in the middle of the desert.
The scenes where Bender and Fry welcome the unfrozenies to the future make this episode worthwhile. This episode loses a little steam towards the end but the first half more than makes up for it. The L.A. jokes were a little too contrived for my tastes and really was the only down part for me. I would like to see Amy appear in more episodes now that she is in the future with Fry as I think her and Fry go well together and could create some really funny situations.

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PARASITES LOST

**If Not Entertaining Write Your Congressmen**
Writer: Eric Kaplan Director: Peter Avanzino Production Code: 3ACV02 Original Air Date: January 21, 2001

Opening Sequence Banner:
If Not Entertaining, Write Your Congressmen
At a truck stop Fry buys an egg salad sandwich in the men's restroom and soon finds out exactly what type of eggs! Parasites! They begin to take over his body and mind and start cleaning up the place which turns Fry into a romantic 'stud' who quickly wins the heart of Leela.
In order to get rid of the parasites Farnsworth scans himself, Amy, Hermes, Zoidberg, Bender and the Planet Express ship into little tiny replica robots to go into Fry's body to get rid of the parasites. Unfortunately Leela has already fallen in love with Fry and scans herself into a robot and stops the others from expelling the parasites. They are happy but Fry wants to make sure that Leela loves him for the right reasons and so he scans himself and enters his own body to get rid of the parasites once and for all. This way he can be sure that Leela loves him because of who he is and not what the parasites have made him.
A surprisingly good episode considering the subject matter. Zoidberg examining Fry while the others watch, the beginning convoy sequence and truck stop scene are all sure to get a laugh. Watch for the fuel types at the truck stop - regular matter, dark matter or wattsa matter. Of course the end is very touching as Fry paints a picture of Leela with his holophoner. The Planet Express crews whole expedition into the body of Fry also has alot of funny moments.

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AMAZON WOMEN IN THE MOOD

**Secreted by the Comedy Bee**
Writer: Lewis Morton Director: Brian Sheesley Production Code: 3ACV01 Original Air Date: February 4, 2001 Guest Voices: Bea Arthur (Fem-puter)

Zapp negotiates a double date for himself and Kif with Leela and Amy after learning of Kif's longing to be with Amy. They agree to go on 1 1/2 double dates and start things off with a romantic dinner for one (Zapp). During a raunchy rendition of the tune Lola renamed to Leela by Zapp, all the guests at the restaraunt head for the escape pods leaving the 4 alone on the space restaraunt. Zapp decides to drive them home but loses control and crash lands on an unchartered planet.
They quickly learn that it is inhabited by a race of giant women who have oulawed men on their planet. Zapp and Kif are imprisoned while Leela and Amy are set free. Fry and Bender upon learning of the crash set out to rescue Leela and Amy but are instead captured themselves. The women turn to their all knowing leader - the Femputer. After learning that the men have riduculed their way of life the Femputer sentences the men to death! Death by snu-snu! (Snu-snu being a type of reproductive act that... well, you get the idea) Bender is released however, as he is not technically a man and the others are prepared for their fate.
Amy steps in to save Kif and make a break for it to the cave of the Femputer where the Femputer has had a change of heart. It seems the Femputer is really operated by a fembot who falls for Bender and decides to free the prisoners.
Great episode! One of my all time favorites. This episode plays up many stereotypes of both men and women and will keep you laughing the entire episode. The scenes of the captured men and how they ridcule the giant womens way of life were great as were their reactions to the decree of death by snu-snu.

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BENDLESS LOVE

**Torn From Tomorrow's Headlines**
Writer: Eric Horsted Director: Swinton Scott Production Code: 3ACV06 Original Air Date: February 11, 2001 Guest Voice: Jan Hooks (Angleyne)

When things start turning up bent at the Planet Express building, Hermes suggests looking at the survelliance tapes to find out who is doing it. It appears that Bender has been sleep bending and it is determined that Bender has some pent up desires to bend things (he is a bender after all) and he goes out looking for a job to satisfy these supressed desires. He gets a job at a plant that is on strike and the union is backed by the robot mafia. There he also meets up with the beautiful fembot Anglyne and, much to his surprise, Flexo. Bender takes an immediate fancy to Anglyne until one night he catches her and Flexo together at a restaraunt. Jealous, Bender demands to know what is going on. Anglyne tells Bender that she and Flexo used to be married but since their seperation they have remained close.
Bender devises a plan that will prove Anglyne still loves Flexo as he impersonates him and asks her out on a date where they have a wonderful time. Unfortunately for Bender the robot mafia is watching as he flashes his 'flithy scab money' at the night club. When Anglyne finally expresses her feeling for Flexo Bender is outraged and immediately heads back to the plant for a showdown with Flexo. The robot mafia follow him (thinking he is Flexo) intent on showing him what's what.
At the bending plant Bender meets up with Flexo and a fight ensues - fitst to fist, blow to blow. The robot mafia have decided to drop an unbreakable girder on the bending unit with the beard (Flexo) and when they do Flexo is crushed. Anglyne comes running in and realizes that she really does love Flexo and wants to be with him. Moved by good nature, Bender determines to bend the unbendable girder off of Flexo so that he might escape. He succeeds and Flexo and Anglyne are free to start their lives over again.
I really like the character of Flexo. He is the same as Bender but there are subtle differences in their personalities which I think is alot of fun. Bender's pent up bending feelings and what he bends is really funny especially when he bends the Professor both at the beginning of the episode and at the end. Hope we get to see more of Flexo and Anglyne in the future.

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THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STUPID

**80% Entertainment by Volume**
Teleplay: Jeff Westbrook Story: Jeff Westbrook/David X. Cohen Director: Mark Ervin Production Code: 3ACV07 Original Air Date: February 18, 2001

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THAT'S LOBSTERTAINMENT

**Deciphered From Crop Circles**
Writer: Patric M. Verrone Director: Bret Haaland Production Code: 3ACV08 Original Air Date: February 25, 2001 Guest Voice: Hank Azaria (Harold Zoid)

When Dr. Zoidberg fails at his life long ambition of being a stand up comedian he writes to his famous Uncle Harold Zoid for some pointers on how to be funny. His uncle invites him to Los Angeles to talk about his future and the whole gang heads for the coast. Once there Zoidberg meets up with his uncle to discuss comedy but Harold Zoid has other plans. He is looking for an oppurtunity to get back into pictures and to be famous once again. He tells Zoidberg he is unfunny and he should concentrate on drama. Of course Harold just so happens to have a magnificent script just waiting to be shot with the proper financial backing. Preferably from a rich doctor nephew. Zoidberg is not able to help as doctor's don't make that much money. Harold Zoid insures that it will be a first rate film especially if they can get a big name actor for the lead.
Bender is able to step in and help out as he has been 'helping' the great robot thespian Calculon. Bender shows him the script and he is not interested until he sees that it has been written by the screen legend Harold Zoid and agrees to star in it to work with his idol. He finances the film based off of Bender's suggestion that it will win him the Oscar.
Shooting begins on the Magnificent Three but things turn south as Harold Zoid, although making a drama, begins adding comedic bits and imploring all the actors to emore more. By the end of the shoot the money to finance it is spent so their is very little left to edit it and at the premiere of it the entire audience walks out. Calculon is furious over the loss of his money and threatens Bender, Zoidberg and Harold Zoid with bodily harm if he does not at least win an Oscar from his performance. Come Oscar time Zoidberg has devised a plan in which he will replace the presenter for Best Lead in A Drama and award it to Calculon even though he is not nominated. When he opens the envelope he looks to his uncle and a wave of emotion comes over him and instead awards it to Harold Zoid.
A very underrated episode as there are many funny moments in the entire episode. Harold Zoid is a pretty good character and the filming of the Magnificent Three is extremely funny. The Oscar presentation has some pretty good spoofs of various famous people and some interesting choices for best actor. Definitely an episode that needs to be watched a couple of times to really appreciate the humour of it all.

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BIRDBOT OF ICE-CATRAZ

**Now With Chuckelin**
Writer: Dan Vebber Director: James Purdum Production Code: 3ACV05 Original Air Date: March 4, 2001 Guest Voice: Phil Hendrie (Free Waterfall, Sr.)

Planet Express is hired to haul a tanker full of dark matter across the galaxy. Leela objects to hauling the potentially hazardous material which is scheduled to fly very close to Pluto and the penguin sanctuary on it to which Professor Farnsworth demotes her from Captain of the Planet Express hip and promotes Bender to be the new Captain. Leela joins a conservation group to stop the tanker and they form a human circle in space around the tanker to which the tanker flies outside and proceeds on its journey. The conservation group heads to Pluto to try and stop the tanker there..
Meanwhile, on board the Planet Express ship Bender has let the power of being the ships Captain go to his head and begins ordering Fry around and forces the nickname of Wiggles upon him as his first mate. Feeling like Bender values his Captain status more than their freindship Fry leaves their special dinner at the Captain's Table. Feeling low for taking advantage of their friendship Bender stops drinking and pilots the ship too close to Pluto shredding its 6,000 hulls and dumping its payload over the pengiun sancturary and all the penguins in it. For being well beneath the legal limit of alcohol for robots Bender is sentenced to community servie on Pluto cleaning up the penguins who were doused with the dark matter.
Wanting to get out of his community service Bender poses as a penguin. All is fine until he is eloctocuted by accident and when he reboots he reboots in penguin mode and begins living life as a penguin. Speaking of thepenguins it appears that the dark matter spilled on them is natures aphrodisiac and it causes the penguins to be ultra fertile not to mention the ability to lay more eggs in addition to making the males lay eggs as well. As a conservation group Free Waterfall, Sr. cannot let this go on as it would cruel and inhuman. After a time they would quickly grow out of their habitat in which most of the population would die. The solution? Penguin season is now open! Bender leads a revolt against the humans but will it be enough?
Another fun episode and the second in the line of Free Waterfall characters to be introduced. While not as popular as Free Waterfall, Jr, Free Waterfall, Sr. is a great character in his own right. He is really what makes this episode tick and keeps it together. The bane of the Waterfall clans existence is also borne out on Waterfall, Sr., as he goes down in an ironic twist of fate. The scenes of Bender as a penguin are not all that great but as I mentioned before Free Waterfall, Sr., is able to fill in the gaps and make this episode worth watching.

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LUCK OF THE FRYISH

**Broadcast Simultaneously One Year in the Future**
Writer: Ron Weiner Director: Chris Loudon Production Code: 3ACV04 Original Air Date: March 11, 2001

Tired of his recent string of badluck Fry decides to find his lucky 7 leaf clover that he left in a safe in his families bomb shelter when he was a teenager. Thru a series of flashbacks we get to see the birth of Phillip J. Fry and his rivalry with his older brother Yancy as well as the finding of the lucky 7 leaf clover. Upon reaching his home in the ruins of old New York still standing under New New York, Fry goes to the safe and opens it up expecting to find the clover, however it is missing. Fry later finds out that Phillip J. Fry has gone on to become the first man on Mars, the frontman of a successfull rock group and entrepreneur. Considering his rivalry with his older brother and how he always wanted to do what Fry was doing and wanting to be Phillip J. Fry - the real Phillip J. Fry becomes infuriated and is determined to steal back the clover from his brothers grave.
Upon digging his brothers grave up to get the clover, Fry uncovers his headstone and realizes that it wasn't Yancy who stole his life. Yancy, in honor of his missing little brother, named his firstborn son after Phillip and handed down the lucky 7 leaf clover to him.
An all around feel good episode of Futurama with plenty of heart. I like to see these kinds of episodes now and again that do not rely solely on slapstick or joke-a-minute writing, although there were plenty of funny moments in the show.

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THE CYBER HOUSE RULES

**Please Rise for the Futurama Theme Song**
Writer: Lewis Morton Director: Susan Dietter Production Code: 3ACV09 Original Air Date: April 1, 2001

Upon returning to the orphanasium for her reunion, Leela meets up with Adele, another orphan who she had a crush on. Adela is sorry for making fun of Leela when they were children and suggests a way that nobody will ever make fun of her again - graft another eye so that she will look normal like everybody else.
Meanwhile, Bender schemes to adopt some children when he learns that the government will send him money. He adopts twelve children who quickly fall in love with daddy Bender ('Our daddy's a giant toy!'). Bender quickly learns the ways of fatherhood are not easy - especially after realizing that it costs more to take care of them than he is getting paid. He then tries to sell them to an Asian restaraunt.
After her surgery Leela is remarkably like everybody else with two eyes. A romance ensues between her and Adela and they think about adopting children. When Leela and Adela go to adopt a child from Bender they cannot decide on one until Leela wants to adopt the child with a third ear on her forehead. Adela finally agrees with Leela but only on the condition that he can operate on her to remove the third ear. Leela then realizes that it is the differences between people that make them special and wants Adela to make her the way she was - a cyclops.
A really funny episode showing some of Leela's past in the orpanarium and the scenes with Bender and the orphans. The take-off on the Twilight Zone episode In the Eye of the Beholder was good to. Leela's shopping spree to the tune of Pretty Woman was great as she shows off her new eyes was a nice little interlude.

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INSANE IN THE MAINFRAME

**Bender's Humor by Microsoft Joke**
Writer: Bill Odenkirk Director: Peter Avanzino Production Code: 3ACV11 Original Air Date: April 8, 2001

This episode is brought to you by Thompsons Teeth
After getting caught up in a bank robbery with the robot Roberto, Fry and Bender are mistakenly accused and sentenced to the robot insane asylum. Even though Fry tries to convince them that he is not a robot, nobody at the insane asylum believes him. After all the asylum is full of robots who think they are human. Approaching his last ounce of humanity, Fry is pushed over the edge when his new roommate at the insane asylum is none other than - Roberto!
Pushed over the edge, Fry is let go from the asylum as he now believes himself to be a robot. He tries finding out his primary function but is unsueccesfull at being a toolbot and a adding machine. Meanwhile, Bender and Roberto break out of the insane asylum and head for the Planet Express building where they are quickly surrounded by the police. Roberto quickly takes everybody hostages when Fry realizes his true function - he is a battle bot! He turns on Roberto who after a brief encounter with Fry the Battle Bot jumps out the window and surrenders to the police. Fry realizes he is human after all when he discovers he has been cut and is bleeding from the encounter with Roberto.
A bunch of crazy robots, one really crazy robot and one crazy human who tries to get others to believe that he isn't a robot is what makes this episode fun. The scenes in the robot asylum are all great! Insane Eddie is Fry's roommate and he is constantly blowing up. The scene at the dinner table is also great as a robot refugee from Alice in Wonderland continually demands that all robots change places. One of the best scenes of this episode has to be when Fry battles Roberto - true classic!

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BENDIN' IN THE WIND

**Federal Law Prohibits Changing the Channel**
Writer: Eric Horsted Director: Ron Hughart Production Code: 3ACV13 Original Air Date: April 22, 2001 Guest Voice: Beck

After finding a Volkswagon Bus dug up from an excavation site Fry and Bender bring it back to Planet Express to clean it up. Bender has an accident with a can opener which leaves him paralized. Despondant and feeling low Bender runs into the head of Beck in the hospital who is having a mannequin body attached to his jar. Beck lets Bender know that life isn't over just because he can't move and gives him his mechanical arms to which Bender is able to scratch out some sounds on his damaged body. Beck offers Bender a gig in his band which fulfills a lifelong dream of Bender's to become a folk singer.
Beck and Bender head out on tour with the rest of the Planet Express crew close behind 60's style in Fry's refurbished VW bus. At a gig Bender notices some broken robots who are being destroyed and wonders what he can do to help his fellow robots. He decides a benefit concert is the thing to do and with the help of Beck they organize Bend-Aid. A charitable organization to aid broken robots and to bring awareness to the population that just because a robot is broken doesn't mean he is useless. Bender puts his feelings into song and premieres it at Bend-Aid but before he can perform it he regains the use of his body and so in a sense becomes a hyporcrite. Bender decides to go through with the performance and to pretend that he still cannot move but soon the rythm of the music bears out the real Bender. The gathering crowd is none too happy over Bender's mobility and run him out of town.

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TIME KEEPS ON SLIPPING

**For Proper Viewing Take Red Pill Now**
Writer: Ken Keeler Director: Chris Loudon Production Code: 3ACV14 Original Air Date: May 6, 2001

While enjoying a nice day at the park the Planet Express crew encounter an invasion by the Globetrotters who have come to Earth to challenge it to a game of basketball to prove their superiority on the court. When nobody will accept the challenge laid down by the Globetrotters, Farnsworth steps up and offers his sub-atomic mutants to battle the brothers from another planet.
The problem being that his mutants are still little babies and in need of maturation. Farnsworth suggest the Planet Express crew to gather some nuetrinos at the edge of the Universe. When they return from their mission the Professor feeds them to the sub-atomic mutant babies and they instantly start growing and mutating into a world class mutant basketball team just in time to face off against the Globetrotters. Things are going great until crazy things start happening on the basketball court. Time keeps jumping forward in random intervals. AFter the game (in which Fry somehow manages to lose it for Earth during a time skip) Farnsworth determines that the time skips must be related to the nuetrinos that were plucked from space and to remedy that they might be able to move a nearby nebula closer to the nuetrino field to stabilize the time continuum. Bubblegum Tate, the leader of the Globetrotters and renowned physicist concurs and it is off with the Planet Express crew once again to try and rectify the situation. Unfortunately it doesn't work and the time skips continue but not before we get to see both Fry and Leela married and divorced over a span of about three minutes. Fry is perplexed over this whole scenario as this was the one thing that he has wanted for some time - to be near Leela. Because of the time skips neither he nor Leela knows what it was that Fry did to win the heart of Leela.
In a last ditch effort to save the Earth Farnsworth and Bubblegum Tate devise another plan. One that would involve creating some sort of doomsday device to create a black hole thereby nuetralizing the nuetrino fields. Off the Planet Express crew go to install and detonate the doomsday device. After it is installed they begin to leave the nuetrino field but not before Fry can see the thing he did to impress Leela into marrying him. The unfortunate thing is that Leela did not see it either and it is destroyed along with the nuetrino field.
I like episodes like this that start in one direction but end up entirely somewhere else. I would like to have seen more of the Globetrotters and Bubblegum Tate here, particularly when discussing the Universe and physics and junk. Real fun character and I hope they can come back again in the future. Out of all the episodes I think this actually had one of the strongest emotional moments between Fry and Leela as Fry tells Leela in order to impress her he has been learning to drive the Planet Express ship. Sensing that Fry is feeling down over their breakup she lets him drive the ship out of the nuetrino field. It was a subtle moment but one that spoke volumes about the characters.

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I DATED A ROBOT

**No Humans Were Probed in the Making of This Episode**
Writer: Eric Kaplan Director: James Purdum Production Code: 3ACV15 Original Air Date: May 13, 2001 Guest Voice: Lucy Lui

When Fry is bored living in the future he gets the others to take him out to do all the things he always wanted to do. After seeing the edge of the universe, riding a T-Rex and blowing up planets he comes to the final items on his list. Dating a celebrity. Lucky for him that in the future people can download celebrities into blank robots and spend time with them. Fry selects Lucy Lui to download from Nappster and she immediately falls in love with him (they're all programmed that way). The rest of the gang starts to feel Fry is spending too much time with his fembot when all he wants to do is make out with her. Even after showing Fry the propaganda film Don't Date Robots! he is still not convinced. Fry, Leela and Zoidberg are determined to shut down Nappster.
When they get there they here the screams of Lucy Lui from behind a closed door and when they investigate the reveal Nappsters true name - it is KidNappster. They have been holding celebrity heads in jars for years to download illegal copies. They rescue Lucy Lui and run off - but not before the owners of KidNappster can make a whole army of Lucy Luibots to go after Leela, Bender and Zoidberg. They fight and defeat the first wave of fembots then take refuge in a movie house where they run into Fry and the Lucy Luibot. The army of Luibots breaks into the movie house and attacks the gang. They escape into the projector room where first they attack them with popped popcorn and then with the projector light which causes the Luibots to malfunction and be defeated. All are defeated save for the Fry's Luibot who gives herself up and is destroyed herself.
Fun episode that would be neat if they revisited some of these themes in the future like downloading celebrities into blank disc robots. Plenty of possibilities there I think. I really liked the scenes with Fry and the Luibot where she continually asks him if he would like to register her. The take-off of All in the Family by Bender and Leela was great I thought as was Bender and the head of Lucy Lui becoming an item at the end of the episode. You've got metal fever boy!

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