Futurama (TV series - season 3)

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This is a list of episodes of Futurama episodes in broadcast order, from broadcast season 3.

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The Honking

  • Production code: 2ACV18
  • First aired: 2000-11-05
  • Written by: Ken Keeler
  • Directed by: Susie Dietter
  • Opening subtitle: SMELL-O-VISION USERS INSERT NOSTRIL TUBES NOW

Title probably from The Howling series of werewolf movies

Summary

After spending a terrifying night in his late uncle Vladimir's castle, Bender is run down by one of the most feared of robot monsters, a were-car. Back on Earth, Bender begins to have nightmares about cars running people over, and starts to have blackouts. Seeking advice, he consults the fortuneteller robot, who tells him that he has become a were-car himself, and that he his fated to kill his closest friend. The only way to break the curse is to destroy the original were-car.

That night, a restrained Bender breaks out of confinement, transforms, and almost kills Leela. The next morning, Fry, Leela, and Bender set out to track down the original were-car. Their search starts back at the castle, leads to the arctic, and then to Hollywood. There, robot actor Calculon informs them that he was given the curse by the original were-car.

Acting on Calculon's information, the crew heads off to find Project Satan, the most evil vehicle ever made. When they arrive at the abandoned automotive plant, they confront Project Satan, but the clock strikes midnight, and Bender takes on his were-car form. While trying to kill Leela, Project Satan accidentally skids into a giant furnace and melts. The curse lifted, Fry enjoys Bender's last beer.

Quotes

Professor Farnsworth: Pfft. Superstitious robot mumbo-jumbo.
Robot: Mumbo, perhaps. Jumbo, perhaps not! With all your modern science, are you any closer to understanding the mystery of how a robot walks, or talks?
Professor: Yes, you idiot. The circuit diagram is right here on the inside of your case.
Robot: I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe!

War is the H-Word

  • Production code: 2ACV17
  • First aired: 2000-11-26
  • Written by: Eric Horsted
  • Directed by: Ron Hughart
  • Opening subtitle: TOUCH EYEBALLS TO SCREEN FOR CHEAP LASER SURGERY

Summary

As part of an attempt to scam a convenience store, Fry and Bender enlist in the Earth Army. However, before they can use their 5% military discount to buy chewing gum, Earth declares war on another planet - Spheron 1 - a planet that Earth commanding general, Zapp Brannigan, admitted to his troops as being devoid of any natural resources and possessing no strategic importance whatsoever.

Concerned for her friends' safety, Leela attempts to enlist, but the Army has a men-only policy. While Earth's flagship, the Nimbus, makes its way to the enemy planet, the soldiers undergo training and we discover that Leela has sneaked aboard disguised as a man. They arrive and discover the enemy is a race of pink, sentient, ball-like creatures.

A longish-running M*A*S*H joke is played here; a camp is set up and Suicide is Painless, the M*A*S*H theme song, is played, along with other satirical references. A robot, named "iHawk", a parody of M*A*S*H character "Hawkeye" Pierce frequently makes scathing jokes in a voice strikingly similar to that of Alan Alda, the actor who played Hawkeye in the television series. At one point, the robot flips a switch from "irreverent" to "maudlin", a reference to the duality of Alda's character portrayal.

After the initial battle with the balls, the soldiers regroup at camp. President of Earth Richard Nixon sends Bender, along with Henry Kissinger's head, to negotiate with the Spheron leaders, the "Brain-balls". Leela discovers that a voice-activated bomb has been implanted in Bender's torso which was meant to be snuck into a peace negotiation and detonated to end the war.

Infantryman Fry, saves the day by bursting into the negotiations and preventing the explosion. Bender, though, soon realizes that he can set the bomb off whenever he wants, and uses that knowledge to blackmail the Brain-balls into surrender. The Balls then reveal that Spheron 1 is actually their homeworld, and that it is humans who are the "evil invading aliens". Bender then simply demands that they "get off of my planet!", and the entire population of Spherons evacuates the planet in a mass exodus as Earth forces move in. To quote a major Earth newspaper headline, "Balls Thoroughly Licked!".

Quotes

Sergeant: Correct, there is no obligation.
Fry and Bender sign the enlistment papers
Sergeant: Unless, of course, war were declared.
Alarm goes off
Fry: What's that?
Sergeant: War were declared.
Zapp Brannigan: Alas, after a series of deadly blunders caused by distracting low-cut fatigues and lots of harmless pinching, the Army decided women weren't fit for service. Not when I'm in charge.
Zapp Brannigan: These Brain-Balls, they got alotta brains, (makes cupping gesture) and they got alotta...chutzpah"
Zapp Brannigan: (Being scrubbed in shower by Kiff) Lower...Lower...Lower...Lower...TOO LOW!...Lower...

The Cryonic Woman

Title from the 70s TV show The Bionic Woman.

Celebrity voice credit

Summary

In an attempt to entertain themselves, Fry and Bender borrow the Planet Express ship. Unfortunately, the ship is anchored to the building using an unbreakable diamond tether. As the ship is piloted on a round-the-world joyride, the building is dragged behind it, smashing into a number of landmarks. Professor Farnsworth fires Fry and Bender for taking the ship, and fires Leela as well for leaving the keys in the ship.

Leela reimplants her and Fry's career chips, but she mixes them up. Fry gets hired for Leela's old cryogenics counselor job, and Leela is forced to be a delivery boy. Bender is also hired to work at the cryogenics facility, but in a surprising twist, he takes the position of Prime Minister of Norway, though he spends most of his time scaring defrostees. Fry thaws out Pauly Shore, who was supposed to be thawed out in Hollywood, California. When Fry goes to greet the next dethawed person, he is shocked to find that it is his old girlfriend, Michelle.

Fry introduces Michelle to the world of the year 3000, but she has problems adapting. She re-freezes both herself, and Fry, for another thousand years. They awake in a desolate wasteland. They try to make a new life in the world of the future, and join a society of adolescents. When the children are picked up by an adult woman in a heavily armored SUV, a confused Fry leaves Michelle to wander through the wilderness.

After wandering through a cloud of green mist, Fry finds himself standing in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater. The Planet Express ship lands in the street, and the crew explains that Fry is in the Los Angeles of the year 3000. Fry was in Pauly Shore's tube, and when the delivery crew discovered en route to Hollywood that Pauly Shore wasn't in the tube, they tossed it overboard.

The Planet Express ship returns to New New York, bringing Fry home.

Quotes

Fry: So you're saying these aren't the decaying ruins of New York in the year 4000?
Professor Farnsworth: You wish. You're in Los Angeles!
Fry: But there was this gang of ten-year-olds with guns.
Leela: Exactly, you're in L.A.
Fry: But everyone's driving around in cars, shooting at each other.
Bender: That's L.A. for you.
Fry: But the air is green, and there's no sign of civilization whatsoever.
Bender: He just won't stop with the social commentary.

Parasites Lost

Title from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Summary

While making a pit stop at an interstellar truck stop, Fry purchases and eats a sandwich from a vending machine in the restroom. On return to Earth, Fry and Bender are assigned the task of fixing the plasma fusion boiler, which promptly explodes. Bender is not damaged, but Fry is impaled by a large pipe. While sitting on Dr. Zoidberg's exam table, the pipe breaks in half, and Fry's damaged body repairs itself in seconds. After an endoscopic exam of Fry's bowels, the crew discovers that Fry is infested with worms.

To eliminate the infestation, the Professor makes miniature robotic versions of the crew, except for Fry and Leela. Because the worms would defend themselves if they knew about the mission, Leela is assigned to distract Fry. Controlling the micro-droids using virtual reality gear, the crew boards a miniature Planet Express ship, and enters Fry's ear.

The crew makes their way into Fry's bowel, and fights their way to the pelvic splanchnic nerve, intending to cause a massive bowel movement. Meanwhile, Leela is enchanted by the now-intelligent Fry. She realizes that the worms are responsible for this, and sets out to stop the Professor. Taking a shortcut, her micro-droid reaches the nerve, and hacks the rest of the crew to pieces with an axe.

Fry is informed of what has been happening, but is more interested in romancing Leela than clearing the worms out of his body. Leela takes Fry back to her apartment, and he begins playing the Holophonor, an instrument that combines a symphony orchestra with a holographic projector. Leela tells Fry that she loves the new him. Fry leaves, and with his own micro-droid, enters his own body.

When Fry meets with the worm leader, he blackmails the worms into leaving by threatening to kill himself. The worms gone, Fry returns to Leela's apartment. He tries playing the holophonor again, but he has lost his skill. He says the wrong thing, and Leela throws him out. Back at his apartment, Fry begins to re-learn the Holophonor, starting with a crude image of Leela.

Quotes
Lord Mayor of Colon (to Fry): You've damaged your brain, universe! But no more than a week of binge drinking or five minutes on a cellphone!

Amazon Women in the Mood

Title from the comedy film Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Celebrity voice credit

Summary

As a favor to Amy, Leela agrees to a double date with Zapp Brannigan and Kif Kroker. When a nervous Kif takes Zapp's advice about women, Amy storms off from the table. Kif is about to win her back, but when Zapp hijacks the orbiting restaurant, he crashes it into planet Amazonia. All four of them are captured by the giant native women.

Fry and Bender take off in the Planet Express ship to find Leela and Amy, and after a rough landing, make their way to the Amazon city. Due to an unfortunate choice of hiding place, they end up captured as well. The Amazons resolve to take the men to their leader, the Femputer.

The Femputer sentences the men to death by "snu-snu" (sexual intercourse—death results from by exhaustion and/or crushing of the pelvic bones), which causes some mixed feelings for Fry and Zapp. Bender is released, as he isn't technically a man. Fry, Zapp, and Kif are taken off to the snu-snu chambers and stripped. Leela sends Bender to try to reprogram the Femputer. Bender arrives at the Femputer, begins a lead-pipe reprogramming, and finds that the Femputer is a front for a female robot.

Amy sneaks into Kif's snu-snu chamber, grabs him, and runs. The Amazons chase them back to Femputer's chamber. Bender is inside, making out with the fembot. The two voices coming from the Femputer confuse the Amazons, and the crew strolls back to the ship. Back on Earth, Fry and Zapp receive treatment for their severe pelvic injuries.

Quotes

Leela: What planet are we on, anyway?
Zapp: I dunno. This whole sector is uncharted.
Kif: It is NOT uncharted. You LOST the chart.
Recorded Message: The number you have dialed has crashed into a planet. Please make a note of it.
Femputer: The Amazonians will be divided into three groups. The one called Zapp will be snu-snu'd by the large women. He that is designated Fry will be snu-snu'd by the petite women. And Kif, as the most attractive male, will be snu-snu'd by the most beautiful women of Amazonia. Then the large women. Then the petite women. Then the large women again. Initiate snu-snu.

Bendless Love

Title from movie "Endless Love" (1980)

Summary

After an overly dramatic takeoff results in an inelegant crash onto the streets of New New York, Leela discovers that the Planet Express ship's essential L-unit has been straightened. After discovering that other objects in the office (including Professor Farnsworth) have been bent, suspicion naturally turns to Bender. In order to confirm their suspicions, Hermes plays the security tape from the night before, which shows Bender sleep-bending. The Professor sends Bender away to satisfy his psychological need for bending.

Bender gets hired at a bending plant as a scab worker during a strike, and discovers that the factory foreman is Flexo, who was sent to prison in Bender's place in a previous episode. Also working at the factory is a solidly-built fembot named Angleyne. Bender quickly develops an affection for Angleyne, and they begin dating. Their relationship goes well, until Bender discovers that Angleyne and Flexo are divorced from each other, and are still affectionate.

In an attempt to discover Angleyne's true feelings, Bender disguises himself as Flexo, and meets her at an orbital night club. While there, Bender flashes the wad of cash he has made as a strikebreaker, which angers the members of the Robot Mafia who are present. Bender (as Flexo) succeeds in seducing Angleyne, and rushes off to kill Flexo.

Bender arrives at the bending plant where Flexo is working the night shift, and starts a fight. Meanwhile in the crane control booth, Clamps of the Robot Mafia moves an unbendable girder into position above Bender and Flexo. Because they don't know that Bender was disguised as Flexo, the Robot Mafia wants Flexo dead for Bender's monetary indescretions.

Clamps releases the girder, which crushes Flexo. Angleyne confesses that she still loves Flexo, and Bender decides that her happiness is more important than his, and resolves to save Flexo by bending the unbendable girder. After a mighty struggle, he frees Flexo, earning Angleyne's appreciation, but not her love. Having gotten bending out of his system, Bender returns to his job at Planet Express.

Quotes

Amy: You remember your own birth?
Bender: Sure, it was only four years ago.
Fry: You're only four years old?
Bender: Precocious little scamp, ain't I?

The Day the Earth Stood Stupid

Title from classic Sci-Fi movie The Day the Earth Stood Still

Summary

After the Planet Express staff discovers an ominous trend of destroyed planets leading toward Earth, Nibbler begins gibbering excitedly and runs away. Tracking Nibbler to an alley, Leela is attacked by giant floating brains. Leela is rescued by Nibbler, who has donned a uniform and is piloting a tiny flying saucer. Nibbler and Leela leave New New York and fly away from Earth.

The next day, Fry discovers that all the citizens of New New York have been rendered stupid, except himself. Meanwhile, Nibbler begins communicating to Leela telepathically, and they travel to planet Eternium, at the exact center of the universe. There, the Nibblonian council tells Leela of the threat of the Brainspawn, the giant brains that have invaded Earth and are attempting to wipe out all thought in the universe. Furthermore, Fry is the only being in the universe immune to the Brainspawn's mental attack, and is the only one capable of combatting them.

Leela arrives on Earth to tell Fry of his mission, and retains just enough intelligence to remember what it is. In a successful leap of logic, Fry seeks the leader of the brains at the New New York Public Library. There Fry discovers that thinking hurts the brains, but the brain leader traps Fry and Leela in a mental realm based on Moby-Dick. Fry and Leela pursue the giant brain through The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and into Pride and Prejudice. Fry breaks free of the illusion, and attempts to attack the giant brain. We see Fry's effort result in him being crushed by a bookcase, but then we discover that this is an illusion based on a story Fry had quickly written. In accordance with the story, the giant brain left Earth, and the people of Earth regained their intelligence. Unfortunately for Fry, no one remembered the events of the brain invasion. Nibbler returned to his undercover position observing Earth.

Quotes

Fry: People said I was dumb, but I proved them
Nibblonian: Welcome back Lord Nibbler, ambassador to Earth, home of the pizza bagel.
Fry (narrating): Leela cried for her lost love as Fry lay dead under the heavy bookcase. The big brain laughed in triumph. "Hahaha." Then, for no reason, he left Earth forever. The End.
Fry: There. Now he's trapped in a book I wrote, a crummy world of plotholes and spelling errors.
The Big Brain: The Big Brain am winning again. I am the greetest. Muhahaha. Now I am leaving Earth for no raisin.

That's Lobstertainment!

Title from That's Entertainment!, two anthologies of clips from MGM musicals.
Harold Zoid is a take-off of Harold Lloyd the famous silent-era comedian

Summary

After a disastrous attempt at stand-up comedy, Dr. Zoidberg informs the crew that uncle Harold Zoid was a star in the era of silent holograms. Zoidberg writes his uncle, asking for help with his comedy act. The washed up Harold Zoid sees this as an opportunity to restart his career. The crew sets off for Hollywood.

While taking a tour of movie stars' homes, Bender leaves the tour, and scams his way into employment as Calculon's water heater. Shortly after, Zoidberg meets his uncle in a fancy restaurant. Harold Zoid tells him to give up comedy, and that he needs Zoidberg to finance a drama to the tunes of a million dollars. Always a source of bright ideas, Bender tells Calculon that he can star in the movie if he provides the production money. Calculon initially refuses, but after seeing that the script was written by Harold Zoid, and Bender's guarantee of an Oscar win, he accepts.

The film, The Magnificent Three, is a story about a son (the Vice-President of Earth) not wanting to follow in his father's (the President of Earth) footsteps. Unfortunately, the movie is terrible and at the premier, the entire audience walks out. A furious Calculon threatens to kill Bender, Zoidberg, and Harold Zoid if they can't find some way to get him an Oscar.

Zoidberg and Bender set off to rig the awards, while Leela and Fry are busy attempting to free their ship from the La_Brea_Tar_Pits. When the awards reach the Best Actor award, Dr. Zoidberg tosses presenter Billy Crystal off the stage, and takes his place. In place of the fifth nominee, he substitutes Calculon. But when he sees his uncle's depression at being a has-been, Zoidberg announces him as the winner.

Calculon, somewhat chastened by Harold Zoid's acceptance speech, decides not to kill him, or Dr. Zoidberg or Bender.

Quotes

Judge 1: Uh oh, he read the wrong name!
Judge 2: Shh! Just play along, like they did for Marisa Tomei.

The Bird-bot of Ice-catraz

Title from The Birdman of Alcatraz, a semi-historical person featured in a 1955 book and 1962 movie of the same name.

Summary

This episode opens with Professor Farnsworth giving the crew an extremely controversial mission, towing a dark matter tanker through the solar system, and past the penguin preserve on Pluto. Leela refuses to take part, and the Professor makes Bender the new captain. Leela joins the protestors from Penguins Unlimited (an obvious parody of Ducks Unlimited).

After initially failing to stop the tanker, Leela and the protestors race ahead to intercept the tanker at Pluto. Meanwhile aboard the Planet Express ship, Bender lets his new power go to his head. Fry gets fed up with Bender's captaining, and rejects both his leadership, and his friendship. A distraught Bender goes on a sobriety binge, and takes the tanker on an erratic course over Pluto. The tanker collides with an iceberg, and spills dark matter across the landscape.

For his part in the disaster, Bender is sentenced to community service, cleaning up the spill alongside the Penguins Unlimited environmentalists. But when the police officers supervising his work are distracted by a round of platonic hugging, Bender dons a tuxedo and blends into the colony of penguins.

Leela sets off to search Pluto for Bender, while Fry inexplicably decides to take the Planet Express ship and search for Bender in space. That night, Bender is mauled by an orca, and the damage causes him to short out. When he reboots, his boot loader reinitializes him with penguin behaviors.

Back at the Penguins Unlimited facility, it is announced that the dark matter has increased the penguins' reproductive speed by tens of thousands of times. In order to save the penguins from mass starvation, open hunting season is declared. A reluctant Leela agrees to take part, but her first shot hits Bender in the head, causing him to reboot into his normal personality.

When the hunters arrive, Bender leads the penguins in an assault. After the penguins succeed in driving off the hunters, Bender takes off his tuxedo. Unfortunately, he had taught the penguins to hate anything that wasn't a penguin, and he and Leela come under attack. The penguins chase them onto a floating slab of ice, but Fry arrives in the ship. When it lands on the ice, it tips the block, sending the penguins sliding into the gaping mouth of an orca. Leela and Bender board the ship, and everyone returns to Earth.

Quotes

Free Waterfall, Sr.: Look, nobody enjoys shooting penguins. But if you have to shoot penguins, well, you might as well enjoy it.
Leela: I'm sorry, but if it's fun in any way, it's not environmentalism.
Free Waterfall, Sr.: Oh, really? How about blowing up dams?
Leela: Yeah, that is fun.
Free Waterfall, Sr.: Let's conservate!


The Luck of the Fryrish

  • Production code: 3ACV04
  • First aired: 2001-03-11
  • Written by: Ron Weiner
  • Directed by: Chris Loudon
  • Opening subtitle: BROADCAST SIMULTANEOUSLY ONE YEAR IN THE FUTURE

The title is a riff on the novel/film The Luck of the Irish.

Summary

The episode opens in the mid 1970s, where a young Yancy Fry is jealous of his newborn brother Philip. Meanwhile, back in the year 3000, Fry is getting fed up with his bad luck. A 1980s Fry discovers a seven-leaf clover. Fry sets off, with Leela and Bender, to find his clover in the ruins of Old New York.

Fry and company make their way to Fry's old house, which is still standing. Back in the 1980s, a teenage Fry hides the seven-leaf clover inside his Ronco record vault. After opening the vault, Fry discovers that the clover is missing, and concludes that Yancy stole it. While walking back to the surface access ladder, they happen across a statue of Yancy, with the seven-leaf clover in his lapel. Even more disturbing to Fry is the inscription: "Philip J. Fry - First person on Mars".

Professor Farnsworth pulls up a biographical movie about "Philip J. Fry", where the crew learns that after Yancy took the clover, he went on to be a millionaire rock star astronaut, and is now buried in Orbiting Meadows National Cemetery with the seven-leaf clover. A furious Fry sets off to rob his brother's grave and recover the clover. The story jumps back to the early 21st century, where an adult Yancy is rummaging through his missing brother's music to find something to play at his wedding. Yancy discovers the seven-leaf clover, and takes it.

Fry, Leela and Bender reach the grave site, and start digging. But Fry knocks loose some ivy that is covering part of the inscription, and begins to read while Bender and Leela continue digging. The story jumps back to Yancy, who is discussing naming his newborn son with his wife. Yancy gives his son the seven-leaf clover, and names him Philip J. Fry after his brother. The inscription on the tomb reveals the same, and Fry returns the clover to his nephew's grave.

Quotes

Fry: That clover helped my ratfink brother steal my dream of going into space. Now I'll never get there!
Leela: You went there this morning, for doughnuts.
Fry: Bender, we're going grave robbing.
Bender: I'll get my kit!
Leela: Uh, Bender, I think Fry needs a moment alone.
Bender: All right, grab a shovel. I'm only one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion.
Yancy (to his newborn son, in a flashback): Son, I'm going to name you Philip J. Fry, after your uncle, who I miss every day. I love you Philip, and I always will.

(this quote is considered among the most touching in the series)

The Cyber House Rules

Title from the John Irving novel The Cider House Rules

Summary

Leela gets invited to a reunion at her old orphanarium. She initially dreads seeing the people who made fun of her eye as a kid, but she decides rubbing her success in their faces would be very satisfying. Leela attempts to wave her impressive lifestyle in the other orphans' faces, but they quickly resume making fun of her eye. But Adlai Atkins, the only other success story from the orphanarium shoos them away. Adlai, now a phaser eye surgeon, offers to rework Leela's face to make her look normal, and she jumps at the chance. Meanwhile, Bender adopts twelve orphans for the $100/week/child government stipend.

The operation is a success, and Leela adapts to her new, normal-looking life. Adlai asks the two-eyed Leela out, which causes Fry to exhibit signs of jealousy. In short order, Adlai tells Leela that he's ready to settle down and have kids. A receptive Leela suggests that they should adopt, and Adlai agrees. They go to Bender, who is finding that government stipends aren't a good get-rich-quick scheme.

Leela wants to adopt a girl with an ear on her forehead. Adlai objects, and then suggests that the child have an operation to remove the ear and make her "acceptable". Leela, horribly offended, demands that Adlai undo the surgery he performed and make her a cyclops again.

Bender, having been arrested for crimes too numerous to list, returns the orphans to the orphanarium, and the one-eyed Leela goes back to her old oddball life.

Quotes

Leela: I guess you never really outgrown being an eyeball... oddball.
Adlai: Nonsense! You're a space captain. That's a fine, conventional profession.
Bender: I need a calculator.
Fry: You are a calculator.
Bender: I mean a good calculator.


Insane in the Mainframe

Title from the song Insane in the Membrane by Cypress Hill

Summary

While at Big Apple Bank to open a retirement fund, Fry and Bender become involved in a holdup. The criminally insane robot, Roberto, hands them bags of cash for their trouble, and after he runs off, Fry and Bender are arrested for the robbery. At the trial, Roberto threatens to kill Fry if he testifies against him. After pleading insanity, both Fry and Bender are sent to the HAL Institute for Criminally Insane Robots.

Once there, the dim-bulb asylum doctors refuse to acknowledge that Fry is human. Admitted as an insane robot, Fry is roomed with car-dealer Malfunctioning Eddie, who is undergoing treatment for an exploding problem. Fry perserveres, surviving on food coughed up by a sick vending machine robot.

But just when Fry thinks he's going to be released, he gets a new roommate, the insane bank robber Roberto, who robbed the bank again. Shortly after, Fry is released, having been "cured" of his delusion of humanity. Roberto, fed up with life in the asylum, breaks out with Bender. Back at the Planet Express building, Fry attempts to find his function as a robot.

A newly escaped Roberto robs the Big Apple Bank a third time, and Bender takes him back to the Planet Express building to hide out. New New York police surround the building, and Roberto takes the staff hostage. Fry, now convinced that he is a battle droid, takes on Roberto, who jumps out a window and is apprehended by the police. Fry, seeing that he was cut by Roberto, realizes that he is human.

Quotes

Fry: I refuse to testify, on the grounds that my organs will be chopped up into a patty.
Judge Whitey: Ah, the sixty-seventh amendment.
Fry: Let me guess. He thinks he's Lincoln.
Unit 2013: Well, he's supposed to. Trouble is, he's got multiple personalities. All of 'em Lincoln.
Linctron: I was born in 200 log cabins.
Zoidberg: Listen to me, Fry. Just because you think you're a robot doesn't make you a robot. After all, I think I'm a doctor but that doesn't MAKE me a doctor. These fancy clothes do.
Fry: Negative. I must be a robot. Why else would human women refuse to date me?
Leela: Oh, lots of reasons, but being a robot is not one of them.

Movie/Television References

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - The character Nurse Ratchet is based on Nurse Ratched, who runs the Ward with an iron fist, causing the newly admitted R.P. McMurphy to stir up the ward.
  • Roberto looks and sounds similar to Eddie Murphy.

Bendin' in the Wind

  • Production code: 3ACV13
  • First aired: 2001-04-22
  • Written by: Eric Horsted
  • Directed by: Ron Hughart
  • Opening subtitle: FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS CHANGING THE CHANNEL

Title from the Bob Dylan song Blowing in the Wind

Celebrity voice credit

Summary

Fry gets a free Volkswagen microbus, excavated from the ruins of Old New York. He pushes it back to the Planet Express office, and has to fuel it with whale oil, which replaced gasoline. Bender lifts the barrel of whale oil to the can opener, and is caught by the opener's magnet and horribly injured.

At the robot hospital, the doctor informs Bender that he will never move again. Bender falls into a state of depression, but when he finds out that Beck's disembodied head is occupying the bed next to him, his spirits are lifted. Beck loans Bender a set of neck-mounted robotic mini-arms. Using the arms to scrape across his mangled body, Bender earns the position of Beck's washboard player.

Bender goes on tour with Beck, and Fry, Leela, Amy, and Dr. Zoidberg pile into Fry's van to follow them. While on tour, Bender is insulted by the treatment of other broken robots. As the tour continues, Bender writes a song about broken robots. Together with Beck, he decides to put on a benefit concert in San Francisco, to help all the broken robots.

Fry and the crew catch up with Bender, who is relaxing in a San Francisco hotel. To everyone's shock, they discover that Bender has miraculously been fixed. To keep his music career, Bender decides to fake still being broken. The concert goes on as planned, but when the time comes to perform Bender's song, he can not restrain himself, and dances around the stage. Bender, having been found out, runs off with the oversized benefit check, stealing Fry's Volkswagen.

Bender, being pursued by an irate Beck, drives the microbus into San Francisco Bay. Beck catches Bender, and recovers the check. The crew floats back to New New York in the microbus.

Quotes

Beck: You know, when I'm upset, I write a song about it. Like when I wrote Devil's Haircut, I was feeling really... what's that song about?
Bender: Yeah! I could write a song - with real words, not phony ones like "Odelay."
Beck: Odelay is a word, just look it up in the Becktionary. [1]
Bender: Hand me the Becktionary. (Bender is handed Becktionary) No! I want the rhyming Becktionary.
Beck: That was the best 40 minute washboard solo I've ever heard. And the parts when I was awake, blew me away.

Time Keeps On Slippin'

Title from a lyric in Fly Like an Eagle by the Steve Miller Band

Summary

Representatives from the Globetrotter homeworld land in Central Park, and challenge Earth's honor on the basketball court. Professor Farnsworth accepts the Globetrotters' challenge, resolving to create a team of mutant atomic supermen to take them on. Unfortunately, when he completes his work, he is left with a team of mutant infants. Needing to accelerate their growth, the Professor sends the crew to gather chronitons. All the while, Fry is trying to woo an unreceptive Leela.

The crew returns with the chronitons, and the mutants' growth is successfully accelerated. The game proceeds, with Farnsworth's team of mutants maintaining a lead over the Globetrotters. But at the start of the second half, time begins inexplicably jumping forward, causing the Globetrotters to win by unknown means. The Professor formulates a theory that the crew's collection of chronitons has destabilized spacetime, and will lead to the destruction of the universe.

With the assistance of the Globetrotter's leader, Farnsworth builds a gravity pump. With the pump, they intend to reposition stars around the source of the problem, thus diverting the time skips to the empty side of the universe. Once they finish, Fry begins buttering Leela up again, but just as she's refusing him, time skips -- to their wedding. Leela immediately files for divorce, and Fry is left wondering what he did to win her over. Meanwhile, the time skips are only getting worse.

With the assistance of the other Globetrotters, a new plan is devised. The Planet Express crew will use one of Professor Farnsworth's doomsday devices to implode the nebula, creating a black hole which will prevent further release of chronitons. As the crew gets into position, Fry notices a set of stars that spell out a love letter to Leela; apparently he used the gravity pump to create the letter during a time skip, and that's what won Leela's heart. However, these stars are too close to the nebula and are imploded along with it before anyone else can see them. Fry's feelings for Leela remain unresolved, but the time skips have been stopped for good.

Quotes

Professor Farnsworth: We'll need to speed up their growth with time particles called 'chronitons'.
Bender: Aren't those the particles that destroyed an entire civilizat...
Professor Farnsworth: Good news! You're off to the Tempus Nebula to gather chronitons!

I Dated a Robot

  • Production code: 3ACV15
  • First aired: 2001-05-13
  • Written by: Eric Kaplan
  • Directed by: James Purdum
  • Opening subtitle: NO HUMANS WERE PROBED IN THE MAKING OF THIS EPISODE

Celebrity guest voice

  • Lucy Liu - herself, robot duplicates of herself

Summary

Fry decides to do all the things he always wanted to do, and the Planet Express crew obliges. After demolishing a planet, visiting the edge of the universe, and riding a dinosaur, one of his few remaining fantasies is to date a celebrity. Fry and Leela venture into the internet to visit nappster.com and download a celebrity's personality. Fry downloads the personality of Lucy Liu into a blank robot, which begins projecting an image of her.

Fry and the Lucy Liu robot begin dating, aided by her being programmed to like Fry. The other Planet Express employees, concerned about his relationship, show him the standard middle-school film on the dangers of dating robots. From the film, we learn that dating robots resulted in the destruction of Earth seen while Fry is frozen in the first episode. Unfortunately, Fry ignores the movie and keeps making out with his Lucy Liu robot.

Bender, offended by the concept of competing with humans for the attention of female robots, sets off with Leela and Zoidberg to shut down Nappster. He breaks into the back room, and discovers that Nappster has been kidnapping the heads of celebrities and making illegal copies of them. Leela grabs Lucy Liu's head and the four take off. The Nappster CFO loads a backup disk of Lucy Liu, and creates a horde of Lucy Liu robots ordered to kill.

Leela and her group, running from the robot horde duck into a movie theater, where Fry is seeing a movie with his Lucy Liu robot. Everyone ducks into the projection room. Zoidberg discovers a five ton bag of popcorn, and sends it pouring onto the robots on the theater floor. The robots eat their way out from under the popcorn. Fry's Liu robot points the projector at the other robots, and the heat causes the popcorn to pop, bursting the robots. At the request of the real Lucy Liu, Fry blanks his robot. A hypocritical Bender begins dating Lucy Liu's head.

Quotes

Zoidberg: It's funny, you live in the universe, but you never do these things 'til someone comes to visit.

External links

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