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Futurama/The Series Has Landed
| The Series Has Landed | |
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| Season 1, Episode 2 | |
| Airdate | April 4, 1999 |
| Production Number | 1ACV02 |
| Written by | Ken Keeler |
| Directed by | Peter Avanzino |
| ← 1x01 Space Pilot 3000 |
1x03 → I, Roommate |
| Futurama — Season One | |
The Series Has Landed is the second episode of the first season of Futurama, and the second episode overall. The Planet Express delivers a package to the moon. To Fry's disappointment it has turned into a tourist attraction and isn't true to the moon's history.
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Plot Overview
Leela is chosen as the new captain of the Planet Express delivery ship. The first mission for the new crew is to visit the Moon, which excites Fry, as he has never been. However when they get there they land in a moon-themed amusement park, "Luna Park". Fry quickly sours to the experience and wants to go outside to where the real Moon can be experienced. Leela takes him on an educational ride which gives an inaccurate account of the first moon mission, so Fry sabotages the ride and takes their vehicle off the tracks and goes exploring.
Meanwhile, Amy has lost the keys to the spaceship in a skill-tester machine. Bender tries to steal the keys using his long arms and gets thrown out of the park. Fry crashes their vehicle, so he and Leela make their way to a farm where they have to stay until sunrise (which apparently, on the moon, lasts two weeks). Bender arrives there too, and messes around with the farmer's robot daughters. All three escape in the farmer's own vehicle, but crash it. They come across the original Lunar Lander, so Fry and Leela hide in there as the sun goes down, but Bender is ignored, and gets upset and proclaims to build his own Lunar Lander, with Blackjack, and hookers. He seems to end up back with the farmer's robot daughters, when the farmer comes after him again but Amy, who has mastered using the stick by now, saves them all in the Planet Express ship.
Notes
- Title Sequence Quote
- "In Hypno-Vision"
Arc Advancement
Happenings
Characters
- Hermes Conrad, Amy Wong, and Dr. Zoidberg all make their first appearance.
- Zoidberg is the resident doctor of Planet Express and a type of crab creature.
- Hermes handles various tasks for Prof. Farnsworth such as contacting the parents of their dead crew members.
- Amy is the intern and daughter of a rich family.
Referbacks
Trivia
The Show
- First Appearance: Bender skats for the first time, a common occurrence in later shows.
- First Appearance: Bender's head being detached from his body, which was later the focus of an entire episode.
- First Appearance: Amy's weird remarks. (i.e. 'Guh' or similar).
- First Appearance: Sal appears as the disgruntled amusement park employee. Sal appears often in episodes as 'the generic blue collar guy'.
- Alien Language 1: A sign that appears directly before the 'gopher tour' reads "Tasty Human Burgers".
- First Appearance: Bender's weakness to magnets and his desire to become a folk singer are both ideas originated in this episode.
Behind the Scenes
Allusions and References
- Character: Doctor Zoidberg was meant to be a sort 'reverse of Bones McCoy', doctor in the original Star Trek Series, in that he is an alien doctor primarily treating humans.
- Zoid: Zoidberg's name is derived from Zoid, a game that Executive Producer David X. Cohen developed as a high school student.
- The moon faced theme park mascot who demands Bender's alcohol is a reference to the movie A Trip to the Moon, which you may remember for its iconic image of the rocket firing into the moon's 'eye', much like Bender's beer bottle.
Memorable Moments
- Sign Gag: If you pay attention to the signs in the arcade, you'll notice 'Gender Neutral Pac-Person' and 'Mortal Kooperation'.
- Quick Fix: To address the logical flaw of the Lunar Lander being at it's original landing place, a plaque can be seen within the lander which reads ' Lander returned to this site by the Historical Sticklers Society'.
- 3D Extravaganza: The thresher which chases Bender, Fry and Leela acrosss the lunar landscape.
- Virtual Virtual Skeeball: In the arcade in the moon theme park there are skeeball games, a virtual skeeball, and Amy who is playing virtual virtual skeeball.
Quotes
- Bender: That's her, officers. That's the woman who programmed me for evil!
- Bender: [after being thrown out of the park] Yeah, well, I'm going to go build my own theme park, with Blackjack, and hookers. In fact, forget the park.
- Farmer: Looky here city girl, oxygen don't grow on trees...
