Talk:The Sting (Futurama)

Arguing Editors?

The paragraph below reads like it is the result of an editing war. I may rewrite it, unless theres objections. Patch86 19:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

This episode bears still other similarities to the motion picture Solaris, which featured an astronaut haunted by persistent and contradictory visions of his dead wife. The 2002 version of this film opened on November 19, 2002. The source novel was written in 1961, and the original Russian film was released in 1972, and it stands to reason that the writers of Futurama would have known about its content.

About this trivia item

I could use a more descriptive title, but what the hey.

I object to this trivia item:

In "Space Pilot 3000", the Professor produces career chips from his previous crew from an envelope labeled "Contents of space wasp's stomach," rather than the space bees depicted in this episode. While the writer admits in the commentary their research found no relationship between bees and wasps, some wasps do invade bee hives to host their larvae.:

It is never said that that Planet Express ship is of the crew immediately preceeding the current one. It can be easily be assumed that the professor has sent many crews to their deaths (the recording makes reference to a previous crew) so I don't think this is right. --DK 09:53, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, it is directly stated that the Planet Express ship in the beehive is the one directly preceding the current crew. When the crew is attempting to escape from the beehive, Leela makes a comment indicating that it's time for them to distinguish themselves from the last crew by surviving this mission. At any rate, it's certainly not a leap of logic to conclude this. 204.196.103.2 14:42, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

This plot summary is longer than the plot summaries for the Futurama movies

Wikipedia recommends a maximum of 500 words for plot summaries of individual episodes (this limit may be too short, but the current summary is >1300 words, way too long for its intended purpose). Does anybody object if the plot summary is trimmed down to something like the following?

Professor Farnsworth tells his crew that they are not good enough to go on a mission to collect honey from giant space bees, a mission which killed his previous crew. Though Bender and Fry are relieved at the news, Leela takes offense and drags them along the mission.

At the hive, Leela paints Bender like a bee to distract the other bees while she and Fry collect the honey safely. The crew discover the remains of the previous Planet Express crew and ship in the hive, but Leela insists that they press on. After gathering the honey, Leela decides to bring home a baby queen bee and some royal jelly in order to make more honey. On the way out, Bender inadvertently insults the hive's queen, causing the bees to attack. The crew manage to escape, but in the ship the baby queen awakens and attacks the crew, impaling Fry with its stinger and pricking Leela. Bender disposes of the bee and Leela awakens with a minor wound on her body, but Fry appears to have been killed.

At Fry's funeral, a remorseful Leela blames herself for Fry's death. After taking some space honey to calm her down and help her sleep, Leela experiences a series of dreams in which Fry is alive, all of them ending with Fry telling her to "wake up" and Leela abruptly awakening. In one dream, Fry tells Leela that there is a gift in his locker; Leela finds it after she awakens. In another, Fry gives Leela his red jacket; Leela awakens to discover that she is wearing it, but it mysteriously turns into her own coat when she presents it to the others. Leela's insistence that Fry is alive leads the others to conclude that she is going insane; after experiencing further delusions while awake, Leela begins to suspect the same.

After awakening from a dream in which she attempts to retrieve Fry's corpse, Leela concludes that she is indeed insane. Wracked with guilt and loneliness, Leela resolves to consume enough space honey to fall asleep forever and be with Fry in her dreams, but a portrait of Fry begins to speak and implores her to stop. Fry's portrait tells Leela that he loves her and pleads with her to "wake up" one last time.

Leela awakens in the hospital to see a disheveled, weeping Fry at her bedside begging her to wake up. The rest of the crew arrive, overjoyed that Leela is awake. Fry and the crew explain that Fry has recovered completely from the attack, that Leela had been injected with venom through her wound and fallen into a coma for two weeks, and that Fry spent the entire time at Leela's side talking to her in an effort to keep her mind together. Leela assures Fry that the messages got through, and the two embrace each other tightly.

Cy3 (talk) 19:11, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

• I say you should go ahead and do it. I've tried trimming plot summaries in the past and it is thankless but necessary work to be sure. Keep up the good work. Stardust8212 12:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Incorrect Episode

"The Sting" is not the 12th episode of the fourth season. You try to look it up you'll find another one instead: "Where No Fan Has Gone Before". "The Sting" is actually the 9th episode of the 5th season. LaEstudianta new (talk) 19:07, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

The Wikipedia goes by production order as intended by the producers. This places “The Sting” as episode 12 in the fourth season. Season 5 is comprised of the four movies. Hulu uses a different order, which places several episodes in an order which does not make sense as to the story line. SausageMcFlurry (talk) 20:39, 20 August 2023 (UTC)