Amazon Women in the Mood
"Amazon Women in the Mood" | |
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Futurama episode | |
File:Futurama 305 - Amazon Women in the Mood.jpg Femputer sentences the male prisoners to "death by snu-snu". | |
Episode no. | Season three |
Directed by | Brian Sheesley |
Written by | Lewis Morton |
Original air date | February 4, 2001 |
Episode features | |
Opening cartoon | Unknown |
"Amazon Women in the Mood" is the fifth episode in season three of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on February 4, 2001.
Plot
Amy has been receiving phone calls for a year, where the caller stammers and then hangs up. The calls are from Kif, who is in love with Amy but is too nervous to speak. Zapp realizes that Amy and Leela know each other, and asks the two of them to go on a double date with him and Kif. Leela agrees as a favor to Amy, and they go to a restaurant aboard a space liner.
Kif uses Zapp's characteristically boorish pick-up lines, offending Amy. To prevent her and Leela from leaving, Kif sings karaoke. Amy is touched by this, but Zapp pushes Kif off the stage and sings to Leela, causing the passengers and crew of the ship to flee the restaurant in terror. Zapp crashes the ship into the planet Amazonia, where the Amazonians, a race of giant, muscular, tribal women, capture them.
Fry and Bender travel to Amazonia to rescue their friends and are also captured. They are taken to the giants' leader, observing Amazonian society along the way. The men ridicule the women's values, which makes Leela and Amy appreciate how good life would be without men. When the Amazonians ask what the purpose of men is, Amy explains, and the Amazonians realize that what she is describing is "snu-snu", something they have heard of but never experienced.
The leader of the Amazonians is the Femputer, a wall-sized computer (Beatrice Arthur stars as the voice of the Femputer). Zapp, Fry, and Kiff are sentenced by the Femputer to death by snu-snu—a fate that both excites and horrifies them—and are repeatedly snu-snued by Amazonians, but Bender convince Femputer in spare him since that he isn't a man, but a robot. Before being taken away Kif tells Amy that he was the one who kept calling her and hanging up, that the offensive pick-up lines were not his own words, and that he loves her. Amy resolves to save him.
Leela and Amy convince Bender to reprogram the Femputer. He discovers that the Femputer is actually a computer operated by a fembot, who created the Amazonian society because her home planet was extremely chauvinistic. Amy rescues Kif; the Amazonians chase after them, cornering them in the Femputer's chamber. By this time, however, Bender and the fembot have become romantic. They order the Amazonians to release their captives and bring gold.
The crew returns to Earth where Fry and Zapp receive treatment for their crushed pelvises. Bender has a pile of gold bricks, and Kif and Amy are a couple. They all agree that Amazonia was their best mission ever.
Cultural references
The episode's title is a reference to the movie Amazon Women on the Moon.[2]
Themes
The episode features what Sci Fi Weekly refers to as the "stereotypical women's fantasy": a world without men, a theme featured often in science fiction. The cliché, much like the opposite male fantasy of having all women enslaved, represents the desire "not to be marginalized in one's own society".[2]
Broadcast and reception
This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2001 for "Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)"[3][4] but lost to The Simpsons episode "HOMR". In 2006 it was named by IGN as the best episode of Futurama, praising it because it is both "crude and hilarious".[5] The episode was also noted as the "most hilarious" episode in Futurama's third season by Curve[6] and in the book 5000 Episodes and No Commercials: The Ultimate Guide to TV Shows on DVD.[7]
In its initial airing, the episode placed 79th in the Nielsen ratings for primetime shows for the week of January 9 - February 4, 2001.[8]
References
- ^ Schulte, Elizabeth (2009-04-30). "Right on, Bea". Retrieved 2009-04-30.
- ^ a b McCarthy, Wil (2005-02-07). "Two Girls for Every Boy". Archived from the original on 2007-11-04. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
- ^ "2001 Emmy nominations". Variety. 2001-07-12. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
- ^ Azrai, Ahmad (2004-10-31). "Farewell to the funny future". Asia Africa Intelligence Wire. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
- ^ "Top 25 Futurama Episodes". Retrieved 2006-11-04.
- ^ "Other picks.(Sapphic Screen)". Curve. 2004-08-01. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
- ^ Hofstede, David. 5000 Episodes and No Commercials: The Ultimate Guide to TV Shows on DVD. Back Stage Books. p. 120.
- ^ "BroadcastWatch.(Illustration)". Broadcasting & Cable. Reed Business Information. 2001-02-12. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
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