I Dated a Robot
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I Dated a Robot is the 15th episode in season 3 of Futurama. It originally aired on May 13, 2001.
Plot Synopsis
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 (similar to Boys Beware) 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.
- Jeff Jervis: You can't shut us down. The Internet is about the free exchange and sale of other people's ideas. We've done nothing wrong!
- Zoidberg (While spinning): Did you see me escaping? I was all "Whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop"! (Mimicking The Three Stooges)
- Leela: This is Fry's decision. And he made it wrong, so it's time for us to interfere in his life.
- Professor: Oh, dear. She's stuck in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot. Well, that's love for you.
- Bender (To Fry): Stay away from our women! You got Metal Fever, boy! Metal Fever!
- Bender: Humans dating robots is sick. You people wonder why I'm still single? It's 'cause all the fine robot sisters are dating humans!
- Fry: Well, so what if I love a robot? It's not hurting anybody.
- Hermes: My God! He never took middle school hygiene. He never saw the propaganda film.
- Bender: What is the world coming to? That Fry's a sicko pervert, I tell you. Dating a robot! It's an atrosmacy!
- Leela: But Fry's our friend, Bender.
- Bender: Aw, jeez, would you stifle there, meatbag?
- Leela: You stifle, Bender.
- Zoidberg: Hooray! Finally you're standing up to him.
- Liu: Thanks for rescuing me. Especially you, Bender. (sexfully) Mmm. Quite a masculine piece of metal, aren't you?
- Bender: Hey! Don't look at me like that. If you're thinking of crossing the line with Bender, you can forget it. Bender don't bend that way.
Trivia
- Nappster is a parody of the Napster file sharing service. In this episode, the "napp" in Nappster apparently stands for kidnapping.
- Lucy Liu also appears in the episode Love and Rocket, still inside Bender.
- When they are being damaged, destroyed or otherwise harmed, the Liu-bots use many typical, clichéd phrases used by many science fiction computers and robots, such as "System Error", "Does Not Compute", and so forth.
- Hand Crafters is an obvious parody of LensCrafters, a company of prescription eyeglasses and eye care.
- Although the Professor says there is only one other parallel universe, the episode The Farnsworth Parabox proves otherwise. This could be explained, however, by the fact that the parallel universe inside the box in The Farnsworth Parabox was created by Professor Farnsworth himself and did not exist previously, or that he was unaware of the other universes, despite their existance.
- When the alien humors himself over buying the milky way via ebay his bidding paddle has the number 667 written in the alien language on it, a reference to the Mark of the beast
| Preceded by: Time Keeps on Slippin' | Futurama episodes | Followed by: A Leela of Her Own |
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