Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles
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Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles is the ninth episode of the fourth season of Futurama. It first aired on March 30, 2003.
Summary
Professor Farnsworth goes after his escaped gargoyle, Pazuzu. Unfortuntely, he drives slowly in traffic, incinerates a sign and blows up a station with the high beams. Giving up on the search for his gargoyle, he goes to Florida to have a discounted dinner and activates his nuclear-powered teeth. Annoyed with the Professor's crankiness, the Planet Express employees take him to an age-reducing spa, as he is 161 years old. A freak accident causes the entire crew to reverse aging back to heir teens (except Professor Farnsworth, who reverts to his 50s). Leela decides to live with her parents so that she can have a normal teenage life. As teenagers, Fry and Leela begin dating and win a race against some other teen mutants but end up destroying a school and Amy is the subject of jokes back on Mars due to her obesity and pimples; the Professor searches for a way to undo the youthening effects. It seems that time-altering chronitons have become stuck to their DNA and Bender's "RNA". (The R standing for Robot, not to be confused with RNA in real organisms)Unfortunately, his plan backfires and the crew (except Leela, who wanted to remain a teenager) begins to grow even younger. In order to stop this process, they search out the mythical fountain of aging. When the rest of the crew gets caught in the current, Leela jumps in to save them, which ends her chance at being a teenager again. The Professor is still stuck in the fountain but is saved in the nick of time by his lost gargoyle, Pazuzu. The professor is delighted to find that he's become even older than he was before; Amy and Leela turn out to be a little younger (or at least agree to tell people that). In gratitude the professor frees Pazuzu.
Quotes
- Leela: For Heaven's Gate Professor, this ship goes 99% light speed. Why are we going 35 miles per hour?
Professor Farnsworth: Because we're in a hurry, that's why! - Waitress: Sir, this card is expired.
Professor Farnsworth: But it's good for a lifetime!
Waitress: Well, yours expired. - Professor Farnsworth: Oh, I don't have time for this! I have to go buy a single piece of fruit with a coupon, and then return it, making people wait behind me while I complain!
- Bender: Like everything else in life, pumping is just a primitive degenerate form of bending.
- Professor Farnsworth: Fifty-three years old! Oooh, now I'll need a fake ID to rent ultraporn.
- Leela: When I was an orphan all I wanted was to be able to grow up with my mom and dad. And now, thanks to being hurled backwards through time...
Professor: That's not what happened! Shut up and go live with your parents! - Turanga Morris: Fine, sweetikins, we'll be the strictest parents ever. Now let's have some tequila to celebrate!
Leela: Dad! I'm underage!
Turanga Morris: Oh, right. Here's a silly straw. - Professor Farnsworth: (Toilet flushes) The devil take this predictable colon!
- Turanga Morris: No beer until you finish your tequila!
- Professor Farnsworth: We'll all keep getting younger and younger until we suffer a fate worse than death, pre-life! (all gasp) Then death.
- Leela: It says here the Fountain of Aging is located just past Teddy Bear Junction.
Professor Farnsworth: Ah, Teddy Bear Junction. The worst scum hole in the galaxy... - Professor Farnsworth: With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg!
Trivia
- Chronitons were the particles that caused the time skips in Time Keeps on Slippin'.
- Bender was shown to have been built an adult, in Bendless Love. As a result, he shouldn't have any younger forms. However if you listen to the audio commentary they say something along the lines of "You saw Bender as an adult come out of the machine, You didn't see what he looked liked going through the machine." So Bender having younger forms is entirely possible.
- Pazuzu speaks French, though the language is supposed to be dead.
References
- The title is a reference to the popular comic/movie series/cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Farnsworth's gargoyle, Pazuzu, is the name of the demon possessing Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist. It is also the name of a demon in Sumerian mythology.
- The chroniton eating chemicals are visually similar to Pac Man.
- The space station the professor inadvertantly destroys is Star Trek's Deep Space Nine.
- The essential plot of the main characters growing younger and being saved by the oldest among them is from an episode of .
- The film playing at the mutant movie theater is The Fiddler Way Below the Roof, a parody of The Fiddler on the Roof.
| Preceded by: Crimes of the Hot | Futurama episodes | Followed by: The Why of Fry |
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