Futurama episode
"Amazon Women in the Mood"
Episode no.	33
Prod. code	3ACV01
Airdate	February 4, 2001
Writer(s)	Lewis Morton
Director	Brian Sheesley
Opening subtitle	Secreted by the Comedy Bee
Opening cartoon	Unknown
Guest star(s)	Beatrice Arthur as the Femputer
Season 3 January 2001 – December 2002
Amazon Women in the Mood Parasites Lost A Tale of Two Santas The Luck of the Fryrish The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz Bendless Love The Day the Earth Stood Stupid That's Lobstertainment! The Cyber House Rules Where the Buggalo Roam Insane in the Mainframe The Route of All Evil Bendin' in the Wind Time Keeps on Slippin' I Dated a Robot A Leela of Her Own A Pharaoh to Remember Anthology of Interest II Roswell That Ends Well Godfellas Future Stock The 30% Iron Chef
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"Amazon Women in the Mood" is the first episode in season three of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on February 4, 2001. Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, also the creator of The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... Image File history File links Futurama_305_-_Amazon_Women_in_the_Mood. ... is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Lewis Morton is an American television writer. ... Brian Sheesley is an animation director who has worked on several comedy shows, including directing duties on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, two episodes of The Critic, nine episodes of Futurama and two episodes of King of the Hill. ... Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel, May 13, 1922) is an Emmy-and Tony Award winning American actress, singer, and comedian. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Parasites Lost is the 2nd episode in series 3 of Futurama. ... A Tale of Two Santas is the third episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Luck of the Fryrish is the fourth episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz is the fifth episode in season three of Futurama. ... Bendless Love is the sixth episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Day the Earth Stood Stupid is the seventh episode in season three of Futurama. ... Thats Lobstertainment! is the 8th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Cyber House Rules is the ninth episode in season three of Futurama. ... Where the Buggalo Roam is the tenth episode in season three of the animated television series Futurama. ... “Insane in the Mainframe” is the eleventh episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Route of All Evil is the 12th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... This section has been identified as trivia. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Television episodes. ... I Dated a Robot is the fifteenth episode in season three of Futurama. ... A Leela Of Her Own is the sixteenth episode in the third season of the animated series Futurama. ... A Pharaoh to Remember is episode seventeen of Futuramas third season. ... Anthology of Interest II is the eighteenth episode of the third season of Futurama. ... Roswell That Ends Well is the nineteenth episode of the third production season of the TV show Futurama. ... Godfellas is the twentieth episode of the third season of Futurama. ... Future Stock is the 21st episode in the third season of Futurama. ... “The 30% Iron Chef” is the twenty-second episode in season three of Futurama. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, also the creator of The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Plot

Amy is receiving phone calls consisting only of panting and gasping. The calls are from Kif Kroker, who is consumed by love for Amy but finds himself unable to speak to her due to his nervousness and shyness. When Zapp realizes that Amy and Leela know each other he decides to go on a double date: Kif with Amy and Zapp with Leela. Amy Wong (born August 4, 2980) is a fictional character, one of the main characters from the FOX television animated series Futurama. ... Lieutenant Kif L. Kroker is a fictional character in the animated television show Futurama. ... Major General Webelo Zapp Brannigan is a fictional character in the television series Futurama. ... Turanga Leela (referred to as simply Leela) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ...

Leela agrees to the date as a favor to Amy and the four go to a fashionable restaurant on board a space liner. When Kif takes Zapp's idiotic advice about seducing women, using such lines as "If I said you had a beautiful body would you take your pants off and dance around a little" and "I find the most attractive part of a woman the boobies", Amy storms off from the table. Forlorn, Kif gets onstage to participate in karaoke and sing a heartfelt rendition of "Total Eclipse of the Heart." The gesture touches Amy, but Zapp hijacks the stage and launches into a performance that sends the passengers and crew of the ship fleeing off-ship in terror. Zapp insists he can steer the restaurant-ship, but proceeds to crash it into planet Amazonia. The four are captured by the Amazonians, a race of tall, muscular, tribal women. A karaoke machine Karaoke 空 kara, empty or void, and オーケストラ ōkesutora, orchestra) pronounced ;   is a form of entertainment in which an amateur singer or singers sing along with recorded music on microphone. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

After hearing about the crash, Fry and Bender take off in the Planet Express Ship to find Leela and Amy. They make their way to the Amazonian's city and are also captured. The Amazonians decide to take the men to their leader, the Femputer. Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ... Bender Bending Rodríguez, more commonly known as Bender, is a main character in the animated television series Futurama. ... The Planet Express Ship is a fictional spaceship in the animated series Futurama. ...

The Femputer sentences the men to death by "snoo-snoo" (sex), which results in mixed feelings in Fry and Zapp (sadness at their impending death and happiness in the method in which it happens). Bender is released, as he is not technically a man but a man-bot. Fry, Zapp, and Kif are taken to the snoo-snoo chambers and stripped to their underpants. Kif is taken first because the Amazon women find him the most attractive. Kif tells Amy that Zapp gave him the lecherous pick-up lines and that Kif was the one who kept calling Amy and not speaking. Leela sends Bender to reprogram the Femputer (which he does at first by means of a lead pipe), and he finds that the Femputer is actually a computer operated by a fembot. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Strip can refer to: as a noun a long narrow piece cut from a sheet material (metal plastic plywood etc) a power strip a landing strip a comic strip other items of a similar shape to that above e. ...

Amy sneaks into Kif's snoo-snoo chamber on a pair of stilts, in order to pass as an Amazonian. She grabs him and flees with him in her arms, but the Amazonians chase them back to the Femputer's chamber. Bender is inside, making out with the fembot. Two voices come from the Femputer, which confuses the Amazonians. After a short while, the Fembot and Bender convince the Amazonians to release all their captives. Back on Earth, Fry and Zapp receive treatment for their severe pelvic injuries. After Fry and Zapp comment about their experience, Kif asks Amy what the two could do next. Amy whispers something to Kif and the episode fades out to the heavy breathing that Kif had made to Amy in his phone calls.

Continuity

In Kif's flashback to the night he and Amy met, Bender drops something in the trash on his way into the Planet Express building. This is likely the bracelet that had belonged to the Countess de la Roca in "A Flight to Remember", which Bender had just learned was junk jewelry. This is also the second appearance of the Amazonians. An Amazonian had previously appeared in the episode "Brannigan Begin Again". The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Television episodes. ... Brannigan Begin Again is episode 2 in season 2 of Futurama. ...

Broadcast and reception

This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2001 for "Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)" but lost to The Simpsons episode "HOMЯ". In 2006 it was named by IGN as the best episode of Futurama, praising it because it is both "crude and hilarious".^[1] An Emmy Award. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... HOMЯ is the ninth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. ... IGN is a multimedia news and reviews website that focuses heavily on video games. ...

Cultural references

• The title of this episode comes from the 1987 comedy film Amazon Women on the Moon.
• When Zapp says "The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised", it's a reference to the phrase "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." This idiom was first recorded in the New Testament (Matthew 26:41)
• The Femputer being just a false front operated by a hidden, non-omnipotent operator is a reference to the title character in the film of The Wizard of Oz, down to the hand-operated controls and outdated microphone. The hidden operator also appears in Ijon Tichys eleventh Voyage from Stanisław Lems The Star Diaries, in which Ijon Tichy travels in disguise to the planet Circia to attempt to bring an end to hostilities coming from its robot population.
• Several of the electronics on Amazonia are named Sonya, a parody of electronics companies Sony and Sanyo, as well as the comic strip warrior princess Red Sonja. Also, "A" is a commonly used suffix to create Feminine words in some languages.
• When searching the jungle, Fry and Bender find a large empty can of TaB cola.
• Zapp Brannigan's spoken-word rendition of "Lola" by The Kinks (with "Leela" replacing the title character) is reminiscent of similar performances by William Shatner. Although Zapp appears oblivious to the implications of the original song's lyrics, (which is about a man who is attracted to a woman who turns out to be a man) this might be considered a reference to the earlier episode "War is the H-Word" (in which Zapp is attracted to Leela while she is disguised as male soldier "Lee Lemon") or "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" (in which Zapp's date at the restaurant is clearly a man dressed as a woman).
• The plot of this episode bears several similarities to that of the 1970 film Carry On Up the Jungle.
• The restaurant, called "Le Palm D'Orbit", is a reference to the Palme d'Or awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. The building itself strongly resembles the "Theme Building" (home to the "Encounter Restaurant") at the Los Angeles International Airport.
• The impact tremors of the approaching Amazon women causing ripples in a cup of water and a puddle is a reference to the film Jurassic Park, in which the approaching Tyrannosaurus causes the same phenomenon.
• The punishment of "death by snu-snu" is similar to the well-known joke involving two male explorers who find a jungle tribe, and are subsequently condemned, being given a choice of death or "oonga-boonga". One chooses Oonga-boonga and is sodomized by all of the male tribe members. The second declares that to spare his dignity, he would rather choose death. And the tribe declares "Death...by Oonga-boonga!"
• The comments made about the basketball on Amazonia are a reference to the critiques of the WNBA, and women's basketball in general.
• The Fem-puter is similar in appearance to Landru from the Star Trek episode Return of the Archons.
• The company named J. Crab that manufactures shells for Decapodians is a parody of J. Crew
• Femputer is similar in design to the "Old Man" from The Old Man in the Cave

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