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Futurama episode
"Love and Rocket"
Episode no.	57
Prod. code	4ACV03
Airdate	February 10, 2002
Writer(s)	Dan Vebber
Director	Brian Sheesley
Opening subtitle	WHEN YOU SEE THE ROBOT, DRINK!
Opening cartoon	Unknown
Guest star(s)	Sigourney Weaver, Lucy Liu
Season 4 January 2002 – August 2003
Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch Leela's Homeworld Love and Rocket Less Than Hero A Taste of Freedom Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV Jurassic Bark Crimes of the Hot Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles The Why of Fry Where No Fan Has Gone Before The Sting Bend Her Obsoletely Fabulous The Farnsworth Parabox Three Hundred Big Boys Spanish Fry The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings
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"Love and Rocket" is the third episode of Futurama's fourth season. It first aired on February 10, 2002. Love and Rockets may refer to: Love and Rockets (comics) Love and Rockets (band) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by creator of The Simpsons Matt Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... Image File history File links Futurama_ep57. ... February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 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. ... Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver on October 8, 1949 in New York City) is an Oscar-nominated American actress. ... Lucy Alexis Liu (Chinese: 劉玉玲 Liú Yùlíng, born December 2, 1968) is an Emmy Award-nominated Chinese American actress. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch is the first episode in season four of Futurama. ... Leelas Homeworld is the second episode of Futuramas fourth season. ... Less Than Hero is the fourth episode in the fourth season of Futurama. ... A Taste of Freedom is the fifth episode of the fourth production season of Futurama. ... ‹ The template below (Unreferenced episode) has been proposed for deletion. ... Jurassic Bark is the seventh episode of season four of Futurama, airing November 17, 2002. ... “Crimes of the Hot” is the eighth episode of the fourth production season of the television show Futurama. ... Teenage Mutant Leelas Hurdles is the ninth episode of the fourth season of Futurama. ... The Why of Fry is the tenth episode in the fourth season of Futurama. ... Where No Fan Has Gone Before is the eleventh episode of the fourth season of the animated series Futurama. ... The Sting is episode twelve in season four of Futurama. ... Bend Her is the thirteenth episode of the fourth production season of Futurama. ... Obsoletely Fabulous is the fourteenth episode of the fourth production season of Futurama. ... “The Farnsworth Parabox” is the fifteenth episode of the fourth production season of Futurama. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Spanish Fry is the seventeenth episode of Season four of Futurama. ... The Devil’s Hands are Idle Playthings is the 18th and final episode in season four of the TV series 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 creator of The Simpsons Matt Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Plot

The Planet Express crew heads off to the most romantic city on Earth, Milwaukee, to land a delivery contract from Romanticorp, makers of all things romantic. After a tour of the facilities, Fry becomes obsessed with finding the perfect candy heart to express his feelings for Leela. Planet Express gets the contract to deliver the hearts and with the additional funding from the new contract, the Professor makes some upgrades to the ship. The upgrades include a new personality, complete with a female voice module (character voiced by actress Sigourney Weaver). Bender and the ship's new personality fall for each other and start dating. Bender quickly grows tired of the ship, and starts cheating on her. The ship, suspicious of Bender, begins acting in a possessive and erratic manner. Nickname: Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Coordinates: , County Milwaukee Government  - Mayor Tom Barrett Area  - City  97 sq mi (251. ... Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama. ... Conversation hearts are the most popular Valentines day candy, according to NECCO, one of its producers. ... Turanga Leela (referred to as simply Leela) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ... Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver on October 8, 1949 in New York City) is an Oscar-nominated American actress. ... Bender, full name Bender Bending Rodríguez and nickname Bending Unit 22, is a fictional character in the animated television series Futurama. ...

The crew is assigned the task of delivering several tons of conversation hearts to Lrrr of the planet Omicron Persei VIII. The Omicronians are highly offended by the chalky candies, and their poorly spelled messages. While escaping from the Omicronian death fleet, Bender decides to break up with the Planet Express ship. This cracks the ship's fragile mind, and it comes to a stop, allowing the Omicronian missiles to impact. Futuramas recurring characters: Spoiler warning: // In the episode A Big Piece of Garbage, Ron Popeil, his severed head floating in a large jar, mentions several of his inventions including the (fictional) technology to keep human heads alive in jars, implicitly arresting the aging process. ... “Poppler” redirects here. ...

The ship is sent tumbling through space, dented and scorched, but otherwise physically intact. Leela attempts to console the ship, but she fails. The ship, acting irrationally, decides to fly into a quasar. With the power of ten billion black holes in it, the ship and Bender would be merged into a perfect quantum singularity. She offers to stop if Bender would merge his programming with hers. To make sure there wasn't any interference from Fry or Leela, the ship turns off the atmosphere and shuts off the artificial gravity. Leela has Bender distract the ship by agreeing to merge their programming while she and Fry try to shut down the ship's brain. While the two machines play a cat and mouse game, Leela continues to attempt to shut down the brain, which makes the ship even less rational. Fry notices that Leela's oxygen is running out, and with Leela busy and not listening to his warnings, he decides to give her his supply. With this sacrifice, Leela is able to successfully shut down the ship's artificial intelligence, returning every system to normal. Unfortunately, Fry is rendered unconscious due to the lack of oxygen. Realizing that Fry risked his life to save hers, Leela gives him mouth to mouth resuscitation. Fry awakens, and coughs up a candy heart saying "U leave me breathless". The two find Bender, unaware that a little of the ship's program had slipped into his. Leela decides to dump the undelivered hearts into the quasar. The hearts vaporize, producing a romantic glow whose rays reach Earth on Valentine's Day, destroying many planets en route. The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... St. ...

Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the comic book Love and Rockets or possibly to the band of the same name.
• The title could also reference the novel Love & Chocolate and the movie of the same name.
• Fry says "Shields at maximum Yarnell". This is a reference to a comedic act, Shields and Yarnell.
• The Romanticorp Wire Mesh Dummy testing system is a direct poke towards Harry Harlow, one of the first scientists to use monkeys for lab testing, and one of the most infamous. Early on, he used methods to prove that monkeys (in relation to babies) displayed love towards something softer and more "loving" by using two mesh dummies, or "mothers", one with cloth and one with only a bottle.
• "Loveybears" may be a reference to the Care Bears.
• The popular Valentine's Day candy, Conversation Hearts, are featured in the episode.
• When first introduced to the ship's personality, Bender references The Birth of Venus, and later, "Two Princes" by the Spin Doctors plays, to Bender's protests that it "isn't alternative rock, it's college rock!"
• When Bender and the ship visit the zoo they see an exhibit titled "Mountain Dew presents: Extreme Elk".
• During the montage of Bender and the ship's relationship Bender sings the song Daisy Bell.
• When Bender begins to combine his mind with the ship the sound effects are similar to the sounds of a dial up modem connecting.
• When first shown in this episode the Omicronians are watching an episode of Friends.
• The scene where Bender is uploaded into the ship is characteristic of the similar action in The Matrix, whereby all surfaces are replaced by code.
• Zoidberg's mentioning of the gangster and cowboy worlds is a reference to episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. Set replicas of those planets appear in the later episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
• The idea of a computer upgrade replacing a "male" personality with a "female" one also appeared in a Star Trek episode, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" and in the television series Red Dwarf when Hattie Hayridge replaced Norman Lovett as the personality of Holly, the ship's computer.
• This episode contains many references and similarities to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey:

• The ship's camera interface is similar to HAL 9000.
• The ship says "I'm afraid I can't do that, Leela", in reference to the quote from HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that".
• Hal 9000 and the ship share murderous intentions towards their masters.
• The scene in which Leela, Fry, and Bender enclose themselves in a shower, which is the only place Planet Express Ship cannot hear them, to discuss Planet Express Ship's fate of disconnection is a reference to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 2001, the characters Dave Bowman and Frank Poole go into an EVA pod, which is the only place HAL 9000 cannot hear them, to figure out how to go about HAL 9000's disconnection. Additionally, in this scene, the Planet Express Ship states that she wishes she could read lips, in order to discover what the crew is planning. This is also a reference to 2001, but in 2001, HAL 9000 could indeed read lips, and as a result, knew what Bowman and Poole had planned.
• Leela reads a print out of the ship's status after the battle on a punch card. In the film astronaut Dave Bowman requested a punch card hard copy of the AE-35 antenna malfunction.
• The scene where Fry and Leela shut down the ship is very similar to the shutdown of HAL.
• Tapirs were featured in the beginning of the movie in the "Dawn of Man" sequence.
• The song "Daisy Bell", sung by Bender, was sung by HAL 9000 after Dave started to remove his circuit boards. It was one of the first things he was taught after he was brought online.
• The romantic glow is a reference to Lucifer, from 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

• The starship's panel is nearly identical to the panel of the Ultrahouse (Voiced by Pierce Brosnan) in the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XII although that is itself a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• The quasar’s glow on Valentine’s Day and the reference to it destroying many planets also resembles the ending of Arthur C. Clark’s short story “The Star”.

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Goofs

• When Leela, Fry and Bender swim for their lives when the artificial gravity 'malfunctioned', Leela is in her pyjamas, when they are in the shower, Leela wears her uniform all of the sudden.

Production notes

• Lucy Liu's lines were recorded during "I Dated a Robot" for use in a future episode.
• At the end of this episode, the word "pop" can be seen briefly for a few frames

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