Futurama episode
"Put Your Head on my Shoulders"
Episode no.	20
Prod. code	2ACV07
Airdate	February 13, 2000
Writer(s)	Ken Keeler
Director	Chris Louden
Opening subtitle	Not based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper
Opening cartoon	"Chick And Double Chick"
Season 2 November 1999 – December 2000
I Second That Emotion Brannigan Begin Again A Head in the Polls Xmas Story Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love? The Lesser of Two Evils Put Your Head on My Shoulders Raging Bender A Bicyclops Built for Two A Clone of My Own How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back The Deep South Bender Gets Made Mother's Day The Problem with Popplers Anthology of Interest I War is the H-Word The Honking The Cryonic Woman
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"Put Your Head on My Shoulders" is episode seven in season two of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on February 13, 2000. Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by creator of The Simpsons Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... Image File history File links Futurama_211_-_Put_Your_Head_on_My_Shoulders. ... is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Keeler at the 2003 Writers Guild Awards, after winning in the animation category. ... Chris Louden is an American animator. ... Cooper portrait by John Wesley Jarvis, 1822 James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. ... A Little Lulu comic book Little Lulu is a comic strip character, created by Marjorie Henderson Buell. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... I Second That Emotion is episode 1 in season 2 of Futurama. ... Brannigan Begin Again is episode 2 in season 2 of Futurama. ... ‹ The template below (Unreferenced episode) is being considered for deletion. ... Xmas Story is the 4th episode in season 2 of Futurama. ... Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love is episode 5 in season 2 of Futurama. ... The Lesser of Two Evils is episode 6 in season 2 of Futurama. ... Raging Bender is episode 8 in season 2 of Futurama. ... A Bicyclops Built for Two is episode nine in season two of Futurama. ... A Clone of My Own is episode ten in season two of Futurama. ... “How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back” is episode eleven in season two of Futurama. ... The Deep South is episode twelve in season two of Futurama. ... Bender Gets Made is episode 13 in season 2 of Futurama. ... Mothers Day is episode fourteen in season two of Futurama. ... The Problem with Popplers is episode 15 in season 2 of Futurama. ... Anthology of Interest I is episode sixteen in season two of Futurama. ... War is the H-Word is episode seventeen in season two of Futurama. ... The Honking is episode eighteen in season two of Futurama. ... The Cryonic Woman is the nineteenth and final episode in season two 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 creator of The Simpsons Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... North America North America is a continent [1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Plot

Amy buys a car at Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket-car Emporium, and after taking a road trip to Mercury that led to a long wait for a tow truck, she and Fry begin dating. Meanwhile Bender decided to not get the recommended safety features installed (including a bumper on his shiny metal ass that makes it look like a proper human ass) and is warned that his ass could explode at any time. Amy Wong (born August 4, 2980) is a fictional character, one of the main characters from the FOX television animated series Futurama. ... Futuramas recurring robot characters: // Boxy Boxy is a crude, Dalek-like robot similar to the Gonk droid from Star Wars, that is capable of communicating only by beeping. ... This article is about the planet. ... Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ...

With Valentine's Day approaching, Bender decides to start a computer dating service. Fry worries that he and Amy are spending too much time together, and asks Leela to come with them on a picnic to Europa they had planned. When she refuses, Fry asks Zoidberg to come with them. He does, and he accidentally crashes the car. Fry wakes up to find Zoidberg telling him that his body is badly damaged in the crash. Fry, in shock, discovers his head is grafted onto Amy's shoulder in order to be kept alive. After returning to Earth Fry breaks up with Amy, and she makes Valentine's Day plans with another man. Saint Valentines Day or Valentines Day is on February 14. ... Bender Bending Rodríguez or simply Bender and nicknamed Bending Unit 22, is a fictional character in the animated television series Futurama. ... Amy Wong (born August 4, 2980) is a fictional character, one of the main characters from the FOX television animated series Futurama. ... Turanga Leela (referred to as simply Leela) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ... Apparent magnitude: 5. ... Doctor John Zoidberg is a lobster-like alien, Decapodian, in the television series Futurama. ...

The three (Fry, Amy and Amy's date) wind up at Elzar's, where all the people who applied to Bender's dating service---including Leela---are with their dates. All these dates are flops, however; Bender merely rounded up a bunch of strangers from the bus station, and they all leave for the bus ride home. Amy hits it off with her date, and is about to leave with him, and Fry's unwilling head. Luckily for Fry, Leela spots him across the room and comes over to save him. By saving Fry, she tricks Amy's boyfriend into talking about his job---banking industry regulation---and he soon winds up talking very boringly, distracting him from leaving with Amy. Fry quietly thanks Leela for the assistance. Futuramas recurring characters: Spoiler warning: // Brain Slug Controlling Hermes The Brain Slugs are small, gelatinous, fist-sized aliens that attach themselves to human heads and act as mind control devices, reducing their hosts to a zombie-like state. ...

The next day, Zoidberg reattaches Fry's head to his now-repaired body, and everything returns to normal. Some of the nerves in Fry's neck were apparently rewired so that Fry's left leg hits him every time he touches his neck. As a result Fry kicks Bender and his explosive ass finally blows.

Cultural references

• The title comes from the Paul Anka song, "Put Your Head on My Shoulder".
• This is not the first time a show created by Matt Groening has explored the idea of sewing someone's head onto another person's body; the idea was explored in The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror II" episode, which is, in itself, a reference to the 1972 B-movie horror film, The Thing With Two Heads, starring Ray Milland and Rosey Grier.
• In the scene where they go to Jupiter's moon, Europa, there is a black rectangular slab with an "Out of Order" label on it. That is a black monolith, which played an important role in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey", and the Monolith's role as protector of the Europans in 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey.
• The car Malfunctioning Eddie mentions in his television ad is a Plymouth 'V'ger', a reference to the major plot device in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", a sentient life form known as V'ger that turns out to be NASA's Voyager 6 deep space probe and also a reference to the Plymouth Voyager minivan.
• Amy's car has "Cross your heart seatbelts", a parody of Playtex's Cross Your Heart bras.
• Amy's compact makes the Star Trek communicator sound effect when it opens.
• The only gas station on Mercury is Hg's Fuel, this is a pun as Hg is the chemical symbol for Mercury.
• The company "Septuple-A" (the Austro-Afro-Antarctico-Amer-Asian Automobile Association^[1] (AAAAAAA)) is a reference to the American Automobile Association (AAA), "Triple-A".
• The car "Beta Romeo" is a reference to Alfa Romeo.
• The car offered to Fry is a ThunderCougarFalconBird, a reference to 3 Products from Ford Motor Company, The Ford Thunderbird, Mercury Cougar, and the Ford Falcon
• Bender's dating service is advertised as being "Discreet and Discrete", the first meaning exercising self-restraint, and the second a form of mathematics based in logic and computability, which as a robot, Bender is programmed to abide.
• In the storeroom, two boxes are marked P and NP, a reference to an important problem in computer science.

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Production notes

• The gas station sign denotes the distance to the next gas station as being 4,750 miles in each direction for a circumference of 9,500 miles, the actual circumference of Mercury is approximately 9525 miles ^[2].

Continuity

• Mom's Son Larry is one of the people who lines up outside Bender's dating service. He is set up with Hattie McDoogal.
• Dr. Zoidberg is uncharacteristically medically competent in this episode, being able to attach Fry's head to Amy's body as well as reattaching Fry's head to his own body. In "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?," for example, he demonstrates an inability to reattach Fry's arm.

Mom in her first appearance, wearing her fatsuit and kindly public persona Mom is a fictional character and recurring antagonist on the animated series Futurama. ... Futuramas recurring human characters: // 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. ... Doctor John Zoidberg is a lobster-like alien, Decapodian, in the television series Futurama. ... Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love is episode 5 in season 2 of Futurama. ...

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