Futurama episode
"Spanish Fry"
Episode no.	71
Prod. code	4ACV17
Airdate	July 13, 2003
Writer(s)	Ron Weiner
Director	Peter Avanzino
Opening subtitle	(In Alienese) Thanks for watching, Futurama slave army!
Opening cartoon	Unknown
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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Plot summary

While camping in the woods on a company outing, Fry is abducted by aliens in his search for Bigfoot. He wakes up the next morning to find that his nose was stolen from his face. Fry learns that human noses are considered an alien aphrodisiac called "Human Horn". Bender, Leela, and Fry find out that Fry's nose was stolen by an alien porn dealer who sold the nose to Lrrr. Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ... It has been suggested that Evidence regarding Bigfoot be merged into this article or section. ... An aphrodisiac is an agent which is used to increase sexual desire [1]. The name comes from the Greek goddess of Sensuality Aphrodite. ... Bender Bending Rodríguez or simply Bender and officially designated Bending Unit 22, is a fictional robot character in the animated television series Futurama. ... Turanga Leela (often referred to simply as Leela) (born A.D. 2975) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ... Futuramas recurring characters: // a 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 three travel to Omicron Persei 8, where they learn Lrrr and Ndnd are having marriage problems, thus explaining Lrrr's purchase. After retrieving Fry's nose, Leela reattaches it with her laser. Once Bender finishes explaining some human anatomy to Lrrr, Lrrr orders that Fry's penis (his "lower horn") be removed for consumption. Leela stalls Lrrr by suggesting that he and Ndnd have a romantic dinner together in the woods and work on their relationship. The dinner almost fails; and as Fry is about to get his penis cut off, Bigfoot shows himself. Poppler redirects here. ... The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ...

The park ranger also shows up pleased to have finally seen Bigfoot. He attempts to amputate one of Bigfoot's feet as a trophy, but Lrrr stops him. Lrrr then delivers a speech on how Fry's wing dang doodle (Penis), like Bigfoot, is one of God's most beautiful creatures. Ndnd then realizes that her husband is still the sensitive Omicronian she fell for. The crew runs for it as the now-happy couple passionately make love. Bigfoot looks on for a bit, gives a satisified nod, and then disappears into the forest.

During the credits, an episode of The Scary Door shows a mad scientist creating a creature from the DNA of evil animals with a machine only for it to create a man.

Cultural references

• The episode's title is based on Spanish fly, a poisonous beetle often used as an aphrodisiac.
• The reference to "human horn" is based on the belief that rhinoceros horn is also an aphrodisiac.
• Joe Camel can be seen at the galactic bazaar.
• The sex shop at the Galactic Bazaar is named "The Beast With Two Bucks", a reference to "the beast with two backs", a common euphemism for sex. The phrase originates from Shakespeare's Othello.
• The flying Winnebago from Spaceballs is seen amongst the RVs in the parking lot.
• A vehicle resembling a sand crawler from the Star Wars universe can be found in the parking lot.
• Bender's constant mockery of Fry's genitals is a parody of Fox sitcoms such as Married... with Children, in which similar sexual gags provoke raucous laughter and hooting from the audience.
• Lrrr's quote "One of these days Ndnd, bang, zoom, straight to the third moon of Omicron Persei 8" is a reference to Ralph Kramden's classic line in The Honeymooners. A similar line was cut out of the episode "The Problem with Popplers". Another reference to Kramden's line was made in an earlier episode, The Series Has Landed.
• The tubes that come out of the saucer that abducts Fry are similar to the popular Microsoft screensaver "3-D Pipes".
• The final shot of the episode is very similar to the infamous shot of Bigfoot walking away in the Patterson film.
• One of the satellites that carries Ranger Park's exercycle advertisement resembles Sputnik, the first manmade object launched into space.
• The scene where Fry is abducted is a parody of the very first episode of The X-Files, "Pilot".
• When Farnsworth first sees what happens to Fry's nose, he says: Fry! what in Sega Genesis happened to you!?.
• Lrrr refers to Bigfoot as an "innocent giganto;" some people believe Bigfoot may be a living example of an ancient ape species called gigantopithecus.
• A green Pacer can be seen roasting on a spit in the background when the characters are walking through the bazaar.
• The episode's main premise bears a striking similarity to The Nose by Russian author Nikolai Gogol.
• Leela sings I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton to Lrrr and Ndnd.
• Fry also resembles the noseless characters from the video game Final Fantasy Tactics.

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Continuity

• This is the third time the opening theme is different and the second time it is replaced by a version sung a cappella by Billy West and John DiMaggio. The first time is in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV", only the version on "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV" was done in a human beat-box style (done by West and DiMaggio) over the normal Futurama theme.
• The 3D car being roasted over a fire at the outer space bazaar is the same car used in the episode "The Lesser of Two Evils"
• The Twilight Zone parody (The Scary Door) over the ending credits was originally going to be used in the episode "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz".
• Though the episode goes with the idea that Bigfoot is still a mystery, in "The Farnsworth Parabox" Leela reads a magazine with a cover story about Bigfoot's 80th birthday.
• Fir trees are said to be extinct in Xmas story though they are plentiful in this episode.(Explained in commentary that they are artificial trees)
• When describing his stolen nose to the aphrodisiac dealer, Fry shows a photograph of himself and Slurms MacKenzie, a character from Fry and the Slurm Factory.

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