Futurama episode
"Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles"
Episode no.	63
Prod. code	4ACV09
Airdate	March 30, 2003
Writer(s)	Jeff Westbrook
Director	Bret Haaland
Opening subtitle	Now Interactive! Joystick controls Fry's left ear
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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"Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" is the ninth episode of the fourth season of Futurama. It first aired on March 30, 2003. 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_ep63. ... is the 89th day of the year (90th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jeff Westbrook is an American TV writer best known for his work on The Simpsons and Futurama. ... Bret Haaland is an American animation director. ... 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. ... ‹ The template below (Unreferenced episode) is being considered for deletion. ... 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. ... The Why of Fry is the tenth episode in the fourth season of Futurama. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Television episodes. ... 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 Matt Groening, also the creator of The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... is the 89th day of the year (90th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Plot Summary

Professor Farnsworth goes after his escaped gargoyle, Pazuzu. Unfortunately, he drives slowly in traffic, incinerates a sign and blows up Deep Space Nine with his high beams. Forgetting 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 in age back to their teenage years, except Professor Farnsworth, who reverts to his 50s. Leela decides to live with her parents so that she can have a normal teenage life. A teenage 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. 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 Robo, not to be confused with RNA in real organisms). Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (born April 9, 2841) is the extremely elderly proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service in the fictional animated television series Futurama. ... A gargoyle adorning the Dornoch Cathedral in Dornoch, Scotland. ... Assyrian demon Pazuzu, 1st millenium BC, Louvre Museum. ... In the Star Trek fictional universe, Deep Space Nine (or DS9) is a space station. ... Turanga Leela (referred to as simply Leela) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ... Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ... Amy Wong (born August 4, 2980) is a fictional character, one of the main characters from the FOX television animated series Futurama. ... A chroniton (also spelled chronoton) is a fictional elementary particle in some works of science fiction. ... The structure of part of a DNA double helix Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a nucleic acid molecule that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. ... “Bender” redirects here. ... Ribonucleic acid or RNA is a nucleic acid polymer consisting of nucleotide monomers that plays several important roles in the processes that translate genetic information from deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) into protein products; RNA acts as a messenger between DNA and the protein synthesis complexes known as ribosomes, forms vital portions...

Unfortunately, his plan involving one of his inventions backfires and the crew (except Leela, who wanted to remain a teenager, so stayed in the Sewers) begins to grow progressively 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, and the episode ends revealing it has all been a story the gargoyle tells his son about how he gained his freedom.

Cultural references

• The title is a reference to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• Farnsworth's gargoyle, Pazuzu, is the name of a demon in Sumerian mythology. It is also the name of the demon possessing Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist. Farnsworth's gargoyle also bears a striking resemblance to Mr. Burns, from Groening's other animated sitcom, The Simpsons.
• Leela exclaims to Professor Farnsworth, "For Heaven's Gate professor!", which is presumably a reference to the Heaven's Gate, a cult that believed they would ride in a space ship hiding behind the Comet Hale-Bopp, or to the 1980 film of the same name.
• The chroniton-eating bacteria are visually similar to Pac-Man.
• The space station the Professor inadvertently destroys is a parody of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's namesake station.
• The essential plot of the main characters growing younger and being saved by the oldest among them is from "The Counter-Clock Incident", an episode from Star Trek: The Animated Series.
• The larval stages Zoidberg goes through (from birth) are coral, crinoid, starfish, sea urchin, anglerfish, sea lamprey, clam, horseshoe crab and a cuttlefish.
• The film playing at the underground mutant movie theater is The Fiddler Way Below the Roof, a parody of The Fiddler on the Roof.
• In Hermes' childhood form, he has the same high top fade hairstyle as Kid of Kid 'n Play.
• The lizard-like creature on the cover of A Child's Garden of Space Legends is a Gorn, from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Arena". Also, one of the stories in the book is "Charlotte's Tholian Web", a reference to both Charlotte's Web and the Star Trek episode "The Tholian Web".
• The brand of tequila Leela's dad drinks is "Sewervo Gold" a parody of Cuervo Gold. He had earlier indicated in "Less Than Hero" that he was a heavy drinker.
• The front end of Moose's airboat is from a second generation Pontiac Trans Am.
• Moose is a parody of Moose Mason from Archie Comics, shown in his manner of speech, dress and hairstyle.
• There was a Futurama Comic, which, when there was a rip in space and time, showed the same child versions of Planet Express, but some younger professors as well.

The ending scene of the Gargoyles against a Paris backdrop could be a reference to the Galerie des Chimères at Notre Dame de Paris.

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Continuity

• Chronitons were the particles that caused the time skips in "Time Keeps on Slippin'".
• Bender was shown to have been assembled as an adult in "Bendless Love" and so should not have any younger forms. The commentary tries to handwave this by implying that Bender had younger forms while going through the assembly machine. However, this may be explained by the fact that robots do have prototype versions, as prototype robots were shown in "Crimes Of The Hot".
• Pazuzu speaks French, previously described in the episodes "A Clone of My Own" and "The Route of All Evil" as a dead language.
• When Amy goes back to her parents' place as a child, her mother complains that now she'll never have any grandchildren. However, in Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch, Amy does, in a way, have kids.
• The Eiffel Tower is still floating, as seen in the episode "Space Pilot 3000".

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