Mother's Day (Futurama)
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| Futurama episode | |
| "Mother's Day" | |
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| Episode no. | 27 |
| Prod. code | 2ACV14 |
| Airdate | May 14, 2000 |
| Where |  United States |
| Writer(s) | J. Stewart Burns |
| Director | J. Stewart Burns |
| Opening subtitle | Larva-Tested, Pupa-Approved |
| Opening cartoon | Unknown |
| Guest star(s) | None |
| Season 2 November 1999 – December 2000 |
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Mother's Day is episode 14 in season 2 of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on May 14, 2000.
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[edit] Plot
Every Mother's Day, robots made in Mom's Friendly Robot Company factories around the world give sentimental gifts and cards to the owner of the corporation, Mom. However, this year, Mom, bitter about a romantic affair that had ended 70 years prior, orders the entire robot population of Earth to rebel and overthrow humanity through a control that transmits to every robots' attenaes. This doomed romance had been with a younger Professor Hubert Farnsworth, then an employee of the Friendly Robot Company. When Mom insisted that the Professor's latest design, a children's toy named Q.T. McWhiskers, be changed to an eight-foot-tall death machine to be sold on the intergalactic arms market, the Professor, enraged, stormed out of the room, and they hadn't seen each other again since.
Wishing to end the robot rebellion and save humanity, Mom's three sons, Walt, Larry, and Ignar, cooperate with the Planet Express crew to obtain the robot control Mom keeps in her bra. Their plan is to bring Mom to her rustic cabin in the Bronx, have the Professor seduce her, remove her bra, and use the control to end the rebellion. They give the crew a non-computer-drawn map. Fry had built a wagon with oval wheels and was forced to bring the Professor to the Bronx.
When the Professor and Mom do meet, however, their love is rekindled, and they erupt into a whirlwind of hot, dry sex. Everyone else comes in because the robots had made their way to the Bronx. They search everywhere for her thrown bra and find it on a fan which won't let them have it when Bender comes in. Mom askes Bender to get her control but his card objects. Mom stops the rebellion, but dumps the Professor after learning of their plot. Life is then returned to normal. In order for the Professor to remember Mom, he sends out his albino shouting gorillas to yell her name.
[edit] Quotes
- Greeting Card: You created me, Mom, So I guess you're to blame, For the love that I feel, Just from hearing your name... You're as tender as corned beef, And warm as pastrami... I wuv my Mommy!
- Mom: Conquer Earth, you bastards!
Robots: Conquer Earth, us bastards!
Greeting Card: Comrades, throw off the chains of human oppression! - Greeting Card: The bourgeois human is a virus on the hard drive of the working robot!
- Mom: One Mother's Day, seventy years ago, the only man I ever loved walked out on me. Some snot-eating bastards say it made me a bitter woman.
Larry: Gee, ma, you're not a bitter-
Mom: Cram It, Ape! *smack* - Fry: Wait, you mean you and Mom-
Professor: Played pelvic pinochle? I'm afraid so. - Fry: The fate of the world depends on you getting to second base with Mom.
Professor: Very well. If cop a feel I must, then cop a feel I shall. - Fry: Yeah, uh, I'd like a cup of coffee, please.
Coffee Machine: Would you like cream?
Fry: Yes, please.
Coffee Machine: OUT OF CREAM!
Fry: Oh, uh, OK.
Coffee Machine: Would you like sugar in your coffee?
Fry: Yes, uh, eight spoons.
Coffee Machine: OUT OF COFFEE!
Fry: Uh, Leela, I think there might be something wrong with the coffee machine.
[The machine sprays Fry with coffee.]
Coffee Machine: HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW? - Fry: Nothing in here but a couple of elephant skin rugs.
- Mom: ...But if I ever see him again, I swear I'll jam a squirrel in him!
- Ignar: (while Mom has stopped talking) Mommy, why do the robots give you presents?
Mom: Shove a big old melon in it, I'm talking! (Slaps Ignar)
Mom: You've noticed I design all my robots with antennas. Everyone thinks it's just to make them look more science fictiony, but the antennas are really for my Universal Robot Controller!
Larry: So they do whatever you want? No wonder you love Mother's Day.
Mom: (slaps all three of her 'sons' at the same time) I HATE Mother's Day, you dribbling pukes! It brings back awful memories. But so help me, this year everyone will hate it as much as I do. (laughs maniacally)
Walt: Someday I want to marry a girl like her. - Leela: Wait! Didn't you say Mom keeps the robot controller in her bra?
Larry: Bra. (whispered, with 'not so loud' gesture)
Walt: (slaps Larry) - Zoidberg: (As Mom repeatedly slams the door on the professor's foot) Is this what human mating looks like? Because I like it.
[edit] References
- The episode may be a spoof of the Stephen King film Maximum Overdrive.
- The robot rebellion is a parody of the communist revolution. This is particularly evident from the dialogues between Bender and the electronic greeting card in which common elements of the Marxist lexicon are uttered by the latter, notably comrade and bourgeoisie.
- The garbage can throwing itself through the window of Sal's Pizzeria is a reference to the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing.
- When Walt is showing the map of the surrounding area, an area called "Cloakwood Forest" is visible. This is a reference to the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dragons.
- The flashback scene of Mom and Farnsworth riding a bicycle in happier times is a parody of a similar scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The scene also features a mock-up of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," which was featured in the original movie scene.
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| Preceded by: " Bender Gets Made " |
Futurama episodes | Followed by: " The Problem with Popplers " |
