The Cryonic Woman
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| "The Cryonic Woman" | |
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| Episode no. | 32 |
| Prod. code | 2ACV19 |
| Airdate | December 12, 2000 |
| Writer(s) | J. Stewart Burns |
| Director | Mark Ervin |
| Opening subtitle | Not a Substitute for Human Interaction |
| Opening cartoon | Unknown |
| Guest star(s) | Pauly Shore as himself Sarah Silverman as Michelle |
| Season 2 November 1999 – December 2000 |
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"The Cryonic Woman" is the nineteenth and final episode in season two of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on December 12, 2000.
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[edit] Plot
In an attempt to entertain themselves, Fry and Bender borrow the Planet Express Ship. Unfortunately, the ship is anchored to the building using an unbreakable diamond tether. As the ship is piloted on a round-the-world joyride, the building is dragged behind it, smashing into a number of landmarks, including the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the Great Wall of China. Professor Farnsworth fires Fry and Bender for taking the ship, and fires Leela as well for leaving the keys in the ship.
Leela reimplants her and Fry's old career chips, but she mixes them up. Fry gets hired for Leela's old cryogenics counselor job, and Leela is forced to be a delivery boy. Fry thaws out Pauly Shore, who was supposed to be thawed out in Hollywood, California. When Fry goes to greet the next thawed person, he is shocked to find that it is his old girlfriend, Michelle.
Fry introduces Michelle to the world of the year 3000, but she has problems adapting. She re-freezes both herself, and Fry, for another thousand years. They awake in a desolate wasteland. They try to make a new life in the world of the future, and join a society of feral adolescents. When the children are picked up for Hebrew lessons by an adult woman in a heavily armored SUV, a confused Fry, tired of Michelle's nagging, leaves her and wanders through the wilderness on his own.
After wandering through a cloud of green mist, Fry finds himself standing in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater. The Planet Express ship lands in the street, and the crew explains that Fry is in Los Angeles, in the year 3000. Fry was in Pauly Shore's tube, and when the delivery crew discovered en route to Hollywood that Pauly Shore wasn't in the tube, they tossed it overboard. A limousine passes by, revealing that Michelle has hooked up with Pauly.
As the Planet Express ship flies home, Bender remarks that Fry was the one who ruined the spaceship and started the whole dilemma and reminds the Professor about his angriness with him earlier. He hits a red switch and a trapdoor Fry is standing over opens and he falls through onto the ground, leaving him there, stranded. As you hear him hit the ground, the credits roll.
[edit] Cultural references
- The title for this episode comes from the 70s TV show The Bionic Woman.
- The "post-apocalyptic" gang may have been inspired by Mad Max and the Escape from New York - Escape from L.A. films.
- When Zoidberg is serving Michelle and Amy tea he wears an apron and acts in a way distinctive of Mrs Doyle from Father Ted.
- This episode marks the second time that Professor Farnsworth's unbreakable diamond tether is used in the series (after "The Deep South"). Again, it manages to get the crew into trouble.
- While Fry is deciding which celebrity to unfreeze for his amusement, "Weird Al" Yankovic can be seen in the middle capsule.
[edit] Foreshadowing
- Fry mentions that in the 30th century, "brains fly through space". In the episode "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", the flying brains will be introduced.
[edit] Goofs
- When Leela gives Fry the pizza he looks at his watch, but it vanishes in the next frame.
