My Three Suns

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"My Three Suns"

Leela fighting the Trisolians.
Episode no. 7
Prod. code 1ACV07
Airdate May 4, 1999
Writer(s) J. Stewart Burns
Director Jeffrey Lynch
Kevin O' Brien
Opening subtitle Presented In Double Vision (Where Drunk)
Opening cartoon Grampy in Fleischer Studio's The Impractical Joker from 1937
Season 1
March 1999 – June 1999
  1. Space Pilot 3000
  2. The Series Has Landed
  3. I, Roommate
  4. Love's Labours Lost in Space
  5. Fear of a Bot Planet
  6. A Fishful of Dollars
  7. My Three Suns
  8. A Big Piece of Garbage
  9. Hell Is Other Robots
  10. A Flight to Remember
  11. Mars University
  12. When Aliens Attack
  13. Fry and the Slurm Factory
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"My Three Suns" is episode seven in season one of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on May 4, 1999. This episode was written by J. Stewart Burns and directed by Jeffrey Lynch and Kevin O'Brien.

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[edit] Plot

Hermes Conrad threatens to cut Bender's salary, since Bender has no official duties at Planet Express except sitting on the couch watching the cooking shows all day, something he wanted to keep to himself. Inspired by the Neptunian TV chef Elzar, Bender decides to take on the job as the ship's cook. He, Fry and Leela go to shop for ingredients in Little Neptune. While Bender is buying a Neptunian slug, Fry tries to get his lungs replaced with gills by an organ seller. Just as the seller was about to do unsafe surgery, Leela interrupts the transaction, knocking out the dealer and his crony. She berates Fry afterwards for his reckless behavior. Professor Farnsworth then sends the crew off on a delivery to the planet Trisol, a mysterious world in the depths of the Forbidden Zone in the Galaxy of Terror. Leela claims that the scary names are a false conception of the galaxy. Bender serves the crew a meal consisting almost completely of salty Neptune slug and salted water.

After the ship lands, Fry is assigned the task of making the delivery trek across the desert under the planet's three blazing suns. When he arrives at his destination, the Trisolian palace, he finds it empty. Stricken with thirst, he grabs what looks like a bottle of water that is sitting on the throne and drinks it. Armed Trisolians, who are revealed to be liquid-based organisms, storm the throne room, revealing that the bottle Fry drank actually contained the emperor Bont. Rather than being punished, Fry is declared the new emperor. Shortly afterward, he opens the package that he was delivering, to reveal a "Please don't drink the Emperor" sign. With a hint of irony and sarcasm, Fry asserts that the package arrived just in time.

After being found by the crew, Fry chooses Bender as his new prime minister. The high priest Merg informs Fry that as part of the coronation, Fry will have to recite the royal oath (which consists mainly of a very, very long list of emperors, in the order that they killed each other) from memory, on pain of death if he makes a mistake. During the pre-coronation party, Leela informs Fry that the average reign of a Trisolian emperor is only one week, as whoever "drinks" the old emperor is declared the new one. When Fry refuses to listen to her warning, Leela returns to the ship, vowing not to help Fry again. Fry, apparently aware he cannot be drunk because he is solid, ignores this.

At the coronation, Fry recites the oath properly, and is sworn in as Fry the Solid. As the suns set, the Trisolians begin to glow - including the alive-and-well emperor Bont from inside Fry's stomach. Bont demands that Fry be cut open and drained.

The crew takes refuge in the throne room, and tries to work out a way to extract the emperor without killing Fry. Bender calls Leela on Fry's behalf, but gets an inconclusive response. Leela ultimately decides to help Fry in spite of her vow, and must fight her way past Trisolian forces in order to reach the palace. Bender notices what is happening and exploits the situation at hand: He lies to Fry by telling him that Leela is dead. This saddens Fry so profoundly that he begins sobbing, though slowly. After Leela arrives, she begins beating Fry, causing him to weep in pain, gradually extracting the emperor - Fry takes this as a sign that Leela still cares for him, and thanks her profusely throughout the ordeal. The crew members take turns beating Fry until the emperor is out, who beats Fry as well while thanking him. With the emperor safely outside Fry's body, the crew is allowed to leave.

[edit] Characters

Characters who make their first appearances in this episode are:

[edit] Broadcast and reception

[edit] Trivia

  • Bender's ceremonial sash is adorned with several medals, including one of Homer Simpson in profile.
  • Bender's apron reading "to serve man" is a reference to a Damon Knight short story also called To Serve Man which involved a race of aliens conspiring to cook and eat humanity.
  • The Trisolians name comes from a pun on their 3 suns (tri= 3+ sol= sun)
  • The title is a reference to the 1960's television show My Three Sons

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