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Futurama: A Flight to Remember

 

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8.9 Great
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Air Date

Sunday September 26, 1999

Production Code

1ACV10

Episode Summary

In a whole "Titanic" parody, Fry and the entire gang take a space cruise vacation. Leela tells Captain Zapp Brannigan that Fry is her boyfriend, and Amy tells the same thing to her parents. Bender falls in love with a rich female robot. Problems start when the spaceship approaches a black hole.

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    7.5 Good

    What else can I say, a huge titanic parody. hide show

    Seems nice. *several camera angles* Basically Bender finds a new female bot he likes on a vacation on the Titanic. They get rooms on the fiesta deck, and Bender finally introduces himself to the 'countess'. Meanwhile, Fry gets two women- he has Leela (to stop Zapp) and Amy (to impress her parents). Hermes is also reminded of the limbo... they all reach a dinner and Fry confesses to Leela about Amy, but they find out the ship is being sucked into a black hole. They all get to the escape pods and find that Bender and the Countess are still in the ship. Unfortunately, the Countess is sucked into the black hole. And also unfortunately, the bracelet is worth nothing due to it being fake... just adds to how upset Bender is. A touching episode but not as funny as earlier ones.

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    10 Perfect

    A very good parody. hide show

    A Flight to Remember is a very good parody of one of my favorite movies, Titanic. It's funny, and it manages to be sweet and romantic, while still maintaining the standard of outrageousness that Futurama always has. Very funny and easy to remember. If you watch this episode, you will be very entertained from the start to the finish.

    Professor Farnsworth treats everyone to a vacation on the largest and most luxurious space cruise ship ever made, the Titanic. Love is in the air: Bender falls for a very attractive robot (with red hair, like Rose). Fry pretends to date Leela so she can avoid Zapp Brannigan, and he also pretends to date Amy. Zapp Brannigan decides to pilot the Titanic through a swarm of comets (the "icebergs of the sky") and Bender's new girlfriend ends up dying in the end.

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    10 Perfect

    fry is "dating" two girs at one... thers 2 words you dont see together hide show

    Episode 110 a great start to the second season. This episode was both sad and funny. A lot of love in this episode Bender & Conutess Amy & Fry Leela & Fry then AMY & KIF. Then in the end COUNTESS falls in to the black hole with the TITANIC. The funny part about the ship is that is was named TITANIC. This epsode is related to the movie TITANIC BENDER falling in love with a fembot from first class. What I don't get is why is AMY in third class then in frist class. But A Flight to Remember is a great episode

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    9.8 Superb

    A parody of the movie "Titanic" hide show

    Professor Farnsworth has some news for his returning disgruntled crew. It seems he has booked passage on a new luxury space liner called the Titanic. Everyone is excited (evidently they don't remember what happened to the previous Titanic) and ready to go. As it would happen, Zap Brannigan is the captain of the ship. Bad omen for things to come. Leela wants to avoid Zap at all costs after their last "encounter". She says that Fry is her fiance. Fry is confused but goes along with it. Also it seems that Amy's parents are on board the ship and they want to set her up...

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    8.1 Great

    Not as good as the episodes that came before it, but still a pretty decent episode. hide show

    Professor Farnsworth announces that tomorrow the crew will make a delivery to Ebola 9, the virus planet. They cannot go today because he wants them all to be alive for the Academy of Inventors annual symposium, where he will present the Deathclock, a device which calculates how long a person has left to live. At the symposium, he meets a former student of his from Mars University, Professor Ogden Wernstrom, who vowed revenge on the Professor after receiving an A-minus on a pop quiz, even if it took him a hundred years. Just over ninety-nine years have passed, and no revenge is in sight; so Farnsworth considers himself to be in the clear.

    Wernstrom presents his invention, an apparatus that allows fish to breathe water, but travel on land. He taunts Farnsworth over his invention from the previous year-the Deathclock. Mortified that he had already presented the invention and forgotten about it, Farnsworth hastily begins drawing on a napkin, and comes up with the smelloscope, a device that allows people to smell distant cosmic objects. The smelloscope is received with scorn and laughter, and Wernstrom gives it "the worst grade imaginable-an A minus minus".

    Back at Planet Express, he invites everybody to see the smelloscope which he already built last year and also forgot about. Fry begins pointing the smelloscope around, and discovers the smelliest object in the universe. After calculating its path, Professor Farnsworth announces that the object will collide with New New York City in 72 hours. After some research, a video is found, revealing the object to be a giant ball of New York City's garbage launched via mob-obtained rocket into space around 2052 in an attempt to alleviate a crippling rubbish problem.

    After warning the mayor of New New York, Mayor Poopenmayer, a plan is hatched to destroy the garbage ball. The Planet Express crew is sent on a mission to plant a bomb on a fault line on the ball. The bomb has been set to allow twenty-five minutes to escape. When the crew lands on the ball, Fry is amazed of all of the 20th–century items on the ball; but Leela reminds Fry that these things were garbage, which is why they are in the garbage ball in the first place. Unfortunately, the Professor put the bomb's countdown display in upside down, and it actually only allows fifty-two seconds. The crew panics, and Bender throws the bomb into space to save themselves, but runs into a small meteor and falls back to the surface; and Bender throws it again. The opportunity to destroy the garbage ball is lost, so the crew returns to Earth in shame.

    Attempting to find another way to save the city, the Mayor sends in Wernstrom to find a way to stop the garbage ball. Wernstrom demands tenure, a grant, and five scientists, but has no plan, declares that he's set for life, and leaves. In a last-ditch effort to redeem himself, Farnsworth comes up with a second plan to save the city: to launch a second ball of garbage to bounce against the first one to send it flying into the sun. The Mayor exclaims that there hasn't been garbage in New New York for 500 years, so Fry demonstrates how to make garbage. An announcement is made to tell the city to not throw away its garbage. The city of New New York quickly generates a second ball of garbage, which is fired at the first garbage ball. The rocket flies into the air and hits the other garbage ball head-on. The second ball of garbage flies out of the solar system and the other flies into the sun. Leela's concerns that the new garbage ball will return and destroy a future generation are dismissed by other characters. Fry says that it won't be for hundreds of years.

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  • One of the drinks iZac is mixing is 'Pannzoil' []
  • Opening theme promotion: FILMED ON LOCATION []
  • How come in this episode, Amy's parents want to set up her up with Kif, but when everyone goes to visit them on Mars in another episode, they don't like him?

    In this one Kif was a captain when Amy's parents tried setting them up. While on Mars Kif went back to being Zapp's lapdog, so Amy's parents wanted her with Zapp. []
More Trivia
  • This is the first time we see Leela kissing Fry. []
  • On the audio commentary, someone comments "If you want to make an episode like this, mix one part Titanic, two parts Love Boat, and one part Three's Company." []
  • On the Season 1 DVD in the Chapter Selection of this episode, hover over chapter one and press down, OR hover over chapter four and press left, then press select on the 'Do Not Push' button. There is an extremely disturbing picture of the Professor sent to Mom. []
More Notes
  • Fry: (to Leela) Look! It's our nebula. Whenever I see it, I'll always think back to that moment when we almost... (nebula gets sucked into the black hole) Oh, nevermind. []
  • Bender: At least I'll always have her bracelet! What do you think it's worth?
    Hermes: It's fake, mon.
    (Bender cries.) []
  • Fry: Don't cry, Bender. Nobody really knows what happens in a black hole. It's possible she's still alive in another dimension somewhere. Right, Professor?
    Farnsworth: Oh, yes, absolutely! [He turns to Zoidberg.] Not a chance! []
More Quotes
  • The name for the Countess De La Roca probably came from one of the Co-Producers on the show, Claudia De La Roca []
  • Since most people doesn't know what's this cartoon clip on the billboard in the opening credits is, the cartoon clip is from the late 1950s TV cartoon "Clutch Cargo". []
  • The head Zapp Brannigan threw on the Titanic's exterior was that of Leonardo DiCaprio's, who played Jack in the movie Titanic. []
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