Writer:	Eric Kaplan
Director:	Peter Avanzino
Star:	David Herman (The Lord Mayor of Cologne / Scruffy / Worm Guards / Trucker #2),  John DiMaggio (Bender / Sal),  Maurice LaMarche (Frankenstein's Monster),  Phil LaMarr (Hermes Conrad),  Tress MacNeille (Waitress),  Lauren Tom (Amy Wong),  Billy West (Philip J. Fry / Professor Hubert Farnsworth / Dr. Zoidberg / Trucker #1),  Katey Sagal (Turanga Leela)

Alien code: In the season 3 DVD, there is a section where you can learn how to draw Fry. The background is from the truck-stop bathroom. On the wall we see Alien Code #1. When translated it says "For a moderately good time call 555-1972!" (edit) Alien code: When Fry walks into the truck-stop bathroom, there is a ton of Alien Code #1 written on the wall. While most of it is just single letters, there is one phrase you can read on the calendar. It says: "For A Good Time Call..." (edit) Alien code: In the opening sequence of convoy trucks going by, one of the trucks has Alien Code #1 written on it. When translated it says: "Human Milk." (edit) Alien code: Alien Code #1 makes another appearance when Fry and Leela are walking down the block and run into Sal from the truck-stop. It says: "Watch For Falling Humans." (edit) For this episode, storyboard artist Rodney Clouden won an Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. (edit)

Sal: Yo sexy mama, let's get busy and freaky, in that order.
Fry: Hey jumbo, how would you like it if Leela said you were sexy and she wanted to make love with you?
Sal: Eh.. I've gots five minutes. She looks pretty good for a truckstop chick.
Fry: You take that back! She does not look good for truckstop chick.
Sal: Yeah, you're right. She don'ts got enough meat for a guy like me.
Fry: She does too. She's loaded with meat. She's got more meat than a cow! (edit) Bender: Sorry you struck out, sausage link. If it's any consolation, my life is great! Babes! Bucks! I got it all!
Fry: Well, at least I learned Leela's a lost cause. I give up.
Bender: There you go! Goodnight. I gotta get up early to go parasailing with movie stars! (edit) Fry: I got rid of the worms.
Leela: What? Why would you do that?
Fry: Leela, I had worms. I needed to know who you loved. Me or them.
Leela: Well... which of you wrote me that sonnet?
Fry: I did... I think. It was probably about 50/50. But that's how I really felt about you, I swear!
Leela: I don't know.
Fry: Please. Give me a chance to be romantic on my own. I've got a baggy of massage oil, and I'm gonna give you my super back rub, just like a I used to give Amy when I was going out with her, and she always seemed-(Leela stares angrily at him) Uh-oh! (edit) Leela: Fry? I missed you. Did you find out what you needed to find out?
Fry: I'm about to. Leela, let me play for you one for time.
Leela: You don't have to do that. I'm still seduced from before. (edit) Fry: I was just working my way towards the medulla oblongata, control centre of the heart and lungs. And if I kill myself, you die with me.
Worm Guard: Wait a minute, man!
Fry: I hope Satan has a nice colon, 'cause that's where you're gonna be living! (edit)

At the truck stop Leela scrapes a Voyager satellite off of the windshield of the ship. Voyager 1&2, launched in 1977, are currently the furthest manmade objects from Earth. (edit) In the scene where Leela blows mini Leela into Fry's ear her aim is perfect especially if you take into consideration the distance she was at. (edit) Opening theme promotion: IF NOT ENTERTAINING, WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN (edit) The scene inside Fry's body where Zoidberg says "I've heard of that. Who says I haven't?" The gun Zoidberg is holding switches hands between cuts, then switches back again. (edit) Leela's apartment number is shown as 1I, a reference to her having only one eye. (edit)

Hermes comments that Fry will be as strong as Gumby and Hercules combined. Gumby is a claymation character who first appeared in 1955. Hercules was a Greek mythological figure who possessed incredible strength. (edit) Star Trek: The Next Generation
The running gag about Bender yelling "abandon ship!" similar to what Picard yells out several times in the episode "Cause And Effect" (in which the Enterprise is caught in a time loop and explodes several times). (edit) X Minus One
In the "Shock Troops" episode of this classic radio series, an army of parasites (or germs, they didn't elaborate) take over a man's body for colonization. (edit) Maxell Tapes
Leela's underfurnished apartment looks like a famous and much-parodied ad for Maxell tape from the 1970s. (edit) Dr. Who: The Invisible Enemy
A Dr. Who episode in which the Doctor and his assistant Leela are cloned, and the clones are miniaturized and injected into the Doctor to defeat invading parasites. (edit)