A Flight to Remember

Season 2, Episode 1, Aired
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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.moreless
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  • Titanic parody, awesome.

    8.5
    "Great"
    By ZaleIsBackAgain, Sep 06, 2010 Report Abuse
    Whenever Futurama decides to parody a series, it almost never ever fails to perform. The Titanic, just about the most loved love story out there aside from Romeo and Juliet and perhaps even Twilight, is the victim today. Bender's abnormal love for another robot who is high class and much richer than him created a pretty good star crossed lovers theme, and had an absolutely hilarious ending combining it with the black hole. Some other hilarious moments, when the black hole sucked up the nebula that Fry was reminiscing on, and when they were going down into their deck and see all the conditions the other decks are above theirs.moreless

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  • Futurama on the Titanic.

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    By fenway98, Aug 23, 2010 Report Abuse
    Professor Farnsworth books a vacation for the whole staff to go on. It's a space cruise called The Titanic. Dun, Dun, Dun!!!!!!! I haven't seen the movie Titanic, but I bet this episode was fairly similar to it.

    To keep Zapp Brannigan away from her, Leela tells him that she's in a realtionship with Fry. But when Amy's parents see her without a boyfriend, she says the same thing.

    Meanwhile, Bender falls in love with a young robot lady, but when the ship goes into a black hole, she lets go of Bender, who's holding on to the escape pd, to save evryone's life.

    This wasn't that funny, but I liked it for some reason.

    Overall Grade: B+/85%moreless

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  • Quite possibly the best episode from Season 1

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    By AdrenalinDragon, Aug 08, 2010 Report Abuse
    "A Flight To Remember"

    Grade: A*

    So this episode of Futurama was quite an important one. Despite obviously being a futuristic parody of Titanic, the episode was well written, funny, and touching. It's interesting to note this is the first episode where the love interest of Fry and Leela, as well as Amy and Kif begins, although it doesn't quite get there yet.

    The episode begins with Farnsworth offering the crew a vacation on a luxury space ship cruise line named the Titanic. They abroad the ship, but when Leela discovers that Zapp is the captain, she quickly pretends to be Fry's boyfriend so that he doesn't try to seduce her while on board. Meanwhile, Bender finds a robot named the Countess and falls in love with her. He pretends to be rich, but even when the Countess discovers he was lying, she still thinks he is the most romantic robot she's ever met. Also, Zapp chooses a more dangerous path for the ship to take, much to Kif's annoyance.
    Meanwhile, Amy's parents want Amy to have a handsome boyfriend. When they choose one for her she doesn't like, she quickly chooses Fry. Trouble arises when Zapp gets suspicious and invites both of them to dinner with Fry. When Fry almost gets caught out, after trying to remember the situation to handle having multiple dates from Three's Company, Zapp gets distracted after finding out that the ship is heading for a black hole, and gives Kif the control of captain as he escapes.
    The crew try to escape, and with the help of Hermes' Limbo powers, they can. The only one who doesn't follow them is Bender, who is trying to find the Countess. The ship starts to flood, but the Countess remembers she's a swimming robot and can escape. Just as the others give up on Bender and leave via the escape pods, Bender jumps out and hangs onto the ship with the Countess. Realising that the weight is holding them back and pushing them into the black hole, the Countess tells Bender that she has to let go, and he will share love again, as after all "it's shareware". Bender is heartbroken, but even after he still has her jewellery, Hermes examines it and tells him its fake, upsetting him even more.moreless

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  • Titantic gets Futurama'd

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    By Southparkfa, Aug 05, 2010 Report Abuse
    In this futuristic Titantic parody, the Planet Express crew goes on a futuristic ship cruise for a nice relaxing day. Zapp Brannagain tries to hit on Leela(again) so she convices Fry to be her fake fiancce, and Amy's parents want her to have a boyfriend, so Fry is enlisted for that too(lucky kid) Zapp is also commanding the ship, but directs it straight into a black hole. Bender also finds love in a she-bot. This episode was a good parody overall, and I liked how alot of the characters were devolped upon further in this episode. Overall, one of the best of season 1. 10/10 A+moreless

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

    8.1
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    By Iverson82094, Jul 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    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 20thcentury 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.moreless

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    • At the end when Leela was steering the escape pod, the earring in her right ear disappeared.

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    • After the Titanic ship broke in two and Bender tells everyone that he's going to look around for stuff to steal, Leela's pearl necklace disappeared.

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    • When LaBarbara was comforting Hermes after he told her the story of what happened, LaBarbara's bracelet on her left arm disappears. Edit

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    • This is the first time we see Leela kissing Fry. Edit
    • 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." Edit
    • 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. Edit

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    • 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. Edit
    • Bender: At least I'll always have her bracelet! What do you think it's worth? Hermes: It's fake, mon. (Bender cries.) Edit
    • 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! Edit

  • Allusions

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    • The name for the Countess De La Roca probably came from one of the Co-Producers on the show, Claudia De La Roca Edit
    • 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". Edit
    • The head Zapp Brannigan threw on the Titanic's exterior was that of Leonardo DiCaprio's, who played Jack in the movie Titanic. Edit

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