Leela's Homeworld

Season 4, Episode 5, Aired
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After Bender dumps toxic waste into the sewers, the mutants become angry and kidnap Bender, Fry and Leela. They suspend the crew over a radioactive lake and threaten to dump them in, altering their human genes and mutating them, but two hooded mutants save them. Leela decides to pursue the mysterious mutants, who seem to have a suspicious fixation with her.moreless
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  • Leela meets her parents... well, at the end of the episode

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    By tigerdude22, Nov 18, 2011 Report Abuse
    After Bender dumps toxic waste into the sewers, the mutants become angry and kidnap Bender, Fry and Leela. They suspend the crew over a radioactive lake and threaten to dump them in, altering their human genes and mutating them, but two hooded mutants save them. Leela decides to pursue the mysterious mutants, who seem to have a suspicious fixation with her. I thought that this was an excellent episode of "Futurama". It was very funny but it was also very heartwarming. I think that any of the fans of this show will definitely love the humor and the charms in this episode. The discovery that Leela's parents are still alive was very good and shocking to find out because she thinks that they were both dead. There was a flashback scene in this episode where it showed Leela's parents putting her in an orphan so Leela can have a real and better life.... the parents also said how they never want Leela to know that they exist because it wouldn't be best. There were a lot of parts in this episode that made me laugh very hard such as the analysis of Leela printing which took like 10 seconds or less or more long, Bender's part, Professor Farnsworth's part, and many more. It was also very touching when Leela got to meet her parents at the end of the episode. The episode ends with the flashbacks Leela's parents being there for Leela even though she didn't see it such as when they gave Leela a birthday present, tucked Leela in, and gave her a box of cookies. It was nice that the parents did those things for Leela in her past childhood even though Leela didn't see it. Overall, an excellent episode of "Futurama"... totally worth watching. 10/10moreless

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  • parents

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    By futuramarama, Apr 05, 2010 Report Abuse
    this episode is definitely one of the most memorable episodes, as well as being a series classic! If I hadn't already known what would happen beforehand, the ending would have shocked me greatly. Heck, even though I did know what was to come, i loved it! Leela meeting her parents was great, because it showed emotion, as well as the fact she is a mutant and not cyclops. This was easily one of the best episodes of animation I have ever seen. My overall grade, i shouldn't have to say, is an A+, just perfect in each and every waymoreless

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  • Funny and very touching

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    By that70sguy92, Jul 24, 2009 Report Abuse
    This has to be one of my very favorite episodes of Futurama. It has a lot of humor, and a lot of heart. It was the perfect mix of those. It was nice to see Fry, Bender, and Leela go into the sewers and see the mutants again, but what I liked more was seeing Leela reunite with her long-lost parents.

    After falling into the sewers, Fry, Bender, and Leela are just nearly mutated for dumping in toxic waste. Then, two mutants save them from being mutated, and Leela wants to know why they did it, and who they are. This causes Leela to learn about her mysterious past, and her parents.moreless

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  • funny epsode

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    By Blind_Legend, Jun 24, 2008 Report Abuse
    This episode was teriffic, with great jokes such as Leela being named orphan of the year and Amy saying "Your parents must feel so proud". The revelation at the end of the act where Leela is looking up, wondering if her parents were looking down on her and thae camera swings down into the sewers showing Leela's parents staring up was a very pivotal part in the Futurama series.
    Bender dumping toxic waste in the sewers for $499 and 100 cents instead of the ridiculous price of $500 that it was going to cost was a great B story and the translator showing Fry and Farnsworth exactly what the paper says, though instead of translating, it just shows that the note was printed on toilet paper was a verry funny gag when Fry was explaining how they found out.
    The ending montage was great showing that Leela's mutant parents always looked out for her. This was a very important episode which also managed to be quite funny.moreless

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  • A great episode in the history of Leela, but just very funny at all.

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    By Iverson82094, Feb 19, 2008 Report Abuse
    The Professor announces that Leela's old orphanarium has named her Orphan of the Year. In another announcement, he shows off a machine that makes glow-in-the-dark noses. Unfortunately, the machine produces enormous amounts of toxic waste. The Professor hires Bender to dispose of the waste, and he does so by dumping it into the sewer.

    At the orphanarium's award ceremony, the headmaster presents us with a flashback of Leela's arrival. We see that she was left with a note written in Alienese, and a bracelet (translated, the note reads, "Your parents love you very much"). Back at the Planet Express building, Leela is in tears over not having parents. Fry takes her for a walk, and she looks up to the stars, wondering which alien world her parents were from. The camera pans back down, and we see two one-eyed sewer mutants looking up from a drain.

    Meanwhile, Bender has expanded his one-time dumping into a full waste management service. The mutants grow angry with Bender's disposal technique, and make a rare surface trip, capturing Bender, Fry, and Leela. The mutants sentence the crew to be lowered into a lake of chemicals, which will turn them into mutants as well. Bender, who was still scared, had no DNA; but the mutants said they were going to beat him up later.

    Two hooded mutants call out to Leela, then swing the crane around, dropping the crew on the far side of the mutagenic lake. The mutant mob, immune to the effects of the lake, dive in and swim across. Fry, Leela, and Bender take refuge in a mutant home, where they find a shrine to Leela's life. The mob captures them, but after a whispered word from the hooded mutants, the crew's sentence is commuted to exile. They ride a hot-air balloon to a surface access ladder hanging over the lake. Fry and Bender emerge on the surface; but Leela, determined to find out what the hooded mutants know, dives into the chemical lake.

    She swims to shore, and finds she is unaffected by the chemicals. Fry heads to the orphanarium to try to get some clues as to what's going on, and the headmaster gives him the note that was left with Leela. Fry takes the note back to the Professor for analysis. As they read the analysis output, we learn the truth: Leela is actually a mutant, but was born "the least mutated mutant ever". Her parents, realizing she could pass as an alien, decided to leave her at the orphanarium with an Alienese note (her mother somehow has a PhD in exolinguistics), and agreed that they would rather die than ever let her find out the "shameful" truth.

    Meanwhile, an armed and irrational Leela has pursued the hooded mutants through the sewers, back to the home with the shrine to herself. Leela comes to the irrational conclusion that the mutants killed her parents, leaving her an orphan. She plans to kill her parents, and both are willing to let her rather than reveal the truth. Fry falls through the ceiling at the last second and reveals the truth. He takes off the mutants' hoods revealing two middle-age one-eyed mutants. A tearful reunion ensues, and the episode closes with a montage of scenes of Leela's parents watching over their daughter during her life.moreless

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  • Trivia

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    • As Leela is trying to kick in the door of her parent's home, you can see large cracks to the left side of the door frame. When the camera angle changes, the cracks are gone. Edit
    • When walking across the plank from the hot-air balloon, you don't see the plank in the balloon, so where does the plank come from? Edit
    • When they are in the hot-air balloon when they "fire up the sewer gas," Fry, Leela and Bender start coughing. Why does Bender cough when he doesn't breathe or have a nose? Edit

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    • A number of scenes were deleted from this episode, including the Warden going through files with Fry about what children used to do, like peeing the bed. You can find these scenes on the Futurama Season 4 DVD. Edit
    • Alien code: When Leela looks down at her bracelet, you see the first official appearance of Alien Code 3. While the code hasn't officially been translated, its rumored to stand for "Chump." Edit
    • Alien code: When looking at a baby Leela, there is a note attached to her writing in Alien Code #1. It really does read: "Your Parents Love You Very Much." Edit

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    • Fry: I had the Professor analyse the Alienese letter that was found with you. Leela: What does it say? Fry: I 'unno. But the analysis showed it was printed on recycled toilet paper. A squeezably soft paper used mainly in the sewers. Edit
    • Leela: And what about this? How did you get this bracelet? Did you steal it from me when I was a baby? Or from my parents? You robbed my parents, didn't you? I bet you sick mutants killed them. My parents were confused aliens lost on Earth and you killed them! Is that it? Admit it! Morris: Yes. We killed them. Munda: You guessed the truth. Leela: Because of you I'll never know my parents. I'll kill you! Munda: That would be best. Edit
    • Leela: What is all this? Am I a game to you? Or some kind of even more boring Truman Show? Do you believe I'm your Messiah? The Mutant Dalai Lama? Stop me if I guess it! Edit

  • Allusions

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    • Free Willy 3 Bender: My dumping business is booming. I just got hired to clean up the set of Free Willy 3. Free Willy 3 is a popular movie that came out in 1997. It's about an orca named Willy on the run from some whalers. Edit
    • Superman/Cheech Marin Leela: Great Cheech's Ghost! Perry White, Editor of the Daily Planet, often said "Great Caesar's Ghost!" when surprised. Cheech refers to Cheech Marin, most famous for his role in Cheech and Chong movies. Edit
    • The Truman Show
      When Leela is yelling at her parents, she makes a reference to the Jim Carey movie, The Truman Show, which is also about watching someone's life without their knowledge. Edit

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