When Aliens Attack

Season 2, Episode 3, Aired
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An invasion by the Omicronians demanding to watch the final episode for the 1999 TV series Single Female Lawyer, forces the Planet Express crew to re-enact it live.
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  • One of my FAVORITE episodes!

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    By that70sguy92, Sep 28, 2010 Report Abuse
    This episode, When Aliens Attack, is one of the greatest and funniest episodes in the show. It was unique and very clever, even more clever than most episodes in the show usually are. It was perfect, introducing the aliens from Omicron Persei 8 for the first time ever, and it was a very memorable (and VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY hilarious, of course) introuduction indeed!

    In the twentieth century, Fry accidentally made Fox go off the air. At the time, a show named Single Female Lawyer was airing. One thousand years later, aliens that are very far from Earth are about to watch it, and then they don't get to. The Omicrons invade Earth until they get to see the end, so Fry has the Planet Express crew act out the end, since he saw some of the show.moreless

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  • Omicronians

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    By fenway98, Aug 27, 2010 Report Abuse
    Earth is being invaded by a race of aliens called the Omicronians, because they want to see the finale of a 1999 show, called Single Female Lawyer. Fry is the only one who knows about it, because he spilled beer on the Tv transmittor in 1999. The crew recreates the show, with Bender as the cameraman, Fry as the writer, and Leela as the actrees as Single Female Lawyer. But when Fry only writes two pages, they must make it up as they go along.

    This was a pretty good episode. I liked Bender using his eyes as the cameras.

    Overall Grade: 85%/B+moreless

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  • single female lawyer

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    By futuramarama, Mar 07, 2010 Report Abuse
    the omicronians want a copy of the season finale of an old show, because the satellites went out before it ended, due to fry. this means the planet express crew reenact the final scene and make it up as they go along. but the omicronians do not care, and abandon their plans for destroying earth {over a tv show... go figure}.

    a funny episode, and as usual, a very interesting plot. my overall grade for the episode, like several other episodes of the series, is an A+, because it is so funny and I really dug the plot. Yay Futuramamoreless

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  • Single Female Lawyer!

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    By BreezyLad, May 10, 2009 Report Abuse
    At the beach, Hermes and Bender play hide-and-seek, and Zoidberg does some scuttling. Leela and Fry are in a bit of business when the professional beach bully comes along... but none of this is anything to do with the plot whatsoever. Aliens attack monument beach! They want their Single Female Lawyer back, and the crew eventually decide to shoot their own version of Single Female Lawyer, and they have to improvise! Leela does it wrong, but they sum it up as they make the judge die, and the episode satisfies the aliens, and they don't blow up their planet- but also do not give them the recipe to immortality. Way to overact, Zoidberg.moreless

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  • hillarios episode

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    By Blind_Legend, Jun 22, 2008 Report Abuse
    Fry knocks a beer over back in 1999, spilling over the broadcasting equipment of a Fox affiliate during the showing of 'Single Female Lawyer'. Fry comments 'like anyone on Earth cares', but little did he know that Lore of Omicron Persei 8 was watching 1000 years later. Note that this would make it the year 2999 where Fry should still have been in the cryogenic freezer? Oh well. Anyway, Lore is pretty angry and decides to come to earth demanding Mcneal the single female lawyer, but also this is the name of the current US president. Of course the president assumes that Lore wants him, and refuses to give himself up. Zapp takes all earthicans to war, but they actually end up destroying the Hubble telescope instead of the alien mother ship; the mother ship is much much bigger. On the realisation that they will never win, Zapp shoves the president into a bag and presents him to Lore. Of course this is not the Mcneal they are looking for. Fry figures out who they are after but the episodes of 'Single Female Lawyer' have since been destroyed, so Fry and the gang must produce an acceptable replacement copy.

    An excellent example of the hilarious Zapp Brannigan in this episode. The single female lawyer program is a clear poke at the poor quality tv shows which revolve around sex with poor story lines, and a poke at those who watch these programs getting hooked. Although the part they blow up the Hubble telescope thinking it was the mother ship was a bit ridiculous. The apparent telescope was an exact replica of the actual mother ship, not to mention it was shooting at them as well. Although the idea was to highlight the incompetence of Zapp Brannigan, this would have been much funnier if it actually looked more like the Hubble telescope and less like an actual mother shipmoreless

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    • If they have a recipe for immortality, then how did their ships explode without them falling in space or something? In anthology of interest 2, the same thing happens when Fry plays Space Invaders. Edit
    • On Monument Beach, some monuments seen are seen in several other episodes in their normal locations, such as the Whitehouse in Washington D.C, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy. Edit
    • Opening theme promotion: PROUDLY MADE ON EARTH Edit

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    • One of the deleted scenes in this episode shows the professor telling Fry that they can't go to a real beach because after men stopped hunting whales, they overpopulated the oceans and made them too dangerous. Inclusion of the scene would have probably caused a re-write of a later episode when the crew goes fishing. Edit
    • First appearance of Lrrr and Ndnd. Edit
    • That mysterious man wearing a white suit with a big nine on it was seen again! He was among the people who were celebrating the departure of the aliens. There was a concept that the crew was going to explore where they would visit a planet where everyone wore numbers. If they did it, it would have been an homage to Final Fantasy 7. Edit

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    • Bender: Single female lawyer, fighting for her clients, wearing sexy mini skirts, and being self reliant. Hey I'm pretty good. Edit
    • Hermes: We find the defendant vulnerable yet spunky! Edit
    • Lrrr: And now we must return to our planet, to catch the end of a thousand-year-old Leno monologue. Edit

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    • Star Trek (1966): A door opens with the hatch noise used in Star Trek. Edit
    • Females in Science Fiction During the assault on the "mothership" (hubble telescope) Fry mentions he's going to be a science fiction star, just like Uhura, Captain Janeway, and Xena. Interestingly enough, the three he chose were all women. Uhura was the Chief Communications Office on the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Original Series. Captain Janeway was the captain of the USS Voyager in Star Trek: Voyager. Xena was the warrior princess in Xena: Warrior Princess. Fry is also dressed in the uniform of the pilots of the Rebel Alliance from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (the entire assault is a partial parody of the assault on the Death Star). Edit
    • Charles Atlas: The scene where the muscular guy picks on Fry at the beach is reminiscent of the Charles Atlas print ads which have a similar set-up. Edit

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