Sunday November 7, 1999
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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.
Read Full Recap » (warning: possible spoilers!)Single Female Lawyer! hide show
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.
One of my FAVORITE episodes! hide show
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.
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 ship
Aliens invade earth to finish watching an old TV show. hide show
This episode has so many parodies I can't keep count. It seems that back in the nineties, Fry delivered some pizza to a Fox studio. While he was taking a quick break (loafing), he accidentally spilled some cola on the control panel and the rest of a show called "Single Female Lawyer" was cut off the air. It is now one thousand plus years later and the rulers of Omicron Persei 8 are watching the show and are extremely upset when it is cut short. The aliens invade Earth and as part of their demand, Earth must broadcast the rest of the show or face destruction.
Ally McBeal does have fans, just not on earth hide show
As an Ally McBeal fan I was intrigued by this episode. It was a humorous thought to think that light years away TV and Radio signals are picked up and listened to. It would be interesting to find out what other life forms thought about some of the things we produce considering how terrible some of it is. I really enjoyed the final episode they tried to make. And of course, Fry knew how people will react to certain elements of the story when done certain ways. Despite his rediculous direction they manage to save the earth. Lurr's review of the episode was very funny. Who knew that watch television would one day enable you to save the world. A good thing to keep in mind for the future.
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