The Moon Shall Rise Again Futurama

In Hypno-Vision

Now that Fry, Leela, and Bender have been hired by Planet Limited, the Professor assigns them their first mission: deliver a crate of toys to the Moon, which, in a thousand year's time, has get a cheesy, Disney Earth-style theme park. While Leela enjoys information technology, Fry wants to experience the moon the way Neil Armstrong "...and those other brave men no one's ever heard of" did, which leads to trouble with a space redneck and his robot daughters.

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Tropes:

• Agitated Item Stomping: The moon redneck does this with his hat when Fry, Leela, and Bender escape from him for the starting time time. Later, after Amy saves them from his thresher, the redneck does it again with his space helmet... until he stops animate.
• Alien Gender Confusion: This is used to establish that Zoidberg knows zilch of homo medicine, including such basics every bit discerning genders.

  Fry: Uh, is there a human doctor effectually?
  Zoidberg: Immature lady, I'g an skilful on humans. Now pick a oral fissure, open information technology and say... (lobster crow)
  Fry: (tris and fails to imitate lobster crow)
  Zoidberg: What?! My mother was a saint! Go OUT!

• Armor-Piercing Response: Fry geeks out when they come up across the Apollo eleven landing site, merely Leela isn't impressed.

  Fry: Leela, isn't this the greatest thing you've ever seen?

  Leela: Fry, look around! Information technology's just a crummy plastic flag and a expressionless human being's tracks in the grit!

• Bilingual Bonus: Amy's offset appearance also sets upwardly the Running Gag of cursing in Cantonese when she's angry. When she fails to get the keys out of the crane automobile, she yells "Aieyah! Jung lei! ngo da sei lei!" ("Good Grief, I hate y'all! I will beat you lot senseless!").
• Blatant Lies: When Fry watches someone beingness carried off by a behemothic eagle in the Planet Limited adverts, he asks whether they exist. The Professor claims it's all only special furnishings and and then proceeds to brand omelettes from giant bird eggs.
• Brick Joke: When Bender commencement flees from the redneck, Fry asks if he tried seducing the Crushinator. Bender angrily asserts he didn't, because he believes she needed 'romancing' commencement. Later, after he storms away from the Lunar Lander, he returns, chased past the Redneck considering he went back for the Crushinator.
  • Bough, and his reaction to magnets.
• Chekhov's Skill: Amy and the claw-game.
• Deep South: The redneck farmer... on the Moon. There is even a Confederate flag painted on his lunar auto. The Moon will rise once more!
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: To Fry, the moon is a wondrous, magic unreachable identify. To everybody else, it's just a hunk of stone with an amusement park you lot can reach in seconds. Nobody understands Fry's obsession with a hunk of lifeless clay. Information technology's not until Leela listens to Fry'south caption that she begins to actually understand what the things she takes for granted in her present must exist similar for someone from the past.
• Ear Worm: "Weeeee're whalers on the Moon..." Repeated many times within the episode, and Fry is clearly sick of it. Even Leela sings along at one point.
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • Hermes casually discusses all the ways Leela could die on the job with her while request her to sign a liability waiver, and so laughs in her face up when she states that she intends to "practice every bit footling dying equally possible".
  • Doctor Zoidberg'south incompetence is established when he asks Fry to open his rima oris in order to look at his encephalon. When Fry complies, Zoidberg says "No, no, not that mouth".
  • Amy'due south status as a Beautiful Clumsy Girl is set in rock the moment her hand slips and accidentally jabs Leela in the eye while cleaning Bender.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While this was a while before Bough was established as "Evil," he takes crime when Fry assumes he tried anything with the Crushinator. As he puts it, a woman that fine deserves to be romanced first. Later unsaid he tried just that.
• Feet-Beginning Introduction: Fry is about to enter Zoidberg'south office for his concrete, and Farnsworth warns him that he is "a little" unusual, whispering, "He wears sandals." They so enter the office, and nosotros get a closeup of Zoidberg's feet on his desk (showing he is indeed wearing sandals) before the photographic camera pulls out to reveal Zoidberg himself.
• Foreshadowing: Bender saying "I judge a robot would take to be crazy to wanna be a folk singer" afterwards singing a folk song due to having a magnet in his head becomes a Plot Point for later episodes where Bender does become a folk singer.
• Hereafter Imperfect: The people of the 31st century have forgotten the bodily details of Projection Apollo ^notation Most of them. There is manifestly a "Historical Sticklers Society.", which has been lost for centuries. For example, they mistake Ralph Kramden of The Honeymooners for a space pioneer because of his Catchphrase "Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!" (equally said in the episode; run across Beam Me Upward, Scotty!), and believe in that location are "Whalers On The Moon".
• Gonky Femme: The Crushinator, a huge blocky robot with a masculine vocalism treated as a delicate dazzler by Bender.
• Hand Wave: Apollo 11 never remained on the moon. This is explained past the "Historical Sticklers Gild" putting one at that place, along with the flag (which was bleached white later on being planted) and footsteps.
• Hayseed Name: Two of the Farmers Daughters are named Lulubelle and Daisy Mae; the third, of course, is the Crushinator.
• Just Like Making Love: Parodied when Amy is trying to remember the keys to a spaceship from a claw arcade game.

  Bender: Come on, it'due south merely like making love. Y'know: Left, down, rotate 62 degrees, appoint rotor...
  Amy: Ugh, I know how to make love!

• The Load: When they get stuck in a crater'southward quicksand on the moon, Fry says, "It's no utilize! Every human being for himself!", jumps out of the cart, gets stuck, and so cries, "Help me, Leela!"
• Lost Common Knowledge: Although the moon has long since been colonized, the site of the Apollo xi landing has been forgotten. Fry and Leela notice it by sheer luck. A plaque within suggests that it was restored some time betwixt the 20th and 31st Century, then abandoned.
  • In a bit of Fridge Luminescence, when Fry and Leela notice the original Apollo 11 site, they accept refuge in the rising stage of the Lunar Module. A plaque on one wall states "Placed here by the Historical Sticklers Guild."
• The Man in the Moon: Craterface, the mascot of Luna Park wearing a human being-in-the-moon costume, to whom Bender shoves a beer bottle in his heart in a reference to the A Trip to the Moon ur-instance.
• Magic Inaugural: Parodied. Fry'south excitement has him count down from 10 to ane when the crew is taking off. They've already hit the amusement park on the moon and have parked past the time he hits i.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Zoidberg is not this.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis: The "Fungineers" who designed the Moon Landing 'historical' recreation with singing whale hunters equally astronauts take certainly gotten their historical facts through popcultural osmosis.
  • Fungineering as a whole seems to be based on a massive foundation of Memetic Mutation.
• 2nd Episode Introduction: Zoidberg, Hermes and Amy.
• Shout-Out
  • Luna Park is named after one of the iii original amusement parks in Coney Island.
  • Craterface, the entertainment park'southward mascot, gets a beer canteen shoved into his eye, resembling The Human in the Moon with a rocket ship crammed into his heart from the archetype silent film A Trip to the Moon.
  • The "Fungineers" are a reference/parody of the the Walt Disney Company's "Imagineers", who are responsible for designing and developing the Walt Disney theme parks.
  • At the site of Apollo 11, Fry recognizes the American flag as "that flag from MTV".
• Space Whale: Though there aren't any infinite whales seen in this episode, the theme park-employed "Fungineers" ended that the moon was get-go visited past Space Whalers. They proceeded to create a theme-park ride based on this "fact".
  • Notably the next line afterward the ones included in the page quote is 'But there ain't no whales, and then we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tunes'.
• Start My Own: Trope Namer is based on a line Benders says when he is kicked out of Lunar Park, and later when Fry and Leela continue Bender out of the Apollo eleven lunar lander. The line has gone on to become a pop meme.

  Bough: Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own theme park! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the park!

• The Last of These Is Non Like the Others: The Moon Hick'south daughters; Daisy Mae 128-K, Lulubelle seven, and... The Crushinator.
• To Serve Man: The Horrible Gelled Blob in the advert, who eats the hapless worker regardless of whether he had the required parcel or non.
• Very Imitation Advertising: Somewhat inverted. Fry is eager to visit the moon for the first time, but to end up visiting a large theme park with cheesy attractions. He hijacks a lunar rover to pause out and see the "real" moon, which ends up almost killing him.
• Wanting Is Amend Than Having: Fry, while in the lunar lander with Leela, describes the moon every bit a cute and romantic thing that seems just out of achieve. But now he knows that when you're actually on it, it's just a large rock floating in space.
• We Have Reserves: The Planet Express ethos; "Our crew is replaceable, your bundle isn't."
• Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: When the Planet Express crew are browsing the moon souvenirs.

  Leela: Who buys this crap?
  Bender: Idiots who demand gifts for other idiots.
  (Fry walks in from off screen, wearing an "I'm With Stupid On The Moon" souvenir shirt and holding two moon-themed refrigerator magnets)
  Fry: Hey, look what I got y'all guys!

• The World Is Just Awesome: Fry loves to be on the moon for the first fourth dimension while Leela is thinking, 'it's only the moon, nosotros travel to other planets all the time in the year 3000'. But by the end of the episode, Leela begins to understand how amazing the universe she lives in is to someone from the past.

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Bender: Oh, so you tropers accept been writing this epitomize without Bender, eh? Fine, I'll become write my own epitomize page! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the page and the blackjack! Ah, spiral the whole thing.

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FuturamaS1E2TheSeriesHasLanded

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