[9.0/10] One of my favorite episodes. The gender stereotypes are a little retrograde, but I feel like the show is making fun of them as much as it’s employing them, and the point seems to be that while dolts like Fry and Zapp get bonked for their oafishness, Kif is the one decent guy and he’s saved/rewarded for it. He even as a nice little arc of being unable to express himself to Amy and finally getting the courage to when he thinks his life is at stake.
Plus, all the business on Planet Amazonia is great. Watching Star Trek has given me a greater appreciation for how Futurama plays with that series’s tropes, and the female-dominated planet ruled by a computer is right out of the Roddenberry textbook. So many great lines, like the femputer sentencing the men to death for laughing despite the “fundamentals” of their basketball league, to Bender’s flat what when asked if he knows what it’s like to be a femputer in a manbot manputer’s world, to pretty much every ridiculous thing that Zapp says or does. The C-plot about Zoidberg picking a new shell is pretty tacked on, but it’s good for some grossout humor.
Overall, it’s one of those absolutely classic episodes of the show, with so many quotable lines and funny creative bits.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2017-04-14T04:05:52Z
[9.0/10] One of my favorite episodes. The gender stereotypes are a little retrograde, but I feel like the show is making fun of them as much as it’s employing them, and the point seems to be that while dolts like Fry and Zapp get bonked for their oafishness, Kif is the one decent guy and he’s saved/rewarded for it. He even as a nice little arc of being unable to express himself to Amy and finally getting the courage to when he thinks his life is at stake.
Plus, all the business on Planet Amazonia is great. Watching Star Trek has given me a greater appreciation for how Futurama plays with that series’s tropes, and the female-dominated planet ruled by a computer is right out of the Roddenberry textbook. So many great lines, like the femputer sentencing the men to death for laughing despite the “fundamentals” of their basketball league, to Bender’s flat what when asked if he knows what it’s like to be a femputer in a manbot manputer’s world, to pretty much every ridiculous thing that Zapp says or does. The C-plot about Zoidberg picking a new shell is pretty tacked on, but it’s good for some grossout humor.
Overall, it’s one of those absolutely classic episodes of the show, with so many quotable lines and funny creative bits.