4x04 Love and Rocket

‘‘This concept of ‘wuv’ confuses and infuriates us!’’ :joy:

A Valentine's Day (or at least V-Day adjacent) tradition! It has so many of the things that make Futurama great all within the same episode. There's a madcap, unapologetically awful Bender adventure; a boatload of laughs and silly sequences like the Romanticorp visit or the stop at Omicron Perseii 8, there's a great guest star in Sigourney Weaver who plays an impressively scary crazy jilted lover; there's great homages to classic scifi like 2001 and Alien; and there's a Fry and Leela story that starts out goofy and then gets so shweet and even a little bit touching in the last act.

There's some gender stereotyping involved in the episode that rubs the wrong way, but there's so much great comedy, fun animation and set pieces (the quasar and the programming-merge area in particular), and a great Zoidberg monologue to close things out that still makes it a great episode.

This is a weird episode.

But whatever, I'm sure there's weirder.