Difference between revisions of "Brannigan, Begin Again"

Revision as of 09:15, 12 April 2007

Brannigan, Begin Again

Production Number: 2ACV02
Title Caption: Not Y3K Compliant
First Aired: 11/28/99 <br\>

The Story

Act I

The Planet Express crew are sent to deliver the ceremonial oversized scissors to the grand opening of the new DOOP Headquarters, in orbit around the Neutral Planet. Zapp Brannigan, there to perform the ribbon cutting, falsly arrests Leela for being involved in a neutral plot to kill the yarn people of Nylar 4. From the ship he uses the Nimbus' laser to cut the ribbon but accidentally destroys the headquarters instead. As a result he is discharged from DOOP along with his assistant, Kif Kroker. The two wander around the city looking for a way to survive as poor civilians. He visits Leela as she is the only women who ever physicaly loved him and along with Kif is hired by Professor Farnsworth to work at Planet Express.

Act II

The crew is sent off to Stumbos 4, a planet with extremely high gravity. Fry, Bender, and Zapp ignore Leela's directions and break the Hover Dolley. As punishment she makes them hand-deliver the pillows which, under Stumbos 4's gravity, weigh 150lbs (70kg) each. Kif is happy to be appriciated by Leela and tells her horrible stories about his old job serving under Zapp. Unfortuantly Zapp convinces Bender and Fry that he would be a better captain and leads a mutiny to overthrow Leela and make Zapp Brannigan captain, which makes Kif unhappy again.

Act III

Now in command of the Planet Express Ship, Zapp Brannigan goes to his sworn enemy's planet the Neutral Planet and plans to send them a message of peace then to crash the Ship into the capital city. He escapes to safety with Kif, leaving the crew on-board while the ship crashes into Neutral HQ. Fry and Bender free Leela who manages to save them by making them put dark matter into the left engine thust steering the ship of course. Ultimately Leela lies to the judge, convincing DOOP to reinstate Zapp and Kif, to avoid having them stay on as co-workers.

Additional Info

Trivia

Although its has been mentioned before this is DOOP's first appearance
The sequence between Zapp's and Kif's court martial and subsequent hiring by Planet Express is a parody of the movie Midnight Cowboy.

Quotes

The Professor: Why you're that disgraced starship captain Having him on staff will distract people from our horrendous safety record.
Zapp Brannigan: Let me ask you a serious question, Leela does the company that made your bra make a girdle as well? I ask because a friend of mine.
Leela: Just get to work
Fry: Leela you've go to help us.
Leela: Let me guess. He cancelled naptime? (They shake their heads.) He ran out of beer? (They shake their heads again.) So he's about to kill us?
Bender: Leela save me, and yourself I guess, and my Banjo, and Fry.
The Neutral President: If I don't survive, tell my wife "Hello".

Alien Language Sightings

Location: Outside Planet Express on the Slurm poster
Language: AL1
Translation: Drink

Goofs

Hermes says "Or like the Federation from your Star Trek program" however Star Trek has been banned so he couldn't say this.

Characters

(in alphabetical order)

Episode Credits

Template:EpisodeNavTemplate

@@ Line 25: / Line 25: @@
 *'''Fry:''' Leela you've go to help us.<br/>'''Leela:''' Let me guess. He cancelled naptime? ''(They shake their heads.)'' He ran out of beer? ''(They shake their heads again.)'' So he's about to kill us?
 *'''Bender:''' Leela save me, and yourself I guess, and my Banjo, and Fry.
+*'''The Neutral President:''' If I don't survive, tell my wife "Hello".
 ===Alien Language Sightings===