The Mutants Are Revolting

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Season 6 episode
Broadcast season 7 episode
The Mutants Are Revolting
The Mutants Are Revolting.jpg
No.100
Production number6ACV12
Written byEric Horsted
Directed byRaymie Muzquiz
Title caption100
First air date2 September, 2010[1]
Broadcast numberS07E12
Special guest(s)Mark Mothersbaugh as Himself
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript

Pictures

Season 6
  1. Rebirth
  2. In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
  3. Attack of the Killer App
  4. Proposition Infinity
  5. The Duh-Vinci Code
  6. Lethal Inspection
  7. The Late Philip J. Fry
  8. That Darn Katz!
  9. A Clockwork Origin
  10. The Prisoner of Benda
  11. Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
  12. The Mutants Are Revolting
  13. The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
  14. The Silence of the Clamps
  15. Möbius Dick
  16. Law and Oracle
  17. Benderama
  18. The Tip of the Zoidberg
  19. Ghost in the Machines
  20. Neutopia
  21. Yo Leela Leela
  22. Fry Am the Egg Man
  23. All the Presidents' Heads
  24. Cold Warriors
  25. Overclockwise
  26. Reincarnation
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"The Mutants Are Revolting" is the one hundredth episode of Futurama, the twelfth of the sixth production season and the seventh broadcast season. It aired 2 September, 2010 on Comedy Central. After Leela is banished to the sewers along with the other mutants, she and the Planet Express crew lead a revolution for mutant rights. This episode is also the season finale for Season 6.

The cover of the script for "The Mutants Are Revolting".

Story

The Planet Express crew has been hired for their 100th delivery, and Bender plans the party of the millennium. Meanwhile, as the rest of the crew attends a fund raiser, Fry accidentally spills that Leela is not an alien but a mutant who illegally lives on the surface. Leela is banished to the sewers, and the Planet Express crew, along with the mutated members of Devo, helps her lead an epic revolution for mutant rights. This episode shows Leela forcing Fry to jump in the mutating waters, and him becoming a blob like mutant. [2]

Production

A photo of Mike Rowe's production script have been uploaded by Mike Rowe onto his Facebook page. The cover of the script highlights it as the 100th episode, as well as revealing the title, "The Mutants Are Revolting".

This episode was dedicated to the memory of Alex Johns, a producer of Futurama who passed away at 43 years old.

Additional Information

Trivia

  • The title of this episode has double meaning. The first being that the mutants revolt in this episode and the second is that the mutants look revolting.
  • This is the second time Futurama makes a reference to the Titanic, the first being in "A Flight to Remember".
  • The narrator of "The Mutant" documentary is the same voice that narrated the fictional documentaries "I Dated A Robot" and "Global Warming".
  • This is the first that a Futurama theme caption pops out over the main Futurama title
  • The Futurama theme caption is 100 using bent gerders to spell it to signify that this is Futurama's 100th episode.
  • The song playing at Bender's party is "The Boogie That Be" by the Black-Eyed Peas.

Allusions

  • When Mr. Blob enters the 100th delivery party, he says "Hey, Hey Hey" like Fat Albert.
  • The Land Titanic, how it sunk, and its old ballroom floor, as well as finding a huge diamond in a safe, are all references to the famous Titanic incident.
  • Dwayne asks Devo to play "Whip It", which is probably Devo's most famous single.
  • The song that Devo plays instead of "Whip It" is "Beautiful World", another popular single by them.
  • The million mutant march is a reference to the million man march.
  • A location in the sewers that Leela's parents show her is Ol' Filth-ful (a reference to Ol' Faithful).
  • The missile that is fired at Madison Cube Garden is called "I See BM", a reference to an ICBM, which stands for Inter-continental Ballistic Missile.
  • When Dwayne asks, "Are we not men now?", this is another Devo reference to the song "Jocko Homo", specifically the lyric "Are we not men? We are Devo!"
  • Mutant Fry declaring, "Let my people stay" and using a toilet plunger to part the massive sewage is a reference to the story of Moses in Exodus and the parting of the Red Sea. More specifically, the scene is a parody of the scene from The Ten Commandments.
  • The Westside Pipeway resembles the Great Machine from Fritz Langs Movie "Metropolis". The Film is about a future where the rich and powerful live ontop a city, while the exploited workers live a life of austerity underground.
  • The "2, 4, 6 eyes..." chant is a reference to the well known "2, 4, 6, 8..." chant.
  • The most famous scene of "The seven year itch" is parodied.

Continuity

Goofs

  • When Bender bends the pipes so the sewage is redirected to the surface, everyone on the surface is seen walking in that sewage, which we learned that if you touch it, you'd become a mutant.
    • An explaination for this may be that sewage needs to reach the mutant's home and age before it can be used to mutate anyone.
    • It may only be the toxic lake that has mutagenic properties, not sewage in general.
    • Leela says in this episode that if you swim in it you will become a mutant so you may need to be submerged completely before it mutates you.

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References