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|name=Amazon Women in the Mood
|no=33
|image=[[File:Amazon Women in the Mood.jpg|225px]]
|season=3
|broadcast season=
|number=3ACV01
|caption=Secreted by the Comedy Bee
|first aired=4 February, 2001
|written by=Lewis Morton
|directed by=Brian Sheesley
|title reference=The film ''{{w|Amazon Women on the Moon}}''
|caption reference=
|opening cartoon=
|sponsor=
|nomination='''Emmy Awards'''<br />Outstanding Animated Program, 2001
|broadcast number=S03E05
|special guest=[[Beatrice Arthur]]
|prev ep=The Cryonic Woman
|next ep=Parasites Lost
|broad prev=Parasites Lost
|broad next= Bendless Love
}}
"'''Amazon Women in the Mood'''" is the thirty-third episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the first of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the fifth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]].  It aired 4 February, 2001 on FOX.  It guest stars [[Beatrice Arthur]] as the [[Femputer]].  After [[Kif Kroker|Kif]] has shown his affection for [[Amy Wong|Amy]], [[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]] arranges a double half-date with [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and Kif and Amy.  However, their restaurant crashes into [[Planet Amazonia|a planet]], and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] discover they have been captured by a bunch of [[Amazonians]].


== The Story ==
=== Act I: "Little Nibbler's been coughing up hairballs!" ===
Both [[Nibbler]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] have been coughing up hairballs, though Nibbler seems to have Fry beaten. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] nominates [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]] to clean up the mess, but during a vote, Zoidberg is mysteriously silent. Fry declares, "He's dead." But then Zoidberg enters the room, revealing that the "corpse" was in fact Zoidberg's shell, which he moulted after having outgrown it. He picks up the shell and takes it to the dumpser out back. After he leaves, [[Amy Wong|Amy]]'s cell-phone rings. She answers, only to hear incomprehensible mumbling, then the caller hangs up.


The person on the other end is revealed to be [[Kif Kroker|Lieutenant Kroker]], who has been infatuated with Amy since the incident aboard the [[Titanic]] ([[A Flight to Remember|1ACV10]]). After revealing this to [[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]], Zapp realizes that Amy knows [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], whom he is constantly trying to seduce. Zapp contacts Leela and, after a negotiation, sets up half a double-date.


=== Act II: "Sir, I don't go out on many dates." ===
For the date, they all go to Le Palm d'Orbit, a space-based restaurant with Karaoke. Zapp gives Kif his book of pickup lines, which Kif then reads to Amy attempting to impress her. Unfortunately, lines such as "I find the most erotic part of the woman is the boobies," causes Leela to proclaim the date over. After a brief trip to the bathroom to fix their makeup, they begin storming out but are stopped by Kif's emotional Karaoke performance. Kif's performance, however, is interruped by Zapp's horrible, spoken-word rendition of "Lola" in which he's replaced the name Lola with Leela.


All the patrons of the resaurant flee Zapp's "singing" in the escape pods. Leela tells Zapp to call them a space-taxi, but he declines, opting instead to fly the restaurant himself despite the objection of Kif. Shortly thereafter, he crashes the ship onto [[Planet Amazonia]].


=== Act III: "Where are all the men in your society?" ===
Back at [[Planet Express]], Zoidberg tries on some shells from his new catalogue. However, his stereotypical portrayal of Mexicans offends [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], who is a Mexican ("Hecho en México"). Zoidberg tries another shell (a breezy summer number), but Hermes informs him that the Planet Express health plan only covers one kind of replacement shell: A plain white one with a bar code across the front.


Fry is worried that Leela and Amy haven't returned from their half-date, but when he attempts to call the restaurant, he is informed that it has crashed into a planet. He and Bender set off to rescue the se&ntilde;oritas.


Meanwhile, Leela is wondering what planet they're on, when Zapp claims the sector is uncharted (Though Kif says he lost the chart). The ground begins to pound, and the four hide behind the Karaoke machine. Three [[Amazonians]] emerge from the jungle, and although they assume there's nobody around, Zapp reveals himself before they can leave. Zapp is cut off before he can finish his pickup line, and the four are dragged off into the jungle.


Fry and Bender land on the planet and find the prisoners being led by a chain. Before they can formulate a plan, they are discovered and captured. The women are set free while the men are kept prisoner. After a short tour of the village, they are taken to the leader of Amazonian society, who will decide their fate. The leader is a [[femputer]] who hates men. The Femputer takes her leave to decide the men's fate.


The men are chained to the wall of the chamber. The Amazonians ask what men are used for on Earth, and Amy informs them. The Amazonians call this act "snoo-snoo", and reveal that the last men who visited Amazonia died of crushed pelvises. The Fem-puter returns and sentences the men to death&#8230; by ''snoo-snoo''.


=== Act IV: "Death by snoo-snoo!" ===
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Leela makes an appeal for her friends, but the Fem-puter is angered by the knowledge that the men made fun of their basketball team. Bender, however, is released on the basis that he's a man''bot'', not a man.
 
Zapp is sentenced to be snoo-snoo'd by the large women; Fry by the petite women; Kif, being the most attractive, by the most beautiful women, followed by the large women, then the petite women, then the large women again. Before the punishment commences, Kif reveals that the things he said on the date were Zapp's idea, and that he was the one calling and hanging up. He tells Amy that he loves her.
 
The men are taken into the snoo-snoo chambers, and Leela tells Bender to interface with the Femputer to rescue the men from their fate.
 
=== Act V: "Where go beautiful man?" ===
Bender sneaks past the guards, who are engaged in a debate about which of them is fat. While overriding the CPU with a lead pipe, a panel on the Fem-puter falls open, revealing that there is a [[fembot]] operating the Femputer. The fembot tells Bender that she disguised herself to rule the Amazonians, because of her oppression on her homeworld, which was ruled by a manputer that was really a manbot.
 
In the snoo-snoo chambers, the punishment continues, and Leela decides that Bender is taking too long. She fruitlessly attacks each Amazonian, but one of them grabs her, throws her down, and sits on her. Amy, meanwhile, has disguised herself to infiltrate the snoo-snoo chamber containing Kif, and absconds with him. However, she is cornered in the Femputer chamber, where the Femputer orders the Amazonians to release all the prisoners (and demands gold, somehow in Bender's voice).
 
Back at Planet Express, Zoidberg has found a new shell. This one looks just like his old one, and he found it in the same dumpster. This one had a racoon inside, though. Fry and Zapp are in pelvic casts, apparently having suffered at least partially crushed pelvises. Kif probably avoided this fate due to the fact that his kind don't have bones. Kif asks Amy what she'd like to do, and she whispers something in his ear. His response is flustered, incomprehensible mumbling.
 
== Additional Info ==
=== Trivia ===
*Sign at Le Palm D'Orbit lobby reads "Palm D'Orbit Coat Check 25 cent Surcharge Each Sleeve Over 9". The centipede walking away from the coat check has 14 sleeves on his shirt, but may have more on his coat. This means he paid at least $1.25 extra on his coat check.
*Le Palm D'Orbit is likely a reference to ''{{w|The_Palm_(restaurant)|The Palm Restaurant}}'', a New York City based chain of fine dining steakhouses known for high prices.
*Kif has a bouquet of daffodils, maintaining the daffodil's lead of most popular Futurama flower.
*Zapp's spoken-word performance of 'Leela' is a reference to William Shatner's spoken-word versions (most notably Rocketman) of many popular songs (as well as many original songs). He also refers to himself as the Velour Fog, a play on Mel Torme's nickname, the Velvet Fog.
*[[List of song performances|Songs performed]] on the Karaoke:
** ''{{w|Funky Town}}'' by ''Lipps Inc.'' performed by [[Morbo]]
** ''{{w|Total Eclipse of the Heart}}'' by ''Bonnie Tyler'' performed by Kif.
** Zapp's version of ''{{w|Lola (song)|Lola}}'' by ''the Kinks''.
*When Leela looks into the ripples in the pond caused by vibration's her reflection momentarily gives her the appearance of a two eyed human, foreshadowing the events in the episode "[[The Cyber House Rules]]".
*This is the #1 episode on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p3.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].
*Even though Amy's parents introduced Amy to Kif and encouraged her to date him, they never seemed to accept him in later on episodes. This may be because he presumably lost his title as captain after the crash of the [[Titanic]].
*Zapp's line "She is built like a steakhouse but handles like a bistro." may be a reference to starship Bistromath from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series.
* Although Fry was fired by the end of the previous episode ("[[The Cryonic Woman]]"), he is back working at Planet Express in this episode without any explanation given.
*This is the third time we hear Amy speaking chinese since "[[The Series Has Landed]]", and "[[The Deep South]]".
*Amy will speak chinese in ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'', "''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]''", "[[That Darn Katz!]]", and "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]".
 
=== Goofs ===
*Amy puts lipstick on before Kif's Karaoke performance, but after Zapp's performance, her lipstick is gone.
*When Leela is looking at her two-eyed reflection in the puddle, the rip in her tank top is on the wrong side.
*At the end when Bender says "If she calls, I'm not here," his chest cabinet is open but, when it zooms out to show the gold he's carrying, the sound for opening his cabinet can be heard.
**He may have been opening his compartment as the camera was zooming out.
 
=== Quotes ===
{{q|
<poem>'''Leela''': Guys who call too much are the worst... I bet...</poem>
<poem>'''Kif''': If I said you have a beautiful body, would you take your pants off and dance around a little?</poem>
<poem>'''Zapp''': She's built like a steak house, but she handles like a Bistro.</poem>
<poem>'''Zapp''': ''[As the flying restaurant is about to crash.]'' You win again, gravity!</poem>
<poem>'''Telephone Voice''': The number you have dialed has crashed into a planet. Please make a note of it.</poem>
<poem>'''Fry''': We have to go save them.
'''Bender''': Nah, why bother?
'''Fry''': Bender, think of the señoritas!
'''Bender''': ''Vámonos''!</poem>
<poem>'''Fry''': A female leader? [laughs]
'''Leela''': Fry, shut up.
'''Fry''': Yes, captain.</poem>
<poem>'''Zapp''': [laughing] Oh God, you're killing me. [getting beaten up] Oh God, you're killing me!</poem>
<poem>'''Amazon woman''': Men die out many years ago.
'''Bender''': With all these women around they probably got nagged to death. Am I right fellas?
'''Zapp, Fry, and Bender''': [laughing] ''[].]''
'''Amazonians, Leela, and Amy''': ''[Glare at them.]'' [].]</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': Sure, men are annoying, and they wreck up whatever planet they're in charge of.  But most of these men are sorta my friends.</poem>
<poem>'''Fry''': Goodbye, my friends.  I never thought I'd die this way.  But I always really hoped.</poem>
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=== Inside References ===
*Kif and Amy's relationship began when Amy's parents introduced Amy to Kif as they were abandoning ship when the [[Titanic]] was going down. ([[A Flight to Remember|1ACV10]])
*During the flashback to the Titanic trip, Bender can be seen in the background, throwing away the bracelet he got from the Countess, which Hermes revealed was fake. ([[A Flight to Remember|1ACV10]])
*The first Amazonian was seen as a representative in the [[Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP)|DOOP]] whom Fry flirted with. ([[Brannigan, Begin Again|2ACV02]])
*Leela's ragged clothes are the same as the ones when Fry and Bender destroyed the Planet Express building ([[The Cryonic Woman|2ACV19]]) and when robots took over the world. ([[Mother's Day|2ACV14]])
 
=== Fast Forward ===
*Kif and Amy's relationship is again a topic when Amy takes Kif to meet her parents on [[Mars]]. ([[Where the Buggalo Roam|3ACV10]])
 
=== Characters ===
{{chars-begin}}
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]
*'''Debut''': [[Fem-puter]]
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]
*[[Kif Kroker|Kif]]
*'''Debut''': [[Kug]]
*[[Morbo]]
*'''Debut''': [[Ornik]]
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]
*[[Thog]]
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]
{{chars-end}}
 
== Episode Credits ==
{{credits-begin}}
*Writer
**[[Lewis Morton]]
*Director
**[[Brian Sheesley]]
*Voice Actors
**[[Billy West]]
**[[Katey Sagal]]
**[[John DiMaggio]]
**[[Phil LaMarr]]
*DVD Commentary
**[[Lewis Morton]]
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]
**[[John DiMaggio]]
**[[Billy West]]
**[[Matt Groening]]
**[[Rich Moore]]
**[[Brian Sheesley]]
**[[David X. Cohen]]
*Guest Star
**[[Beatrice Arthur]]
{{credits-end}}
 
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|broad next= Bendless Love}}
 
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[[Category:B plots focusing on Bender]]
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