Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Futurama S1 E5, “Fear of a Bot Planet”, scores 3/5 for violence, 2/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 3/5 — Preview first — about 11+. The crew makes a delivery to a planet of human-hating robots.
Across the episode we counted 15 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (2); Violence & injury (4); Swearing (6); Alcohol & drugs (2). Every moment below is either a direct quote from the episode transcript or a short description of what happens on screen, so you can decide before you press play.
Watch for — every moment, theme by theme
Sex & hookups 1 moment
How Sex & hookups shows up in Futurama S1 E5:
- (10:42) ⨂Announcer: [on radio in movie] : We interrupt this sound file to bring you a terrifying announcement. A non-metallic being has been sighted in the vicinity of Make Out Point.
Porn / strippers / sex work 2 moments
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Futurama S1 E5:
- (14:30) ⨂Robot Mayor: Oh thats the old abandoned adult book store. Nothing in there except a few mouldy old shreads of robot pornography.
- Scene: Porno library. Bender is looking at robot porn - circuit diagrams!
Violence & injury 4 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S1 E5:
- (04:39) ⨂Farnsworth: I'm glad you asked that question Fry. You see Chapek 9 was colonised centuries ago by a murderous crew of radical robot separatists.
- …Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
- …Hot Enough" • "Fifty Shades of Green" • "The Numberland Gap" • "Scared Screenless" • "Wicked Human" • "Murderoni" • "Crab Splatter" • "The Trouble with Truffles" • "The White Hole"
- Fear of a Bot Planet Written byEvan Gore Heather Lombard Transcribed byThe Neutral Planet
Swearing 6 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S1 E5:
- …• "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo…
- …"Law and Oracle" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Möbius Dick" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
- (03:35) ⨂Bender: Yeah doing crap work! They're bat boys, ball polishers, sprinkler systems. But how many robot managers are there?
- (14:49) ⨂Bender: Huh? Wha? You! What the hell are you doing here?
- (18:43) ⨂Fry: Damn right!
- (20:32) ⨂Bender: In that case - let the dancing begin! [Fry and Leela do their robot dances.] Hey you guys are good. How the hell do you do that??
Alcohol & drugs 2 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S1 E5:
- (00:49) ⨂Bender: Hey nice seats! We're close enough so when you knock a player down with a beer bottle, he stays down!
- Scene: Ship's Cockpit. Leela and Fry have decorated it with banners, paper people and beers.
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