Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Futurama S1 E8, “A Big Piece of Garbage”, scores 3/5 for violence, 1/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 3/5 — Preview first — about 11+. A giant garbage ball from space threatens to destroy New New York.
Across the episode we counted 15 flagged moments in 7 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (1); Violence & injury (2); Suicide & self-harm (1); Swearing (6); Alcohol & drugs (3). 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 E8:
- Female Scientist
[in movie] Now that the garbage is in space, doctor, perhaps you can help me with my sexual inhibitions.
Nudity & bodies 1 moment
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Futurama S1 E8:
- They both strip down to their underwear. Leela turns the lights back on. Fry groans.
Porn / strippers / sex work 1 moment
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Futurama S1 E8:
- Fry
Wow! You got that off the Internet? In my day the Internet was only used to download pornography.
Violence & injury 2 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S1 E8:
- …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"
Suicide & self-harm 1 moment
How Suicide & self-harm shows up in Futurama S1 E8:
- Wernstrom
Uh, in theory, perhaps. But you'll never find a crew willing to take on a mission so suicidally dangerous.
Swearing 6 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S1 E8:
- …• "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"
- Leela
Fry, what the hell were you people thinking back then? How could you just throw your garbage away?
- Military Man
We've simulated that on a supercomputer but the ball is just too damn gooey. A missile would go right through it.
- Leela
[whispering] Just fire the damn thing.
- …Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm…
Alcohol & drugs 3 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S1 E8:
- Bender
[shouting] More wine!
- Leela
We recycle everything. Robots are made from old beer cans.
- Bender
Yeah! And this beer can is made outta old robots.
Watch With The Kids · You kids — your rules! · Informal parent guidance, not an official rating.