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Skip for under 13
Futurama S2 E3, “When Aliens Attack”, scores 3/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. Aliens invade Earth in search of a TV star from 1999.
Across the episode we counted 23 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (6); Affairs / cheating (1); Violence & injury (4); Swearing (6); Alcohol & drugs (5); Racism & slurs (1). 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 6 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in Futurama S2 E3:
- Judge
[on TV] Counselor, I remind you that it's unethical to sleep with your client. If you really care about the outcome of the case, you should sleep with me.
- Farnsworth
[At the side of the set Fry watches on a TV screen that Bender is hooked up to.
- Leela
Sleeping with you.
- Zapp
[He starts rubbing his hands.] This is turning into one very sex-ay struggle for the future of the human race!
- Wearing sexy miniskirts,
- Having lot's of sex
Affairs / cheating 1 moment
How Affairs / cheating shows up in Futurama S2 E3:
- Leela
[reading] Your Honour, I move for a mistrial, on the grounds that I'm also having a hot, naked affair with the foreman of this jury.
Violence & injury 4 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S2 E3:
- …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"
- McNeal
…to each other.] And now, the man who will lead us in our proud struggle for freedom, fresh from his bloody triumph over the pacifists of the Gandhi Nebula, 25-star General Zapp Brannigan!
- Bully
Uh, sir, you don't understand. I'm a professional beach bully. I pretend to steal your girl, you punch me, I go down, she swoons, you slip me 50 bucks.
Swearing 6 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S2 E3:
- …• "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"
- Hermes
Hot damn, a day off!
- Bender
It is every robot's duty to give his life for the good of humanity. [His antenna stops flashing.] Oh, crap!
- Zapp
What the hell is that 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 5 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S2 E3:
- Cut to: WNYW Corridor. Fry hums as he walks through the corridor carrying a pizza box and a six pack of beer. He opens a door marked "WNYW Control Room". Next to the door an "On Air" sign is lit up.
- Fry yawns and stretches and knocks over a can of beer. The equipment fizzles, crackles and the screens turn to static.
- Bender
The auxiliary power's out, and they spilled my cocktail.
- Fry
Alright, scumwads. This one's for Bender's cocktail!
- Fry
While other people were out living their lives, I wasted mine watching TV, because deep down I knew it might one day help me save the world.
Racism & slurs 1 moment
How Racism & slurs shows up in Futurama S2 E3:
- Time Lapse. Fry, Leela and Bender chink their glasses and raise a toast. The communication screen comes down from the ceiling.
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