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Skip for under 13
Futurama S2 E7, “A Head in the Polls”, scores 3/5 for violence, 3/5 for sex and 4/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. When the value of titanium skyrockets, Bender sells his body for a large sum of money.
Across the episode we counted 16 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (1); Violence & injury (3); Swearing (8); 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 S2 E7:
- Clinton
[to Leela] Hey, sugar cookie. You know, legally, nothing I can do counts as sex anymore.
Nudity & bodies 1 moment
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Futurama S2 E7:
- Scene: Planet Express: Lounge. Fry is sat on the couch stark naked with Bender, Leela and Farnsworth.
Porn / strippers / sex work 1 moment
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Futurama S2 E7:
- …such B-movie stars as Mimi Rogers, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elvis, Eric Stoltz and Martin Lawrence; such porn stars as Traci Lords, Ron Jeremy, Samuel Genitals, Jill Big Breasts and Long D.
Violence & injury 3 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S2 E7:
- …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"
- He picks up a burger and munches on it. Farnsworth is over at the National Ray-Gun Association booth.
Swearing 8 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S2 E7:
- Bender
[The dog cocks it's leg and Bender chuckles.] You just lost five dollars!
- George H.W. Bush
Sorry, Bender, but we just can't allow every Tom, Dick, and Harry to move in. No offence, Jefferson, Nixon and Truman.
- …• "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…
- Farnsworth
Damn straight! Today, the mad scientist can't get a doomsday device, tomorrow it's the mad grad student. Where will it end?
- Bender
That dirty, double-crossing bastard! How dare he run off with Richard Nixon!
- Bender
Ah, it's good to be back in one piece again. Except I can't get these damn bumper stickers off.
- …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…
- …Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots"
Alcohol & drugs 2 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S2 E7:
- Washington
Ah. Booze money.
- Nixon
Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973 but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever.
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