Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Futurama S2 E18, “The Problem with Popplers”, 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+. Aliens threaten to devour mankind after the crew unknowingly sells their young as fast food.
Across the episode we counted 15 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (2); Violence & injury (5); Swearing (5); 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 E18:
- Fry
Well? How are they? [Leela swallows, her eye widens, and she falls to the ground and starts cramming her mouth with the things. Fry eats one and gasps.] Oh, they're great! They're like sex, except I'm having them!
Nudity & bodies 2 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Futurama S2 E18:
- He is indeed only wearing his underwear on his lower half. Bender climbs up the ladder from the galley wearing his chef's hat and an apron which says "Heil To The Chef".
- Farnsworth
[shouting] Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!
Violence & injury 5 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S2 E18:
- Scene: Outside Planet Express. The ship and U-Yank trailer land inside while a crowd of hippies congregate outside with placards saying "Stopp Before You Popp", "Eating Is Murder" and "Popplers Are Peoplers Too!"
- Waterfall Jr.
[on TV] I call murder on that.
- …Hot Enough" • "Fifty Shades of Green" • "The Numberland Gap" • "Scared Screenless" • "Wicked Human" • "Murderoni" • "Crab Splatter" • "The Trouble with Truffles" • "The White Hole"
- Everyone but Farnsworth, who is sharpening a knife, gasps.
- Zapp
My fellow Earthlings, we have reached an agreement. Using the twin guns of grace and tact, I blasted our worthless enemies with a fair compromise. [The crowd cheers.] They will not eat everyone on Earth.
Swearing 5 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S2 E18:
- …• "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"
- Gilman
Hell, no! I am Fishy Joe! I've got a fast-food franchise on every planet in the known universe. Uh, except McPluto.
- Linda
[on TV] We seem to be experiencing technical difficulties. [A girder falls down behind her.] And, crap like I've never seen!
- …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 2 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S2 E18:
- Leela smashes Bender's beer.
- Bender
Let's get drunk!
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