Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Futurama S3 E2, “War Is the H-Word”, 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+. When Bender and Fry volunteer for military duty, Leela also joins the all-male ranks, as Lee Lemon.
Across the episode we counted 26 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (1); Violence & injury (12); Swearing (7); 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 2 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in Futurama S3 E2:
- Zapp
If it's a lesson in love, watch out; I suffer from a very sexy learning disability. What do I call it, Kif?
- Kif
"Sex-lexia".
Nudity & bodies 1 moment
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Futurama S3 E2:
- Zapp
Uh, sorry, Mr. President, I-I didn't realise. Kif, raise him up about nipple-high.
Porn / strippers / sex work 1 moment
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Futurama S3 E2:
- Clerk
Alright, sergeant, $100 worth of pixie stix and porno mags with your 5% military discount comes to $95.
Violence & injury 12 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S3 E2:
- iHawk: Believe it all you want, that won't make it true. [He laughs then flicks his switch from "irreverent" to "maudlin".] This isn't a war, it's a murder. [He flicks it back.] This isn't a war, it's a moider!
- …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"
- Time Lapse. The soldiers learn to assemble their guns. Bender quickly does his but attaches his arm to it as well. He groans.
- Scene: Nimbus Briefing Room. The soldiers are in full battle uniform and holding their guns.
- Leela
Charge your gun, Fry.
- He winds a handle on the side of his gun and it plays Pop Goes The Weasel as it charges.
- Zoidberg
Scalpel. [The nurse hands him a scalpel and he cuts something inside the hick.] Blood bucket. [She hands him a bucket and he puts it under the operating table.] Priest. Next patient.
- Kissenger
Please, gentlemen, we must put an end to the bloodshed. We have all seen too many body bags and ball sacks.
- Fry
OK, I gotta break down that gate, beat up those three guards, steal that chopper and rescue Bender.
- Leela breaks down the gate and beats up the guards.
- He holds up some handcuffs. Leela punches him in the stomach, smacks him in the face and kicks him to the ground.
- Zapp
So it's you I've been attracted to! Oh, God, I've never been so happy to be beaten up by a woman.
Swearing 7 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S3 E2:
- …• "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"
- Nixon
Mmm! Now that's a nice rosé. So, anyway, we open up the panda crate and, wouldn't you know it, the damn thing's dead! Up-chucked it's bamboo. True story.
- Leela
[disguised, deeper voice] Uh, hey, why the hell would I? We're all guys here. Sweaty, hairy, gassy guys.
- Nixon
Slow down there, Starsky, I'm up to something here. I want this robot fixed. Fixed like Kennedy fixed the 1960 election. Damn bean-eating war hero!
- Bender
Enough of this crap! I'm catching the next pimpmobile outta here! But before I go I have one thing to say. [He climbs onto the table and turns around.] Bite my shiny metal
- Bender
Get the hell off my planet.
Alcohol & drugs 3 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S3 E2:
- Scene: 7^11. Bender looks in the beer fridges while Fry looks at the gum and candy rack.
- Nixon sits with Zapp at the table. Kif pours wine into Zapp's glass and then pours some into Nixon's jar. He slurps it.
- Bender
You're my kind of soldier, Lemon. A foul-mouthed, barrel-chested, beer-bellied pile of ugly muscle.
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