Content guide
Skip for under 13
Futurama S3 E9, “The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz”, scores 3/5 for violence, 2/5 for sex and 4/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13.
Across the episode we counted 17 flagged moments in 3 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Violence & injury (7); Swearing (9). 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.
Parents need to know
Age 13+Violence, language, sex talk in adult animation.
Parents need to know that Futurama S3 E9, "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz", is a adult animation episode. The series is known for cartoon sci-fi, but written for adults — crude gags and dark jokes. Driven by violence & injury (explicit, shown on screen), with swearing alongside it. Violence includes Leela says, "It's just like murdering a little butler". Sexual content is mild but includes Waterfall Sr. says, "Folks, it's worse than we thought. Seems dark matter is nature's sex drug. It's like a…". Language includes strong swearing — for example, He pulls out a gun and cocks it and so do the other hippies. Leela looks around in horror. Every flagged moment below is a direct quote from the transcript or a short description of what happens on screen.
Watch for — every moment, theme by theme
Sex & hookups 1 moment
How Sex & hookups shows up in Futurama S3 E9:
- Waterfall Sr.
Folks, it's worse than we thought. Seems dark matter is nature's sex drug. It's like a perverted trail mix of penguin oestrogen, penguin Viagra and Spanish penguin fly. Why, it's making them ultra-fertile.
Violence & injury 7 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S3 E9:
- Leela
It's just like murdering a little butler.
- …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"
- Waterfall Sr.
Everyone, grab your guns. I declare penguin hunting season officially open.
- He pulls out a gun and cocks it and so do the other hippies. Leela looks around in horror.
- Cut to: Penguins Unlimited HQ Rec Room. The hippies clean out their guns.
- Scene: Outside Penguins Unlimited HQ. Leela holds a gun.
Swearing 9 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S3 E9:
- He pulls out a gun and cocks it and so do the other hippies. Leela looks around in horror.
- The hunters cock their guns and laugh.
- He cocks his gun.
- They cock their guns.
- …• "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"
- Fry
The hell I will! Have you even read the Captain's Handbook?
- Zoidberg
Such a man! I'd follow him to hell and back, I would.
- Waterfall Sr.
Cold showers don't work on Antarctic creatures. Now surely you agree that a quick, semi-painless death is a damn sight better than weeks of starvation.
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