The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz
🎞️ S3 E9 🚫 Hard pass

Futurama

Is Futurama S3 E9 OK for kids?

The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz

Leela fights to save the penguins of Pluto after an oil spill.

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Netflix, HBO or Disney+ — catalogs differ by country.

🛒 Where to buy

Digital seasons or a box set to keep.

Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

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. Leela fights to save the penguins of Pluto after an oil spill.

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.

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.

Watch With The Kids · You kids — your rules! · Informal parent guidance, not an official rating.