Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Futurama S3 E12, “Insane in the Mainframe”, 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+. Fry thinks he's a robot after being brainwashed at an insane robot asylum.
Across the episode we counted 22 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (2); Violence & injury (10); Swearing (5); Alcohol & drugs (4). 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 E12:
- Robot
Gee, I've seen lines move faster in a sperm bank.
Nudity & bodies 2 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Futurama S3 E12:
- Fry
Oh, good, a physical! Once they examine my fragile, naked, pink body, they'll see I'm not a
- A chute sucks his clothes clean off his body leaving him with nothing but his naked, pink skin. He moves along the belt, through the door and screams.
Violence & injury 10 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S3 E12:
- Roberto
Noticeably? I'll say! Now stand back, I gotta practise my stabbing.
- He stabs at the air and makes nutcase noises. Fry ducks and dodges the knife.
- He stabs some more.
- …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"
- Roberto
Not bad, not bad. [He pulls out a knife.] Everybody on the floor! This is a stick-up!
- The projection goes off and Fry gasps. He sees a badly-disguised Roberto at the back of the court. He waves his knife at Fry. Fry chokes.
- Fry
[mechanical voice] It was nothing. I-- [He sees his bleeding arm and screams. His wipes some onto his finger and looks at it.] [normal] Blood? Robots don't have blood. I must be a, a
- He punches Bender's body a few times and then in the head which makes it spin. Bender stops it from spinning and laughs.
- From offscreen come the sounds of Roberto beating up Perceptron and making the nutcase noise.
Swearing 5 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S3 E12:
- …• "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
Well I'm gonna take action. It's time to check on my retirement fund. [He takes a $100 bill out of his sock.] Damn! Still only $100.
- …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 4 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S3 E12:
- Scene: Outside 7^11. Fry and Bender sit on the kerb. Bender drinks beer.
- Scene: Planet Express: Lounge. Fry sits on the couch and finishes another bottle of beer. He throws it down on the floor at Zoidberg's feet.
- Fry
[drunk] Alcohol fuels my power cells. [He stands up.] And as a mighty robot, I-- [He burps and falls back onto the couch, tipping it over backwards.] Beep.
- Amy
Aw! He looks like a little insane drunken angel.
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