Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Futurama S4 E8, “Godfellas”, scores 3/5 for violence, 1/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 3/5 — Preview first — about 11+. Bender gets lost in space and becomes a god to a race of tiny aliens.
Across the episode we counted 18 flagged moments in 5 themes: Nudity & bodies (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (1); Violence & injury (5); Swearing (8); 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
Nudity & bodies 1 moment
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Futurama S4 E8:
- (04:45) ⨂Shrimpkin Priest: Fellow Shrimpkins, behold him who hath taken us unto his breast.
Porn / strippers / sex work 1 moment
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Futurama S4 E8:
- (13:53) ⨂Bender: Hello? Is anyone still alive? How about in the porno theatre?
Violence & injury 5 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S4 E8:
- …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"
- (02:32) ⨂Fry: You mean we can never catch up to him? Not even if we rub the engine with cheetah blood?
- Mobsters drive past Malachi's home shooting at each other. Malachi's wife gasps, picks up a gun and shoots at the cars. Bender watches and groans.
- (19:17) ⨂Fry: [sad] You're right. I'm never gonna see him again. I know he was evil and on more than one occasion he-he actually stole my blood. [He spins the dish controller.] But still, I wish I had Bender back.
Swearing 8 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S4 E8:
- …• "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"
- (02:05) ⨂Bender: Damn you, Fry and Lee-- [He flies through the pirate ship, leaving a hole in the hull and holding a bag of swag.] --la!
- He tries again, plays another bad note and growls.] Damn you!
- (05:39) ⨂Bender: Poor? Oh, crap.
- (14:17) ⨂Leela: [shouting] Fry, if I drop dead from exhaustion, make sure my body freezes in a dignified position. None of that "huddled over for warmth" crap.
- …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 3 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S4 E8:
- He holds up the tablet. Written on it is "God Needs Booze".
- Scene: Bender drifts through space to Also sprach Zarathustra. On his body a huge beer tower has been built and the Shrimpkin village has grown to include several fields.
- Time Lapse. Bender tastes the "Lordweiser" beer from the tower.
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