Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Futurama S5 E9, “The Sting”, 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+. Sent on the same mission which caused the deaths of the previous Planet Express crew, Leela mourns the apparent death of Fry.
Across the episode we counted 13 flagged moments in 5 themes: Nudity & bodies (1); Affairs / cheating (1); Violence & injury (5); Swearing (5); Alcohol & drugs (1). 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 S5 E9:
- Fry
Why am I sticky and naked? Did I miss something fun?
Affairs / cheating 1 moment
How Affairs / cheating shows up in Futurama S5 E9:
- Farnsworth
That's not Fry's jacket. Fry's jacket is red. That's your jacket. An off-the-rack, lime green affair.
Violence & injury 5 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S5 E9:
- Farnsworth
Of course he still exists: As a frozen corpse in outer space! [He laughs then sighs.] Oh, I made myself sad.
- Leela
I'll find Fry's coffin, get his corpse and keep it under my mattress to remind me that he's really dead. That'll prove I'm not insane.
- …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"
- Bender
And blood! Don't forget about Fry's blood!
Swearing 5 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S5 E9:
- …• "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"
- She grabs the hoover and sucks him up.
- …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 1 moment
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S5 E9:
- Zoidberg
I should warn you, I'm a mean drunk.
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