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Skip for under 13
Futurama S6 E18, “The Silence of the Clamps”, scores 3/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13. After testifying against the Robot Mafia, Bender goes into hiding in the witness relocation program.
Across the episode we counted 21 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (5); Affairs / cheating (1); Violence & injury (7); Swearing (5); 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
Sex & hookups 5 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in Futurama S6 E18:
- Bender
An affair, huh? Sounds like me. [Bender shrugs.] [to himself] Jeez, I'd better be a little more careful. I don't wanna hit on anybody I already had sex with.
- Amy
Well... [Amy shrugs.] My boyfriend and I were gonna have sex on a burning flag, but... [Amy shrugs again.] I could have a bite.
- Bender
The Donbot's eldest daughter is dancing with her husband.] Hey, sexy.
- Bender
I saw the whole thing while also having hot sex with the Donbot's daughter.
- Hydroponic farmer
You city folk are probably hungry from premarital sex and flag burnin'. Y'all wanna stay for supper?
Affairs / cheating 1 moment
How Affairs / cheating shows up in Futurama S6 E18:
- Fanny
The Donbot's wife? We had an affair?
Violence & injury 7 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S6 E18:
- Judge 723 is shot in the head and falls down. An identical judge with the number 724 on his chest enters.
- Zoidberg
Because our friend Francis here is in reality... A bad murderer.
- A black hovercar lands next to the corpse.
- Leela
[happy, screaming] So that Moon hillbilly who got murdered was just an innocent husband and father!
- …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"
- The ringing sound is being made by Bella, who is wearing a black dress and holding a gun.
Swearing 5 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S6 E18:
- …• "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"
- Clamps
They're next! Right now, I'm gonna cut your damn head off!
- …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 S6 E18:
- Leela
Nice job, Francis! I liked how you didn't get drunk and steal anyone's organs. Like our old Robot
- Cut to: Inside the restaurant. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Amy, Hermes, Zoidberg, and Leela are sitting at a circular table. No one else is there. All have a beer mug in front of them. Fry raises his.
- Bender
[in an Italian accent] You pizzas gonna be another minute. [Bender walks up to the table wearing a moustache and an apron and holding a tray with a bigger beer mug on it.] We are still waitin' for it to be delivered.
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