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Skip for under 13
Futurama S6 E21, “Möbius Dick”, scores 3/5 for violence, 1/5 for sex and 4/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13.
Across the episode we counted 17 flagged moments in 4 themes: Porn / strippers / sex work (1); Violence & injury (6); Swearing (8); Alcohol & drugs (2). 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.
Parents need to know
Age 13+Violence, strip-club and porn references, language in adult animation.
Parents need to know that Futurama S6 E21, "Möbius Dick", is a adult animation episode. The series is known for cartoon sci-fi, but written for adults — crude gags and dark jokes. Driven by violence & injury (explicit, shown on screen), with porn / strippers / sex work alongside it. Violence includes Leela says, "Enough of your mad obsession with Bender, Fry! We've got to murder that whale or die…". Sexual content is mild but includes Bender says, "Fry's right! Let's kill the Captain and order some strippers!". Language includes strong swearing — for example, Möbius Dick Written byDan Vebber Transcribed bySanfazer. Characters drink or talk about alcohol and drugs — Fry says, "Man, look at 'im go! Like a millionaire on a cocktail wiener". Every flagged moment below is a direct quote from the transcript or a short description of what happens on screen.
Watch for — every moment, theme by theme
Porn / strippers / sex work 1 moment
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Futurama S6 E21:
- Bender
Fry's right! Let's kill the Captain and order some strippers!
Violence & injury 6 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S6 E21:
- Leela
Enough of your mad obsession with Bender, Fry! We've got to murder that whale or die trying.
- Leela
…space whale, passes her knife to her left hand, and screams.] With my Oxo Good Grips Cheese knife, I stab at thee.
- Leela stabs the floor three times. The four-dimensional space whale begins trembling.
- …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"
- Leela turns to the four-dimensional space whale and lifts up her knife with her left hand.
Swearing 8 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S6 E21:
- Möbius Dick Written byDan Vebber Transcribed bySanfazer
- Leela
That won't stop me! [The lights go back on. Leela stands up.] Raise the solar sails. I'm goin' after that "Möbius Dick".
- Scene: Space. Amy, who is wearing a space suit and a helmet, cocks the speargun and aims at the four-dimensional space whale. Giraffes are heard running.
- Leela
Hang on. [Leela points at the statue with her left hand.] It's shouldn't have an apostrophe. This means and it is crew. What the hell's wrong with you?!
- Bender
Holy crap! [Bender points at the space whale.] It's a giant space fish!
- Leela
Fear not the space behemoth. [Leela turns back to her right.] In my dreams, I've peered beyond its eyes and into the cackling hell within us all.
- Professor Farnsworth
Damn that Bermuda Tetrahedron! [Professor Farnsworth grabs a shaving machine with his left hand.] It's taken my latest crew just as it took my first one!
- Fry
[off camera] Holy crap! Four-dimensional bowels!
Alcohol & drugs 2 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S6 E21:
- Fry
Man, look at 'im go! Like a millionaire on a cocktail wiener.
- Fry holds a button on a barrel with EMPEROR GROG'S SPACE GROG and a drawing of a space pirate on it, thus filling a beer mug, and releases it.
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