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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. Leela becomes obsessed with hunting down a mysterious four-dimensional space whale.
Across the episode we counted 19 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (2); 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.
Watch for — every moment, theme by theme
Sex & hookups 2 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in Futurama S6 E21:
- Cut to: Space. The first Planet Express ship and the current Planet Express ship are seen. The camera zooms out, revealing a black hole. A gigantic sperm whale emerges out of the black hole and whistles.
- Cut to: The first Planet Express ship kitchen. Amy, Bender, Fry, Hermes, and Leela gasp. The sperm whale passes by the window.
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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