Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Futurama S7 E26, “Meanwhile”, 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+. Fry enters an infinite loop when he proposes to Leela using a time travel button.
Across the episode we counted 16 flagged moments in 4 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Violence & injury (6); Swearing (5); Alcohol & drugs (4). 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 1 moment
How Sex & hookups shows up in Futurama S7 E26:
- At Paris, they kiss on the Eiffel Tower and Leela crosses it off a list, implied to be the list of locations they want to have sex in.
Violence & injury 6 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S7 E26:
- …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"
- As Fry sobs, suddenly a knife blade pokes out from inside the stuffed animal and rips it open.
- Suddenly, the clam snaps shut on Leela's hand, severing it at the wrist. Her bloody hand drops onto the table.
- Fry's body finally reaches the ground, spilling his blood and guts all over. The button drops on what's left of him. The Professor gets out of the time shelter to comfort Leela.
- Leela
He sure has a lot of blood for a skinny guy.
Swearing 5 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S7 E26:
- …• "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"
- Farnsworth
Hell no! This button is for scientific use only!
- Ultra Guy
Classy choice, chief! She'll crap her pants!
- …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…
Alcohol & drugs 4 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S7 E26:
- Sucked in by the crushing air, Craterface flies into frame and plugs the hole. After a beat, a beer bottle flies into frame and lodges into Craterface's eye. Bender laughs.
- Scene: The Vampire State Building, at sunset. A vampire is pouring champagne into two glasses.
- The gang cheers and Bender pops open a beer in celebration.
- Old Fry
I think it's about time we drank the champagne János poured all those years ago. May I read the toast I was going to make?
Watch With The Kids · You kids — your rules! · Informal parent guidance, not an official rating.