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Skip for under 13
Futurama S13 E5, “Scared Screenless”, 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. Bender is sent off to Zapp Brannigan's camp for screen addicts.
Across the episode we counted 23 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (3); Violence & injury (8); Suicide & self-harm (1); Swearing (7); 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 1 moment
How Sex & hookups shows up in Futurama S13 E5:
- Scene: The kids sneak past Zapp's yurt, and Dwight checks behind the yurt door to see Zapp sleeping with his Q.T. McWhiskers doll.
Porn / strippers / sex work 3 moments
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Futurama S13 E5:
- Stripper or strip-club material shows up in the plot.
- Zapp
There's no WiFi here on Remotus. [He pushes a button, making the bag raise up.] Nevertheless, I shall hoist your devices high atop this naturally occurring stripper pole for one reason and one reason only: to taunt you.
- Scene: The street. Loud music is heard from a green hovercar that Zoidberg is driving the guys around in. They pass by the Evening Nudes strip club. Fry, Farnsworth and Hermes stick their heads out the moonroof.
Violence & injury 8 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S13 E5:
- Bender
Ow! Ow! Stop pecking me, you stupid murder bird!
- …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"
- A picture of Zapp Brannigan holding a laser gun is next to those words.
- Scene: O'Zorgnax's Pub. A sign outside the bar reads in AL1 "Human Bloody Mary - $8.00". Cut to inside. A Neptunian bartender shakes a few mixers and serves them to the ladies.
- Zapp
There's only one way to deal with every situation... guns.
- Zapp wields his laser gun and attempts to fire, but it does nothing.
- Zapp
[he does so] And voila! I stand before you, an adonis! [girdle loosens, then he punches the WiFi button to open the bus door] It's go time.
Suicide & self-harm 1 moment
How Suicide & self-harm shows up in Futurama S13 E5:
- Hermes
But nobody has coins anymore! Not since suicide booths started takin' Venmo.
Swearing 7 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S13 E5:
- …• "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"
- Bender
[turns his chair backwards to sit in it] If you're currently using another device in addition to the one you're watching me on, then you're a sick, sick bastard!
- URL
Damn, this cabinet was three days from being used to store retirement paperwork.
- Zapp
Damn. To the bus!
- …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 S13 E5:
- Zapp
Ah, the best part of waking up, a box of wine and the gentle song of children screaming in nature.
- A radish attacks his box wine and deflates his yurt. Zapp crawls out from under it.
- URL walks in leading a still drunk Leela, LaBarbara and Amy.
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