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* SchmuckBait: A "video game" you say? You fancy future people will have to explain it to me.

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* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: The second half of the episode is full of them, [[RunningGag with Alcazar's friends going 'Whoo!' each time]].



* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: The second half of the episode is full of them, [[RunningGag with Alcazar's friends going 'Whoo!' each time]].
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Leela meets Alcazar, who claims to be another cyclops from their home planet of Clycopia. Alcazar convinces Leela to sleep with him, as they are the only hopes of restoring their race. The next morning, Alcazar turns out to be a huge jerk, and the story shifts from a romantic space opera to a lowbrow dysfunctional family sitcom very reminiscent of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren.'' Can Leela overlook that for the sake of the species?

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Leela meets Alcazar, who claims to be another cyclops from their home planet of Clycopia.Cyclopia. Alcazar convinces Leela to sleep with him, as they are the only hopes of restoring their race. The next morning, Alcazar turns out to be a huge jerk, and the story shifts from a romantic space opera to a lowbrow dysfunctional family sitcom very reminiscent of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren.'' Can Leela overlook that for the sake of the species?
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* OffModel: When Leela gets dressed after sleeping with Alcazar, the blanket she has covering herself mysteriously vanishes.
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* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: One of the works of art Alcazar shows Leela is a mosaic depicting their Goddess of Beauty, depicted exactly like Venus in the famous Botticelli painting (except that she has purple hair and is a cyclops). It later revealed that there are five other identical cities on Cyclopia, each with minor differences that helps Alcazar sell the illusion to the women he seduces, one of which having a depiction of Venus with five-eyes.

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* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: One of the works of art Alcazar shows Leela is a mosaic depicting their Goddess of Beauty, depicted exactly like Venus in the famous Botticelli painting Creator/SandroBotticelli [[Art/TheBirthOfVenusBotticelli painting]] (except that she has purple hair and is a cyclops). It later revealed that there are five other identical cities on Cyclopia, each with minor differences that helps Alcazar sell the illusion to the women he seduces, one of which having a depiction of Venus with five-eyes.

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* TeenyWeenie: Implied with Alcazar.
-->'''Leela''': If you can change form, why didn't you change it in the one place that counts?\\
''[Audience hollering and cheering at her witty remark]''


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* TeenyWeenie: Implied with Alcazar.
-->'''Leela''': If you can change form, why didn't you change it in the one place that counts?\\
''[Audience hollering and cheering at her witty remark]''
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* BedTrick: Essentially what Alcazar did; he didn't pretend to be a ''specific'' other person, but pretended to belong to the womens' various species in order to have sex with them.
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** The three nerds in the chatroom are supposed to be writers Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, and executive producer David X. Cohen. According to Cohen on the DVDCommentary, it was entirely Rough Draft Studio's idea.
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* OffModel: When Leela gets dressed after sleeping with Alcazar, the blanket she has covering herself mysteriously vanishes.
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* UnseenPenPal: The Planet Express crew is on the holographic Internet when a male cyclops approaches Leela. Up till then she had never met another cyclops and knew nothing about [[LateArrivalSpoiler her origins as a sewer mutant]], and believed herself to be an alien. "Alcazar" persuades her to come to their "home planet" where he tells a tale of how they're the last survivors. It all falls apart when Bender and Fry find 4 other alien women on the planet and reveal the man to be [[VoluntaryShapeshifting a shape-shifting dude]] who was scamming his way into "making it with 5 weird alien babes".

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* DoubleEntendre: The entire last third of the episode is filled with these, [[RunningGag with Alcazar's friends going "Whoo!" every time]].



* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: The second half of the episode is full of them, with Alcazar's friends going 'Whoo!' each time.

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* BrickJoke: Before heading off to Alcazar's planet, Leela dumps the popcorn shipment Planet Express was delivering, which is destroyed in a nebula. At the end of the episode, the Professor comments that she'd be working for the rest of her life to pay him back for the shipment.
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* SpaceRomans: The entirety of the Cyclopian culture seems evocative of AncientGrome, complete with their Goddess of Beauty looking like "Art/TheBirthOfVenus."

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* SpaceRomans: The entirety of the Cyclopian culture seems evocative of AncientGrome, complete with their Goddess of Beauty looking like "Art/TheBirthOfVenus.""Art/TheBirthOfVenusBotticelli".

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* {{Cyberspace}}: The Planet Express team go into the internet using virtual reality goggles and mocap suits to travel inside like it was a city.


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* TheMetaverse: The Planet Express team go into the internet using virtual reality goggles and mocap suits to travel inside like it was a city.

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* SexyDiscretionShot: Happens between Leela and Alcazar after he tells her the history of their heritage.



* WhatTheHellHero: Everyone particpating in the video game, including [[EvenEvilHasStandards Bender]], glares at Fry for shooting Alcazar while Leela was in the middle of her chance meeting with another living Cyclops, and then shooting Leela while she was upset and distracted, to win the game.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Everyone particpating in the video game, including [[EvenEvilHasStandards Bender]], Bender, glares at Fry for shooting Alcazar while Leela was in the middle of her chance meeting with another living Cyclops, and then shooting Leela while she was upset and distracted, to win the game.game.
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''[[CouchGag This Episode Has Been Modified To Fit Your Primitive Screen]]''
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* DoubleEntendre: The entire last third of the episode is filled with these, [[RunningGag with Alcazar's friends going "Whoo!" every time]].
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Fry tries to batter down the prison door with a bottle of champagne. He winds up popping the cork out and hitting the door release with it. Being Fry, he spends so much time celebrating that he nearly forgets to actually, y’know, leave before it closes again.

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* TakeThat: The "studio audience" for ''Married With Children'' are depicted as white trash rodents.

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The "studio audience" for ''Married With Children'' are depicted as white trash rodents.rodents.
** The Professor mentions how it took ''years'' to get AOL connected to the internet.
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* ThereAreNoWomenOnTheInternet: Amy and Leela's chat room has some men complaining about how few women are also present. Then again, the room was clearly advertised as "filthy", and the chatters instantly clam up once Leela makes her presence known. Even in the episode proper, most of the avatars seen on the internet are male, and human for that matter.

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* ThereAreNoWomenOnTheInternet: ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet: Amy and Leela's chat room has some men complaining about how few women are also present. Then again, the room was clearly advertised as "filthy", and the chatters instantly clam up once Leela makes her presence known. Even in the episode proper, most of the avatars seen on the internet are male, and human for that matter.
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* {{Emoticon}}: One of the chat room patrons winks at Amy using the actual ";)" emote; she isn't impressed.


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* {{GIRL}}: Bender changes his internet avatar into a female nurse via a simple drop-down menu.


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* HospitalHottie: While partaking of a "filthy, filthy chat room", Bender disguises himself as a sexy nurse in order to scam one of the other patrons out of some money.
--> '''Bender:''' Hi. I'm a naughty nurse, and I ''really'' need someone to talk to. $9.95 a minute!\\
'''Chatter:''' Oh! Uh, you're a dollar naughtier than most!\\
''{{beat}}''\\
'''Bender:''' So how about them Knicks?


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* ThereAreNoWomenOnTheInternet: Amy and Leela's chat room has some men complaining about how few women are also present. Then again, the room was clearly advertised as "filthy", and the chatters instantly clam up once Leela makes her presence known. Even in the episode proper, most of the avatars seen on the internet are male, and human for that matter.

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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Alkazar's true form is a dog-sized cricket.

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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Alkazar's Alcazar's true form is a dog-sized cricket.



-->'''Leela''': Alkazar, ''I'' used to be a baby!

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-->'''Leela''': Alkazar, Alcazar, ''I'' used to be a baby!



* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: The second half of the episode is full of them, with Alkazar's friends going 'Whoo!' each time.

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* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: The second half of the episode is full of them, with Alkazar's Alcazar's friends going 'Whoo!' each time. time.
* JerkassBall: Fry, the normally friendly if moronic guy of the group, gleefully shoots Alcazar during Leela's first meeting with another Cyclops and causes him to disconnect from the game. He then feigns remorse while Leela calls him out on it, just so he can shoot her afterwards while her guard was down. Luckily for him, Alcazar was able to contact Leela again and continue with where they've left off. He quickly drops the JerkassBall once he sees Alcazar treating Leela terribly the morning after their stay on Cyclopia, and tries to convince Leela to dump him.



* ShapeshifterSwanSong: A non lethal one, and a rare case where it appears to be done voluntarily--as all of his "brides" are beating him up, Alkazar keeps shifting into all of his other forms (sometimes mixing up traits of each) because he doesn't want them to see his real form. They do eventually beat it out of him: He's a dog-sized insect.

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* ShapeshifterSwanSong: A non lethal one, and a rare case where it appears to be done voluntarily--as all of his "brides" are beating him up, Alkazar Alcazar keeps shifting into all of his other forms (sometimes mixing up traits of each) because he doesn't want them to see his real form. They do eventually beat it out of him: He's a dog-sized insect.



* TakeThat: The "studio audience" for ''Married With Children'' are depicted as white trash rodents.

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* TakeThat: The "studio audience" for ''Married With Children'' are depicted as white trash rodents.rodents.
* WhatTheHellHero: Everyone particpating in the video game, including [[EvenEvilHasStandards Bender]], glares at Fry for shooting Alcazar while Leela was in the middle of her chance meeting with another living Cyclops, and then shooting Leela while she was upset and distracted, to win the game.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Basically; Leela recognises that Alcazar is a jerk, but was marrying him despite that because she believed otherwise her species would die out.


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* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Fry bursts in with Alcazar's other brides just before Leela could say the "do" of "I do".
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* GlamourFailure: Al turns into each bride's race, before getting flustered and turning into MixAndMatchCreature versions of them.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: The gag about the Pope being reptilian is confirmed in later episodes and movies.

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