History Recap / FuturamaS6E18TheTipOfTheZoidberg

* InstantlyProvenWrong: When the crew confronts Zoidberg on his malpractice, Fry tells him that that nobody wants to see him again after telling him he's a terrible doctor. Then, almost on cue, the Professor comes in and tells Zoidberg that he wants to see him right now.

* FirstNameBasis: Zoidberg is shown to be on this with Mom (who's real first name is "Carol").

* WhatTheHellHero: The Professor calls out everyone for imprisoning Zoidberg and tells them he ''asked'' Zoidberg to kill him.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The normally laid-back Fry is the first one to suggest killing Zoidberg when the latter's AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing results in the entire crew being mutilated, and especially after he somehow made Bender incontinent.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The normally laid-back Fry is the first one to suggest killing Zoidberg when the latter's AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing results in the entire crew being mutilated.

* RubeGoldbergDevice: The "Murdolator" that the Planet Express crew build to MercyKill the Professor in Zoidberg's place.

* BodyHorror: Most of the Planet Express crew get horrifically mutilated as a result of Zoidberg's incompetence: Leela's upper and lower halves are visibly separated with her spine being completely visible and making horrifying cracking noises every time she moves, Hermes has Scruffy's lower half sandwiched upside down between his torso (followed by his entire body falling apart), Scruffy is reduced to a head connected to an arm and Fry cycles through Simpsons jaundice, Garfield syndrome, Muppet gangrene and an unnamed Smurf-esque condition. Amy is the only human spared, instead somehow placed in a hypnotic trance.

* TheDreaded: Zoidberg has a reputation as such an infamously bad doctor that real doctors use his name as a verb.

* BodyHorror: Most of the Planet Express crew get horrifically mutilated as a result of Zoidberg's incompetence: Leela's upper and lower halves are visibly separated with her spine being completely visible and making horrifying cracking noises every time she moves, Hermes has Scruffy's lower half sandwiched upside down between his torso (followed by his entire body falling apart), Scruffy is reduced to a head connected to an arm and Fry cycles through Simpsons jaundice, Garfield syndrome, Muppet gangrene and an unnamed Smurf-esque condition.

The rest of the Planet Express staff has had it with Dr. Zoidberg's malpractice, but it seems Professor Farnsworth has a real reason to keep the alien around, besides cheap labor. A reason that dates back Farnsworth's and Zoidberg's first meeting, on a yeti-hunt for Mom long ago...

* MercyKillArrangement: Thinking he has Hyper Malaria, Farnsworth makes Zoidberg promise to kill him quickly so he wouldn't suffer whenever it kicks in.

* SuperhumanTransfusion: Getting scratched by a yeti causes the Professor to turn into a yeti. The cure involves transferring one of the yeti's glands into him in order to flush out the yeti neurotoxin. It turns him into a double yeti first, then cures him.

* RubeGoldbergDevice: The thing the rest of PE staff build to MercyKill the Professor in Zoidberg's place.

* HiddenDepths: Turns out that Zoidberg's actually a perfectly competent doctor for aliens, just not for humans or (in Bender's case) robots.

* EpicFail: While this is nothing new to Zoidberg, he manages to botch multiple attempts at healing all in a row- each one the result of the previous attempt. When they finally visit an actually competent doctor to get themselves fixed up, Hermes has Scruffy's lower half sandwiched upside down between his own upper and lower torso, Fry has settled onto resembling a Smurf (after previously being afflicted with Simpsons jaundice, Garfield syndrome, and Muppet gangrene), Leela's upper and lower halves are still separated by the spine extension and she's struggling to keep the upper half balanced, Scruffy has been reduced to just a head stitched on top of a single arm, Amy was somehow hypnotized (and Zoidberg stole one of her kidneys) and Bender somehow became [[ToiletHumor incontinent]].