Line #55 Recap/FuturamaS2E7PutYourHeadOnMyShoulder


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3	''[[CouchGag Not Based On the Novel by]]'' ''Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper''
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5	As Valentine's Day approaches, Fry and Amy start dating after discovering that they think the same way about "stuff and junk". However, Fry soon feels things are moving too fast, and plans to break up with Amy during their picnic on Europa. Things get complicated when Dr. Zoidberg crashes their car during the date, severing Fry's head. Fry must spend the next few days with his head transplanted onto Amy's shoulder while Dr. Zoidberg fixes his body.
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7	Meanwhile, Bender uses the upcoming holiday to get rich quick by starting a blind dating service after getting fined for breaking anti-pimping laws.
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10	!!Tropes present:
11	* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Done for laughs, when Mercury, with its oceans of lead, is habitable enough to drive across, provided you keep the cover up.
12	* BlatantLies: Victor and Malfunctioning Eddie aren't happy that Amy keeps offering higher prices for their cars. Not happy at all.
13	* BrickJoke: Bender's malfunctioning ass is brought up at the beginning of the episode and comes back at the very end.
14	* CantLiveWithoutYou: After Fry is critically injured in a car crash, his head is attached to Amy's body to make sure he survives until his body is healed.
15	* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
16	** As they're driving across Mercury, Fry and Amy both do things that increases the likelihood of getting them stranded.
17	** After having broken up with Amy, Fry thinks he's back in the game. Amy points out that while his head's on ''her'' body, he's likely only going to attract one kind of woman. It takes Fry a moment to realize what she means.
18	* DescriptionCut: Bender starts thinking of his first scheme, something supposedly cunning and devious. Cut to him standing in front of a judge (with Leela and two hooker-bots[[note]]one of which is Hookerbot 5000 from "Hell Is Other Robots"[[/note]]) being fined $500 and time served for attempted pimping.
19	* DoYouWantToHaggle: [[SpoiledSweet Amy]] haggles with a salesman over the price of the Beta Romeo. [[RefugeInAudacity She actually offers to pay so much, the robot manager explodes from joy.]]
20	-->'''Leela:''' OK, the sticker says 55,000 but we'll only go as high as say-\
21	'''Amy:''' 60,000!\
22	''[Leela sighs]''\
23	'''Victor:''' Oh, I will have to ask my manager.\
24	''[he walks into Malfunctioning Eddie's office]''\
25	'''Leela:''' Amy, you don't go ''up'' from the sticker price!\
26	'''Amy:''' I thought it was an auction.\
27	''[[[FunnyBackgroundEvent through the office window, we see Victor say something to Eddie. Eddie smiles and they both dance with Joy. Victor comes back out again]]]''\
28	'''Victor:''' [[BlatantLies He is not too happy.]]\
29	'''Amy:''' I'm sorry. 80,000?\
30	''[Eddie's head explodes]''
31	* ExtremeOmnivore: Zoidberg eats all of the food from the picnic basket, and then the basket.
32	* FailedASpotCheck:
33	** Fry doesn't notice his head is attached to Amy's body until Zoidberg points it out.
34	** Zapp clearly doesn't realize his date is a cross-dresser.
35	* FakeOutFadeOut:
36	-->'''Fry:''' Listen, Leela. Thanks for rescuing me last night.\
37	'''Leela:''' Anytime. I actually enjoyed hanging out with you.\
38	'''Bender:''' Yep, everything worked out great thanks to good old Bender.\
39	'''Leela:''' Come on! It's not like you intentionally set us up with bad dates so we'd spend Valentine's Day together.\
40	'''Bender:''' Didn't I, Leela? Didn't I? (winks)\
41	''(heart iris out, then back in)''\
42	'''Leela:''' No, you didn't! You just rounded up a bunch of stiffs at the bus station and pocketed all our money.
43	* {{Fanservice}}: Amy (with Fry's head) in lingerie before the date.
44	* FascinatingEyebrow: Victor does one of these when Amy mentions she's rich. He then shoves it back down.
45	* FriendsWithBenefits: Fry and Amy, for a short time. They actually like it better ''without'' the "benefits" part.
46	* GetRichQuickScheme: Bender uses the upcoming holiday to make money by starting a blind dating service (after his foray into pimping gets him busted due to anti-pimping laws). Both Fry and Leela end up using it.
47	* HonestJohnsDealership: Malfunctioning Eddie's, although ironically, he's in even ''worse'' shape than the stuff he's selling.
48	* ImStandingRightHere: Leela and Bender have this conversation while Zoidberg is sitting right between them:
49	-->'''Leela:''' Bender, romance isn't about money.
50	-->'''Bender:''' Oh, so it's just coincidence that Zoidberg here is desperately poor and miserably lonely? Puh-leeze.
51	-->'''Leela:''' For your information, it's because he's hideous.
52	-->'''Zoidberg:''' [''slumps down sadly'']
53	* IncrediblyLameFun: Leela manages to save Fry from having to witness Amy having sex with her date by getting him talking about investment banking, which kills Amy's mood.
54	* InnocentInnuendo: When the recovery truck worker arrives on Mercury, he finds Amy's car windows steamed up. Instead of having sex, however, Fry and Amy are merely playing cards. While they're getting towed they decide to have sex.
55	* InsaneProprietor: Malfunctioning Eddie, the robotic car dealer. In a later episode ("Insane in the Mainframe"), it turns out that Malfunctioning Eddie's explosions are considered a mental illness, and he is committed to the HAL Institute for Insane Robots.
56	* InsaneTrollLogic: Fry, once he starts getting tired of Amy, such as thinking she wants him for his money, or as a trophy husband.
57	* JokeOfTheButt: Bender has shock-absorbing bumpers installed to prevent "catastrophic butt failure", but isn't happy that the bumpers make him look like he has big blue buttocks. He demands that the mechanic undo this upgrade, which the mechanic obliges, but not without warning Bender that this increases the risk of Bender's ass eventually exploding.
58	* LaserGuidedKarma: Bender conned a bunch of people with a scam dating service and pocketed their money, freely admitting it when called out by Leela. Then he inadvertently touches Fry's surgery scar while patting him on the back, which makes Fry involuntarily kick him right on the ass. This both makes his ass explode completely, and probably burns up all the ill-gotten money he was keeping in his chest.
59	* LosingYourHead: With Fry. Not the usual heads in jars, which is strange when you think about it, since Zoidberg could've probably removed Fry's head from Amy's body when they got back to Earth and simply put it in a jar (unless the head-in-jar technology is only reserved for celebrities and other important people of the past); due to the accident being on another world, it may have just been easier to keep the grafted head on a living body to avoid further trauma; Hermes gets his head in a jar at the very beginning of "Bender's Big Score", and he's not particularly famous or important compared to Nixon, Leonard Nimoy, etc.
60	* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d when Fry has his head put back on his own body after spending several days on Amy's, he immediately gropes his own chest only to disappointedly say, "Aww."
61	* MeaningfulName: When Malfunctioning Eddie says he's malfunctioning badly, he isn't kidding.
62	* MistakenForGay: Apparently common with Fry, who would really like it to stop. The Ford [=ThunderCougarFalconBird=] salesman uses averting this as a technique for selling his car.
63	* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Implied: Fry initially returns Amy's affection, but soon starts to feel like the relationship is moving too fast and plans to break up with her.
64	* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: "Well, if it isn't my favourite head on Amy's body!"
65	* SexyDiscretionShot: Double Subverted. After Amy's car runs out of gas on Mercury, she and Fry talk a bit, then look at each other seductively. Hours later (judging by the sunset), a tow driver wipes some condensation off the glass of Amy's car, revealing them... playing cards inside. Then, while the car is being towed:
66	-->'''Amy:''' So while they're towing us, want to do it?
67	-->'''Fry:''' Yeah! ''(they start making out, then duck out of view)''
68	* ShipSinking: Fry and Amy are set up as a couple, but Fry eventually feels like the relationship is moving too fast and breaks up with her. By the end of the episode, they both decide they're BetterAsFriends.
69	* ShipperOnDeck: Bender set up Fry and Leela with bad dates, and winked when Leela asked if he did that so they would be together for Valentine's Day. [[SubvertedTrope He didn't intend to]], he was just being cheap by just rounding their dates up at the bus station.
70	* ShoutOut: One model of car at Malfunctioning Eddie's is the Plymouth [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture V'ger]].
71	* SmartBall: Well, Medical Knowledge Ball. Zoidberg is able to attach Fry's head to Amy's shoulder and preserve the rest of his body for future reattachment.
72	* WaitForYourDate: Amy tells her Valentine's date that she needs another 20 minutes to finish getting ready even though, as Fry points out, she only needed to put her dress on to be finished. Amy admits that the point is to make the guy wait for her.
73	* YourHeadAsplode: Malfunctioning Eddie's head explodes from sheer joy.

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