YMMV / Futurama S 1 E 12 "When Aliens Attack"

• Shallow Parody: Single Female Lawyer features a protagonist who's a Strong Independent Woman (TM) who Really Gets Around and is heroically defiant in the face of the patriarchy. It's meant to be a parody of Ally McBeal, down to the protagonist having almost the same name (and the famously short skirts). Though Ally was never portrayed as any kind of feminist icon and certainly not as being the least bit strong or independent - in fact, most of the show consisted of her angsting about how pathetic and incomplete she felt without a husband and children, and she never faced much in the way of discrimination. Nor was she any more or less sexually active than other women on television at the time. It's likely however that this aspect of the parody was in reference to the criticism the show was getting from certain outlets at the time for being a bad role model for feminism.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The episode is built around a parody of Ally McBeal, which was topical at the time, but the show quickly fell out of public consciousness after going off the air.

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