History Recap / FuturamaS3E9TheCyberHouseRules

Leela meets another former orphan from the Orphanarium, Adlai Atkins, who has become a plastic surgeon. He offers to give her two eyes so she can appear normal, a chance Leela leaps on, to Fry's dismay. Meanwhile, Bender adopts ''all'' of the orphans to get the stipends from the government, but finds child-rearing to be a more costly venture than he figured.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Bender adopts twelve orphans for the government stipends, but fails to take into account that he'd need to buy things like food for them. Eventually, he spends so much that he ends up at a net loss and is forced to return them to the orpharium.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Two-Eyed Leela briefly causes Mom's sons to become a HumanTrafficJam when she passes them on the street.

-->'''Leela:''' Listen, buddy. By the end of the day, one of us is gonna have one eye.

* HeartwarmingOrphan: [[invoked]] Exaggerated with the twelves orphans Bender adopts, who are always happy and laughing no matter what Bender does to them. The DVDCommentary admits this was the only way to make Bender's neglectful behavior funny instead of horrifying.

* ObsessivelyNormal: Adlai prides himself in being the RidiculouslyAverageGuy that he is. Every compliment Adlai gives Leela is on how average and not-special she is, he specifically orders an average bouquet for her and when Leela decides to adopt the three-eared Sally, he only agrees on the condition that he has the third ear removed.
* OrphanageOfFear: The orphanarium looks like a prison from the outside, and Leela is reminiscent of the metal bars in the windows.

* RaisedByRobots: The B-plot has Bender attempt this. He adopts 12 children from the orphanarium to collect stipends from the government. Unsurprisingly, Bender is terrible with children.

* StatusQuoIsGod: At the end of the episode Leela gets her one eye back. Even during the episode, it was noted that the operation only gave Leela the ''appearance'' of having two eyes; the second eye itself was purely cosmetic and she couldn't actually see with it. Bender also returns the orphans he adopted.

* ThisPageWillSelfDestruct: The orphan basket self-destroys.

* HeartwarmingOrphan: Exaggerated with the twelves orphans Bender adopts, who are always happy and laughing no matter what Bender does to them. The DVDCommentary admits this was the only way to make Bender's neglectful behavior funny instead of horrifying.

* BabyFeverTrigger: Adlai seeing Bender with his adopted orphans makes him want to have a child with Leela, [[ParodiedTrope despite Bender obviously being a terrible parent]]. When Bender is arrested and loses custody of the orphans, Adlai and Leela actually try to adopt one, though Leela dumps Adlai when he refuses to adopt a disfigured orphan as she is, and the kids remain unadopted.

-->'''Albert''': Can we have Bender Burgers again?\\
'''Bender''': No! The cat shelter's onto me!

** Leela’s ArchEnemy at the orphanarium was a blind kid who mocked her for [[{{Hypocrite}} not having two functioning eyes]]. After she gets the surgery, she finds him and makes him feel her two eyes, leaving him disappointed.

* DoAnythingRobot: Bender needs a calculator. He has one built in, but as he points out to Fry, he needs a ''good'' calculator. This is apparently a pet peeve of one of the Futurama writers.
* DogPileOfDoom: The kids do a cute version on Fry at Benders home and also on Bender in the closing shot.
* DoorstopBaby: Subverted. Leela finds what looks like a baby in a basket in front of their home. It turns out to be an invitation to an orphan reunion.

-->'''Fry''': What's so wonderful about Leela being normal? The rest of us aren't normal and that's what makes us great. Like Dr. Zoidberg: he's a weird monster who smells like he eats garbage and does.
-->'''Zoidberg''': Damn right!
-->'''Fry''': The Professor's a senile, amoral crackpot. ''[Farnsworth gibbers and waves]'' Hermes is a Rastafarian accountant.
-->'''Hermes''': Tally me banana.
-->'''Fry''': Amy's a klutz from Mars. ''[Amy drops the glass she is drinking from and it smashes]''
-->'''Amy''': Sploops!
-->'''Farnsworth''': And, Fry, you've got that brain thing.
-->'''Fry''': I already did!
* RaisedByRobots: The B-plot has Bender attempt this. He adopts 12 children from the orphanarium to collect stipends from the government. Unsurprisingly, Bender is terrible with children.

* SpitTake: Bender when learning of the $100/week child adoption deal.
* StatusQuoIsGod: At the end of the episode Leela gets her one eye back. Even during the episode, it was noted that the operation only gave Leela the ''appearance'' of having two eyes; the second eye itself was purely cosmetic and she couldn't actually see with it.

Leela meets another former orphan from the Orphanage, Adlai Atkins, who has become a plastic surgeon. He offers to give her two eyes so she can appear normal, a chance Leela leaps on, to Fry's dismay. Meanwhile, Bender adopts ''all'' of the orphans to get the stipends from the government, but finds child-rearing to be a more costly venture than he figured.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Little Leela at the orphanage. The photograph of her standing alone says it all.

** Leela’s ArchEnemy at the orphanage was a blind kid who mocked her for [[{{Hypocrite}} not having two functioning eyes]]. After she gets the surgery, she finds him and makes him feel her two eyes, leaving him disappointed.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Bender adopts twelve orphans for the government stipends, but fails to take into account that he'd need to buy things like food for them. Eventually, he spends so much that he ends up at a net loss and is forced to return them to the orphanage.

* OrphanageOfFear: The orphanage looks like a prison from the outside, and Leela is reminiscent of the metal bars in the windows.

* RaisedByRobots: The B-plot has Bender attempt this. He adopts 12 children from the orphanage to collect stipends from the government. Unsurprisingly, Bender is terrible with children.

-->'''Smitty''': You're under arrest for child cruelty, child endangerment, denying children food, selling children ''as'' food and misrepresenting the weight of livestock!

-->'''Fry:''' Do you wanna be like (the Planet Express crew), or do you wanna be like Adlai, with no physical or social problems whatsoever?

* TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight: The Planet Express crew think that Leela should go ahead with the plastic surgery to make her look normal. However, Fry disagrees, bringing up the good point that she's perfectly fine the way she is. They dismiss him and get the surgery for her, with Leela taking until near the end of the episode to agree with Fry's point.

** Leela’s ArchEnemy at the orphanage was a blind kid who mocked her for [[{{Hypocrite not having two functioning eyes]]. After she gets the surgery, she finds him and makes him feel her two eyes, leaving him disappointed.

* ContinuityNod: At the end of the episode, the Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium is renamed the [[Recap/FuturamaS3E4LuckOfTheFryish Bender B. Rodríguez]] Orphanarium.

-->'''Zoidberg:''' What?! You're joking, right? ''(starts shaking Leela)'' THAT'S NOT FUNNY!

* StatusQuoIsGod: At the end of the episode Leela gets her one eye back.
** Even during the episode, it was noted that the operation only gave Leela the ''appearance'' of having two eyes; the second eye itself was purely cosmetic and she couldn't actually see with it.

** Arguably, the current orphans, who bullies Sally for having an ear on her forehead.

--> '''Leela:''' Listen, buddy. By the end of the day, one of us is gonna have one eye.

* ParentalNeglect: Just one of many of Bender's mistreatments of the kids. [[RealityEnsues He and Fry are arrested for it]].

* BigShutUp: Leela yells this to Fry when he shouts "YAAY!!" to Leela telling off Adlai that she's happy being herself.

* BigShutUp: Leela yells this to Fry when he shouts "Yay!" when Leela tells Adlai that she's happy being herself.

* ChildrenAreCruel: The orphans who bullied Leela, but especially Kurt the blind kid. They are still {{Jerkass}}es as adults.