History Recap / FuturamaS6E12TheMutantsAreRevolting

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* TheSymbiote:[[spoiler:Mr. Astor was mutated into a living slime organism that can harbor people in his body. When Fry lands in his mouth, he acted as a mutant suit for the human until Leela nearly kissed him/them.]]

* WholePlotReference: Metropolis. The scene of the Mutants working on the Westside Pipeway is a blatant reference to a scene in the film where a machine explodes.

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** The Gemerald from "Less Than Hero" returns once again as an important [=MacGuffin=].

* ContinuityNod: A can of Angry Norwegian anchovies, last seen in "A Fishful of Dollars", can be seen near the Land Titanic wreck.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Fry inadvertently blabs about Leela being a mutant, getting her kicked down to the sewers. It then goes FromBadToWorse, as his revealing that the Planet Express crew knew all along that Leela was a mutant gets ''them'' (except for Bender, who wasn't present at the time) a month's banishment to the sewers as punishment for knowingly harboring a mutant.

* ComicallySmallBribe: Lady Aster states she's Mayor Poopenmeyer's largest campaign contributor, and therefore demands action.

* {{Expy}}: Mr. and Mrs. Aster are one to the famed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_family Astors of New York]]. Unlike her counterpart, the actual Astors were beloved in New York as philanthropists, including an entire section of town named after them (Astor Place).

* HeelFaceTurn: Lady Aster decides to have the mutants freed in honor of Mister Aster.

* InexplicablyAwesome: Lady Aster is able to prevent nitro-glycerine laced cake from exploding right in front of her, in defiance of all logic.

-->'''Hobsy:''' One does not ''explode'' in the face of Mrs. Aster.
* KickTheDog: Lady Aster practically makes a sport of it, having her butler dump a cake she's just taken one bite out of in a room full of dogs. The cake, which includes nitro-glycerine, promptly explodes. She also uses Brown University to keep mutants distracted, and tries having them murdered for wanting better rights.
* LimitedWardrobe: For whatever reason, Mayor Poopenmeyer spends the entire episode in the same tuxedo he's wearing at Lady Aster's party.

* RichBitch: Lady Aster, at least at first.