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3	''[[CouchGag Bigfoot's choice]]''
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5	An accident with the ''Nimbus'''s Holo-Shed results in Kif getting pregnant. As Kif's "smizmar", Amy is named the mother of his children, and she starts to panic from the responsibilities of parenthood.
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7	!!Tropes
8	* TheBabyTrap: Kif getting pregnant makes Amy worry that her life will completely change, taking up all the time she has but, in the end, comes to Kif's side because she loves him that much. It's subverted when, although Kif delivers safely, it's revealed his spawn will spend two decades as tadpoles in a swamp before becoming land borne. Amy assures him she'll be ready to be a mother by then.
9	* BadMoodRetreat: The Angry Dome, in which Professor Farnsworth retreats after being offended by a question from Amy.
10	* BaitAndSwitch: When Amy leaves the baby shower crying, Kif stands in the center of the shot, and we hear a weird wet sound and a baby crying. The camera then pans over to Zoidberg, who is crying like a baby.
11	* BehindTheBlack: Somehow no one notices Zoidberg in the Maternifuge until he gets ejected from it.
12	* BizarreAlienReproduction: Kif's species (it's never stated if they have genders or not) becomes "receptive" by being in love with someone, who they call the 'smizmar'. When they are "receptive", they take the DNA from the first person that touches them in any way and use that to become pregnant. The offspring then go through a very long tadpole-like phase in a swamp. Regardless of the biological parent (Leela in Kif's case), the smizmar (Amy) is considered the "true" parent by their culture.
13	* CallBack: The term 'smizmar' was used in "Raging Bender".
14	* CallForward: Leela gives Kif and Amy the basket her parents left her in at the Orphanarium. The next episode would feature Leela discovering her past and meeting her parents for the first time.
15	* ChangedMyMindKid: While Amy bails when the pressures of eventual motherhood get to her, she comes back at the last minute for the birth.
16	* ChekhovsGun: Amy's party-board, which is introduced at the beginning of the episode, then ruined by Leo and Inez. Amy manages to use the redesigned party-board to get to the spawning ground.
17	* ComicalOverreacting:
18	** The Professor gets incredibly irate at Amy suggesting the crew take a detour just to drop her off at the ''Nimbus''.
19	--->'''Professor:''' We could but we won't! It's a spaceship, dammit, not a prom limo! Oooh, if anyone needs me, I'll be in the Angry Dome!
20	** Bender loses his rag at Kif for getting pregnant, because he didn't know Kif could do that.
21	--->'''Bender:''' What's the deal!? Just when I thought I'd figured out you biological creatures, it's something else! [[LetMeAtHim Lemme at 'im]]! ''[He goes for Kif, and everyone restrains him.]'' Come over here, Kif! You-!
22	* DaddyDNATest: It's unclear who provided the DNA for Kif's babies, so a test is performed via the Professor's Maternifuge. The DNA came from Leela, but cultural traditions among Kif's people mean Amy is still viewed as the parent, as she was the one that triggered his "receptive" state. Despite the paternity being inconsequential in theory, Kif is extremely relieved when it's confirmed the DNA didn't come from Zapp, and Leela is protective of the babies for sharing her DNA.
23	* TheDitz: Zapp Brannigan doesn't know how ''anyone'' gets pregnant.
24	* DodgyToupee: Zapp is revealed to wear a toupee in this episode, as it almost blows off after he blows a hole in his ship.
25	* DumbassHasAPoint: It's Fry who points out that anyone could have gotten Kif pregnant since he touched everyone during the explosive decompression vacuum; ultimately, he's right, since it's Leela who got Kif pregnant, not Amy.
26	* EvilLaugh: After the Holo-Shed malfunctions, Evil Abraham Lincoln does this.
27	* {{Expy}}: The ''Nimbus''[='=] Dr. Veins [=McGee=] is a blatant copy of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Dr. Bones [=McCoy=]]].
28	* FreezeFrameBonus: If you watch Kif's attempts to grab people during the decompression, you can see that he only had skin-to-skin contact with one other person besides Amy (he loses his glove, but then she grabs his face before he gets torn away) - he grabs Leela's hand with his ungloved hand, but Fry only gets grabbed by the pants, Bender gets grabbed (but has no DNA to pass on), and it looks like Kif avoids touching Zapp completely. So, in the end, it really only was the women who were really in the running for DNA.
29	* HellishHorse: Spirit the Pony, after the Holo-Shed malfunctions.
30	* HereWeGoAgain:
31	** "Right-o, gents, it's another simulation gone mad, so murder and mayhem, standard procedure."
32	** After nearly killing everyone trying to stop the simulations, Zapp decides he needs to relax... in the Holo-Shed.
33	* HiddenDepths: Amy's schedule, in addition to her typical party girl activities, has her setting aside time to work on her thesis and attend a Tolstoy seminar.
34	* HighPriest: The Grand Midwife, who makes the requisite proclamations (from a memorized speech) and prepares the ceremonial tea ahead of the birth.
35	* HolodeckMalfunction: It's one of these that leads to the accident that causes Kif's pregnancy.
36	* IWantGrandkids: Amy's parents are indifferent to how Kif got pregnant; they are just happy they have grandchildren.
37	* KindnessBall: Zapp is probably the nicest he's ever been, at least to Kif; they share enthusiasm when the Planet Express Ship brings their respective love interests, he attempts to grab him when he's at risk of being sucked out the ship, willingly takes part in the paternity test and is part of the effort to get him to the birthing grounds.
38	* LegionOfDoom: The rogue Holo-Shed programs, including Professor Moriarty, Jack the Ripper, Attila the Hun (riding a version of Spirit with red eyes and pointy teeth) and Evil Abraham Lincoln.
39	* LetsMockTheMonsters: When the crew is faced with a giant froad, Bender just insults it. "What's that big ugly thing? A frog, a toad, or [[YourMom your momma]]?"
40	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Dr. Veins [=McGee=] says the crew is fine... aside from a few broken bones, some internal hemorrhaging and a partially barfed up heart. Oh, and Kif's pregnant.
41	* MamaBear: After returning to help Kif give birth, Amy protects his tadpoles from being eaten by the local wildlife by hitting them away with a giant leaf.
42	* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Gender-flipped and played with. While Amy loves Kif, after he gets pregnant, she's still not ready for parenthood, and subtly tries to urge him to consider how things would change if she ''wasn't'' the biological parent. When he assures her that in his culture, the one who inspired the feelings of deep love are still the "true" parent, she looks visibly troubled.
43	* MandatoryLine: Fry is present for the entire episode but is conspicuously quiet, speaking only on a small handful of occasions; Kif, Amy, Leela, and Zapp take up most of the episode's focus, heckled by Bender throughout.
44	* MisterSeahorse: Kif Kroker's species can be impregnated by absorbing genetic material through touch when experiencing deep emotions.
45	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Zoidberg does this to himself at Kif's baby shower.
46	-->'''Fry:''' Everybody we invited is here.\
47	'''Zoidberg:''' Also Zoidberg!
48	* NoodleIncident: Zapp refers to one involving one of his previous uses of the Holo-Shed.
49	-->'''Kif''': The Holo-Shed's on the fritz again! The characters turned real!\
50	'''Zapp''': Damn! The last time that happened, I got slapped with three paternity suits!
51	* NotDrawnToScale: The size of Kif's room goes from being small enough that a human has to crouch to big enough that everyone can stand in it.
52	* OhCrapSmile: Amy's reaction during the baby shower to Kif talking about the impending birth and lifelong commitment. She ultimately cracks and runs away.
53	* PerspectiveMagic: Kif tries to give Amy the moon on the holodeck display, but he's too weak to remove it from the sky and ends up hanging from it.
54	* PetTheDog: Zapp actually assists Kif in getting through the jungle of his home planet and even compliments him sincerely when the birthing is complete.
55	* PoorCommunicationKills: If Kif had just told Amy how his species' life cycle works, that the children would just be tadpoles left to their own devices who wouldn't even leave the water for 20 years, then she wouldn't have been overwhelmed by the sudden pressure of becoming a parent and run out on him.
56	* ShoutOut: On the ''Nimbus'' viewscreen, Zapp watches ''Once Upon a Rhyme'' (a ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' short).
57	* TemptingFate: Kif says the Holo-Shed usually works, except when it doesn't, but so long as that doesn't happen, they'll be fine. You can probably guess what happens immediately after he says this.
58	* ThereIsAGod: Kif invokes the spirit of this upon learning Zapp didn't provide the DNA for Kif's offspring.
59	-->'''Farnsworth:''' Nor is Captain Brannigan!\
60	'''Kif:''' ''[sotto voce]'' Oh thank you, merciful God!
61	* TheyCalledMeMad: Even the Professor laughed at himself when he invented the Maternifuge, "but I guess I showed myself!"
62	* WhamShot: Amy being thrown out of the Maternifuge, leaving Leela as the last one inside.
63	* WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: The Maternifuge, which determines who's the genetic mother by spinning everyone inside it, kicking out those who aren't.
64	* YouNoTakeCandle: From Attila the Hun.
65	-->'''Attila:''' Stop! No shoot fire-stick in space canoe! Cause explosive decompression!\
66	'''Zapp:''' Spare me your space-age technobabble, Attila the Hun!
67	* YourMom: Bender asks what a gigantic amphibian on Kif's homeworld is.
68	-->'''Bender:''' What's this fat, ugly thing? A frog, a toad or your momma?\

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