Continuing from the movie, Into The Wild Green Yonder, the Planet Express company are severely injured after escaping through the wormhole. While the Professor is able to reconstitute most of the bodies, Leela seems to be stuck in a coma. Unable to live without his love, Fry has a robot duplicate of Leela made!
Tropes
- Bowdlerization:
- On UK's Sky One channel, Fry's line, "It's like when I passed out in college, except no one drew Magic Marker penises on my forehead" is cut down to just "It's like when I passed out in college, except no one drew on my forehead" whenever Futurama airs before the watershed hour (8:00pm).
- On New Zealand's PickTV, Robot Leela calling the real Leela a "slut-clops" was cut.
- On American syndicated broadcasts, Bender's line, "I need mouth-to-ass resuscitation," had the word "ass" changed to "butt".
- Call-Back: Dr. Zoidberg's ignorance on how the human body works resurfaces, as Zoidberg saw Robot Fry's internal gears already in an X-Ray and assumed they were normal for the real Fry.
- Chekhov's Gag: At the beginning, Farnsworth catches a fly and dissolves it in a test tube. This gets brought up again after The Reveal where said fly was actually the missing ingredient Farnsworth needed to save Fry.
- Clone Angst: Thanks to the data uploaded from the security footage, Robot Leela initially believes herself to be the real Leela.Robot Leela: The truth is, Fry, I still have feelings for you. But are they really my feelings? Am I just an automaton, or can a machine of sufficient complexity legitimately achieve consciousness?
- Fanservice: When Amy and Leela are ejected naked from the Stem Cell Tub. Especially in Amy's case: when she comes out, she's fully conscious but the Professor slaps her anyway from just off-screen.Amy: (admiring her skin) Ooh, baby soft.
Farnsworth: (slap) Indeed. - Foreshadowing:
- When Bender has the doomsday device installed, the shaking caused by his overloading causes one of his eyes to start shaking loose, which saves everyone in the end when it falls off and the Cyclophage confuses him for a cyclops.
- The reawakened Leela is initially furious at Fry for building a robot Replacement Goldfish, but concludes in fairness that "if I lost you, I don't think I could stand it either. I'd probably build a copy of you too." She may not remember it, but that's exactly what she did.
- Funny Background Event: When Robot Leela wants a hug from Nibbler, you see a surveillance footage of Hermes taking a shower.
- Groin Attack: When the crew are revived, Zoidberg is implied to cut off Hermes' penis after mistaking it for an umbilical cord.
- How We Got Here: The episode begins with Fry asking why he has burns all over his body. Prof. Farnsworth then recounts the events that happened right after Into the Wild Green Yonder, up until they crash back to Earth.
- Intro Dump: Fry names off each character as they come out of the machine, including their surname. This was due to this episode being a Jumping-On Point, and first-time viewers who hadn't seen the original episodes produced for FOX or the
Direct to Video movies could be confused. - Killing for a Tissue Sample: Prof. Farnsworth revives the crew by using adult stem cells... harvested from adults whom he had killed for their stem cells.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Prof. Farnsworth references the show's Channel Hop when he recognizes the Panama Wormhole, Earth's main interplanetary shipping channel.Zoidberg: How humorous.
Prof. Farnsworth: Yes, it's a sort of a Comedy Central channel, and we're on it now.
Amy: I get it! - Made of Iron: Bender survives being ground zero for an exploding doomsday device. Again. He lampshades it.Bender: Geez, what does it take to kill me?
- No, You: Exchanged between the real Leela who just woke up & Robot Leela.Leela: How is this possible? And can you believe she wore a tank top to my funeral?
Robot Leela: Shut up, we gotta get outta here!
Leela: No, you "shut up, we gotta get outta here!" - Other Me Annoys Me: Both being jealous types, the Leelas don't like each other.
- Overly Long Scream: Robot Leela screaming all night while looking at the wires that were accidentally revealed by Nibbler.
- Phlebotinum Overload: After rebuilding Bender, Farnsworth equips him with a doomsday device, and Bender needs to burn off the excess energy by partying non-stop. Bender is at first happy to do so, but eventually gets sick of it and stops, risking exploding and killing everyone around him. Fortunately, the Cyclophage eats him after one of his eyes falls out, absorbing the explosion.
- Poking Dead Things with a Stick: When Leela comes out of the birthing machine lifeless and unmoving, Farnsworth uses a "poking stick" to try and wake her up. It doesn't work.Farnsworth: Something's wrong! She's not responding to my poking stick.
Fry: Poke harder, damn it! - Replacement Goldfish: When it seems Leela is in a permanent coma, Fry builds a Robot Leela and programs it with her personality. And it turns out, the Fry we've been following is also this, as the real Fry was obliterated in the crash. Leela had built a Robot Fry, but accidentally electrocuted herself and needed to be rebuilt along with the others, but ended up in a coma.
- Riddle for the Ages: Invoked with Robot Leela and Robot Fry, whose voices turn deeper (and Austrian accented) when they take their skins off. Amy asks why that happened.Professor Farnsworth: That's the one thing we'll never truly understand.
- Robotic Reveal: The "Fry" we see during the episode turns out to be a robot duplicate that Leela made, before he exploded and she became comatose.
- Robot Me: In his grief, Fry builds a robot clone of the comatose Leela, who the real Leela later awakens to meet. It turns out Fry was a robot copy as well, built under similar circumstances.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Robot Leela bails mid-conversation after meeting real Leela, as does the real Leela moments later.
- The Stinger: Zapp's resurrection at the very end of the episode.
- Spot the Imposter: Parodied when the real Leela and robot Leela fight, and tell Fry to shoot a ray gun at the other one. Thing is, they tell him exactly which one is the robot, and he still can't figure it out.Leela: Shoot her! She's the robot!
Robot Leela: No, shoot her! She's the human!
Fry: But- But how do I know who's the human and who's the robot?
Leela: We just told you!
Robot Leela: Yeah, you idiot!
Fry: Okay. Fine. If you're gonna be like that, I'm not shooting anyone. (accidentally shoots himself) - Stripped to the Bone: The entire cast except Farnsworth (who had a better Safety Sphere) and Fry (who was reduced to paste due to him protecting Leela in the crash). This happens to the real Leela after accidentally getting electrocuted to death by the Robot Fry she had built.
- Wham Line: "Bender, shut the hell up!" said by the real Leela, who until this point was assumed to be in a permanent coma.
- Wham Shot: Fry's chest being blasted open—revealing that he's a robot duplicate like Robot Leela.
- The World Mocks Your Loss: Fry tries to move on from Leela after learning she's in an irreversible coma, but when he walks down the streets of New New York, he sees numerous things related to her, such as a cyclops on the logo for "Starbabe's" and a movie called "That Darn Cyclops."
