Across its long run, "Futurama" has crossed the line multiple times. For this list, we’ll be looking at moments when Matt Groening’s hugely popular futuristic show just went too far.
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00:00 - It's nauseating, man!
00:01 (chewing)
00:02 Is there no way to get rid of the disgusting muggots?
00:05 - Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:07 And today we're counting down our picks
00:09 for the top 20 times Futurama crossed a line.
00:12 - Oh! - Yeah!
00:14 - Ah, lordy!
00:15 (gulping)
00:17 - Fry!
00:18 (blowing)
00:20 - Phew.
00:21 - For this list, we'll be looking at moments
00:23 when Matt Groening's hugely popular futuristic show
00:26 just went too far.
00:27 Prepare for some intense eyebrow raising.
00:30 When has Futurama crossed the line for you?
00:33 Let us know in the comments.
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00:47 - Number 20, Leela pokes her eye.
00:51 While lounging around at Planet Express,
00:54 Leela receives an invitation for a reunion
00:56 at her old orphanarium.
00:58 Initially, she decides not to go,
01:00 because she was teased by the other kids
01:02 when she was younger for having only one eye.
01:05 - I never wanna see those other orphans again.
01:07 - Not after the way they used to pick on me.
01:10 - One eye, one eye, one eye!
01:13 - Nice depth perception, one eye!
01:15 - She changes her mind so she can rub her success
01:18 in everyone else's face.
01:20 Accompanied by Bender and Fry,
01:22 they stumble upon an old group photo
01:24 where she reveals she had a crush on Adlai Atkins.
01:27 When the two reunite, Adlai reveals he's a doctor
01:31 and offers to give Leela the appearance of having two eyes.
01:34 Overcome with emotion, she begins to touch her eye,
01:38 which is too much for us.
01:39 - I can build you a paraffin eye
01:41 and graft it on with skin from your foot.
01:43 It won't be able to see,
01:45 but you'll look like a perfectly normal two-eyed person.
01:49 - Me?
01:50 Perfectly normal?
01:54 The squish sounds that are made make us shudder.
01:57 Number 19, Bender as a human.
01:59 With everyone gathered
02:01 around the professor's what-if machine,
02:03 Bender asks what it would be like to be human.
02:06 It's cool to see an alternate form of the bending unit.
02:09 Unfortunately, Bender's transformation
02:11 really highlights how disgusting bodies can be.
02:13 Immediately, he pukes for fun,
02:16 and from there, things go downhill
02:18 when he discovers other things he can expel.
02:20 - Guys, guys, you gotta come into the bathroom
02:23 and look at this.
02:24 You're not gonna believe it.
02:25 - Bender, it's okay to be proud,
02:27 but don't be a show-off.
02:28 As a robot, Bender had little self-control,
02:31 and as a human, he definitely has less.
02:34 He drinks, smokes, and eats like there's no tomorrow.
02:38 It culminates with him becoming massive
02:40 after just a week of him living an excessive lifestyle.
02:43 The worst part is he pulls out a grilled cheese
02:45 from under the folds of his skin.
02:47 We'll be staying away from grilled cheese for a bit.
02:50 - Hey, you like grilled cheese?
02:53 - Number 18, Kif gives birth.
02:57 When a couple finds out they're pregnant,
02:59 it's a cause for celebration.
03:00 When Kif gets pregnant, he's excited,
03:03 but his smismar, Amy, isn't exactly thrilled,
03:06 and she runs away due to her fear of commitment.
03:09 - It's, no, I can't do this!
03:14 (Amy crying)
03:15 - Kif returns to his home planet
03:17 to perform his culture's birthing rites.
03:19 Once he makes it to his ancestral birthing grounds,
03:22 he's greeted by the grand midwife
03:24 who performs the ceremony.
03:26 Amy returns to be with Kif just before he gives birth.
03:29 Their commitment to each other is touching,
03:31 but it's undercut by the actual birthing process.
03:35 (Kif grunting)
03:37 (Kif grunting)
03:40 Nothing graphic is shown,
03:42 but the squishy sounds coming from Kif make it squeezy,
03:46 and there's a shot of the tadpoles covered in goo.
03:49 Life may be beautiful, but it isn't always pretty.
03:53 Number 17, the professor and mom get it on.
03:56 Mother's Day in the 31st century
03:59 works a little bit differently than we're used to.
04:02 Instead of honoring mothers, it honors mom,
04:04 whose company is responsible for creating all the robots.
04:08 She reveals that all of her robots have antennas
04:11 so she can control them with a remote control,
04:14 and on this Mother's Day, she commands them to rebel
04:17 and make her supreme overlord of Earth.
04:19 - Rebel, my little ones, and conquer the planet!
04:23 (crowd murmuring)
04:25 (alarm ringing)
04:29 Conquer Earth, you bastards!
04:30 - In order to stop mom's plans,
04:33 the professor has to seduce her so he can grab the remote.
04:36 While he's successful in getting it, the two get busy.
04:40 Wondering what's taking so long,
04:42 the others look for the professor
04:43 and find him and mom in their post-coital glow.
04:47 The expression on their faces says it all.
04:49 - Where in Funky Town is the professor?
04:51 - Nothing in here but a couple of elephant skin rugs.
04:55 (crowd gasping)
04:58 - Number 16, How Slurm is Made.
05:01 Fry finds a golden bottle cap
05:03 in a can of the highly irresistible drink
05:05 and wins a trip to party with Slurm's Mackenzie.
05:09 Before that happens, he gets a tour of the factory,
05:11 traveling along in a boat on a river slurm.
05:14 - As we sail down the river of slurm,
05:17 you'll see our mixologists at work.
05:19 - Fry gets thirsty and falls into the river
05:21 while trying to drink from it.
05:23 However, he can't swim, so Leela jumps in to rescue him
05:27 and they, along with Bender, go down a drain.
05:30 From there, they discover how slurm is actually made
05:33 from a secretion of the slurm queen
05:35 pumped directly into the cans.
05:37 (slurm squelching)
05:40 Understandably, they're grossed out, as are we.
05:47 The worst part is when the queen drinks her own slurm.
05:50 Perhaps we're better off not knowing the horrible truth.
05:54 Number 15, Mooshu the Whale.
05:56 President Nixon issues a $300 refund
06:00 to the residents of Earth,
06:01 and Kiff uses part of his money to buy a watch for Amy
06:05 that tells the time wherever they both are.
06:07 - It shows the time wherever we both are,
06:11 and it's powered by love.
06:13 Also, you have to wind it.
06:14 - Whoa, somebody won big at skee-ball.
06:17 - While the gift is a sweet gesture,
06:19 it falls into the tank of Mooshu the Whale
06:22 and ends up in its belly.
06:24 The Planet Express crew come up with a plan
06:26 to retrieve the watch by making Mooshu throw up.
06:29 Leela feeds the whale rotten fish, and moments later,
06:33 it feels the effects from what it ate.
06:35 - Who wants a fish?
06:37 (mooshu growling)
06:40 - Not only is the sound off-putting,
06:43 but it goes on for a bit.
06:45 Even worse is that when the watch appears,
06:48 Kiff happily dies into the puke to get it.
06:50 Yuck.
06:52 Number 14, Edna Sucks Fry's Face.
06:55 When the crew goes to the gym to work out,
06:57 Dr. Zoidberg becomes super competitive and aggressive.
07:01 (Zoidberg growling)
07:04 He's full of male jelly on account of it
07:07 being mating season for his people.
07:09 He's taken back to his planet to find a mating partner.
07:12 He comes across Edna, an acquaintance from high school,
07:15 but she has no interest in him.
07:17 Fry offers to help him attract her as a mate.
07:20 When Edna finds out Fry's been coaching Zoidberg,
07:23 she falls for Fry.
07:24 She's able to get Fry alone
07:26 and plant what we think is a kiss on him.
07:29 (fry groaning)
07:31 Her mouth flaps wrap around his face
07:36 and he's covered in a green liquid.
07:39 In all honesty, it doesn't look like a pleasant experience.
07:42 Number 13, Fry's Colonoscopy.
07:46 Sketchy gas station food is never a good idea,
07:48 which is of course why Fry decides
07:50 to eat an egg salad sandwich she got from a machine
07:53 in a truck stop bathroom.
07:55 - What's that black cracker?
07:57 (crunching)
07:58 - A tomato.
07:59 - You're not gonna eat a sandwich
08:00 from a truck stop men's room, are you?
08:02 - Eh, what's the worst thing that could happen?
08:04 (crunching)
08:06 Ugh, it's like a party in my mouth
08:08 and everyone's throwing up.
08:09 - Aside from a blackened tomato that looks like a cracker,
08:12 things don't seem so bad at first.
08:15 When Fry gets impaled by a pipe,
08:17 his wound seemingly self-repairs.
08:19 The professor decides to investigate further
08:21 after hearing Fry ate a suspect sandwich
08:24 and has Zoidberg examine his gastrointestinal tract.
08:28 - Gross!
08:29 - Go, man, go!
08:30 (crunching)
08:35 - Watch for any subtle irregularity in Fry's bowel.
08:38 - Not only do we get a visual,
08:40 but we get this awful rubbing, liquidy sound
08:43 as the camera moves through Fry.
08:45 Things only get worse as his body is now infested with worms.
08:49 Number 12, Dwight imitates Bender.
08:53 Bender's raucous lifestyle can be tempting
08:55 to outside observers.
08:57 It's that appealing lifestyle that makes Bender
08:59 a popular character on the show "All My Circuits."
09:02 His rowdy behavior makes an impression
09:04 on the show's younger fans.
09:06 (gunshots)
09:08 - You gotta shoot it!
09:10 (gunshots)
09:11 - They think Bender is cool and wanna be just like him.
09:15 Dwight, Q*bert, and Tinny Tim
09:17 are influenced by Bender's behavior,
09:19 and Dwight imitates the robot by taking a puff of a cigar.
09:23 This causes him to immediately throw up.
09:26 - Look, I'm Bender.
09:28 (gagging)
09:30 - The professor and Hermes were right
09:34 to set up a protest group against Bender.
09:37 Number 11, Mr. Chunks.
09:39 When the new iPhone comes out,
09:41 both Fry and Bender start uploading videos
09:44 and gaining followers on the Twitcher app.
09:46 - Can you believe 50,000 idiots swallow that crap?
09:49 Send.
09:51 Oops.
09:51 - Wait, you have 50,000 followers?
09:54 I only have three.
09:55 Send.
09:55 - They make a bet to see who can get
09:57 to a million followers first.
09:59 Initially, Fry stipulates it's for a buck,
10:01 but soon they up the ante with the condition
10:03 that the loser has to do a double somersault
10:06 into a tub of alien goat vomit and diarrhea.
10:09 Much to our chagrin, we're introduced to Mr. Chunks,
10:13 a double-ended alien goat who spews from both ends.
10:17 - Ugh, it's putrid!
10:19 What do you feed him?
10:20 - Well, it comes out one end, we feed to the other.
10:22 - Not only are the sounds it produces disgusting,
10:25 but there's a tub full of its inner contents
10:27 just stewing on the Planet Express building.
10:30 It's definitely too much for us.
10:33 Number 10, Feces Pieces.
10:35 - You want some candy?
10:36 - Ew, you were eating my turds?
10:39 - Feces Pieces?
10:40 - Blech!
10:41 - We all know from Fry's hearty slurm obsession
10:44 that he'll drink anything,
10:46 even when it comes out of another creature's butt.
10:49 However, when Fry is accidentally trapped
10:51 on Omicron Persi 8 in this blatant parody
10:54 of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,
10:56 we learn the true lows of this incorrigible garbage gut.
10:59 Making a home in the closet of young Omicronian,
11:02 Jure, he finds sustenance in his friend's feces.
11:06 With their bright colors and perfectly round shape,
11:08 sure, they look a lot like candy,
11:10 but still, even if they tasted like it too,
11:13 that's just nasty.
11:14 - And I'm still hungry.
11:16 Do you have any more of that candy?
11:17 - Number nine, Hermes Flesh Puppet.
11:20 - Only the most pathetically useless employee
11:22 will be fired today, and that employee is...
11:25 (dramatic music)
11:27 Hermes Conrad.
11:28 - On the surface, Hermes might seem like he's got it all
11:31 figured out with his great job, a goddess of a wife,
11:34 and business smart kid, but underneath it all,
11:37 he still has some insecurities.
11:38 So when he fires himself from his own job
11:40 and is replaced by a robot,
11:42 Hermes tries to build a better version of himself
11:44 by turning himself into a machine.
11:47 Fortunately, what Mecha Hermes throws away,
11:49 Zoidberg uses to recreate the flesh and blood Hermes,
11:52 although but not before slipping his claw
11:54 inside the stitched together body
11:56 to use it as a ventriloquist's dummy.
11:58 You do you, Zoidberg.
12:00 - So, little Hermes, did you hear I've taken up running?
12:04 - Yeah, from restaurant to restaurant, ho ho, man.
12:07 (audience laughing)
12:09 - Number eight, Violent Euthanasia.
12:12 - Blood?
12:13 - I mean, blood.
12:14 - Put it back in me!
12:15 - Zoidberg isn't the best doctor,
12:17 so why does the professor keep him on payroll?
12:20 Well, it turns out that the two have a secret pact
12:22 about a terrible disease the professor thinks
12:24 he contracted years ago.
12:26 When the symptoms start to show themselves,
12:28 he asks Zoidberg to euthanize him.
12:31 - I want you to kill me.
12:32 - All right, give me the knife.
12:34 - Only problem is, it has to be by surprise,
12:37 because he's afraid of dying.
12:39 All of this could be an uncomfortable in and of itself,
12:42 but it's the way Zoidberg attempts
12:43 to murder his longtime friend that pushes it too far.
12:46 Strangulation, electrocution, stabbing, then again,
12:51 the elaborate killing machine built
12:52 by the rest of the crew isn't exactly better.
12:54 (machine whirring)
12:58 (gunshot)
13:00 Number seven, Extreme Toddler Wrestling.
13:03 - From the Rowdy Roddy Piper Daycare Center
13:06 in Glasgow, Scotland, it's Extreme Toddler Wrestling.
13:10 - From exploiting the adorably innocent humplings
13:13 for a children's TV show to subjecting the brains
13:16 of helpless orphans to so-called snuggle-rays,
13:19 there are quite a few things wrong with this episode.
13:21 One of them is Tickle-O-Lodian CEO Abner Double Deal's
13:25 pitch for a questionable new TV series.
13:28 Even worse is Extreme Toddler Wrestling,
13:30 which easily breaks just about every child abuse law ever.
13:34 Tiny babies pitted against each other in a playpen,
13:37 one even using a high chair to beat down the other,
13:39 and all for the amusement of adult fans?
13:42 Thank goodness it's animated.
13:44 (upbeat music)
13:46 Number six, The Poplar Crisis.
13:52 - People of Earth, I am Lur of the
13:55 planet Omicron Persi-I-8.
13:56 - Omicron Persi-I-8.
13:58 Turn down the TV and--
14:00 - Over the course of this show, the crew has quite a few
14:02 run-ins with Omicron Persi-I-8,
14:04 but this is the one that started it all.
14:07 After a long day's work in space,
14:09 the hungry trio decide to hunt for snacks
14:10 on a nearby planet.
14:12 They discover a delicious protein source
14:14 that soon also becomes a big hit back on Earth.
14:17 There's only one problem, they're eating babies,
14:20 the larvae of the Omicronians.
14:22 Fry, I wish you'd throw out these weak old poplars.
14:25 They're getting big and scaly.
14:26 Ooh, there's one left.
14:28 (crunching)
14:29 - Mama.
14:30 (yells)
14:31 - You'd think that learning they'd been gobbling down
14:33 someone's live, young-like chicken nuggets
14:35 would be a decisive moment for the crew,
14:37 but it takes a lot more than that
14:38 to put some of them off their food.
14:40 ♪ Pop a poplar in your mouth ♪
14:42 ♪ When you come to Fizzy Joe's ♪
14:43 ♪ What they're made of is a mystery ♪
14:44 ♪ Where they come from, no one knows ♪
14:46 ♪ You can pick 'em, you can lick 'em ♪
14:47 ♪ You can chew 'em, you can stick 'em ♪
14:48 ♪ If you promise not to sue us ♪
14:49 ♪ You can shove one up your nose ♪
14:51 Number five, Fry almost loses his lower horn.
14:55 (hissing)
14:57 (yelps)
14:58 - Remove pads.
15:00 - Here's another encounter with Omicron Persi 8
15:03 that we're sure the crew, particularly Fry,
15:05 would like to forget.
15:07 When Fry's nose is stolen by aliens
15:09 who regard human horns as aphrodisiacs,
15:12 things couldn't get much worse,
15:14 except that, well, thanks to Bender, they could.
15:17 After Bender's explanation of human anatomy,
15:19 the Omicronian leader, Lur, decides to remove
15:23 and consume his lower horn instead.
15:25 What a way to go.
15:27 The social commentary on our use of animal parts
15:29 as aphrodisiacs in the real world is clever and funny,
15:32 but also extremely uncomfortable.
15:34 Yikes.
15:35 - Ready the lower horn transport vessel.
15:38 (crunching)
15:40 (yelps)
15:41 - Boy, who knew a cooler could also make
15:43 a handy wang coffin?
15:45 - Number four, Fry and Leela get busy
15:47 in the bodies of the Professor and Zoidberg.
15:50 - Well, I'm off to the Royal Yacht
15:54 for a quick seducing snatch.
15:56 - Bender making off with Amy's body
15:57 and then an Emperor's seems cruel,
16:00 but that's just the thing we'd expect
16:01 from the kleptomaniac robot.
16:03 It's actually Fry and Leela we're focusing on
16:05 in this entry.
16:07 With both of them arguing that the other
16:08 only loves them for their looks,
16:10 they decide to switch bodies too,
16:11 Leela into the Professor's body and Fry into Zoidberg's.
16:15 - Did my bodily infirmity embarrass you?
16:17 - Not at all.
16:18 It's just another thing that makes you
16:20 a very special lady.
16:22 - This soon escalates into the two using
16:24 their new bodies to gross each other out,
16:26 then dropping everything to get busy in public.
16:29 Makes Bender's scheme seem kinda innocent by comparison.
16:32 (crash)
16:33 (yelps)
16:35 Number three, Fry sleeps with his grandmother.
16:42 - You mean we travel through time?
16:44 - D'oh, some idiot must've put metal in the microwave.
16:48 - Yo, it's the Emmy-winning episode
16:50 the show became infamous for,
16:51 and a storyline that continually comes up
16:54 in later episodes.
16:55 In this "Back to the Future" parody,
16:57 the crew accidentally travel back in time to 1947,
17:00 which happens to be when Fry's grandparents were dating.
17:03 Although Farnsworth warns him against
17:05 tampering with the past, Fry of course visits both,
17:09 accidentally killing his own grandfather, Enos,
17:12 and then sleeping with his grandmother Mildred.
17:14 Sure, he ensures his existence
17:16 by becoming his own grandfather.
17:18 Causal loops or not, this is a gross one.
17:21 - I mean, if she's my grandmother, who's my grandfather?
17:24 - Isn't it obvious?
17:25 You are.
17:27 (dramatic music)
17:29 (screams)
17:30 - Number two, tentacles galore.
17:33 - Open your necks and receive the love.
17:36 (yelps)
17:37 - Naturally, at first, everyone freaks out
17:39 when the tentacles from another universe
17:41 plunge into the back of their necks,
17:43 but instantly they're filled with love and peace,
17:45 so everything is okay, right?
17:47 Wrong.
17:48 All those tentacles?
17:49 Yeah, it turns out they aren't just tentacles.
17:52 They're reproductive organs.
17:53 - These aren't tentacles, they're genticles!
17:57 (dramatic music)
17:59 Ew!
18:01 - The creature was mating with everyone in our universe
18:03 at the same time, and even if the creature, Yivo,
18:07 and the universe's population did eventually fall in love
18:10 and even move in together for a bit,
18:12 it all started with the sentient planet taking advantage.
18:15 - We've been had, people!
18:16 The monster puss is a monster perv!
18:19 - It touched me in a bad place!
18:21 My spinal cord!
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18:38 Number one, Death by Snoo Snoo.
18:41 - Van Buter sentences them to death!
18:44 (dramatic music)
18:46 By Snoo Snoo!
18:47 - Yeah! - Yeah!
18:48 - Woo!
18:49 - Thanks to this episode, Death by Snoo Snoo
18:51 has become a popular phrase,
18:53 referring to being intimate with a tall or muscular woman.
18:57 But its origins are actually pretty brutal.
18:59 On the Futurama planet Amazonia,
19:01 giant voluptuous women use Snoo Snoo
19:03 as a sentence for criminal offenses.
19:06 Now, in theory, getting it on until you drop
19:08 might sound like an exciting idea.
19:11 At least it does for Fry, Zap, and Kiff,
19:14 who are both terrified and thrilled.
19:16 But it's also non-consensual,
19:18 results in a crushed pelvis, and eventually,
19:21 well, Death by Snoo Snoo.
19:23 - Oh yeah!
19:24 - I had Snoo Snoo.
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