First Aired: Feb. 10, 2002 on Comedy Central

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Season 4 » Episode #04 - Love and Rocket

Futurama - 04x04 Love and Rocket
Summary: Love is in the air when Bender finds himself involved in a shipboard romance....with the ship. When the Professor upgrades the Planet Express spaceship's software with a sexy female voice (guest star Sigourney Weaver), Bender falls hopelessly in love. But when the ship discovers that Bender is unfaithful, she charts a course for self-destruction, and it's up to Fry and Leela to save the day.

Who appeared in this episode?



Guest Stars:

Sheldon voiced by Billy West (II)
Dr. Zoidberg voiced by Billy West (II)
Dummy #2 voiced by Billy West (II)
Bender voiced by John DiMaggio
Elzar voiced by John DiMaggio
Dummy #1 voiced by John DiMaggio
Fembots voiced by Tress MacNeille
Gwen voiced by Tress MacNeille

Episode Quotes

Planet Express Ship: You're just jealous! Nobody loves you because you're tiny and made of meat!
Turanga Leela: Ugh! I can't concentrate with this obnoxious candy in my face!
Philip J. Fry: I'm on it! And maybe I'll find those magic words while I'm at it.
Turanga Leela: Fat chance.
Philip J. Fry: [Reads one] Egh, no... [Eats it and gags softly at the nasty taste; he reads another and groans in disappointment] Ooh... How 'bout this one?
Turanga Leela: Give it up, Fry! I have to pop these tops in a precise order.
Prof. Hubert J. Farnsworth: Remember, we need to show these people that we are not bitter husks of human beings, who long ago abandoned hope of finding love in this lifetime. Leela, you'll have to do some acting.
Turanga Leela: Check.
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Mistakes/Goofs

  • Goof (continuity error): When talking with the Plant Express ship, Leela is seen in her pajamas. However, when the ship became crazy and turned off the oxygen, Leela grabbed her oxygen mask. When in the shower talking with Bender and Fry about her plan, she is seen in her Valentine's uniform.
  • Goof (continuity error): When Bender dumps the Planet Express ship, the PE ship comes to a screeching halt, as seen from the outside of the ship, but when the scene goes back inside the ship, the stars are still moving outside the window.

Trivia

  • At the end of the climactic chase that takes place within the ship's circuitry, Bender (as an electron) races through a diode against the direction marked on it and is unable to go back the way he came, cornering him where the ship can catch him. This is more or less an accurate example of how diodes work. The arrows marked on diodes (and their representations on schematic diagrams) actually point *in the opposite* direction to how the electrons move as the people who originally devised the symbols for electronic components were mistaken about which way electricity flowed. This convention held even after scientists learned the electricity moves from negative to positive, and not positive to negative as originally thought, and today, schematic diagrams still depict the electricity moving in the wrong way.