So far on Futurama , Mom has bring home the bacon as a byplay drawing card only by cheating people . In this installment , she gets a lot adept … and a lot worse .
“ Leela and the Genestalk ” meanders a bit , and it does n’t have the best line of the series , but it has a point . Better than that , it has several . The episode starts with Leela winning a mechanical buggalo - rid contest by unwittingly growing suckers on her manus . Zoidberg assures her that she wo n’t pass away if “ I get you a good doctor . ” But that doctor tells her she ’s conk out through an incurable process of “ squidification , ” but she ’ll just keep growing more tentacle . She melt down away from the crowd of Planet Express , saying sadly , “ I ’ll miss several of you , ” and climbs a giant beanstalk up to a seemingly charming castle . ( Fry traded the ship for fake magic beans . )
The castling seems to be populated with magic creatures , but in fact is possess by Momsanto . In it , Mom juggles genes to make thing like a “ pine - u - pork barrel ” — a crown of thorns between a hedgehog and a pig — and an alligator drumhead with wings . Even the magic beans came from Mom . Leela , as a valuable reservoir of genes , is imprisoned in the castling , while Mom conducts experimentation . The episode conclude with Fry and Bender fighting their way through Adventure Time and Batman and Robin cry - outs to rescue Leela .
The instalment is n’t a classic , but it remind me of the classic “ The Problem with Popplers . ” That instalment also skewer various political attitude towards food . The strict vegetarians , with their knee - jerk protesting , were objectionable and politically useless ; the heart - eaters , with their eagerness to literally wipe out babies if they taste good and could be sold cheaply , were willfully blind and completely thornless when it come fourth dimension to confront the consequences . In “ Leela and the Genestalk , ” Mom and her troupe were move by pure covetousness to do some very irresponsible things . On the other hand , their research help feed billions of people . And while it feel skilful to rails against their manoeuvre , and genetic engineering science in oecumenical , few people were willing to stick to their rule when the research could give them a fresh lease on life . The item was n’t that either side was proper , but that there had to be a better style to debate .
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