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== Trivia ==
Background Notes
- This episode is the first time that Zoidberg takes off his shell.
- During Kif's flashback at the beginning of the episode, Bender is seen throwing out the fake necklace he received in A Flight to Remember.
- The title of this episode comes from the 1987 comedy film Amazon Women on the Moon.
- The Femputer is reminiscent of ENIAC, the first electronic computer. She is also similar in appearance to Landru from the Star Trek episode Return of the Archons.
- The Femputer being just a false front operated by an ostensibly omnipotent while hidden operator is a reference to the title character in the film The Wizard of Oz, down to the hand-operated controls and outdated microphone.
- Several of the electronics on Amazonia carry the brand name Sonya. As mentioned in the audio commentary for this episode, the name is a feminized version of electronics company Sony.
- When searching the jungle, Fry and Bender find a large empty can of TaB cola.
- Zapp Brannigan's spoken-word rendition of "Lola" by The Kinks is reminiscent of similar performances by William Shatner, whom Zapp is a parody of.
- The plot of this episode bears several similarities to that of the 1970 film Carry On Up the Jungle.
- The restaurant, Le Palm D'Orbit, is a reference to the Palme d'Or awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.
- The spaceship-restaurant is reminiscent of the bistro-starship Restaurant at the End of the Universe from Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
- The impact tremors of the approaching Amazonian women causing ripples in a cup of water and a puddle is a reference to the film Jurassic Park, in which the approaching Tyrannosaurus causes the same phenomenon.
- The punishment of "death by snu-snu" is similar to the well-known joke involving two male explorers who find a jungle tribe, and are subsequently condemned, being given a choice of death or "oonga-boonga". One chooses Oonga-boonga and is raped and sodomized by all of the male tribe members. The second declares that to spare his dignity, he would rather choose death; the tribe then declares "Death...by Oonga-boonga!"
- The comments made about the basketball on Amazonia are a reference to the critiques of the WNBA, and women's basketball in general.
- The company named J. Crab that manufactures shells for Decapodians is a parody of J. Crew.
- Leela flips through a real estate circular called 'Westside Cave Rentals', a play on the popular California real estate website 'Westside Rentals'.
Background Notes
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- This episode was nominated for an Emmy.
- This was also Bea Arthur's first voice over role.
- This episode was voted by IGN as the greatest episode of Futurama.