Love's Labours Lost in Space
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| Love's Labours Lost in Space | |
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| Air Date | April 13, 1999 |
| Written by | Brian Kelley |
| Director | Brian Sheelsey |
| Next episode | Fear of a Bot Planet |
| "presented in Brain Control where available" | |
After an unsuccessful attempt by Amy to introduce Leela to eligible bachelors at The Hip Joint, a New New York nightclub, the crew gets sent on a tax-deductible charity mission. The uninhabited planet Vergon 6 has been mined hollow, and is about to collapse. The crew is sent to recover two of each kind of animal native to the planet for breeding purposes.
Unfortunately, Vergon 6 has been declared restricted due to its undeveloped status, under Brannigan's Law (a parody of Star Trek's Prime Directive). The Planet Express crew are arrested by legendary space captain Zapp Brannigan, who immediately attempts to seduce Leela.
Leela initially rebuffs Brannigan, but eventually succumbs to pity for the desperate fool, a fact that Brannigan brings up in every later appearance in the series.
The sexually-satisfied Brannigan allows the Planet Express crew to depart for Vergon 6, and the crew proceed to collect the strange animals. While working on their checklist, they discover a small black and white creature with a third eye on a stalk. Leela decides to rescue it as well, names it Nibbler, and places it in the cargo hold with the other animals. When Fry, Leela, and Bender return with the last animal, they discover that the mystery creature has devoured all the other animals.
The planet begins to collapse, and when the crew try to escape, they discover that the ship is out of fuel. Leela refuses to beg Zapp Brannigan for assistance, and the crew settle in for their inevitable deaths. The ship shifts to one side, and the crew discovers that Nibbler has defecated a small pellet of Dark Matter, which is the fuel the ship runs on. Bender tosses the ultra-dense pellet into the engine, and the crew returns safely to Earth.
[edit] Memorable quotes
- Leela: They say Zapp Brannigan single-handedly saved the Octillion system from a horde of rampaging killbots!
- Fry: Wow.
- Bender: A grim day for robotkind. Eh, but we can always build more killbots.
- Fry: Didn't you save the something from the something something?
- Brannigan: Killbots? A trifle. It was simply a matter of outsmarting them.
- Fry: Wow, I never would've thought of that.
- Brannigan: You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down.
- Brannigan: As my protege, you should know that the only way to deal with a female adversary is to seduce her.
- Kif Kroker: (sighs)
- Zapp Brannigan: This time we are sure she's a woman, right?
- Kif Kroker: (exasperated) Yes!
- Brannigan: You look like a woman who enjoys the finer things. Come over here and feel my velour bedspread.
- Leela: I'm not really in the mood.
- Brannigan: Leela, it's real velour. Just let yourself go.
- Leela: Look, last night was a mistake.
- Brannigan: A sexy mistake.
- Leela: No, a regular mistake.
- Brannigan: In the game of chess, you can never let your opponent see your pieces.
