Parasites Lost
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Episode Number: 3ACV02
Title: "Parasites Lost"
Original Airdate: January 21, 2001
Also Starring: Professor Farnsworth, Amy, Hermes
Special Guests: Fry's parasites
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[edit] Plot
While making a pit stop at an interstellar truck stop, Fry purchases and eats an ancient egg salad sandwich from a vending machine in the restroom. On return to Earth, Fry and Bender are assigned the task of fixing the plasma fusion boiler, which promptly explodes. Bender is not damaged, but Fry is impaled by a large pipe. While Fry is sitting on Dr. Zoidberg's exam table, the pipe breaks in half, and Fry's damaged body repairs itself in seconds. After an endoscopic exam of Fry's bowels, the crew discovers that Fry is infested with worms.
To eliminate the infestation, the Professor makes miniature robotic versions of the crew, except for Fry and Leela. Because the worms would defend themselves if they knew about the mission, Leela is assigned to distract Fry. Controlling the micro-droids using virtual reality gear, the crew boards a miniature Planet Express ship, and enters Fry's ear. Throughout the travel, the crew discovers that the worms were making Fry's intelligence and strength greater than before.
The crew makes their way into Fry's bowel, and fights their way to the pelvic splanchnic ganglion, intending to cause a massive bowel movement. Meanwhile, Leela is enchanted by Fry's newfound intelligence and physical fitness. She realizes that the worms are responsible for this, and sets out to stop the Professor. Taking a shortcut, her micro-droid reaches the nerve, and hacks the rest of the crew to pieces with an axe. But Professor tells her that the worms will burrow so deep into Fry's body, he'll be stuck with them forever.
Fry is informed of what has been happening, but is more interested in romancing Leela than clearing the worms out of his body. Leela takes Fry back to her apartment, and he begins playing the Holophonor, an instrument that combines a symphony orchestra with a holographic projector. Leela tells Fry that she loves the new him. Fry leaves, and with his own micro-droid, enters his own body.
When Fry meets with the worm leader, he blackmails the worms into leaving by threatening to kill himself. The worms gone, Fry returns to Leela's apartment. He tries playing the holophonor again, but he has lost his skill. He says the wrong thing, and Leela throws him out. Back at his apartment, Fry begins to re-learn the Holophonor, starting with a crude image of Leela.
[edit] Quotes
- Leela: You're not gonna eat a sandwich from a truck stop men's room are you?
Fry: Eh, what's the worst thing that could happen? [He takes a bite out of the sandwich.] Ugh! It's like a party in my mouth and everyone's throwing up!
- [Sal and a group of other truckers watch Leela as she cleans space junk off the windscreen of the Planet Express ship.]
Trucker #1: Lookie there! It's one of them things like on our mud flaps!
Trucker #2: Yosemite Sam?
Sal: Stands back! I'm gonna puts my moves on her. [He wiggles his hips at Leela and hoots.] Whoas!
Fry: That jerk! No one hoots at my captain unless they're prepared to take it to the next level!
[He rolls up his sleeves and then rolls up his trouser legs.]
Leela: Fry, please. That's sweet but I'd rather not even dignify them with an ass-whooping!
Sal: Hey, sexy mama, let's get busy and freaky in that order!
Fry: Hey, jumbo! How would you like it if Leela said you were sexy and she wanted to make love with you?
Sal: Eh, I gots five minutes. She looks pretty good for a truck stop chick!
[The other truckers laugh.]
Fry: You take that back! She does not look good for a truck stop chick!
[The truckers laugh harder. Leela cringes.]
Sal: Yeah, you're right. She don't gots enough meat for a guy like me.
Fry: She does too! She's loaded with meat! She's got more meat than a cow! [Leela pulls Fry away by the hair.] Ow!
[The truckers laugh.]
Sal: (laughing) More meat than a cow!
- Farnsworth: Anyhoo, your net-suits will allow you to experience Fry's worm infested bowels as if you were actually wriggling through them.
Zoidberg: There's no part of that sentence I didn't like! - [The crew are struggling to remain upright as the ship is buffeted]
Hermes-Droid: We gotta get someplace where he won't stick his finger!
Bender-Droid: It's hopeless! Abandon ship! - Zoidberg (Riding on a spermatozoa): Yippee-ky-ay! You'll never guess where I've been!
- Lord Mayor of Colon: Listen, you: I was born here, I raised a cloud of children here, my ancestors came over here on the sandwich. [He draws his sword.] No one can make me leave.
- Lord Mayor of Colon (to Fry): You've damaged your brain, universe! But no more than a week of binge drinking or five minutes on a cellphone!
[edit] References
- The title for this episode comes from Paradise Lost by John Milton.
- The 1966 film "Fantastic Voyage" miniaturizes a craft and crew and inserts them into a patient. The book of the same name by Isaac Asimov, although it was released six months before the movie, was actually an adaptation of Harry Kleiner's screenplay for the movie.
