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{{Infobox television episode
| title = Parasites Lost
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|title = Parasites Lost
| image = [[File:Futurama 304 - Parasites Lost.jpg|250px]]
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|image = [[File:Futurama 304 - Parasites Lost.jpg|250px]]
 
|episode = 34
| image_size =
 
 
|prod_code = 3ACV02
| episode = 34
 
 
|season = 3
| prod_code = 3ACV02
 
 
|airdate = January 21, 2001
| season = Season 3
 
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|director = [[Peter Avanzino]]
| airdate = January 21, 2001
 
 
|writer = [[Eric Kaplan]]
| runtime =
 
| director = [[Peter Avanzino]]
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|storyboards = [[Rodney Clouden]]
 
|subtitle = If not entertаining, write your congressman.
| guests =
 
 
|cartoon = "Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp" (1934)
| writer = [[Eric Kaplan]]
 
 
|preceded_by = "[[Amazon Women in the Mood]]"
| storyboards =[[Rodney Clouden]]
 
 
|followed_by = "[[A Tale of Two Santas]]"
| subtitle = If not entertaining, write your congressman.
 
| cartoon = "Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp" (1934)
 
| preceded_by = [[Amazon Women in the Mood]]
 
| followed_by = [[A Tale of Two Santas]]
 
 
}}
 
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{{Quote|It tastes like there's a party in my mouth...and everybody's throwing up.|Fry}}
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{{Quote|Abandon ship!|Bender}}
   
 
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the second episode of the [[Season Three|third production season]], and fourth episode of the third broadcast season of ''[[Futurama]]''. It originally aired in North American on [[Wikipedia:May 20|May 20]], 2001.
   
 
== Plot ==
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the second episode of the third production season, and fourth episode of the third broadcast season.
 
   
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While making a pit stop at an interstellar truck stop, [[Fry]] buys and eats an extremely old [[wikipedia:egg salad|egg salad]] sandwich from a vending machine in the restroom. On returning 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. Despite the severity of the injury, Fry's damaged body repairs itself in seconds, and the subsequent medical examination reveals to the crew that Fry is infested with microscopic worms from the egg salad.
==Plot==
 
The [[Planet Express crew]] stops at ''Greasy Sue's Greasy Truck Stop'' to refuel the [[Planet Express ship|ship]] with [[Dark matter|dark matter]]. [[Fry]], while waiting, eats an egg sandwich he bought for 25c out of the truck stop restroom. [[Sal]] and other truckers
 
at the truck stop start hooting and cat calling at [[Leela]] to Fry's dismay. He tries to defend her honor, but manages to insult her more.
 
   
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To eliminate the infestation, [[Professor Farnsworth]] makes miniature robotic versions of the crew, except for Fry and [[Leela]]. Because the worms know all that Fry knows and would thus defend themselves if Fry knew about the mission, Leela is assigned to distract Fry, who is not told what is happening. Controlling the micro-droids using virtual reality gear — which is apparently cheaper than actually shrinking the crew themselves — the crew board a miniature Planet Express ship, and enter Fry's ear. Throughout the travel, the crew discover that the worms are drastically improving Fry's intelligence, health and fitness.
Back at [[Planet Express]], Fry and [[Bender]] "fix" the plasma fusion boiler, causing an explosion. A lead pipe is stuck in Fry's chest, leading Zoidberg to discover that Fry is infected with [[worms]]. [[Farnsworth]] decides that they'll have to go deep inside Fry to remove the worms using his latest invention, [[Micro-Droid Machine]]s. Since Fry can't know about the mission as the worms would find out and try to stop them, Leela is appointed to keep Fry distracted.
 
   
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The crew make their way into Fry's bowel, and fight their way to the [[wikipedia:Pelvic splanchnic nerves|pelvic splanchnic ganglion]], intending to cause a massive bowel movement to expel the worm society (or, as the Professor puts it, "Listen, this is gonna be one hell of a bowel movement; afterwards, he'll be lucky to have any bones left"). Meanwhile, Leela is enchanted by the now intelligent and muscular Fry. He then reveals that he loves her but only recently was he able to articulate his thoughts. She realizes that the worms are responsible for the new, improved Fry, and sets out to stop the Professor. Her micro-droid reaches the nerve, and hacks the rest of the micro-droid crew to pieces with an axe. The Professor tells her that the worms will burrow so deep into Fry's body, he will be stuck with them forever, but Leela reasons that Fry is better off with the worms.
Leela shoots the crew into Fry's ear with a [[Wikipedia:Mouth_darts|mouth dart]]. She takes him on a walk as the crew flies deeper into Fry, past worms repairing parts of his body. While on their date, Fry shows off his new muscles and intelligence, impressing Leela. Fry beats up Sal, making him apologize to Leela. The crew, having reached ''[[The Stately Capital of Fry's Bowel]]'', tries to attack the worms, but they fight back.
 
   
Fry tells Leela that he loves her, but Leela, realizing that the new Fry is being influenced by the worms and, liking this new him, uses a micro-droid to stop the crew from getting rid of them. Fry thanks Leela for saving the worms and they start dating. Leela takes Fry back to her apartment where he plays the [[holophoner]] for her. When Leela tells him she loves what he's become, Fry worries that she loves him for the worms and not himself.
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Fry is informed of what has been happening, but is more interested in romancing Leela than clearing the worms out of his body. Although the two share a romantic evening at Leela's apartment made more powerful when Fry composes Leela a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet sonnet] on the complex musical instrument the Holophonor Leela tells Fry that she loves the new him. Worried, Fry tells her that he needs to find out something, leaves and, using his own micro-droid, enters his own body.
   
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Fry confronts the worm leader and engages him in a swordfight after asking the worms to leave so he can learn if Leela loves him or just what they have made of him; he eventually blackmails the worms into leaving by threatening to kill himself by destroying the [[wikipedia:Medulla oblongata|medulla oblongata]], and they comply. With the worms gone, Fry returns to Leela's apartment, intent on finding out if Leela can love him as he truly is. Fry explains to Leela about the worms, and his decision to dispose of them. His awkward attempts at being romantic end when he mentions his previous relationship with [[Amy]], and Leela kicks him out of her apartment. Back at his apartment, Fry begins to re-learn the Holophonor, and creates a crude image of Leela.
Fry shrinks himself and meets with the [[Mayor of Colon]] and asks the worms to leave. The worms refuse, leading to a cinematic swordfight. They end up in the brain, where Fry threatens to cuts his own medulla oblongata unless they leave. The worms, in a panic, leave Fry's body.
 
   
 
== Alienese ==
Fry returns to Leela's apartment to play the holophoner for her again. Leela is shocked to discover that she was in love with Fry's worms and kicks him out. Fry tells Bender that Leela is a lost cause, but he secretly practices the holophoner, conjuring up an image of Leela.
 
 
*Two signs read "Human Milk" and "Watch for Falling Humans" in [[Alienese]].
   
==Trivia==
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==Ongoing Themes==
*The storyboard artist, Rodney Clouden, won an Emmy in 2001 for "Individual Achievement in Animation".
 
*Fry was apparently sterilized by the [[F-Ray]] in a previous episode, ''[[Fry and the Slurm Factory]]''. In this episode, the worms fix his sperm problems.
 
   
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===Death, near-death, mutilation===
==Debut Appearances==
 
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Bender blows himself up at a truck stop.
===Characters===
 
*[[Mayor of Colon]]
 
===Technology===
 
*[[Holophoner]]
 
*[[Micro-droid machine]]
 
   
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Fry, Bender, and Scruffy survive an explosion. Only Fry is injured; he is impaled on a lead pipe, although he complains only of minor pain.
==Alienese==
 
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*Two signs read "Human Milk" and "Watch for Falling Humans" in [[Alienese]].
 
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Leela's avatar, in order to prevent the rest of the crew expelling the parasites, savagely dismembers every one of their avatars with an axe.
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===Doppelgängers===
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The entire crew, including Fry himself, use Farnsworth's virtual-reality system to send their avatars into Fry's body.
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===Fry and Leela===
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At the beginning of the episode, Fry attempts vehemently to defend Leela's honor, but he expresses his feelings clumsily, referring to her as his "captain" rather than making any reference to his feelings for her. He then goes on to fail miserably at defending her honor, in fact providing his opponents with ammunition and even insulting Leela outright. Leela's frustration with Fry's ineptitude is clear.
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This appearance of feelings for Leela is rather sudden, given that in the previous episode Fry was involved with his ex-girlfriend, and given that up until now he has expressed little interest in Leela beyond occasional feelings driven by loneliness or simple lust. Now, for the first time, Fry is expressing persistent feelings for her.
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Leela starts to swoon as soon as Fry shows the slightest sign of being something other than a buffoon. Her swoon disappears just as easily when Fry convinces the parasites to leave his body. In the closing scene Fry begins practicing the holophoner and shows by its projection that his feelings for Leela remain.
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===Sal's Speech Impediment===
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Sal's speech is still almost normal at the beginning of the episode as he argues with Fry, but later on, while he apologizes to Leela, it is clear that his disorder has begun to move into a more advanced stage.
   
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===Hermes and Zoidberg===
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Hermes and Zoidberg share a brief, friendly conversation.{{EpisodeListBroadcastOrder}}
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"It tastes like there's a party in my mouth...and everybody's throwing up."
Fry
"Abandon ship!"
Bender

Parasites Lost is the second episode of the third production season, and fourth episode of the third broadcast season of Futurama. It originally aired in North American on May 20, 2001.

Plot

While making a pit stop at an interstellar truck stop, Fry buys and eats an extremely old egg salad sandwich from a vending machine in the restroom. On returning 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. Despite the severity of the injury, Fry's damaged body repairs itself in seconds, and the subsequent medical examination reveals to the crew that Fry is infested with microscopic worms from the egg salad.

To eliminate the infestation, Professor Farnsworth makes miniature robotic versions of the crew, except for Fry and Leela. Because the worms know all that Fry knows and would thus defend themselves if Fry knew about the mission, Leela is assigned to distract Fry, who is not told what is happening. Controlling the micro-droids using virtual reality gear — which is apparently cheaper than actually shrinking the crew themselves — the crew board a miniature Planet Express ship, and enter Fry's ear. Throughout the travel, the crew discover that the worms are drastically improving Fry's intelligence, health and fitness.

The crew make their way into Fry's bowel, and fight their way to the pelvic splanchnic ganglion, intending to cause a massive bowel movement to expel the worm society (or, as the Professor puts it, "Listen, this is gonna be one hell of a bowel movement; afterwards, he'll be lucky to have any bones left"). Meanwhile, Leela is enchanted by the now intelligent and muscular Fry. He then reveals that he loves her but only recently was he able to articulate his thoughts. She realizes that the worms are responsible for the new, improved Fry, and sets out to stop the Professor. Her micro-droid reaches the nerve, and hacks the rest of the micro-droid crew to pieces with an axe. The Professor tells her that the worms will burrow so deep into Fry's body, he will be stuck with them forever, but Leela reasons that Fry is better off with the worms.

Fry is informed of what has been happening, but is more interested in romancing Leela than clearing the worms out of his body. Although the two share a romantic evening at Leela's apartment — made more powerful when Fry composes Leela a sonnet on the complex musical instrument the Holophonor — Leela tells Fry that she loves the new him. Worried, Fry tells her that he needs to find out something, leaves and, using his own micro-droid, enters his own body.

Fry confronts the worm leader and engages him in a swordfight after asking the worms to leave so he can learn if Leela loves him or just what they have made of him; he eventually blackmails the worms into leaving by threatening to kill himself by destroying the medulla oblongata, and they comply. With the worms gone, Fry returns to Leela's apartment, intent on finding out if Leela can love him as he truly is. Fry explains to Leela about the worms, and his decision to dispose of them. His awkward attempts at being romantic end when he mentions his previous relationship with Amy, and Leela kicks him out of her apartment. Back at his apartment, Fry begins to re-learn the Holophonor, and creates a crude image of Leela.

Alienese

  • Two signs read "Human Milk" and "Watch for Falling Humans" in Alienese.

Ongoing Themes

Death, near-death, mutilation

Bender blows himself up at a truck stop.

Fry, Bender, and Scruffy survive an explosion. Only Fry is injured; he is impaled on a lead pipe, although he complains only of minor pain.

Leela's avatar, in order to prevent the rest of the crew expelling the parasites, savagely dismembers every one of their avatars with an axe.

Doppelgängers

The entire crew, including Fry himself, use Farnsworth's virtual-reality system to send their avatars into Fry's body.

Fry and Leela

At the beginning of the episode, Fry attempts vehemently to defend Leela's honor, but he expresses his feelings clumsily, referring to her as his "captain" rather than making any reference to his feelings for her. He then goes on to fail miserably at defending her honor, in fact providing his opponents with ammunition and even insulting Leela outright. Leela's frustration with Fry's ineptitude is clear.

This appearance of feelings for Leela is rather sudden, given that in the previous episode Fry was involved with his ex-girlfriend, and given that up until now he has expressed little interest in Leela beyond occasional feelings driven by loneliness or simple lust. Now, for the first time, Fry is expressing persistent feelings for her.

Leela starts to swoon as soon as Fry shows the slightest sign of being something other than a buffoon. Her swoon disappears just as easily when Fry convinces the parasites to leave his body. In the closing scene Fry begins practicing the holophoner and shows by its projection that his feelings for Leela remain.

Sal's Speech Impediment

Sal's speech is still almost normal at the beginning of the episode as he argues with Fry, but later on, while he apologizes to Leela, it is clear that his disorder has begun to move into a more advanced stage.

Hermes and Zoidberg

Hermes and Zoidberg share a brief, friendly conversation.