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The Sting

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The Sting
Episode 66
Season 4
Air date June 1, 2003
Running Time 30 minutes
Directed By Brian Sheesley
Written By Patric M. Verrone
Opening subtitle A By-Product of the TV Industry
Preceded by Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Followed by Bend Her
"All those times I said, "Kill all humans," I'd always whisper "Except one." [sobbing] Fry was that one, and I never told him so!"
―Bender

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[edit] Plot

While on a mission that the previous Planet Express crews didn't survive, collecting honey from space bees, Leela finds a baby queen bee and decides to take it back to Earth so they can create their own hive. While escaping in the Planet Express ship, it wakes up and stings Fry, killing him. Bender tosses the bee into the airlock and shoots it into space, where it gets hit by a truck. Later, a funeral is held and Fry's coffin is shot into space. During the funeral, Kug from Amazon Women In The Mood says he was great for snu snu while a gallery of women including Amy Wong, Morgan Proctor, Petunia, a radiator it's hinted at that he had sex with in The Lesser of Two Evils, 21st century woman[1] and Michelle say, using body language, 'eh, not so much'.

Bender as a space bee

Later that night, after Fry's funeral, Leela starts to develop strange dreams, all ending with Fry saying, "you have to wake up." The other employees of Planet Express start to get concerned about her, thinking she is going insane. Later that night, Leela has a dream where Fry gives her his jacket, only to wake up with his jacket, which she finds out the next day is really her off-the-rack lime green jacket. The crew finds out that she has been eating space honey. Zoidberg warns her that one spoonful calms her down, two helps her sleep but three will put her in a sleep so deep that she'll never wake up.

Later, Leela eats some space honey to calm herself and spills the royal jelly on the couch, which turns into a naked, sticky and confused Fry who asks, "Why am I sticky and naked? Did I miss something fun?". According to the Professor's Gizmometer, the royal jelly Fry had fallen in during the mission had an imprint of his DNA, causing him to reform when it mixed with Fry's hair and skin in the couch. However, when asks Leela to "wake up", she finds out that this is just another dream.

When Leela flies out into space to retrieve Fry's dead corpse and keep under her mattress to remind herself that he is really dead, she instead finds a color changing tunnel. She wakes up in her apartment with the other employees' faces on the walls yelling, "You killed Fry!" Thinking she is insane, she decides to take enough space honey to sleep and dream forever. Fry's picture beside her bed talks to her, and she throws the jar at a small bee, making more smaller bees. He begins saying "wake up", and she wakes up with a sobbing Fry saying "wake up" beside her in a bed in the hospital. Apparently, the stinger went through Fry and she got all the poison. The others come in and are shocked to see her awake. Bender states that she was "in the best coma he had ever seen", for two weeks. Amy says the doctor said she would never wake up. She also states that Fry never left her side for a second. Obviously, Leela hearing Fry say "wake up" was Fry saying this in the real world. The episode then ends with them hugging and both whispering that the other needs to take a shower.


[edit] Trivia

  • This is the only time we see the old Planet Express Ship, which used to be purple.
  • The squishy toy from Leela's dream is on her bedside table at the hospital. Also, a picture of Hyperion, the moon Fry took her to in her dream, is in frame opposite her bed.
  • Fry's funeral resembles Spock's funeral from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  • Scruffy plays Walking on Sunshine, Fry's favorite song, on the bagpipes at his funeral.
  • When Hermes sees that Leela is awake, he exclaims, "Sweet Three-toed Sloth of Ice Planet Hoth! She's awake!", referring to the ice planet from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
  • When we first meet the Planet Express crew[2], the Professor pulls the career chips of the previous crew members out of a box labeled "Space Wasp Stomach Contents" and gives them to Leela, Bender and Fry. It is not known how he managed to come in to possession of them, since the previous crew was apparently left in the bee hive.

[edit] Items in Leela's "Memories of Fry" box

[edit] Fry's Funeral Attendees

[edit] Goofs

  • The Amazonian who says Fry did "good snu-snu", Kug, actually snu-snued Zapp Brannigan.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Love's Labours Lost in Space"
  2. ↑ "Space Pilot 3000"
  3. ↑ "The Series Has Landed"
  4. ↑ "My Three Suns"
  5. ↑ "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
  6. ↑ "Insane in the Mainframe"
  7. ↑ "Love and Rocket"
  8. ↑ "The Why of Fry"
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