Time Keeps On Slippin'

============================================================================ Time Keeps On Slippin' Written by Ken Keeler Directed by Chris Loudon ============================================================================ Production code: 3ACV14 Original Airdate on FOX: 6-May-2001 TV Guide synopsis: The Professor's creation of a basketball team of atomic mutants causes time to skip forward at random, and one result is a staff marriage. ============================================================================== > Title sequence ============================================================================== Opening theme promotion: FOR PROPER VIEWING, TAKE RED PILL NOW Opening theme cartoon: Max Fleischer studio, a Ko-Ko the Clown cartoon, probably from the 1920's ============================================================================== > Did You Notice... ============================================================================== Joe Klemm ... the sign-up list for body dumping at Central Park Lake? FishyJoe ... this episode was only rated TVPG-L(language), despite featuring fully nude female backsides? ... Arachnion makes an obvious travelling violation. What game were the refs watching? ... The Social Security Office kids are wearing the same clothes 80 years later? ============================================================================== > Voice Credits ============================================================================== - Starring - Billy West (Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Prof. Farnsworth, Nixon) - Katey Sagal (Leela) - John DiMaggio (Bender) - Tress MacNeille (Linda the newslady) Guest Starring - Phil Lamarr (Hermes Conrad) - Lauren Tom (Amy Wong) - David Herman - Jeff Cesario - Special Appearance by - Also Starring - Maurice LaMarche ============================================================================== > Movie (and other) references ============================================================================== + Harlem Globtrotters (Basketball team) - Players appear in the episode {JK} - Curly Joe = Globetrotter Curly {JK} - Beings from outer space land on Earth and challenge residents to a basketball {JK} - Time travel was part of the of their animated series {JK} + "Space Jam" (Movie) - Visitors from outer space challenge Eart to a basketball game - Song that the title refers to appears in the film soundtrack (performed by Seal) {JK} - Small beings, through a special item, become monsterous basketball players {JK} + "Fly Like An Eagle" by the Steve Miller Band - Title refers to a lyric from the song {JK} + Bobby Knight - Professor Farnsworth throwing a chair {JK} + MASH (TV Series) - When the spaceship is flying away before they detonate the nuke, and Fry sees the message he wrote Leela with stars, it was reminiscent of the final episode of MASH when Hawkeye is flying away in the helicopter and sees the message BJ left him with rocks. {LM} ============================================================================== > Previous episode references ============================================================================== - Atomic supermen - [1ACV06] Professor mentions dreaming of a race of atomic monsters - Fry's feelings for Leela - [1ACV10], [3ACV02], [2ACV17] - Amy knows Fry isn't a terrific lover - [2ACV07] Amy and Fry's affair - The Referee Alien from makes an appearance. {FJ} - [2ACV08] - Judge Whitey reappears {FJ} - [3ACV11] ============================================================================== > Freeze frame fun ============================================================================== ============================================================================== > Animation, continuity, and other goofs ============================================================================== FishyJoe When Fry and Leela collect chromotons(sp?), they leave burning holes in space, yet when Bender collects them with his mouth, nothing like that happens. ============================================================================== > Reviews ============================================================================== Mike Zaite: It was like far too many Voyager episodes. Fry's attitude towards Leela was forced beyond the boundaries of believability in the begining. And then all the lost time made it even more absurdly uncomfortable and basicaly just made for cheap Insta-character development. The only thing I felt at the end was bitter disappointment; I have never been more disappointed in an episode based on its plot synopsis then I have with this one. Simply a jumbled plot with no natural drive from anyone except Farnsworth. ============================================================================== > Comments and other observations ============================================================================== ============================================================================== > Quotes and Scene Summary {} ============================================================================== % NNY Central Park, people on a picnic. Camera pans to Planet Express staff. % Hermes throws a Frisbee Hermes: Go get it, boy. % Zoidberg runs after it, catches it in midair and eats it. % Cut to Leela eating a sandwich and Fry walking up to her. Fry: So, Leela, how about a romantic ride in one of those swan boats? They are kind of dangerous, but I finally mastered them. Leela: Those aren't swan boats. They're swans. Fry: Oh, that explains these boat eggs. [Looks at a bunch of eggs in his hands] % Low rumbling starts and a shadow comes over Fry's face. He gasps. A flying % saucer flies over him and lands on the lawn nearby. People start running % away, screaming. A man, who is running away and screaming, passes Amy who % is napping face down on a blanket without a bra. Man: A-a-a-ah! [Spots Amy] Mmm.Hmm. [Makes a circle around her, then keeps running away] A-a-a-ah! Amy: [Wakes up and sees the flying saucer] A-a-ah! % The saucer opens up, a ramps extends from the opening, and figures in % sport outfits start coming out of it in clouds of white smoke and % accompanied by an electric piano music. They are bouncing basketballs. % Everyone looks at them, surprised. They line up in a V-shaped formation % with their leader in the middle. Leader: Pitiful ballplayers of Earth. I am Ethan "Bubble Gum" Tate, commander of the Harlem Globetrotters. [All gasp] For generations your puny planet has lived in peace with the Globetrotter home world. But now, for no reason we challenge you to defend your honor on the basketball court. [All gasp again] Will no one meet our challenge? Have none of you pathetic earthlings... game? Fry: What happens if we lose? Tate: Nothing! There's nothing at stake and no threat, beyond the shame of defeat. % One of the Globetrotters throws Tate a basketball colored as Earth. He % catches it and drops it in a trash can with contempt. All gasp yet again. Prof.: This will not stand! [Surprised murmurs are heard] I'll take you on, you air-balling bozos. Tate: You, old man? Heh. Sweet Clyde. Laugh derisively at him. Clyde: Ha. Ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha. Prof.: I may be an old man - in fact, I'm fairly sure I am - but I'll put you Globetrotters in your place with my team of mutant atomic supermen. [Everyone cheers] % To Planet Express. Prof.: Behold! My mutant atomic supermen. % Slides open the curtain, revealing four infants sitting in a hamster cage. Leela: They are only a foot high, Professor. Prof.: Well, they're still young. Mere atomic superboys, really. We need to speed up their grouth with time particles called chronotons. Bender: Aren't those the particles that destroyed an entire civiliza... Prof.: Good news, everyone! You are off to the Tempest Nebula to gather chronotons. % Leela, Bender and Fry in space suits in open space gathering the particles. % Leela picks them with forceps. Each particle she removes creates and % expanding, as if burning through, hole in space. Bender swallows particles % and spits them out in a jar. Fry: Hey, Leela, look at me. % He opens the valve of the helmet and his head expands to fill the entire % helmet. He closes the valve, his head deflates to normal size. He repeats % it several times until he starts coughing and wheezing. Leela: Your face can take a lot of punishment. That's good to know. Fry: There's a lot about my face you don't know. Perhaps you and it could get better acquainted over a dinner? Leela: All right! Cool your jet, hotshot. Fry: Come on, Leela. Why won't you go out with me? We both know there's something there. Leela: No, I mean cool your jets. They are melting Bender's face. % Camera moves away to show Fry's jets shooting in Bender's face making % it glow red. Bender blabbers. % % Back to Planet Express Leela: Here you go. Hot off the nebula. Prof.: None too soon. While you were gone the Trotters held a news conference to announce that I was a jive sucker. % Professor screws a feeder cap on top of the jar with chronotons and mounts % it on the superboys' cage. Superboys lick the liquid and start growing one % by one. One of them becomes very tall, another becomes a man with five arms, % another grows a cannon on his chest, another one turns into a greenish % giant spider, and the last one becomes a man with glowing green eyes. Prof.: Behold! My invincible nuclear mutants. Amy: Hi. Spider: Hello. % Cut to MADISON CUBE GARDEN. Announcer: Marv Albert here at Madison Cube Garden where the Harlem Globetrotters take on a squad of atomic supermen in what promises to be by-the-numbers athletic contest with no surprises whatsoever. % Whistle blows and the games starts. Globetrotters jump on each each other's % shoulders and snatch the ball at its highest point. Marv: There's the tip-off. Globetrotter ball. Sweet Clyde Dickson to "Bubble Gum" Tate. Drives down court and Curly Joe from the rear. % Curly Joe pinches five-armed superman in the butt. He screams. Zoidberg: [Laughs] That one grabbed his behindness. Leela and Hermes: Shh, quiet! Tate: Who dares laugh at the jesters of dung? We came to terrify and humiliate you, not tickle your funny bones. Watch as I embarrass your civilization by passing the ball to Curly Joe. [Tosses the ball to Curly Joe. Five-armed superman jumps to intercept, but the ball snaps back to Tate on a string] Only to have it remain in my hands with elastic. [Showcases the ball bouncing on the string. Laughs. [Crowd boos] And perhaps this will wipe the smiles from your faces. % Throws the ball up, passes it with his butt to another Globetrotter, who % catches it and shoots for the basket. Marv: Goosh goes up. [The tall superman stretches his arms, grabs the ball right when it's about to go in] Rejected. Growtrium from half-court. [Growtrium stretches his arms and slam-dunks the ball to the Globetrotters' basket] Yes! [Crowd cheers]. % Later. The score is 45 to 42 to Supermen with 12 seconds remaining. % A globetrotter passes, dribbling, under Growtrium, the spider guy % snatches the ball from him. Marv: Supermen lead 45 to 42. Arachneon with the steal. [Arachneon passes the pass to the guy with the cannon.] To Thorius. Thorius from downtown. [Thorius shoves the ball in the cannon and shoots, the ball goes in] Yes! [Crowd cheers] He's really showing us what a man with a cannon in his chest can do. Prof.: No showboating, you atomic hotdog. [Grabs a chair, lifts it with strain and throws it, not very far. Buzzer sounds]. Marv: And that's the half with the Supermen up 48 to 42. Surprisingly dull so far. % Arachneon walks up to the table, gulps several glasses of water, grabs % several towels and goes to sign cards for fans with several hands at once. Marv: Bubble Gum, the Trotters and down by six. Reactions? Tate: It was always our plan to trail at the half thus deepening Earth's eventual humiliation. Also, what game were the refs watching? % Whistle blows, tip-off. Curly Joe catches the ball sitting on the % score-board. Growtrium just can't reach. Curly Joe laughs. Marv: Curly Joe, easily amused by his own antics [Curly Joe slides down the Growtrium's arm] continues to wreak havoc on...[Everything suddenly jumps around to Tate spinning the ball on his finger] What the...? [Everyone looks around, puzzled, muttering] Prof.: Did everything just jump around? Or did my brain just stroke off there for a second? Marv: Ladies and gentlemen, something very strange has just happened in this basketball game between Space Clowns and Atomic Monsters. % Tate shrugs and throws the ball. The green-eyed superman shoots beams out of % his eyes stopping the ball in midair. The ball catches fire and starts % falling straight down. Everything jumps around again. This time the % five-armed superman goes up for the slam-dunk. He gets disoriented, rams % into the basket screen, drops the ball and lands in the basket. Prof.: Time out! Time out! [Whistle blows] Fry: What's happening? Prof.: We seem to be lurching forwards randomly in time like a needle skipping on a record player. Amy: What's causing it? Is it my outfit? Prof.: No, it must have something to do with those time particles I used to grow the supermen. Time and space are ripping apart at the seams. % All gasp. Thorius accidently shoots his cannon and the ball hits Arachneon, % splattering him into green goo. Thorius: Oops! Prof.: Oh, great. Now on top of everything, we need a new fifth man. Fry: Ooh, ooh, ooh, put me in, Professor. I want to show Leela my skills. Prof.: Hmm. Will said skills pay the bills? Fry; Who cares? We're 35 points ahead with two minutes left. What could possibly... % Everything jumps around again. Fry is standing face to face with Tate % holding the ball. Tate grabs the ball from him, throws it backwards over % his head over half of the court and the ball goes in the basket. Crowd % boos. Buzzer sounds. The score is 244 to 86 to Globetrotters. Marv: Globetrotters win 244 to 86. A dark day for humanity, folks. We have been beaten... in basketball. Globetrotters: Yeah, that's how we do it. He-he-he! Tate: You are all fools of the highest caliber. Leela: I don't know what you did, Fry, but once again you screwed up. Now all the planets are going to start cracking wise about our mamas. Hermes: I'm just glad my fat, ugly mama isn't alive to see this day. Prof.: Enough about your promiscuous mother, Hermes. We have bigger problems. This time disruption is extremely serious. Tate: Damn right, brother man. This chronological wang-dang-doodle could destroy the very matrix of reality. Prof.: Tate, what do you know about this? Tate: Not much yet. But I am a senior lecturer in physics at Globetrotter U and I'd like to help you investigate. Prof.: You are THAT "Bubble Gum" Tate? Tate: Well, I sure ain't his grandma Now look here, Prof. [Starts drawing on the board what looks to be a lame attempt to represent a chain reaction burning hydrogen in oxygen] I think we got ourselves an excess of chronotons in the subatomic interstices. Prof.: Ye-e-es, I see. Something involving that many big words could easily destabilize the time itself. Fry: Is that a problem? Prof.: Indeed so. At this rate by Tuesday it will be Thursday, by Wednesday it will be August and by Thursday it will be the end of existence as we know it. Man: I'll have to ask you to clear out now. The circus needs to set up for tomorrow's big... % Time skips. Everything changes to a circus setup, an elephant trumpets and % walks right at everyone. Everyone screams and scatters. % [End of Act One. Act Time: 9:00 Running Time: 9:00 % At the Planet Express. Everyone watches TV. Linda: [On TV] Time continues to skip forward randomly. Details at 11:00. [Time skips] This is the news at 11:00. The mysterious and unexplained... [Times skips] Turning to entertainment news, teen singer Wendy might just be the latest... [Time skips] ...won three Grammys last night... [Time skips] ...found dead in her bathtub. Prof.: [Turns off the TV] Interesting. It's as if we all behave normally during the time skips but then we have no memory of it. Fry: You mean we just...? [Time skips] Prof.: My, yes. Oooh, just like that. Any luck, Bubble Gum? Tate: Not yet. Listen, hope you don't mind if I dribble a little while I work. Prof.: Not if you grant me the same liberty. [Slurps his hand] Bender: Oh! Oh! Bubble Gum, my name's Bender and I'm a huge fan of your work both on and off the court. Can I be a Globetrotter? Tate: Shut up, turkey. Bender: Ooh... Prof.: Bubble Gum, look at this. The background time radiation is fluctuating wildly! Tate: Good Lord! That sucker's shaking around like some fine imported booty. Hermes: Si. I'm no physicist, but I think I know how to stop the skipping. We'll just... % Time skips. Everyone slowly walks out the door in a naked congo line to % Reggae music played by Hermes. Hermes: I don't know how this was supposed to work. Amy: Professor, I hope you find out what's wrong before we skip right past my birthd... % Time skips. It's Amy's birthday party. Everyone: ...birthday, Amy! Amy: Hooray! Look at all these presents. Zoidberg: I hope we all have as much fun tomorrow at my birth...[Time skips. Empty room , just Zoidberg on the couch] What?! Aw... % Cut to Leela going down the corridor. Fry pokes he head out the door. Fry: Psst, Leela! I've set up a time-proof shelter in the closet. There's only room for two and you are the one I want to share it with. Leela: Fry, that's so sweet. Let me see. % Leela walks in. The room is a love nest, with candles, bed, dim light and % silhouette picture of two people kissing. Leela: How exactly will this protect us from time jumps? Fry: 'Cause when we're together in here, baby, time will stand still. [Time skips. Leela disappears and a purple bruise appears over Fry's eye]. Ow! % Cut to Zoidberg before a chessboard deciding on a move. Zoidberg: Hmm... Hmm! [Finally picks up a piece and eats it] Leela: Dr. Zoidberg, can I talk to you about Fry? Zoidberg: Leela, I would be honored. % Time skips. Zoidberg is now leaned back on the couch with feet on the table, % watching TV. Leela: ...does the worst W.C. Fields imitation I've ever seen. Zoidberg! Zoidberg: Sorry, you must've been boring me. [Turns the TV off] Leela: The thing is, Fry is very sweet, but he so immature. I love his boyish charm, but I hate his childishness. Zoidberg: So, he's not perfect. You don't want to end up old and lonely like ZOIDBERG! [Starts sobbing. Then stops] You were saying? % Cut to Professor's lab. Professor is using Smell-o-Scope. Prof.: Ah, there it is, the Tempest Nebula! Take a whiff through the smelloscope. Tate: [Sniffs through the "rhinoculars"] Ooh! What's that funky jazz? Prof.: The odor of pure time leaking. When my crew removed the chronotons it destabilized the nebula causing the time skips throughout the universe. Bender: Oh, let Bubble Gum tell it. Tate: Pretend these basketballs are time particles, my silver honky. As the nebula passes them off us...[Throws several balls at Bender, denting his face] ...the cause these dents or "time skips". Bender: You are so smart. Tate: Hold up. What if we were to move this cluster of stars to these algebraic coordinates? Prof.: Then gravity might just divert the chronotons to the empty side of the universe. Tate: Yeah! But it's impossible. Moving stars would require one bad-ass gravity pump and we'd need all the money on earth to... % Time skips. Tate and Professor are in the oval office with a folder that has % a BAD ASS GRAVITY PUMP PROPOSAL sticker on it. Tate: Wh..? Prof.: What the...? % They pick up a big check from the table Nixon: There's the funding for your gravity pump, but it damn well better work! We can't spend all of earth's money every day. Now, how long will it take to build? Tate: It won't be easy, Nixon. A jim-jam this complex might take months or even y... % Time skips. Tate and Professor stand beside the complete gravity pump. Prof.: Ah! There we are. One gravity pump - powerful enough to move the stars themselves. Now to begin the arduous task of attaching it to the ship so that... % Time skips. The pump is attached to the ship that is taking off. Prof.: Off you go, apparently. % The ship is in space, moving a star. Tate: Easy, Leela. Just finger-roll that star into the cosmic basket. Leela: Just a few... more... hundred... thousand... miles! [The star is moved to completes the circle of stars around visible rips in space] There! Tate: Nothing but nebula. Leela: We'll have to run some tests back on earth, but I think we've stopped the time skips. Bender: All right! Tate: Jamming! Fry: Hooray for Leela! Bender: And what better way to celebrate our success than by me showing Bubble Gum the Globetrotter uniform I made myself. Tate: Let me see. % Bender takes out crudely made uniform. Tate: [Rubs his hands]Hello, lawsuit. Fry: Leela, I want you to know I think the way you moved those stars around was really wonderful. I got you something [Gets the bottle of champagne and opens it] Leela: [Gasps] Moderately priced, domestic non-vintage champagne? How did you know? Fry: You deserve it. I mean, nobody ever stops to tell you what a great captain you are. Leela: Ah, that is so true and sweet. Fry: You're smart, you're beautiful, and best of all you'll go out with me-e-e? Leela: Fry, please try to understand. You're a man, I'm a woman. We're just too different. Bender: Hey, Leela, Bubble Gum might let me organize a bake sale for the Globetrotter wives. Can you teach me to make cupcakes? Leela: All right, but I want to lick the beaters. Fry: [Sighs] i got her champagne. I opened it. What does a guy have to do? Tate: 86 the chump stuff, F-man. It's time to win Leela's heart with a big, showy, three-point, romantic gesture. Fry: Hm... maybe this is the moment to show her my REAL surprise. % Fry walks to the pilot chair, sits down and take the controls. The ships % shakes, going off the auto-pilot. Leela walks in. Leela: Fry, what are you doing?! Tate: Uh-oh, time to boogie on down to the sauna. [Walks away] Fry: Look, I've been studying how to pilot the ship. Impressed? Leela: Yeah, actually. You're doing okay. The core reactor temperature's nominal, the blinker's off. Fry: I learned how to work the gravity pump, too, in case we need to move more stars. So are we dating now? Leela: Oh, is that what this is all about? Please just cut it out, now. Fry: Look, Leela, I know there's some perfect, amazing thing I can do to make you love me and when I figure out what it is... Leela: Fry, stop. I don't want to hurt you, but there's absolutely, positively no way that you and I will ever, ever... % Time skips. Fry and Leela at the altar, look around surprised. Minister: Man and wife. You may kiss the bride. % Fry grabs Leela and kisses her, she's leaning back. Wedding music plays, % everyone cheers. Marv Albert: Yes! % [End of Act Two. Act Time: 6:29 Running Time: 15:29] % At the church. Fry and Leela still kissing. Cheering continues. Zoidberg: He looks radiant. % Times skips. Fry and Leela are not kissing anymore, and Fry is standing % with a mouthful of flowers. Prof.: Ye gods, Bubble Gum, we failed. The time skips haven't stopped at all. Tate: Even in these formal shorts I feel like a failure. Leela: You tricked me into marrying you, didn't you? Fry: Of course not. Leela: How'd you do it? Drugs in the champagne? Hypnosis? Fry: No! Drugs are for losers and hypnosis is for loser with big weird eyebrows. I don't know what amazing thing I did to make you love me, but whatever it was, we're married now. We've got the rest of our lives to work this... % Time skip. Fry and Leela are in court. Judge: Divorce is final. Fry: What? Leela: Well, let's divide up the china. I guess I'll take the NFC helmets, and you can have the AFC helmets. Fry: Fine, break my heart again. % Back to Planet Express Zoidberg: Don't be so hard on yourself, Fry. You lost the woman of your dreams, but you still have Zoidberg. You all still have Zoidberg! Fry: How did I do it? How did I get Leela to love me? I've got to figure it out. Hermes: Maybe you're just a fantastic lover, Fry. Amy: N-no. Fry: I don't know what I'm doing. Bender: Maybe she'd come back to you if your best friend Bender were a Globetrotter. What do you say, Bubble Gum? Tate: Hell, no. Bender: Oh... Fry: Oh, it's hopeless. I did something so great that it won Leela's heart and I'll never, ever know what that was. My life is empty. Zoidberg: Zoid-berg. Prof.: No wonder we failed to stop the time skips. Diverting the chronotons is mathematically impossible. I knew I should have checked your showboating Globetrotter algebra. Tate: Man, I thought you knew that algebra was all razmatazz. A Globetrotter always saves the good algebra for the final minutes. Bender: Ha-ha-ha-ha! Vintage Bubble Gum! Prof.: The times skips are worse than ever now. Isolated spots are jumping by years at a time. Look. % Two kids stand in front of Social Security Office. Kid: Stupid senior citizens. Why should we have to pay for their social security benefits? [Time skips. The kids are old now] I deserve free money! Prof.: Well, I'm stumped. We'll have to call on the finest scientific minds in the univ... [Time skips. Other Globetrotters are also present now] Perhaps we could explode the whole damned nebula. What do you think, Curly Joe? Joe: No, man, an explosion big enough to destroy that mother would take out half of the universe. Clyde: You gotta Globetrotter that explosion up a little, Farnsie. Make it an implosion. Prof.: By God, Sweet Clyde is right. An implosion might just form a black hole that would stop more chronotons from escaping. Tate: Whoa, slow that brain train down, Prof. We'd need some kind of doomsday device to initiate an implosion like that. Prof.: Doomsday device? Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court. % Professor pushes a button on the remote control. A hatch in the floor slides % open, and a set of doomsday devices appear. Prof.: I suppose I could part with one and still be feared. Tate: Gimme some skin, Prof. [Professor gives him a five low] I'm making you an honorary Globetrotter. In fact, everybody in this room's an honorary Globetrotter. Amy: Yay! Zoidberg: I'm a Globetrotter. % Bender runs in, winded. Bender: Did you just say... Tate: Too late, Hot Plate. Bender: Ah, crap. % The doomsday device is loaded into the ship. Tate: We must leave now for we are needed elsewhere. But we wish you Gospeed. [They walk away dribbling basketballs] Bender: Please, please let me come with you. I can make myself taller. [Bender's legs extend and he becomes as tall as Tate] Tate: Bender, you can talk trash, you can handle the ball. But look in your heart and ask yourself: Are you funky enough to be a Globetrotter? Are you? Bender: Yes. Tate: Are you? Bender: I mean, with time, my funk level could... Tate: Are you?! Bender: No. Tate: Deal with it. % Bender goes down to his regular height and starts sniffling. % % The ship flies towards the previously constructed circular star formation. % Bender flies out of the ship with the doomsday device in his hands. A sudden % jerk of the cable causes him to drop the device, but he grabs it again. Leela: Careful with that doomsday device, Bender. Bender: What does it matter? I'll never be a Globetrotter. My life - and by extension, everyone else's - is meaningless. Leela: Roger. Fry: Leela, about the wedding. I don't know what I did to make you love me and I don't think I tricked you into it but maybe I did, and if I did, I'm sorry. Leela: It's okay, Fry. You know we'll always be friends, right? Fry: Yeah, but I don't guess anything I could do will ever make you feel the same way about me that I do about you. Leela: I guess not. [Kisses Fry on the cheek and walks off] Bender: [Walks in] Well, the doomsday device is ready. maybe blasting this quadrant of space into a hell-storm of flaming nothingness will cheer me up a little. Leela: Okay, let me just take the ship out to a safe distance. [Looks at Fry who is standing dejected by the window] Actually, I think I'll go down and prep the detonator. Fry, why don't you take the helm? % Fry looks up, smiles and goes to the pilot chair. Leela walks out. Fry: She's so great. I feel like I can almost remember the magical thing I did to make her love me but i guess I never will. Bender: Sorry, buddy. I, too, know what it's like to have a dream I'll never achieve. [Walks away sadly whistling a slow tune] % Fry activates the controls. The ship roars and flies away from the star % cluster. Fry looks out the window. Fry: Oh... % As the ship is getting farther and farther away the view expands and the % circle of stars becomes a letter "O" of a note in the sky that reads % "I LOVE YOU, LEELA". Fry: That's how I must've done it. I moved the stars themselves to write her a love note in the sky. Leela: [On intercom] Detonation in three, two, one. Fry: Nooo! % The doomsday device goes off, making an explosion that collapses into a % black hole, first breaking the ordered stars in a chaotic array, then % sucking them in, leaving nothing but a cosmic vortex. Fry looks at it, % shocked. Leela and Bender walk in. Fry: Did you see it? Did you see it? Bender: The explosion? Fry: No, not the explosion. Leela: Then what? Fry: [Hangs his head] Nothing. % Fry turns to the window and keeps staring at the black hole to Bender's % sad whistling. % [End of Act Three. Act Time: 6:15 Running Time: 21:44] ============================================================================== > Contributors ============================================================================== {} Me {TB} TK Baltimore {JK} Joe Klemm {LM} Lyle McDonald {FJ} FishyJoe {mz} Mike Zaite

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