The Tip of the Zoidberg

"The Tip of the Zoidberg" is the one-hundred-and-sixth episode of Futurama, the eighteenth of the sixth production season and the tenth of the eighth broadcast season. It is scheduled to air 18 August, 2011 on Comedy Central. The crew uncovers a dark secret concerning a covert mission undertaken by the Professor and Dr. Zoidberg many years earlier.

Production
While originally known as "Nine-tenths of a Zoidberg is Underwater", the episode title changed in the process.

During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released two items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of Triton Base Camp on 3 June and part of the storyboard showing a young Professor Farnsworth and Zoidberg on a Yeti-hunting trip on 4 June.

On 12 August, Comedy Central released a video clip featuring Zoidberg performing surgery on Fry, Leela, and Hermes.

Allusions

 * Zoidberg causes Fry to loose blood and develop a host of syndromes named after pop culture figures.
 * Fry first develops a condition called "Simpsons jaundice", referring to the yellow skin of characters from The Simpsons. He then says the phrase "", a catchphrase of.
 * Fry then gets "Garfield syndrome", a reference to the cat.  He looks like Garfield and even says his phrase "I hate Mondays".
 * Finally, Fry develops "Muppet gangrene". This causes him to act like and say that "It's not easy being gangrenous", referring to Kermit's famous refrain from "".

Continuity

 * Fry once again mistakes an inanimate object for a living alien, having previously made out with what he thought was "the radiator woman from the Radiator Planet", in "The Lesser of Two Evils".

Characters

 * Bender
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Leela
 * Zoidberg