How Much is that Mutant in the Window?

How Much is that Mutant in the Window? is the fifty-fourth comic issue, released 23 March, 2011 in the US.

Act I
The crew stop by a pet park so that Fry and Nibbler can relieve themselves. When Nibbler runs off to eat a Buggalo, Leela is chloroformed and abducted. Fry and Bender look around and decide that Leela probably found a date and left them with the ship, so after looking around they have the ship towed back home. Hermes chews out the remaining crew for loosing the pilot and wasting money that the company has, the ship would have returned home automatically in 24 hours, and are given a week to pay off the towing bill. The next day Fry tries to find a job in the paper, but then decides that Nibbler should be with someone who wants him, so he and Bender look through the pet section, where they find Leela. Nibbler reveals yet again that he can talk and squeezes them into his ship so that they can all go to Westminsteria to rescue her.

Act II
Leela wakes up in a pet shop and learns that due to her unusual appearance she's a highly sought after type of pet. Before she can fight back, Leela is drugged again. Nibbler tracks Leela's wrist thing to a shopping mall and makes it so that Fry will appear to be one of the natives, to do so he remains near his ship. On arriving at the store Fry and Bender only find Leela's clothes. Leela, having been sold, fights her way out of the cage and climbs a tree. The others follow the trail and find her, but the natives find them just as Nibbler tires out and reveals Fry as human. The Westminsterians decide to take them all as pets but then Nibbler rescues them in his ship. Back on Earth, Nibbler wipes everyone's memories leaving them with no idea what has been happening or why Leela is out on the street in nothing but Fry's jacket. In the meantime Zoidberg has now found his way into the pet shop and is enjoying the free food.

Trivia

 * Bender has a dog resembling Robo-puppy called "Thwunk".
 * Its magnetised body is presumably an electromagnet, which can be turned off, as Bender was keeping it in his chest.
 * A man in the pets-for-sale section of the paper resembles a blonde Dave Spiegel.

Alien Language Sightings
Page: 11

Location: 4th panel; newspaper

Language: AL1-ish

Translation: "GXB???" the last three characters do not resemble the standard AL1 or AL2 alphabet.

Continuity

 * Halley's Comet is now known as "Interplanetary Pet Play".
 * Randy has a miniature giraffe as a pet, these were last seen in "Xmas Story".
 * Sal used the same tow truck to bring the crew home in the previous issue.
 * The crew are unaware Nibbler can talk, which would either place this comic before Bender's Big Score or indicate that he has decided to wipe their memories, although in the later episode "Overclockwise" the crew expresses no surprise that Nibbler can talk, suggesting the former.
 * In Vorglord's Pet Supply & Sausage Shop, many pets are seen such as Omicronian babies (possibly Popplers), a Buggalo, a Neptunian, a member of Morbo's race (possibly Morbo himself), the Hyper-Chicken, a yellow creature resembling a Desert Muck Leech and a (oddly) green coloured Purple Fruit Snake.

Goofs

 * Fry and Bender both know how to fly the . Perhaps they were just too lazy on this occasion.
 * The pet left of Hyper-Chicken changes between frames.
 * Morbo, or the member of his species assumed to be him, and the animal above and right of him both turn pink in their last frame. This may be a previously unknown ability however.
 * In the mini- comic Captain Zapp Brannigan in Rank Call!, Kif's skin is white and not the usual green in the first panel on Planet Yelopagez.

Allusions

 * The title is a reference to the 1952 novelty song "" by.
 * In the pet shop, Ewoks and a Xenomorph can be seen.

Special Features

 * This issue features the fifth of six black light posters. The poster is a recoloured version of the cover art from "Attack of the 50-ft Amy".
 * Comic - Captain Zapp Brannigan in Rank Call!
 * Zapp and his men are captured on OCD-4, but when a sick Kif emerges from the ship and sneezes messily on one of them, the captors run away. As a reward for defeating the Disambiguatons, Kif is then promoted to Captain. Captain Kroker is then shown a group of privates who will be battalion, but he instead insists on taking a group of rejects (Calculon, Wernstrom, Zoidberg and Randy). Their first mission is a failure when the group needs to be saved by Zapp, who demotes Kif and selects Randy as his new Lieutenant. He then pays the enemy for helping make Kif "look like an overwhelmed, indecisive pansy".

Characters

 * Bender
 * Calculon (mini comic only)
 * Fry
 * Leela
 * Glab (mini comic only)
 * Hermes
 * Hyper-Chicken
 * Igner (mini comic only)
 * Kif Kroker (mini comic only)
 * Linda
 * Morbo
 * Nibbler
 * Debut: Pandoodlelk
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Purple Fruit Snake (coloured green)
 * Randy
 * Sal
 * Debut: Thwunk
 * Wernstrom (mini comic only)
 * Zapp Brannigan (mini comic only)
 * Zoidberg

Comic Credits

 * Script
 * Eric Rogers
 * Pencils
 * James Lloyd (main comic)
 * Mike Kazaleh (mini comic)
 * Inks
 * Andrew Pepoy (main comic)
 * Phyllis Novin (mini comic)
 * Colors
 * Alan Hellard (main comic)
 * Nathan Hamill (mini comic)
 * Letters
 * Karen Bates