I Dated a Robot

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I Dated a Robot

Production Number: 3ACV15
Title Caption: NO HUMANS WERE PROBED IN THE MAKING OF THIS EPISODE
First Aired: May 13, 2001

The Story

Act I: I want to see the edge of the universe!

The crew is watching The Scary Door, Fry enters to try to convince them that the future is far better than his time. They decide to do (almost) everything Fry ever dreamed of, the last of which is to be romantically linked with a celebrity.

Act II: On to the internet you go!

Fry and Leela go online and locate nappster.com, where Fry chooses to download Lucy Liu. The download is successful and Fry falls for the Liubot.

Act III: Humans dating robots is sick!

The crew considers the relationship sick. They try to make him end the relationship, and show him a propaganda film which shows that humans dating robots will lead to disaster. The film has no effect on Fry, who is busy making out with the Liubot. Leela, Bender and Zoidberg head off to shut down nappster.com, where it is revealed that the company (secretly known as kidnappster.com) is holding various heads in jars hostage in order to scan them to create the robot duplicates, Liu having been there 800 years. The three rescue Lucy Liu's Head and escape. Kidnappster sends Liubots to kill them.

Act IV: Bender don't bend that way!

The real Lucy Liu is apparently attracted to Bender. A swarm of Liubots begin attacking. They hide in a movie theatre, where they find Fry and his Liubot on a date. The swarm enters and continues its rampage. Fry leads Bender, Leela, Zoidberg, Lucy and his Liubot to the projection room. The Lius prepare to enter through the window, but are stopped by a huge quantity of popcorn, until the swarm begins shooting the popcorn back.

Act V: Massive corn clog in port seven!

Fry's Liubot sacrifises herself to destroy the others and save Fry. Bender and Lucy admit their feelings for one another, much to Fry's disappointment.

Additional Info

Promo pic of this episode

Trivia

Quotes

  • Fry: Oh, Lucy! You're just like I always thought you'd be from your movies.
    Liubot: My personality is mathematically derived from my movies, proportionally weighted by box office receipts.
  • Fry: Far out! So there's an infinite number of parallel universes?
    Farnsworth: No, just the two.
    Fry: Oh, well, I'm sure that's enough.
  • Fry: Well I don't care if it was some dork in a costume. For one brief moment I felt the heartbeat of creation, and it was one with my own.
    Amy: Big deal!
    Bender: We all feel like that all the time. You don't hear us gassin' on about it.
  • Leela: Oh no! They are forming a human pyramid... of robots!

Outside References

  • Lucy Liu parodies her successful Charlie's Angels movies, reprising her role in the 2007 classic Charlie's Angels III: The Legend of Charlie's Gold (which features a vampire and an explosion)
    • The title is based on City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
  • A large focus on the copyright infringement issues causing problems for Napster
  • "We would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling adults!" - similar line (with kids instead of adults) is found in most episodes of Scooby Doo.

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