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Revision as of 21:10, 26 November 2007

Season 2 episode
The Lesser of Two Evils
The Lesser of Two Evils.jpg
No.19
Production number2ACV06
Written by[[Eric Horsted]][[Category:Episodes written by Eric Horsted|The Lesser of Two Evils]]
Directed by[[Chris Sauve]][[Category:Episodes directed by Chris Sauve|The Lesser of Two Evils]]
Title captionThe show that watches back
First air dateFebruary 20, 2000
Broadcast numberS02E10
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript

Pictures

Season 2
  1. I Second that Emotion
  2. Brannigan, Begin Again
  3. A Head in the Polls
  4. Xmas Story
  5. Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?
  6. The Lesser of Two Evils
  7. Put Your Head on My Shoulders
  8. Raging Bender
  9. A Bicyclops Built for Two
  10. A Clone of My Own
  11. How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
  12. The Deep South
  13. Bender Gets Made
  14. Mother's Day
  15. The Problem with Popplers
  16. Anthology of Interest I
  17. War Is the H-Word
  18. The Honking
  19. The Cryonic Woman
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The Story

Act I: "Shut up and get to the point!"

Bender, Fry and Leela are watching Cop Department when an advertisement for Past-O-Rama appears on the television, Bender wishes to see a time before life was cheapened by heartless machines. They look around Past-o-rama at various attractions such as a telephone booths and Al Sharpton’s burial chamber, then they come across a ancient car, Fry attempts to drive it but instead takes it through a wall. Unable to stop they hit Flexo, a bending unit with a beard.

Act II: "He's the evil Bender."

The crew are nevoursly pacing around while Bender is looking at a robot pornography book and Flexo is successfully fixed. Flexo and Bender take Fry to a robot gentlemens club where they pay a robot to give fry a lap dance which results in injuires. Fry begins to think Flexo is evil. The crew go into the Professor's bedroom to see what he has to show them, he reveals to them the atom of Jumbonoium which is so expensive, that if stolen it will cause Planet Express to go bankrupt, so the Professor hires Flexo to help out.

Act III: "And the winner is..."

Fry falls asleep during his watch because he spent his sleeping time watching Flexo, when the ship lands and he wakes they discover the atom is gone, they begin to search for Flexo. Bender and Flexo begin to chase eachother through the bueaty pagent, they later discovered that Bender stole the atom and not Flexo. Flexo saw Bender steal the atom and ran to tell Bob Barker's Head. The atom is returned and Flexo is locked up.

Additional Info

Promo pic of this episode

Trivia

  • Sponsored by Arachno Spores.
  • Past-o-rama's logo is based on the Futurama logo.
  • Flexo has a goatee, which is a reference to the goateed Mirror Universe Spock from the Mirror, Mirror episode of the original Star Trek.

Quotes

  • Speaker: ...The stately 1992 Latura.
    Fry: Hey, my girlfriend had one of those! Actually, it wasn't hers, it was her dad's. Actually, she wasn't my girlfriend. She just lived next door and never closed her curtains.
    Leela: Fry, remember I when I told you about always ending your stories a sentence earlier?
  • Fry: How's that robot I ran over?
    Farnsworth: We did all we could...
    Fry: You mean he's...?
    Farnsworth: Good as new? Yes!

Outside References

  • Past-o-rama shows that people in the 31st century have little knowledge of the distant past a few mistakes include:
    • Mammoth hunts in New York
    • Star Wars 9: Yoda's Bar Mitzvah
    • Appearance of primative robots

Fast Forward

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

Episode Credits