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| ==Additional Info==
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| [[Image:Leela's Contact Lens.jpg|right|thumb|Leela's Contact Lens]]
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| ===Trivia===
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| *Her name can be interpreted in several ways: it is a spoof of the symphony "Turangalila" by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992). The term derives from Sanskrit and means, alternately, "Song of Love" and "Hymn to Joy". At the same time, "Leela" sounds exactly like the term for "purple" in several languages, including German, Spanish, and Swedish (''lila''). A further possibility is that the name is a spoof of the heroine from ''The Fifth Element'', '''Leeloo''' - the perfect woman. And last, she might have been inspired by a character from the British Sci-Fi series ''Doctor Who'' bearing the same name (Leela).
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| *The designers kept trying to make Leela's nose smaller, because it was larger than they thought appropriate for a female character, but [[Matt Groening]] insisted it stay the larger size.
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| *Unlike [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], who is frequently chopped to pieces in the series, Leela tends to lose the use of her senses instead (sight and hearing).
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| *As Fate Assignment Officer, her code number was 1BDI (or "one beady eye").
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| *Books read by Leela include "True Stories of Courageous Animals" ([[Parasites Lost]]), "A Child's Garden of Space Legends" ([[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles]]), "Dances of the ancient Bronx" ([[Jurassic Bark]]) and "Great Machete Battles" ([[Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch]]), plus the magazine ''Nosy Inquirer'', headline: ''Bigfoot turns 80!'' ([[The Farnsworth Parabox]])
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| *Tends to snore.
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| *Always uses lipstick, mostly pink.
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| [[Image:Lipstick.jpg|thumb|Leela applying lipstick]]
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| *Used to brew her own beer at the orphanarium.
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| *Can do the Robot Dance like no one else.
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| *Owns her own harpoon.
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| *Tends to fill her day with humdrum activities.
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| *Is camera-shy.
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| *When her eye is irritated, she uses eye drops.
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| *Usually prepares her dinners in advance for one month and then freezes them.
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| *For obvious reasons, no one can give the evil eye quite like her.
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| *Adept in the use of weaponry like laser guns or machetes.
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| *Has a good singing voice.
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| *Used to play the drums.
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| *Tends to play with her hair when upset or nervous.
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| *Frequently accused of poor hygiene (sweaty boot rash, etc), but may be at a disadvantage due to her mutant physiology and energetic lifestyle.
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| *Usually, Leela only wears jewlery on special occasions. The only exception from this was the ring in [[Space Pilot 3000]] that [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] stole, it was never seen again.
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| *Apart from [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], she is the only character that appears in every episode of the show and in every comic.
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| ===Quotes===
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| *"I guess you never outgrow being an eyeball... oddball."
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| *"Fry, you're wasting your life in front of that TV. You've got to get out and see the real world."
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| *"I don't care how hilarious your apron is, we're not cooking him!"
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| *"That's stupid."
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| *"Look, I don't know about your previous captains, but I intend to do as little dying as possible."
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| *"For a split second, my common sense was overwhelmed by pity."
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| ===Catchphrase?===
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| It seems as if a half-hearted attempt was made to give Leela a sort of catchphrase, where she uses old musical references, turning the first word into a verb and applying it to the last word as a noun. The only two examples are:
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| *"This toads the wet sprocket." ([[Future Stock|3ACV21]]) A reference to the band, Toad the Wet Sprocket.
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| *"This wangs chung!" ([[A Tale of Two Santas|3ACV03]]) A reference to both the band Wang Chung, and their hit song "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" which includes the line "Everybody Wang Chung tonight".
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| ===Two-Eyed Leela===
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| [[Image:Leela 2eyes 1.jpg|right|thumb|"[[Amazon Women in the Mood]]"]]
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| Leela has been seen with two eyes several times:
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| *[[When Aliens Attack]] — To portray the role of Jenny MacNeil, a plastic eye is taped to the side of her face (which [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] later eats).
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| *[[Amazon Women in the Mood]] — When the Amazonians are approaching, a puddle ripples, causing Leela's reflection to distort, showing her briefly with two eyes.
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| *[[The Cyber House Rules]] — A second eye is grafted onto Leela's face. She later realizes she's better off being different, and has it removed.
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