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Season 9 episode Broadcast season 12 episode
Otherwise
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No.	160
Production number	9ACV10
Written by	Nona di Spargement
Directed by	Ira Sherak
Title caption	We're not out of networks yet!
First air date	30 September, 2024
Broadcast number	S12E10
Opening cartoon	Balloon Land (1935)
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Commentary (Transcript) Transcript Pictures
Season 9

"Otherwise" is the one hundred and sixtieth episode of Futurama, the tenth of the ninth production season and the tenth of the twelfth broadcast season. It aired on 30 September, 2024, on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.

Additional information

Trivia

• Second episode named for an adverb, after "Meanwhile".
• The song playing at the end and during the credits is Jason Isbell and Amanda Shire's cover of Warren Zevon's "Mutineer".
• When Fry is overwhelmed with memories, one of the visions he has is of him and Leela older carrying a purple-haired child (supposedly their baby) and Bender with human ears (as seen in "Murder on the Planet Express") being licked by Seymour.
• In a split-second bit of foreshadowing, there is a montage of people shouting to fire, starting with Leela. At the end of the montage, we somehow see Leela shout fire again. But she is suddenly on the old Planet Express ship, and when she points ahead, she no longer is wearing her engagement ring.
• The voice actor that the Professor hired to provide the artificial intelligence for the new Planet Express ship is named Tress LaMarche, a tribute to two of the voice actors, Tress MacNeille and Maurice LaMarche.

Allusions

• Bender sings the traditional cowboy tune "Down in the Valley", when the can opener's magnet affects him.
• At the eulogy for the old Planet Express ship, Zapp and Kif sing "Rock the Boat" by The Hues Corporation.
• Bender's shooting of the can opener is similar to a scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• When the Planet Express ship passes by alternate timelines and realities, one of them shows the Dreamland castle from Disenchantment. During the credits, the Ululu Company, which produced the show, was acknowledged for the castle's appearance.

Continuity

• Amy points out that Bender once had an affair with the Planet Express ship, in reference to the events from "Love and Rocket".
• When Fry revisits his memories, a still from pretty much every single episode flashes by him, including:
  • "The Cryonic Woman" - Fry and Bender taking the ship for a joyride
  • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" - Fry looking at the chronitons making the "I Love You, Leela" message
  • "Bender Gets Made" - Fry fighting off the Robot Mafia
  • "Mobius Dick" - The ship going after the space whale
  • "The Lesser of Two Evils" - Shots of Fry 1 and Fry 1729 recreating the Fry meme.
  • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" - Fry arguing with Captain Bender (Fry replaced with Fry 1)
  • "All the Way Down" - Simulated Fry and Leela
  • "Space Pilot 3000" - Leela giving Fry his permanent career assignment.
  • "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" - Leela speaking with Fry's head attached to Amy.
  • "Love and Rocket" - Leela saving Fry after he gave her his oxygen.
  • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" - Young Fry and Leela having a drag race.
  • "My Three Suns" - Fry being fanned as emperor of Trisol.
  • "A Flight to Remember" - Fry and Leela on the Space Titanic watching the nebula get sucked up by the black hole.
  • "Roswell That Ends Well" - The Professor, Leela, and Bender being disgusted by Fry having had sex with his own grandmother.
  • "The Sting" - Leela being surrounded by bees. Also, Fry being stung by the baby queen bee.
  • "The Prisoner of Benda" - Fry and Leela in Zoidberg and the Professor's bodies having sex.
  • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" - A page from Delivery Boy Man.
  • "Overclockwise" - Fry and Leela reading about their future.
  • "2D Blacktop" - The Professor, Leela and Fry exploring the 2nd dimension.
  • "A Farewell to Arms" - Fry about to rip off Leela's arm.
  • "Leela and the Genestalk" A squidified Leela kissing Fry.
  • Bender's Big Score - Fry's time paradox duplicate petting Leelu.
  • "Fun on a Bun" - Amnesiac Fry and Leela kissing each other before they restore their memories of each other.
• Fry unknowingly recreates his proposal to Leela at the Vampire State Building from "Meanwhile", since the resetting of the time button affected his and Leela's memories.
• When the ship goes through alternate timelines and realities, two of them shown are "Colorama" from "Rebirth" and "G.I. Zapp" from "Saturday Morning Fun Pit".

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

• Amy
• Bender
• Farnsworth
• Fry
• Hermes
• János
• Kif
• Debut: Tress LaMarche
• Leela
• Linda
• Morbo
• Nudar (cameo, unknown moment)
• Scruffy
• Seymour Asses (cameo, unknown moment)
• Zapp
• Zoidberg

References

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