My Three Suns
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| No. | 7 | ||||
| Production number | 1ACV07 | ||||
| Written by | [[J. Stewart Burns]][[Category:Episodes written by J. Stewart Burns|My Three Suns]] | ||||
| Directed by | [[Jeffery Lynch Kevin O'Brien]][[Category:Episodes directed by Jeffery Lynch Kevin O'Brien|My Three Suns]] | ||||
| Title caption | Presented in Double Vision (Where drunk) | ||||
| First air date | 4 May, 1999 | ||||
| Broadcast number | S01E07 | ||||
| Title reference | The TV show My Three Sons | ||||
| Opening cartoon | "The Impractical Joker" | ||||
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"My Three Suns" is the seventh episode of Futurama and of the first season. It aired 4 May, 1999. Fry becomes the emperor of Trisol through random lucky occurrences, at the expense of Leela's displeasure with Fry's reckless behaviour. This episode also establishes Bender's dreams of becoming a chef.
The Story
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Act I: "Goin through the bot wash..."
Bender goes through an automatic robot wash, much like a typical car wash, while dancing and singing a modified version of the song "Going Through the Car Wash." After he gets out, however, it starts to rain.
Act II: "A Mouthwatering Neptunian slug!"
Fry and Leela catch Bender watching Elzar's cooking show on the TV at Planet Express. He admits he wants to become a chef Hermes tells him he noted that they're paying him to do nothing but loaf about on the couch and has to start doing something or he's fired, so Bender decides to be the cook of the ship. He takes Fry and Leela down to Little Neptune to buy ingredients for his first meal. Fry is distracted by a "organ seller" and wants to buy some gills but need to give the seller his own lungs. When he's about cutting Fry, Leela kicks the seller and they get out of there. When they get back, the professor sends them with Amy and Zoidberg on a mission to the planet Trisol in the Forbidden Zone, deep in the heart of the Galaxy of Terror. On the way Bender prepares a full of salt meal, which the crew finds inedible. When they arrive, Fry is send to deliver the package to a castle and there he drinks a strange bottle of blue water - which turns out to be an Emperor.
Act III: "You drank our emperor!"
Having accidentally assassinated the Emperor, Fry thinks the Trisolians will kill him but they make him the new Emperor. Fry appoints Bender as his Prime Minister, and refuses to leave despite Leela's warnings. During his coronation ceremony Leela takes Fry to a hall with photos of the former emperors on the walls. Leela tells him that every emperor was killed by the next and that one becomes the new and Fry will be drunken by one of the Trisolians to be the new emperor of the planet. Despite this, Fry doesn't care and Leela leaves the place. When the ceremony finishes, the triple sunset of the planet begins and all Trisolians start to glow, including the former emperor who speaks from Fry's stomach. The Trisolians attack Fry, intending to cut him apart to free the Emperor. He flees with his friends, and they lock themselves in the Emperor's chambers.
Act IV: "Fry must die!"
As the Trisolians attempt to break through the door, Amy, Zoidberg and Bender try to make Fry cry the Emperor out. Fry is unable to cry. The Trisolians prepare a giant machine that will splat Fry until the emperor gets out. Bender calls Leela for help while she is kicking a Fry photo in the ship. She seems to refuse but outside she comes to fight the Trisolians. Bender makes Fry beleive Leela needs help until he finally crys a few tears of the emperor. Then she comes and starts to kick Fry with the others to make him continue crying. The emperor finally gets out of Fry's body and thanks him.
Additional Info
Trivia
- This is the first episode to be rated TV14.
- Trisol is probably a compound of "tri-" (three) and "sol" (sun).
Allusions
- Bender's apron, which reads "To Serve Man," is a reference to an episode of "The Twilight Zone", in which the statement's apparent meaning, being servile to man, is in fact wrong. The statement is actually the title of a cookbook, thus serving man for dinner.
- The entire scene in Little Neptune seems to be a somewhat vague reference to Chalmun's Cantina scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Both seem seedy, have a menagerie of robot and alien denizens, and both feature the main characters going into a place that sell food. Also, the scene where Fry is saved by Leela from the Organ Dealer and his accomplice is similar to when Obi-Wan Kenobi saves Luke Skywalker from Cornelius Evazan and Ponda Baba.
Goofs
- In Little Neptune, a Neptunian is seen haggling with the Number 9 Man, and he only has two arms.
Quotes
Fry: That's the saltiest thing I've ever tasted. And I once ate a big, heaping bowl of salt!
Amy: Bender, is this salt-water?
Bender: It's salt with water in it, if that's what you mean.
Bender: I don't like you, and you don't like me...
Leela: I like you.
Bender: You do?!
Bender: There was nothing wrong with that food, I used 10% less than a lethal dose.
Dr. Zoidberg: Uh oh, I shouldn't have had seconds.
Alien Language Sightings
Time:03:06
Location: poster
Language: AL1
Translation: boxing
Time:03:24
Location: head shop sign
Language: AL1
Translation: (below open sign) open
Time:03:24
Location: head shop sign
Language: AL1
Translation: (under the doorbell) ring
Time:03:29
Location: Televideo machine
Language: AL1
Translation: (on the number pad) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Time:03:29
Location: Televideo machine
Language: AL1
Translation: (underneath the machine) televideo
Time:03:43
Location: Shop Sign
Language: AL1
Translation: ?arket
Time:09:09
Location: Sign
Language: AL1
Translation: don't drink the emperor
Characters
- Amy
- Bender
- Debut: Bont
- Debut: Crack Addict
- Dr. Zoidberg
- Debut: Elzar
- Debut: Florp
- Debut: Gorgak
- Fry
- Hermes
- Leela
- Debut: Murg
- Debut: Neptunian store clerk
- Number 9 Man
- Debut: Organ Dealer
- Prof. Farnsworth
- Debut: Trisol guards
Episode Credits
- Writer
- Directors
- Voice Actors