Weirdest Futurama Plot?

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Which episode did you think was pretty out there, even for a science fiction cartoon?  I've tried to include all the ones I could think of.  This has no reflection on how good or bad the episode was, just how odd the storyline was.  AOI eps don't count because they admit they're flights of fancy.

Epsidoe summaries (with spoilers in case you haven't seen a particular ep.)
Fry & The Slurn Factory:

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The Crew discovers Slurm is made by a gaint space slug.

The Deep South:

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The Crew discover mermaids in the lost city of Atlanta.

The Honking:

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Bender becomes a murderous were-car.  Fry gets upset he's not Bender's target.

Parasites Lost:

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Fry gets "parasitic" worms which make him a better person.

The Bird-bot Of Ice-catraz:

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A series of mishaps result in Bender thinking he's a penguin.

That's Lobstertainment!:

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Zoidberg tries to stage a comeback for his once-famous uncle, which hesults in them both getting on Calculon's hit list.

Less Then Hero:

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Fry & Leela get super powers.  Bender joins them and they form a leauge of superheroes.

Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles:

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The whole PE crew becomes young.

Three Hundred Big Boys:

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The whole world gets a tax refund.  Random stuff happens.

For me, it's definatly The Howling.

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Less Than Hero

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Bird-Bot left me scratching my head.  I know it was a commentary on environmentaly issues, but whoo! how the story got there.

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I think Roswell That Ends Well should be up there...

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I voted for "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles".
It was pretty strange. All of the main characters are turned into kids and then instantly return to normal? Pretty strange stuff.

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I'm gonna say 4ACV04 "Less Than Hero". It just seemed the least like something "Futurama" would normally do.

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Originally posted by Speli:
I think Roswell That Ends Well should be up there...

I thought about including that, along with some others, but eventually decided that Time Travel, Alien Abduction/Mutilation (Spanish Fry) and others basically boiled down to standard sci-fi cliches we should have expeced them to riff on sooner or later.  Roswell is a weird episode, but the basic premise itself is somewhat standard for sci-fi.

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Definitely Bird-Bot.  Environmental diatribe aside, this plot to be unbelievably over the top (although I guess the one where Fry thinks he's a robot should be up there too...)

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Three Hundred Big Boys. It has a unique plot, and the end is just great... 

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Less Than Hero. It was a pretty okay ep, but it didn't seem in Futurama character. 

The Sting was intended to be crazy and t was in Futurama style. But Less Than Hero felt, I dunno, out of place.

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Bird bot.

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Less than Hero, had some good laughes, but overall the story doesn't tie in as well as most others.

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I think 'Time Keeps on Slippin', 'Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles' and 'The Sting' are the most out there eps. I'd probabaly have to go with 'The Sting' because thoughout the whole ep you don't know where you are, and you don't know what's real and what isn't, it keeps you guessing. And nothings much weirder and out there than dreams, because anything goes 

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All Futurama episodes are weird in some way, especially those featuring Dr.Zoidberg.
But 'The Sting' is totally outer space. In a very good way.

'Less Than Hero' and 'Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles' are also very weird but not in such a good way.

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The Sting was the most tripped out and bizzarre 30 minutes of my life.

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I voted "Less than Hero" because it doesn't feel like a regular Futurama episode . . . it's even more bizarre.  "The 30% Iron Chef" is pretty out there too.

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RRRGGGHH!  I can't BELIEVE I forgot The Sting!

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I think 'The Sting' featured the most unconventional Futurama plot and was surprised to see it not an option. It may appear more familiar to someone well-read in science fiction. The plot is rather similar to Philip K. Dick's novel, Ubik.

A great read by the way, which I highly recommend!

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Less Than Hero for me. As stated much in this thread, it didn't feel like a proper Futurama episode. By the way, why do you think Parasites Lost is weird?

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Originally posted by Devil's Hands:
By the way, why do you think Parasites Lost is weird?

More or less becuase I forgot it was a referance to Fantastic Voyage.  If I could do it again, I'd replace it with The Sting.

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And what about The Bird-bot of Ice-catraz? That episode wasn't very weird in my opinion. It felt like a normal one to me.

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Well, for that one, I racked my memory, but could think of another example in sci-fi of a robot thinking he's an artic bird, let alone a robot who thiks he's an artic bird and leads a violent revolt of said birds.

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I voted other meaning I wanted Spanish Fry to be up there!

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"Less than hero", of course.

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The Sting is a pretty weird episode, but definently in a good way (it's my favorite episode of all).  Of the choices given, I think that The Deep South is a pretty whacky episode, but again in a good way.  The fact that caffeine mutated people into mermaids was priceless  .

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Since Futurama itself is a parody of SciFi, I found the parody-in-a-parody of "Less than Hero" to be about the screwiest plot in the series.  That isn't saying I didn't enjoy it...just that it was pretty screwy.

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I'd have to go with The Sting also. Great episode, but I admit that I didn't really know what was going on until the very end...

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I have to say "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" simply because they were all getting younger, but it didn't make sense.  Bender getting younger?  With braces?  Zoidberg transformations?  Yeah, it was screwy...

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Well, sorry ppl, but I have to say "bend her" I mean, whats that all about?! It doesn't suit Bender, because he's like a totally male character.

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Originally posted by Speli:
I think Roswell That Ends Well should be up there...

I think the same

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How could you not list Spanish Fry? That was... unusual.

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Less Than Hero

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Wouldn't it be easier to have a "Which episode of Futurama is the least weird?" question?     And, how can you not have War is the H Word as a choice?  That just makes me testy.   

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I'd say Less Than A Hero, it's just so not right. It makes no sense in the Futurama universe at all, really.

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Yes, ointment that gives super-powers has no place in a universe where caffiene creates mermaids, robotic Santas roam free, and giant chickens can pass the Bar Exam. 

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I don't think all these episodes are that weird - it's almost as if you picked them at random. I'm going to go with The Farnsworth Parabox here, the whoe ending (especially with them manage to trade boxes through the boxes somehow) just left me going "WHAT THE FUCK?!"

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heh, i felt the same way about that ending. the rest of that episode wasn't weird though, what science fiction show hasn't done a parralel universe episode?

the "human horn" aphrodisiac stuff in spanish fry was weird. and by weird, i mean really funny. but also weird.