How come in the Cyber House Rules, Adalae draws Leela's second pupil onto her fake eye with a permanent marker, but throughout the episode, she is able to move it around just like the other one?

Maybe it was a temporary eye he drew on, or maybe its the year 3001 and they invented a 'magic' pen. Maybe Maybe maybes the only way to answer this.

Your correct.

good point

Maybe Leela's biology wouldn't allow for a real second eye.

You are right Mole that is what pretty much happened.  Pretty much like in Amazons in the Mood
when the puddle vibrated. 

 

Originally posted by Evil Abe:
You are right Mole that is what pretty much happened.  Pretty much like in Amazons in the Mood
when the puddle vibrated. 

That puddle was cool. Sorry that I'm amused by these simple things, but i'm only about a year-old Futurama fan. Though I do have the first three DVD sets, today's the first day I've been to this sight. I came hoping to tell about Nibbler's shadow in the Pilot, but that's old news.

Whilst on the subject of this episode, in the flashback scene where the orphans were putting down Leela for having one-eye.  Question is, why did she have a crush on someone who was making fun of her?

 

Originally posted by KurtPikachu2001:
Whilst on the subject of this episode, in the flashback scene where the orphans were putting down Leela for having one-eye.  Question is, why did she have a crush on someone who was making fun of her?

maybe he was super-hot

 

Originally posted by M0le:
I'm surprised that nobody has ever questioned that Leela's eye actually seems to have split in two in that episode.

Adlei explains his procedure to Leela early in the episode. He creates an artificial eye and grafts it to her face with skin from her foot. One eye is fake, one is reconstructed to look smaller. Or it's just magic, I dunno. This kinda thing is real-ish--I knwo, I've been watching Nip/Tuck, where a woman is given a new set of lips grafted from her labia minora.

I agree with Fry she looks better with one eye.  She is much hotter that way.   

The qoute was
Adlai: No, I specialise in phaser eye surgery. I can build you a paraffin eye and graft it on with skin from your foot. It won't be able to see but you'll look like a perfectly normal two-eyed person.

No, aliens and mutants are two separate things. You see aliens (such as Zoidberg, Elzar, and Morbo) in everyday life, roaming the streets. Mutants are mutated humans who have been rejected and forced to live in the sewers.

Why couldn't they just grow Leela another eye? Oh, they probably could with a few of her stem cells and a day or so. But even if they did that, she wouldn't have any of the brain structure to accept input from the new eye.

When we are born, our brains know suprisingly little about the bodies they are in. Brain cells that are not used within a month or so of life die off quickly. An experiment was done, werein an eyepatch was put on a newborn chimp's right eye. After removing the patch a few months latter, the chimp was completly blind in that eye, even though the eye itself was perfectly healthy.

Maybe, I'm just thinking that her ear (and tail apparently) looks much more like a natural deformity or a mutation* than Leela's eye does.

*Although that would probably make her the new least-mutated mutant ever.

I forgot about the tail (in fact I don't even remember where that info came from) but extra ears  and vestigial tails are relatively common "natural" (non-radiation-induced) mutations in the twentieth century.  There is a known mutation that creates single, centered, oversize eyeballs, but (or so I read in some other thread) no human has ever been born alive with it.  So I think it's equally likely that Sally is a mutant or a deformed human with unloving parents.  I don't think she looks like an alien

Or, you know... Sally's parent's could have done the same thing Leela's did and abandoned her.

My question is how come Leela wasn't forced to the sewers after she found out that she was a mutant.

 

I forgot about the tail (in fact I don't even remember where that info came from) but extra ears and vestigial tails are relatively common "natural" (non-radiation-induced) mutations in the twentieth century.

So only mutants whose conditions result from radiation are forced to live in the sewers?  That doesn't really sound right.  There probably is a level as to how mutated you have to be to be forced down there, though.

 

The crew didn't tell anyone, and they all chipped in to pay off Bender. I don't remember anyone mentioning the fact to an "outsider."

I thought about the Mayor giving the surface passes to Leela, but I don't think she ever actually told him they were for her parents.

 

Originally posted by VoVat:
There probably is a level as to how mutated you have to be to be forced down there, though.

I certainly hope so, because everyone has a few mutations.

Bender said that Sally was "cursed" with a third ear; maybe this is one occasion where we can blame the wizards.