Preliminary episode information on "The Sting"

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Taken from www.wvah.com/schedule ...

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Episode: The Sting
The gang attempts to collect honey produced by ferocious space bees, and Leela decides to adopt a baby queen bee.

Currently scheduled for April 13th.

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Sounds interesting.

Also, I read somewhere on this board that if you go to TLZ and look at the Upcoming Episodes, the picture accompanying "The Devil's Hands Make Idol Playthings" is actualy a picture from "The Sting".

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sounds good, but i wont see it till a looong time unless i download it

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Originally posted by Killerfox:
sounds good, but i wont see it till a looong time unless i d***load it

Beware of the D-Word!

but Killerfox did make a point

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I prefer "aqquire", which I shall only do with Why of Fry and Devil's Hands

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Sounds awesome, and it looks like Nibbler will have some competition. I just hope it actually airs, I doubt it will, but I guess we can hope 

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i have mixed feelings about this ep.

The Good: its been indicated that this is a shippy ep. i love shippy eps 

The Bad: it's about bees. Leela adopts one. I'm afraid of bees and now i have to watch a whole show about bees.     

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Why in hell would Leela want to adopt a baby queen?

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Hasn't Leela always been shown to have a soft spot for animals, especially the horribly dangerous ones?

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Kryten is right. Look at the first time we saw Nibbler... He ate a cargo bay full of animals! We know he's harmless, but he didn't seem that way.

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Originally posted by BNLbum:
Kryten is right. Look at the first time we saw Nibbler... He ate a cargo bay full of animals! We know he's harmless, but he didn't seem that way.

Armless? He has two arms.

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I'm just wondering if this episode will have any sort of relation to the past of the previous delivary crew, who were eaten by Space Wasps.

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Originally posted by FrysGIRL:

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Why in hell would Leela want to adopt a baby queen?

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It's a baby Queen bee!

Leela: "Oh, that's soo adorable!"

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Originally posted by FrysGIRL:

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Why in hell would Leela want to adopt a baby queen?

I'm bringin home a baby bumble bee
won't my mommy be so proud of me

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*I* think insects are both cool and very cute. If I could have any sort of giant arthropod I'd want one   

She'll no doubt only have the bee for that episode, but I think it would've been fun if leela had actually acquired more and more bizarre alien pets throughout the series. Pets that only she can see redeeming qualities in. (Not that I wouldn't want space monsters of my own) 

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and she could of become a supervillian with a cadre of animal pals that helped her... wait...

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teenage leela was kinda shippy, i've heard the sting is supposed to be shippy and we know the why of fry is shippy. if Fox actually airs them all when they are supposed to that's 3 shippy eps in a row!
::spontaniously combusts with happiness:

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::chokes on her own bile::

I mean, AW dat's so schweet!

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::is alarmed::
Do you need a lozenge?

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Well, it looks like we won't get stung for a long time now, thanx to Fox 

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Sounds good, although I don't know how they're gonna cram the shippy stuff in.

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they manage it somehow. theres a pic at The Leela Zone that shows Leela clutching a picture of Fry to her chest and crying. Its posted next to the synopsis of devils hands but its actually from the Sting. So i've heard.

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I got an episode description for "The Sting" from the Canadian TV Guide website (They're always at least 2 days behind in updating) and when I read what was going to happen I was, well, shocked.

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Futurama
Type:   Animation 
Duration:  30 mins 
Description:  Leela makes a mistake that causes Fry's death as they're collecting honey from a swarm of space bees, but her strange dreams lead her to believe Fry is still alive

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I'll bet when Fry "dies" it'll be sad and emotional.

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Wow! seriously? I hate Fox even more for making us wait for this ep, I want to see it!   

edit - I guess that explains this picture that Venus was talking about earlier

edit again - now the link at TLZ has been chaged to what it should be, my picture is wrong, but I see that someone has re-posted the actual picture further down 

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oh my god future angel! is that synopsis acurate??
::sobs:: oh that's so sad! If that is true i am so gonna cry myself through the whole ep! Now i really wish it was going to air next Sunday i love emotional stuff like that!

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sorry to double post but i just had a thought,
 

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The original synopsis i read says that Leela adopts a baby queen bee and now this second one mentions her making a mistake that gets Fry killed, Now, from what i know about bees, the worker bees are attracted to a certain pheramone the queen gives off. in fact if you want to move an entire swarm of bees from one hive to another all you have to do is find the queen and move her to the new hive and all the other bees will follow. Knowing that, my theory is that she adopts the baby queen bee not knowing about the whole pherimone thing, or maybe not even realizing that it is a queen, and then the whole rest of the hive comes swarming in on them and during the insuing chaos Fry gets "killed" Which links both versions of the episode synopsis together. The mistake that she makes is the actual adopting of the baby bee

And once again Science saves the day!

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*Thought occurs*
Maybe those bastards at fox made Matt Groening kill off Fry so they would have to cancell the show [/conspiracy theory]

Eh, Fry will just turn up in some bizzare plot twist at the end of the episode. i,e.

Leela: "Oh my God Fry, where have you been?!"
Fry: "Watchin' TV. Why? Did you MISS me?
Leela: "I thought I did."
Fry: "Aww."

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So what exactly is going to happen in "The Devil's Hands?"  With "Love and Rocket" and apparently "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting," it seems like Fry and Leela's relationship is going along pretty well.  Why's he going to need to do something drastic show his love for her later?

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Originally posted by Torn Receipt:
*Thought occurs*
Maybe those bastards at fox made Matt Groening kill off Fry so they would have to cancell the show [/conspiracy theory]

Interesting theory, but since The Sting wasn't the last episode produced, and won't be the last episode to air, I doubt Fry'll stay dead.

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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:


edit - I guess that explains this picture that Venus was talking about earlier

someone should color that and make it into an avatar

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And a certain lazy webmaster should put that pic in the episode it belongs. Oh well. Thanks for the hint.

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The Leela Zone

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Originally posted by Venus:
 someone should color that and make it into an avatar

Wow, I said that last month! 

But aslate said the picture quality was too poor or something. 

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Howzabout this one?

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hmmm I cant stand insects makes me want to reach for the flamethrower n start roasting anything that moves.

As for the ep/eps that are said to be coming that are also said to concern Fry n Leela's secret romance/crush/whatever u want to call it. Its sad that they made these eps before All American Rejects became a well known band. If they had made em today they coulda added music from All American Rejects in n probably made the eps better sence most of there songs are based on romance/broken romances.

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Originally posted by Venus:
sorry to double post but i just had a thought,
 

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The original synopsis i read says that Leela adopts a baby queen bee and now this second one mentions her making a mistake that gets Fry killed, Now, from what i know about bees, the worker bees are attracted to a certain pheramone the queen gives off. in fact if you want to move an entire swarm of bees from one hive to another all you have to do is find the queen and move her to the new hive and all the other bees will follow. Knowing that, my theory is that she adopts the baby queen bee not knowing about the whole pherimone thing, or maybe not even realizing that it is a queen, and then the whole rest of the hive comes swarming in on them and during the insuing chaos Fry gets "killed" Which links both versions of the episode synopsis together. The mistake that she makes is the actual adopting of the baby bee

And once again Science saves the day!

Sounds very plausible, and it would make a great episode.

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I totally agree, and if the plot turns out to be different, then I guess you could always make a fan-fic 

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EDIT: Never mind, Teral's is cuter anyway  .

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Originally posted by Leandro:

The thing that intrigues me about this shot the most is that Fry seems to be reacting to Leela's grief. Look at his expression, that's not a normal expression to have in a pic. And his sightlines seem to match up with her face. I wonder how that works into the plot. I'm sure that its not a random thing.

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Well, I'm looking forward to this one.     I love bees and my favorite Sailormoon character, for which I am named, paraded around with the bee as "her insect" in the live Seramyu shows.  Of course, not all bees are good...Like that sonuavagun who stung me and made my leg swell.
Here's an idea...

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Perhaps the bees have some sort of ability to excise people from their bodies.  I know, it's far out, but bear with me.  Building on Venus' idea, suppose Leela were to take the queen bee away.  In a rage, the workers could attack Fry, displacing his spirit from his body.  He would look dead, but he wouldn't really be.  Reminds me of a fan fic I read recently.  Erdrik's, I think...

At any rate, I'm just thinking WAY out there *SHAMELESS TIM BURTON ENDORSEMENT* after scouring the net for info on the rumored stop-motion film 'Corpse Bride.' 
But 'The Sting' sounds really clool!