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ZOIDBERG: (narration) And now, tonight's savory episode!! Brought to you by:

A commerical blurb for what could be a children's toy, or a breakfast/candy bar.
COMMERCIAL NARRATOR: Super-Intense Frosted Play-Glow!
CHORUS: (singing the "Lucky Charms" jingle) "It's radioactively delicious!!"

"Futurama" opening sequence.
SUBTITLE:
LOVE CREATES
FOX DESTROYS

Establishing shot of the Planet Express building at night.

Close-up of Leela's closed eye. She is thrashing her head back and forth as though having a nightmare. With a gasp she jolts awake, her eye snapping open. She looks around in confusion.

She is suspended inside a fluid-filled incubation tube--similar to the one in which Farnsworth's clone Cubert was grown--inside Zoidberg's examining room. She is naked except for a breathing apparatus, her suspension harness, and some monitors. Strangely, the tube is only half-filled with fluid. A round plate-like device with a number of wires attached floats next to her, but she takes no notice of it. Leela removes the harness and monitors and pulls a bathtub plug out of the bottom of the tube, draining it. She then opens the door and lets herself out. She seems a little weak and unsteady, but alert.

She gasps as she sees Fry. He is sleeping fitfully in a chair in front of the tube, with Nibbler in his lap. Fry looks awful. He is crying--and talking--in his sleep.
FRY: I'm sorry, Leela...(sob)...I'm sorry...

Leela looks annoyed and confused. Nibbler stirs and awakens. Nibbler is delighted to see Leela, and bounds into her arms, kicking Fry onto the floor with a thud. Leela gently shushes Nibbler and looks at Fry. Fry is curled up into a ball on the floor. He is still asleep. Leela, relieved, turns toward the door...

...and bumps into Zoidberg. Dropping Nibbler and stifling a scream, Leela quickly realizes it's just Zoidberg's shell. She starts to take Zoidberg's coat and put it on, but stops, sniffs it, and hangs it back over the shell's head. She turns away...

...and bumps into the sleeping Bender, stifling another scream.

Leela emerges from the room trying to close the back of a standard medical gown, but it is of course no use. Her stomach growls slightly. Then it snarls loudly.

Owls vacate the break room as Leela arrives, retreating into their hole in the wall. Leela searches everywhere, but there is no food to be found. She looks at the vending machine, but of course she has no coins in the gown. She tries to shake the vending machine.
VENDING MACHINE: Back off, bitch, or I'm-a call the po-lice!

Leela snatches up a chair and lifts it over her head threateningly. Everything inside the machine suddenly rains down.
VENDING MACHINE: Okay! Okay! Here, take it all! Just please don't hurt me!

Minutes later, Leela is finishing off the last of the candy as she sits on the floor in front of the vending machine next to a pile of wrappers. (Several of the wrappers are for "Play-Glow.&quot She reaches into the machine for another.
VENDING MACHINE: You took everything I got! Please, just let me go!
LEELA: You're holding out on me.
VENDING MACHINE: No, honey, I swear. You got it all!

Leela reaches in deeper. There is a loud snap, like a rat trap. Leela's eye widens. She struggles, but cannot pull her arm free.
VENDING MACHINE: And now I got you. Babe. (Laughs.)
LEELA: Let go!
VENDING MACHINE: Sure!

The machine releases Leela--but just as she pulls free, the door closes on her pinky. She's stuck fast again.
VENDING MACHINE: Eeny-meanie-miney-moe! Catch a human by the toe! (Laughs.)
LEELA: Dammit!

Leela is about to punch the machine in the coin box when she hears Fry and Bender screaming back in the examination room.
FRY'S VOICE: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
BENDER'S VOICE: AAAAAAAAAAAH! OH MY GOD!
ZOIDBERG: Hmmmm?

Leela turns and the unshelled Zoidberg is right next to her. An owl's struggling claw is sticking out of his tentacles. Mutually startled, Leela and Zoidberg scream simultaneously.
LEELA: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
ZOIDBERG: BRAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

The owl flies out of Zoidberg's mouth into Leela's face. Leela thrashes around her free arm as the owl escapes.
ZOIDBERG: Ohhh, my breakfast. I spent all night trying to catch it. (turns to Leela) Leela! You're all better!
LEELA: (spitting out feathers) Puh! Puh! What are you talking about, Doctor Zoidberg? What happened? Why did I wake up in a tube?

Fry and Bender emerge from the exam room. Bender has Nibbler by the throat. Fry and Bender are shocked and delighted to see Leela. (The camera even does the slow zoom-in on Fry as his face lights up.) Bender drops Nibbler.
FRY: Leela! You're okay! Oh thank God!

Fry leaps at Leela and joyfully embraces her legs. Leela's POV: Fry is all over Leela's bare legs, rubbing his cheeks on her feet and caressing her thighs even as Leela struggles and kicks. He showers them with kisses.
LEELA: Fry!!! Knock it off!
BENDER: Everything where it should be?

Fry abruptly yanks Leela's legs open and he and Bender have a peek. Leela gasps.
FRY: Looks that way!

Leela jerks one leg free and kicks Fry in the face with incredible force, sending him flying.
BENDER: Yeah, she's fine.
LEELA: Just what the hell is going on?

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I'm workin' on it! I'm workin' on it!

[Reply #1 on:]

damn you!! I wanna know know what happens???!?!? looking forward ta it!

[Reply #2 on:]

Hurry it up!! Goddamnit!!

[Reply #3 on:]

Hee hee hee! You wait now! 

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More!More!More!More!More!

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[Zoidberg]Moooooooooooorrreee!![/Zoidberg]

Quality writing, BrainSluggo. 

[Reply #6 on:]

Man,that was weird.Really weird.I like weird.Just as long as it's not an epic Leela/fry type epic romance novels.Is it?

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Originally posted by KENNEDY:
Man,that was weird.Really weird.I like weird.Just as long as it's not an epic Leela/fry type epic romance novels.Is it?

what about a Leela/fry type romance comedy?

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wow BrainSluggo, you're a good writer.
i want more, i want more!!!
 

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Astrozombie...FINISH YOUR FIC THEN READ OTHERS!!!!  you need to concentrate!!!

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I don't know how successful I'll be, but I'm going to try to finish this as though it were a real script for a real episode. That means a little romance, a little action, lotsa stupid humor. Weird? I'll do my best.

There are one or two anti-FOX gags that, of course, would probably never see the light of day if it WERE a real episode--one of them being the opening-sequence subtitle already posted, the other mentioned below--but other than that, I'm playing it as straight as possible...there will, however, be a LITTLE character development, including minor advancement in the ongoing Leela & Fry Romance Of Shrieking Horrors.

I'm desperately trying to avoid overlong bursts of single character dialogue, for one thing, which is proving difficult. (Look at this long-winded crapathon I'm spinning here!) On the other hand, I'm inclined to throw everything I can think of into the mix. (I've already revised the candy gag, but I'm keeping the jingle. There's even multiple "surprise" endings.)

Here are some items to look forward to/fear. (Some are major plot points, others are just throwaway gags, but no big spoils here.)

--Lrrr reacts to Futurama's "hiatus." (He even signs the online petition!) However, by the end of the episode, the Omicronians cease to be a threat to anyone--at least until they establish Omicron-Persei Nine.

--Breakdancing! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

--Meet Zoidberg's distant cousin, Doctor Froidberg! He has a beard of tentacles to go with his mustache. He's a shrink at Mom's Dystopia! (tm), "The Dizzniest Place Off Earth." His tool of choice is drunken brain slugs. He thinks everything's about sex with you humans...and he likes that.

--Everything in the teaser--Bender grabbing Nibbler by the throat, Leela's severe candy binge, VendMac holding Leela, the disc in the tube--has a purpose in the rest of the story, though most of it relates only to the subsequent short flashback. Something very very VERY bad happened to Leela, and I had to establish that she comes out okay FIRST.

--Leela finds out a little more about her ancestry. It's not happy news. It IS related to specific things seen in prior episodes.

--On the bright side, aside from the forthcoming flashback, Leela spends the episode in a hospital gown. Even during the catfight.     Well, when she's not wearing the strait-jacket...

--Zoiby and Hermes' "conflict" reaches a turning point.

--Leela trapped in the Anti-Gravity Probulator! With ANOTHER WOMAN!!

--Amy! Scruffy! Morbo and Linda! Nixon's Head! ...iZac? (Sort of.)

--The planned sequel to this fic, The 666th Day, will be the "heavy" one. It will be my "series finale" story, building out of events in THIS story, with major and minor character deaths, an all-or-nothing choice in the Leela/Fry debacle, the rise of a new evil empire on Earth, Zapp's ultimate comeuppance, heads-in-jars ahoy, a tearful breakup, a joyful reunion, mutant revolution, and the identity of Leela's grandfather (a regular cast member--and it ain't Fry, or Scruffy, or Farnsworth).

...but that's not for a while yet...   

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ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo!!!!
   looking forward!

[Reply #12 on:]

i really really really really want to see more, more more!!!
 

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Yauwzah! You don't go for halfmeasures, BrainSluggo. This sounds great, can't wait to read the final work. Great job, so far. 


 

Originally posted by BrainSluggo:
,--On the bright side, aside from the forthcoming flashback, Leela spends the episode in a hospital gown. Even during the catfight.  Well, when she's not wearing the strait-jacket...

Will this fanfic come with illustrations? 

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Oofah fey, I couldn't even tempt someone to illustrate my "edit" to A Pharoah To Remember with Leela all tied-up, greased-up, and writhing! If I could draw worth a fart, I'd do the whole thing as storyboards or a comic...

"I'd just die if Leandro or ]PaulFSAC[ or one of the other on-model heavy-hitters drew some illos," he said in his best 'girly' voice. (Squeal!) EDIT: TheVoices, too, oh God yes. 

(If anyone's interested in parody packaging--Wacky Packs, that is--I have a whole slew of candies for the machine. Super-Intense Frosted Play-Glow has been usurped by Max Headrush's Brain Buzzers! and VendMac's other goodies would include Ju-Ju Beetles, Garbanzoids!, Psych-Os, Squid Squirts, Mant!, Peyote Pucks and good ol' Slurm Solid.) 

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Why must you all tempt me with your delectable fanfiction????????  Why??????????

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Cos he's an evil sadistic C**t

No offence like 

[Reply #17 on:]

None taken. Actually, I was going to write, "Because I'm one dirty, vicious bitch."   

NOTE: If you've been here before, look around again: I've added a link or two you might like and other stuff to earlier posts.

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(Screams and tears out remaining hair watching Future Stock)

Aw crap! Aw crap! Mom openly chewing out the PE crew and an executive escape chair! I had an executive escape chair! Leela's supposed to consider Mom "just a little misunderstood (because of her difficulties as a single mother in a male-dominated business world)!" I'm sure I can salvage things, but dammit dammit dammit dammit fink turd bastard dammit. I gotta get this thing writ before everyone thinks I'm a full-scale plagarist, or the plot becomes unworkable. Thankfully, it DOES establish Mom as having several businesses, which lets me get away with Mom's Dystopia. (Oh God, I'm only two-thirds of the way through the episode....I'm liking it, but dammit...)

Well, I still have the Recollection Induction-Transcorder and the Gooey-Blooey Bubble Gun...

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Originally posted by BrainSluggo:
Oofah fey, I couldn't even tempt someone to illustrate my "edit" to A Pharoah To Remember with Leela all tied-up, greased-up, and writhing! If I could draw worth a fart, I'd do the whole thing as storyboards or a comic...

"I'd just die if Leandro or ]PaulFSAC[ or one of the other on-model heavy-hitters drew some illos," he said in his best 'girly' voice. (Squeal!) EDIT: TheVoices, too, oh God yes. 

heh heh heh, how nice, here's the sketch i said i'd do

 Picture Too Wide
   
it's still yet to finalised in photoshop though

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Voices, what happened to DI?
When is it back up?

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I got seriously cheesed off with it because of it's wank hosting and not having enough web space to add certain things, however I'm getting some better hosting and a .com domain after I've finished my GCSE's because then I'll have more spare time on my hands

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oh yeah i looking for a/some decent webmasters to help me out

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just a quick note about the pic. IMO the chains are too far apart... Torture chains, I would think, would be pretty standardized so that any victim could fit. Leela is fairly tall so I would think the part where chains are bolted to the wall would be closer in... Just my opinion.. Looks good tho... (Tho I wonder what could have torn up her pants like that. I thought I read some where that they were some new age super spandex or something  ... )

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Damn! you can draw very well voices.  Nice pic man!

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Oh! I just noticed... Doesn't Leela have a little more meat in the hips? Again just my opinion...
(I'm not trying to be rude or anything I just thought I'd give some constructive critisism  )

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Originally posted by Erdrik:
Oh! I just noticed... Doesn't Leela have a little more meat in the hips? Again just my opinion...
(I'm not trying to be rude or anything I just thought I'd give some constructive critisism    )

your damn right! i've just realised that!

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Originally posted by Erdrik:
just a quick note about the pic. IMO the chains are too far apart... Torture chains, I would think, would be pretty standardized so that any victim could fit. Leela is fairly tall so I would think the part where chains are bolted to the wall would be closer in... Just my opinion.. Looks good tho... (Tho I wonder what could have torn up her pants like that. I thought I read some where that they were some new age super spandex or something    ... )

thanks, i'll alter that, and about the pants, i'm aware that it says that on the back of the Leela figure, but the shirt was ripped so i had to rip her pants so that it 'looked the part' and besides it allowed be to flash her skimpy painties 

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hee hee! I was just pointing it out I wasn't complaining, RRRooooowwwl!   

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heh heh, and i wasn't arguing back, i prefer people to tell me what to do to improve my pics! rather than people to go 'Damn thats nice' or 'Leela looks seck-sy'

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lol yeah constructive feedback rocks ... I wish I got a little more of it.

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Originally posted by TheVoices:
heh heh, and i wasn't arguing back, i prefer people to tell me what to do to improve my pics! rather than people to go 'Damn thats nice' or 'Leela looks seck-sy'

DAMMIT TV!There's no possible way to improve your crap!Now shut up and draw s'more revealing pictures of Leela!

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Aw, me get horny...no problem, I'll fix that!

Couple of notes:

1) If you don't wanna, that's cool--but if you want to relate it to the "edit" of A Pharoah To Remember, she would need to be in her slave garb at that point...
2) Oh my yes, tighter IS better.
3) If you do finished color version, please please please don't forget the "glistening with persperation" effect!

Dirty boy! Dirty dirty dirty!
--Morgan Proctor, singing my theme song

[Reply #33 on:]

[Free Waterfall Jr.] Okay, Let's see some Amy pictures here -- I said DO IT... [/FWJ]

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amy pictures, hmmmmm, maybe, if someone gives me an idea for one, cos i'm to lazy to think of my own

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Well, the story's shaping up nicely now; very different from (and much better than) the original half-assed "treatment" I posted in this forum long, long ago. I might have it finished by the end of May but no promises. I lost an entire week to the flu; the same hour the fever "broke," I was scribbling madly away with maybe one hundred little notes-to-self. Now it's all ironing and editing and problemsolving. Hmm...maybe not so easy.

I was going to use a short gag involving Lrrr's reaction to the cancellation of Futurama, but because I already have a lot on my plate and I had no good spot to wedge it in, it's gone. (Lrrr's still got a bit part in the story, though.) So here's what I was going to do:

Omicron-Persei Eight: Undunda (sp?) watches Lrrr typing furiously at his PC.

Lrrr: "Ms. Berman, even for an Earthling female you are foolish and hormonal. How dare you ignore a petition of over fifty-five billion signatures in the Gamma Quadrant alone? I shall take unfathomable delight in defecating your remains. Frowny-face, frowny-face, obscene Earthling gesture. Lrrr."

Later on, in The 666th Day--the sequel to my fanfic which is itself a sequel to an episode gaaaah--Fry was going to save the entire galaxy from Mom by telling Lrrr that Mom was actually Gail Berman (after which Lrrr devours her). But that's too corny and I have other ideas in mind. By the time I get started on The 666th Day, everything may have changed anyway. 

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Originally posted by BrainSluggo:
Omicron-Persei Eight: Undunda (sp?) watches Lrrr typing furiously at his PC.

Lrrr: "Ms. Berman, even for an Earthling female you are foolish and hormonal. How dare you ignore a petition of over fifty-five billion signatures in the Gamma Quadrant alone? I shall take unfathomable delight in defecating your remains. Frowny-face, frowny-face, obscene Earthling gesture. Lrrr."

I like the line Frowny-face, frowny-face, obscene Earthling gesture. Typical Lrrr. 

I'm looking forward to reading the finished fic. The teaser was great.

 

Undunda (sp?)

According to David Cohen on the DVD her name is spelled "Ndnd".

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Originally posted by BrainSluggo:
Lrrr: "Ms. Berman, even for an Earthling female you are foolish and hormonal. How dare you ignore a petition of over fifty-five billion signatures in the Gamma Quadrant alone? I shall take unfathomable delight in defecating your remains. Frowny-face, frowny-face, obscene Earthling gesture. Lrrr."

i love that!
          I wish i could think of stuff like that!

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i just saw that picture, and i gotta say:
the voices, you instantly stop drawing leela that way, or you might convert me from an amy-fan to a leela-fan.

and about that co-webmaster thing: what would be the requirements?

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This is why nobody tries anymore...

I was just watching Chicken Run for the first time--yes, first time--and enjoying it immensely. Then, right at the climactic moment (first of several, actually), Ginger and Rocky trade some dialogue that, word for word, matched what I had planned between Fry and Leela (except that the kiss came first, slap second, and it was a pretty fierce beating instead of a slap).

[insert long string of violent cursing here]

Now it's either back to the drawing board for that scene--or I can play it off as a parody of Chicken Run. Yeah, parody, that's the ticket...the thing has already contained, at one point or another, parodies of Soylent Green, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Boys From Brazil, so why not? I'm just glad I saw the movie before I finished it and put it up somewhere and then had someone point the problem out to me...

Oh well, back at it then.