Futurama the Moon Will Rise Again

In Hypno-Vision

Now that Fry, Leela, and Bender take been hired past Planet Limited, the Professor assigns them their beginning mission: evangelize a crate of toys to the Moon, which, in a 1000 year's time, has become a cheesy, Disney Globe-style theme park. While Leela enjoys it, Fry wants to experience the moon the style Neil Armstrong "...and those other brave men no ane's ever heard of" did, which leads to trouble with a space redneck and his robot daughters.

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Tropes:

• Agitated Particular Stomping: The moon redneck does this with his lid when Fry, Leela, and Bender escape from him for the first fourth dimension. Later, afterwards Amy saves them from his thresher, the redneck does it over again with his space helmet... until he stops breathing.
• Alien Gender Defoliation: This is used to establish that Zoidberg knows naught of human medicine, including such basics as discerning genders.

  Fry: Uh, is there a human doc effectually?
  Zoidberg: Young lady, I'yard an expert on humans. Now option a mouth, open information technology and say... (lobster crow)
  Fry: (tris and fails to imitate lobster crow)
  Zoidberg: What?! My mother was a saint! Get OUT!

• Armor-Piercing Response: Fry geeks out when they come across the Apollo 11 landing site, simply Leela isn't impressed.

  Fry: Leela, isn't this the greatest thing you've always seen?

  Leela: Fry, look effectually! Information technology's just a crummy plastic flag and a expressionless man'south tracks in the grit!

• Bilingual Bonus: Amy's first advent also sets up the Running Gag of blasphemous in Cantonese when she's angry. When she fails to get the keys out of the crane machine, she yells "Aieyah! Jung lei! ngo da sei lei!" ("Good Grief, I hate you! I volition beat you senseless!").
• Breathy Lies: When Fry watches someone being carried off by a giant eagle in the Planet Express adverts, he asks whether they be. The Professor claims it'southward all only special effects and and so proceeds to make omelettes from giant bird eggs.
• Brick Joke: When Bender starting time flees from the redneck, Fry asks if he tried seducing the Crushinator. Bender angrily asserts he didn't, because he believes she needed 'romancing' first. Later, after he storms away from the Lunar Lander, he returns, chased by the Redneck considering he went back for the Crushinator.
  • Bender, and his reaction to magnets.
• Chekhov's Skill: Amy and the claw-game.
• Deep South: The redneck farmer... on the Moon. There is even a Confederate flag painted on his lunar machine. The Moon volition ascension again!
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: To Fry, the moon is a wondrous, magic unreachable place. To everybody else, it's just a hunk of rock with an amusement park y'all can reach in seconds. Nobody understands Fry'due south obsession with a hunk of lifeless dirt. It's non until Leela listens to Fry'due south explanation that she begins to actually understand what the things she takes for granted in her present must be like for someone from the past.
• Ear Worm: "Weeeee're whalers on the Moon..." Repeated many times within the episode, and Fry is clearly ill of it. Even Leela sings along at i point.
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • Hermes casually discusses all the ways Leela could die on the job with her while asking her to sign a liability waiver, then laughs in her face when she states that she intends to "do as little dying every bit possible".
  • Doctor Zoidberg's incompetence is established when he asks Fry to open his mouth in order to await at his brain. When Fry complies, Zoidberg says "No, no, non that mouth".
  • Amy'southward status as a Cute Clumsy Girl is set in stone the moment her hand slips and accidentally jabs Leela in the eye while cleaning Bender.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While this was a while before Bough was established as "Evil," he takes offense when Fry assumes he tried annihilation with the Crushinator. As he puts it, a adult female that fine deserves to be romanced offset. After implied he tried just that.
• Feet-First Introduction: Fry is nigh to enter Zoidberg'southward part for his concrete, and Farnsworth warns him that he is "a little" unusual, whispering, "He wears sandals." They so enter the function, and we go a closeup of Zoidberg'due south anxiety on his desk (showing he is indeed wearing sandals) before the camera pulls out to reveal Zoidberg himself.
• Foreshadowing: Bender proverb "I guess a robot would take to be crazy to wanna exist a folk vocalist" after singing a folk song due to having a magnet in his head becomes a Plot Bespeak for afterward episodes where Bender does become a folk singer.
• Time to come Imperfect: The people of the 31st century have forgotten the actual details of Project Apollo ^note About of them. There is manifestly a "Historical Sticklers Society.", which has been lost for centuries. For example, they mistake Ralph Kramden of The Honeymooners for a space pioneer because of his Catchphrase "Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!" (as said in the episode; see Axle Me Up, Scotty!), and believe in that location are "Whalers On The Moon".
• Gonky Femme: The Crushinator, a huge blocky robot with a masculine voice treated as a delicate beauty by Bough.
• Manus Moving ridge: Apollo xi never remained on the moon. This is explained by the "Historical Sticklers Society" putting 1 in that location, along with the flag (which was bleached white after being planted) and footsteps.
• Hayseed Name: Two of the Farmers Daughters are named Lulubelle and Daisy Mae; the third, of grade, is the Crushinator.
• Only Like Making Love: Parodied when Amy is trying to retrieve the keys to a spaceship from a claw arcade game.

  Bough: Come on, it'southward just similar making love. Y'know: Left, down, rotate 62 degrees, appoint rotor...
  Amy: Ugh, I know how to make love!

• The Load: When they get stuck in a crater's quicksand on the moon, Fry says, "It's no use! Every man for himself!", jumps out of the cart, gets stuck, and so cries, "Help me, Leela!"
• Lost Common Noesis: Although the moon has long since been colonized, the site of the Apollo 11 landing has been forgotten. Fry and Leela find it past sheer luck. A plaque inside suggests that it was restored some time between the 20th and 31st Century, then abandoned.
  • In a scrap of Refrigerator Luminescence, when Fry and Leela find the original Apollo eleven site, they have refuge in the rising stage of the Lunar Module. A plaque on one wall states "Placed here by the Historical Sticklers Society."
• The Homo in the Moon: Craterface, the mascot of Luna Park wearing a man-in-the-moon costume, to whom Bender shoves a beer bottle in his eye in a reference to the A Trip to the Moon ur-case.
• Magic Countdown: Parodied. Fry'due south excitement has him count down from x to i when the crew is taking off. They've already striking the amusement park on the moon and accept parked by the time he hits ane.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Zoidberg is not this.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis: The "Fungineers" who designed the Moon Landing 'historical' recreation with singing whale hunters every bit astronauts have certainly gotten their historical facts through popcultural osmosis.
  • Fungineering as a whole seems to be based on a massive foundation of Memetic Mutation.
• Second Episode Introduction: Zoidberg, Hermes and Amy.
• Shout-Out
  • Luna Park is named after i of the three original amusement parks in Coney Island.
  • Craterface, the entertainment park's mascot, gets a beer canteen shoved into his middle, resembling The Man in the Moon with a rocket ship crammed into his eye from the classic silent moving picture A Trip to the Moon.
  • The "Fungineers" are a reference/parody of the the Walt Disney Company's "Imagineers", who are responsible for designing and developing the Walt Disney theme parks.
  • At the site of Apollo 11, Fry recognizes the American flag as "that flag from MTV".
• Space Whale: Though there aren't whatever space whales seen in this episode, the theme park-employed "Fungineers" concluded that the moon was commencement visited by Infinite Whalers. They proceeded to create a theme-park ride based on this "fact".
  • Notably the adjacent line after the ones included in the folio quote is 'But there own't no whales, so we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tunes'.
• Get-go My Own: Trope Namer is based on a line Benders says when he is kicked out of Lunar Park, and afterward when Fry and Leela keep Bender out of the Apollo 11 lunar lander. The line has gone on to go a popular meme.

  Bough: Yeah, well, I'yard gonna go build my own theme park! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the park!

• The Terminal of These Is Not Like the Others: The Moon Hick's daughters; Daisy Mae 128-Yard, Lulubelle 7, and... The Crushinator.
• To Serve Human: The Horrible Gelatinous Hulk in the ad, who eats the hapless worker regardless of whether he had the required package or not.
• Very False Advertizement: Somewhat inverted. Fry is eager to visit the moon for the first time, only to end up visiting a large theme park with cheesy attractions. He hijacks a lunar rover to pause out and see the "existent" moon, which ends upwards almost killing him.
• Wanting Is Better Than Having: Fry, while in the lunar lander with Leela, describes the moon as a beautiful and romantic matter that seems just out of reach. Only now he knows that when y'all're really on information technology, it'due south but a big stone floating in space.
• We Take Reserves: The Planet Express ethos; "Our coiffure is replaceable, your packet isn't."
• Who Would Be Stupid Plenty?: When the Planet Express crew are browsing the moon souvenirs.

  Leela: Who buys this crap?
  Bough: Idiots who demand gifts for other idiots.
  (Fry walks in from off screen, wearing an "I'm With Stupid On The Moon" souvenir shirt and belongings two moon-themed fridge magnets)
  Fry: Hey, look what I got you lot guys!

• The Globe Is Just Awesome: Fry loves to be on the moon for the beginning time while Leela is thinking, 'it's just the moon, we travel to other planets all the time in the year 3000'. But by the end of the episode, Leela begins to empathize how astonishing the universe she lives in is to someone from the past.

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Bender: Oh, so yous tropers have been writing this recap without Bender, eh? Fine, I'll get write my own recap page! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the page and the blackjack! Ah, screw the whole thing.

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FuturamaS1E2TheSeriesHasLanded

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