Futruama Hat Moon Shall Rise Again

In Hypno-Vision

At present that Fry, Leela, and Bender have been hired by Planet Express, the Professor assigns them their get-go mission: deliver a crate of toys to the Moon, which, in a g twelvemonth'southward time, has go a cheesy, Disney Earth-style theme park. While Leela enjoys it, Fry wants to experience the moon the mode Neil Armstrong "...and those other brave men no i's ever heard of" did, which leads to trouble with a space redneck and his robot daughters.

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Tropes:

• Agitated Item Stomping: The moon redneck does this with his hat when Fry, Leela, and Bender escape from him for the first time. Later on, after Amy saves them from his thresher, the redneck does it again with his infinite helmet... until he stops animate.
• Conflicting Gender Confusion: This is used to establish that Zoidberg knows nothing of human being medicine, including such basics as discerning genders.

  Fry: Uh, is at that place a human doctor effectually?
  Zoidberg: Immature lady, I'yard an skillful on humans. Now selection a mouth, open it 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, but Leela isn't impressed.

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

  Leela: Fry, wait around! It's but a crummy plastic flag and a dead man's tracks in the dust!

• Bilingual Bonus: Amy's first appearance too sets up the Running Gag of cursing in Cantonese when she'south aroused. When she fails to get the keys out of the crane auto, she yells "Aieyah! Jung lei! ngo da sei lei!" ("Good Grief, I hate you! I will 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'south all just special furnishings and and so proceeds to make omelettes from giant bird eggs.
• Brick Joke: When Bender start 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. After, afterwards 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 fifty-fifty a Confederate flag painted on his lunar machine. The Moon volition rise once more!
• 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 you can attain in seconds. Nobody understands Fry's obsession with a hunk of lifeless clay. It'south not until Leela listens to Fry's explanation that she begins to really empathise what the things she takes for granted in her present must exist like for someone from the by.
• Ear Worm: "Weeeee're whalers on the Moon..." Repeated many times within the episode, and Fry is clearly sick of it. Fifty-fifty Leela sings along at one point.
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • Hermes casually discusses all the ways Leela could die on the chore with her while asking her to sign a liability waiver, and then laughs in her face when she states that she intends to "practise as lilliputian dying every bit possible".
  • Doctor Zoidberg'southward incompetence is established when he asks Fry to open his mouth in gild to look at his encephalon. When Fry complies, Zoidberg says "No, no, not that mouth".
  • Amy'south status as a Cute Clumsy Girl is set up in stone the moment her manus slips and accidentally jabs Leela in the eye while cleaning Bender.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While this was a while before Bender was established as "Evil," he takes offense when Fry assumes he tried anything with the Crushinator. As he puts it, a woman that fine deserves to be romanced offset. Afterward implied he tried but that.
• Feet-First Introduction: Fry is near to enter Zoidberg'south part for his physical, and Farnsworth warns him that he is "a footling" unusual, whispering, "He wears sandals." They so enter the office, and we get a closeup of Zoidberg's feet on his desk (showing he is indeed wearing sandals) before the camera pulls out to reveal Zoidberg himself.
• Foreshadowing: Bough saying "I guess a robot would accept to be crazy to wanna be a folk singer" after singing a folk song due to having a magnet in his caput becomes a Plot Indicate for later episodes where Bender does go a folk singer.
• Futurity Imperfect: The people of the 31st century have forgotten the bodily details of Project Apollo ^note Most of them. There is apparently 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!" (every bit said in the episode; meet Axle Me Up, Scotty!), and believe there are "Whalers On The Moon".
• Gonky Femme: The Crushinator, a huge blocky robot with a masculine voice treated as a fragile beauty by Bough.
• Hand Wave: Apollo 11 never remained on the moon. This is explained by the "Historical Sticklers Society" putting one there, 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.
• Just Similar Making Dearest: Parodied when Amy is trying to retrieve the keys to a spaceship from a claw arcade game.

  Bender: Come on, it's but like making love. Y'know: Left, downward, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor...
  Amy: Ugh, I know how to make love!

• The Load: When they get stuck in a crater'south quicksand on the moon, Fry says, "It's no apply! Every man for himself!", jumps out of the cart, gets stuck, and so cries, "Help me, Leela!"
• Lost Common Knowledge: Although the moon has long since been colonized, the site of the Apollo 11 landing has been forgotten. Fry and Leela find information technology by sheer luck. A plaque inside suggests that it was restored some fourth dimension between the 20th and 31st Century, then abandoned.
  • In a fleck of Fridge Brilliance, when Fry and Leela find the original Apollo 11 site, they take refuge in the rise stage of the Lunar Module. A plaque on ane wall states "Placed here by the Historical Sticklers Guild."
• The Man in the Moon: Craterface, the mascot of Luna Park wearing a human being-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-example.
• Magic Countdown: Parodied. Fry's excitement has him count down from 10 to ane when the coiffure is taking off. They've already hit the entertainment park on the moon and have parked by the time he hits i.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Zoidberg is non this.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis: The "Fungineers" who designed the Moon Landing 'historical' recreation with singing whale hunters as astronauts have certainly gotten their historical facts through popcultural osmosis.
  • Fungineering as a whole seems to exist based on a massive foundation of Memetic Mutation.
• Second Episode Introduction: Zoidberg, Hermes and Amy.
• Shout-Out
  • Luna Park is named later one of the three original amusement parks in Coney Island.
  • Craterface, the amusement park'due south mascot, gets a beer bottle shoved into his middle, resembling The Man in the Moon with a rocket ship crammed into his center from the classic silent picture show A Trip to the Moon.
  • The "Fungineers" are a reference/parody of the the Walt Disney Company'due south "Imagineers", who are responsible for designing and developing the Walt Disney theme parks.
  • At the site of Apollo eleven, Fry recognizes the American flag as "that flag from MTV".
• Space Whale: Though there aren't any space whales seen in this episode, the theme park-employed "Fungineers" concluded that the moon was kickoff visited by Space Whalers. They proceeded to create a theme-park ride based on this "fact".
  • Notably the next line afterwards the ones included in the page quote is 'But in that location ain't no whales, so nosotros tell alpine tales and sing our whaling tunes'.
• First My Ain: Trope Namer is based on a line Benders says when he is kicked out of Lunar Park, and later on when Fry and Leela proceed Bender out of the Apollo 11 lunar lander. The line has gone on to become a popular meme.

  Bender: Yeah, well, I'm gonna get build my own theme park! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the park!

• The Last of These Is Not Similar the Others: The Moon Hick's daughters; Daisy Mae 128-Grand, Lulubelle seven, and... The Crushinator.
• To Serve Man: The Horrible Gelatinous Blob in the advert, who eats the hapless worker regardless of whether he had the required package or non.
• Very Imitation Advertising: Somewhat inverted. Fry is eager to visit the moon for the beginning time, simply to end upwards visiting a big theme park with cheesy attractions. He hijacks a lunar rover to break out and run into the "existent" moon, which ends up almost killing him.
• Wanting Is Better Than Having: Fry, while in the lunar lander with Leela, describes the moon equally a beautiful and romantic thing that seems just out of achieve. Only now he knows that when you're actually on information technology, it's just a big rock floating in infinite.
• We Take Reserves: The Planet Express ethos; "Our crew is replaceable, your packet isn't."
• Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: When the Planet Limited crew are browsing the moon souvenirs.

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

• The World Is Just Awesome: Fry loves to be on the moon for the first time while Leela is thinking, 'information technology's just the moon, we travel to other planets all the time in the twelvemonth 3000'. But past the end of the episode, Leela begins to understand how amazing the universe she lives in is to someone from the by.

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Bough: Oh, then y'all tropers have been writing this recap without Bender, eh? Fine, I'll go write my own recap page! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the page and the blackjack! Ah, screw the whole affair.

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

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