Futurama / Season 2

Season 2 of Futurama
Episodes	19th
Country of production	United States , South Korea (animation)
First broadcast	Nov 21, 1999 - December 3, 2000 on Fox
German-language first broadcast	December 4, 2000 - March 11, 2002 on ProSieben
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The second production season of Futurama , a US science fiction - animated series consists of 19 episodes, the first time from 4 December 2000 at the American broadcaster Fox were seen. Fox basically stuck to the order of production, but did not broadcast the episodes as a coherent broadcast season, but moved the last four episodes into the third broadcast season.

With an Emmy for Wedding Anniversary on Cyclopia and an Annie Award for The Strange Behavior of Sexually Mature Crustaceans at Mating Season , work on individual episodes of the series was honored for the first time with significant awards. The first episode was also nominated for the same Annie that the other won. In addition, the episode Do you know Popplers? honored with an Environmental Media Award .

Episodes

See also : List of Futurama Episodes

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title subtitle	Original title Subtitle	Director	script	First broadcast
						No. ( total )	St.	No. ( St. )	Original version	German dubbed version
14th	1	Fancy a feeling chip? Made from meat by-products	I Second That Emotion Made from meat by-products	Mark Ervin	Patric Verrone	14th	2	5	Nov 21, 1999	0Dec. 4, 2000
Bender is jealous of Nibbler, who as Leela's pet gets more attention than him. When Nibbler eats Bender's cake at a party, Bender flushes him down the toilet. Unable to understand Leela's grief, the professor implants Bender a feeling chip. Since he has a guilty conscience about what he did, he goes in search of Nibbler, followed by Leela and Fry, into the sewer. There they meet mutants and a monster named El Chupanibre , who is ultimately defeated by Bender.
15th	2	Brannigan, start again. Not fit for 3000	Brannigan, Begin Again Not Y3K compliant	Jeffrey Lynch	Lewis Morton	15th	2	6th	Nov 28, 1999	Dec 11, 2000
At the inauguration ceremony for the new DOOP (Democratic Order Of Planets) headquarters, Zapp Brannigan accidentally blows up the building and is dishonorably dismissed along with Kif. After a while, they both find a job at Planet Express , where Zapp uses Fry's and Bender's dissatisfaction with Leela's management style for a mutiny . He then plans to attack the neutral planet Stumbos 4 in order to distinguish himself as a hero and to be accepted back into the DOOP. Since no one would survive this attack except for Zapp, Fry and Bender mutinate again and make Leela captain again.
16	3	Separated from head and body by the makers of Futurama	A Head in the Polls From the Makers of Futurama	Bret Haaland	J. Stewart Burns	16	2	7th	Dec 12, 1999	0Jan. 8, 2001
Due to a mining accident, titanium prices soar , so that Bender, who is 40 percent titanium, decides to sell his body to a pawnbroker . When he meets Richard Nixon's head, he discovers that life without a body is not very desirable. When he finally wants to buy his body back, he finds out that Nixon got ahead of him. Nixon wants to get around the two-term limitation for president with a new body. Bender manages to get his body back, but Nixon wins the election with one vote because Fry and Leela did not vote.
17th	4th	Xmas Story Based on a true story	Xmas Story Based on a true story	Peter Avanzino	David X. Cohen	17th	2	8th	Dec 19, 1999	Dec 18, 2000
Fry buys a parrot for Leela as a Christmas present, but it manages to escape. With sunset approaching, Leela goes in search of Fry to protect him from a robot Santa Claus. At Christmas he always hunts people who were “not good”; however, due to a programming error, he classifies almost everyone as "not good". Leela and Fry can escape to the Planet Express building and destroy Santa Claus in the bombproof fireplace.
18th	5	The strange behavior of sexually mature crustaceans during the mating season From the station that also presents "The Simpsons" to you	Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love? From the network that brought you "The Simpsons"	Brian Sheesley	Eric Kaplan	18th	2	9	0Feb 6, 2000	Jan. 15, 2001
To mate, Dr. Zoidberg on his home planet, the Planet Express crew accompanies him. With Fry's help he wants to win the heart of beautiful Edna. However, when Edna falls in love with Fry, Zoidberg challenges him to a life and death fight.
19th	6th	The choice for Miss Universum A show that looks back into the past	The Lesser of Two Evils The show that watches back	Chris Sauve	Eric Horsted	20th	2	11	Feb 20, 2000	Jan. 22, 2001
In a “past-time amusement park”, Fry meets Flexo, a robot that looks almost like Bender. Since the crew needed an additional security person for their new assignment, the transport of a rare and expensive atomic diadem to a beauty contest, Flexo was added to the team. Shortly before the spaceship lands, the diadem disappears. The suspicion falls on flexo. In a fight between Flexo and Bender during the beauty pageant, Bender turns out to be the real thief. Nevertheless, because of the visual similarity, Flexo is arrested.
20th	7th	Valentine's Day 3000 Not based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper	Put Your Head on My Shoulders Not based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper	Chris Louden	Ken Keeler	19th	2	10	Feb 13, 2000	Feb 12, 2001
On a trip in Amy's new car that breaks down the car, Fry and Amy decide to go out. Fearing a serious relationship, Fry asks Zoidberg to come with him next time. However, Zoidberg causes a serious accident and, in order to save Fry, has to transplant his head onto Amy's shoulders. As a result, Fry involuntarily has to attend Amy's Valentine's Day.
21st	8th	Like a Wild Bender Nominated for three Glemmys	Raging Bender Nominated for three Glemmys	Ron Hughart	Lewis Morton	21st	2	12	Feb. 27, 2000	Jan. 29, 2001
Bender knocks down another robot in the cinema and is then hired as a professional robot fighter. After a series of victories, he finds out that all fights are rigged and basically the most popular fighter comes out of the ring as the winner. When his popularity begins to decline, he is said to purposely lose the next fight. Leela helps Bender win the fight after realizing that the coach of Bender's opponent is her old kung fu teacher who did not support her in her childhood.
22nd	9	Wedding Anniversary on Cyclopia This episode has been modified to fit your primitive screen.	A Bicyclops Built for Two This episode has been modified to fit your primitive screen	Susan Dietter	Eric Kaplan	22nd	2	13	19 Mar 2000	0Feb 5, 2001
Leela meets another one-eyed man. This is called the Alcazar. He makes Leela believe that he and she are the last ones left after her home planet Cyclopia has been destroyed. Leela moves to Alcazar and decides to marry him and to re-establish the civilization of her people. Fry, however, reveals Alcazar as a shapeshifter who wanted to get four more women to marry him on the same day with appropriate deceptions.
23	10	Like the father like the clone Will appear shortly on an illegal DVD	A Clone of My Own Coming soon to an illegal DVD	Rich Moore	Patric M. Verrone	24	2	15th	0Apr 9, 2000	Feb 26, 2001
When Professor Farnsworth's 160th birthday is approaching, he, like all 160-year-olds, is to be put on a death spaceship. Farnsworth chooses his clone Cubert as his successor. When Farnsworth disappears, the crew goes in search of him. The crew members finally find him in the death spaceship, free him and return to Earth. There Cubert succeeds in returning the professor to the state of a 140-year-old.
24	11	The Rhythm Refund As prophesied by Nostradamus	How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back As foretold by Nostradamus	Mark Ervin	Bill Odenkirk	23	2	14th	0Apr 2, 2000	Feb 19, 2001
Bender, who cheated while playing cards, tries to hide in Hermes office. However, he is discovered by the cheated and in the subsequent brawl, Hermes office is devastated. Since Hermes bureaucrat of Planet Express and pending his promotion, he does not exist because of the clutter in his office control and is dismissed. However, the checker falls in love with Fry, because his untidy way of life contrasts with her clean world. Bender discovers the secret and is robbed of his brain by the controller. Hermes, whose Dr. Zoidberg's supposed vacation spot is in truth a work colony, organizes the work there more tightly and is allowed to return - and receives permission from the head bureaucrat to sort all files that have not yet been processed, including Bender's brain on a diskette. This episode also offers a great musical performance.
25th	12	Deep in the south Strict warning of what is to come	The Deep South A star warning of things to come	Bret Haaland	J. Stewart Burns	25th	2	16	Apr 16, 2000	05th Mar 2001
The crew goes fishing in the Atlantic . Bender's makeshift fishing rod gets caught in a giant fish that pulls the ship to the bottom of the sea. Since the ship's engines do not work there, Bender, Dr. Zoidberg and Fry hit the ocean floor to look for something to eat. Fry meets a mermaid . It turns out that at some point in the 21st century , the city of Atlanta was relocated to the sea due to a lack of tourists, but then went under due to the weight. The residents were transformed into mermaids by the leak of cola from a factory so that they could go on living underwater. Fry decides to stay with the people in town, but ultimately drives back to the surface with the others anyway because he cannot cope with the mating rituals.
26th	13	Alone against the robot mafia A reflection of the demands of crazy people	Bender Gets Made Simulcast on crazy people's fillings	Peter Avanzino	Eric Horsted	26th	2	17th	Apr 30, 2000	March 12 2001
The crew visited a show of the four-armed star chef Elzar, the Benders great role model is. But there is an accident in which Leela gets spices in her eye and therefore has to wear an eye patch for a week. Elzar therefore invites them to dinner. However, he still bills them for the food that the friends cannot pay for. Bender then suggests helping out in the restaurant. At work, he meets the boss of the robot mafia and starts working for him. On his second assignment, Bender is supposed to attack the Planet Express spaceship. By changing his voice, he can cover up his participation in the attack from the crew and then leaves the mafia.
27	14th	Mother's Day larvae tested ... pupae approved	Mother's Day Larva-tested pupa-approved	Brian Sheesley	Lewis Morton	28	2	19th	May 14, 2000	0Apr 2, 2001
It 's Mother's Day , so almost all robots come to the factory of Mom, who makes most of the robots, to give her presents. However, this year Mom is saddened by the end of a relationship with Professor Farnsworth 70 years ago. Using a remote control that Mom has built into the robots, she orders them to rebel against humans in order to usurp world domination. In order to stop her, the professor has to seduce her again in order to get the remote control with which Mom controls the robots. He succeeds in doing this, but when Mom finds out that this was all part of the plan, she throws the professor out, so that everything is back to normal.
28	15th	Do you know Popplers? For external use only	The Problem with Popplers For external use only	Chris Sauve, Gregg Vanzo	Patrick M. Verrone, Darin Henry	27	2	18th	0May 7, 2000	19 Mar 2001
Leela, Bender and Fry are looking for something to eat on a seemingly uninhabited planet. You come across very tasty, difficult to define lumps and decide to sell these lumps on earth under the name "Popplers". Leela finds out that the "Popplers" are children of alien monsters from the planet Omikron Persei 8. As revenge, the Omikroners want to devour a person for every Poppler. After negotiations with Zapp Brannigan, they reduce their claim to Leela, since she was the first to eat a poppler. Captain Brannigan tries to save Leela and puts an orangutan in front of the short-sighted Omicronier , but an animal rights activist exposes the fraud. Shortly before Leela is devoured, the little poppler appears, which Leela did not eat because she realized that it was a living being. Instead, the Omikroners eat the animal rights activist and leave.
29	16	Stories of Interest I Carefully drawn in front of an audience	Anthology of Interest I painstackingly drawn before a live audience	Chris Louden, Rich Moore	Eric Rogers, Ken Keeler, David X. Cohen	29	2	20th	May 21, 2000	0Apr 9, 2001
Professor Farnsworth made a sensational invention: the "what-if machine". Of course, everyone wants to see what their lives would have been like if ... Bender was 150 meters tall, for example, or Leela was a little more impulsive - she'd kill everyone - or what would have become of Fry had he not been frozen. He would have been captured by Stephen Hawking and Al Gore , and the universe would have destroyed itself on its own.
30th	17th	War on Spheron One Touch the screen with your eyeballs for cheap laser surgery	War Is the H-Word Touch eyeballs to screen for cheap laser surgery	Ron Hughart	Eric Horsted	31	3	2	Nov 26, 2000	04th Mar 2002
Fry and Bender join the army as volunteers, but actually only to get a soldier discount card. As soon as they have registered, they must promptly go to war against intelligent balls that populate the planet Spheron One, which DOOP claims for itself. Little do they know that Leela also reported herself disguised as a man to protect her friends, knowing that the two would be lost without her. The army is led by Zapp Brannigan, who, despite disguise, approaches Leela. Despite Leela's outstanding efforts, the DOOP troops cannot defeat the balls. Bender, who has saved his comrades through a heroic action, is sent to the balls "as a reward" together with Henry Kissinger as negotiator, but is secretly equipped with a speech- detonated bomb, while Fry is assigned as Kif's adjutant for cowardice (as simpler As a soldier, he could no longer be demoted ). When Fry and Leela find out about the bomb, they set out to save Bender, who uses the bomb to extort the balls, ultimately winning the war for the worthless planet.
31	18th	This eerie horn scent-O-Vision participants should now put on the nasal tube	The Honking Smell-O-Vision users insert nostril tubes now	Susie Dietter	Ken Keeler	30th	3	1	0Nov 5, 2000	Feb 25, 2002
When Bender spends a scary night in his deceased uncle's castle, he is hit by a car. After a short time, Fry and Leela find out that the car that Bender hit was a werecar (i.e. a robot that turns into a car at night, see Werewolf ), and that Bender is now under the same curse . To solve it, they travel around the world in search of the original Werwagen, only to finally destroy the first Werwagen and free Bender from the curse.
32	19th	The woman who came out of the cold No substitute for human interludes	The Cryonic Woman Not a substitute for human interaction	Mark Ervin	J. Stewart Burns	32	3	3	0Dec 3, 2000	11th Mar 2002
After Leela left the keys in the Planet Express ship, Bender and Fry secretly fly around with them. They are blown up, Leela, Bender and Fry are released. Leela plants himself and Fry back in the career chips from the first episode, but accidentally swaps them. Leela has to work as a pizza delivery woman, Bender and Fry start in the thawing station. Fry meets his old love Michelle from 2000, who was also frozen there after Fry's disappearance . The two get together again, but Michelle is not feeling well in 3000 and persuades Fry to let themselves be frozen together for another 1000 years. They thaw again in the middle of a dusty wasteland and shortly afterwards are ambushed and captured by a gang of children . Michelle nags Fry all the time, so they split up after they're released. Fry finds a city and meets the entire Planet Express crew there, who explain to him that he was only frozen for two days and ended up in Los Angeles .

Guest appearances

Al Gore spoke of his scarred alter ego during his tenure as Vice President of the United States

• Bob Barker as himself in The Miss Universe Vote
• Donovan as himself in Deep South
• Nora Dunn as Morgan Proctor in The Rhythm Refund
• John Goodman as robot Santa in Xmas Story
• Al Gore as himself in Stories of Interest I.
• Gary Gygax as himself in Stories of Interest I.
• Stephen Hawking as himself in Stories of Interest I.
• Phil Hendrie as Free Waterfall Jr. in Do You Know Popplers?
• Rich Little as himself in Like a Wild Bender
• Nichelle Nichols as Herself in Stories of Interest I.
• Conan O'Brien as himself in Xmas Story
• Parker Posey as Umbriel in Deep South
• Claudia Schiffer as herself separated from head and body
• Pauly Shore as himself in The Woman Who Came Out of the Cold

publication

watch TV

The first episode of Futurama's second production season was first seen on television on November 21, 1999, making it the fifth episode of the second broadcast season. The station Fox had started this month with the last four, previously unpublished episodes of the first production season , after it had prematurely interrupted their broadcast after nine of thirteen episodes.

As a result, Fox Futurama always broadcast on Sundays. In three cases, the slots for consecutive episodes were swapped. As a result, it was achieved, for example, that the broadcast date of the episode Valentine's Day 3000 fell directly before Valentine's Day .

Incidentally, the broadcast was characterized by several interruptions, some of which lasted for weeks. For example, after the Christmas episode Xmas Story , which was shown on December 19, 1999, the show did not resume until early February. Only one episode was shown in March.

After a total of twenty episodes, the first broadcast of the second season ended on May 21, 2000 with Stories of Interest I , so that three episodes of the second production season fell into the third broadcast season. They were shown on television between November 5 and December 3, 2000.

Home theater

Futurama was released on DVD and other storage media in the order and seasons of production . The second production season was available as Futurama: Volume Two from August 12, 2003 in the USA. It was released in a box set of four DVDs or , alternatively, four VHS cassettes. In later publications, the spelling changed to Futurama: Volume 2 .

Awards

For her work on the episode Wedding Anniversary on Cyclopia , Bari Kumar won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation . In addition, director Susie Dietter was nominated for an Annie Award in the Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television Production category. However, she had to admit defeat to her colleague Brian Sheesley, who was also suggested in this category with the episode The Strange Behavior of Sexually Mature Crustaceans at Mating Season and she won. In addition, the episode Do You Know Popplers? in the same year with an Environmental Media Award in the category Comedy - TV Episodic .

Web links

• Episode list for Futurama from fernsehserien.de (German)
• Episode list for Futurama from FuturamaPedia (German)
• Futurama (Season 2) in The Infosphere (English)
• List of episodes for Futurama in the Internet Movie Database (German / English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andy Patrizio: Futurama Volume Two. Lots of extras accompany this great set. In: IGN.com . August 4, 2003, accessed November 1, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Futurama - Volume Two DVD. (No longer available online.) In: IGN.com . Archived from the original on September 23, 2012 ; accessed on November 1, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ VHS releases. In: The Infosphere. Retrieved November 1, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Kyle Nolan: Cool New Cover Art on FUTURAMA Vol. 1-4 DVD Re-releases. June 8, 2012, accessed November 1, 2012 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} Awards for Futurama. In: IMDb . Retrieved June 17, 2010 (English). 
6. ↑ List of the Annie Award nominees and laureates 2000. International Animated Film Society, accessed on June 17, 2010 (English).