A Flight to Remember

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"A Flight to Remember"
Peter Avanzino
Written byEric Horsted
Production code1ACV10
Original air dateSeptember 26, 1999 (1999-09-26)
Episode features
Opening captionFilmed On Location
Opening cartoon"Space Station" from Clutch Cargo (1959)
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"A Flight to Remember" is the tenth episode in the

LaBarbara Conrad. The episode is a direct parody of the 1997 film Titanic.[1][2]

Plot

her parents, who attempt to set Amy up with a date. Amy claims Fry is her boyfriend
, making Leela jealous.

Bender meets the Countess again and falls in love with her. She learns Bender is a broke low-life, but tells him that she is not interested in his wealth; she loves him for his personality.

Kif
calls Brannigan to the bridge; a new course Brannigan chose has endangered the ship.

Brannigan pilots the ship too close to a

Zoidberg
holds it open a few inches, but the door release is on the other side. Hermes limbos under the door. Arriving at the escape pods, they meet Amy's parents, who have found Amy a new boyfriend: Kif. After waiting as long as they can for Bender, the crew launches the escape pod. Bender leaps from the Titanic, Countess in tow. He grabs the escape pod, but they exceed the weight limit. The Countess sacrifices herself, allowing the others to escape, upsetting Bender. Entering the pod, a heartbroken Bender says he will have her diamond bracelet to remind him of her. Hermes examines it and tells Bender that it is fake, causing him to immediately break down and cry.

Production

This episodes features the beginning of the relationship between Kif Kroker and Amy Wong. The relationship was originally meant to be a one–off joke; however, the writers found it to be convenient and used it in later episodes.

LaBarbara Conrad are first introduced in the episode.[citation needed
]

Reception

Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B+, stating, "...Enough of these jokes land to keep the storyline moving (the Love Boat riff was a nice touch), and the advantage of an episode like this one, which has so much going on at once, is that nothing really overstays its welcome. That also means that there’s no time to dig deep into any single story, but given the general, genial shallowness of all this, that’s probably for the best."[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Cohen, David X (2003). Futurama season 4 DVD commentary for the episode "Kif gets Knocked Up a Notch" (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
  2. ^ Booker, M. Keith. Drawn to Television: Prime-Time Animation from The Flintstones to Family Guy. pp. 115–124.
  3. ^ Handlen, Zack (December 11, 2014). "Futurama: "Hell Is Other Robots"/"A Flight To Remember"". The A.V. Club. Retrieved January 6, 2022.

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