#<-kif from futurama:

[insectsinsects]

when my sisters are like let's get a meal and it pushes back getting another atrocious fivedollar footlong that i'll surely eat in 8 minutes is a blessing and a curse.

[cyborgsgrl]

It's crazy to think that after all this time we finally get to see Kif and Amy’s babies. Looking forward to it!!

[bunwarmer]

y’all this is NOT a DRILL now who the fuck was going to tell me there’s a futurama reboot and in it Kif and Amy’s babies come out of the swamp 20 years after they’re born??? in real life??? just like in the actual lore of the show?? like literally they’ve waited since 2003 and now they’re ready.

anyway tdlr: my blorbos are parents now

[unrated-g]

this quiz sorts through characters from like dozens of fandoms and finds the one you’re most like. I’m not even a little bit surprised by my result

[finalexpenses]

Wgat do you mean there isnt a fortnite amy wont skin . shes literally cute

[ladybender]

Jesus oh my god...

Futurama's second episode of this season "Quids Game" was a punch in the guts. In a good way! It goes right on par with episodes like "Cold Warriors" and "Game of Tones": an exploration of Fry's childhood, this time through the lens of mean aliens making him relieve his 8th birthday party games - this time to the death!

I have a lot to say about this episode so buckle up!

Let's start off with some minor complains I have for this one, which are pacing, stakes, and Leela's characterization (in a particular scene).

The episode really flew by so fast, almost at a break-necking pace, and the games felt too short and jam-packed because of that. The emotional weight of the end of each game hits hard because with every one a beloved character dies. There managed to find the time to get the reaction for the major ones (Kif, Leela's parents and grandmother), which is great, but the episode moves so quickly and there is little more time to absorbed it all.

Though, about this issue, I wanna say that I often feel like episodes are either going by too fast or too slow the first time I watch them and it usually doesn't feel the same from a second watch onward. so this is really a minor one that might not even be an problem for me later on, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

moving on to stakes, with this I mean that I originally thought, before the episode aired, that the end goal of the death dame was that the winner would get a prize. A birthday gift for example, and it would have incentivized everyone to go on and even play dirty (which, in retrospect, seems like a really smart thing to put in! compare everyone trying to get an advantage to Fry absolutely refusing to cheat, and pack an even bigger punch with that ending). I suppose playing to survive is motivation enough, but I think it undermines the "wants" of most other characters, and since this was a big coral episode (which is absolutely a strength! I can only imagine how hard it must have been to put together, wow!) I would have loved to see them striving to win, guess what their “birthday wish” would have been, maybe even learn a few of them along the way.

The third iffy thing I want to mention is Leela in the scene in the kitchen. There are seven characters left in the competition and only four baseballs to find to win the round. Leela is panicking trying to find one and she begs fry to cheat and find it for her since he already played when he was a kid and knows the house. Now this conflict was SO good and ALMOST perfect, but whyyyy oh why was Leela so ready to leave Fry behind??? doesn't make sense to me??? I know she was scared and upset bc she had just lost her family and that probably pushed her to act irrationally, but I just can't see her only wanting to keep herself alive and not Fry, especially when an easier and stronger solution is RIGHT THERE.

Have Leela go to Fry already with one of the baseball (that she might have found in some crawled and ridiculous place, to show how desperate she is to win and survive. if you have the wish giving stakes it's even better because you can imagine she'd use her gift to bring her parents back). in the meantime, the other characters find two other balls so there is only one left, and NOW Leela begs Fry to cheat to find the last one and win with her. It's even more emotional, Leela tells him she doesn't want to lose him too but Fry categorically doesn't want to cheat, and in the end tells Leela to win without him, sacrificing himself for her. Bender finds the last ball in the fridge and the episode continues just like we saw (with Bender tossing the ball to someone else right before being pulverized lol. like I said, Bender should be cheating like MAD in these games, really drive home the concept).

I wanna make it clear that these complains don't really turn me off from the whole episode, they are just my free flow of thoughts on stuff that i thought could have been stronger.

But now for the meat. This episode was phenomenal!!! so much good Fry's family characterization and SO much to unpack for Fry as a character. Cody Ziglar has such a spot on take on Fry, it was so validating seeing this episode and putting together all the little pieces of Fry's psyche I’ve picking out for years now, converging into one.

It seems superficial at first glance, but this really runs deeper than it looks. Fry has always been earnest but insecure, proven and proven again in countless episodes. You expect a person goofy and easygoing like Fry to go ham at his birthday and celebrate with all the people he loves, but we find out Fry doesn't like his birthday and feels bad about being put at the center of attention, and it all goes deeper and more upsetting from there.

Adding to all of this and speaking about Fry’s parents, especially his mom, I wanna add that it’s such a realistic conflict it was painful to watch – she wanted to give her son the chance to be a winner, she had no idea how the situation would turn against him. Sometimes a good day of parenting could be the kid’s most terrible experience of his life, and that’s brutal but the parent meant well even if they ruined things for their kid. It’s so sad Fry never got to see how much his mom and dad did for him, and she wanted him to feel like a winner, but this isn’t a story with an easy resolution. It’s bittersweet and it's insane and this last scene ruined me fr, like just look at this what the hell

This exploration of Fry goes hand in hand with everything we know of him. it seamlessly adds another layer of understanding that I’m honestly not even sure I can unpack in a single post, because there is so much to say and draw conclusions from, starting from the very first episode and ending with Meanwhile. From his relationship with his parents and his brother, to his love life and friendships, from his view of himself as a loser to the way he's always striving to better himself while always staying true to himself, trying to achieve his goals the hard way instead of finding an easy way out. Think the why of Fry, Parasite Lost, TKOS, the sting, godfella, my three suns, BBS, cold warriors, and on and on and on. It’s building together a picture of Fry’s character that’s so complex and worth exploring.

With this episode we have a new fundamental facet of him, and for this alone it’s an amazing episode.

I’ll mail my therapy bill to the writers, thank you

And thank you for reading, let me know your thoughts and opinion, I wanna know what y’all thought about this episode

[tboyswag]

lieutenant kif kroker from futurama has tboy swag!

[wilwheaton]

Do you like Futurama and if so what's your favorite line from the show?

I love the first three seasons to death. When they came back after that long hiatus, something changed and I didn't love it as much.

I don't have a single favorite line, but I love the stuff all of us love: "Kif, I have made it with a woman. Inform the men."

"I think I've been to enough conventions to know how to spell 'Melllvar'."

"Everyone experiences the upgrade differently."

"Shut up, baby, I know it!"

And, of course, Fry's dog. 😭

[thesoftboiledegg]

"Children of a Lesser Bog" was such a sweet episode--well, for the most part. Animals and insects (and Zoidberg) eating most of the children at the beginning was pretty dark. I realize that the writers didn't want thirty kids running around, but that scene caught me off guard. Still, reducing the number of kids to three allowed Kif and Amy to form close, loving bonds with them.

One of the issues that I had with the Comedy Central run was an overreliance on shock humor and "awkwaaard" scenes, so I've enjoyed watching Futurama return to the goofy, laugh-out-loud humor that made the show famous. The CC episodes also had a lot of pacing issues, but this episode had perfect timing. Believe me, I was counting down the minutes, hoping the writers wouldn't rush the ending.

Lauren Tom gave a great performance. Amy's voice has so much emotion as she cries, worries and makes sacrifices for her children. She had to mature pretty quickly--she'd forgotten all about the kids until her calendar suddenly reminded her--and she was up for the challenge.

I also loved the sweet moment between Amy and Leela. I hated the "Amy and Leela secretly hate each other because they're women" narrative that stretched all the way back to the original run and was afraid it would continue when Amy showed jealousy toward Leela. But instead, Amy apologized and told Leela that she knew she'd be a great mother if she ended up with the kids.

The kids gravitating toward Leela was a smart touch. She DID give them her DNA! Like Kif and Amy, she struggled with the responsibility of suddenly having three kids, but she did her best.

I did notice that Fry was barely in this episode. Some of Leela's jokes sounded like they'd be better suited for Fry, like when she was sucking the jelly out of a doughnut with a straw. As others have pointed out, Fry sounds a little rough--to be fair, Billy West is 71--so I wonder if that's why he's taken a backseat.

In any case, I've enjoyed seeing characters from older seasons return. This time, it was the whale biologist. These cameos don't seem like nostalgia bait; instead, they're loving callbacks.

The plot wasn't anything mindblowing--a couple has to deal with the challenges of suddenly raising kids has been done a million times--but the writing was so sweet, funny and charming that I didn't even notice. "I, Roommate" from season one also has a cliche plot, and it's one of my favorite episodes.

We're only two episodes in, but I feel like we're watching both the series and the characters grow up. Futurama is still a little dark and cynical, but it's taking on a sweeter tone without being corny. This is what I wanted from the Comedy Central run, and we're finally getting there.

[artist-emerald]

My theory on Troll Reproduction

(This was doing numbers on Twitter, so i thought I'd put it here as well)

I theoroze thag Trolls reproduce based on love and affection, and who they receive the most from.

When a Troll receives the deep emotional feelings of romantic love, care, and devotion, they enter a reproductive state. (Similar to how Kif from Futurama gets pregnant.) And depending on who makes a Troll feel loved and cared for, an egg can be of multiple parents or a single parent.

For example: At the very beginning of Trolls 2, Guy Diamond lays an egg that gives us Tiny Diamond. Guy Diamond gets a lot of screen time in the shows, and the one thing that stands out about him is that he really loves himself. There was an entire episode, in fact, where he went too far and became completely narcissistic, which led to him losing all of his glitter. He never seriously dates anyone, he never shows any deep romantic feelings with anyone else, and just looking at Tiny Diamond, there aren't any physical characteristics that would point to a second parent.

Now, does this mean that Trolls don't have sex? That depends on if you believe these little creatures have genitalia in the first place. That's as far as I will go on that subject.

Either way, Trolls are capable of reproducing with other species. Bruce being a good example.

You might also ask; does this mean 2 Trolls in a relationship can each make an egg?

Absolutely!

Personally, I hope that if/when Branch and Poppy have kids, they each lay an egg! They definitely seem like a couple who would not be limited to 1 child.

In summarizing conclusion:

Troll feels intense emotional TLC

Troll enters reproductive state

Egg

[cinnamnt]

see i’ve always thought that amy and kif from futurama are t4t lesbians

[lenny-zesty]

welcome to the masterlist of characters ive been compared to

-luigi -lenny (shark tale) -bakugou -the mayor (ppg) -the slimes from slime rancher that shit money -pancake (60 seconds) -stitch -cyn (murder drones) -charlie dompler in a maid dress (smiling friends) -kif (futurama)

[zappsbrannigan]

If you're interested in requests still, would you be willing to draw a crossover with Futurama and Higurashi? I myself like taking characters from one piece of media and putting them in situations of another for AU reasons (for example, I have a Corpse Party AU for Futurama, but also wouldn't mind just seeing crossover art with the characters of both if that makes sense), so I think it would be interesting to either see how different Futurama characters would be in a Higurashi AU OR just interacting with the characters as a whole.

For instance, I think it'd be cool to see characters like Kif or Zapp dealing with the effects of Hinamizawa Syndrome, but I'd also like to see how they'd interact with other characters in the actual show. That said, whatever you want to do is up to you, I just want to see more Futurama AUs/crossovers yk?

u gave me a lot of ideas the eventually i might draw later!! omg you're a visionary anon but for now i managed to doodle this : P

[losergendered]

ID: a set of 60 images in 30 pairs. each has one image of the listed character from futurama with a white outline in front of their corresponding flags, and a second image which is a blank flag splice. END ID

Philip J. Fry from Futurama is a bipan nonbinary man with autism, ADHD, and PTSD that uses he/they!

His girlfriend is Leela, a transgender, intersex, aceflux woman that uses she/her and xe/xem! She has autism, ADHD, anxiety and PTSD!

Philip's nephew, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, is a bisexual man with synthesia who is neurodivergent! Philip is his 30-times great uncle!

Philip's best friend is Bender, a bisexual robot with autism, NPD, HPD, and depression that is okay with being addressed with he/him!

Amy Wong is a straight demigirl who is autistic, has an eating disorder, and is hypersexual! She goes by zi/her!

Her boyfriend is Kif, a genderfae, paraboy, aliengender, asexual, bi straight, ply straight alien with anxiety, PTSD, and autism! Kif goes by any neutral-based masculine pronouns!

Hermes Conrad is an omni straight, omniflux man with OCD and anxiety!

He is married to LaBarbara, an intersex, nonbinary woman who is a straight sex-favorable asexual! She is also polyamorous!

Their son is Dwight Conrad, who is a trans boy that is gay and questioning his romantic orientation!

He is best friends with Hubert's son, Cubert, who is a pansexual boy!

Hubert is close friends with John F. Zoidberg, an abrosexual, omnipan, straight, AMAB, transmasc decapodian that is autistic and has OCD, depression and ADHD!

Calculon is a heteroflexible, quoiflux, bifluid manbot that is neurodivergent!

Linda van Schoonhoven is a butch-femme, trans lesboy that uses she/xi/he, is autistic and has depression!

Xi is friends with Morbo, an aroace, bi turian, aplatonic alien with bipolar disorder!

Randy Munchnik is a femme, trans gay man with autism!

Hubert's rival, Professor Ogden Wernstrom, is a polysexual man with synthesia!

Hurbert ex-lover, Carol Miller, who also goes by "Mom," is a frayromantic, asexual woman with NPD and bipolar disorder!

Her eldest son, Walt, is trans and gay!

Walt's young brother, Larry, is agender and uranic!

Their younger maternal half-brother, Igner, is xenogender and marsic!

All three brothers are autistic!

Leela's parents, Turanga Morris and Munda, are both intersex, genderless, T4T mutants!

Yivo is an agender, genderless, abrosexual, polyamorous being! Shklee's sexuality is fluid between omnipan, omnisexual, pansexual, omniflux, panflux, pan gaybian, omni gaybian, mesque, and violenatian! Yivo's pronouns are shklee/shkler!

Roberto is a demiboy, masculine, demisexual, trans manbot who is gay and uses he/it! Roberto has psychosis, is schizospec, has PTSD, is autistic and has ADHD!

The Donbot is a mafiacoric, libramasculine straight manbot! The

Donbot's wife, Fanny, is a sex-ambivalent, high femme, asexual heteroromantic fembot!

Their daughter, Bella, is a nonbinary, femme, dyke, straightbian, lesboy who uses feminine and neutral pronouns!

Joey Mousepad is a demisexual, genderqueer, fag, gay manbot who is dyslexic, has ADHD and uses he/xe/they!

His colleague/friend is Francis X. "Clamps" Clampazzo, who is nonbinary, an azurenby, butch, masculine, toric, and gay! He is auDHD, dyslexic, bipolar, has PTSD, and uses they/he/xe/she pronouns!

The Robot Devil is a transmascfem, trans/FTM, transsexual, GNC, genderfluid, aroacespec, frayromantic, greyromantic, nebaeromantic, demisexual, demiT4T, ambiamorous, femme, masculine, turigirl, gay man! He is pronounfluid depending on what his gender is and goes by the name "Bee" which is short for Beelzebot! He uses he/him for when masc presenting, she/her for fem presenting, they/them for neutral presenting, no pronouns for no gender presenting, they/he for masc/neu presenting, they/she for fem/neu presenting, he/she for masc/fem presenting, and all pronouns for masc/fem/neu/non-gender presentation! He has autism, BPD, anxiety, PTSD and hypersexuality!

For @transsexual-jackskellington !

[frosted-plasma]

what’s your thoughts on the Futurama revival

Anon I'm so sorry you're going to be victim to the longest post you will ever see. I hate it I hate it I hate it

HUGE /neg rant incoming (this show is my special interest and has been for YEARS. This will all be rambling)

THEY FUCKING COMPLETELY DISREGARDED "MEANWHILE." It directly contradicts it. "I offered to reset time to the moment before time stopped!" Okay, but you didn't though. The entire tragedy of the ending was that they'd be doomed to relive their lives from the moment they met (s1 e1) on loop. "Want to go around again?" Okay so that line doesn't make sense anymore!!! I had theories upon theories before the season came out and I was beyond disappointed. This show has shown it can do deep thought-out themes, I was fully hoping for them to show them reliving the past again, maybe its their 1,000th time reliving it, maybe Fry or Leela notices for once that something is familiar about it. Hell maybe there's a 1 in a million chance that they DON'T break the button! Free will and all, maybe things aren't 100% the same each run and they get lucky once. This also could have been used to recap old seasons for people who didn't rewatch them

They don't know how much time has passed?? I understand that was an excuse to make it the year 3023, but why would you do that? What's the point??

Things such as the Scary Door reboot don't make sense, not to mention the overuse of "haha it's a reboot!! Get it?? It's a reboot!! We got cancelled!!!" jokes but I'll get to that later. Timeline things just don't make sense anymore because of the time freeze. It's an awful awful awful writing choice. They unfroze time right where it paused, canonically, they show them unfreezing exactly there, it makes zero sense. How is there new technology and new TV shows when no time has passed. I'm ignoring that it's "10 years later" because it isn't, you can't just say that without showing it, it literally isn't

Even the smaller jokes feel very dragged out? Like Bender laughing at Fry setting a goal in episode one. He laughs and Leela smacks him, his head spins around and it's funny, then his body does an extra spin for no reason other than to emphasize that it's a joke? I guess? And then not even a minute later she slaps his hand again and it dramatically flies back and hits Zoidberg. Do you get what I'm saying? It's just too much focus on every single bit

I do like the updated intro! The added details to the city in the background is super super cool!! I love the thought they put into it (Bender hanging out of the ship on the magnet is a bit much considering all of the other references they included, but I'll let it slide. Just doesn't feel necessary to me in the intro)

The animation is rigged now:/ it's bound to happen nowadays, it just feels sad to look at for me (in general, not just with this show) the characters (ESPECIALLY Fry) feel very off model sometimes:(

Fry's hardly in the first episode. Odd writing choice considering he's the main character

Oh my GOD. The Hulu/reboot references. It's EXHAUSTING to watch. The amount of 2023 references they crammed into this season is physically painful, they drag them out for SO LONG

(in the first ep) the non-binary robots joke was funny and the scenes with Calculon and the Robot Devil were the only scenes that felt like old Futurama! Their voice acting was great and it was funny! The rest of the voice acting feels very lackluster and most of the other jokes just didn't get me

Calculon and the Robot Devil were the funniest characters, that's how dumbed down they made Bender, he's not my favorite that season

The plots are just. Bad. I hate to say it I really do. Shut up with the reboot jokes, the covid19 jokes, the only decent one was the bit mining episode because it actually used the idea as a real jumping off point and that episode still wasn't revolutionary. The other half of the episodes are pure callbacks. The one with Amy and Kifs kids was cute because it had a reason to exist! It wasn't a very funny episode but it was cute!! The other ones like the worm parasites in nibblers litter box (OR GOD FORBID THE ONE WHERE THE TIME MACHINE SHOWS UP OUT OF NOWHERE AGAIN WITH NO DRIVER??) make me MAD with how lazy of an excuse they are to cram in a reference without matching the rest of the lore

I'm fully assuming the reboot came from a place of love from the writers and the VAs but personally I didn't think the new season was very funny nor did it add anything new to the series, and it felt very very bland and dumbed down and I didn't even pay attention to the last few episodes because of it (that is saying something coming from me)

I rewatched the first episode for this so this is mainly talking about that one. Tell me if you want me to talk about the others I have so many thoughts this is me summarizing like all hell I hate the plots so much and this is my all time favorite show I'm still going to watch the next season and I still have high hopes for it

[mx-piggy]

I've decided that I'm going to be reviewing every episode from the new season of Futurama. No one asked, but, hey, it's my blog and I like to think people may have mild interest in my opinion. So, here are my thoughts on 'Children of a Lesser Bog'.

Once again, if you wanna chat about the episode in the notes (comments, rbs) or via DMs, feel free!

I really enjoyed this episode, I think more than I enjoyed the Impossible Stream. With the Impossible Stream, you had the novelty of 'hey, new Futurama!', with an okay story and some good jokes. But, I feel like this episode worked better for me because I adore when Futurama allows itself to examine its characters in stories that have a genuine sense of emotion. Plus, I'm biased because I love Amy and it was really great to see a rare moment of her explored in so much depth. I feel like there are only a handful of episodes that focus on Amy, and even fewer that are so genuinely touching.

The plot was actually really good, in my opinion. I assumed the writers were just going to do something a little sitcom-y with Kif and Amy becoming parents and struggling to balance everything, so I liked the way the story went with Kif being away from his family and trying his best to get home to them, and Amy struggling to cope with motherhood as well as experiencing insecurity. I like how the plot was resolved in a genuinely heart-warming way, with the conclusion of Amy's love for her kids being more important than any biological link to them she lacks. Also, I'm interested to see how they handle this idea of Kif and Amy being parents going forward. In the Comedy Central years, they preferred to maintain the status quo of the show (hence Fry and Leela's muddled relationship), so I'm wondering if being on Hulu will mean that the show will be less afraid of shifting the status quo.

So, I want to get my more negative thoughts out the way before moving onto things that I liked/loved, since I'd rather emphasise the positives of the episodes considering I had a very positive opinion of the episode overall.

I only really noticed it in this episode, but a lot of my issues with the animation/writing from the Comedy Central era of the show, and probably before then, too, is how the show has a tendency to have very limited animation when a group of characters are gathered together but only a few of them are actually talking. It always feels clumsy and odd because there'll be so many characters just standing there, not reacting to what's going on, which is out of character for most of them. I understand that it's not really the fault of the animators and that it's a tough industry. It only really registered in this episode because of how it was strange to see Zapp just standing there in the background expressionlessly, without having said anything in the episode (or even this season, to my recollection) prior. Also, it was odd to see the Planet Express crew just watching on with unchanging expressions and without saying anything as the Grand Midwife threatened to take Amy's kids away in a genuinely heart-wrenching scene. I just wish there was more reactivity to the characters in the background, to make the characters feel more fully realised and as though they have meaningful relationships to one another. Otherwise, it has the same lifeless quality to most of Family Guy and its various knockoffs.

A problem I had with this episode specifically is that I found it a little contrived that Leela would forget that she knocked up Kif because the writers needed an excuse to exposition dump information that a lot of the audience would remember. It felt very out of character for her. In general, not a lot of this ‘reminder’ dialogue felt natural. I'm worried that this will happen in the show going forward when it continues plotlines from previous episodes (e.g. Parasites Regained). I feel like it's kind of a time-waster to have them spend almost five minutes of a 24-minute-long episode reminding the audience of information they could easily access from rewatching Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch if they don't remember it. I feel like they would have cut this part of the episode out if it was airing on TV rather than on a streaming service, because of the differences in time-strictness.

That said, Sex Across the Universe and drunk Leela were pretty funny to me, so I guess I can somewhat get over this issue.

This is a very personal issue for me, and it's that I feel like Zapp didn't have as much of a presence in this episode compared to previously in the show. Don't get me wrong, I think it's fine for there to be an episode that has Kif and Zapp in it but has Kif be the focus rather than Zapp. What I mean is that Zapp is this larger-than-life character who has some of the funniest lines in the show even when he's a minor character in an episode, and I just didn't get that from him in this episode.

The show feels very different just vibe-wise compared to the original run and the Comedy Central run, but I feel like, at times, the CC run could also feel a little lifeless, if that makes sense. I don't know how to describe it, really. With the original run, there was always a sense of life to it, without any moment feeling like 'dead air'; maybe it was because of the animation had more of a human touch- or feels that way, anyway- than the more recent instalments of the show. But, the style and delivery of jokes at times have felt increasingly slow and empty to the point of feeling clumsy. It's something I've always felt about Futurama as well as the Simpsons, but I have no idea if I've effectively articulated it.

Now, onto the more positive things!

I'm so happy that they've finally figured out how to handle Amy and Leela in a way that doesn't feel irritating and at least mildly sexist. In the past, I've really hated how they've had the two main female characters of the show be so unpleasant to each other, whilst the male characters can get along just fine and have close, meaningful bonds. Like, it just felt like a bunch of male writers saying 'we think women are two-faced and catty so Leela and Amy will just be like that'. I'm in the process of writing a fic that explores Amy's harsh treatment of Leela as a result of the envy Leela causes her, because I'm so unhappy with their canon relationship and I wanted to see them to have a kind of meaningful relationship. Actually, I found it interesting that the conflict between Leela and Amy in the episode is sparked by Amy's jealousy.

After this episode where they have some of the most pleasant interactions between them out of the whole show, I'm actually optimistic that the show will make Amy and Leela have a pleasant relationship after this episode, though I can only hope they can have a somewhat meaningful relationship going forward, in the same way Fry and Bender have one.

I actually think the conflict between Leela and Amy in the episode is perfectly understandable and logical, more so than the random catty comments Amy would make at Leela's expense in the prior seasons. This time, Amy's actually really hurt and insecure about her kids favouring Leela over her. I feel like it was a good, compelling storyline, not only looking at Leela and Amy's relationship to one another but also examining the broader theme of motherhood or parenthood as a whole, and how Amy may not be the kids' biological mother, but she is their mom and she loves them. And, I really like how they didn't go down the route of Leela trying to take the kids away from Amy. I feel like it's a plot line you could kind of justify because of Leela's own issues with being an orphan and whatnot, but it wouldn't have been in character for her, at least in my opinion. I really liked how they positioned Leela as the kids' aunt, rather than her being jealous of Amy for having kids.

There were a lot of funny jokes in the episode, and I've compiled them into a bullet point list:

Bender coming third in Masterchef Junior.

The noise the Professor makes when his mouth is stuck together by the honey.

‘Buy A Church’ and ‘reassure Kif’ on Amy's schedule

Axl (the biggest of the three kids) in the stroller was a funny visual gag.

Kif being one of those wine moms with his mineral water.

Zapp's pleading cries as he is dragged into cave- it reminded me of Love's Labours Lost in Space, with Billy West's hilarious delivery of 'oh, God, no!'

“AND STAY AWAY FROM MY SCROTUMS!!”

"Daddy’s coming to tuck you in. To your graves.”

“Scruffy’s stuff gets around.”

Visual gag of Kif ripping off his shirt and proceeding to fold up his skirt.

“I did what a daddy had to do.”

Other little things I liked, compiled into a bullet point list:

I'm happy that they replaced Billy West as Mr. Wong’s voice actor. Sort of unrelated, I'm hoping that the King of the Hill revival does the same for Kahn.

I really liked how the kids kept going over to Leela. The first time especially, it was really funny.

Also, the kids were really cute! I like how they were different ages (physically/developmentally, anyway), because I feel like it'd feel too cliché if they were all babies. I don't know why; I think it'd just make it feel too sitcom-y having Amy and Kif take care of babies.

I loved Aunt Leela; it was nice seeing her interact with them.

I really liked seeing Zapp and Kif in action together. I feel like it's something surprisingly rare on the show to have Zapp and Kif doing something that doesn't directly involve the Planet Express crew, so it was interesting to see them together on a DOOP mission.