"Neutopia" | |
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Futurama episode | |
Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 20 |
Directed by | Edmund Fong |
Written by | J. Stewart Burns |
Production code | 6ACV20 |
Original air date | June 23, 2011 |
Opening caption | "Provides a full day's supply of Vitamin F!" |
Guest appearance(s) | |
Dawnn Lewis as LaBarbara Conrad and Amana |
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Dawnn Lewis as LaBarbara Conrad and Amana
"Neutopia" is the twentieth episode of the sixth season of the animated sitcom Futurama, and the premiere of Season 6-B. It is the twentieth episode of the sixth season in production order, and the 108th episode in broadcast order. It aired on Comedy Central in the United States on June 23, 2011.
Planet Express faces foreclosure and to raise money, Professor Farnsworth, Fry, Bender, Zoidberg, Hermes and Scruffy take advantage of a contract clause to force Leela, Amy, and LaBarbara to pose for a pin-up calendar. This plan does not work out, so the company converts into a private airline. During its maiden voyage the plane runs out of fuel and crashes on a planet made entirely of minerals with rivers of mercury.
Tensions begin to arise between the males and females, and each gender forms a group. A sentient and magician rock appears and is fascinated by everyone's genders, as it is unfamiliar with the concept. The alien tests the two groups on gender superiority, challenging them to reach a glacier cave before the planet reaches perihelion, boiling the mercury. Both groups realize they can create a cooler from Bender's gas compressor, and the freon coil of a refrigerator fembot named Amana. Hermes and LaBarbara each steal a part from the other group, but are caught by each other. During an argument they end up having sex, and fail to create a cooler in time. The rock alien teleports everyone to the safety of the cave, and expresses its disappointment that both groups failed to cooperate with each other. In an attempt to resolve their differences, the alien uses its powers to neuter everyone.