John Pannozzi
07-02-2004, 03:19 PM
Not to be too mushy, but what scenes in animation really warmed your heart?
Here are some that warmed my heart:
The Simpsons:
"Life on the Fast Life":
Marge is driving through Springfield on her way to see Jacques. Stopping at the traffic lights she sees a wedding, and averts her eyes to the other direction only to see a young couple wheeling a pram. The lights turn green and she speeds off. At the next stop sign Marge uneasily watches a family at a picnic, and the elderly couple walking down the path at the next stop drives the point further, with the help of two gravestones side-by-side and two skeletons (costumes) holding hands.
At the turnoff to the SNPP and the Fiesta Terrace, Marge initially heads towards the Fiesta, but skids to a halt and reverses to the SNPP. She returns to the intersection and sits staring at the turnoff sign.
Marge enters the Power plant, to the surprise of all the workers clad in their
radiation suits. She marches down the main corridor, attracting the attention of everyone including Mr Burns. Her silhouette passes a doorway, and finds Homer working unhappily at a waste separator.
[Taps him on the shoulder]
Homer: Marge! What a lovely surprise! You're hear to see me, right?
Marge: Of course! [cuddles and kisses him on the cheek]
Homer picks her up and carries her past his cheering co-workers.
Lenny: Way to go Homer, Way to Go!
Worker: Hey, what will I tell the boss?
Homer: Tell him I'm going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won't be back for ten minutes!
Continued applause and cheering from the other employees. Marge wears Homer's Safety helmet as he carries her outside into the sunset.
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"Bart vs. Thanksgiving":
Dear Log: My brother is still missing, and maybe it's my fault because
I failed to take his abuse with good humor. I miss him so much already
that I don't... know... [sobs]
-- Lisa writes in her diary, ``Bart vs. Thanksgiving''
Bart hears Lisa's sobbing through a ventilation pipe and invites her up.
Lisa joins him on the roof.
Lisa: Bart, what are you doing up here? Everybody's worried!
Bart: Really? Did they cry?
Lisa: Yes.
Bart: Whoa! Bulls-eye!
-- Lisa joins Bart on the roof after his brief career as a runaway,
``Bart vs. Thanksgiving''
She asks why he burnt her centerpiece. ``Was it because you hate me?
Or because you're bad.''
I don't know! I don't know why I did it! I don't know why I enjoyed it!
And I don't know why I'll do it again!
-- Bart doesn't apologize to Lisa, ``Bart vs. Thanksgiving''
Lisa tells him, ``The only reason to apologize is if you look deep down
inside yourself, and you find a spot, something you wish wasn't there
because you feel bad you hurt your sister's feeling.'' Bart gives in
and closes his eyes. ``This is so stupid. I'm not going to find anything.
Just because I wrecked something she worked really hard on, and I made
her cr---... Uh oh. ... I'm sorry, Lisa.'' Lisa accepts the apology.
Homer peeks out from the bathroom window.
You know, Marge? We're great parents!
-- Homer watches Bart apologize to Lisa on the roof, ``Bart vs. Thanksgiving''
At 11pm, the family are gathered around the kitchen table...
Homer: Oh Lord, on this blessed day, we thank Thee for giving our family
one more crack at togetherness.
All: Amen.
-- Homer says grace at the second Thanksgiving dinner,
``Bart vs. Thanksgiving''
They then dig into turkey sandwiches.
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"Bart gets hit by a car":
Marge: Bart, we'd thought for moment that you'd left us.
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"One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"
the whole episode is pretty heart-warming.
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"I Married Marge":
A very pregnant Marge stands in the doorway, waiting for Homer to return.
Patty can hold her tongue no longer.
Marge, I've got two-and-a-half words for you. Gulp. 'N'. Blow.
-- Patty tells Marge where she can find Homer, ``I Married Marge''
Marge pulls up to the drive-through microphone.
Homer: Yeah, whaddya want.
Marge: My husband by my side.
Homer: You want fries with that?
-- Homer works at the Gulp-N-Blow, ``I Married Marge''
The happy couple are reunited. (``Holy cow, you're as big as a house!'')
Marge asks Homer to come home.
Look at me. I'm a trainee.
They won't even tell me what's in the secret sauce.
-- Homer works at the Gulp-N-Blow, ``I Married Marge''
Homer says he can't even afford a decent wedding ring, but Marge says that
any ring is fine. So Homer slips an onion ring on her finger. Marge is
touched, but adds, ``Would you mind if I took it off now? The oil is
burning my finger.'' Homer takes it off, and eats it.
Homer: You know, son, the day you were born, I received the greatest gift
a man could have. As the years went by, your mother and I were blessed twice more. And not a day goes by that we don't thank God for all three of you.
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"Lisa's 1st Word":
Back at home, Bart is puzzled. He imagines talking heads flying around
him ("From now on the baby sleeps in the crib", "Iron helps us play",
Evil Clown laughter, and "Hello, Joe!"). Homer interrupts Bart's
hallucinations by asking him to come and see Little Lisa. Marge sits in
a rocking chair, holding Lisa, with light streaming through the
curtains. Lisa wakes up, yawning. The scene is adorable.
Bart prepares to run away from home. Lisa is puzzled. Bart explains
that it was still fun when it was just Homer, Marge and him.
Bart: You wrecked everything. I'm leaving. Goodbye.
Lisa: Bart.
Bart: [amazed] What did you say? Say it again!
Lisa: Bart.
Bart: Sufferin' Succotash! You can talk!
Lisa: Goo.
-- Lisa's first word, "Lisa's First Word"
Bart takes her downstairs to Homer and Marge. Lisa demonstrates her
newfound skill. "Bart Bart Bart Bart Bart Bart." "I was her first
word!" Lisa can also say "Mommy", so Bart tries to get her to say the
name of the actor on the "Knight Rider" cover of TV guide.
Bart: Can you say David Hasselhoff?
Lisa: Davah Hassa-hoff.
-- Lisa learns to talk, "Lisa's First Word"
Homer: Can you say Daddy?
Lisa: Homer.
Homer: No, sweetie. Daddy.
Lisa: [pause] Homer.
Homer: D'oh!
-- Like son, like daughter?, "Lisa's First Word"
Homer takes Maggie and heads upstairs.
Homer: The sooner kids talk, the sooner they talk back.
[tucks Maggie in] I hope you never say a word.
[shuts the door]
Maggie: [taking her pacifier out] Daddy.
-- Maggie's first word, "Lisa's First Word"
...and then she falls asleep.
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"Lisa on Ice":
Bart and Lisa look around at the angry crowd, then Bart stops,
remembering a time when he lifted baby Lisa up to the cookie jar so she
could get a cookie for him. Lisa remembers a time when she clapped
happily as a young Bart made finger shadows for her in front of a tilted
lamp. Bart thinks of Lisa helping him bandage his knee after a
skateboarding accident. Lisa remembers eating ice cream by the wading
pool and dropping her scoop, only to have Bart give her a scoop of his.
Both children smile, throw aside their equipment, and hug. "Great game,
Lis." "Great game, Bart." The buzzer sounds
Man 1: What the heck is a tie game?
Man 2: Tie game?
Woman 1: What the hell?
Woman 2: This is outrageous!
Marge: Oh, I've never been so proud of them.
Homer: [weeping] They're both losers. Losers!
Abe: Rip-off!
Hans: We paid for blood!
Wiggum: Let's tear this place apart!
Abe: Good idea!
-- A good-old hockey riot, "Lisa on Ice"
Everyone rips into things and pummels each other. Bart and Lisa skate
slowly down the ice, arm-in-arm.
Snake: Those kids are, like, so sweet. [sobs] If only they had had peewee hockey when I was a lad. [sniffs] Oh well. [grabs crowbar, rips seats apart]
-- Yet another lesson lost, "Lisa on Ice"
The final shot shows people punching one another and fires burning
inside the arena.
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"The Secret war of Lisa Simpson":
Commandant: Next up ... Simp-son, Lis-a.
[the crowd falls silent. The cadet leader plays, "Taps."
Lisa climbs the ladder to the first platform, as the crowd
begins jeering]
Lisa: Well, at least they're talking to me.
[at the top of the platform, she looks at the ground, which
appears to be 400 feet below her, rather than 40.
Tentatively, she grasps the rope and starts to cross in
hand-over-hand fashion]
If only I were in Springfield, all my friends would be
cheering me on ... oh, God, I'm delirious.
[Lisa's hands slip, and she dangles from the rope by only
her legs]
Cadets: Drop! Drop! Drop! ...
Bart: [steps forward from the crowd] You can make it, Lisa. I
know you can! Come on, I know you can do it! Just get
your hands back on the rope! Just a little further! [Lisa
grabs the rope again and begins crawling] Come on, a little
bit more, you're doing great! That's it, come on, just a
little bit more!
[the other cadets try to silence Bart, but he wriggles free
of them]
I know you can do it, I believe in you!
[and she does it!]
Lisa: Yes! [she gets to the next platform, and climbs back down
to earth]
[arms raised] You said I couldn't but I could I did and I
could do it again let's do it again!
Bart: Lisa, it's over, you made it. You can put your arms down.
Lisa: I can't, they're stuck.
-- Winning ... "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
Futurama:
"Space Pilot 3000":
Fry: Oh, can't you leave me alone? I'm miserable enough already.
Leela: Look, I know it's not much consolation but I understand how you feel.
Fry: No you don't. I've got no home, no family...
[b]Bender: No friends.
Fry: ...My whole world is gone. You can't possibly understand what it feels like to be so alone.
Leela: I understand. I'm the only one eyed alien on this whole planet. My parents abandoned me here as a baby and I don't even know what galaxy they were from. I know how it feels to be alone.
Fry: Look Leela, I don't understand this world but, you obviously do, so I give up. If you really think I should be a delivery boy, I'll do it. [He holds out his hand to Leela. She readies the implant gun. Fry cringes and looks away. The gun clicks but Fry feels nothing. He opens his eyes and sees Leela drop her own chip on the floor.] Your chip. What are you doing?
Leela: Quitting.
Fry: Why?
Leela: Because I've always wanted to. I just never realised it before I met you.
[She puts her hand on his and smiles. Bender puts his hand on top.]
Fry: What is the matter with you?
[b]Bender: I just wanted to be part of the moment.
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"The Series has Landed":
Fry: Look Leela, I'm sorry. I never should have dragged you out here.
Leela: That's right you shouldn't have. I still don't get what the big attraction is.
[Fry sighs.]
Fry: I never told anybody this but a thousand years ago I used to look up at the moon and dream about being an astronaut. I just never had the grades. Nor the physical endurance. Plus I threw up a lot and nobody liked spending a week with me.
Leela: A week would be a little much.
Fry: The moon was like this awesome, romantic, mysterious thing, hanging up there in the sky where you could never reach it, no matter how much you wanted to. But you're right. Once you're actually here it's just a big dull rock. I guess I just wanted you to see it through my eyes, the way I used to.
[Leela looks through a window. She sees the Earth.]
Leela: Fry, look. It really is beautiful. I don't know why I never noticed it before.
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"Love's Labors Lost in Space":
Leela: (thinking) Dear Captain's Diary. I may not have found love on this mission but I did find a cute little companion who excretes starship fuel and that's just as good.
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"Fear of a bot Planet":
Leela: There. That ought to show that stupid robot we care about him.
Green Elder: Do it now! Kill them before they bring down our whole society!
Elders (chanting): Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!
Bender: Aww! [He throws the killer-ma-jig away. The Elders gasp.] I can't kill them. Plenty of humans have mistreated robots but not these two. they're my friends. Humans are no threat to us. They're stupid, putrid cowards.
Fry: Damn right!
Bender: The fact is, humans are completely harmless.
Bender: Wow, I can't believe you guys did all this for me! This is the best Robanukah ever!
Fry: We wanted to show you that we really do respect your robot heratige.
Bender: Aww, thanks! You do know I made Robanukah up to get out of work right?
Leela: Of course.
Fry: But that doesn't make it any less meaningful!
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"Fishful of Dollars":
[Cut to: Fry's Dream. Pizza's, 1077's and anchovy tins float around him. Leela and Bender's heads float towards him.]
Fry: Oh I had a nightmare I was in the year 2000 and you guys never existed. I'm so glad I'm awake now and you're really here.
Leela: Since when do you care about us?
Bender: We thought you only cared about cans of anchovies and stuffy old songs about the buttocks.
Fry: No that's not true!
[Leela and Bender float away.]
Leela: Goodbyee!
Bender: Wheee!
[A pack of Lightspeeds appear in the corner.]
Announcer (voice-over): This dream brought to you by Lightspeed briefs.
[Fry comes to. A repobot walks out of his apartment with his TV.]
Fry: Bender. Leela. Don't leave me. Wait a minute. Hey buddy what year is this?
Repobot: Uh, 3000.
Fry: 3000? Yes! I'm still in the future! Life is wonderful!
Fry: Leela! Bender! I missed you so much!
Fry: You might as well put that chequebook away because I've discovered something even more important. My friends. And they aren't worth even a penny to me. That's why these anchovies are going on a pizza, so I can share the food I love with the people I like.
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"My 3 Suns":
[b]Amy: Oh no. They have her totally outnumbered.
Fry: I can't believe it. She's risking her life for me after the way I treated her. I don't deserve this. I feel terrible.
Bender: You do?
Fry: Is she alright?
Bender: I don't know. Perhaps I'll look out this window. Oh dear God in heaven they're swarming all over her.
Fry: No. No!
Amy: What are you talking about Bender she's al -
[Bender puts his hand over Amy's mouth and she finally realises what he is doing.]
Bender: They're strapping her to juicer! They're putting some ice cubes in that glass under it!
Fry: This can't be happening.
Bender: It can and for all you know it is...I'm sorry Fry. She's dead.
[Fry starts to cry.]
Fry: All Leela ever wanted to do was help me. But I was to proud, too stupid to accept it. [He throws his crown across the room.] I wish I'd died instead of her.
[He starts to cry. The tear lands in the bottle which Amy holds under his eyes. She smiles. Enter Leela via the window.]
Leela: What are you talking about?
[Fry stops crying.]
Fry: Leela! You're alive!
Leela: Of course I'm alive.
Fry (crying): Thanks everybody. I love you all. You guys are all so -
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"Hell is Other Robots":
Fry: Does that mean we can eat now?
Bender: Yes. [The crew tuck in.] But first, since I love you all so much, I'd like to give everyone hugs. Come here Fry!
Fry: Oh uh, but I don't want to.
[Bender hugs Fry.]
Bender: Mmmm! Mmmm! Fry. You're my friend! [Fry, unsure, pats Bender on the back. Bender stands up again.] C'mon, everyone line up for a hug. Let's tear down some emotional walls.
Leela: (singing) It's up to us to rescue him.
Fry: (singing) Maybe he likes it here in hell.
Leela: (singing) It's us who tempted him to sin.
[They do. Hellbots and flying bugbots chase them. The bugbots shoot laser rings at them. Bender grabs a pair of a bugbot's wings and flies in and grabs Fry and Leela who are swarmed by a crowd of hellbots with pitchforks. Bender ascends and heads for small hole in the roof.]
Robot Devil: Stop them! They cheated!
[A bugbot shoots three laser rings at the trio. Two miss but one catches on Bender's antenna, forming a halo. The Hallejulah chorus plays and they get closer to the hole. Hellbots pull chains to close the hole.]
Leela: Hurry Bender!
Bender: I could if you'd drop the stupid gold violin!
Leela: Oh, sorry.
[She drops it. It hits Beezlebot on the head. He squeals and Fry, Leela and Bender escape through the hole.]
[Cut to: Outisde The Inferno. They cheer.]
Leela [simultaneously]: Yeah!
Bender [simultaneously]: Hooray!
Fry [simultaneously]: All right!
Bender: Don't worry guys, I'll never be too good or too evil again. From now on, I'll just be me.
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"A Flight to remember":
Fry: Hey Leela, why'd you run off from dinner?
Leela: I didn't run off. I had plenty of time to finish eating and stroll away while you were kissing Amy.
Fry: Oh look, I'm not actually interested in her if that's what's bothering you.
Leela: Oh. Are you sure? I mean, she has two eyes, you have two eyes.
Fry: I know, we seem like a perfect match. But, I just don't feel that way about her.
[The Titanic drifts past a nebula.]
Leela: Nice nebula.
Fry: Yeah.
[They look down at the couples on the decks below: Hermes and LaBarbara, Bender and the Countess, Mr and Mrs Wong, Dr Zoidberg and a jellyfish thing and Farnsworth and Hattie.]
Leela: Look's like everybody's got somebody. Except me.
Fry: And me.
[They gaze into each other's eyes and start to lean in to kiss.]
Mrs Wong: Amy!
Amy: Mom? Dad? You're alive!
Mr Wong: Yeah but so what? The important thing is we found you a new man.
Mrs Wong: A captain.
Amy: Uh Mom, I don't...[Enter Kif.]...Hi!
Kif: (sexfully) Hello!
[Kif picks Amy up and carries her to the escape pod. They kiss.]
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"Fry and the Slurm Factory":
[Fry lifts his head out of the tub and looks around. He sees Bender then Leela then looks back at the Slurm, A tear trickles down his face and splashes into the Slurm.] Fry: I can't stop eating this delicious ooze. But I'm not gonna let you die.
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"I 2nd that Emotion":
Bender: Nibbler! Aw, come here precious!
Fry: Leela, your scaredness is being transmitted straight to Bender. If you care about Nibbler, stop caring about him!
Leela: I can't. I love every living creature.
Fry: Even me?
Leela: As a friend.
Fry: Damn.
[Leela starts to cry.]
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"Xmas Story":
[He leaps for the bird but it flies away before he can get a hold of it. He loses his balance and falls. He grabs onto the 2 on the clock. It changes to a 3 then a 4. He falls a little further. It changes to a 5, a 6 and then a 7. With nothing to hold onto he falls. Leela grabs him from a hatch.]
Leela: Hi there!
Fry: Leela! Oh my God! You saved my life! I am gonna get you so many lizards!
[Scene: Street.]
Leela: You didn't need to buy me a present Fry.
Fry: I just wanted to do something to make you happy. I mean, I miss my family but you never even had a family.
Leela: It's OK. You're lonely and I'm lonely. But together we're lonely together.
[They hold hands.]
Fry: Merry Xmas Leela.
Leela: Merry Xmas.
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"A Clone of my own":
Farnsworth: Oh my yes. Thank you all for saving me. Especially you my little clone. No matter what you decide to do with your life, I'm still proud of you.
[Cubert hugs Farnsworth.]
Cubert: I've already decided. Dad, when I grow up I wanna be just like you.
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"The Deep South":
Bender: Fry! Oh I just knew you were still alive!
[Bender, crying, hugs Fry.]
Bender (crying): Oh Fry, I'll miss you.
[He leaves crying.]
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"Bender gets made":
[Cut to: Ship's Cockpit. The Mafiabot ship flies away. Nibbler squeaks from under the bucket. Fry and Leela are still tied up.]
Fry: Leela, we may not have much time left...[Bender sneaks past them to an empty chair.]...so let's spend all of it reminscing about Bender. He was like a big computer than ran on magic.
[Bender sits down, ties his arms up behind the chair and clears his throat.]
Bender: Uh, help! Help!
Leela: Bender!
Fry: You're OK! Bender: Yes I am. Having just this minute regained consciousness.
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"The Problem with Popplers":
Leela: Popplers are intelligent. This one called me mama.
[She has the Poppler wrapped in a Tender 'n' Juicy napkin.]
Zoidberg: Congratulations. I assume Amy is the father.
Bender: Popplers can't talk. Leela must be hallucinating from not eating enough Popplers. Here, eat some now.
[He picks up a bucket. Leela turns away.]
Leela: No!
[Bender squeezes her mouth open and tips some Popplers into her mouth.]
Bender: I said "eat"! Come on, mange!
[Leela throws the bucket into a bin, gasps and runs over to it.]
Leela: Sorry, babies.
[She puts it on the table.]
Amy: Leela, maybe you should lie down.
Zoidberg: Yes, listen to the father.
Leela: I'm telling you, it spoke to me. Come on, little Poppler, say "mama".
[She tickles it. Fry tuts and leans back in his chair.]
Fry: Look, Leela, even if you heard one talk, that doesn't mean it's intelligent. I mean, parrots talk and we eat them, right?
Bender: Yeah. Maybe it just learned to talk as a parlour trick. Like Fry.
Fry: [nodding] Like Fry! Like Fry!
Farnsworth: There's one way, and only one way, to determine if an animal is intelligent. [He stands up and rubs his hands together.] Dissect its brain!
[The Poppler reaches out to Leela.]
Poppler: No, mama. Stop grandpa! [Everyone but Farnsworth, who is sharpening a knife, gasps.]
Bender: I'll miss you, Leela. [Leela is in a circus animal cage.] I know you're just a carbon-based life form but I'll always think of you as a big pile of titanium.
[He sobs. Fry puts his arm around him.]
Fry: What Bender means is, you're really brave, and smart, and beautiful, and a great friend.
Bender: (crying) Just like titanium!
[He cries into Fry's lap.]
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"Amazon Women in the mood":
Bender: (crying) I'll misss you meatbag.
Leela: Me too meatbag.
Kif: Amy. Before I die I have to tell you. I didn't mean to say those awful things on our date. They were all Zapp's idea.
Amy: Really? Honest and true?
Kif: Yes. And-And that person calling and hanging up, was me. I was just too nervous to say hello because, I love you.
Amy: Oh Kif!
[An Amazonian picks her up by her ponytail, throws her on the floor and sits on her. Amy walks past on stilts. She has put a bone through her hair and torn her dress so she looks like an Amazonian.]
Amy: (deep voice) Me next snu-snu. Out me way.
[She walks into a snu-snu chamber.]
[Cut to: Kif's Snu-Snu Chamber. Thog looks under a bed.]
Thog: Where go beautiful man? [Kif clings to ceiling and whimpers. Thog looks up and sees him.] Me want snu-snu!
[She pokes him with a broom and he runs around the ceiling, his hands and feet sticking to it. Amy the Amazonian walks in. She sees Kif and Thog and gasp. She jumps off the stilts and holds out her arms.]
Amy: Kif, jump.
[He lands in her arms.]
Kif: My hero.
[They kiss and leg it.]
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"The Day the Earth Stood Stupid":
Leela(crying): Fry, don't die. Wake up.
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"The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz":
Leela: Aww they're so cute! They're like if puppies and kittens could have babies!
[Scene: Pluto Surface. Leela walks over the icy surface with her gun. She crawls to a ledge and sees a flock of penguins.]
Leela: Alright, this is for their own good. Don't leave orphans. Gotta kill entire families. [She looks down the gunsight.] But they're so cute. No! You can do this. It's just like murdering a little butler. I...I can't look. [She shakes as she starts to squeeze the trigger. A tear streams down her face. Bang. The penguins squawk and run away.] (crying) Oh no! What have I done? [She runs down the hillside. The penguins are gathered around a dead penguin. Leela falls to her knees and cries.] Oh you poor little guy! I'm so sorry I - Bender? [Bender opens his eyes and resets to Human Mode. He loads the Human Language and brings up his task list. 1) Bend. 2) Cheese It! He stands up and takes the bullet out of his head. Leela stops crying.] What's going on? Were you hiding out with these little guys?
Bender: Of course not. Filthy ice rats. Scat! Shoo! [The penguins rub against him.] Gah! What are you doing? Get away!
Leela: Aww, they love you!
Bender: Well I don't love them. [A baby penguin looks up at him and cheeps.] Aww! [He regurgitates some food into it's mouth. Leela looks away.] I don't know why but when I look down at their little faces, it makes me wanna puke! In a good way!
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"Luck of the Fryrish":
This whole was pretty heart-warming, esp. the beginning flashback and the ending.
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"Love and Rocket":
Sheldon: Do any of you collect Lovey Bears?
Amy: I do! Kif's given me dozens! Is it true what the ad says? That you kiss them together out of blanket cloth and magic buttons?
Gwen: No.
Zoidberg (voice-over): As the candy hearts poured into the firey quasar a wonderous thing happened why not. They vapourised into a mysitcal love radiation that spread across the universe destroying many many planets, including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was at exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays, but not be destroyed by them. Earth. So all over the world couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg! And no one could have been happier unless it would have been Valentines Day. What? It was? Hooray! [As he speaks shots of couples on Earth come and go. Horrible Gelatinous Blobs, mutants, Amy and Kif and Fry and Leela (joined by Zoidberg).]
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"Leela's Homeworld":
[Flashback - Vogel's Office, 2974. Vogel is in his office and the doorbell goes. He opens the door, looks around, then looks down. baby Leela is in a basket. He picks her up. He tickles her. Then he sees a note, written in the alien language.]
Vogel: What the..? An alien language. I guess you're an alien. What a beautiful gigantic eye you ha- [Leela kicks him.] Well, come on in.
Leela: I told a whole crowd today that being an orphan made me strong. But all I really wanted was a mom and dad, to hold me and stroke my hair and tell me they loved me.
Fry: Then today's your lucky day because I happen to be a holding, stroking, lovin' machine! Also spankin'!
Leela: That's not even close to what I had in mind.
Fry: Well anyway, just remember that people care about you.
Leela: I know. [They both gaze up at the stars.] Sometimes when I'm lonely, I look up at the sky and I get this feeling that somewhere, on some unknown planet, circling a distant star, my parents are there, looking down on me.
[From the sewers a pair of cyclopses gaze up at Leela.]
[Flashback: 20 Something Years Ago. 100 Something Feet Underground. A baby is born in the sewers.]
Doctor: It's a girl.
[Two cyclopses look over the baby. But these cyclopses are oddly different. The mother has tentacles and the father's mouth is vertical rather than horizontal.]
Mother: My God! She's beautiful! No extra anythings!
[The father reaches his hand out. The baby grabs his finger and goos.]
Father: Good people skills.
Mother: She's perfect!
Doctor: In my professional opinion as an ear, ear, ear, nose and throat doctor, she is the least mutated mutant ever born.
Father: And yet she's cursed to live the horrible degrading life of a mutant. Like all of us. Especially him!
[He points at the Leg Mutant.]
Leg Mutant: It's true!
Mother: Maybe we can do better for her.
[Scene: Outside Cookieville Orphanarium. The mutants come out of a manhole outside the front door with their baby. They put it in a basket outside the front door. The father puts a bracelet on the baby's wrist - just like Leela's.]
Father: I made this bracelet for you so that in some small way, we'll always be with you. Even when it doesn't seem like it. During your entire life for example.
[He cries.]
Mother: You won't pass for human, cutie. But if my PhD in exo-liguistics is worth diddly-poop, this note should convince them you're an alien. [She attaches the note to the baby's basket.] And that'll be enough to give you a real life.
[She kisses the baby, puts her hood up and runs down the steps. The father rings the doorbell and follows her. Warden Vogel opens the door and sees the baby.]
[Cut to: Sewer. The parents watch as Vogel picks the baby's basket up.]
Father: She'll never know we're her parents.
Mother: That's our gift to her. Better we should die than she learn the shameful truth of her origin.
Father: I'm with you.
[They hug. Then turn to watch Vogel.]
Vogel: What a beautiful gigantic eye you ha - [The baby kicks him.]. Well come on in.
[The parents watch their baby - their Leela - disappear inside, hold their breath and dive into the sewers.]
Fry: I had the Professor analyse the alienese letter that was found with you.
Leela: What does it say?
Fry: I 'unno. But the analysis showed it was printed on recycled toilet paper. A squeezably soft paper that is used mainly in the sewers.
[Leela's mother takes the paper.]
Munda: It says, Your parents love you very much.
Morris: We still do.
Leela: So, I'm not an alien? I'm a mutant.
Morris: We never wanted you to know. You deserved a better life.
Munda: You must despise us.
Leela: You're my parents. All I've ever wanted is to know you. [They hug.] This is the happiest moment of my life.
[They cry. It starts to rain.]
[Cut to: Street. It isn't raining - Bender is emptying a spitoon on them!]
Bender: Aww!
[Flashbacks. Over the flashbacks Pizzicato Five's Baby Love Child plays. Baby Leela crawls down a corridor at the Orphanarium and nearly falls down the stairs. Her father's arm comes out of the wall and turns her around. Young Leela sits at a desk in her room studying. Her mother's tentacle comes through the toilet and puts a box of cookies on her desk. Leela smiles and eats them. Adolescent Leela walks around New New York on her birthday with no friends. Her mother puts a present on the pavement for her. She reads the message with it: Happy Birthday Leela. Mid-twenties Leela tosses and turns in bed. Her father puts his arm through the laundry chute and pulls the sheet over her. She smiles and goes to sleep.]
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"The Devil's Hands are idle playthings":
[Scene: Metropolitan House Of Opera. Fry sits alone on the stage in the empty auditorium. He puts his holophonor on the floor and gets up to leave.]
Leela: Please don't stop playing Fry. I wanna hear how it ends. [Fry turns around. Leela is the only person left in the room. He smiles then sits down, picks up the holophonor and starts to play. The smoke whirls around above him and forms a crude cartoon-like image of him and Leela who turn to each other and take hold of one another's hand. They kiss, turn around and walk away towards the horizon, never taking their eyes off each other.]
Here are some that warmed my heart:
The Simpsons:
"Life on the Fast Life":
Marge is driving through Springfield on her way to see Jacques. Stopping at the traffic lights she sees a wedding, and averts her eyes to the other direction only to see a young couple wheeling a pram. The lights turn green and she speeds off. At the next stop sign Marge uneasily watches a family at a picnic, and the elderly couple walking down the path at the next stop drives the point further, with the help of two gravestones side-by-side and two skeletons (costumes) holding hands.
At the turnoff to the SNPP and the Fiesta Terrace, Marge initially heads towards the Fiesta, but skids to a halt and reverses to the SNPP. She returns to the intersection and sits staring at the turnoff sign.
Marge enters the Power plant, to the surprise of all the workers clad in their
radiation suits. She marches down the main corridor, attracting the attention of everyone including Mr Burns. Her silhouette passes a doorway, and finds Homer working unhappily at a waste separator.
[Taps him on the shoulder]
Homer: Marge! What a lovely surprise! You're hear to see me, right?
Marge: Of course! [cuddles and kisses him on the cheek]
Homer picks her up and carries her past his cheering co-workers.
Lenny: Way to go Homer, Way to Go!
Worker: Hey, what will I tell the boss?
Homer: Tell him I'm going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won't be back for ten minutes!
Continued applause and cheering from the other employees. Marge wears Homer's Safety helmet as he carries her outside into the sunset.
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"Bart vs. Thanksgiving":
Dear Log: My brother is still missing, and maybe it's my fault because
I failed to take his abuse with good humor. I miss him so much already
that I don't... know... [sobs]
-- Lisa writes in her diary, ``Bart vs. Thanksgiving''
Bart hears Lisa's sobbing through a ventilation pipe and invites her up.
Lisa joins him on the roof.
Lisa: Bart, what are you doing up here? Everybody's worried!
Bart: Really? Did they cry?
Lisa: Yes.
Bart: Whoa! Bulls-eye!
-- Lisa joins Bart on the roof after his brief career as a runaway,
``Bart vs. Thanksgiving''
She asks why he burnt her centerpiece. ``Was it because you hate me?
Or because you're bad.''
I don't know! I don't know why I did it! I don't know why I enjoyed it!
And I don't know why I'll do it again!
-- Bart doesn't apologize to Lisa, ``Bart vs. Thanksgiving''
Lisa tells him, ``The only reason to apologize is if you look deep down
inside yourself, and you find a spot, something you wish wasn't there
because you feel bad you hurt your sister's feeling.'' Bart gives in
and closes his eyes. ``This is so stupid. I'm not going to find anything.
Just because I wrecked something she worked really hard on, and I made
her cr---... Uh oh. ... I'm sorry, Lisa.'' Lisa accepts the apology.
Homer peeks out from the bathroom window.
You know, Marge? We're great parents!
-- Homer watches Bart apologize to Lisa on the roof, ``Bart vs. Thanksgiving''
At 11pm, the family are gathered around the kitchen table...
Homer: Oh Lord, on this blessed day, we thank Thee for giving our family
one more crack at togetherness.
All: Amen.
-- Homer says grace at the second Thanksgiving dinner,
``Bart vs. Thanksgiving''
They then dig into turkey sandwiches.
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"Bart gets hit by a car":
Marge: Bart, we'd thought for moment that you'd left us.
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"One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"
the whole episode is pretty heart-warming.
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"I Married Marge":
A very pregnant Marge stands in the doorway, waiting for Homer to return.
Patty can hold her tongue no longer.
Marge, I've got two-and-a-half words for you. Gulp. 'N'. Blow.
-- Patty tells Marge where she can find Homer, ``I Married Marge''
Marge pulls up to the drive-through microphone.
Homer: Yeah, whaddya want.
Marge: My husband by my side.
Homer: You want fries with that?
-- Homer works at the Gulp-N-Blow, ``I Married Marge''
The happy couple are reunited. (``Holy cow, you're as big as a house!'')
Marge asks Homer to come home.
Look at me. I'm a trainee.
They won't even tell me what's in the secret sauce.
-- Homer works at the Gulp-N-Blow, ``I Married Marge''
Homer says he can't even afford a decent wedding ring, but Marge says that
any ring is fine. So Homer slips an onion ring on her finger. Marge is
touched, but adds, ``Would you mind if I took it off now? The oil is
burning my finger.'' Homer takes it off, and eats it.
Homer: You know, son, the day you were born, I received the greatest gift
a man could have. As the years went by, your mother and I were blessed twice more. And not a day goes by that we don't thank God for all three of you.
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"Lisa's 1st Word":
Back at home, Bart is puzzled. He imagines talking heads flying around
him ("From now on the baby sleeps in the crib", "Iron helps us play",
Evil Clown laughter, and "Hello, Joe!"). Homer interrupts Bart's
hallucinations by asking him to come and see Little Lisa. Marge sits in
a rocking chair, holding Lisa, with light streaming through the
curtains. Lisa wakes up, yawning. The scene is adorable.
Bart prepares to run away from home. Lisa is puzzled. Bart explains
that it was still fun when it was just Homer, Marge and him.
Bart: You wrecked everything. I'm leaving. Goodbye.
Lisa: Bart.
Bart: [amazed] What did you say? Say it again!
Lisa: Bart.
Bart: Sufferin' Succotash! You can talk!
Lisa: Goo.
-- Lisa's first word, "Lisa's First Word"
Bart takes her downstairs to Homer and Marge. Lisa demonstrates her
newfound skill. "Bart Bart Bart Bart Bart Bart." "I was her first
word!" Lisa can also say "Mommy", so Bart tries to get her to say the
name of the actor on the "Knight Rider" cover of TV guide.
Bart: Can you say David Hasselhoff?
Lisa: Davah Hassa-hoff.
-- Lisa learns to talk, "Lisa's First Word"
Homer: Can you say Daddy?
Lisa: Homer.
Homer: No, sweetie. Daddy.
Lisa: [pause] Homer.
Homer: D'oh!
-- Like son, like daughter?, "Lisa's First Word"
Homer takes Maggie and heads upstairs.
Homer: The sooner kids talk, the sooner they talk back.
[tucks Maggie in] I hope you never say a word.
[shuts the door]
Maggie: [taking her pacifier out] Daddy.
-- Maggie's first word, "Lisa's First Word"
...and then she falls asleep.
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"Lisa on Ice":
Bart and Lisa look around at the angry crowd, then Bart stops,
remembering a time when he lifted baby Lisa up to the cookie jar so she
could get a cookie for him. Lisa remembers a time when she clapped
happily as a young Bart made finger shadows for her in front of a tilted
lamp. Bart thinks of Lisa helping him bandage his knee after a
skateboarding accident. Lisa remembers eating ice cream by the wading
pool and dropping her scoop, only to have Bart give her a scoop of his.
Both children smile, throw aside their equipment, and hug. "Great game,
Lis." "Great game, Bart." The buzzer sounds
Man 1: What the heck is a tie game?
Man 2: Tie game?
Woman 1: What the hell?
Woman 2: This is outrageous!
Marge: Oh, I've never been so proud of them.
Homer: [weeping] They're both losers. Losers!
Abe: Rip-off!
Hans: We paid for blood!
Wiggum: Let's tear this place apart!
Abe: Good idea!
-- A good-old hockey riot, "Lisa on Ice"
Everyone rips into things and pummels each other. Bart and Lisa skate
slowly down the ice, arm-in-arm.
Snake: Those kids are, like, so sweet. [sobs] If only they had had peewee hockey when I was a lad. [sniffs] Oh well. [grabs crowbar, rips seats apart]
-- Yet another lesson lost, "Lisa on Ice"
The final shot shows people punching one another and fires burning
inside the arena.
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"The Secret war of Lisa Simpson":
Commandant: Next up ... Simp-son, Lis-a.
[the crowd falls silent. The cadet leader plays, "Taps."
Lisa climbs the ladder to the first platform, as the crowd
begins jeering]
Lisa: Well, at least they're talking to me.
[at the top of the platform, she looks at the ground, which
appears to be 400 feet below her, rather than 40.
Tentatively, she grasps the rope and starts to cross in
hand-over-hand fashion]
If only I were in Springfield, all my friends would be
cheering me on ... oh, God, I'm delirious.
[Lisa's hands slip, and she dangles from the rope by only
her legs]
Cadets: Drop! Drop! Drop! ...
Bart: [steps forward from the crowd] You can make it, Lisa. I
know you can! Come on, I know you can do it! Just get
your hands back on the rope! Just a little further! [Lisa
grabs the rope again and begins crawling] Come on, a little
bit more, you're doing great! That's it, come on, just a
little bit more!
[the other cadets try to silence Bart, but he wriggles free
of them]
I know you can do it, I believe in you!
[and she does it!]
Lisa: Yes! [she gets to the next platform, and climbs back down
to earth]
[arms raised] You said I couldn't but I could I did and I
could do it again let's do it again!
Bart: Lisa, it's over, you made it. You can put your arms down.
Lisa: I can't, they're stuck.
-- Winning ... "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
Futurama:
"Space Pilot 3000":
Fry: Oh, can't you leave me alone? I'm miserable enough already.
Leela: Look, I know it's not much consolation but I understand how you feel.
Fry: No you don't. I've got no home, no family...
[b]Bender: No friends.
Fry: ...My whole world is gone. You can't possibly understand what it feels like to be so alone.
Leela: I understand. I'm the only one eyed alien on this whole planet. My parents abandoned me here as a baby and I don't even know what galaxy they were from. I know how it feels to be alone.
Fry: Look Leela, I don't understand this world but, you obviously do, so I give up. If you really think I should be a delivery boy, I'll do it. [He holds out his hand to Leela. She readies the implant gun. Fry cringes and looks away. The gun clicks but Fry feels nothing. He opens his eyes and sees Leela drop her own chip on the floor.] Your chip. What are you doing?
Leela: Quitting.
Fry: Why?
Leela: Because I've always wanted to. I just never realised it before I met you.
[She puts her hand on his and smiles. Bender puts his hand on top.]
Fry: What is the matter with you?
[b]Bender: I just wanted to be part of the moment.
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"The Series has Landed":
Fry: Look Leela, I'm sorry. I never should have dragged you out here.
Leela: That's right you shouldn't have. I still don't get what the big attraction is.
[Fry sighs.]
Fry: I never told anybody this but a thousand years ago I used to look up at the moon and dream about being an astronaut. I just never had the grades. Nor the physical endurance. Plus I threw up a lot and nobody liked spending a week with me.
Leela: A week would be a little much.
Fry: The moon was like this awesome, romantic, mysterious thing, hanging up there in the sky where you could never reach it, no matter how much you wanted to. But you're right. Once you're actually here it's just a big dull rock. I guess I just wanted you to see it through my eyes, the way I used to.
[Leela looks through a window. She sees the Earth.]
Leela: Fry, look. It really is beautiful. I don't know why I never noticed it before.
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"Love's Labors Lost in Space":
Leela: (thinking) Dear Captain's Diary. I may not have found love on this mission but I did find a cute little companion who excretes starship fuel and that's just as good.
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"Fear of a bot Planet":
Leela: There. That ought to show that stupid robot we care about him.
Green Elder: Do it now! Kill them before they bring down our whole society!
Elders (chanting): Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!
Bender: Aww! [He throws the killer-ma-jig away. The Elders gasp.] I can't kill them. Plenty of humans have mistreated robots but not these two. they're my friends. Humans are no threat to us. They're stupid, putrid cowards.
Fry: Damn right!
Bender: The fact is, humans are completely harmless.
Bender: Wow, I can't believe you guys did all this for me! This is the best Robanukah ever!
Fry: We wanted to show you that we really do respect your robot heratige.
Bender: Aww, thanks! You do know I made Robanukah up to get out of work right?
Leela: Of course.
Fry: But that doesn't make it any less meaningful!
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"Fishful of Dollars":
[Cut to: Fry's Dream. Pizza's, 1077's and anchovy tins float around him. Leela and Bender's heads float towards him.]
Fry: Oh I had a nightmare I was in the year 2000 and you guys never existed. I'm so glad I'm awake now and you're really here.
Leela: Since when do you care about us?
Bender: We thought you only cared about cans of anchovies and stuffy old songs about the buttocks.
Fry: No that's not true!
[Leela and Bender float away.]
Leela: Goodbyee!
Bender: Wheee!
[A pack of Lightspeeds appear in the corner.]
Announcer (voice-over): This dream brought to you by Lightspeed briefs.
[Fry comes to. A repobot walks out of his apartment with his TV.]
Fry: Bender. Leela. Don't leave me. Wait a minute. Hey buddy what year is this?
Repobot: Uh, 3000.
Fry: 3000? Yes! I'm still in the future! Life is wonderful!
Fry: Leela! Bender! I missed you so much!
Fry: You might as well put that chequebook away because I've discovered something even more important. My friends. And they aren't worth even a penny to me. That's why these anchovies are going on a pizza, so I can share the food I love with the people I like.
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"My 3 Suns":
[b]Amy: Oh no. They have her totally outnumbered.
Fry: I can't believe it. She's risking her life for me after the way I treated her. I don't deserve this. I feel terrible.
Bender: You do?
Fry: Is she alright?
Bender: I don't know. Perhaps I'll look out this window. Oh dear God in heaven they're swarming all over her.
Fry: No. No!
Amy: What are you talking about Bender she's al -
[Bender puts his hand over Amy's mouth and she finally realises what he is doing.]
Bender: They're strapping her to juicer! They're putting some ice cubes in that glass under it!
Fry: This can't be happening.
Bender: It can and for all you know it is...I'm sorry Fry. She's dead.
[Fry starts to cry.]
Fry: All Leela ever wanted to do was help me. But I was to proud, too stupid to accept it. [He throws his crown across the room.] I wish I'd died instead of her.
[He starts to cry. The tear lands in the bottle which Amy holds under his eyes. She smiles. Enter Leela via the window.]
Leela: What are you talking about?
[Fry stops crying.]
Fry: Leela! You're alive!
Leela: Of course I'm alive.
Fry (crying): Thanks everybody. I love you all. You guys are all so -
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"Hell is Other Robots":
Fry: Does that mean we can eat now?
Bender: Yes. [The crew tuck in.] But first, since I love you all so much, I'd like to give everyone hugs. Come here Fry!
Fry: Oh uh, but I don't want to.
[Bender hugs Fry.]
Bender: Mmmm! Mmmm! Fry. You're my friend! [Fry, unsure, pats Bender on the back. Bender stands up again.] C'mon, everyone line up for a hug. Let's tear down some emotional walls.
Leela: (singing) It's up to us to rescue him.
Fry: (singing) Maybe he likes it here in hell.
Leela: (singing) It's us who tempted him to sin.
[They do. Hellbots and flying bugbots chase them. The bugbots shoot laser rings at them. Bender grabs a pair of a bugbot's wings and flies in and grabs Fry and Leela who are swarmed by a crowd of hellbots with pitchforks. Bender ascends and heads for small hole in the roof.]
Robot Devil: Stop them! They cheated!
[A bugbot shoots three laser rings at the trio. Two miss but one catches on Bender's antenna, forming a halo. The Hallejulah chorus plays and they get closer to the hole. Hellbots pull chains to close the hole.]
Leela: Hurry Bender!
Bender: I could if you'd drop the stupid gold violin!
Leela: Oh, sorry.
[She drops it. It hits Beezlebot on the head. He squeals and Fry, Leela and Bender escape through the hole.]
[Cut to: Outisde The Inferno. They cheer.]
Leela [simultaneously]: Yeah!
Bender [simultaneously]: Hooray!
Fry [simultaneously]: All right!
Bender: Don't worry guys, I'll never be too good or too evil again. From now on, I'll just be me.
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"A Flight to remember":
Fry: Hey Leela, why'd you run off from dinner?
Leela: I didn't run off. I had plenty of time to finish eating and stroll away while you were kissing Amy.
Fry: Oh look, I'm not actually interested in her if that's what's bothering you.
Leela: Oh. Are you sure? I mean, she has two eyes, you have two eyes.
Fry: I know, we seem like a perfect match. But, I just don't feel that way about her.
[The Titanic drifts past a nebula.]
Leela: Nice nebula.
Fry: Yeah.
[They look down at the couples on the decks below: Hermes and LaBarbara, Bender and the Countess, Mr and Mrs Wong, Dr Zoidberg and a jellyfish thing and Farnsworth and Hattie.]
Leela: Look's like everybody's got somebody. Except me.
Fry: And me.
[They gaze into each other's eyes and start to lean in to kiss.]
Mrs Wong: Amy!
Amy: Mom? Dad? You're alive!
Mr Wong: Yeah but so what? The important thing is we found you a new man.
Mrs Wong: A captain.
Amy: Uh Mom, I don't...[Enter Kif.]...Hi!
Kif: (sexfully) Hello!
[Kif picks Amy up and carries her to the escape pod. They kiss.]
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"Fry and the Slurm Factory":
[Fry lifts his head out of the tub and looks around. He sees Bender then Leela then looks back at the Slurm, A tear trickles down his face and splashes into the Slurm.] Fry: I can't stop eating this delicious ooze. But I'm not gonna let you die.
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"I 2nd that Emotion":
Bender: Nibbler! Aw, come here precious!
Fry: Leela, your scaredness is being transmitted straight to Bender. If you care about Nibbler, stop caring about him!
Leela: I can't. I love every living creature.
Fry: Even me?
Leela: As a friend.
Fry: Damn.
[Leela starts to cry.]
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"Xmas Story":
[He leaps for the bird but it flies away before he can get a hold of it. He loses his balance and falls. He grabs onto the 2 on the clock. It changes to a 3 then a 4. He falls a little further. It changes to a 5, a 6 and then a 7. With nothing to hold onto he falls. Leela grabs him from a hatch.]
Leela: Hi there!
Fry: Leela! Oh my God! You saved my life! I am gonna get you so many lizards!
[Scene: Street.]
Leela: You didn't need to buy me a present Fry.
Fry: I just wanted to do something to make you happy. I mean, I miss my family but you never even had a family.
Leela: It's OK. You're lonely and I'm lonely. But together we're lonely together.
[They hold hands.]
Fry: Merry Xmas Leela.
Leela: Merry Xmas.
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"A Clone of my own":
Farnsworth: Oh my yes. Thank you all for saving me. Especially you my little clone. No matter what you decide to do with your life, I'm still proud of you.
[Cubert hugs Farnsworth.]
Cubert: I've already decided. Dad, when I grow up I wanna be just like you.
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"The Deep South":
Bender: Fry! Oh I just knew you were still alive!
[Bender, crying, hugs Fry.]
Bender (crying): Oh Fry, I'll miss you.
[He leaves crying.]
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"Bender gets made":
[Cut to: Ship's Cockpit. The Mafiabot ship flies away. Nibbler squeaks from under the bucket. Fry and Leela are still tied up.]
Fry: Leela, we may not have much time left...[Bender sneaks past them to an empty chair.]...so let's spend all of it reminscing about Bender. He was like a big computer than ran on magic.
[Bender sits down, ties his arms up behind the chair and clears his throat.]
Bender: Uh, help! Help!
Leela: Bender!
Fry: You're OK! Bender: Yes I am. Having just this minute regained consciousness.
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"The Problem with Popplers":
Leela: Popplers are intelligent. This one called me mama.
[She has the Poppler wrapped in a Tender 'n' Juicy napkin.]
Zoidberg: Congratulations. I assume Amy is the father.
Bender: Popplers can't talk. Leela must be hallucinating from not eating enough Popplers. Here, eat some now.
[He picks up a bucket. Leela turns away.]
Leela: No!
[Bender squeezes her mouth open and tips some Popplers into her mouth.]
Bender: I said "eat"! Come on, mange!
[Leela throws the bucket into a bin, gasps and runs over to it.]
Leela: Sorry, babies.
[She puts it on the table.]
Amy: Leela, maybe you should lie down.
Zoidberg: Yes, listen to the father.
Leela: I'm telling you, it spoke to me. Come on, little Poppler, say "mama".
[She tickles it. Fry tuts and leans back in his chair.]
Fry: Look, Leela, even if you heard one talk, that doesn't mean it's intelligent. I mean, parrots talk and we eat them, right?
Bender: Yeah. Maybe it just learned to talk as a parlour trick. Like Fry.
Fry: [nodding] Like Fry! Like Fry!
Farnsworth: There's one way, and only one way, to determine if an animal is intelligent. [He stands up and rubs his hands together.] Dissect its brain!
[The Poppler reaches out to Leela.]
Poppler: No, mama. Stop grandpa! [Everyone but Farnsworth, who is sharpening a knife, gasps.]
Bender: I'll miss you, Leela. [Leela is in a circus animal cage.] I know you're just a carbon-based life form but I'll always think of you as a big pile of titanium.
[He sobs. Fry puts his arm around him.]
Fry: What Bender means is, you're really brave, and smart, and beautiful, and a great friend.
Bender: (crying) Just like titanium!
[He cries into Fry's lap.]
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"Amazon Women in the mood":
Bender: (crying) I'll misss you meatbag.
Leela: Me too meatbag.
Kif: Amy. Before I die I have to tell you. I didn't mean to say those awful things on our date. They were all Zapp's idea.
Amy: Really? Honest and true?
Kif: Yes. And-And that person calling and hanging up, was me. I was just too nervous to say hello because, I love you.
Amy: Oh Kif!
[An Amazonian picks her up by her ponytail, throws her on the floor and sits on her. Amy walks past on stilts. She has put a bone through her hair and torn her dress so she looks like an Amazonian.]
Amy: (deep voice) Me next snu-snu. Out me way.
[She walks into a snu-snu chamber.]
[Cut to: Kif's Snu-Snu Chamber. Thog looks under a bed.]
Thog: Where go beautiful man? [Kif clings to ceiling and whimpers. Thog looks up and sees him.] Me want snu-snu!
[She pokes him with a broom and he runs around the ceiling, his hands and feet sticking to it. Amy the Amazonian walks in. She sees Kif and Thog and gasp. She jumps off the stilts and holds out her arms.]
Amy: Kif, jump.
[He lands in her arms.]
Kif: My hero.
[They kiss and leg it.]
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"The Day the Earth Stood Stupid":
Leela(crying): Fry, don't die. Wake up.
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"The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz":
Leela: Aww they're so cute! They're like if puppies and kittens could have babies!
[Scene: Pluto Surface. Leela walks over the icy surface with her gun. She crawls to a ledge and sees a flock of penguins.]
Leela: Alright, this is for their own good. Don't leave orphans. Gotta kill entire families. [She looks down the gunsight.] But they're so cute. No! You can do this. It's just like murdering a little butler. I...I can't look. [She shakes as she starts to squeeze the trigger. A tear streams down her face. Bang. The penguins squawk and run away.] (crying) Oh no! What have I done? [She runs down the hillside. The penguins are gathered around a dead penguin. Leela falls to her knees and cries.] Oh you poor little guy! I'm so sorry I - Bender? [Bender opens his eyes and resets to Human Mode. He loads the Human Language and brings up his task list. 1) Bend. 2) Cheese It! He stands up and takes the bullet out of his head. Leela stops crying.] What's going on? Were you hiding out with these little guys?
Bender: Of course not. Filthy ice rats. Scat! Shoo! [The penguins rub against him.] Gah! What are you doing? Get away!
Leela: Aww, they love you!
Bender: Well I don't love them. [A baby penguin looks up at him and cheeps.] Aww! [He regurgitates some food into it's mouth. Leela looks away.] I don't know why but when I look down at their little faces, it makes me wanna puke! In a good way!
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"Luck of the Fryrish":
This whole was pretty heart-warming, esp. the beginning flashback and the ending.
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"Love and Rocket":
Sheldon: Do any of you collect Lovey Bears?
Amy: I do! Kif's given me dozens! Is it true what the ad says? That you kiss them together out of blanket cloth and magic buttons?
Gwen: No.
Zoidberg (voice-over): As the candy hearts poured into the firey quasar a wonderous thing happened why not. They vapourised into a mysitcal love radiation that spread across the universe destroying many many planets, including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was at exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays, but not be destroyed by them. Earth. So all over the world couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg! And no one could have been happier unless it would have been Valentines Day. What? It was? Hooray! [As he speaks shots of couples on Earth come and go. Horrible Gelatinous Blobs, mutants, Amy and Kif and Fry and Leela (joined by Zoidberg).]
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"Leela's Homeworld":
[Flashback - Vogel's Office, 2974. Vogel is in his office and the doorbell goes. He opens the door, looks around, then looks down. baby Leela is in a basket. He picks her up. He tickles her. Then he sees a note, written in the alien language.]
Vogel: What the..? An alien language. I guess you're an alien. What a beautiful gigantic eye you ha- [Leela kicks him.] Well, come on in.
Leela: I told a whole crowd today that being an orphan made me strong. But all I really wanted was a mom and dad, to hold me and stroke my hair and tell me they loved me.
Fry: Then today's your lucky day because I happen to be a holding, stroking, lovin' machine! Also spankin'!
Leela: That's not even close to what I had in mind.
Fry: Well anyway, just remember that people care about you.
Leela: I know. [They both gaze up at the stars.] Sometimes when I'm lonely, I look up at the sky and I get this feeling that somewhere, on some unknown planet, circling a distant star, my parents are there, looking down on me.
[From the sewers a pair of cyclopses gaze up at Leela.]
[Flashback: 20 Something Years Ago. 100 Something Feet Underground. A baby is born in the sewers.]
Doctor: It's a girl.
[Two cyclopses look over the baby. But these cyclopses are oddly different. The mother has tentacles and the father's mouth is vertical rather than horizontal.]
Mother: My God! She's beautiful! No extra anythings!
[The father reaches his hand out. The baby grabs his finger and goos.]
Father: Good people skills.
Mother: She's perfect!
Doctor: In my professional opinion as an ear, ear, ear, nose and throat doctor, she is the least mutated mutant ever born.
Father: And yet she's cursed to live the horrible degrading life of a mutant. Like all of us. Especially him!
[He points at the Leg Mutant.]
Leg Mutant: It's true!
Mother: Maybe we can do better for her.
[Scene: Outside Cookieville Orphanarium. The mutants come out of a manhole outside the front door with their baby. They put it in a basket outside the front door. The father puts a bracelet on the baby's wrist - just like Leela's.]
Father: I made this bracelet for you so that in some small way, we'll always be with you. Even when it doesn't seem like it. During your entire life for example.
[He cries.]
Mother: You won't pass for human, cutie. But if my PhD in exo-liguistics is worth diddly-poop, this note should convince them you're an alien. [She attaches the note to the baby's basket.] And that'll be enough to give you a real life.
[She kisses the baby, puts her hood up and runs down the steps. The father rings the doorbell and follows her. Warden Vogel opens the door and sees the baby.]
[Cut to: Sewer. The parents watch as Vogel picks the baby's basket up.]
Father: She'll never know we're her parents.
Mother: That's our gift to her. Better we should die than she learn the shameful truth of her origin.
Father: I'm with you.
[They hug. Then turn to watch Vogel.]
Vogel: What a beautiful gigantic eye you ha - [The baby kicks him.]. Well come on in.
[The parents watch their baby - their Leela - disappear inside, hold their breath and dive into the sewers.]
Fry: I had the Professor analyse the alienese letter that was found with you.
Leela: What does it say?
Fry: I 'unno. But the analysis showed it was printed on recycled toilet paper. A squeezably soft paper that is used mainly in the sewers.
[Leela's mother takes the paper.]
Munda: It says, Your parents love you very much.
Morris: We still do.
Leela: So, I'm not an alien? I'm a mutant.
Morris: We never wanted you to know. You deserved a better life.
Munda: You must despise us.
Leela: You're my parents. All I've ever wanted is to know you. [They hug.] This is the happiest moment of my life.
[They cry. It starts to rain.]
[Cut to: Street. It isn't raining - Bender is emptying a spitoon on them!]
Bender: Aww!
[Flashbacks. Over the flashbacks Pizzicato Five's Baby Love Child plays. Baby Leela crawls down a corridor at the Orphanarium and nearly falls down the stairs. Her father's arm comes out of the wall and turns her around. Young Leela sits at a desk in her room studying. Her mother's tentacle comes through the toilet and puts a box of cookies on her desk. Leela smiles and eats them. Adolescent Leela walks around New New York on her birthday with no friends. Her mother puts a present on the pavement for her. She reads the message with it: Happy Birthday Leela. Mid-twenties Leela tosses and turns in bed. Her father puts his arm through the laundry chute and pulls the sheet over her. She smiles and goes to sleep.]
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"The Devil's Hands are idle playthings":
[Scene: Metropolitan House Of Opera. Fry sits alone on the stage in the empty auditorium. He puts his holophonor on the floor and gets up to leave.]
Leela: Please don't stop playing Fry. I wanna hear how it ends. [Fry turns around. Leela is the only person left in the room. He smiles then sits down, picks up the holophonor and starts to play. The smoke whirls around above him and forms a crude cartoon-like image of him and Leela who turn to each other and take hold of one another's hand. They kiss, turn around and walk away towards the horizon, never taking their eyes off each other.]