I Dated a Robot

"I Dated a Robot"
Futurama episode
The crew and Lucy Liu's head hide from the renegade Liu-bots.
Episode no.	Season three Episode 15
Directed by	James Purdum
Written by	Eric Kaplan
Production code	3ACV15
Original air date	May 13, 2001
Opening caption	"No Humans Were Probed In The Making Of This Episode"
Opening cartoon	"Censored"
Guest stars
Lucy Liu as Herself
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"I Dated a Robot" is the fifteenth episode in season three of Futurama. It originally aired on May 13, 2001.

Plot

After the crew sees an episode of The Scary Door, Fry decides to do all the things he always wanted to do; and the Planet Express crew obliges. After demolishing a planet, visiting the edge of the universe, and riding a dinosaur, one of his few remaining fantasies is to date a celebrity. Fry and Leela venture into the Internet to visit nappster.com and download a celebrity's personality. Fry downloads the personality of Lucy Liu into a blank robot, which begins projecting an image of her.

Fry and the Lucy Liu robot begin dating, aided by her being programmed to like Fry. The other Planet Express employees, concerned about his relationship, show him the standard middle-school film (similar to Boys Beware) that predicts the destruction of civilization if humans date robots. Unfortunately, Fry ignores the movie and keeps making out with his Lucy Liubot.

Bender, offended by the concept of competing with humans for the attention of female robots, sets off with Leela and Zoidberg to shut down Nappster. In the Nappster building a broken sign eventually reveals that the company is actually "Kidnappster". Breaking into the back room Bender discovers that Nappster has been kidnapping the heads of celebrities and making illegal copies of them. Leela grabs Lucy Liu's head and the four take off. The Nappster CFO loads a backup disk of Lucy Liu, and creates a horde of Lucy Liu robots ordered to kill (by having their settings changed from "competent lawyer" to "erotic assassin").

Leela and her group, running from the robot horde, duck into a movie theater, where Fry is seeing a movie with his Lucy Liu robot. Everyone ducks into the projection room. Zoidberg discovers a five ton bag of popping corn, and sends it pouring onto the robots on the theater floor. The robots eat their way out from under the corn and start shooting popcorn kernels from their mouths at the room. Fry's Liu-bot points the projector at the other robots, and the heat causes the popcorn to pop, bursting the robots. At the request of the real Lucy Liu, Fry blanks his robot. A hypocritical Bender begins dating & kissing Lucy Liu's head much to Fry's anger.

Production

The episode was originally entitled "J-Lo Dolly", but the title was dropped after the initial scripting stage.^[1]

Broadcast and reception

In its initial airing, the episode received a Nielsen rating of 3.8/8, placing it 76th among primetime shows for the week of May 7-13, 2001. ^[2]

References

1. ^ http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search%5FArg=J%2DLo%20Dolly&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=25&PID=qXbUj7Om9_HbTNECKWa1iY3IN&SEQ=20100829101656&SID=2
2. ^ "BroadcastWatch (prime time television ratings, week of May 7-13)". Broadcasting & Cable (Reed Business Information). 2001-05-21. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-75097369.html. Retrieved 2009-03-07. 

External links

• I Dated a Robot at The Infosphere.