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'“A Flight To Remember”' is episode ten in the first season of ''Futurama''. It originally aired in North America on September 26, 1999. This episode was written by Eric Horsted and directed by Peter Avanzino. Dawnn Lewis guest stars in this episode as LaBarbra Conrad.

Contents

Plot

Continuity

Characters

Cultural references

References

External links

Plot

Returning from a delivery mission to the planet Cannibalon, Fry, Leela, and Bender announce their resignations to Professor Farnsworth. They reconsider when the Professor tells them he has scheduled a company vacation, a cruise on the maiden voyage of the largest space cruise ship ever built: the ''Titanic''.
As the Planet Express team boards, they are stopped by Zapp Brannigan, who is the honorary captain of the ''Titanic'' for its maiden voyage. He tries to seduce Leela again, as he did on their last encounter. In an attempt to avoid Brannigan's unwanted advances, Leela claims she is engaged to Fry. On the way to their room, Bender meets the Countess de la Roca.
Meanwhile, on the bridge, Brannigan diverts from the ship's original course and goes on a new one, leading through a swarm of comets. At the buffet, Amy unexpectedly runs into her parents, Leo and Inez, who immediately attempt to set Amy up with a date. In order to redirect her parents' attention, Amy claims Fry is her boyfriend.
In the swimming pool capsule, a limbo competition is being held. Hermes is urged to limbo, but declines, remembering a traumatic incident from twenty years ago. He was on the Earth Olympic limbo team, but during the 2980 Olympics, a little boy ran onto the field, wanting to be just like his hero Hermes. He tried to limbo under an Olympic level bar and broke his spine. Hermes has never limboed since then.
Zapp Brannigan takes time off from steering the ship to judge the limbo contest, and declares Leela the winner, despite her not having entered. As a prize, she and Fry are invited to dinner at the captain's table.
The Planet Express crew sits down to dinner. Unfortunately for Fry, both Zapp Brannigan and Amy's parents are present and demanding he kiss his date. However, before the fake relationships are exposed, Kif calls Brannigan back to the bridge. The new course has placed the ship in danger. Brannigan's attempt to correct the problem results in the ship flying toward a black hole. Realizing the danger he has put them in Brannigan promotes Kif to Captain, so that he can go down with the ship while Brannigan escapes. Bender heads off to save the Countess, while the rest of the crew make their way to the escape pods.
On the way, an airlock door begins to close, blocking the crew's escape. Zoidberg holds it from closing all the way, but the door release is on the other side and no one is able to fit under the gap - except an Olympic limboer. Hermes resurrects his old limbo skills to squeeze under and hit the door release. Arriving at the escape pods, they meet Amy's parents, who have found Amy a new boyfriend they feel is suitable: Kif. After waiting as long as they could for Bender, the crew launches the escape pod. Bender leaps from the ''Titanic'', Countess in tow. He grabs the escape pod, but they are overweight, and the Countess sacrifices herself to allow the others to escape. Bender starts to cry at the end, at first for the Countess, then from the fact her bracelet is a fake.

Continuity

This episodes features the beginning of the relationship between Kif Kroker and Amy Wong. The relationship was originally meant to be a one off joke however the writers found it to be convenient and used it in multiple later episodes^[1]. This is the first episode where Fry and Leela attempt to kiss.

Characters

Characters who first appear in this episode are:

★ Leo and Inez Wong

Cultural references

The episode is a parody of the film ''Titanic''.¹

References

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External links

★ A Flight to Remember at the Internet Movie Database

★ A Flight to Remember at TV.com

★ A Flight to Remember at About.com