My Three Suns

"My Three Suns" is the seventh episode of Futurama and of the first season. It aired 4 May, 1999. Fry becomes the emperor of Trisol through random lucky occurrences, at the expense of Leela's displeasure with Fry's reckless behaviour. This episode also establishes Bender's dreams of becoming a chef.

Act I: "Goin through the bot wash..."
Bender goes through an automatic robot wash, much like a typical car wash, while dancing and singing a modified version of the song "Going Through the Car Wash." After he gets out, however, it starts to rain.

Act II: "A Mouthwatering Neptunian slug!"
Fry and Leela catch Bender watching Elzar's cooking show on the TV at Planet Express. He admits he wants to become a chef Hermes tells him he noted that they're paying him to do nothing but loaf about on the couch and has to start doing something or he's fired, so Bender decides to be the cook of the ship. He takes Fry and Leela down to Little Neptune to buy ingredients for his first meal. Fry is distracted by a "organ seller" and wants to buy some gills but need to give the seller his own lungs. When he's about cutting Fry, Leela kicks the seller and they get out of there. When they get back, the professor sends them on a mission to the planet Trisol in the Forbidden Zone, deep in the heart of the Galaxy of Terror. On the way Bender prepares a full of salt meal, which the crew finds inedible. When they arrive, Fry drinks a strange bottle of blue water - which turns out to be an Emperor.

Act III: "You drank our emperor!"
Having accidentally assassinated the Emperor, the Trisolians make Fry their new Emperor. Fry appoints Bender as his Prime Minister, and refuses to leave despite Leela's warnings. During his coronation, the former emperor begins to glow and speak from Fry's stomach. The Trisolians attack Fry, intending to cut him apart to free the Emperor. He flees with his friends, and they lock themselves in the Emperor's chambers.

Act IV: "Fry must die!"
As the Trisolians attempt to break through the door, Fry's friends try to make Fry cry the Emperor out. Fry is unable to cry, until he finally apologizes and asks Leela for help. She saves him - by beating the crap out of him until he cries the Emperor out from pain.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode to be rated TV14.
 * Trisol is probably a compound of "tri-" (three) and "sol" (sun).

Allusions

 * Bender's apron, which reads "To Serve Man," is a reference to an episode of "The Twilight Zone", in which the statement's apparent meaning, being servile to man, is in fact wrong. The statement is actually the title of a cookbook, thus serving man for dinner.
 * The entire scene in Little Neptune seems to be a somewhat vague reference to Chalmun's Cantina scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Both seem seedy, have a menagerie of robot and alien denizens, and both feature the main characters going into a place that sell food. Also, the scene where Fry is saved by Leela from the Organ Dealer and his accomplice is similar to when Obi-Wan Kenobi saves Luke Skywalker from Cornelius Evazan and Ponda Baba.

Goofs

 * In Little Neptune, a Neptunian is seen haggling with the Number 9 Man, and he only has two arms.

Alien Language Sightings
Time:03:06

Location: poster

Language: AL1

Translation: boxing

Time:03:24

Location: head shop sign

Language: AL1

Translation: (below open sign) open

Time:03:24

Location: head shop sign

Language: AL1

Translation: (under the doorbell) ring

Time:03:29

Location: Televideo machine

Language: AL1

Translation: (on the number pad) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Time:03:29

Location: Televideo machine

Language: AL1

Translation: (underneath the machine) televideo

Time:03:43

Location: Shop Sign

Language: AL1

Translation: ?arket

Time:09:09

Location: Sign

Language: AL1

Translation: don't drink the emperor

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Debut: Bont
 * Debut: Crack Addict
 * Dr. Zoidberg
 * Debut: Elzar
 * Debut: Florp
 * Debut: Gorgak
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Leela
 * Debut: Murg
 * Debut: Neptunian store clerk
 * Number 9 Man
 * Debut: Organ Dealer
 * Prof. Farnsworth
 * Debut: Trisol guards

Episode Credits

 * Writer
 * J. Stewart Burns
 * Directors
 * Jeffery Lynch
 * Kevin O'Brien
 * Voice Actors
 * Billy West
 * Katey Sagal
 * John DiMaggio
 * Dave Herman
 * Phil LaMarr
 * Maurice LaMarche
 * Lauren Tom