The Mutants Are Revolting

"The Mutants Are Revolting" is the one hundredth episode of Futurama, the twelfth of the sixth production season and the seventh broadcast season. This episode was branded as the season finale for Comedy Central's 'season 6'. It aired 2 September, 2010 on Comedy Central. After Leela is banished to the sewers along with the other mutants, she and the Planet Express crew lead a revolution for mutant rights.



Story
The Planet Express crew has been hired for their 100th delivery, and Bender plans the party of the millennium. Meanwhile, as the rest of the crew attends a fund raiser, Fry accidentally spills that Leela is not an alien but a mutant who illegally lives on the surface. Leela is banished to the sewers, and the Planet Express crew, along with the mutated members of Devo, helps her lead an epic revolution for mutant rights. This episode shows Leela forcing Fry to jump in the mutating waters, and him becoming a blob like mutant.

Production
A photo of Mike Rowe's production script have been uploaded by Mike Rowe onto his Facebook page. The cover of the script highlights it as the 100th episode, as well as revealing the title, "The Mutants Are Revolting".

This episode was dedicated to the memory of Alex Johns, a producer of Futurama who passed away at 43 years old.

Trivia

 * The title of this episode has double meaning. The first being that the mutants revolt in this episode and the second is that the mutants look revolting.
 * This is the second time Futurama makes a reference to the Titanic, the first being in "A Flight to Remember".
 * The narrator of "The Mutant" documentary is the same voice that narrated the fictional documentaries "I Dated A Robot" and "Global Warming".
 * This is the first time that a Futurama theme caption pops out over the main Futurama title.
 * The Futurama theme caption is 100 using bent girders to spell it to signify that this is Futurama's 100th episode.
 * The song playing at Bender's party is "The Boogie That Be" by the Black-Eyed Peas.

Allusions

 * When Mr. Blob enters the 100th delivery party, he says "Hey, Hey Hey" like Fat Albert.
 * The Land Titanic, how it sunk, and its old ballroom floor, as well as finding a huge diamond in a safe, are all references to the famous Titanic incident.
 * Dwayne asks Devo to play "Whip It", which is probably Devo's most famous single.
 * The song that Devo plays instead of "Whip It" is "Beautiful World", another popular single by them.
 * The million mutant march is a reference to the million man march.
 * A location in the sewers that Leela's parents show her is Ol' Filth-ful (a reference to Ol' Faithful).
 * The missile that is fired at Madison Cube Garden is called "I See BM", a reference to an ICBM, which stands for Inter-continental Ballistic Missile.
 * When Dwayne asks, "Are we not men now?", this is another Devo reference to the song "Jocko Homo", specifically the lyric "Are we not men? We are Devo!"
 * Mutant Fry declaring, "Let my people stay" and using a toilet plunger to part the massive sewage is a reference to the story of Moses in Exodus and the parting of the Red Sea. More specifically, the scene is a parody of the scene from The Ten Commandments.
 * The Westside Pipeway resembles the Great Machine from Fritz Lang's movie "Metropolis". The film is about a future where the rich and powerful live on top a city, while the exploited workers live a life of austerity underground.
 * The "2, 4, 6 eyes..." chant is a reference to the well known "2, 4, 6, 8..." chant.
 * The most famous scene of "The seven year itch" is parodied.

Continuity

 * This is the 3rd episode that features the title in the episode. One of the others being "Hell Is Other Robots" from the first season.
 * At the 100th delivery party, many characters from previous episodes can be seen including...
 * Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate (Introduced in "Time Keeps on Slippin'")
 * The Masked Unit (From "Raging Bender")
 * Robot 1X (From "Obsoletely Fabulous")
 * Roberto (Introduced in "Insane in the Mainframe")
 * Horrible Gelatinous Blob (Introduced in "The Series Has Landed")
 * Calculon (Introduced in "I, Roommate")
 * Robot Devil
 * The Pet Show Judge (From "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid")
 * Hedonismbot
 * Monique (Introduced in "I, Roommate")
 * All of Robot House from "Mars University" are present.
 * LaBarbarra and Barbados Slim seen dancing together.
 * Fanny (from "Into The Wild Green Yonder")
 * Lrrr (Introduced in "When Aliens Attack")
 * It is established that the Farnsworths have been living at New New York for 200 years. However, given that the Professor is over 160 himself, this is less than impressive.
 * The fact that their sewage water mutates living beings is re-established.
 * We learn that Leela has a living grandma.
 * The fact that Leela claims herself as an alien, but is really a mutant is re-established.
 * The mutants fight for their right on the surface, which we've come to know in "Leela's Homeworld" that it was illegal for mutants to be on the surface.
 * The running gag of Bender saying, "Neat" and then taking a picture with a flash camera reappears here.
 * The bull horn that Leela uses is the same one that Leela used to lead the feministas from "Into the Wild Green Yonder".
 * The relationships between Amy and Bender as well as Fry and Leela are referenced at the end when they dance together.
 * A priceless can of Angry Norwegian anchovies can be seen on the ground as Fry leaves the Titanic to go swim in the lake. He had a similar can in the episode, "A Fishful of Dollars".
 * The Hyper-chicken apparently survived his car crash from "Proposition Infinity".

Goofs

 * When Bender bends the pipes so the sewage is redirected to the surface, everyone on the surface is seen walking in that sewage, which we learned that if you touch it, you'd become a mutant.
 * It is only Lake Mutagenic that has been established as having mutagenic properties, not sewage in general. Fry has previously fallen into sewage unharmed, aside from a bad taste in his mouth.
 * When Mr. Astor lifts his hat for the first time, his head is full of hair. When he lifts it for the second time, however, he's bald.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Horrible Gelatinous Blob
 * Calculon
 * Debut: Colonel (mutant)
 * Debut: Devo
 * Elzar
 * Debut: Mrs. Astor
 * Debut: Mr. Astor
 * Dwayne
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * Hedonismbot
 * Hermes
 * Debut: Hobsy
 * Hyper-chicken
 * Leela
 * Mayor Poopenmeyer
 * Turanga Morris
 * Turanga Munda
 * Debut: Leela's Grandmother
 * Debut: Leela's Great-Grandmother (in flashback)
 * Petunia
 * Vyolet
 * Elzar
 * Walt, Larry and Igner
 * Zoidberg