The Tip of the Zoidberg

"The Tip of the Zoidberg" is the one-hundred-and-sixth episode of Futurama, the eighteenth of the sixth production season and the tenth of the eighth broadcast season. It aired 18 August, 2011 on Comedy Central. The crew uncovers a dark secret concerning a covert mission undertaken by the Professor and Dr. Zoidberg many years earlier.

Production
While originally known as "Nine-tenths of a Zoidberg is Underwater", the episode title changed in the process.

During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released two items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of Triton Base Camp on 3 June and part of the storyboard showing a young Professor Farnsworth and Zoidberg on a Yeti-hunting trip on 4 June.

On 12 August, Comedy Central released a video clip featuring Zoidberg performing surgery on Fry, Leela, and Hermes.

Trivia

 * Mom's real name is revealed to be Carol.

Allusions

 * Zoidberg causes Fry to lose blood and develop a host of syndromes named after pop culture figures.
 * Fry first develops a condition called "Simpsons jaundice", referring to the yellow skin of characters from The Simpsons. He then says the phrase "", a catchphrase of.
 * Fry then gets "Garfield syndrome", a reference to the cat.  He looks like Garfield and even says his phrase "I hate Mondays".
 * Fry then develops "Muppet gangrene". This causes him to act like and say that "It's not easy being gangrenous", referring to Kermit's famous refrain from "".
 * Finally, Fry gets an unknown condition that makes him look like a.
 * During Zoidberg's attempts at murdering the Professor, the song "" plays over the scene.
 * The Tritonian Yeti, including its poisonous nature, is designed like the of the Star Trek episode "."

Continuity

 * Fry once again mistakes an inanimate object for a living alien, having previously made out with what he thought was "the radiator woman from the Radiator Planet", in "The Lesser of Two Evils".

Characters

 * Debut: Actual Doctor
 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * Hattie McDoogal
 * Hermes
 * Igner
 * Larry
 * Leela
 * Mom
 * Scruffy
 * Walt
 * Zoidberg