In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" is the ninetieth episode of Futurama, the second of the sixth production season and the seventh broadcast season. It is scheduled to air 24 June 2010 on Comedy Central, together with "Rebirth". It guest stars Chris Elliot.

The Story


In an interview to Entertainment Weekly, David X. Cohen reveals that the plot, being Matt Groening's brainchild, playing on the Adam and Eve trope, wherein two characters must 'recreate' an entire species as the lone survivors. In this episode, Zapp Brannigan and Leela land on a Garden of Eden planet, but unlike the trope, this story is based on, this part of the plot occurs in the beginning of the episode, and never actually gets to the reproduction of the human species.

Storyboard
A storyboard released from act 12 of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" previews a scene possibly entitled "Undressing". Leela is lying on the floor with her legs trapped under a log, saying her suit is making her sweat. Zapp suggests to strip them off and the scene ends with Leela stripping her suit off. This is the same scene shown in the second promotional picture for the episode, in which Leela and Zapp have already stripped their suits off.

Production
By 20 August, 2009, the writing of this episode was ready for its table reading.

Due to Futurama being on Comedy Central, a cable channel, the writers and producers can now be a bit more lenient about the show's content. Though, David X. Cohen stresses, that they aren't doing anything that wouldn't have been accepted on its former network, FOX, but they are doing it in an amount that might not have been content with the FOX censors.

Allusions

 * Leela and Zapp's infiltration of the sphere includes many references to Star Wars, including Leela mentioning the Force and a voice very reminiscent of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
 * Zapp once again mention his "captain's log", a reference to Star Trek.