A Flight to Remember

"A Flight to Remember"
Futurama episode
File:Futurama ep10.jpg
Episode no.	Season one
Directed by	Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo
Written by	David X. Cohen, Matt Groening
Original air dates	September 26, 1999
Episode features
Opening cartoon	Unknown

A Flight To Remember is episode 10 in the first series of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on September 26, 1999.

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. Unfortunately, the vacation is a cruise on the largest space cruise ship ever built: the Titanic.

Acting as the honorary captain for Titanic's first voyage, Zapp Brannigan christens the ship by breaking the jar containing Leonardo DiCaprio's head against her hull. As the Planet Express team boards, they are stopped by Brannigan, who continues his futile effort to seduce Leela for a second time. In an attempt to avoid Brannigan's unwanted advances, Leela claims she is engaged to Fry.

After losing big at the craps table, Bender meets a sophisticated female robot, the Countess de LaRoca. Meanwhile, on the bridge, Brannigan plots a new course for the ship, leading through a swarm of comets. At the buffet, Amy unexpectly runs into her parents, Leo and Inez Wong, who immediately attempt to set Amy up with an unattractive fat man. In order to redirect her parents' attention, Amy claims Fry is her boyfriend.

Bender continues romancing the Countess, in several scenes that are a blatant parody of the movie Titanic.

The Planet Express crew sits down to dinner, with both Zapp Brannigan, and Amy's parents present. However, before the fake relationships are exposed, Kif calls Brannigan back to the bridge. His new course has placed the ship in danger. Unfortunately, his attempt to correct the problem results in the ship flying toward a black hole.

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. Once there, they meet Amy's parents, who have found Amy a new boyfriend they feel is suitable: Kif. Amy and Kif are immediately attracted to one another, thus beginning a relationship which continues sporadically throughout the series.

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.

Quotes

• Countess de LaRoca: Bender, you risked your life to save me!
• Bender: And I'd do it again! And perhaps a third time! But that would be it.

• Zapp: Aahh, comets. The icebergs of space.

References

• The title comes from the famous RMS Titanic docu-pic A Night to Remember.
• The episode is a parody of the 1997 film Titanic