![]() I wouldn't call this romance 'sweet' although the journey to the other side of the island has a certain Land Before Time vibe and I love that movie. "Salmon" kicked things off with a pretty sweet and sentimental Fry and Leela love story, even if it ended with the pair sleeping with the (other) fishes, and next up is another romantic tale about Hubert, the lonely Pinta Island Tortoise. But he's not milking anywhere except near the love of his life and thanks to a Free Willy inspired leap as well as Burr the Bear eating his fill with Zapp (at least according to his wife), Fry manages to fertilize Leela's eggs for a 'happy ending.' Well, happy until the whole dying thing. The exhausted fish have finally made it back home and Bender gets busy fertilizing as well as imploring Fry to release his milk before it's too late. unless you're Hermes, then you obviously take the limbo route under the rocks. Son of a fish! Fry's stuck watching as Zapp readies to get naughty by nature but first they still have som upstream jumping to do. Only, Leela and Fry don't share the same dream and their biological imperatives won't allow either to cross them. It also marks the moment when Fry finally asks Leela to mate with him, just seconds before the pieces Zap swims up to be ignored, for now.Īfter a beautifully animated montage set to "Sea of Love," it's time for the lovebirds, lovefish, to start the arduous 1000 mile journey back to the very stream in which they were hatched and whether it takes memory, smell or magnetic variations, the Salmon somehow locate their home stream homes. Before they can make the final push into the open ocean, the birthplace of all life - but the salmon - a Zoidberg-crab reduces their numbers to five with a juicy morsel of Scruffy. So much for safety in numbers and then nature's waterfall, the cliff of the waters, takes another three in the foamy plunge (as we're told by Morbo-fish), even though Hedonismfish seems to be enjoying the bumpy ride. Only 3 in 10 of the fish will make the trip and immediately one is snatched away to turned into a tasty regurgitated dinner. The salmon hatchlings soon grow into Fry, not the person, that's just what that stage of fish is called and ready for the perilous journey to the ocean. Well, I don't think it was actually Morgan Freeman, the voice actors sure did their best to mimic the now most famous and ubiquitous narrator throughout the three separate nature stories. First, the fishes! Take it away Morgan Freeman. Trying to riff on the "Treehouse of Horrors" tradition at their sister show The Simpsons, the "Anthology of Interests" didn't make it past "Part II" (Season 3) but the triptych device returned last season with the visual feast that was "Reincarnation." However, I'd like a little more story in my meal and parodying "Planet Earth" style nature documentaries might provide the much needed meat on the structural bone. Aren't you glad you come here for this kind of insight, folks? Another of Futurama's triptych episodes, which, to be completely honest, are not my cup of episodes, last night's second installment joins "Anthology of Interest" and "Anthology of Interest II" as well as "Reincarnation" as the fourth time the series has split the story into three vignettes. That changes the implication from 'future' (science fiction) to 'nature' (wildlife docs). The name sounds awfully similar to Futurama's name only with an 'N' on the front.
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