![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The revelation of her true origin in this episode was previously foreshadowed when Leela's parents appeared in a crowd of mutants in the season two episode " I Second That Emotion". Until this episode, Leela believed she was an alien who was abandoned on Earth after her home planet collapsed (as seen in " A Bicyclops Built for Two"). This episode reveals Leela's origins, something she had been searching for all throughout the series. A tearful reunion ensues, and the episode closes with a montage of scenes that show Leela's parents secretly watching over her throughout her life. Her parents confess that, wanting Leela to have a better life than that of a mutant, they left her at the orphanarium with an alienese note so she would be assumed to be an alien. Fry explains that though the Professor could not translate the note, his analysis showed that it was written on a brand of toilet paper that is used primarily in the sewers, cluing Fry in to the fact that the hooded mutants are Leela's parents. Fry stops Leela and removes the mutants' hoods, revealing they are one-eyed. Before Leela can kill the two in her rage, Bender shoots Fry through the ceiling using his waste disposal pump. Finding that one of them has a bracelet identical to one she has had since before coming to her orphanarium, Leela hypothesizes that they killed her parents, and the hooded mutants confess. Leela pursues the hooded mutants through the sewers back to the home with the shrine to herself. Fry takes the note to the Professor for analysis. Fry heads to the orphanarium to get some clues to what is going on, and the headmaster gives him the alien-language note that was left with Leela when she was abandoned. To her surprise, she is unaffected by the chemicals. Fry and Bender emerge on the surface, but Leela, determined to find out what the hooded mutants know about her, dives into the chemical lake. They are flown by hot air balloon to a surface access ladder hanging over the lake. However, after a whispered word from the hooded mutants, the crew's sentence is commuted to exile. Leela is frozen in horror at the thought of a mutant having been stalking her her whole life, giving the mob the opportunity to capture them. Fry, Leela, and Bender take refuge in a mutant home, where they find photos and news clippings of every major event in Leela's life. Two hooded mutants break from the group and swing the crane the three are tied to, dropping them on the far side of the mutagenic lake. The mutants sentence them to be lowered into a lake of chemicals which will turn them into mutants. The sewer mutants grow angry with Bender's disposal technique and abduct him, Fry, and Leela. However, back at Planet Express, Fry finds Leela in tears, and she admits she still longs to have parents, unaware that a pair of individuals each with a single eye like her are watching from underneath a sewer grate.īender expands his one-time dumping into a full waste management service. At the orphanarium's award ceremony, the headmaster presents a story of Leela's arrival and Leela delivers a speech which profoundly inspires the orphans. The Professor hires Bender for the job, and he dumps the waste into the sewer. The machine produces enormous amounts of toxic waste, and Hermes tells him to get rid of it. The Professor announces some good news: Leela's old orphanarium has named her orphan of the year, and that he has invented a machine that makes glow-in-the-dark noses. Her parents fabricated her prior background as an alien, as it is illegal for mutants to live on the surface. The episode reveals Leela's true origin as a mutant who was abandoned by her parents so she could have a better life. "Leela's Homeworld" was written by Kristin Gore and directed by Mark Ervin. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 17, 2002. " Leela's Homeworld" is the second episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series Futurama. "In a Cartoon Studio" by Van Beuren Studios (1931) 2nd episode of the 4th season of Futurama " Leela's Homeworld"
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