The Deep South story
"The Deep South" is the twelfth episode in the second season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 16, 2000. Directed by: Bret Haaland. Story by: J. Stewart Burns.
9 total · 4 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| aquatic ability | major | The Planet Express team walked around on the ocean floor with the help of Professor Farnsworth's suppositories. |
| infatuation | major | Fry and the mermaid Umbriel. |
| merpeople | major | The Planet Express team encountered a race of merpeople. |
| underwater city | major | The Planet Express team found the fabled sunken city of Atlanta. |
| Atlantis | minor | The Atlantis myth was parodied. |
| bureaucracy | minor | Hermes had an irrevocable mandatory fishing license was issued by accident. |
| crustacean-like being | minor | Dr. Zoidberg was in his element on the bottom of the sea. |
| father and daughter | minor | Umbriel and her father the Colonel. |
| what if I told the truth and nobody would believe me | minor | The Planet Express team dismissed Fry's sighting of a mermaid as a case of ocean madness. |