The Honking story
"The Honking" is the eighteenth episode in the second season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 5, 2000. The title references the 1981 film The Howling. Directed by: Susie Dietter. Story by: Ken Keeler.
13 total · 11 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| fear | major | The Planet Express team spent a night in haunted castle and Bender became very fearful. |
| folk belief | major | Superstition robot peasants were everywhere. |
| friendship | major | Fry was disappointed that were-car Bender tried to kill Leela instead of him. |
| ghost | major | There were robot ghosts. |
| haunted vehicle | major | The original werecar was a demonic car built a thousand years earlier from parts of the most evil cars in history. |
| hexes and curses | major | A robot was cursed to be a were-car. |
| humanoid robot | major | Bender became the robot equivalent of a wereworf: a were-car. |
| questioning one's sanity | major | Bender began to question his own sanity. |
| the supernatural | major | There was a robot werewolf curse. |
| werewolf | major | Bender became the robot equivalent of a wereworf: a were-car. |