I Dated a Robot story
"I Dated a Robot" is the fifteenth episode in the third season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 13, 2001. Directed by: James Purdum. Story by: Eric Kaplan.
15 total · 4 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| android clone of a person | major | Lucy Liu's personality from movies was closed into an android body. |
| forbidden love | major | Fry and the Lucy Liu robot. |
| sexual norms in society | major | The opprobrium on dating robots was presumably an allegory of old fashioned views on masturbation and homosexuality. |
| what if I met an historical figure | major | Fry and a few other met actress Lucy Liu. |
| disembodied head | minor | The Kidnappster CEO made a business out of kidnapping disembodied heads of famous people and cloning them. |
| edge of the universe | minor | The Planet Express team traveled to the edge of the universe. |
| facing life in captivity | minor | The Kidnappster victims had spent hundreds of years in tormented captivity. |
| information technology in society | minor | Fry and Leela strolled around the World Wide Web as virtual people, where they passed two nerds arguing over Star Trek in a chatroom, observed an eBay auction, and visited a Napster-run celebrity dating service. |
| Internet crime in society | minor | Kidnappster was making illegal copies of celebrities. |
| interracial couple | minor | Bender objected to humans dating robots, in tone that was reminiscent of white people objecting to whites dating blacks once upon a time, for example. |