That Darn Katz! story
"That Darn Katz!" is the eighth episode of the sixth season of the animated comedy show, Futurama. It first aired on Comedy Central on August 5, 2010. In the episode, Amy's rejected doctoral dissertation—a device to harness the Earth's rotational energy—is used by evil invading space cats to fix their own slowing planet. Since the invention will cause the Earth to stop turning, Amy and Nibbler must team up to stop them while their co-workers have fallen under the thrall of the cats' cuteness. Directed by: Frank Marino. Story by: Josh Weinstein.
10 total · 6 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien living secretly among us | major | Cats are actually aliens. |
| attack from outer space | major | The cats threatened civilization as we know it by halting the rotation of the Earth. |
| felinoid being | major | Intelligent cats tried to take over the Earth. |
| master and pet | major | People and their cats. Leela and Nibbler. |
| parody on life in academia | major | The story was largely a parody on professors and grad students. |
| subversive life form from outer space | major | Space cats enslaved humanity by means of their cuteness. |
| aliens meddling in ancient history | minor | We learned how cats from outer space came to live among the Ancient Egyptians and directed them to build the great pyramid. |
| coping with personal failure | minor | Amy was devastated after having failed her doctoral examination. |
| jealousy | minor | Nibbler was briefly jealous of Leela's new pet cat. |
| psychological stress | minor | Amy was stressed out in advance of her doctoral examination. |