The Mutants Are Revolting story
"The Mutants Are Revolting" is the twelfth episode of the sixth season of the American animated sitcom Futurama and is the 100th episode of the series. It aired on Comedy Central on September 2, 2010 as a mid-season finale, with remaining episodes broadcast in November 2010 and in 2011. In the episode, the Planet Express crew celebrate their 100th delivery. Leela's status as a mutant is exposed to the public and she is deported from the surface and forced to live with other mutants in the sewers. She recognizes the inequality with which mutants are forced to live and rallies them together in an equal rights revolt against the surface dwellers. Directed by: Raymie Muzquiz. Story by: Eric Horsted.
15 total · 5 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| civil rights | major | The sewer mutants were discriminated against on account of their sub-human class. |
| discrimination in society | major | The sewer mutants were discriminated against on account of their sub-human class. |
| humanoid mutant | major | Leela was exposed as a mutant and was forced to live together with her kind in the sewers. |
| social activism | major | Leela and Fry led a mutant rights movement. |
| social inequality | major | The sewer mutants were discriminated against on account of their sub-human class. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | minor | Fry and Leela. |
| coping with being disfigured | minor | Fry was transformed into a grotesque mutant after diving into some toxic waste. |
| humanoid robot | minor | Bender held a party full of robots after the Planet Express people got sentenced to live in the sewers. |
| husband and wife | minor | Rich lady pined for her late husband who had turned into a mutant. |
| interplanetary space travel | minor | The Planet Express crew made their 100th delivery to a mansion on an asteroid. |