The Butterjunk Effect story
"The Butterjunk Effect" is the sixth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom Futurama. It originally aired on Comedy Central on July 18, 2012. Directed by: Crystal Chesney-Thompson. Story by: Michael Rowe.
12 total · 3 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| combat sports | major | The story featured a flying, full contact fighting league with women in skimpy clothes on the Moon. |
| gender bending | major | Amy and Leela became beefed up and masculine. |
| performance-enhancing drugs | major | Leela and Amy took performing enhancing nectar to gain an advantage in butterfly derby competition. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | minor | Fry and Leela went on a double date with Amy and Kif. |
| colonization of the Moon | minor | The Planet Express crew went to a butterfly derby on the Moon. |
| female-female rivalry | minor | Leela and Amy were trash talking each other. |
| human sex pheromones | minor | Human-butterfly hybrid Fry emitted pheromones that attracted Amy and Leela. |
| love triangle | minor | Leela, Fry, and Amy. |
| man vs. woman | minor | Leela and Amy took the equivalent of PEDs and manhandled their boyfriends. |
| romantic infidelity | minor | Fry cheated on Leela with Amy, and Amy cheated on Kif with Fry. |