I Never Saw It Coming! Futurama Season 4 Episode 12- The Sting Reaction!

[@DanGamingFan2406]

Even though it's just part of Leela's coma dream, I totally believe Fry is the one human Bender would never destroy. Their friendship is just that strong. And it was really sweet of Fry to not only try to take the sting for Leela, but to then stay by her side for a full two weeks. I also love how much a relationship between Fry and Leela is teased and built up here. It feels like the true start of something special.

[@Nolabray21]

Just wait until the movies☠️☠️

[@karenfan010]

@@Nolabray21he only tried to kill fry because he was ordered too.

[@Nolabray21]

@@karenfan010he tried to right after again? When he came back 🤣until the crew stopped him from “killing” that fry and he didn’t have any virus because it was just deleted the scene before lmfao

[@karenfan010]

@@Nolabray21only because he didn’t want people to say he was incompetent.

[@benjaminwarden8227]

The 'it was all a dream' trope is usually really corny, but Futurama did it so well and made it so wholesome.

[@0okamino]

Wait, so Fry shot J.R.?

[@SmellsLikeRacing]

Because it was Ubik reference.

[@NoriMori1992]

For me, it's not even that it's usually corny, it's that it's usually _infuriating._ It usually trivializes everything that just happened, jerks the audience around, wastes their time, spits on their emotional investment. I haven't fully teased out all the reasons this one works; but one of the reasons is that Leela's coma dream still _meant something_ even after it was over. She's always going to remember it, and it'll remind her of how Fry stayed by her side, and how awful it felt to think he was dead, and how reassuring his presence was whenever she hallucinated that he was there.

[@ammash3000]

“In France it’s called a guillotine!” I forgot how funny this show could be 😂

[@vadalia3860]

I love this episode so much, I always get teary-eyed at the reveal. Something about a "dead" person who loves someone still living so much they're trying to reach across the void to comfort or protect them gets me every time, and we got it a twofer of that in this episode! This also has some pretty stellar jokes in it.

[@acrefray]

This is absolutely one of my favourite episodes and I've been looking forward to seeing you watch this since The Why of Fry. Such a memorable and emotional episode, and cuts deep.

[@woodch]

Just posting to say this person stole what I was going to write. :)

[@SirPaladin]

in the VERY FIRST EPISODE, the Professor hands out crew chips from an envelope labeled "Contents Of Space Wasps' Stomach." Futurama plays the LONG game...

[@christopherlundgren1700]

That one wasn't an intentional set-up though. It was a throwaway joke that they decided to mine later for ideas, and changed it from wasps to bees with some hand-waving, because wasps don't make honey. They talk about it on the DVD commentary. Still cool how they would try to add continuity whenever they could.

[@NoriMori1992]

⁠​⁠@@christopherlundgren1700 Yeah, I figured it wasn't planned in advance because they changed it from wasps to bees. But honestly, I'm impressed that they managed to even keep that much consistency. I bet a writer could come up with a hundred interesting and diverse ways for the old crew to have died (or even not died, in some surprise twist) that might tempt them to throw out that setup from the first episode. But they not only stuck with that constraint, they spun it into one of their best episodes. That's what I call talent.

[@NoriMori1992]

@@christopherlundgren1700 Kind of funny that that was their reason for changing it, because there are actually some species of wasp that DO make honey! Still, I don't blame them for changing it, it would've been HELLA weird from the viewers' perspective to have an episode about _wasp_ honey. (Also they wouldn't have been able to do that "Bee Happy" song, lol.)

[@Luimneachturnal]

"oh no, nobody's saying that, although I'm certainly thinking it loudly" is one of those lines I find myself using in everyday speech over the last twenty years.

[@dragonlynx9969]

6:15 You usually do good at predicting what you gonna get and you came super close there. This is one of my favorite episodes. Dreams can be like that: a mix of what you know and total nonsense. Like Wonderland.

[@gurvmlk]

And yet no matter how nonsensical they become, you never question the dream as being a dream while it's happening. Which is the most wild aspect of dreams.

[@NoriMori1992]

I think you mean 6:10

[@superjonh1000]

I used to find this episode scary when I was a kid for some reason. The idea of never knowing if you're truly awake always messed me up.

[@sea-envy3137]

have you seen the meme on Face Book about "you are in a coma we are trying to wake you up"?

[@NoriMori1992]

It really is terrifying! Not just for kids!

[@_Shadoh_]

One of my favourite episodes. So trippy and such a heartwarming ending 💜

[@nattyboh2944]

Perfectly said

[@env0x]

this has always been the most emotional Futurama episode for me. it made me cry the first time i saw it and made me feel really depressed. but it's also my favorite episode because how emotional it made me.

[@dandychiggins7240]

8:45 Notice the toy, she's wearing Fry's jacket and the painting! 8:27 the most accepted theory is that the 3rd spoon represented her brain giving up and being in a permanent coma 🥲 8:06 2001: Space Odissey! I love this episode so much!! ❤️ Along with Jurassic Bark and Luck of the Fryish, there are the top 3 master pieces of Futurama 💖

[@Zomdra]

Oh! I've seen this episode so many times and I'd somehow never noticed the toy and painting in that scene before.

[@NoriMori1992]

Whoa, I never noticed the toy and the painting!

[@Zomdra]

The ones you didn't recognise in the lineup of Fry's past hook ups were the unnamed woman from the 21st century he took home way back in "Love's Labours Lost in Space" and Petunia, who Bender set him up with in "Put Your Head on My Shoulder". Oh, also, the amazon woman there isn't actually one of the ones known to have snu snu'd him in that episode; the blue mohawked amazon seen here was seen with Zapp, Fry was actually assigned to the black woman from the main amazon trio. Other more deep cut cameos in the funeral scene you may not have noticed were: -The cygnoids (those bug alien restaurant owners from the blernsball episode) -Seymour (still fossilized, leaning against Fry's coffin) -Some trisolians (the water people he was briefly emperor of in "My Three Suns") -Some "Xmas elves"/neptunians (from the second Xmas episode) -Guenter the monkey (from "Mars University") -US President Chester A. Arthur's head (from a minor gag in "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid") Another minor continuity error in this episode is that, while the grim fate of the previous Planet Express crew was alluded to way back in the Pilot, that episode showed Farnsworth retrieving the old crew's career chips from a folder marked "Contents of Space _Wasp's_ Stomach". Yes, wasps rather than bees. I believe the show's creators acknowledge in the DVD commentary it was just a blatant retcon rather than an accidental mistake, since they wanted to tell this story which necessitated bees rather than wasps.

[@superjonh1000]

If I'm not mistaken, in the snu snu episode it shows that the amazon women switched partners at some point, so it's possible she ended up with Fry at some point

[@Zomdra]

@@superjonh1000 Oh sure, it's perfectly possible it happened offscreen, it's just always seemed a little weird to me, given the continuity/obscure callback heavy nature of that scene, bringing back the unnamed 21st century girl and even the previously unseen radiator he was intimate with, it's odd they didn't use the amazon we actually _know_ he snu snu'd with.

[@ammash3000]

I mean wasps eat bees so maybe one ate the bee that ate the crew members and the chips ended up in their stomach. Or maybe the professor couldn’t be bothered to keep the details straight 😂

[@gurvmlk]

@@Zomdra It could also be that since it's Leela's coma, she doesn't remember which of the Amazonians were paired with Fry. Resulting in a flaw that's mildly indicative of it being a dream.

[@Isabella-hd1gt]

This episode is one of my favorites. It was nominated for an emmy. Great reaction as always!

[@superjonh1000]

Sorry to bother, but out of curiosity, are you from Brazil?

[@Isabella-hd1gt]

@@superjonh1000 Canada

[@spectorthecritic1723]

This is my favorite episode of the whole show.

[@alex.9398]

Fantastic episode. I've been looking forward to this and still am less than a minute in.

[@moneylover318]

The biggest Hint It was a dream is that zoidberg kniws what hes doing

[@fipse]

Ahh another of the classic Leela/Fry episodes. The dream thing really surprised me the first time I watched it but I was young and not very familiar with that kind of trope.

[@benign_oracle8875]

I remember watching this episode as a kid and this episode messed me up to the point that I questioned whether I ever actually wake up.

[@cyberlord1922]

3:44-3:49 Someone refresh my memory. I remember the Amazonian, his Ex girlfriend, the bureaucrat, and the radiator, but the other 2 I don't recall with him

[@AzraelisHorny]

Ahh the episode that gave me a slight exisistential crisis when I was about 10

[@connorwood9211]

Fun fact, if you go back to the pilot episode, the envelope the professor takes out their career chips from his last crew it says "Contents of Space Wasp's Stomach"

[@rocketdave719]

I'm glad to know you'll be watching the movies the way they were originally presented. When they edited them into multi-part episodes, they ended up cutting out some bits, unfortunately.

[@mmxxiii9503]

Good news Erick 😃. Never noticed the radiator was there, that was funny 🤣. This episode is awesome in so many levels, but also shows the part Fry always wanted to show to Leela

[@firsnamelasname6629]

One of my favorite episodes

[@letheas6175]

Ooo I remember this episode, super emotional (if I remember it right). Anyway hii Eric, thx for the reactions c:

[@sofsof1572]

This one makes me sob every time

[@hakairyu1]

One of the most memorable episodes

[@sundancemckay1744]

What the mission? Collecting honey. Ordinary honey. That doesn't sound so dangerous. This is is no ordinary honey!!

[@6TomCruz6]

The radiator from the radiator planet from the Miss Universe pageant nice catch

[@ac7268]

Did you just pull that venomous quote from the top of your head? 😂

[@TnT_F0X]

if you got stabbed straight through the abdomen and it missed major organs and blood vessels... you'd likely live today. You might lose some intestines, but if it was pointed it could also slip between them and not damage any organs. So fry in the future... yeah nothing would really happen aside from the whole pain of being injured part. XD

[@SirCheeseEater]

I can't wait for you to watch "The Devils Hand's Are Idle Playthings" It's six episodes ahead. Trust me, It's one of the greats.

[@cruz5531]

I love that episode, I didn't even realize he was so close to it

[@SalamiSelimbo]

I won't lie when I say I cried again just watching you react to "the sting", leela going crazy is so dark im glad it was just a coma.

[@lessthanevil]

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think The Sting is better than Jurassic Bark.

[@angrybeaver4995]

One my favorite Futurama episodes.😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@NoriMori1992]

This is one of the few "it was all a dream" plots that I'm okay with.

[@spottymaxy1628]

One of the best Futurama episodes

[@Maswartz226]

I love the implication that because Leela and Fry were both out of commission that means Bender got them to the hospital

[@ondrejvasak1054]

Out of the former lovers of Fry we are also missing his grandma, but I guess she couldn't make it due to lack of time machines. Or maybe Leela's mind just blocked her out. 😀

[@ap7635]

This is often considered one of the deepest and most well written episodes of the series.

[@TheBlond49]

Farmsworth killed it in this

[@maxdon2001]

Great reaction! Quite the episode!

[@karenfan010]

6:10 are you some type of psychic?!

[@monsoon1234567890]

Imagine seeing Fry's grandma sitting in that row of women at his funeral.

[@MattMajcan]

The part you wanted an explanation for is a reference to 2001: a space odyssey

[@galacticcat4584]

Leela's coma reminds me of what my dreams are sometimes.

[@GFSCN69]

Yay! Hyped for the movies, as well as the great episodes in the second half of season 4!

[@dannybob42]

The Bee episode is among of the best, a clever misdirect that has Leela confront her feelings for Fry, though the previous delivery crew weren't so lucky... Wait that's Andre the Giant why is he in a commercial for honeycombs? (In England we had them as cereals under the Sugar Puffs brand, they were called Honey Waffles)

[@christopherlundgren1700]

Because he's a giant? The whole deal with Honeycomb was that they were big. (Yeah, yeah, yeah.)

[@donnieabrahams6823]

Buz buzz

[@joeylockie]

Liked this episode alot

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

The Jacob's Ladder of episodes.

[@PCP-Pirate]

so many good episodes and more coming soon!

[@alex.9398]

The other girl at the funeral was the girl he meat at the club in the second Flexo episode. He takes her back the the apartment then we never see her again till now.

[@Zomdra]

Not quite, it's the same club (The Hip Joint) but Fry hooked up with that girl in the club's first appearance back in the first Zapp Brannigan episode (Love's Labours Lost in Space).

[@alex.9398]

@@Zomdra I could have sworn it was the other one. Thanks. I'll have to check it out.

[@alex.9398]

@@Zomdra You're right I got them mixed up because it's the same club.

[@forastero54321]

I remember this episode sorta messed me up for a few days as a kid because of how weird and sad it was lol.

[@XHUERO3]

Another great ep nd good reaction.

[@marquis911]

I suspected it was all a dream from the beginning, because no offense, but there is no way that many people would've shown up for his funeral.

[@ZukoHalliwell]

You know, this episode made me think about what you said in your reaction to 3x14. I have to ask, do you still think that Fry's "being persistent" and "wearing [Leela] down"? PS, That intro was hilarious. For a second, I thought there was something wrong with your mic. 😅

[@ericreacts2]

I'm pretty sure I only felt that about him in that one episode.

[@illya_barannyk]

Чекав реакцію на цю серію

[@steviemcdonut]

I definitely think this is a good companion episode to the why of fry, especially since how both of the episode heavily focus on fry and leelas relationship, it’s also one of my favourite episodes in general lol

[@ytmndman]

You think Fry knows the difference between poison and venom?

[@jimstan1795]

"HIM DO GOOD SNU SNU" LMFAO

[@BubaTheGreat]

Episode?

[@jasonthayer1309]

I was unable to watch past the movies because stupid Netflix didn't renew their license. Grr

[@moproodu]

I believe the Professor has had multiple crews before the current team

[@moneylover318]

Man the professor really wants those organs

[@PaliSvapna]

Thay didn’t take the queen but a baby they generally go start new colonies unless old queen is dead

[@MultiAlerocks]

I loved the episode, but personally I always found it so eerie

[@Alan_Hero]

You killed Fry ;)

[@alex.9398]

Sweet like honey.