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"Fry, you have no nose! Your nose is gone! You have no nose on your face! Where it is I can't say but on your face it's not!"
Zoidberg to Fry

"Spanish Fry" is the penultimate episode of Season 4 of Futurama.

Plot[]

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Fry encounters an alien spacecraft.

The Planet Express crew visits Duraflame National Forest to go camping. At the visitor lodge, Ranger Park, the park ranger, says he is obsessed with Bigfoot and hopes to obtain proof of his existence. He shows a video which says that, due to over-logging, Bigfoot habitats have become scarce. During the night, Bender, annoyed with bugs, tricks Fry into leaving his tent so Bender can take it. In a clearing, Fry is abducted by aliens. When he returns, he finds that his nose is no longer on his face and that human noses are often used by aliens as an aphrodisiac known as "Human horn".

After searching the Galactic Bazaar, Fry, along with Leela and Bender, traces his nose to Lrrr, who purchased it to help his failing marriage with Ndnd. He gets his nose back, only to have Bender ask Lrrr why noses, and not the genitals, are used as the aphrodisiac. Lrrr is intrigued by this, and orders Fry's "lower horn" to be removed. Leela, however, manages to make a deal that, if the crew can help Lrrr's marriage by giving him and Ndnd a romantic dinner without using the "lower horn", Fry will be spared.

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The Omicronians try to remove Fry's "lower horn".

The plan fails as a result of a boring dinner and Leela's singing, which the Omicronians consider an attack, thus Lrrr orders Fry's lower horn to be removed immediately. Bigfoot interrupts them, closely pursued by Ranger Park, who plans on cutting off Bigfoot's feet to prove his existence. Lrrr saves the Sasquatch, but Park manages to cut a lock of hair. Lrrr almost proceeds to finish removing Fry's lower horn, but soon realizes that he'd be no better than Park. Ndnd, realizing that he is the sensitive Omicronian she fell for long ago, is in love with Lrrr again. They start making out and advise the others to get 500 hundred meters away as the trio go running for their lives. Bigfoot stays a bit longer to watch, then saunters off.

Ongoing Themes[]

Lrrr & Ndnd[]

  • The marital problems of Lrrr and Ndnd don't end here. Years later, the couple end up temporarily separating in "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" and Lrrr very nearly has a one-night stand.

Doppelgängers[]

  • Bender converts himself into a hammock.
  • Bender serves as a bug-zapper for the campers.
  • Bender impersonates Bigfoot to lure Fry out of his tent.
  • Bender serves as a mirror so Fry can see that his nose really is missing.
  • Leela's Wrist LoJack-a-mater serves as an emergency face-laser.
  • A Styrofoam ice chest serves, as Bender puts it, as "a handy wang coffin".

Character Arcs[]

  • Sal has taken a turn for the worse. Until now, his disorder resulted only in the letter "s" being appended to random words. In the advanced stages, as demonstrated here, the pluralization rules for irregular nouns appear, as when Sal says "bigfeet" rather than "bigfoots".
  • Hubert J. Farnsworth mispronounces "well" as "whell", but just afterward correctly pronounces "why".


Death, Dismemberment and Injury[]

  • Bender serves as a bug-zapper for the campers.
  • Disembodied noses are a central theme throughout the episode and are believed by the Omicronians to be aphrodisiacs. Several 'harvested' noses are displayed in the sleaze shop.
  • Leela punches the sleaze-shopkeeper in the gut.
  • Leela burns Fry's face with her emergency face-laser.
  • Leela sings "I Will Always Love You", which the Omicronians perceive as a sonic attack: it seems to cause them considerable discomfort.
  • Fry tumbles down a hill in a burning cage, finally crashing into a tree. He emerges from the cage still burning.
  • No human lower horns are harmed.

The Scary Door[]

The episode closes with a Scary Door episode in which the mad scientist creates the evilest creature in the world, only to discover that his creation is man.

Hermes & Zoidberg[]

At the start of the episode, Hermes and Zoidberg are on decent enough terms to share a tent, and - if Zoidberg is to be believed - engage in 'just-friends' spooning.

Fry & Leela[]

Out of all of the crew, the only one to show sympathy for Fry's mutilated, nose-less state is Leela.

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