Futurama: 10 Most Paused Moments

6. Leela's Parents (Second That Emotion)

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Although Futurama lore shows that Leela doesn't meet her parents until the episode titled Leela's Home World (season 4 episode 5) but do we catch a glimpse of them as early as season 2 episode 5?

In this episode, Bender decides to flush Nibbler down the toilet out of jealousy that he is getting more attention than him. Leela is distraught and so Professor Farnsworth gives Bender an empathy chip so that he can see his wrong doing. Bender, Leela and Fry head into the sewers to try and find Nibbler but instead find a civilisation of mutants who live deep beneath New New York.

When we paused: As the local mutants begin singing a song about El Chupanibre, a mutant monster who eats crocodiles, a large crowd gathers and among them is the first glimpse of Leela's parents. In the episode if you pause it at 17:03 you will catch them joining the crowd as they enter the frame. You have to be quick though, they only appear for a second and it's the last we see of them until season 4. Or is it (more on this later)?

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