Futurama: 10 Worst Episodes

7. Yo Leela Leela

The Episode: Leela writes a story in an attempt to give something back to the orphanage that raised her. She subsequently becomes a Hollywood big shot when the story proves so popular that it is adapted into a children€™s television show. However, it quickly becomes apparent that the fictional characters she is writing about are actually real aliens. Leela has been stealing their life stories, often copying dialogue verbatim, in order to make her show. When the exploitation is exposed, the television executives merely decide to make the program into a reality TV show.

Why It Sucks: Musical episodes can always be a little hit-or-miss. And in this case it was a massive miss. Although the premise of a Yo Gabba Gabba! parody had a lot of potential, even an idiot would realise where the plot was heading after the first five minutes. The aliens are entirely underused, and it would have been much more interesting to see the effect the events of the episode had on them as a group. The one saving grace of the episode was the occasional brilliant one-liner, including Leela's comment that all good shows get cancelled "two or three times."

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With a (nearly) useless degree in English literature and a personal trainer qualification he's never used, Freddie spends his times writing things that he hopes will somehow pay the rent. He's also a former professional singer, and plays the saxophone and ukulele. He's not really used to talking about himself in the third person, and would like to stop now, thanks.