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Futurama episode
"A Bicyclops Built for Two"
Episode no.	22
Prod. code	2ACV09
Airdate	March 19, 2000
Writer(s)	Eric Kaplan
Director	Susan Dietter
Opening subtitle	This Episode Has Been Modified To Fit Your Primitive Screen
Opening cartoon	Unknown
Season 2 November 1999 – December 2000
I Second That Emotion Brannigan Begin Again A Head in the Polls Xmas Story Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love? The Lesser of Two Evils Put Your Head on My Shoulders Raging Bender A Bicyclops Built for Two A Clone of My Own How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back The Deep South Bender Gets Made Mother's Day The Problem with Popplers Anthology of Interest I War is the H-Word The Honking The Cryonic Woman
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"A Bicyclops Built for Two" is episode nine in season two of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on March 13, 2000. Bari Kumar (color stylist) won an Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for this episode in 2000.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cultural references 3 Production notes 4 Goofs 5 Trivia

The Professor opens the episode by bringing the crew great news: several years ago he had tried to log onto AOL, and it finally connected. He sends the crew into the internet for fun. While playing Death Factory III, the legend of Death Factory II, Leela meets the only other cyclops in the known universe, but Fry dispatches him before she can find out who he is and where he comes from. The crew is sent on a delivery mission to bring popcorn to Cineplex 14, so Leela can't take the time to find him, but he recorded her screen name and sends her a video mail. Leela abandons the delivery, and heads off to the coordinates provided. Unfortunately, when she jettisoned the cargo, it missed by a margin and hit the sun, creating a popcorn nebula.

The cyclops reveals himself to be Alkazar, sole survivor of the destruction of the planet Cyclopia. He claims that Leela was sent away as a baby when the blind moles of Subterra 3 launched missiles in every direction, hitting forty planets including Cyclopia. Luckily, before the crash, Cyclopia's smartest scientist managed to save a baby that was possibly Leela. Alkazar was employed as a pool cleaner and was spared from the chaos while fishing out a dead opossum. Leela decides that it is her duty to help rebuild the Cyclopian civilization, which primarily includes marrying Alkazar. While Bender loots everything of value, Fry tries to find out "what makes the Forbidden Valley so forbidden", and stumbles right into the dungeon. While he is in the dungeon, Fry tries to convince Leela to dump Alkazar; He was being abusive to her by ordering her around and making a fool out of her in front of his rat and pig friends. Leela had planned to dump Alkazar but she accepted his offer of marriage in order to save her race.

As the wedding begins, Fry and Bender break into the Forbidden Valley and discover the secret of the planet Cyclopia. Alkazar is actually a shape-shifting alien who is engaged to marry four other women, each of a possibly extinct different species, all on the same day (he could only afford to rent a shapeshifting tuxedo once). He wanted the five women to scrub his five castles, and he used them to make a little money on the side. Leela and the four other brides expose and reject him, and the crew returns to Earth. The Professor tells Leela that in the many decades she'll work for him paying for all the popcorn she destroyed, she'll have plenty of time to look for her true home.

• The title spoofs the song Daisy Bell and its well known line about "A Bicycle Built for Two".
• Parts of this episode are a spoof of Married... with Children, which also starred Katey Sagal, the voice of Leela. Leela dresses, does her hair like and acts like Peggy Bundy, Alkazar acts like Al Bundy and his friends act like the studio audience wooing.
• One of Alkazar's four other would-be brides appears to be a member of the Great Race of Yith, a species of time-travelling body-snatchers from the H.P. Lovecraft story, The Shadow Out of Time.
• When Fry is on the internet playing a videogame reminiscent of 2-D sidescrollers, Fry jumps and shoots some crates and a Donkey Kong look-a-like. When he jumps he makes noises similar to the sounds Mario makes in his 3D videogames.
• A scene where Bender falls into a machine and slips between gears is a references to the Charlie Chaplin film, Modern Times.
• During the video game, Bender is destroyed by being cut into a Slinky, then falling into a lava pit.
• The story about the destruction of Cyclopia and the planet's greatest scientist sending a Cyclopian baby, Leela, to Earth is a reference to the origin of Superman, where before the destruction of his home planet Krypton, master scientist Jor-El sends his only son, Kal-El (Superman) to Earth. Leela, like Superman, is supposedly the last member of her race.
• There are two references to 2001: A Space Odyssey: As Fry enters the internet, Also sprach Zarathustra is played and moments later, he references Dave Bowman's line "My God, it's full of stars!" from the novel by saying "My God, it's full of ads!"
• Writers Ken Keeler and Eric Kaplan are depicted as nerds in the chat room. The nerd Fry beats in the video game is executive producer David X. Cohen.

• This is the one episode where Bender breaks the law of Hammerspace and completely fills his chest cavity.
• In the episode Love's Labours Lost in Space, Leela says she doesn't care how many eyes a guy has, as long as it's less than five. In this episode, Alkazar later tries to marry a woman with five eyes.

• Near the end of the episode, after the joke from Leela about Alkazar's morphing ability, everyone is laughing - if you look closely enough when Fry is laughing, he appears to have four arms and four hands.

• This episode was rated TV-14 D in the United States. The third time for Futurama.
• In the chat room hallway, one of the doors has a Betacrypt 3 code written on it. Once deciphered, it reads "codebreakers chat room".