Episode Capsule: [3ACV16] A Leela of Her Own

Title: A Leela of Her Own
Written by: Patric M. Verrone
Directed by: Swinton Scott
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Synopsis

When Leela is signed to the New New York Mets, she is thrilled to be the first female major league blernsball player. Drawing huge crowds at the games, Leela believes she is an inspirational role model to all women. What she doesnt realize is, she has such a following because she is the worst blernsball player to ever play the game.

Voice Credits

Starring

Billy West (Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Zoidberg)
Katey Sagal (Leela)
John DiMaggio (Bender)
Tress MacNeille

Guest Starring

Hank Aaron
Bob Uecker
David herman
Phil LaMarr
Lauren Tom
Dawnn Lewis
Tom Kenny

Also Starring

Maurice LaMarche

Did You Notice…

The Mets uniforms in 3002 were a throw-back to Mets uniforms in the 1980's. — NiX
That the first team that the Mets faced was the Swedish Meatballs — Magnus Nordlander

External References

eBay.com

Leela signs a magazine for a girl called eBay (little e, big B) — Marc Wichterich Sports Illustrated
The magazine Leela signs for eBay — Marc Wichterich Baseball Hall of Fame (Museum in Cooperstown, NY)
Blernsball Hall of Fame — Michael Nissen A League of Their Own (Movie)
The title of the episode. Also the story is somewhat parallel. — Michael Nissen Coca Cola (Commercial)
The end scene in which Leela throws the towel saying "Hey kid, catch" is from the 1970's commercial starring Mean Joe Green — Blahness Calgon Laundry Detergent (product comercial)
When Fishy Joe asks what the secret of the good tasting pizza is, the Cygnoid says it's an ancient Cygnoid secret, to which the female Cygnoid responds "My husband, some hotshot. Here's his ancient Cygnoid secret, live hornets". This is an word-by-word copy of a classic comercial for Calgon. Just substitute the words Cygnoid and live hornets for Chinese and Calgon. — Michael Nissen

Futurama References

[1ACV05] Fear of a Bot Planet

Our first look at blernsball, and we learn that Leela is a big blernsball-fan. — Michael Nissen [2ACV08] Raging Bender
The manager of the Ultimate Fighting League is now the owner of the NNY Mets. — Michael Nissen [2ACV16] Anthology of Interest 1
We see Shea Stadium, home of the NNY Mets. — Michael Nissen [2ACV15] The Problem with Popplers
Fishy Joe who bought the licence to sell popplers also buys the pizza business — Marc Wichterich

Freeze Frame Fun

Family Bros. Pizza
   YOU'VE TRIED
  THE REST, NOW
   WE'RE OPEN!

TOPPINGS
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-SILT
-ASBESTOS
-FLAMING
 MAGNESIUM
-STUCCO
-SCARAB
-GUANO

THE 3002 METS
BLERNSBALL THE WAY
  IT OUGHTN'T BE

In the NNY METS Locker Room:
         BLACK 
          BAR 
       GENERATOR

LEELA AUTOGRAP SESSION
   ---BRING MONEY---

Sports Illustrated Cover:

LEELA'S BEANS
The Met's
Magical 
Fruit

BLERNSBALL HALL OF FAME
   Blernsball Fever
    Contract It!

Animation, Continuity, and Other Goofs

All the whole numbers have been retired, Leela says, yet the manager still wears #4 — Greg On
The Cygnoids say "and put up clotheslines to hang up clothes everywhere" while the closed caption titles read "and to buy weapons to send to the terrorists back home". Someone probably forgot to redo the closed captions after the September attacks on the WTC. — Kryten
Leela pitched 70-some innings, yet never got an out. These are mutually exclusive at least in Baseball: In order to get credit for one-third of an inning, you must make 1 out. To get the whole inning, you must get 3 people out. Thus, Leela's actual stats would say she's officially pitched 0.0 innings. — mtvcdm
At the end of the episode, when Leela leaves the field (in the tunnel). As the screen shift from Leela, to Jackie and back (a few times), Leela's black make up line under her eye keeps disapearing and coming back. — Dapper

Comments and Other Observations

The Mets haven't won the World Series (in either Blernsball or Baseball) according to "Anthology of Interest I", so you have to wonder what made the guy give up Ultimate Robot Fighting League for this team. — Michael Nissen

Original capsule author: CGEF <www.gotfuturama.com>