| "Mother's Day" | |||
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| Futurama episode | |||
| Episodeno. | Season 2 Episode 14 | ||
| Directed by | Brian Sheesley | ||
| Written by | Lewis Morton | ||
| Production code | 2ACV14 | ||
| Original air date | May 14, 2000 (2000-05-14) | ||
| Episode features | |||
| Opening caption | Larva-Tested,Pupa-Approved | ||
| Opening cartoon | "Bold King Cole" (1936) | ||
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"Mother's Day" is the fourteenth episode in thesecondseason of the American animated television seriesFuturama, and the 27th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on theFox network in the United States on May 14, 2000.
EveryMother's Day, robots made inMom's Friendly Robot Company factories around the world give gifts, money, andcards to the owner of the corporation,Mom. Despite extensively promoting the holiday, Mom actually hates the day and is in an even more bitter mood this year, remembering a romantic affair that had ended 70 years prior. Such doomed romance had been with a youngerProfessor Hubert Farnsworth, then anemployee of Mom's Friendly Robot Company. When Mom insisted that the Professor's latest design, a children's toy named Q.T. McWhiskers, be changed to an eight-foot-tall death machine to be sold on the intergalactic arms market, the Professor, enraged, stormed out of the room, and they had not seen each other since.
In revenge, Mom attempts to become the "supreme overlord of Earth" for this Mother's Day, ordering the entirerobot population of the planet torebel and overthrow humanity through a control that transmits to every robot's antenna. Wishing to end the robot rebellion and save humanity, Mom's three sons,Walt, Larry, and Igner, cooperate with the Planet Express crew to obtain the robot control Mom keeps in her bra. Their plan is to bring Mom to her rustic cabin near New New York, have the Professor seduce her, remove her bra, and use the control to end the rebellion.
When the Professor and Mom do meet at the cabin, however, their love is rekindled, and they erupt into sex. Amidst this, everyone else comes in to escape the robots, who have made their way to the cabin. In order for their romantic evening not to be interrupted, Mom decides to finally call off the rebellion. Mom dumps the Professor after learning of the initial plot. Life is then returned to normal.
In its initial airing, the episode received aNielsen rating of 3.9/9, placing it 79th among primetime shows for the week of May 8–14, 2000.[1]The A.V. Club gave the episode an A−.[2]
