Futurama/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* For Fry: In "Time Keeps on Slipping", we learn that he literally moved the stars to spell out "I Love You Leela" in space. Turns into a [[Tear Jerker]] when the message gets destroyed and Fry tries to get Leela and Bender to remember it, and fails. Made even more heartbreaking by the end shot of Fry staring out into space while Bender whistles a slow, sad version of "Sweet Georgia Brown."

* While the episode "Jurassic Bark" is famous for its [[Downer Ending]], it also contained Bender's Crowning Moment Of Awesome, where he ''dove into a lava pit'', and got out with Fry's dog. He said it best himself:

** It becomes even more awesome when you realize that his line is [[Brick Joke|the punchline for a joke set up at the beginning of the episode]].

'''Bender''': No it isn't. }}

** This is slightly mitigated by the fact that [[Jerkass|he threw the dog into the lava in the first place]].

** And his less-than-stunning musical number after getting his old hands back counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]. Especially after he sees Leela's reaction.

** This scene also contains Doctor Zoidberg's Crowning Line Of Awesome:

** Not to mention his classic lyric:

'''Zoidberg''': I can't believe that everyone is just ad-libbing! }}

** On a musical note, Hermes gets a nice one with his own musical number at the Central Bureaucracy, while sorting a literally mountainous pile of thousands message tubes in under four minutes. "Requisition me a beat."

*** His entrance line earlier in the scene also qualifies:

'''Hermes''': You rang? }}

*** In the same episode, the head bureaucrat gets one with what this troper considers the single best line in the whole series:

** Another one of Fry happens in ''Three Hundred Big Boys'' after he drinks his 100th cup of coffee, turning him from a paranoid, jittery caffeine overdosed mess into a cool, collected and Speed-Force-powered Flash-like superhero, giving him the superhuman speed to calmly put out the museum fire and evacuate by hand every single person - all within a few blurry seconds.

** As well as near the end of ''[[The Movie|Bender's Big Score]]'', when {{spoiler|the forces of Earth engage in a space battle against the nudist aliens' fleet, with Hermes directing them, [[Theme Music Power-Up|and the theme song blaring]]}}.

*** Lars' [[Heroic Sacrifice]].

*** Al Gore blowing up a Death Star by himself.

* How about the one in Into The Wild Green Yonder, where Bender bends a freaking BRICK WALL in half to escape?

* ''The Beast With a Billion Backs'':

** Kif gets one when he {{spoiler|punches Brannigan straight in the guts at the end of the movie}}.

** The head of Stephen Hawking gets one when he uses his [[Eye Beams]] to shut Farnsworth and Wernstrom up.

** Bender gets several of them:

*** The duel against Calculon.

*** In an act that would cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]] if it weren't for [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Bender reunites with his long-lost robot son, {{spoiler|then punts the child into a vat of magma for the [[Deal with the Devil|Robot Devil]], in exchange for an army to [[Take Over the World]] with}}.

*** The epic battle at the end of the movie when he {{spoiler|uses an army of [[Space Pirates|Space Pirate]] Robots to attack Heaven, taking eternal bliss away from an ''entire universe'' of people}}.

**** And then lectures humanity on the imperfections of real love.

* In the episode ''Godfellas''...''GOD'' gets a CMOA after sending Bender back to Earth where Fry and Leela have left some monks locked in a laundry cupboard. Fry decides that their god will save them, but Bender goes to rescue the monks, saying "You can't depend on God for anything! He told me that himself." Then we cut back to God who says to himself...

** To clarify, God has BASICALLY told him that he doesn't know where Earth is and doesn't listen to prayers (Apparently he tuned them out a while ago.) this is all however a [[Batman Gambit]] to send him home and get the monks out of the closet, and to safety. Making Bender think that in order for him to get something done, you have to do it yourself. Returning to the quote above.

*** Maybe (again, quote above). God doesn't do anything about Bender until he receives Fry's random prayer, and is clearly surprised when he gets it. I've always seen it as being partially an act and partially truth. Or maybe more or maybe less. It isn't entirely clear (again, see the the quote).

** Fry gets one in how much he goes through to get his buddy back. He doesn't give up hope even when faced with climbing mount Everest alone to reach monks that may or may not actually grant him permission to use a telescope that may or may not find Bender. If Leela didn't talk him out of it he probably would have stayed there as long as it took.

* A subtle one arises in the episode "The Why of Fry", when Fry discovers that the Nibblonians set up his cryogenic freeze and his new life in the future as a [[Plan]] against the Brain Spawn. The dialogue while he's angrily choking Nibbler might've been meant as absurd humor, but that last line comes off as a CMOA for Fry, especially since he's such a passive victim so often:

'''Fry''': Because I ''don't'' like being used! }}

** That episode also gave Fry a big crowning moment in that he '''saved the entire universe'''. 'Nuff said.

** Made all the more awesome when one considers that the alien fortress was sent by his home planet to enslave Earth for sentencing Zoidberg to death for eating the flag in the first place. Blowing up a fortress? Awesome. Doing it to save the people who want you dead? That takes some real male jelly my friend.

* Near the end of ''Into The Wild Green Yonder'', Bender ''bends a brick wall.'' That shouldn't even be physically ''possible!''

* In the episode "Time Keeps On Slippin'", after finding out that they need a doomsday device to save the day, the Professor replies "Doomsday device? Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court!" and proceeds to press a button, revealing that he has SEVERAL DOOMSDAY DEVICES!

* "The Sting" is better known for being a [[Mind Screw]], but Bender, Fry and Leela managed to successfully complete the mission that killed at least two of the professor's previous crews. Fry interposing for Leela was particularly epic.

* How about Leela threatening her new [[Jerkass]] boyfriend in ''"The Cyber House Rules"'' to give her her old face back with the line "Listen bud, at the end of the day, one of us is only going to have one eye!"

* The new episode ''The Late Phillip J. Fry'', where the Professor makes a quick stop in time with the Time Machine. Being him, you think he's off to do something science or engineering related. Nope, {{spoiler|he ''freaking explodes'' Hitler via [[Frickin Laser Beam|laserbeam]].}} Needless to say, this troper was blown away by the [[Pure Awesomeness]].

** He can't be bothered {{spoiler|stopping to kill Hitler a second time}}

** Frankly, the entirity of the last five minutes of this episode was [[Pure Awesomeness]]. There's just something epic about {{spoiler|a couple of guys and a robot sitting back with a case of beer and witnessing creation end. }}

*** {{spoiler|And start over again.}}

** Also, near the end, where Fry {{spoiler|pulls a Moses and parts a wave of sewage!}}

** On the subject of the nitroglycerin souffle, Mrs. Aster gets one when she eats it. She ''eats nitroglycerin'' by ''stabbing it'' with a fork.

'''Butler''': One does not ''explode'' in the face of Mrs. Aster. }}

* Zapp Brannigan usually just screws up everything, but he gets a minor one. Aliens are invading earth and the president of earth thinks they are looking for him (they're not), so he is determined to sacrifice all of Earth to save himself. Zapp simply decides he's had enough and just kidnaps the guy, puts him in a sack, and gives him up to the aliens, while everyone who watched him do it clapped.

** From "Rebirth", Fry {{spoiler|protects Leela from the ship ''exploding around them''. Though his body was destroyed, when we see Leela she doesn't even have a scratch.}}

** In "Insane in the Mainframe", Fry {{spoiler|thinks he's a robot and Roberto, who has just broke out of the insane asylum, and has robbed the bank for the 3rd time, regains consciousness. Once this happens Roberto threatens him and asks "Hey, Red. You're just in time for the hostage situation. Which side do you want to be on?" to which Fry replies "The side that kicks your twisted, metal ass." Fry has a can of oil in his jacket and is stabbed only to have the knife puncture the can and make Roberto think he's a battledroid and thus reason enough to jump out the window}}.

** The {{spoiler|1=final moments of Slurms McKenzie, as he parties so hard that it makes the cave collapse around him, preventing the Slurm Queen from chasing the Planet Express crew.}}

'''Slurms''': {{spoiler|Party on contest winners... ''* cave begins collapsing around him* '' Party on...}} }}

* What about Fry in the episode "The Day The Earth Stood Stoopid" people! [[Idiot Hero]] Fry outsmarting a giant brain of all things, trapped in an endless labyrinth of plot holes and bad spelling. Too bad know one remembers anything to acknowledge him for it.

* Kif punching Zapp Brannigan in the gut. Yes.

* Zoidberg gets one in a recent episode featured a Western-style showdown between Zoidberg and Mafiabot Clamps.

** The most awesome part is that Zoidberg WINS. Yes, the [[Butt Monkey]] actually manages to defeat the mafia hitbot in clamp to claw clombat.

** The most awesome part of Zoidberg winning is when Clamps is squeezing Zoidberg's head tightly. Zoidberg starts howling in pain. Clamps delivers a [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]].

** Zoidberg looks up at Clamps and calmly delivers his own [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]].

** Cue [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] as Zoidberg's fin bursts from his head, he grabs Clamps by the wrists, rises over him, and cuts off his clamps with his claws.

* Zoidberg got another one, where he saves the professor's life WITH HIS MEDICINAL KNOWLEDGE! anyone who knows...anything about Zoidberg can tell you how special that is

*** Well, he is on Robot Santa's nice list.

* "Parasites Lost". Fry engaging in a fencing duel against the king of parasitic worms, inside his body, threatening to kill himself (and subsequently the parasites). Also the parasites were improving Fry's body so he was fighting to know if Leela loved him o his improved self.

'''Fry:''' Obviously, ''you've'' never been in love! }}

* Bender gets one for his [[Batman Gambit]] in "Overclockwise" where he is able to manipulate the justice system and get both Cubert and the Professor acquitted of their felony charges.