The tip of the zoidberg

Having received a minor wound, Fry turns to Zoidberg. In the course of rendering assistance, the entire crew is mutilated, with the exception of Farnsworth. The team, outraged by the incompetence of the doctor, requires the professor to dismiss Zoidberg, but he refuses. Soon Farnsworth calls Zoidberg to him and asks him for death, motivating it with the fact that “the time has come”. Zoidberg reluctantly agrees, but when trying to kill, he is detained and isolated by the team. In desperation, the professor reveals to his subordinates the essence of the agreement between him and the Decapodian: during a long expedition to Triton in 2927, Farnsworth became infected with deadly hypermalaria and made a promise from Zoidberg to relieve him of suffering in case of symptoms of the disease. The team discovers that Zoidberg has escaped, and decides to independently carry out the will of the professor.

Zoidberg, meanwhile, is figuring out the true cause of Farnsworth's malaise - saving the Decapodian from the Tritonian Yeti , the professor contracted "yetism" and is now gradually turning into an animal. Having hardly obtained the necessary ingredients, Zoidberg returns to Planet Express and at the last moment manages to create a medicine that returns the professor to normal.

List of new or recurring characters in the series

• Mommy
• Walt, Larry and Ignar
• Scruffy
• Hattie McDougal

• The original title of the episode is Nine-tenths of a Zoidberg is Underwater.
• An overly sophisticated euthanasia machine resembles the mechanisms of Rub Goldberg .

Cultural References

• In the course of the development of his illness, Fry consistently assumes the guise of characters from various television shows and comics: Bart Simpson , Garfield , Kermit the Frog and the Smurf .
• Greetings of Mom ( eng. It's been a long time. How have you been? ) Echoes the first words of GLaDOS from the game Portal 2 , it also turns out that her real name is Carol, which is a reference to the storyline of the game.
• During Zoidberg’s attempt to kill the professor, Mr. Sandman of The Chordettes .
• Zoidberg in a knitted hat and with a sniper rifle - an allusion to the film " Leon ".
• The nickname "Doctor Scissorhands" given to Zoidberg is a reference to the character of Tim Burton .
• The phrase “This should not have happened” is a reference to the film series “ Destination ”
• When the Professor turns into an yeti, Fry exclaims: “Well, right, the likely Hulk !”

Links to previous episodes

• In the episode The Lesser of Two Evils, Fry also mistook the inanimate object for an alien.
• The epiphysis extraction tool was used by Zoidberg during an examination of Fry in an episode of The Series Has Landed .

• The Tip of the Zoidberg on the Futurama wiki
• The Tip of the Zoidberg on the Internet Movie Database