Yo Leela Leela
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No. | 109 | ||||
Production number | 6ACV21 | ||||
Written by | N/A | ||||
Directed by | Frank Marino | ||||
Title caption | N/A | ||||
First air date | 21 July, 2011 | ||||
Broadcast number | S08E06 | ||||
Special guest(s) | Tom Kenny | ||||
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"Yo Leela Leela" is the one-hundred-and-ninth episode of Futurama, the twenty-first of the sixth production season and the sixth of the eighth broadcast season. It aired 21 July, 2011 on Comedy Central. Leela becomes a Hollywood big shot after creating a hit children's television series.
Production
During May 2011, Countdown to Futurama began released three items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of Amy and Zoidberg dressed up as other characters from the episode on 24 May, concept art of Bender wearing a fur coat and a bling on 25 May, and part of the storyboard showing two babies engaged in Extreme Toddler Wrestling on 26 May.
Comedy Central released a video clip set in the Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium featuring Leela telling Warden Vogel that she has a new story for the orphans and Abner Doubledeal visiting to conduct market research on 14 July, 2011.[1]
Image gallery
Additional Info
Trivia
- The daycare center where Extreme Toddler Wrestling is broadcast from was originally named after wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage. Due to the poor timing of this episode airing three months and one day after Savage's death, the center was renamed.
Allusions
- The title of the episode is a parody of the TV show Yo Gabba Gabba!.
- The name of the television network, Tickelodeon, is a pun on the words Nickelodeon and tickle.
- Abner Doubledeal says that Leela's show would be bigger than SpongeBot SquareBolts, a reference to SpongeBob SquarePants. Tom Kenny, the voice of Doubledeal, also voices SpongeBob.
Continuity
- "Leela's Homeworld" (4ACV02)
- Leela finds an old screenplay she had written and flushed down the toilet among the items her parents had collected during her lifetime.
Characters
- Abner Doubledeal
- Albert
- Amy
- Bender
- Debut: Bottomless Boy
- Debut: Captain Mega Meat
- Debut: Feffernoose
- Leela
- Nina
- Debut: Princess Num Numii
- Sally
- Sam
- Scruffy
- Warden Vogel
- Zoidberg