History Recap / FuturamaS4E3LoveAndRocket

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The Lovey Bears: they are adorable stuffed animal toys, made by genetically engineering super-adorable little bears, raising them in a cutesy, loving environment, and then on their first birthday, finding the cutest, murdering them, and stuffing them full of fire-retardant love fluff. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Even Bender and the Professor actually look unnerved after learning this]] (although shortly after the Professor nonchalantly stuns one that is trying to escape capture).

Planet Express gets a contract with Romanticorp, and Fry decides to find the perfect expression of his feelings for Leela amid the thousands of tiny, candy hearts. Meanwhile, Bender starts dating the Planet Express ship's autopilot once it gets a female voice setting. When he grows bored and dumps her, the ship takes the breakup a bit too hard...

* BabyTalk: Farnsworth briefly forces Leela into speaking cutely with his cattle prod when she gags at Romanticorp's owners.

* BigNo: The ship yells one of these after getting dumped by Bender.

-->'''Planet Express Ship:''' I saw you last night with those two ladies of the evening, Explain that!

--> [He suddenly slams the door shut]

** In the zoo, Ship talks about the baby tapirs. This comes back at the end of the episode when Bender switches into her voice to compare himself to "a cuddly baby tapir."
* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: Bender criticizes the ship's A.I.'s conservative opinions towards nudity by asking if he would censor the ''[[https://theinfosphere.org/Venus_de_Venus Venus de Venus]]'', a painting depicting a [[https://theinfosphere.org/Horrible_Gelatinous_Blob Horrible Gelatinous Blob]] as Venus in a similar pose to the Florentine painting, while being named after the {{sculpture|s}} ''Art/VenusDeMilo''. The ship does not care much for it.

* CastingGag: Ship's female voice is provided by Creator/SigourneyWeaver, famous for her science fiction roles such as [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Ellen Ripley]] and [[Film/GalaxyQuest Gwen DeMarco]].

* FallingInLoveMontage: Bender and the Planet Express Ship fall in love to Bender's rendition of "Daisy Bell", fitting for a ValentinesDayEpisode. However, in the scene immediately following the montage, Bender announces that he's dumping the ship.

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: When Fry tries to wash the ship, Bender (who is currently in a relationship with it), shoves him away, but when Amy does it in a bikini, they both watch approvingly.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Bender grumbles about Ship lying about her age to him. This is well after he's cheated on her and lied about it (and also cheated on Lucy Liu's head with Ship and lied about that, too).
* ImplausibleDeniability: Bender is out on a date with the Planet Express ship when he turns to look at a sexy fembot. The ship calls him out on it and Bender immediately says he's not, while his eyes are still fully extended.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Bender refuses to risk merging programming with Ship because it might alter his programming.
** Also when Leela assures Ship he's taking the breakup just as hard, cue a GilliganCut to Bender lying in his bunk, singing a song about how great he is.

* MergerOfSouls: Ship successfully merges her programming with Bender's in the end. Bender is unaware, and Fry and Leela have no intention of telling him.

** Bender times his dumping Ship "perfectly" (namely doing it just when the Omicronians are trying to blow them all to bits). [[Main/TheDitz Fry]] calls him out on this. Making it worse is that Bender did it on purpose (apparently he likes dumping someone to be as memorable and devastating as possible).
** Leela's attempts at consoling Ship are what prompt her to fly into a quasar.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Bender angrily notes, on beginning the programming merge with Ship, that she's got tubes in her circuit board, having lied to him about her age.
* PlanetOfHats: Zoidberg mentions two gangster planets and a cowboy world as those vaporized by the candy hearts.
* PoorlyTimedConfession: Bender decides to break up with the ship while the crew is trying to escape from the Omicronians. The ship is so distraught that she slams on the brakes and lets them get hit by the incoming Omicronian missiles, leaving the crew stranded in space. Later, Bender said "the moment seemed right" and he likes his break-ups to be as devastating and memorable as possible.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Ship, once she starts getting "a bit less rational" and devolves into Hulk speech.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Bender's eyes flicker red when Ship starts speaking through him at the end.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The Lovey Bears. A set of adorable stuffed animal toys, made by genetically engineering super-adorable little bears, raising them in a cutesy, loving environment, and then on their first birthday, finding the cutest, murdering them, and stuffing them full of fire-retardant love fluff. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Even Bender and the Professor actually look unnerved after learning this]] (although shortly after the Professor nonchalantly stuns one that is trying to escape capture).
* ShootTheMessenger: The grammatically incorrect message on Earth's peace offering of candy hearts confuses and infuriates the Omicronians to the point where they try to kill the Planet Express crew.

** The episode stops just short of being a WholePlotReference to Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey but includes tapirs merely for the reference, Bender singing "Daisy Bell", and the process for deactivating the Planet Express ship's autopilot is very similar to deactivating HAL.
*** A major difference from the film is when the trio hide in the ship's showers. We see them describing their plan inaudibly, with Ship watching, only for her to lament she can't tell what they're saying. The plan in ''2001'' went sour because Hal ''could'' read the crew's lips.

* SmashCut: After upsetting the Omicronians, the scene cuts to Fry, Bender and Leela escaping their fleet in the ship.

** On tasting the candy hearts, Lrrr and Ndnd start gagging, declaring them "chalky and unpleasant". Leela later dumps them in a vortex.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Ship gets increasingly irrational as Leela deactivates her.
* TotallyTrustingLoveInterest: Bender starts dating the Planet Express Ship, when she has a femme personality/voice installed. After a while, he decides to cheat on her, {{jerkass}} that he is. When she catches him dating two other femmebots, he gives a lame excuse, which she immediately accepts, since she's a computer and therefore able to control her thoughts on the fly.

* UnexplainedRecovery: However the Planet Express Ship survived the Omicronian missiles with minimal damage (and why the Omicronians stopped attacking them).

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of the episode, Ship merges with Bender and walks away happily... which is never brought up again.

* {{Yandere}}: The ship goes a bit nuts when Bender breaks up with her. And by that we mean, "Flies the ship towards a quasar in order to be fused with Bender" nuts.