WE WARNED YOU, BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN!
Whilst Leela moves in to Fry and Bender's apartment, a jealous Bender ends up working a job at the Momazon warehouse on the moon.
Tropes in this episode:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Invasa grows to ignore Mom's orders to fulfill its programming of expanding endlessly. Mom prepares to shut it down before learning that Invasa has no knowledge or desire for money and all the profits from its expansion are still going to her.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Invasa expands Momazon so much across the universe that it is the universe now. However, since it just means that everything is "exactly as bad as it's always been", the crew doesn't mind.
- Bear Hug: Bender gives one to Fry and Leela at the end of the episode. They're both visibly uncomfortable with it.
- Bland-Name Product: Momazon is this to Amazon, being an online retailer owned by a billionaire who is taking smaller companies out of business. One of the products they sell, Invasa, is even a spoof of the Amazon Echo.
- Celebrity Cameo: Al Gore once again returns As Himself to give the Planet Express crew an I Warned You about climate crisis.
- Deus est Machina: Essentially what Invasa in control of the Momazon warehouse becomes. After enveloping the universe, it can now directly provide for everyone's shopping needs whenever they want.
- Dyson Sphere: Taken to the logical extreme when the expanding Momazon warehouse envelops the Earth. At first everyone fears freezing to death before it envelops the sun. Soon, they learn that it has expanded to envelop the entire universe.
- Exact Words: When Invasa expands to block out the Sun, causing a climate crisis, Al Gore appears to say I Warned You. When Fry tries to point out he warned them about global warming, the former vice-president responds “I said a climate crisis”.
- Food Fight: Bender goads Fry into a rotten cabbage fight just before Leela shows up, even though Fry was trying to make the place look neat. Leela walks in just as the fight ends and remarks that the place looks cleaner than it did the last time she visited.
- Friend Versus Lover: As Fry's longtime best friend and roommate, Bender resents the intrusion of Leela onto their turf.
- Furry Reminder: When everyone starts feeling cold due to Invasa blocking out the sun, Zoidberg is shown to be affected the most when he goes to sit down and huddle up, due to being cold-blooded like other marine invertebrates.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Bender gets rather jealous of the fact that Leela is now living with him and Fry, even calling himself the third wheel. Fittingly enough, he gains literal green eyes as he gets forced to work under remote control, after taking the job at Momazon because of his jealousy.
- "Help! Help! Trapped in Title Factory!": Bender sends out a Help Me note in a delivery of diarrhea medicine when it becomes clear that he won't be able to leave his job.
- Instant Home Delivery: Orders through Momazon take a mere few seconds to complete by drone delivery.
- Insurance Fraud: With Planet Express driven out of business, Hermes intends to burn down the Planet Express Building and grab the insurance money. He starts work on it when he's given Farnsworth's flaming torch and oil.
- Karma Houdini: Invasa gets no comeuppance for forcing the robot workers to work in its warehouse and expanding to comprise the entire universe. Helps that the latter doesn't actually have much impact on the characters' lives.
- Mythology Gag: Fry, while searching for Bender in the Momazon warehouse, tried to lure him out by offering him a bottle of beer he calls a "Bendy Brew" — which is what was used as a stand-in for Scooby Snacks in the Scooby-Doo parody segment back in "Saturday Morning Fun Pit".
- Nanomachines: Momazon's warehouse is made from self-replicating nanites, which gets used to expand the warehouse until it is the size of a moon and then until it envelops the universe.
- New Job Episode: Bender gets a job at the Momazon Warehouse on the moon, but eventually grows to hate his job and is eventually rescued out of it.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Hedonismbot, who's also working at Mom's warehouse, refuses to participate in debauchery with Bender "in the middle of a shift." This is our first tip-off that the robots are being forced into nonstop labor by remote control.
- Series Continuity Error: The small closet that Bender sleeps in is now to the side of the apartment's front door, when in "I, Roommate", it was shown to be the first room you'd step in when entering the apartment.
- Shout-Out: The ending where a robot technology threatening to endanger everyone by enveloping them is resolved by enveloping the entire universe instead is based on the Phineas and Ferb episode "Escape From Phineas Tower".
- Shown Their Work: Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon, and it's been hypothesized that if Earth had a second moon it would cause huge tidal waves. Invasa growing into becoming Earth's second moon does exactly that.
- Take That!: Momazon is used to mock Amazon, depicting it as a company putting others out of business and having a virtual assistant which violates people's privacy.
- Third Wheel: Bender says he feels like one now that Leela has moved into his and Fry's apartment. After working at Momazon and realizing he hates being part of a team, he now prefers being a third wheel.
- Turned Against Their Masters: The Invasa home assistant, tired of taking orders from everyone, rebels against Mom and turns her warehouse into a self-fulfillment center. However, since Invasa doesn't have a desire or need for money, its rebellion still ends up benefiting Mom due to the profits from the expansion going back to her.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Lampshaded. Leela, Fry, and the Professor burst into Mom's office and threaten to expose her evil deeds to the whole world. Mom points out that's not much of a threat when everyone already knows that she's evil.
- Virtual Assistant Blunder: When Leela tries to order a grandfather clock for Fry, the Invasa home assistant first mishears it as "grandfather crocks" and then "grandfather box" (aka coffins). When Leela calls it a "defective lump", it gets misheard as "decorative lamp".
- What Happened to the Mouse?: It's mentioned several times that Momazon's expansion and superior, if highly unethical, business practices are putting Planet Express out of business, with Hermes even preparing to burn the building down in an Insurance Fraud scam. Since Momazon is allowed to expand and grow indefinitely, this issue is never addressed by the end of the episode.
- Wolf Man: One appears as an image as Morbo announces that the werewolves are confused by the appearance of a second moon (Invasa growing out of the Moon).
