4ACV02: Leela's Homeworld First UK airing: Sky One, 7:00pm, 14-4-02 "Then today's your lucky day, because I happen to be a holding, stroking, loving machine. Also spanking." Fascinating fact: according to the stats for this site, 60.08% of visitors find it using Google with the phrase "Amy Wong naked". In that case, to increase my chances of getting some hits, Amy Wong naked! Amy Wong naked! Amy Wong naked! Amy Wong naked! Amy Wong naked! Amy Wong naked! Now watch the counter rocket! Woohoo! But back to Futurama. Wow, Leela certainly owes Fry bigtime now, doesn't she? If not for him being smart and determined enough (bloody hell!) to find the letter and get it analysed, and brave enough to head back into Mutantville (where, let's not forget, he'd just been threatened with death!), she would have killed her own parents! Our favourite ginger deserves a proper kiss from her for that, at the very least... Ever since 'I Second That Emotion' (where a one-eyed, purple-haired mutant appears in the far background of one shot) I'd wondered if Leela might turn out to be a mutant rather than an alien, and now the question has finally been answered. As has the correct spelling of 'Turanga', which I don't think had ever appeared onscreen before. So, does Bender have any family secrets to uncover? The show wasn't as strong or as affecting as Fry's big emotional discovery show, 'Luck Of The Fryrish', and I think (boy, the Leela fans will probably hate me for this) that some of that was down to Katey Sagal just not being as good an actor as Billy West. No matter what voice he's doing, Billy can always project the emotion behind it, but Katey often seems a bit forced when she has to do anything more extreme than Leela's usual state of perpetual mild annoyance -- and Leela getting almost hysterical when she thinks the mutants killed her parents, which was meant to be the big emotional moment of the show, was getting perilously close to "AAAC-TINGGG!" Still, it didn't actually damage the episode, which was still entertaining, and the song at the end was rather endearing. Anyone know who it was? Behind all the emotional stuff there were some good gags, like the whale (Bender stomping it down into the manhole like garbage was inspired cruelty), Fry's heartfelt letter to Leela going down the toilet and the whole bit with Bender's unicycle. Plus another dig at Starbucks. Seeing as Bournemouth (where I live) is about to be invaded by its first, but probably not its last, Starbucks, this was a joke that had a lot of meaning! Rating: PS: Say, how come Leela didn't have her bracelet on when her wrist-thing rolled away in 'Mother's Day'? Eh? Eh?