The Beast With a Billion Backs
I just finished watching the aforementioned Futurama movie, and I am stunned. The entire thing was basically an argument for polyamory and free love.
The hole in space time left over from the first movie, Bender's Big Score, is the gateway through which a giant tentacle monster makes contact with earth. Fry has just broken up with his girlfriend, (not Leela) who just happens to have 4 other boyfriends, and flees through the rift so he doesn't ever have to see her again. There he meets Yivo a tentacle monster, who plants a sucker in the back of his neck and then reaches through the rift to do the same thing to every living being in the rest of our universe. Everyone is going on about "tentacle love" and it seems really body snatcher-esk. Fry has the tentacles bring in his ex-girlfriend, who tearfully explains to Fry, that while she does love him, he can't fulfill all of her needs. He of course hooks her up to a tentacle and then they are joined together in tentacle love with all of the other beings in our universe. Leela is the only one who figures out what is going on (the tentacles are for mating purposes) and leads a revolt. Yivo admits that our universe was originally just a lay, but now it has developed feelings for us, and agrees to withdraw back through the rift so we can date and get to know one and other better. The date, with each member of or universe and one tentacle of Yivo, goes well. The next week Yivo proposes and all the people of the Gamma universe get on golden escalators and ascend to what looks suspiciously like Christian heaven. Leela complains that's it's too wholesome, and everyone decides to go to mattress island, where we get to see an after orgy puppy pile of Amazonians, Amy, Zapp Branigan, the Professor, etc. Someone has this great throw away line about how wonderful it is that they have given up immature things like jealousy and can now just experience this boundless love. In the end Fry violates the one promise he made to Yivo and (insert genderless pronoun here) breaks up with the gamma universe and everyone gets sent packing. Of course, Bender gets in a great line at the end about how it couldn't have really been love, because that relationship lacked loves defining feature - jealousy.
Seriously, I just about died laughing. It was kind of revolutionary, actually. The mainstream portrayal of love is so wrapped up with the expectation of jealousy. I really liked the way they handled the subject.
The hole in space time left over from the first movie, Bender's Big Score, is the gateway through which a giant tentacle monster makes contact with earth. Fry has just broken up with his girlfriend, (not Leela) who just happens to have 4 other boyfriends, and flees through the rift so he doesn't ever have to see her again. There he meets Yivo a tentacle monster, who plants a sucker in the back of his neck and then reaches through the rift to do the same thing to every living being in the rest of our universe. Everyone is going on about "tentacle love" and it seems really body snatcher-esk. Fry has the tentacles bring in his ex-girlfriend, who tearfully explains to Fry, that while she does love him, he can't fulfill all of her needs. He of course hooks her up to a tentacle and then they are joined together in tentacle love with all of the other beings in our universe. Leela is the only one who figures out what is going on (the tentacles are for mating purposes) and leads a revolt. Yivo admits that our universe was originally just a lay, but now it has developed feelings for us, and agrees to withdraw back through the rift so we can date and get to know one and other better. The date, with each member of or universe and one tentacle of Yivo, goes well. The next week Yivo proposes and all the people of the Gamma universe get on golden escalators and ascend to what looks suspiciously like Christian heaven. Leela complains that's it's too wholesome, and everyone decides to go to mattress island, where we get to see an after orgy puppy pile of Amazonians, Amy, Zapp Branigan, the Professor, etc. Someone has this great throw away line about how wonderful it is that they have given up immature things like jealousy and can now just experience this boundless love. In the end Fry violates the one promise he made to Yivo and (insert genderless pronoun here) breaks up with the gamma universe and everyone gets sent packing. Of course, Bender gets in a great line at the end about how it couldn't have really been love, because that relationship lacked loves defining feature - jealousy.
Seriously, I just about died laughing. It was kind of revolutionary, actually. The mainstream portrayal of love is so wrapped up with the expectation of jealousy. I really liked the way they handled the subject.