Futurama: "Amazon Women in the Mood"

'''"Amazon Women in the Mood." Futurama''', Fox-TV, First aired 4 February 2001; repeated 10 June 01 (which we viewed). Episode 34 by through-numbering method[www.tvtome.com/Futurama/guide.html], 3.5 by season.episode method[futurama.tktv.net/Episodes3/5.html]. Brian Sheesley, dir. Lewis Morton, script. Bea Arthur, featured as voice of Femputer/Fembot.

Giant Amazons are ruled by a "Femputer" computer, who turns out to be controlled by a "Fembot" robot; cf. and contrast classic Star Trek episodes "The Apple" and "The Return of the Archons" (listed under Drama)—plus THE WIZARD OF OZ (film: 1939). Note also classification games with the robot Bender: he is "ethnized" as an American but claims to be Mexican and can prove it by showing his imprint Hecho en Mexico; he is gendered as male (chauvinist sexist pig), but proves he is not a man in that "he" has no genitals (and is also, of course, not a human, or any other kind of animal). The "battle of the sexes" is comically resolved when the Fembot ruler falls for Bender—except both are gendered but neither is sexed.