The validity of Humor at The Expense of Feminism

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“Amazon Women in The Mood” is among the most interesting episode of the Futurama show that depicts humor all through. The episode satisfies the quality of being comic thus attracting enormous audience globally. The Lewis Morton’s efficiently portrays the stagecraft skills in this film through fiction hence building the impossible to reality. The major cast of the “Amazon Women in The Mood” episode include Amy, Kif, Zapp, Leela, Fry, and Bender. The crew are on a mission board a restaurant into space and coincidently crush in the Planet Amazonia where they are held as captives by the female chauvinists. The strange planet is feminine dominated, and they do not value the presence of male beings in their life. In this discussion, the validity of humor at the expense of feminism is evaluated in an in-depth extent in consideration of the Futurama film, “Amazon Women in The Mood” episode.

The plot of the film is significantly developed under amusing comic that makes one have the urge of viewing the movie over and over again. First, the title itself is inquisitive in a way that portrays humor (Arthur 2013). How can women survive in their world without men? The audience is suspicious to get to know about these women in the mood yet no man around. In the real world, patriarchal societies have been evident and prevalent especially during the early eras. However, with Lewis Morton’s film, this is different, and he attempts to show feminine empowerment comically. The humor in the movie depicts that women have been significantly empowered in today’s world and have the rights as well as capabilities of doing things more smartly and efficiently as their men counterparts. High technology has been depicted in the film where the leader of the women is computerized and have extraordinary powers cynically showing that men are in trouble as all their masculinity does not matter in a female dominated community. It is right the author has significantly humorously applied fiction, but it emerges to be an effective way of postulating the changes occurring in the society today.

The movie begins in a ridiculous way where Kif has fallen in love with the army and keeps calling her for a year with no success of expressing his affection to her. Every time the Army receives the phone calls, Kif would stammer and end up hanging up. It is amusing that he is a gentleman and had nervousness of just talking with the lady through a phone call to express his emotions. It significantly becomes the first instance that depicts the validity of humor at the expense of feminism in this particular episode. Kif’s anxiety continues until the day which Zapp realized that Leela and Amy knew each other and requested a double date where the four could meet in a restaurant on the ship space liner. In the spacecraft both Zapp and Kif struggle to entertain their female associates through music to keep them in the mood as a way of preventing them from moving away. It is amusing as the reverse has been the regular thing in the world where females are responsible for entertaining their male partners in such occasions. The act makes the ship crew and other passengers run off the restaurant in shock.

Later, Zapp crashes the vessel in the Amazonian planet, the land of feminine gender. It hilarious that female on this planet have the masculinity and gigantic character, and they have dominated the place where they live in their ways. As the captives are taken to the Amazonians’ leader, Leela and Amy are interested the females’ idea of living in this society and wonders how life could be good without men. It is ironical that the two females were on their date with men and still sees life as interesting without male characters. On the other hand, Fay and Bender who have also been captured after their act of coming to the Amazonian planet to rescue their friends, as well as Zapp, scorn women leadership, and values (Hall 2011). It humorously signifies that gender disparities still exist in the world today regardless of the gender equality advocates efforts of curbing the menace. Even if in this episode women are given the power over men, it is true that males are not pleased by the act of being put in custody by the female.

At the climax of the episode, all the male captives apart from Bender who depicts female anatomy are sentenced to death. The Amazonian family does not understand the necessity of men in female’s life, and it is amusing that according to Amy and Leela who had experience made them know that male are only essential in sexual intercourse being referred as snu-snu (Groening, 2012). Femputer, the Amazonian leader decided that the males captives will be subjected to death through the sexual intercourse act which was both shocking and exciting to the victims as they could not figure how that could happen. The joke was horrific to the people in oppression, and it is at this instance that Kif tells Amy he loved her, and he was the one who used to call and hand up for a long while.

Amy considered Kif’s words and decided to help him. With Leela’s assistant, she convinced Bender to reprogram the Femputer which was computerized by fembot who was the developer of Amazonian Society. The Fembot’s action was because of the male chauvinism in her planet encouraging her to develop such a community where women would be in control of everything without valuing men. Amy succeeds in her mission to safe Kif from the oppression even though they are forced towards the Femputer’s chamber. The Amazonians are ordered to let the captives free in exchange of gold piles by Bender and fembot who have already developed an amorousness. The crew returns to the earth and agrees that Amazonian planet has been the best mission ever where it is revealed to the audience that Kif and Amy are a couple. The act is depicted as a comic signifying the terror oppressions undergo in a joking manner. For instance, the female computer judgment was exclusively amusing as for how could the arrested me be subjected to sexual intercourse as a death trial. It is an involving act that calls the audience attention being suspicious of how that act could end up.

In the film “Amazon Women in The Mood” humor is subjected to cast especially the male characters who are depicted as the inferior in the episode. The fact of humor being subjective is portrayed in the film regarding the significant actions bringing about its plot. Regarding, the integrity of Bender not having man structure is humorous but it made him escape the Femputer’s judgment and at the end saving his friends life. Lewis reasoning when writing the film was based on connecting humor to the reality in as an indirect way of informing his audience what is happening in the society today or significantly where the gender value is headed to. It is right that the Amazonian had the affectionate, but they felt superior to men hence could not tolerate the males in the community, and the best option was victimization to death prosecution. At the end of the movie, is portrayed in an amusing way that the crew gets saved by the act of Bender showing romance to the female computer controller which is not the reality as the significant motive was gold. Here gold signifies the economic empowerment being the considerable drive towards chauvinism in the society (Hall 2011).

As discussed above, it is clear that “Amazon Women in The Mood” being a significant episode of the Futurama depicts that humor is subjective. Regardless of the movie portraying practical jokes with make it attractive, the postulates the writer’s mindset in illuminating today’s world and its evolution regarding gender equality. During the early years fighting for female equity was the order of the day and was much emphasized. It was right that this came to the accomplishment and the bodies in the motion have put in place theme of empowering women but what about the male gender? Will they end up being victims of the advocating and significantly suffer oppression in the society. They are the primary victims of criminality in the community and are put considerably under significant threat of inferiority. This Futurama episode is influential as apart from entertaining it also make people aware of world evolution in the present as well as future days.

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