"Leela's Homeworld" is the second episode in the fourth production season of Futurama. It first aired as the fifth episode of the fourth broadcast season on February 17, 2002. The episode was written by Kristin Gore and directed by Mark Ervin. This episode reveals Leela's true origin as a mutant who was abandoned by her parents, not an alien who was sent to Earth before her planet was destroyed as she previously believed.
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"Leela's Homeworld" is the second episode in the fourth production season of Futurama. It first aired as the fifth episode of the fourth broadcast season on February 17, 2002. The episode was written by Kristin Gore and directed by Mark Ervin. This episode reveals Leela's true origin as a mutant who was abandoned by her parents, not an alien who was sent to Earth before her planet was destroyed as she previously believed.
The Professor announces that Leela's old orphanarium has named her Orphan of the Year. In another announcement, he shows off a machine that makes glow-in-the-dark noses. Unfortunately, the machine produces enormous amounts of toxic waste, then by law, Hermes asks him to get rid of it. The Professor hires Bender to dispose of the waste, and he does so by dumping it into the sewer (in the process, melts away a tree, a car, and a chunk of the asphalt).
At the orphanarium's award ceremony, the headmaster presents us with a flashback of Leela's arrival. We see that she...
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