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The whole crew is having a good time at the local Western-bar. Of course like every Western-bar we’ve got a mech-bull and this one’s no different, but Leela because her hand grows suction cups. Turns out, Leela is mutating right before our eyes and is pretty much turning into a squid. To help pay for surgery, Farnsworth gives Fry the opportunity to sell the Planet Express ship at a local swap meet. However, Fry doesn’t come back with cash, rather he comes back with TWO magic beans. At first everyone kind of laughs fry off, but when watered they grow into a big huge Beanstalk. Leela decides to move into the sewer with her parents,but takes a detour when she notices the  giant beanstalk.

Leela climbs up the Stalk only to get captured by Mom and her childen. Turns out she has an illegal operation specializing in performing strange experiments in her lab. Apparently, Mom is the one producing the magic beans and she decides to keep Leela so that she can perform experiments on her mutation. Eventually, Fry and Bender get the word from Leela’s parents that she’s been missing so they decide to fly up to Mom’s castle. Leela lends a hand, and we run into Batman and Robin on the climb up to one of the towers. We find out that Leela’s mutation is just about complete!

Bender and the gang traverses through the hallways and as a matter of fact our favorite robot tells Jake from Adventure Time to shut up…BOOM! They eventually run into one of Mom’s monsters and end up getting away in a really big sink drain that leads RIGHT to Mom in the cockpit. Leela decides to grab the wheel in an attempt to crash the big huge ship but it just floats on while Leela grabs the Planet Express tower and saves he day! Well,that is until Mom comes back and tells Leela because of her the grand plan works and builds enough food for the world and cures the big giant from before. And guess what? Leela is cured too!

The journey to save Leela was a rather fun one with all of the awesome guest stars like Burt Ward, Adam West, and yes of course Jake, but really the bread and butter was the rather concrete plot that made Bryan Singer’s Beanstalk movie look like a weed. Mom is one of my usually favorite side characters because her deadpan draw and snarky remarks make her a one line machine that delivers. I would have like to have seen SOME sort of interaction with her and Farnsworth because frankly I could watch a whole series with those two, but maybe that’s a personal problem. I also didn’t think this was the funniest episode of Futurama as my favorite part was Bender telling Jake to shut up. Mom was funny, but her dialogue could’ve used a little more sass and Fry was all sappy. That said, a great episode you probably shouldn’t miss.

8.0 out of 10