Parasites Lost

Episode aired Jan 21, 2001
TV-14
23m

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Adventure Animation Comedy Sci-Fi

Ingesting a bad egg-salad sandwich leads to Fry developing a colony of parasitic worms in his bowels, which set out to make him smarter and stronger.Ingesting a bad egg-salad sandwich leads to Fry developing a colony of parasitic worms in his bowels, which set out to make him smarter and stronger.Ingesting a bad egg-salad sandwich leads to Fry developing a colony of parasitic worms in his bowels, which set out to make him smarter and stronger.

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8.9/10

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Billy West

Philip J. Fry
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Katey Sagal

Turanga Leela
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John DiMaggio

Bender
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Tress MacNeille

Waitress
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Maurice LaMarche

Sal's Friend #1
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David Herman

Sal's Friend #2
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Phil LaMarr

Hermes Conrad
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Lauren Tom

Amy Wong
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Trivia
According the David X. Cohen in the DVD commentary, the reason that Hermes is eating popcorn out of a jai-alai scoop is because of a scene that was cut out. In the original script, the worms inside Fry needed metal to build their city so Fry developed a craving for eating silverware. The Planet Express office ran out of silverware so they were forced to eat with jai-alai scoops.

Goofs
The term parasite refers to a life-form that harms another life-form in order to survive. Technically, since the worms thrived inside Fry and improved his biologic functions to the point where he was much more intelligent and much stronger, they would not be parasites, but, rather, symbiotic with Fry.