Near-Death Wish

Philip J. Fry: Hey, why are they hooked up like that? Is it some kind of Craftmatic Adjustable Death Bed?

Turanga Leela: Ah, ho ho, don't be rediculous. Their bodies are being used to generate electricity. The idea came from an old movie called 'The Matrix'.

Bender: But-but - wouldn't almost anything make a better battery than a human body? Like a potato? Or a battery?

Philip J. Fry: Plus, no matter how much energy they produce, it would take more energy than that to keep them alive.

Turanga Leela: I know, I know - it sounds absurd. In fact, when 'The Matrix' first came out, it seemed like the single crummiest, laziest, most awful dim-witted idea in the entire history of science fiction. But it turned out to be true.

Philip J. Fry: Who knew.

Bender: Good work, writer of 'The Matrix'.