Comments on: Whither Zoidberg?

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:11:32 +0000

Keeping disembodied heads alive in JARS is easy. Grafting them to another person’s body, though, seems something else.
Specifically in that episode, Zoidberg goes with Amy and Fry on a picnic in Amy’s new car. Zoidberg then causes said car to crash. When Fry wakes up, he finds that Zoidberg was able to perform emergency surgery on the moon they crashed on and attach his head to Amy’s shoulder. Zoidberg then was able to fix Fry’s body and reattach the head later in the episode.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:36:40 +0000

In Zoidberg’s defense, he might be a perfectly competent doctor of…whatever species he is. He’s just unfamiliar with human medicine.

By: Carl Fink

Carl Fink — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:45:01 +0000

Randy, Zoidberg was in the car with Fry and Amy. When it crashed (Zoidberg was driving, of course), Zoidberg transpanted Fry’s head onto Amy’s body. We don’t see it because the ep is from Fry’s point of view, and he wasn’t exactly fully conscious while his head was detached.

Note that keeping disembodied heads alive is apparently a really easy thing in the future of Futurama.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:24:53 +0000

OK, I admit that I have not seen that episode. But, now my question is, Was that a plot device where they just say later on “It’s a good thing Dr. Zoidberg was able to attach Fry’s head back on!” or did we actually see him in the operating room re-attaching Fry’s head?

By: Chris Arndt

Chris Arndt — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:28:36 +0000

The reason Zoidberg doesn’t get any… is Scott.

By: mike abbott

mike abbott — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:36:42 +0000

P.S. I enjoy polite dissent very much, every day. Thank you.

By: mike abbott

mike abbott — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:42:39 +0000

How about Dr. Bong !
He helped Deadpool go from crazy to crazy.

By: Carl Fink

Carl Fink — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:42:16 +0000

Randy? While Zoidberg is an incompetent doctor, he has done some real medicine from time to time. Hell, his emergency surgery saved Fry after he was decapitated in a car accident.

By: Tim O'Neil

Tim O'Neil — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:20:29 +0000

Well, I suppose this will keep me from having to storm your castle with a pitchfork and torch.

Just barely.

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:38:34 +0000

Thank you for addressing this topic. I have read the comments about Zoidberg being “worthy” of being on your Top 10 list and frankly they make me scratch my head and say, Huh??” I have never seen Zoidberg do anything remotely involving the practice of medicine in any Futurama episode I’ve seen. But, granted, I’ve never read the comics.