#turanga fam

[fryandleelasbigfling]

small, subtle, brilliant animation moment:

leela's collar buzzing when she talks about how she was abandoned, but then stopping when she mentions that she met her parents a few years ago. she's mad about the situation her family is in, but the memory of meeting them was enough to quell her anger for a moment. <3

#turanga leela #futurama #benders game #leela #turanga fam #zoidberg #shock collar plot is the best plot of the movie #to me. #queue #gif

[fryandleelasbigfling]

i find it so cute that leela’s maternal line consistently has Some Wrist Thing going on for most of their lives as another way to connect them all visually

#futurama #turanga leela #leela #munda #mundas mom #rewatched zapp dingbat and realized how much i love the turanga stuff in it #i wanna talk abt it but man so much of it is overanalysis and pure hc #also young morris had a watch is that anything lol #turanga fam

[fryandleelasbigfling]

if there is any reason for fry and leela to have yet another wedding (besides the usual reason of them being soulmates), it's that morris and munda deserve to be above ground and consciously see their daughter get married. ideally they can even both walk her down the aisle. they all deserve that.

#futurama #freela #turanga leela #turanga morris #turanga munda #turanga fam #SAPPY for them ALWAYS. #also mundas mom as well now! #since shes part of the family again

[fryandleelasbigfling]

idk if i ever talked about this but leela’s behavior in “teenage mutant leela’s hurdles” vs her parents’ behavior fascinates me so much. like she immediately jumps to trying to be a Normal Teen Girl because she never had that life, while her parents don’t really understand why she needs that and barely give her any restrictions. 

and it’s funny, but it also kind of makes you realize that the way leela sees her parents and the way her parents see her are totally different. leela did not grow up knowing she was loved, and she came out feeling alone and desperate to prove herself as a normal, capable, independent person. but her parents kept an eye on her as much as they could, so they knew she was safe and loved. they also convinced themselves there was no way she would ever be happy with them in the sewers and that knowing the truth would embarrass her, so from their POV, she had the happier life. why would she ever want to come back and live with them? there’s no way anything she faced on the surface would be worse than their lives right? (”less than hero” also doubles down on this because they assume so easily that she’s ashamed of them and won’t be upset when they die. brutal!)

also, while morris offering her alcohol and not setting a strict curfew and such could just be because they still see her as an adult, i also headcanon the sewers have a different sense of what’s normal in raising children. we don’t see many children down there, nor even many families besides the turangas, and since it’s obviously a very insular community, i imagine most kids would be free-range, sort of raised by the community. everybody has adapted to the environment, so as long as you stay underground (and away from crocodiles), there’s probably not much from which you’d need to keep kids safe. and with the extremely low budget you can’t be picky with what kids eat and drink and watch and read. from what we know of mutant culture, vulgarity is pretty normalized cuz like... you can’t help it there, it’s what “polite” society sends underground.  

so i think this all adds new layers to later episodes where morris and munda don’t always understand why leela is upset about being forced into anger management, mutating uncontrollably, and infamously the munda/zapp thing. as much as they love her, they assume her life will always be better on the surface, because they gave her up specifically for that purpose. (given that munda is implied to have a lot of repressed disdain for her living situation, i think she might have even wanted to live a bit vicariously through her daughter, while morris seems more attached to mutant values -- even their reaction to lars supports this.) i don’t think leela is willing enough to be open about her trauma to address this, and i think it really upsets her to think that her family, after all this time, would be imperfect, which is probably one of many reasons she’s so upset in “zapp dingbat.” 

#turanga leela #futurama #leela #munda #morris #turanga fam #analysis #I Have Many Turanga Thoughts Lately! #teenage mutant leelas hurdles #zapp dingbat #sewer mutants

[fryandleelasbigfling]

those crazy cyclopses finding love in the most unlikely of places

#futurama #turanga morris #turanga munda #futurama art #munda #morris #doodly dee #unsanitary cw #turanga fam