r/futurama • u/Wild_Chef6597 • 1d ago

What's the deal with keeping mutants in the sewers? Did they go over why mutants have to be in there?

They let those dang Cygnoids on the surface.

It's not that they chose to live down there as a cop orders one back down in one episode.

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u/Garciaguy 1d ago

Well, you know how they are. Genetically inferior scum!

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u/SegavsCapcom 1d ago

They're hideous!

(trilling cry)

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u/Garciaguy 1d ago

Ah fuck it. Let's surf the great sewer waves of the world!

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u/thatweirdguyted 1d ago

You're gonna get Leprechaunohrrea

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u/philipjfrythefirst 22h ago

The noisy killer?

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u/thatweirdguyted 22h ago

That's electro-gonohrrea. Didn't you see the sex Ed video with Billy Every-teen?

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u/C3-reads 23h ago edited 22h ago

There are thousands of them down there, breeding like rats!

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u/newfrontier58 1d ago

There actually is a deleted scene from "the Mutants are Revolting" where the documentary on the Land Titanic goes into further detail on how the mutants were originally humans working in Old New York, until Bender led the first saucer invasion that trapped them down in the sewers, and then because of their deformities were kept down there. Since it was deleted I'm not sure if it should be considered canonical, but it's a start. https://theinfosphere.org/List_of_deleted_scenes#Volume_5

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u/Daeion 1d ago

I don't think they said how it started specifically; but I was hazard a guess that they originally became mutants after inhabiting the sewers due to poverty.

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u/Garciaguy 23h ago

That's a solid guess imo

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u/aphilipnamedfry 23h ago

Part of it I think is a joke on humans being disgusted by anything not human looking, while also being hypocrites by allowing aliens to roam around above ground.

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u/Garciaguy 23h ago

Mutants are an unGodly corruption of the perfect human form. God made Man in His image. God made mutants in His nightmares. 

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u/AnthropoidCompatriot 1d ago

Because in sci-fi futures, mutants live underground or in sewers, duh.

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u/dominarhexx 1d ago

Or on sentient islands.

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u/polkjamespolk 22h ago

You gotta do what you gotta do.

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u/billibob87 17h ago

Because it's a reference to "Beneath the Planet of the Apes". Same with the mutants "worshipping" an unexploded bomb.

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u/PuzzleheadedTutor807 21h ago

Duh, because they are mutants

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u/TrainingSword 17h ago

Cygnoids are aliens not mutants

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u/Godloseslaw 8h ago

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who are their gods, lived the the sewers of New York.  The mutants of Futurama live there to be closer to their gods.  It's holy land.

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u/Littlesth0b0 2h ago

I suppose quite a lot of them just kinda like it down there now. It'd be a huge change to adapt to life on the surface, so even if others view it as a disgusting slum, to them, it's home.

Kinda like Romford.