[s6e23] The Tip Of The Zoidberg Guide

After Zoidberg causes a series of medical disasters, the Planet Express crew demands he be fired. The Professor refuses, prompting the crew to investigate his loyalty to the doctor.

(Season 6, Episode 23) is a pivotal episode of Futurama that finally explains why the brilliant Professor Farnsworth employs the notoriously incompetent Dr. Zoidberg. First airing on August 18, 2011, it was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. Plot Summary [S6E23] The Tip of the Zoidberg

In the present, the Professor exhibits symptoms, but Zoidberg realizes he actually has "Yetiism" from a scratch decades ago. Zoidberg must then save him from the crew's own over-engineered murder machine, the Murdolator . Key Highlights & Trivia Futurama: "The Tip Of The Zoidberg" - AV Club After Zoidberg causes a series of medical disasters,

Flashbacks reveal that Farnsworth and Zoidberg met while working for Mom's corporation on a mission to hunt a Tritonian Yeti for biological weapons research. Zoidberg

Believing the Professor had contracted terminal "hyper-malaria" during the mission, Zoidberg agreed to a mercy-killing pact: he would kill the Professor if symptoms ever surfaced.

The episode is split between a present-day conflict and a series of flashbacks to the year 2927: