Spoilers for “Futurama” season 11 episode 9 follow.Back in season 8 of “Futurama“, Leela leaves the Planet Express crew to get a fresh start in life.
She’s back by the end of the episode, of course, but she at least gets to enjoy a nice career as a deep-space real estate agent.
In fact, she’s so successful at it that she gets to casually remark to Hermes near the end that she “just sold a castle to the King of Space.”It’s an insane line, just tossed into the scene with no explanation.
Nobody asks, “Hold on a second: there’s a King of Space? All of space? What authority does he have? Why would a king need to buy a castle through a real estate agent?” That lack of answers is part of what makes the line funny, in much the same way that Bender’s “Hecho en Mexico” joke back in season 3 was so amusing.
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