Proposition Infinity

After facing anti-robosexual sentiments from society, they elect to get married and advocate to legalize robosexual marriage through "Proposition Infinity".

The break-up severely upsets Amy, and to make her feel better, Leela, Fry, and Bender take her to Forbidden Planet Hollywood.

Farnsworth follows with his rebuttal, relaying a story from his past where he was in love with a fellow scientist named Eunice whom he later discovered in bed with a robot, breaking his heart and leading to his hatred of robosexuals.

Amy is dejected, but Kif wins back her heart by adopting a bad boy persona and the two ride off together on a motorcycle.

"[2] In particular, with "Proposition Infinity", they paid specific attention to developing the plot in a way that would "history-proof" the episode and avoid being over-politicized or "preachy.

[1] This was the method used for "Proposition Infinity", as the team felt that most viewers would not have a strong opinion for or against robot and human intermarriage, thus lightening the potentially polarizing nature of the source material.

[4][5][6][7] Openly gay actor George Takei guest stars in this episode, moderating the Proposition Infinity debate.

[10] The episode revisits the concept of robosexuality as a social taboo in the future society depicted in Futurama and is more explicit in its analogy to prejudice and stigma surrounding homosexuality.

[12] Co-producer David X. Cohen noted that the writing team had tried to maintain robosexual relationships as a taboo throughout the series.

[5] Sean Gandert of Paste wrote: "I'd like to see them lay off the contemporary commentary episodes for a bit, but other than that it was exactly what any fan of the show would hope for.

"[16] Danny Gallagher of TVSquad stated that the episode's "robotic take on the needless hysteria and blatant hypocricy [sic] of gay marriage was not only steeped in satiric goodness, but it was downright hilarious.

"[6] Michelle Castillo of Today enjoyed the attack on California Proposition 8, stating that the episode "poked fun at the issues in the unique way that only 'Futurama' can pull off.

"[4] Robert Canning of IGN gave the episode a more mixed review, stating that he felt the relationship between Bender and Amy was only used to serve the purposes of the story and felt unnatural compared to the relationship between Fry and the Lucy Liu-bot in the similarly themed season 3 episode "I Dated a Robot".

He found the jokes funny, stating that they "delivered plenty of hilarious observations regarding gay marriage and the movements surrounding it, but the story was incredibly hollow.

Photo of Crystal Chesney-Thompson
Crystal Chesney-Thompson directed the episode.
Screen captures of National Organization for Marriage and No on Infinity advertisements both featuring individuals facing a camera with gray storm clouds in the background
The 2009 National Organization for Marriage (NOM) "Gathering Storm" advertisement (top); Futurama' s "No on Infinity" advertisement (bottom).