Talk:Parasites Lost

pre-release version?
Was there a pre-release version of this episode? Supposedly, this episode was first aired on January 21, 2001, but I remember seeing it during a family vacation in December 2000. --Ixfd64 21:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

There is no mention of the lines 'Shotgun ... shotgun' when the crew is about to board the ship. This is classic. --Aragonzo 08:42, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

The mirror.
There is no such thing as a one way mirror. However, if the room the professor and co enter is also brightly lit, this defies how the two way mirror works. The article should be edited appropriately.

Establishing Notability
In accordance with my ongoing efforts at the wikiproject, another link which could be used to establish notability for this episode. Here. I'll try to integrate anything useful there sometime soon. Anybody else who has a useful link to share for this project please do. Stardust8212 13:41, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Shotgun?
Why do both Bender and Zoidberg shout "Shotgun!" in this episode? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.11.252.223 (talk) 23:36, 24 July 2008 (UTC) Calling shotgun is a practice done by people to claim the front seat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding_shotgun

Sword fight
At the end of the episode, Fry and the leader of the worms are in a sword fight. Is there a reference in the sword fight? perhaps when fry backs into the elevator? --68.48.33.175 (talk) 05:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Possible reference to "Blood Music"
The small civilization that lives inside Fry may be a vaguely reference to the plot of the novel "Blood Music" (1983), written by Greg Bear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music. What do you think? —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobertCS (talk • contribs) 18:42, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
Has anyone else noticed that the plot of this episode seems inspired by the Tom Baker Doctor Who episode "The Invisible Enemy?" In that episode clones of the Doctor and Leela (hah) are shrunk down to microscopic size and injected into the Doctor's bloodstream to fight off a parasitic infection affecting the Doctor's mind. 70.77.45.29 (talk) 04:49, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Unless you have reliable sourcing this is original research and inappropriate for inclusion. Unless you're just bringing this up as a talking point, in which case you should be aware that talk pages aren't forums. Doniago (talk) 04:52, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

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Flowers for Algernon
The meteoric rise and subsequent return to sub-normal for Fry is surely a riff on Daniel Keyes' classic, as well as the obvious Fantastic Voyage. The striking thing for me about this episode is how successfully weaves two classics into one seamless story. 100.38.248.81 (talk) 05:02, 18 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Perhaps, but we'd need a source that makes that claim before we could add it to the article. DonIago (talk) 13:57, 21 April 2023 (UTC)