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The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings Lyrics by Futurama

Futurama Season 4 Scripts

2003

[OPERA ORPHANAGE DIRECTOR]
Who is this one-eyed female baby Moses,
With courage in her female baby smile?
[OPERA ORPHANS]
A savior from the stars, or something stranger still?
[OPERA INFANT LEELA]
Or just a lonely, filthy, starving child!
[…]
[OPERA BENDER]
Leela!
Leela, Leela, save him!
Save Fry, save Fry!
Godzilla will devour him,
As for me, I must be off,
To have my doctor check this cough!
[coughing]
Goodbye!
[...]
[OPERA FRY]
To win Leela's heart with the Holophonor's art,
I need hands of transcendental quickness!
[OPERA ROBOT DEVIL]
Well, I don't see any danger
In gambling with a stranger
For my head is of a most amazing thickness!
[THE ROBOT DEVIL]
[growling]
[OPERA ROBOT DEVIL]
I'm stupid, I'm stupid,
I'm stupider than you!
I'm stupider than you in every way!
[THE ROBOT DEVIL, spoken]
“Stupider?!” Bah! This opera's as lousy as it is brilliant! Gah!
[He kicks the actor playing him off stage.]
[THE ROBOT DEVIL, spoken]
Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
[FRY, spoken]
Look, what do you want?
[THE ROBOT DEVIL]
I WANT MY HANDS BACK!
[He summons columns of flame, cackling.]
[FRY, spoken]
Never!
[FRY]
A deal's a deal, even with a dirty dealer!
[THE ROBOT DEVIL]
Very well!
Then I'll take what I want from Leela!
[He grabs Leela from the audience.]
[THE ROBOT DEVIL]
Leela has promised me her hand!
[LEELA]
Fry, you do not understand!
I should have revealed I'd been deafened by Bender,
The shame, the shame!
But I feared you'd stop writing this musical splendor.
Deception's the curse of my whimsical gender!
He gave me mechanical ears.
Effective, though just a bit garish.
In return, without shedding a tear,
I agreed that I'd give him my hand—
[THE ROBOT DEVIL]
In marriage!
[LEELA, spoken]
What?!
[THE ROBOT DEVIL]
You'll give me your hand in marriage!
[HERMES]
Is this really happening, or just being staged?
[PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH]
It can't be real—
[AMY]
Not if Leela is engaged.
[LEELA]
That isn't what I meant!
That isn't what I signed!
[THE ROBOT DEVIL]
You should have checked the wording in the fine...
...print!
[Leela checks the contract.]
[LEELA, spoken]
I'll give you my hand...
[LEELA & THE ROBOT DEVIL]
...in marriage.
[BENDER]
The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention...
Now that, is, irony!
[THE ROBOT DEVIL]
I will marry her now and confine her to hell,
How droll, how droll!
Where Styx is a river and not just a band,
(Though they'll play our reception if all goes as planned.)
UNLESS, FRY, YOU SURRENDER
MY HANDS!
[FRY]
Destiny has cheated me by
Forcing me to decide upon
The woman that I idolize,
Or the hands of an automaton.
Without these hands I can't complete
The opera that was captivating her,
But if I keep them,
And she marries him,
Then he prob'ly won't
Want me dating her...
[RICHARD NIXON, spoken]
Aroo!
[ZAPP BRANNIGAN, spoken]
Bray-vo! Enn-core!
[PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH]
I can't believe the devil is so unforgiving!
[DR. ZOIDBERG]
I can't believe everybody's just ad-libbing!
[REVEREND LIONEL PREACHERBOT]
By the power vested in me by the State of New New York—
[FRY]
No!
Stop!
Take my hands!
You evil
Metal
DORK!
[The Robot Devil takes his hands back. Fry sobs. Leela covers her eye. The curtain falls.]
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