Phil LaMarr Movies

While Uncle Philip's regular assistant Edward (Phil LaMarr) is on vacation, Will persuades Philip (James Avery) to hire an ex-convict named Luther (played by future Lost costar M.C. Gainey) as combination assistant and handyman. Shortly thereafter, the Banks home is robbed of its furniture, and Philip jumps to the obvious conclusion. Can it be that Will has made a mistake in trusting Luther--and if so, what dire consequences are in store for him? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Louis Zorich makes his first appearance as Ben Buchman, father of Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser). A close encounter between Ben and the famous Regis Philbin (playing himself) results in embarrassment for Paul. Soon, however, all of New York -- including the telephone company -- has come to the conclusion that Paul is a bit...overreactive. This episode comes to a conclusion that would have done Woody Allen proud. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

With a little help from the commander of the Starship Enterprise, two geeky sci-fi buffs venture into the final frontier -- finding a steady girlfriend -- in this satiric comedy. Mark (Eric McCormack) and Rob (Rafer Weigel) are two guys in their late 20s who are emotionally stuck in adolescence; they're obsessed with science fiction, comics, and collectable toys, and they aren't especially graceful or successful in their relationships with the opposite sex. While both have actually been able to turn their obsessions into careers -- Mark edits a sci-fi fanzine, while Rob works at a film production house -- both feel the need for guidance as they approach 30. As children, they used to imagine themselves being counseled by William Shatner, whose role as Capt. Kirk on Star Trek elevated him to the status of a deity in their eyes. To their amazement, one day Mark and Rob meet Shatner in a bookstore and actually strike up a friendship with him, only to discover that he is just as confused about life, women, and work as they are (though he does confess his burning ambition to produce a new version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in which he plays all the characters himself). Emboldened by his new friendship with Capt. Kirk -- wait, make that William Shatner -- Rob begins pursuing a romance with Claire (Audie England), a fellow sci-fi fan who is pretty, charming, and a few steps up on the maturity ladder from himself. But this is bad news for Mark, who isn't at all happy to be losing his best friend to some girl. Free Enterprise was the first feature for writer/director Robert Meyer Burnett and screenwriter Mark A. Altman, who freely (and rather bravely) admit that the lead characters are based upon themselves. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Fry has a dream with a commercial in it, and everyone develops a strange urge to go shopping. Bender gets arrested for shoplifting, but the crew doesn't have enough money to bail him out of jail. Fry decides to look up his old bank account, which has since accrued billions of dollars in interest over the last thousand years. He spends his money frivolously and goes to a 20th century-style auction. He bids on a can of extinct anchovies and wins over the corporate tycoon Mom (voice of Tress MacNeille), known as "the world's most huggable industrialist." Needing the anchovy oil to run her robot oil business, Mom comes up with a scam to rob Fry by making him think it's really the year 2000. Pamela Anderson guest stars. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Professor Farnsworth submits his Death Clock in the Academy of Inventors ceremony, but his old rival Wernstrom tells him that he already submitted it last year. The Professor quickly comes up with another invention called the Smell-O-Scope, a device which can smell any object in space. He doesn't win any awards, but he builds it anyway. Fry uses the Smell-O-Scope to detect a big piece of garbage left over from the 20th century. It seems to be hurling through space and headed right for New York City. The Professor comes up with an idea to knock out the garbage ball with another big piece of garbage. Since the year 3000 is trashless, it's up to Fry to teach the crew about the value of throwing things away. Ron Popeil guest stars. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Everyone in the Planet Express offices is tired of sloppy Fry hanging around all the time and making messes. He tries to stay at Bender's place in Robot Arms Apartments, but it doesn't work out. He makes Bender look for a better apartment but his robotic characteristics keep ruining things. After a slight reenactment of The Odd Couple, Fry ends up living in the closet. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Fry, Leela, and Bender meet the rest of the Planet Express crew: boss man Hermes Conrad (voice of Phil LaMarr), intern Amy Wong (voice of Lauren Tom), and doctor John Zoidberg (voice of Billy West). With Leela as their captain, the first assignment is a delivery to the moon. Fry is really excited about his first trip to the moon, but everyone else thinks it's no big deal. The only thing on the moon is a big amusement park called Luna Park and it's all very commercial. They go on some carnival rides after they make the delivery, and Amy loses the keys to the ship. Leela and Fry take off on a rover ride to explore the other parts of the moon's surface away from the tourist traps. After hiding out at an oxygen farm, Amy rescues them. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

The Planet Express crew makes a delivery to the Professor's office at Mars University. Realizing that he's just a high school dropout, Fry decides to enroll in school and become a college dropout. He ends up sharing a room with the Professor's super-intelligent experimental monkey, Guenter. Guenter competes with Fry in social activities and academic performance while struggling with whether to rejoin his species in the wild. Meanwhile, Bender hangs out with the robot fraternity of his college days (when he majored in Bending and minored in Robo-American Studies). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

The fine line between investigating a character's feelings and wanting to kill yourself gets played for laughs in this dark comedy. Matt (Jamie Harris) is a screenwriter whose career is not going especially well and whose personal life is dwindling into nothingness. Matt starts talking with his friends about suicide, and nearly all of them become deeply concerned, convinced his depression has taken him over the edge. Matt insists to all around him that his questions about killing himself are merely part of his research for a script about a man who has turned suicidal. But his ex-girlfriend Amanda (Alison Eastwood) is the only one that seems to believe it. Suicide, the Comedy is dominated by close relatives of the rich and famous; Jamie Harris is the son of Richard Harris, Alison Eastwood is Clint Eastwood's daughter, and Chad Lowe, brother of Rob Lowe, appears in the supporting cast. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Zapp Brannigan accidentally explodes the Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP) and he loses his rank in a court sentence after Leela testifies against him. He and his assistant, Kif Kroker, become homeless vagrants, so Professor Farnsworth hires them to work for Planet Express. While delivering pillows to a high-gravity planet, Zapp convinces Fry and Bender to overthrow Leela so that he can be captain. When they eagerly comply, Zapp takes over and leads the crew into an attack on the Neutral Planet. Scared of dying, Fry and Bender turn on Zapp and make Leela captain again. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

In this parody of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Fry tries to find a golden bottle cap in his favorite beverage, Slurm. He tries using the professor's latest invention that can see through metal, but he ends up swallowing a golden bottle cap and winning the contest. The crew gets to go on a tour of the Slurm factory and party with Slurms McKenzie, the party slug mascot who is sick and tired of constantly partying. Fry gets thirsty on the tour and falls into the Slurm river, so Leela and Bender try to save him. They all go down a drain and discover that Slurm is really made from the secretions of a giant queen slug. They are captured, but Slurms saves them. Pamela Anderson guest stars as the voice of blonde "Slurm Babe" Dixie. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Premiering in the Midnight Movie section of the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, Kill the Man poses the question: "What would you do if you won $100,000 during a half-time basketball free-throw contest?" Stanley Luke Wilson and Bob Josh Malina decide to open a small copy center. The problem is that a large-chain copy store is right across the street, taking the lion's share of the business. So with absurd determination, they decide to declare their own comic brand of war on big business. Persuading his girlfriend Vicki to join in, Stanley must choose between his life of wreaking havoc on corporate America or taking a job from Vicki's dad Michael McKean. The answer may lie somewhere in the middle, as suddenly Stanley is in jeopardy of losing his own shop if he can't come up with the rent. Directors Tom Booker and Jon Kean use wacky characters and slapstick to cook up a David-and-Goliath story about the big guy versus the little guy, with a little rule-breaking irreverence on the side. ~ Arthur Borman, All Movie Guide