His nerdom and unlimited powers could have been used as an excuse to hold a similar episode themed after Star Wars or, to be more realistic, some other sci-fi franchise with a more affordable cast, like Firefly or Sliders. It ’ s a shame that we never saw Melllvar again after the Planet Express crew rescued the Enterprise one. They almost survived the experience, but we tragically lost Welshy, the replacement Scotty, to Melllvar ’ s awesome power and poor temper. Melllvar with three Ls (not to be confused with any of those other Mellvars with two Ls) is a big energy cloud and an even bigger dork who kidnaps the preserved heads of the original Star Trek cast, and gives them new bodies, forcing them to put on a convention for him. 1 Melllvar, Seer of the Tapes, Knower of the Episodes He ’s later crushed, both in body and spirit, by Zoidberg ’s people when they decide to invade the Earth. We discover this when Old Man Waterfall defends Zoidberg in court in his single starring episode and uses the opportunity to try to defend the concept of polygamy while at it. Luckily, there are always plenty more Waterfalls around to avenge each other ’s deaths (or swear to do it and then just don ’t) because the patriarch, Old Man Waterfall, is an avid collector of wives. We ’ re almost glad they didn ’ t get Ed O ’ Neill to voice the character since that would have spoiled the joke. ” At this point, it becomes clear that the writers put together this entire episode just to get Leela ’ s voice actress, Katey Sagal, to do her Peggy Bundy voice again for a Married. Of course, as soon as they ’ ve had sex, the gallant Alcazar turns into an unpleasant, misogynistic and strangely familiar-looking slob who insists on being called “ Al. In Alcazar ’ s one and only episode, Leela is thrilled to meet another cyclops for the first time in her life and eagerly agrees to marry him so they can get to work on preserving their race. The clones didn't come back for the next election, perhaps because the spot-on satire about the two-party system was a little too spot-on and circled back around to being depressing.
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