Amy and Kif’s children return—after last being seen in 2003!—in next week’s second episode on Hulu, «Children of a Lesser Bog.»
Were you watching Futurama back in 2003? If so, you’ve been waiting 20 years for a certain plot-point resolution. That said, considering the show was off the air for 10 years before its recent Hulu return, even later-arriving fans have been wondering for some time about this one.
The dangling thread finally comes back around in “Children of a Lesser Bog,” next week’s episode in the show’s long-awaited revival. The title gives it away: finally, we’ll catch up with Amy (Lauren Tom) and Kif (Maurice LaMarche)’s offspring. They were born to Kif (he’s an amphibian alien, and that’s not the only quirk of their conception; their “mother” is actually Leela, voiced by Katey Segal, who accidentally donated her DNA to the cause) as tadpoles in the first episode of season four, “Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch.” At the time, Amy wasn’t sure she was ready to be a mother, even though she loves Kif (his love for her is the reason he was able to become pregnant in the first place, because… aliens!)—leading to a prophetic line in the script, spoken in 2003, about the kids requiring 20 years to mature before returning to land.
