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Futurama episode
"A Leela of Her Own"
Episode no.	48
Prod. code	3ACV16
Airdate	April 7, 2002
Writer(s)	Patric M. Verrone
Director	Swinton Scott
Opening subtitle	SCRATCH HERE TO REVEAL PRIZE
Opening cartoon	Coach blowing up from smoking.
Guest star(s)	Hank Aaron Bob Uecker
Season 3 January 2001 – December 2002
Amazon Women in the Mood Parasites Lost A Tale of Two Santas The Luck of the Fryrish The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz Bendless Love The Day the Earth Stood Stupid That's Lobstertainment! The Cyber House Rules Where the Buggalo Roam Insane in the Mainframe The Route of All Evil Bendin' in the Wind Time Keeps on Slippin' I Dated a Robot A Leela of Her Own A Pharaoh to Remember Anthology of Interest II Roswell That Ends Well Godfellas Future Stock The 30% Iron Chef
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"A Leela Of Her Own" is the sixteenth episode in the third season of the animated series Futurama. It originally aired in North America on April 7, 2002.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cultural references 3 Goofs 4 Continuity 5 Production notes

A new pizza restaurant run by Cygnoids has moved in across the street from the Planet Express building. While playing blernsball with aliens, Leela's lack of depth perception causes her to injure opposing players by beaning them in the head. Gaining notice from the Blernsball league, she becomes the first female player to play professional blernsball. Leela sees herself as a pioneer for women in sports however other female players see her as an embarrassment and a joke. Leela is on the fast track to becoming the worst blernsball player ever and seeks help from Hank Aaron XXIV, a distant relative of Hank Aaron, who is the current worst blernsball player of all time.

Leela, not wanting to be the worst blernsball player of all time is delighted when she throws a strike to Hank Aaron. Later, at another blernsball game, the Cygnoids' franchise is bought by Fishy Joe. Near the end of the game, Leela pleads to have the chance to prove she is not the worst blernsball player ever, explaining that she has been training with Hank Aaron. The skipper gives in and Leela is found facing the second woman to play in major league blernsball, Jackie Anderson. Leela throws two strikes but Jackie hits a grand slam blern and wins the match.

Leela walks away, unhappy until Jackie tells her that Leela was a role model, she encouraged women to be better than her. Meanwhile, at the blernsball museum, Hank Aaron XXIV leaves his post as the worst blernsball player ever, recounting that he is fortunate to still be the worst football player ever.

• The title is a reference to the 1992 film A League of Their Own.
• Jackie Anderson, the first good female blernsball player, may be loosely based on Jackie Robinson, the first (male) African-American professional baseball player.
• The hyperbolic size of Mark McGwire's biceps is a reference to his suspected illegal steroid usage.
• Leela throwing Jackie her towel, is a parody off a "Mean" Joe Greene Coca-Cola commercial.
• The Cavern On The Green is a reference to Tavern on the Green.
• The slogan of the New New York Mets, "Blernsball the Way it Oughtn't Be," draws from the New York Mets' slogan from the 1980s, "Baseball the Way it Ought to Be!"
• The cover of Sports Illustrated featured says, "Leela's Beans: The Mets' Magical Fruit." This refers to a children's song about beans, "The Musical Fruit," which describes their flatulent properties.
• Jackie Anderson's grand slam blern, where the ball breaks off the tether and causes the Slurm blimp to crash into the light tower, has basis in Roy Hobbs' home run at the end of The Natural (1984).
• A parody of the Rainbow Man can be seen at the opening shot of Leela's first game where he is holding up a sign that says "Glorx 3:16", a reference to John 3:16.

• During the last scene, where Leela throws her towel at Jackie, Leela's face paint disappears and reappears several times.

• The rules of Blernsball are far more simple than they were when first seen in Fear of a Bot Planet.
• Hank Aaron XXIV's Atlanta shirt has the characteristic Braves tomahawk replaced by similarly faux-Native American trident. This is a reference to the episode The Deep South featuring The Lost City of Atlanta.
• One of the people seen leaving the stadium 'LA Style' was Fry's girlfriend from Love's Labours Lost in Space.

• The shots of Boston's Fenway Park include the famous Citgo sign in the background, which is a major local landmark and also commonly seen on televised Boston Red Sox games.
• A sign at Fenway Park says home of the Green Monster, They show a literal green monster. The real green monster is a high wall famous for stopping home runs. The monster shown, furthermore, appears to be a parody of or homage to the cartoon characters of "Big Daddy" Ed Roth.