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{{episode infobox 2
|name=Where the Buggalo Roam
|no=42
|image=[[File:Where the Buggalo Roam.jpg|225px]]
|season=3
|broadcast season=4
|number=3ACV10
|caption=Krafted with luv<br /><small>by [[:Category:Monsters|monsters]]</small>
|first aired={{date|3 March}}, [[2002]]
|written by=J. Stewart Burns
|directed by=Pat Shinagawa
|title reference=A lyric in the song ''Home on the Range''
|caption reference=
|opening cartoon="The Emerald Isle"
|sponsor=
|broadcast number=S04E06
|prev ep=The Cyber House Rules
|next ep=Insane in the Mainframe
|broad prev=Leela's Homeworld
|broad next=A Pharaoh to Remember
}}
On [[Mars]], [[Leo]] and [[Inez Wong]]'s [[buggalo]] herd is stolen by [[Native Martians]], prompting [[Kif]] to lead a group to retrieve them.

== The Story ==
=== Act I: "I broke your television!" ===
The PE crew goes to [[Mars]] (Mightiest of Planets) to visit [[Amy Wong|Amy]]'s [[Leo and Inez Wong|parents]] at the [[Wong Ranch]] for [[Mars Day]]. The Wongs invite the crew in, and [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] makes himself at home. The crew goes on a tour of the ranch, and Leo Wong reveals that the Wongs own the entire western hemisphere. Amy is reunited with [[Betsy]], her pet [[Buggalo]]. Betsy is to be eaten at Amy's wedding. The [[Nimbus]] orbits Mars, and [[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]] helps [[Kif Kroker|Kif]] prepare for meeting the Wongs. At the Mars Day celebration, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] chats with [[Mixmaster Festus| the DJ]], and Leo barbecues various animal parts. Inez Wong explains that Mars Day commemorates the day that Sir Reginald Wong bought Mars from the [[Martians]] for the price of one bead. Amy introduces Kif to [[R.J.]], who appears to be her ex-boyfriend. R.J. forces Kif to have a cigarette, and Kif starts coughing before it's even lit. Kif laments his difficulty impressing Amy's parents.

=== Act II: "What's that weird sound?" ===
After Amy tries to console Kif, saying her parents didn't see him puke, a dust storm rages, accompanied by a strange sound, so everyone heads inside. After the storm finishes, and Leo ensures nobody wants a lawsuit, they notice that the Buggalo all disappeared in the storm. Zoidberg has decided the Wongs are his parents, much to their disgust. Kif takes the responsibility of saving the Buggalo, though Leo and Inez are not comforted.

=== Act III: "My turn to tell a ghost story!" ===
Kif plans to take the remaining Buggalo (Betsy) on a cattle drive to find the rustlers. [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]], noting the likelihood of death, sends [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and Bender along. That night they camp on [[Mars#Olympus Mons|Olympus Mons]]. The group attempts to scare each other with ghost stories, Fry seems to know them all and tells the scariest. Amy appears so that she can be with Kif. Kif and Amy find the Buggalo in the crater of the volcano and Kif uses explosives to get them out. Another sandstorm begins, sucking everyone up into the vortex. The [[Native Martians]] reveal themselves on their flying Buggalo, and tell of their plan to ruin the [[Wong family]] by stealing the Buggalo. On learning that Amy is a Wong, they decide to kidnap her instead.

=== Act IV: "Take me to your leader!" ===
Everyone else returns with the Buggalo. The Wongs call in [[Zapp Brannigan]] to rescue Amy. The Professor sends his crew along again. They make their way to the [[great stone face of Mars]], the only entrance to the [[Martian Reservation]] on that side of the planet (meaning they cannot enter through the [[great stone ass of Mars]]), and are followed by Betsy. Brannigan performs his usual poor attempts at negotiation and the Martians call another sandstorm to destroy the planet that they can't get back, then pull Amy into the storm. [[Kif]] flys [[Betsy]] to save her, which calms the Martians, who request Kif smoke the peace pipe with them.

=== Act V: "Oh, monkey trumpets!" ===
Kif actually manages to smoke without gagging, but then is patted on the back and coughs up smoke. The Martians prepare to kill Kif with the bead they traded the planet for and are surprised to learn that it is a [[Giant Diamond|gigantic diamond]], worth a fortune. They abandon the planet, because it's a dump, and head off to find a new planet. The Wongs are told what happened, but think it couldn't have been Kif and praise Zapp instead. Leo and Inez finally kick Zoidberg, the son they neither had nor wanted, out of the building. Kif learns that it is a good thing Amy's parents don't like him, Amy saying that "If they liked you, then I woudn't. Do you know anything about girls?".

== Additional Info ==
=== Trivia ===
*Leo Wong mentions that the Wongs own 17.9 billion acres, which is an accurate calculation of half the surface area of Mars.
*The leaf on Inez Wong's hat is supposedly a marijuana leaf.
**This refers back to Leela's quote in "[[Mars University]]": "They planted traditional college foliage; ivy, trees, hemp. Soon the whole planet was terraformed."
*{{w|Olympus Mons}} is indeed the tallest volcano in the solar system.
*This is the only episode or comic of ''Futurama'' to not feature [[New New York]] until "[[Naturama]]" and "[[Saturday Morning Fun Pit]]".
*This is also the only episode to not feature Earth (except in the opening sequence).
*The "Barbecue's Over" sound the wind makes when the Martians attack is actually [[Billy West]] and [[John DiMaggio]] doing Tuvan throat singing.

=== Allusions ===
*The arrows used by the Martians look like the [[lightsaber]] blades from ''[[Star Wars]]'' and produce similar sound effects.
*The face on Mars is a reference to the actual perceived "{{w|Cydonia (region of Mars)|Face on Mars}}".
*The side shot of the group going into the Martian reservation might be a reference to when, in the {{TV}} series ''{{w|Scooby-Doo}}'', the gang is solving a mystery.
*The Martian crying when [[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]] throws a [[Slurm]] can is a reference to the famous {{w|Keep America Beautiful}}'s "Crying Indian" commercial from 1971 which raised awareness about pollution (and has similarly been parodied on the {{s|season 9|season-9}} ''[[The Simpsons|Simpsons]]'' episode "Trash of the Titans").
*The song Bender sings while they set out to Olympus Mons is to the tune of the theme song of {{w|Bonanza}}, a TV-western that aired from 1959 to 1973.
*The name of the newspaper Amy holds in her kidnapping photo is ''The Martian Chronicle'', referring to "The Martian Chronicles," by Ray Bradbury – a science-fiction short-story collection about the colonization of Mars by humans and the displacement of the native Martians.
*When Zapp introduces himself, he says he is the "man with no name". This is a reference to the {{w|Man with No Name}} from the {{w|Dollars Trilogy}}.

=== Continuity ===
* {{e|2ACV02}}
** [[Bender's banjo]] makes its second appearance.
* {{e|3ACV03}}
** [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]] takes a bath in a liquid other than water (in "A Tale of Two Santas," it was homemade eggnog that went sour. In this episode, it was Dom Perignon) at an inappropriate time.

=== Quotes ===
[[File:Buggalo.png|right|thumb]]

{{q|
<poem>'''Martian Chief''': With cash like this, who's going to argue? Nobody, that's who.</poem>
<poem>'''Leo''': Oh no! Martians kidnap Amy! I know it them, cause they no use good gramma.</poem>
<poem>'''Zapp''': I didn't realize you were bringing your girlfriend Lieutenant. *snickers*
'''Kif''': *sigh* She won't leave me alone.
'''Zapp''': Did I say "girlfriend"? She sounds more like a wife!
''[A tumble weed rolls past.]''</poem>
<poem>'''Kif''': The rustlers must have seen me coming and run off, scared.
'''Amy''': Oh, Kif! You're so brave!
'''Kif''': [nervous] Sh! They'll hear us!</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': Wow, look at that: Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system.
'''Fry''': Where?
'''Leela''': Right in front of you.
'''Fry''': Oh. ''Oh''!</poem>
}}

=== Goofs ===
*Amy's parents seem to have completely forgotten that they were the ones who introduced Amy to Kif in the first place.
**They may have only introduced him because they thought he was Captain, they may have found out somehow that Kif wasn't really Captain.
*When Amy does marry Kif in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'', Betsy isn't eaten.
**Although Amy and Kif don't actually have a wedding, they have a [[Coinage#F|Fonfon rubok]], which would explain why Betsy isn't eaten.
*While Olympus Mons ''is'' the tallest volcano in the [[Solar System]], it actually has very slight slope and doesn't ''look'' like a normal Earth mountain if one is on or close to it. Climbing Olympus Mons would be most similar to walking up on a very slightly inclined plane. Furthermore, Olympus Mons is roughly spherical in footprint, but some 350 miles (600 km) in diameter. Even if the "climb" would be essentially a flat trail, it would take over a week for even a fit hiker (disregarding the unbreatheable Martian atmosphere and low gravity of some 0.4 g, as well as the thick ground cover of fine dust known to pervade this region of Mars, all of which would likely make such a trek rather difficult).
**The mountain does have a fairly steep escarpment around part of the edge of the volcanic shield; this is in places up to 5 miles (8 km) high. This feature would be recognizable as a mountain flank, and is by itself about as tall as the tallest mountains on Earth. 
**This issue was [[#Quotes|addressed]] in the episode as an inside joke.

=== Characters ===
{{chars-begin}}
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]
*'''Debut''': [[Betsy]]
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]
*[[Inez Wong|Inez]]
*'''Debut''': [[Joe (camel)|Joe]]
*[[Kif Kroker|Kif]]
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]
*[[Leo Wong|Leo]]
*'''Debut''': [[Mixmaster Festus]]
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]
*'''Debut''': [[R.J.]]
*'''Debut''': [[Singing Wind]]
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]
{{chars-end}}

== Episode Credits ==
{{credits-begin}}
*Writer
**[[J. Stewart Burns]]
*Director
**[[Pat Shinagawa]]
*Voice Actors
**[[Billy West]]
**[[Katey Sagal]]
**[[John DiMaggio]]
**[[Tress MacNeille]]
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]
**[[Lauren Tom]]
**[[Phil LaMarr]]
*DVD Commentary
**[[Pat Shinagawa]]
**[[John DiMaggio]]
**[[Billy West]]
**[[Matt Groening]]
**[[David X. Cohen]]
**[[J. Stewart Burns]]
{{credits-end}}

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[[Category:A plots focusing on Amy]]
[[Category:A plots focusing on Kif]]
[[Category:B plots focusing on Zoidberg]]