Fry Hey why are they hooked up like that? is it some kind of craftmatic adjustable deathbed?

Leela (laughs) Don't be ridiculous. Their bodies are being used to generate electricity. The idea came from an old movie called "The Matrix."

Bender But, but wouldn't almost anything make a better battery than a human body, like a potato? Or a battery?

Fry Plus no matter how much energy they produce, it would take more energy than that to keep them alive.

Leela I know, I know. It sounds absurd. In fact when The Matrix first came out it seemed like the single most laziest, crummiest, laziest awful dim-witted idea in the entire history of science-fiction. But it turned out to be true!

Fry Who knew?!

Bender Good work, writer of The Matrix.