# Death By Snu Snu Death By Snu Snu is a catchphrase pulled from a February 2001 episode of Futurama, where a tribe of giant Amazonian women sentence the male Planet Express crew to sex so intense it kills them. The line escaped the show and turned into a decades-long online shorthand for jokes about tall or muscular women, spawning Urban Dictionary entries, fan art and dedicated Facebook pages. ## Origin The phrase debuted in "Amazon Women in the Mood," the Season 3 premiere of Futurama, which aired on February 4, 2001[1]. In the episode, the male Planet Express crew crashes on Amazonia, a matriarchal planet whose giant female inhabitants use "snu-snu" as their word for sex. The Femputer, an AI ruler, sentences Zapp, Fry and Kif to "death by snu-snu," a punishment the animation plays for maximum discomfort as the prisoners' expressions swing from grins to panic[5]. The scene itself is the origin artifact and circulated widely as a YouTube clip, which is how most viewers encountered it after the initial broadcast[5]. - **Platform:** Futurama (TV) / Reddit and Facebook (viral spread) - **Creator:** Ken Keeler (episode writer, Futurama) - **Date:** 2001 ## Overview Death By Snu Snu, often shortened to just Snu-Snu, is a Futurama catchphrase where "snu-snu" stands in for sex and the full line describes an execution by it[1]. Within the fiction, the sentence is handed down by a giant Amazonian femputer to Zapp Brannigan, Fry and Kif, whose reactions cycle from delight to terror as they clock what being crushed by huge women actually means[2]. Online, people rarely quote the episode straight. The line is used as a punchline attached to photos of unusually tall or muscular women, fan art of buff superheroes, and any situation where a man is theoretically about to be overpowered by one[3]. The joke leans on that same delighted-to-horrified beat from the original scene, which is why the visual gag usually pairs a smiling man with a woman who dwarfs him[4]. ## How It Spread The line jumped from Futurama fandom into general internet slang fairly quickly. On January 22, 2004, Urban Dictionary user SS submitted the first entry for "snu snu," glossing it as "endless sex forced on a man," which anchored the phrase's off-show meaning for later searchers[6]. By October 1, 2008, a Yahoo! Answers thread was already fielding "what does snu snu mean" questions, with responders pointing straight back to the Futurama episode[2]. Dedicated fan spaces followed. A "Death by Snu Snu" Facebook page went up on July 15, 2009, and pulled in more than 31,600 likes over the next five years[3]. On Reddit, the phrase became a running caption for photos of tall women: user Torocatala posted "Death by snu-snu gets real" to r/futurama on June 7, 2011[7], and on June 4, 2014, Velorium_Camper's "Death… by snu snu!" hit r/funny and cleared 3,000 upvotes in its first week[8]. Fan artists kept it alive too, including DeviantArt user Nebezial's December 8, 2013 Wonder Woman and Supergirl illustration built around the phrase[1]. The catchphrase kept generating "what does this mean" posts long after the episode aired. On February 13, 2014, r/OutOfTheLoop hosted a thread from bipolarbearsRAWR asking for a plain-English definition, which is the sort of query that has kept the joke recirculating with each new wave of viewers[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Death By Snu Snu? It is a Futurama catchphrase where "snu-snu" means sex and the full line describes an execution by sex handed down by Amazonian women[1]. ### Where did Death By Snu Snu come from? The line first aired in the Futurama Season 3 premiere "Amazon Women in the Mood" on February 4, 2001[1]. ### What does Death By Snu Snu mean? Inside the show, it is a death sentence carried out through sex with giant women; online, it is shorthand for jokes about tall or muscular women overpowering a man[6]. ### How do you use Death By Snu Snu? People typically drop the phrase as a caption on photos of very tall or muscular women, or on fan art pairing a small man with a huge female character[7]. ### Is Death By Snu Snu still popular? It stuck around as a Futurama-fandom reference and a recurring Reddit caption long after the 2001 episode, with definition threads still showing up years later[4]. ## References 1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150701203058/https://nebezial.deviantart.com/art/death-by-Snu-snu-418668528]() 2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201111190544/https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080930183312AAKn9Dc]() 3. [https://www.facebook.com/therealdeathbysnusnu]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1xtakg/what_does_death_by_snu_snu_mean/]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCdrUW--Jic]() 6. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snu%20snu]() 7. [https://www.reddit.com/r/futurama/comments/htmky/death_by_snusnu_gets_real/]() 8. [https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/27c3v7/deathby_snu_snu/]() 9. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/snu-snu]() 10. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Women_in_the_Mood]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/snu-snu Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library