A Pharaoh to Remember

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Season 3 episode Broadcast season 4 episode
A Pharaoh to Remember
No.	49
Production number	3ACV17
Written by	Ron Weiner
Directed by	Mark Ervin
Title caption	Psst... big party at your house after the show!
First aired	10 March, 2002
Broadcast number	S04E07
Title reference	film, A Night to Remember
Opening cartoon	"Toys Will Be Toys"
Additional
Commentary (Transcript) Transcript
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"A Pharaoh to Remember" is the forty-ninth episode of Futurama, the seventeenth of the third production season and the seventh of the fourth broadcast season. It aired 10 March, 2002 on FOX. Bender is getting desperate for being remembered when he's gone, and a trip to Osiris 4, where he becomes Pharaoh seems to be just the satisfaction he needs.

Contents 1 The Story 1.1 Act I: "Fame is mine" 1.2 Act II: "This is the worst funeral ever" 1.3 Act III: "Quit giving the slave drivers pointers" 1.4 Act IV: "Crawl pigs" 1.5 Act V: "Let's blow this tomb" 2 Additional Info 2.1 Trivia 2.2 Quotes 2.3 Goofs 2.4 Alien Language Sightings 2.5 Characters 3 Episode Credits

[edit] The Story

[edit] Act I: "Fame is mine"

Bender is outraged when he robs a swimming pool, an act which should land him on the nightly TV news, but no one realizes it was him, with witnesses mistakenly calling the criminal human. He then makes a variety of attempts to become famous, only to be ignored or ridiculed by witnesses.

[edit] Act II: "This is the worst funeral ever"

He heads to work, depressed, where the rest of the Planet Express crew try to cheer him up by throwing him a funeral to show how he'll be remembered. He is highly disappointed by the group's efforts and becomes angered by their idiocy. This is especially true with Dr. Zoidberg, who sings Danny Boy, only to be hit in the head with Bender's martini glass. After the disappointing funeral, Bender storms off, outraged that no one will remember him when he dies. The next day, the crew has to deliver a giant sandstone block to the planet Osiris 4. After the block is signed for, they are taken as slaves of the Pharaoh Hamenthotep.

[edit] Act III: "Quit giving the slave drivers pointers"

On the boat to the work site, Bender admires the Pharaohs' tombs and realizes that everyone would remember him if he could have a funeral like them. He begins to give the slave drivers pointers on how to make slaves work harder and faster to get the job done sooner. Hermenthotip arrives and is happy with the work of the slaves and just as he is about to free them he is crushed by his statue's nose and killed. It is announced the pharaoh's succesor will be determined the next day after consulting the Wall of Prophecy. The slaves all party in their quarters since only that night they're not slaves of anyone. Bender is upset by the death, but changes the Wall of Prophecy to make it look like he is supposed to be the Pharaoh's successor. After a short ceremony to determine the new Pharaoh looking at the wall everyone believes Bender to be the next pharaoh, so he is chosen, despite his crude drawing on the Wall of Prophecy.

[edit] Act IV: "Crawl pigs"

Bender becomes a crueler pharaoh than Hermenthotip, and makes the slaves work hard to build a much larger statue (1 Billion cubits tall) of him so he will be remembered for all eternity. Bender is unhappy with the statue because it is so big, people will probably remember the statue instead of him. He demands to have it torn down so that the slaves can start over and build a smaller statue. The slave drivers have had enough of Bender's orders and attack him, tying him up like a mummy and throwing him in his tomb, announcing that he suddenly died. He requests his loyal servants to be entombed with him, and Fry and Leela are thrown in as well.

[edit] Act V: "Let's blow this tomb"

Bender’s tomb turns out to have an working casino in it, along with an eternity's worth of liquor. Fry and Leela try some pomegranate schnapps and determine it is 100% alcohol. Leela wants to use the explosive alcohol to blow the tomb open and escape, but Bender refuses to allow her. Leela and Fry pretend to forget who Bender is, and he then reluctantly agrees. Moving all the liquor to one wall, Leela uses Bender's wrappings as a makeshift fuse and blow the tomb open. The explosion causes the rest of the statue to fall apart, saddening Bender. Leela tells him that he will still be remembered as a tyrannical ruler, even though there is no monument left. As they return home, Bender mentions that he will try to take over Earth next.

[edit] Additional Info

[edit] Trivia

• The non-human people of Osiris 4 are based on various Egyptian gods.
• Fry says, "call it a hunch, but I have a bad feeling about this!". This is a well known line in Star Wars.
• A cubit is eighteen inches, which means one billion cubits is about 457,200 kilometers, about 36 times Earth's diameter, and about 1/3 the diameter of the sun.

[edit] Quotes

Fry: [after Bender having angrily throwen a beer bottle at the TV, breaking it] [annoyed] Hey!? Now what am I supposed to watch and drink all day!?

Bender: Danny Boy?! You're at my funeral, singing about some stiff named Danny Boy!? You really are a massive bonehead!
Zoidberg: I'm expressing my sorrow!
Bender: Get lost! I'd say don't quit your day job, but you're awful at that too!

Bender: [furious] I hope you're all happy! You've succeeded in showing me life is worth living... by showing how bad my funeral will suck!

Amy: [after Bender having throwen a bouquet and that lands in the Professor's lap] I know whose funeral we'll be attending next.
Professor: [blushing] Oh, stop.

High Priest: Great Wall of Prophecy, reveal to us God's will that we may blindly obey.
Priests: Free us from thought and responsibility.
High Priest: We shall read things off you.
Priests: Then do them.
High Priest: Your words guide us.
Priests: We're dumb.

Farnsworth: News, everyone! Today you're going to Osiris 4 to deliver this enormous sandstone block. [He points to a block the size of the ship sitting next to them]
Fry: I thought something looked different in here.

[edit] Goofs

• The Pharaoh's aide mention that they travelled to Egypt many years ago, but if that is true, how could they have learnt of space travel from them?
  • One such answer could be that the Egyptians visited them first, and taught them space travel, so they could visit the Egyptians.
• Before the building is destroyed Sal is wearing a green shirt. Then in the next scene he is wearing his usual white shirt.
• Hamenthotep's organs that are lowered into his tomb included four eyes.

[edit] Alien Language Sightings

Time: 14:30
Location: On the Wall of Prophecy
Language: AL1
Translation: Rock on! Eddie Rosas

[edit] Characters

(In alphabetic order)

[edit] Episode Credits