The Lesser of Two Evils

Production Number: 2ACV06 Title Caption: The show that watches back First Aired: 02/20/00

Act I: "Shut up and get to the point!"
Bender, Fry and Leela are watching Cop Department when an advertisement for Past-O-Rama appears on the television, Bender wishes to see a time before life was cheapened by heartless machines. They look around Past-o-rama at various attractions such as a telephone booths and Al Sharpton’s burial chamber, then they come across a ancient car, Fry attempts to drive it but instead takes it through a wall. Unable to stop they hit Flexo, a bending unit with a beard.

Act II: "He's the evil Bender."
The crew are nevoursly pacing around while Bender is looking at a robot pornography book. Flexo and Bender take Fry to a robot gentlemens club where they pay a robot to give fry a lap dance which results in injuires. Fry begins to think Flexo is evil. The crew go into the Professor's bedroom to see what he has to show them, he reveals to them the atom of Jumbonoium which is so expensive, that if stolen it will cause Planet Express to go bankrupt, so the Professor hires Flexo to help out.

Act III: "And the winner is..."
Fry falls asleep during his watch because he spent his sleeping time watching Flexo, when the ship lands and he wakes they discover the atom is gone, they begin to search for Flexo. Bender and Flexo begin to chase eachother through the bueaty pagent, they later discovered that Bender stole the atom and not Flexo. Flexo saw Bender steal the atom and ran to tell Bob Barker's Head. The atom is returned and Flexo is locked up.

Trivia

 * Sponsored by Arachno Spores.
 * Past-o-rama's logo is based on the Futurama logo.
 * Flexo has a goatee, which is a reference to the goateed Mirror Universe Spock from the Mirror, Mirror episode of the original Star Trek.

Quotes
Fry: Hey, my girlfriend had one of those! Actually, it wasn't hers, it was her dad's. Actually, she wasn't my girlfriend. She just lived next door and never closed her curtains. Leela: Fry, remember I when I told you about always ending your stories a sentence earlier? Farnsworth: We did all we could... Fry: You mean he's...? Farnsworth: Good as new? Yes!
 * Speaker: ...The stately 1992 Latura.
 * Fry: How's that robot I ran over?

Outside References

 * Past-o-rama shows that people in the 31st century have little knowledge of the distant past a few mistakes include:
 * Mammoth hunts in New York
 * Star Wars 9: Yoda's Bar Mitzvah
 * Appearance of primative robots

Fast Forward

 * Miss Universe reappears in Raging Bender.
 * Flexo reappears in Bendless Love

Characters
(In alphabetical order)


 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Debut: Bob Barker's Head
 * Calculon
 * Florp
 * The Crushinator
 * Debut: Flexo
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Leela
 * Prof. Farnsworth
 * Smitty and Url
 * Zapp Brannigan
 * Zoidberg

Episode Credits

 * Writer
 * Eric Horsted
 * Director
 * Chris Sauve
 * Voice Actors
 * Billy West
 * Katey Sagal
 * John DiMaggio
 * Tress MacNeille
 * Maurice LaMarche
 * Phil LaMarr
 * David Herman
 * Lauren Tom
 * DVD Commentary
 * Matt Groening
 * David X. Cohen
 * Rich Moore
 * Eric Horsted
 * Peter Avanzino
 * John DiMaggio
 * Special Guest
 * Bob Barker