Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?



US Issue Number: 005

UK Issue Number(s): 007

Title Caption: Presented in 2-D! No glasses needed! (unless you need glasses)

Published (US): July 25th 2001

Title Reference: Name of Morbo's game show, based on Millionaire. Trade Paperback: Futurama Adventures

Act I
Free Waterfall III is killed for getting the million dollar question on Morbo's game show wrong. The Professor needs to pay one million dollars in back-taxes to the IRS or he'll have to sell Planet Express. Everyone but Fry gives up on the company, however they all do their best to help. Fry signs up for Morbo's game show. To prevent Fry's death the Professor decides to get a loan from Mom.

Act II
Mom offers instead to buy Planet Express, the Professor rejects the offer. Fry heads to the set of the show and is joined by "answer buddy" Leela. Fry wins the million and avoids his and Leela's deaths by remembering something Scruffy told him. However, the Professor sold the company to Mom already, making Fry no longer qualified for the show. The Professor works out how to get the company back.

Trivia

 * Zoidberg's name apparently means "smarty pants" in Squiddish.
 * In the time challenge on the game show, contestants were to put four planets in order of distance from the Earth, Wernstrom is beaten by Gorgax, Raoul and Fry, however he successfully beat Hattie and Randy.
 * Scruffy now seems much more social.
 * We see more evidence of Fry and Scruffy's friendship.

Quotes

 * Scruffy: Scruffy's goin' back to graduate school to finish his masters in Theoretical Janitorial Science!
 * Hermes: ...and based on what the man at the seafood market said, we can get a good two-fifty a pound for Zoidberg's carcass.
 * Professor: Good news, everyone! Another random sobriety test!

Alien Language Sightings
Time: Right after Fry figures out the answer to the final question

Location: person from the audience

Language: AL2

Translation: He pulled that one out of his ass

Inside References

 * The Planet Express Ship crashes through a billboard.

Outside References

 * Morbo's show is based on Who Want's to be a Millionaire.

Special Features

 * Cubert's Guide to Sci-Fi - Pt.1: How to plan your convention weekend.

Characters
(In alphabetical order)


 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Cubert Farnsworth
 * Dr. Zoidberg
 * Debut: Free Waterfall III
 * Fry
 * Gorgax
 * Hattie McDoogal
 * Hermes
 * Kif Kroker
 * Leela
 * Mom
 * Morbo
 * Prof. Farnsworth
 * Randy Munchnik
 * Raoul Inglis
 * Sal
 * Scruffy
 * Wernstrom
 * Walt, Larry and Ignar
 * Zapp Brannigan

Comic Credits

 * Story
 * Eric Rogers
 * Pencils
 * James Lloyd
 * Inks
 * Phyllis Novin
 * Colors
 * Dave Stewart
 * Letters
 * Karen Bates
 * Editor
 * Bill Morrison
 * Master of Ceremonies
 * Matt Groening