Miscellany of The Beast with a Billion Backs

Character Cameos
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Speaking

 * Headless body of Agnew
 * "Fishy" Joseph Gilman
 * Hattie McDoogal
 * Human Friend
 * Harold Zoid
 * Horrible Gelatinous Blob
 * Monique
 * M5438
 * Morgan Proctor
 * Randy Munchnik
 * Pazuzu
 * Petunia
 * Mayor Poopenmeyer
 * Ron Whitey
 * Leo and Inez Wong
 * Gladys Lennox
 * Destructor
 * Bolt Rolands
 * Lrrr
 * Thog

Non-Speaking

 * The Hip Joint Janitor
 * 21st Century girl
 * Abner Doubledeal
 * Adlai Atkins
 * Amazonians
 * Australian Man
 * Ben Beeler
 * Chain Smoker
 * Chaz
 * Clamps
 * Convenience Store Bot
 * Crack Addict
 * Cubert
 * Cygnoid Man and Woman
 * Dr. Cahill
 * Donbot
 * Dwight Conrad
 * Elzar
 * Fender
 * Humorbot 5.0
 * Hydroponic Farmer
 * Hyper-Chicken
 * Jackie Anderson
 * Joey Mousepad
 * Hookerbot
 * Michelle
 * Mom
 * Glab
 * Globetrotters
 * Glurmo
 * Gorgak
 * Green Party Representative
 * LaBarbara Conrad
 * Steve Castle
 * Sal
 * Scruffy
 * Ndnd
 * Planet Express Ship
 * Nudist Barkeeper
 * Occupants of the Near Death Star
 * Organ Dealer
 * Organ Dealer's Nurse
 * Ratman
 * Roberto
 * Walt, Larry and Igner
 * Warden Vogel
 * Wernstrom's Graduate Students
 * Whale Biologist
 * Member of the Yarn People
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 * Member of the Yarn People
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Characters in the Date Scene
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Four Scene Shot

 * Fry
 * Lrrr
 * Colleen
 * Zoidberg

Nine Scene Shot

 * Amy
 * Morbo
 * Smitty
 * Michelle
 * M5438
 * Hermes
 * Mom
 * Zapp Brannigan
 * Hyper-Chicken

Sixty Four Scene Shot
Headless body of Agnew
 * Gorgak
 * Horrible Gelatinous Blob
 * Randy Munchnik
 * Chaz
 * The Funkalistics
 * Hyper-Chicken
 * Adlai Atkins
 * Terry
 * Crazed Calculon Fan
 * Abner Doubledeal
 * Nixon's Head and
 * Inez Wong
 * Elzar
 * Smitty
 * Bolt Rolands
 * Linda
 * Cygnoid Male
 * Organ Dealer
 * Hermes
 * Petunia
 * Lrrr
 * Dr. Ogden Wernstrom
 * Whale Biologist
 * Chu
 * Kif
 * Michelle
 * Colleen
 * Fry
 * Amy
 * Morgan Proctor
 * Dr. Ben Beeler
 * Mrs. Vega 4
 * Ndulu
 * Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Zapp Brannigan
 * Mayor Poopenmeyer
 * Harold Zoid
 * Scruffy
 * Morbo
 * Number 1.0
 * Jackie Anderson
 * Schlomo
 * Hattie McDoogal
 * Zoidberg
 * Dr. Cahill
 * Leo Wong
 * Crack Addict
 * Chaz
 * Warden Vogel
 * Mall Salesman
 * Unknown Character
 * Australian Man
 * The Grand Midwife
 * Glab
 * Glurmo
 * Sal
 * David X. Cohen's head
 * Amazonian Woman
 * Francine
 * Pauly Shore
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 * Amazonian Woman
 * Francine
 * Pauly Shore
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General Trivia

 * This is one among few Futurama media featuring its title.
 * A sneak peek was included in a two disc DVD of Bender's Big Score exclusive to .
 * The official trailer can still be watched at slurmed.com.
 * Fry called DIAL-A-JOKE from Colleen's apartment a total of 8128 times, with 254 pages of phone bills and 32 entries per page.
 * The end credits show the actors' names, together with an array of pictures of the characters they voiced, a matter very similar to The Simpsons Movie.
 * The video track used for the movie is only greater in length than the track used in Bender's Big Score by one second.
 * In the Prison/Prism rooftop scene, at the start, Stephen Hawking's pickled head can again be seen toward the left. It is on the same "way cool rocket".
 * This is the first time in the series that the Globetrotter Homeworld is seen.
 * No female Globetrotters seen leaving the homeworld, implying either that they don't exist, or that they left in a separate group from the male ones.
 * Although it can be assumed that all inhabitants of Earth other than the robots were gentacled by Yivo, we do not see any attached to heads inside of jars, or to sewer mutants.
 * In fact, while most of the previous species seen in Futurama make an appearance in this film, the Sewer Mutants still living underground do not appear in the film.
 * Noticeably, Yivo was able to "mate" with Decapodians without causing them to suffer gruesome death. Because he was overseeing Universe Gamma's activity and its inhabitants' development, it is plausible he was able to figure out how to do so.
 * This is the first time in the series that Morbo has been seen frightened. Linda was previously seen as such in.
 * Yivo apparently gave every being in Universe A/Gamma "the clap", except Leela.
 * Leela managed to break a prison/prism guard's neck without getting caught.
 * The hose Leela uses to spray Yivo with reads, is an Apex Garden Hose nicknamed "The Gopher Drowner".
 * Suicide booths have advanced since "Space Pilot 3000", upgrades first alluded to in . They now have a broader range of choices other than "quick and painless" or "slow and horrible".
 * This is the first time the Australian Guy appears in a non-enslaved situation.
 * Because Yivo can't breathe in Universe Gamma, shkle needs to produce a gas made of electromatter. It is debatable whether our lungs could break down air made of electromatter, although no man made object in the 31st century can do so, it does not mean nothing in our biology could. It can also be surmised that Yivo produces normal oxygen for Universe Gamma.
 * A 2D gentacle prop can be seen in the 2D Tunnel of Love. Yivo Tunnel Of Love.jpg
 * The one small piece of Electromatter couldn't have been split into enough pieces for all the harpoons and weapons of the Army of the Damned. However, it could have been several letters instead of one.
 * After Yivo is pulled through the anomaly, the jakabirds disappear, possibly going into hiding.
 * The audio commentary of this movie introduced the "I had that in the navy" running joke that is also mentioned in the Bender's Game and Into the Wild Green Yonder audio commentaries.
 * Robot 1-X makes its second appearance after "Obsoletely Fabulous".

Theme and Symbolism

 * During the TV appearance of Yivo, we see Colleen with a t-shirt that states "For all X : I love X," which expresses her polyamorous personality in a mathematically correct predicate.
 * The characters in Normal Kombat are orange and purple, representing Fry and Leela respectively. The symbolism of these colours is a continuing theme of the series.
 * Bender twangs his antenna/penis on Amphibos 9, a running gag in the series.
 * Another running gag involving Bender, where he says "neat" and takes a picture also shows up. It's in the scene with Calculon's plastic surgery. Noticeably it was a different colour (green instead of purple)
 * The Martian-skull cup makes its last appearance until being broken by Amy.

Allusions

 * The title is a reference to Shakespeare's line, "I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs," in the play Othello (however, use of the phrase dates back before this usage). In "Spanish Fry", the sex shop in which Fry, Bender and Leela enter is called "The Beast with Two Bucks," which is a reference to the same line.
 * It also references The Beast With a Million Eyes. Incidentally, the plot of that movie involves a huge alien mind controlling the weak minded, albeit to fuel hatred rather than coerce the world into having sex with it. The movie came out in 1955, and the box art for The Beast With a Billion Backs is modelled after 1950s horror movies involving monsters.
 * Red Minotaur alludes to the energy drink.
 * Normal Kombat is a reference to.
 * Honkey Kong is a reference to Donkey Kong.
 * Ms. Marple Madness is a reference to both Ms. Marple and Marble Madness.
 * Exlaxian references Exlax, a laxative, and Galaxian, an old arcade game.
 * Soup bootlegging during soup prohibition refers to alcohol bootlegging during alcohol prohibition.
 * Bathtub minestrone refers to bathtub gin, which was actually any alcoholic beverage made in people's homes during prohibition, usually, as one might guess, in the bathtub. Most often it was just 1 part alcohol and 2 parts water.
 * Fry and Colleen's date takes place at the St. Asimov's Day festival.  was a very well known science fiction writer who wrote the original three laws of robotics.
 * A picture of Robot from the TV series "Lost in Space" can be seen in the secret hideout of the League of Robots, as well as Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.
 * Bender takes off his hand and hits Calculon with it to invoke a duel. This is an allusion to a very old way of invoking duels where the challenger would slap the challenged with a glove.
 * The scene at the end with Bender battling Yivo's mouth references battling the  at the end of.
 * Bender says that he is "Worthier than the average robot" to join the League of Robots. This is a very obvious reference to , who often said that he was "Smarter than the average bear".  He even does the same pose that Yogi makes whenever he says that.
 * Harold Zoid talks about his one line in a DVD movie, referencing his own line in this DVD movie.
 * "Shell phone" also references cell phones.
 * When Yivo escapes out of the anomaly, Mayor Poopenmeyer says, "Look, up in the sky!", to which Hermes says, "It's a bird!", then Hattie says, "It's a plane!", and a superhero says, "I am so outta here!!!" This is a spoof of the old  cartoons made by Max Fleischer that always opened with the phrase "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
 * During Kif's funeral, The Grand Midwife starts to sing, and Bender yells, "Next!". This is a reference to most reality music shows. However, this could also be a reference to "A Pharaoh to Remember", as Bender yells "Next!" to Zoidberg when he starts singing for Bender's fake funeral.


 * When Leela aims at Fry with three pistols, we see a triangle of red dots on Fry's forehead, which is an allusion to the movie, where Predator had a Plasma Caster gun with triangular laser rangefinder.
 * The Old Farmer's Wikipedia is a reference to the Old Farmer's Almanac and Wikipedia.
 * The League of Robots scene changes (with the shield coming to the foreground and the background continuously spinning) are references to the scene changes in the  television series.

Continuity

 * Steve Castle, the 1980s man who bought Planet Express in "Future Stock" can be seen towards the beginning of Yivo's invasion, despite having presumably died of boneitis.

Goofs

 * When the Earth's protection is being built, the Earth is mirrored.
 * During Deathball, when Wernstrom is knocked by the ball through the control room he lands back onto the arena. The next shot both Wernstrom's and the Professor's outlines can be seen in the control room and the glass is not broken.
 * Due to the nature of the anomaly, machinery and/or metals cannot pass through it. However, when Fry travels through the anomaly for the first time, his space suit neither causes a reaction nor is it destroyed by it; his suit is clearly mechanical.
 * Lightning does strike it once he's through the anomaly, which could be considered the reaction.
 * Also, Fry's space suit isn't necessarily mechanical, it may work in a non-mechanised way, and it is, possibly, made of natural materials, which should be able to travel through the anomaly. This would explain why clothes or the wooden spaceship are able to travel through, but larger, mechanical spaceships or functioning robots are not.
 * Hedonism Bot's mouth changes throughout the movie from just showing his "teeth" to showing his "teeth" and two lines across them like Bender.
 * Twice in the movie, the unnamed British robot changes from brown to grey. Although this may have been a trick of the light.
 * At the end, Fry calls Yivo "he" instead of "shklee". This may be because he lost respect for Yivo after the breakup, and thus chose not to respect shklis wishes.
 * In the space battle scene, Yivo had supposedly already invaded both Mars and Decapod 10, but yet we don't see the tentacles stretching anywhere near that far.
 * One plausible explanation for this, is that there are several anomalies throughout the universe, although this is neither confirmed nor hinted at in the film.
 * Amy asserts that Kif tried to kill Yivo, despite Yivo not being particularly known about until after Kif's funeral. Although we can attribute this to Amy being a ditz or overly grief stricken, it was not an intentional error.
 * In real life, the golden escalators, at the speed they went, would take 100's of 1000's of years, if not millions, to carry the residents of Earth (the ones closest to the anomaly) to Yivo's location.
 * In the vacuum of space, Kif manages not only to breathe, but to speak to Fry. Both of these things are impossible as there is no air to breath or transmit the sound.
 * It is possible, though, that Kif's species, being amphibious, can hold their breath for a long time, though it doesn't explain how he can communicate with Fry.
 * Another possibility is that near the anomaly it isn’t space vacuum but some sort of atmosphere.
 * Yivo claims not to have hurt anyone, although the space battle scene indicates otherwise. At least one ship is seen being destroyed, and the computer screen in the oval office indicates a lot more were as well.
 * It is possible, but unlikely, that they were all being remote controlled like the Nimbus.
 * It is also possible that Yivo rescued any soldiers whose ships were destroyed.
 * Or that Yivo is unreliable or insensitive.
 * While on Yivo/heaven, Zoidberg is seen playing on the bouncing "clouds" (on the left of the screen), but then he comes on the right side of the screen, with ice cream.
 * Surely the entire population of a Universe could not have fit on one planet-sized monster, let alone one pirate ship.
 * It can be surmised that Yivo can expand shkler body size much like shkler tentacles, even so however, the size shklee was at the point shklee was dragged through the anomaly was not sufficient.
 * Yivo probably only took over the universe's sapient inhabitants (and the penguin we saw), which may, if added together, have made an entire planet's ecosystem.
 * Though "planet-size" is very ambiguous, because it is basically anything from Neptune and upwards. In addition, it should be noted, that all humans ever lived today could all fit in the.
 * Although it's not just all humans, but all of the universe.
 * And the population of even Earth humans should be a lot bigger in the 31st century.
 * How did everyone breathe on the pirate ship?
 * When the fumes on Yivo clear away, we see that Yivo's mouth is beak shaped, but it could not have been evenly covered underneath one normal looking mouth.
 * When meeting Yivo's body for the second time, Fry looks surprised to see Yivo's actual face. However, when he fell in love with shkler, he must have already seen shkler face (why?).
 * Leela's Wristlojackimator made it through the anomaly undamaged.
 * If lab animals were stored in a 55 gallon drum like in the film, they would suffocate and (unless eating the other lab animals) starve, perhaps the one Wernstrom used is a life preserving one.
 * Diamondillium could not hold up against Yivo's tentacles, but the windows and walls of the Planet Express Building did.
 * However, the windows could be made of Diamondium, meaning it may actually be stronger than Diamondillium.
 * Or Yivo's Gentacles are not as strong as shklis tentacles are. However if this were the case, we'd be left to wonder why shkle didn't use shklis tentacles to break in.
 * However, even if it was Diamondium, the Professor stated that the tentacles was made of electro-matter, so the windows would still be unable to withstand it. The more likely scenario is that Yivo wasn't trying to break it.
 * Strangely, in the 64 shot scene at the end of Earth's date with Yivo, Zoidberg is seen with a house, yet in many previous episodes, he says or implies that he doesn't have a house.
 * While Yivo/Fry meet with the crew at the window, behind Fry there seems to be no atmosphere behind the broken Diamondillium. And in one scene there is no broken Diamondillium.
 * Yivo said that before shklee saw the creation of universe Gamma, shklee was alone, but shklee also said shklee was content with shklis stamp collection. However, if shklee was alone, there would be no-one to send shklim anything with stamps on it.
 * Also shklee mentions having sent an image of shklerself in the past - which is where the vision of heaven comes from. But shklee claimed not to have even known of the existence of universe Gamma, much less been able to communicate with it, before the anomaly appeared - which was only around 30 days before the events of this film. However Shklee did state that shklee saw the beginning of the big bang of Universe Gamma meaning shklee knew of Universe Gamma before the anamoly allowed shkler to interact with it.
 * How was Bender able to split the letter (or letters) from Fry that were made from electro-matter to attach to the weapons? Nothing in universe Gamma should have been able to tear the electro-matter.
 * It is possible that he cut the letter with itself, but folding it.
 * When Colleen is brought before Fry in the church, she happens to have two shadows from her single arm.
 * While jumping on Yivo, Bender's mouth is misaligned while he is speaking.
 * When Yivo was stabbed by Benders cables, Zapp's hair turned orange during a high angle camera view.
 * In the scene where Fry has his hand in the Anomaly just before he turns his head to see Kif, Fry's reflection in the Anomaly moves before he does. Also while the missile is overlapping Fry's legs both the missile and Kif have no reflection.
 * The anomaly flips sides various times.
 * In the 2D Tunnel of Love, Colleen's freckles are missing during a low angle shot.