31st Century Fox

"31st Century Fox" is the one hundred and twenty-fifth episode of Futurama, the eleventh of the seventh production season and the ninth broadcast season.

Plot
Bender becomes the hunted after saving a robotic fox from hunters.

Production


On 29 February 2012, CGEF revealed the episode's title, its writer to be Patric M. Verrone and its director to be Edmund Fong. On 29 June, revealed the episode's plot and air date.

On 12 July, following the broadcast of the episode "Zapp Dingbat", the public were given the opportunity to participate in a live chat with the Futurama cast and crew. Several clips of "31st Century Fox" were shown during the live stream.

Reception
On 30 January 2012, Eric Rogers revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either "The Bots and the Bees", "A Farewell to Arms" or this one.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode (in production order) of season 7 to be aired out of order, as the broadcast order of both this episode and "Viva Mars Vegas" were swapped.

Allusions

 * The episode's title is a reference to 20th Century Fox, the company that owns Futurama.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Leela
 * Debut: Robotic Fox
 * Smitty
 * URL
 * Zoidberg