2-D Blacktop

"2-D Blacktop" is the one hundred and twenty-ninth episode of Futurama, the fifteenth of the seventh production season and the first of the tenth broadcast season. It aired on 19 June, 2013, on Comedy Central. After being trapped in an alternate two-dimensional universe, the Planet Express crew must face unexpected challenges to daily life.

Production
On 14 December 2011, geek blog posted a picture of the episode's production script to their  page. The picture was accompanied by the following description: "got to see Matt Groening, Leela AND Fry (Leela has two eyes and looks like FYI). No Bender though (I think he was scared)". In February 2012, the episode's title was registered on the US.

On 30 April 2013, Comedy Central released a preview clip of the episode as the first item in the Countdown to Futurama 2013, as well as revealing the air date of the episode to be 19 June 2013.

Trivia

 * The Professor names the Planet Express ship "Bessie".

Allusions

 * The episode's title is a reference to the 1971 road movie , directed by and starring, ,  and.
 * The episode is also a reference to the 1884 book , written by.
 * The Bonneville Salt Flatlands in Flatbush are a reference to the located in Utah. There is also an area of the flats known as the, where many  have been broken.

Continuity

 * Bender's vandalism tile-art from "Proposition Infinity" re-appears.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Auctioneer (cameo)
 * Bender
 * Debut: Benny
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * H.G. Blob
 * Leela
 * Debut: Minx
 * Orphans
 * Debut: Pimparoo
 * Randy Munchnik
 * Sal
 * Scruffy
 * Smitty
 * Debut: Speed Racer
 * URL

Places

 * Debut: Big Boy Karate
 * Debut: Bonneville Salt Flatlands
 * Debut: Flatbush
 * Debut: Glorianimous 3
 * Impound Lot 136
 * Debut: New New Jack City
 * Planet Express conference room
 * Planet Express hangar
 * Planet Express headquarters
 * Planet Express lab
 * Debut: Thingly Wiggly
 * Tokyo