Slaves of New New York!



US Issue Number: Simpsons/Futurama crossover 003

UK Issue Number(s): Simpsons Comics 103

Title Caption: Unknown

Published (US): January 26, 2005 Title Reference: Referenced to the movie Gangs of New York.

Act I
At a science meeting, Professor Farnsworth’s invention is destroyed and he quickly invents a machine that brings fiction to reality. He uses it on a Simpsons comic and all of springfield are brought to reality. Farnsworth suggests using them for slave labour and the Simpson family quickly escape and hide in the Planet Express building. In excange for not being sold into slavery, the Simpsons go on some missions with the Planet Express crew and they turn out to be disastrous.

Act II
Meanwhile in New New York, the Springfield Mafia become the Robot Mafia’s maid men, Moe works in O'Zorgnax Pub, Apu works at 7-11, Gil works with Malfunctioning Eddie, most of Springfield work for DOOP and Mr. Burns and Mom fall in love. Bart is playing with Farnsworth’s inventions and the switch for the reality machine falls off. Bender throws it in the libary bringing characters from every book ever written to reality...

Quotes
Fry: Homer you've just been printing pictures of food from the internet. Homer: Oh. Zoidberg: So are you going to finish that?
 * Mutant: Did you say comix? Professor: No, comics! Now keep on truckin' back to the underground, mutant!
 * Comic Book Guy: I always knew one day robots would enslave us! Fine, I surrender! But only if I can have a metal slave bikini like Princess Leia's from "Return of the Jedi". Url: Aw, man, I don't even have a stomach, and that image makes me nauseous!
 * Ralph Wiggum: The space ship is hugging me!
 * Lisa: Does this sort of thing happen a lot in your line of work? Bender: Being totally boned? Oh yeah.
 * Brannigan: Kif, you shrunk my velour top again! Kif: Yes, it must have shrunk after your last visit to the Buffet Galaxy!
 * Homer: I don't wanna complain, but your replicator makes really bland food.

Outside References

 * Professor Frink's line "Realities collapsing. Worlds colliding. Must warn others..." is taken from Crisis on Infinite Earths.
 * "Dr. Frahnkensteen" and "Eyegor" from "Young Frankenstein" can be seen at the scientists' meeting.
 * In a commercial, Gil the Salesman (now working for Malfunctioning Eddie) advertises George Jetson's flying car (mentioning that George "was killed in a treadmill accident while walking his dog"), and a British phone booth that's "compact outside [and] roomy inside", a reference to the Doctor's TARDIS from Doctor Who.
 * The first delivery the Simpsons tag along on is to "an ice planet in the Lucas Galaxy", which turns out to be a parody of the Hoth sequence in "The Empire Strikes Back".
 * Later, there are two more deliveries parodying "Aliens" and "2001: A Space Odyssey", respectively.

Characters
(In alphabetical order)


 * Amy
 * Bart Simpson
 * Bender
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Homer Simpson
 * Kif
 * Lisa Simpson
 * Maggie Simpson
 * Marge Simpson
 * Mayor Poopenmeyer
 * Mom
 * Mr. Burns
 * Ned Flanders
 * Nibbler
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Professor Frink
 * Smithers
 * Zapp Brannigan
 * Zoidberg

Comic Credits

 * Story
 * Ian Boothby
 * Colors
 * Rick Reese
 * Pencils
 * James Lloyd
 * Letters
 * Karen Bates
 * Inks
 * Steve Steere, Jr.
 * Editor
 * Bill Morrison