Decision 3012

"Decision 3012" is the one hundred and seventeenth episode of Futurama, the third of the seventh production season and the ninth broadcast season. It is scheduled to air on 27 June 2012 on Comedy Central. Leela becomes a campaign manager for a presidential candidate whose birth certificate is missing.

Plot
Richard Nixon's head runs for a third term as president of Earth. Among the candidates running against him is Chris Travers, a senator from Hawaii. Leela becomes Travers' campaign manager. However, his campaign encounters difficulties when his opponents point out that his "Earth certificate" is missing. Travers must win the election, as terrible events will occur in the event that Nixon wins. Bender will finally get to fulfill his wish to kill all humans, leading all robots in a revolt against humanity. This revolt will lead to a bleak future where the last remnants of humanity hide underground in fear.

Production
In 2012, two revelations concerning the episode were made. On 29 February, CGEF revealed the episode's title, its writer to be Patric M. Verrone and its director to be Dwayne Carey-Hill. On 25 April, revealed the episode's plot and air date.

In May, Countdown to Futurama began releasing promotional material for the episode. It has so far released five items: a character design of Bender dressed as on 13 May, a character design of Senator Chris Travers on 14 May, a video clip featuring Morbo as the host of a political debate and suggesting that the presidential candidate mentioned in the MSN TV plot was Travers on 15 May, a promotional picture featuring a Robot army consisting of Bender dressed as Napoleon, Destructor, four Killbots and several other machines on 16 May and part of the storyboard showing both Bender break into a cave full of Humans and the portion of the video clip where Morbo addresses Travers for the last time and the announcement of the second Futurama podcast - which confirmed that the presidential candidate mentioned in the MSN TV plot was Travers - on 17 May. A preview of the episode aired on 20 June during the credits of the episode "A Farewell to Arms".

Allusions

 * The episode's title is a reference to "Decision 2012", a media nickname for the.
 * Chris Travers is a reference to U.S. president Barack Obama - in that he is a senator from Hawaii and there is.
 * The female candidate - who says "We have a saying up in Alaska..." - is likely a reference to former Governor of Alaska.

Continuity

 * Bender wore a Napoleon hat and briefly joked with the others that he believed he was Napoleon in the HAL Institute during "Insane in the Mainframe". He was also seen dressed up as Napoleon in a portrait in "Godfellas".
 * Bender's sunglasses were last seen in Bender's Big Score.

Characters

 * Bender
 * Debut: Chris Travers
 * Destructor
 * Fry
 * Killbots
 * Leela
 * Morbo
 * Richard Nixon's head