Saturday Morning Fun Pit

"Saturday Morning Fun Pit" is the one hundred and thirty-third episode of Futurama, the nineteenth of the seventh production season, the sixth of the tenth broadcast season, and the sixth segmented episode. It aired on 10 July 2013, on Comedy Central. The Futurama gang stars in a trio of craptastic morning cartoons.

Production
On 2 September, 2012, it was revealed that the Scooby-Doo-esque segment of the episode would guest-star George Takei and Larry Bird.

On 11 December, with the release of Volume 7 and its commentary for "Naturama", it was revealed that the episode would be directed by Crystal Chesney-Thompson.

The Countdown to Futurama posts from 19 May and 20 May, 2013, revealed the title of the Strawberry Shortcake-esque segment to be "Purpleberry Pond" and the title of the Scooby-Doo-esque segment to be "Bendy Boo", respectively.

By 9 July, the animatic for the Strawberry Shortcake segment had been released online.

Trivia

 * At one point, the episode's production number was planned to be 7ACV25.
 * This is the first segmented episode of the second run to not be a broadcast-season finale.

Allusions

 * There seem to be two chocolate bars on Micky's plate.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Bubblegum
 * Cubert
 * Curly Joe
 * Dwight
 * Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * George Takei's head
 * Globetrotters
 * H.G. Blob
 * Hermes
 * Headless clone of Agnew
 * Kif
 * Larry Bird
 * Leela
 * Debut: Micky
 * Randy Munchnik
 * Richard Nixon's head
 * Rosemary
 * Scruffy
 * Sweet Clyde
 * Zapp
 * Zoidberg

Places

 * Japan
 * Planet Express headquarters
 * White House