Möbius Dick

"Möbius Dick" is the one-hundred-and-third episode of Futurama, the fifteenth of the sixth production season and the eighth of the eighth broadcast season. It aired 4 August, 2011 on Comedy Central. Leela becomes obsessed with hunting down a mysterious four-dimensional space whale.

Production
During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released three items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of the Planet Express ship with sails on 1 June, part of the storyboard showing Zoidberg crash in the ship's escape pod on 2 June, and a video clip of the Planet Express crew hunting the whale down on 18 June.

Trivia

 * The episode was for some time thought to be the broadcast season's second episode, but the announcement that "Benderama" would air on 23 June in its place proved otherwise.
 * This is the first episode where Zoidberg is addressed as "Johnny" (his first name being John).

Allusions

 * The title and the overall plot is a parody of the -penned novel ', which was previously referenced in "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid". The title is a of ' and the.
 * Möbius Dick is also well known in the mathematics community as the answer to a pun-based math riddle: What's non-orientable and lives in the ocean?
 *  is also the title of a 2000 novel by.
 * When Leela calls the crew "you space dogs", she is referring both to the expression "you dog", and to the of the 1950s and 1960s.
 * When the current crew explores the old ship, multiple allusions are made to the Firefly episode Bushwhacked.

Continuity

 * Leela's parents are shown on the surface, after being granted their freedom in "The Mutants Are Revolting."

Goofs

 * When hunting the whale, Bender calls for Leela from above the ship and Leela replies. Seeing as sound can't travel in space, they couldn't have heard each other. Similar goofs have been made in the past as well.
 * It is possible that Bender was actually communicating through radio with the ship.
 * Leela calls Amy "miss Wong" instead of "Dr. Wong". Of course this could have been a mistake on Leela's and not the writers' part.
 * Doctoral titles are often not used outside of academic settings. However, as Leela insists on using "boaty" terms, she should have referred to Amy as "doctor".

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Debut: Candy
 * Doctor Who
 * Dwight Conrad
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Debut: The four-dimensional space whale
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Inez Wong
 * LaBarbara Conrad
 * Debut: Lando Tucker
 * Leela
 * Leo Wong
 * Debut: Lifter
 * Scruffy
 * Turanga Morris
 * Turanga Munda
 * Zoidberg