Viva Mars Vegas

"Viva Mars Vegas" is the one hundred and twenty-sixth episode of Futurama, the twelfth of the seventh production season and the ninth broadcast season. The Planet Express crew stages a casino heist to recover stolen property from the Robot Mafia.

Production
On 29 February 2012, CGEF revealed the episode's title, its writer to be Josh Weinstein and its director to be Frank Marino. On 10 July, updated their Futurama episode guide, revealing the episode's plot and air date. The same day, released a TV listing of Futurama which showed the same information about the episode, with slight variation from the plot published by MSN.

On 12 July, following the broadcast of the episode "Zapp Dingbat", the public were given the opportunity to participate in a live chat with the Futurama cast and crew. Several clips of "Viva Mars Vegas" during the live stream.

Continuity

 * Sir Reginald Wong is mentioned again.

Allusions

 * The episode's title is a reference to the 1964 Elvis Presley film .
 * The song played through the montage of Zoidberg spending his cash and sung by Zoidberg himself at the end of the episode is a parody of the song.
 * The Binks Armored Express truck at the beginning of the episode is a reference to the Star Wars character from . The truck is also piloted by two aliens that bear a striking resemblance to the s, Jar Jar's species, and they also speak like him.

Trivia

 * When the vault scans the Donbot's finger, it identifies him as Don "Smith".
 * The opening sequence is a live-action recreation, which was also used to promote the new season through ads on Comedy Central.
 * Zoidberg reads a newspaper called "The Daily Bum Blanket".

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Clamps
 * Donbot
 * Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Inez Wong
 * Joey Mousepad
 * Leela
 * Leo Wong
 * Morbo (cameo)
 * Petunia
 * Randy
 * Sir Reginald Wong (mentioned)
 * Zoidberg