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|image=[[File:Women Fry slept with.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=On the far left {{et|4ACV12}}.<br />
|type=Domestic appliance<br />
|first appear={{e|4ACV12}}<br />
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The '''radiator''' is a source of heat. Models of it have been seen throughout [[Futurama|the series]], and do not differ much from their early versions. In the building used for the [[Miss Universe Pageant 3001|3001 Miss Universe Pageant]] on [[Tova 9]], [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] made out with one, believing that it was an [[Alien]] from the [[radiator planet]] {{et|2ACV06}}. During [[Turanga Leela]]'s coma-induced dream at Fry's funeral, along with Fry's girlfriends, another was also seen {{et|4ACV12}}.<br />
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The radiator starts a running gag involving Fry beloeving that all objects are aliens shaped like objects, ironic in a universe filled with aliens that look like various everyday things, a gag that is outed in season 6 (reference needed).<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I just made out with that radiator woman from the radiator planet.<br />
'''Leela''': Fry, that's a radiator.<br />
'''Fry''': Oh. ''[He clears his throat.]'' Is there a burn ward within 10 feet of here?</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV06}} (mention)<br />
*{{e|4ACV12}} (non-[[canon]])<br />
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[[Category:Technology]]</div>220.233.85.116http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Sting&diff=113608The Sting2012-06-13T09:11:05Z<p>220.233.85.116: </p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=The Sting<br />
|no=66<br />
|image=[[File:The Sting.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=4<br />
|broadcast season=5<br />
|number=4ACV12<br />
|caption=A By-Product of the TV Industry<br />
|first aired=1 June, 2003<br />
|written by=Patric M. Verrone<br />
|directed by=Brian Sheesley<br />
|title reference=The [[1973]] film ''{{w|The Sting}}''<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=The Queen was in the Parlor (1932)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S05E09<br />
|nomination={{w|Annie Award|'''Annie Awards'''}}<br />Outstanding Writing in an Animated Television Production, 2004, [[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />{{w|Emmy Award|'''Emmy Awards'''}}<br />{{w|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)}}, 2004<br />{{w|Writers Guild of America Award|'''Writers Guild of America Award'''}}<br />Animation, 2004, [[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
|prev ep=Where No Fan Has Gone Before<br />
|next ep=Bend Her<br />
|broad prev=The Why of Fry<br />
|broad next=The Farnsworth Parabox<br />
}}<br />
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"'''The Sting'''" is the sixty-sixth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the twelfth of the [[Season 4|fourth production season]] and the ninth of the [[Broadcast season 5|fifth broadcast season]]. It aired 1 June, 2003 on FOX. [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] is stung to death by a bee queen trying to save [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], the guilt of his death drives her crazy. However, not all is as it seems.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "We're just as good as any of those other crews you sent to their deaths!" ===<br />
[[File:Old Planet Express Ship.png|thumb|left|220px|The crew discovers the [[Old Planet Express Ship|old ship]].]]<br />
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As [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] are playing virtual golf, the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] comes in and explains that they are not good enough for their next mission: collecting honey from [[Space Bee|space bees]], which claimed the lives of the [[old Planet Express crew]]. Leela insists that they are just as good and forces Fry and Bender to go on the mission.<br />
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The crew reaches the space bees' hive and paints Bender's body like a bee, giving him a bee language cartridge that will allow him to communicate with the other bees to distract them while they venture deeper into the hive. They eventually come across the remains of the [[old Planet Express ship]] in the process (where the black box reveals the previous crew died due to the captain's insistence they prove themselves better than the Professor's expectations). The crew eventually discover the honeycomb stockpile, and a flow of royal jelly, into which Fry falls. Leela comes across a baby queen bee, which she takes, so that the crew can build its own hive in the future, and takes some jelly with which to feed her. Suddenly, Bender accidentally insults the bees, including the current queen, causing the enraged bees to chase them back to the ship.<br />
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On the way back to Earth, the baby queen wakes and threatens to kill Leela. Fry throws himself in front of Leela in defense, but is impaled in the spleen with the stinger, which passes through him and mildly stabs Leela as well. Bender picks up the defenceless dying queen and throws her into the air lock, ejecting her into space (where she is hit and killed by a space truck). Leela gets up with a minor wound from the stinger and is horrified to discover that Fry is dead.<br />
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=== Act II: "It was all my fault! He died because of me!" ===<br />
[[File:Fry's Funeral.png|left|thumb|220px|Fry's funeral.]]<br />
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Fry's funeral is held at the [[Orbiting Meadows]], where many old acquaintances come to mourn. However, none is more woeful than Leela, who believes that it was her error that caused Fry's death, and is wracked with utter remorse. Towards the end of the processions, Fry's coffin is ejected into the outer reaches of space. Back in her apartment, Leela remains sorrowful as she goes through all of the belongings that Fry had given her. Having kept some of the space honey from the mission, she takes two spoonfuls to ease the pain and, after having a brief laughing fit, quickly falls into a deep sleep. She then finds herself floating in space with Fry, who seems to be alive. Leela is not entirely certain, especially since Fry still has a gaping hole through his abdomen, so Fry decides to prove he's alive by telling her that he left something for her in his locker, which only he would know. He then tells her that he wants her to wake up; it turns out that this experience was only a dream.<br />
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Leela tells the others about her dream and what she was told, explaining that if it's true, then he must still exist in some form or another. When she opens his locker, she is disappointed to find that it is completely empty. Bender then comes in, saying that he pawned most of the stuff in Fry's locker for closure, keeping only one item because it turned out to be a present for Leela: a one-eyed stress-relieving doll. Leela marks this as proof that Fry is still alive and is communicating to her in her dreams. However, a quick brain scan leads the others to conclude that Fry told her about the present before his death, and that she subconsciously blocked it out in her grief. In other words, they begin to think that Leela might be going crazy.<br />
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Later that night, Leela has another dream in which Fry is still alive. She is convinced, however, that Fry ''must'' still be alive, since he treats her very romantically, and that she couldn't be treated any more so by her own imagination. When Fry takes her sleigh-riding on the ice fields of [[Hyperion]], he gives her his jacket before telling her to wake up once again. Leela is reluctant to accept that this is just another dream, but wakes up anyway. Her hopes are once again dashed until she discovers that, although she is very much awake, she is still wearing Fry's jacket. Since Fry was buried in this jacket, she is once again convinced that Fry is truly alive.<br />
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=== Act III: "Fry's alive! I have proof!" ===<br />
[[File:The Sting.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Leela and Fry in Leela's dream.]]<br />
Leela comes to the headquarters the next day to show the others the jacket, but it turns out she has her own jacket. Leela admits that she may be freaking out (especially after hearing [[Amy Wong|Amy]] and [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] speaking with the Professor's voice, and Bender with Amy's), and decides to take some more space honey. After hearing this, however, the others warn her that she must not take too many spoonfuls; one helps a person calm down, two help a person get to sleep, but three can place a person into a sleep from which they can never awaken.<br />
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As Leela cautiously takes a couple of spoonfuls of space honey, she becomes drowsy and accidentally knocks over the jar of royal jelly (which she also kept from the mission) onto the couch. All of a sudden, the jelly begins to take some sort of solid form, eventually transforming into Fry, who is completely naked and covered in jelly, but apparently very much alive. Leela presents Fry to the others; after examining him, the Professor concludes that Fry's DNA was imprinted into the jelly when he fell into it, and that a new body was formed when the imprint merged with his DNA in the couch. Leela is relieved that everything can return to normal and that she no longer has to carry the burden of guilt for his death, until Fry tells her to wake up again; it turns out that Leela merely fell asleep again after eating the second spoonful.<br />
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Leela realizes that she is comfortable in her dreams while her mind plays tricks on her when she's awake. This is evidenced when Leela hallucinates the crew performing [[List of song performances#Don't Worry, Bee Happy|a musical number]], during which each member explodes after being stung by a bee. Afterward, Leela decides to go out into space to find Fry's coffin; her plan is to retrieve Fry's corpse and keep it under her mattress to remind herself that he's really dead, which means dealing with her guilt again. When she finds it, however, she wakes to find herself in her room once again, with the others' faces on the walls and floor, chanting the accusation that she killed Fry. After tearing the faces down like wallpaper, Leela finally believes that she is now insane.<br />
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She decides that she will take enough space honey to put her in the eternal sleep so that she can be in her dreams with Fry forever, as that is when she does not feel guilty. Just as she is about to take the final spoon, Fry's picture on her bedside table comes to life and tells her to fight her impulses, but Leela is so confused as to what to do that she breaks into tears. Fry continues to bolster her, saying that she's stronger than this. As Leela attempts to overcome her irresolution, a small space bee starts flying around the room. Leela throws the jar of space honey at it, causing it to turn into an entire swarm of smaller bees. With Leela hopelessly scared and confused, Fry admits his love for Leela and begs for her to wake up once more; when she does, she finds herself lying in a hospital bed, with Fry sitting beside her.<br />
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It turns out that when the sting of the baby queen went right through Fry's body, Leela caught all the poison in her seemingly mild wound, putting her into a coma that lasted for two weeks; it is clear now that Fry was not killed by the sting (he only needed a spleen transplant). Fry never left her side while she was unconscious and kept talking to her in the hope that a familiar voice would guide her back, which came to her in her "dreams". The final shot shows Leela and Fry hugging each other... they then tell each other that they need a shower.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
[[File:2007centrefold.jpg|thumb|Centrefold - 2007 [[Calendar]].]]<br />
*This episode was nominated for an Emmy in 2004 for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour).<br />
*(Aside from Primary characters) [[Leo and Inez Wong]], [[Michelle]], [[Petunia]], [[Sal]] and [[Scruffy]] appear at the funeral. Many of the women that Fry had previously been romantically linked with attend the funeral and sit in a group together, including the [[Radiator]], but excluding [[Umbriel]], who obviously can't breathe out of water. Scruffy also plays '[[Walking on Sunshine]]' on the bagpipes at Fry's funeral.<br />
**Cameos are listed in the [[#Continuity|''Continuity'' section]].<br />
*Farnsworth has changed the logo of Planet Express a bit since his last crew died.<br />
*Farnsworth is wearing slippers during the funeral.<br />
*In this episode Fry is stung by a giant bee. [[Billy West]], the actor who voices Fry, is also known as the voice of the ''{{w|Honey Nut Cheerios}} spokes-bee'', Buzz. Multiple references are made to Honeycombs Cereal.<br />
**Honeycomb Hideout is a location in these commercials.<br />
**Hermes, in reply to a comment made by Fry, says "Honeycomb's big, yeah, yeah, yeah." to which Bender replies "It's not small?" then Hermes says "No, No, No." This is part of the product's jingle.<br />
*This is the only time we see the [[Old Planet Express Ship]].<br />
*[http://www.atomicraygunattack.com/ Atomic Raygun Attack] made an album entitled [http://www.atomicraygunattack.com/website/mp3s/thesting/ 'The Sting'] in which they wrote 6 tracks taking moments from the episode. They are available for free download.<br />
*They do not use the correct colour of {{w|Royal jelly}}. This is because Royal jelly is a creamy-white colour and it was thought that colour would not work well. <br />
*Among the many wreaths at the funeral, Bender's is easily the most obvious: "R.I.P. Meatbag", and still shows his typical focus on himself, as his name is larger than that of Fry.<br />
*Leela uses only half a tissue to wipe away her tears, but not only because she has only one eye: it is an inside reference to [[David X. Cohen]] who had a bad cold at the time the episode was written and was fearing to run out of tissues, so he halved each one to make them last longer.<br />
*Fry and Bender were on their 17th hole of virtual golf, par 4.<br />
*The squishy toy from Leela's dream is on her bedside table at the hospital. Also, a picture of the ice moon Hyperion, where Fry took her in her dream, is in frame opposite her bed.<br />
*Black Boxes usually have some form of armoring to protect them from impact. This also seems to be only a circa 1980s tape recorder. This could be explained by Professor Farnsworth's miserly approach to business.<br />
*This episode started out as a sarcastic joke from one of the writers: "Why don't we kill off one of the major characters?"<br />
*This episode is one of four featured in the [[Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection]], reflecting its popularity with both fans and the creators of Futurama.<br />
*This episode was named #24 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p1.html Top 25 Futurama episodes].<br />
*In an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', another show Matt Groening made, [[simpsons:Homer Simpson|Homer]] was on a vibrating chair going so fast that during a scene, whenever he blinked, his eyes and skin changed to different colours. The exact same thing happened in this episode, with Leela staring into the coffin. Both sequences are a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.<br />
*Leela's singing visions may be a reference to {{w|Ally McBeal}}, whom she portrayed in the episode "[[When Aliens Attack]]".<br />
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=== Lyrics ===<br />
*[[List of song performances#Don't Worry, Bee Happy|Don't Worry, Bee Happy]]<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
[[File:Memories of Fry.png|right|thumb|Memories of Fry]]<br />
*{{e|1ACV01}}<br />
**The Professor produces [[Career chip|career chips]] from his previous crew from an envelope labeled "Contents of [[Space Wasp|space wasp's]] stomach," rather than the space bees depicted in this episode. See the [[#Goofs|''Goofs'' section]] for more.<br />
**[[Terry]] from [[Applied Cryogenics]] appears at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|1ACV02}}<br />
**The refrigerator magnet from [[Luna Park]] is in Leela's "Memories of Fry" box.<br />
*{{e|1ACV04}}<br />
**The [[21st Century girl|unnamed girl from the '21st Century']] appears at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|1ACV07}}<br />
**A couple of [[Trisol]]ians appear at the funeral.<br />
**A coronation spoon with Fry as Emperor of [[Trisol]] on it is in Leela's "Memories of Fry" box.<br />
*{{e|1ACV11}}<br />
**[[Gunther]] appears at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|1ACV13}}<br />
**(Presumably) the winning [[Slurm]] can is in Leela's "Memories of Fry" box.<br />
*{{e|2ACV06}}<br />
**The [[Radiator]] appears at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
**[[Petunia]] appears at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|2ACV11}}<br />
**[[Morgan Proctor]] appears at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|2ACV19}}<br />
**Fry's first Mustache is in Leela's "Memories of Fry" box.<br />
**[[Michelle]] appears at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|3ACV01}}<br />
**[[Kug]] appears at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|3ACV03}}<br />
**A couple of [[Santa Claus]]'s [[Neptunian]] [[Santa Claus' aides|aides]] appear at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|3ACV04}}<br />
**[[Orbiting Meadows]] reappears as the location of the funeral.<br />
*{{e|3ACV07}}<br />
**Chester A. Arthur's head appears at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|3ACV11}}<br />
**A can of π-in-1 oil is in Leela's "Memories of Fry" box.<br />
*{{e|3ACV16}}<br />
**A couple of [[Cygnoids]] appear at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|3ACV20}}<br />
**[[Father Changstein El-Gamal]] hosts the funeral.<br />
*{{e|4ACV03}}<br />
**The conversation heart ("U leave me breathless") is in Leela's "Memories of Fry" box.<br />
*{{e|4ACV06}}<br />
**Bender's comment, "You were in the best coma I've ever seen!" may be a reference to his inability to act out being in a coma in [[All My Circuits#Monique's Secret|All My Circuits]].<br />
*{{e|4ACV07}}<br />
**The still-fossilized [[Seymour Asses]] appears at the funeral.<br />
*{{e|4ACV10}}<br />
**The flower Fry gave Leela is in her "Memories of Fry" box<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*"They say a spoonful of honey helps to ease the pain" is a parody of the song lyric, "just {{w|A Spoonful of Sugar|a spoonful of sugar}} helps the medicine go down" from Disney's film, ''{{w|Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins}}''.<br />
*The demand to "wake up" echoed through the episode sounded similar to the "stop breathing" line from the {{w|Alejandro Amenábar}} film ''{{w|The Others (2001 film)|The Others}}''.<br />
**It could also be a reference to another Amenábar film, ''{{w|Open Your Eyes (1997 film)|Open Your Eyes}}''.<br />
*Not only was the title taken from the {{w|The Sting|1973 film}}, Bender's outfit in the beginning is the same as that of Robert Redford in the film.<br />
*The space helmets look similar to the ones from {{w|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)|1954 adaptation of '20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea''}}.<br />
*This episode is similar in some ways to the episode "Goodbye" in Katey Sagal's ''{{w|8 Simple Rules|8 Simple Rules}}''. The episodes aired only five months apart.<br />
*This episode bears some ''Star Trek'' similarities:<br />
**Scruffy wears a Scottish outfit and plays the bagpipes at the funeral, a spoof of ''{{w|Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan}}'' Spock's funeral scene where Scotty did what Scruffy did. Fry's funeral song is an arrangement of "[[Walking on Sunshine]]", which was established as Fry's favorite in "[[Jurassic Bark]]". <br />
**This episode also bears similarities to the ''{{w|Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek}}'' episode "{{w|The Tholian Web|The Tholian Web}}", in which {{w|James T. Kirk|Captain Kirk}} is mistakenly presumed dead. {{w|Uhura}} sees him calling for help and thinks she is losing her mind.<br />
**In the ''{{w|Star Trek: The Next Generation}}'' episode "{{w|Frame of Mind (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Frame Of Mind}}", commander {{w|William Riker|Riker}} is caught in a situation much like Leela's. He's rendered unconscious by aliens, and in a dream that's becoming increasingly weird, he start to question his own sanity, as nothing is what it appears to be.<br />
**In the episode "{{w|Night Terrors (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Night Terrors}}", counselor {{w|Deanna Troi|Troi}} find herself floating in outer space, much like Leela, in one of her dreams. Slowly the recurring dream takes its toll on her mental health. In the end it turns out the "nightmares" was caused by aliens attempting to communicate with her.<br />
**In the ''{{w|Star Trek: Voyager}}'' episode "{{w|Demon (Star Trek: Voyager)|Demon}}", the Voyager crew discover a biologic substance that can make replicas of humans/aliens based on a few strands of DNA, much like the Fry replica in Leela's dream.<br />
**The tradition from most ''Star Trek'' series, the body being put in a torpedo and shot into space, happened with Fry's "corpse".<br />
*When Leela has the second dream, Fry appears in a similar way to the {{w|Cheshire Cat}} from {{w|Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice in Wonderland}}, as a smile hanging in the air, only Fry's hair accompanies the smile.<br />
*Fry pours Leela some Semitic Miss Cocoa, which is a reference to {{w|Swiss Miss|Swiss Miss Cocoa}}.<br />
*Leela's on the brink of death, but her hallucinations make her believe she is living and Fry is dead. A similar occurrence happens in {{w|Soul Survivors}} with the main character believing her boyfriend is dead when he is staying with her at the hospital.<br />
*Fry's remark, "I thought that maybe if you heard a familiar voice, it might help keep your mind together. But who knows if it really got through" is an allusion to Nan Adams, a character who appeared in "The Hitch-Hiker", an episode of ''{{w|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone}}''.<br />
*When Leela picks up the baby queen bee, it seems to be a reference to ''{{w|Ender's Game}}'' by Orson Scott Card, when Ender finds a young Bugger queen.<br />
*Hermes proclaims that he is from Jamaica, known as The Show-Me Island, which is a reference to {{w|Missouri}}'s state motto, "The Show-Me State."<br />
*The scene in which Fry regenerates from royal jelly that was spilled on the couch is reminiscent of Frank's regeneration in the movie ''{{w|Hellraiser}}''.<br />
*Leela pulling Fry's jacket out of her dream is a reference to {{w|Nancy Thompson (A Nightmare on Elm Street)|Nancy Thompson}} pulling {{w|Freddy Krueger}}'s hat out of a dream in ''{{w|A Nightmare on Elm Street}}''.<br />
*The scene where Leela looks into Fry's coffin in space and sees a colourful tunnel of light, to the music ''{{w|Also sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)|Also sprach Zarathustra}}'', is a parody of the scene in ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', where {{w|David Bowman (fictional character)|David Bowman}} encounters the {{w|Monolith (Space Odyssey)|Monolith}} and it opens into the same Stargate sequence as in the end of the film.<br />
*The song "Don't Worry, Bee Happy" is a parody of and/or homage to the 1988 hit song {{w|Don't Worry, Be Happy}}.<br />
*Multiple references are made to {{w|Honeycomb (cereal)|Honeycomb cereal}}, such as the {{w|Honeycomb Hideout#Honeycomb Hideout|Honeycomb Hideout}}, and when Hermes, in reply to a comment made by Fry, Hermes says "Honeycomb's big, yeah, yeah, yeah." to which Bender replies "It's not small?" where Hermes says "No, No, No.".<br />
*Zoidberg's set, during "Don't Worry, Bee Happy", is inspired by the {{w|Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special|Elvis Presley Special}}.<br />
*The scene where Bender ejects the baby queen bee out of an airlock and where the queen bee wriggles its stinger in the Planet Express Ship's cargo bay are references to the film {{w|Aliens (film)|Aliens}}.<br />
*When Hermes sees that Leela is awake, he exclaims, "Sweet Three-toed Sloth of Ice Planet {{sw|Hoth}}! She's awake!", referring to the ice planet from {{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}.<br />
*As Leela and Fry escape the Bee Hive a bee hits a wall, then explodes; the ensuing scene is similar to ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi}}'' when the {{sw|Millennium Falcon}} escapes from the {{sw|Death Star II|second Death Star}}.<br />
*This episode bears similarities to the film ''{{w|Solaris (2002 film)|Solaris}}'', which featured an astronaut haunted by persistent and contradictory visions of his dead wife.<br />
*This episode bears similarities to {{w||Philip K. Dick's}} novel ''{{w|Ubik}}'', in which after an explosion and narrow escape, the leading characters see evidence that they might be dead, while characters who are believed dead or in irreversible coma, ''half-life" in Ubik'', nonetheless participate unexpectedly.<br />
*When Leela accidentally knocks the jar of royal jelly, it turns into the form of Fry, this is similar to ''{{w|Terminator 2: Judgement Day}} when the {{w|T-1000}} jumps into helicopter, then reforms itself.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Leela''': What's the mission?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': Collecting honey. Ordinary honey.<br />
'''Leela''': That doesn't sound so dangerous.<br />
'''Farnsworth''': This is no ordinary honey! It's produced by vicious space bees. A single sting of their hideous neurotoxin can cause instant death!<br />
'''Hermes''': And that's if you're ''not'' allergic! You don't wanna know what happens then, oh no no, God no.<br />
'''Farnsworth''': Your insides with boil out of your eye sockets like a science fair volcano!<br />
'''Hermes''': I didn't want to know! [cries]</poem><br />
<poem>'''Planet Express crewman''': [on black box] Captain, the bees have us surrounded! Oh the Professor was right, we're not as good as his old crew!<br />
'''Planet Express Captain''': [on black box] I aim to prove him wrong. It'll take more than a few deadly, deadly bees to... ''[The bees start buzzing loudly.]'' OH LORD! [screams in terror]</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Fry? [gasps] He's... he's dead!<br />
'''Bender''': Oh, who will make Bender waffles just the way he likes them now?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Leela, no! Listen to me! You don't wanna lie in bed like a vegetable and do nothing the rest of your life. I've tried it. Bedsores hurt!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': [crying] It was all my fault! He died because of me!<br />
'''Farnsworth''': [comforting] No, no, no, no, no, no. [shouting to Bender] I'm lying to make her feel better! ''[Leela cries harder.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]]''': ''[After Hermes burns Fry's time card in his coffin.]'' Husband, can't you go anywhere without lighting something up?!<br />
'''Hermes''': It's an old Jamaican accounting tradition; we burn his time card. That way, his zombie doesn't come back, looking for his final pay check.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': [twitching] I'll find Fry's coffin, get his corpse and keep it under my mattress to remind me that he's really dead. That'll prove I'm not insane!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Is this some sort of brain scanner?<br />
'''Professor''': Some sort, yes. In France, it's called a "guillotine".</poem><br />
<poem>'''Father Changstein el Gamahl''': I barely knew Philip, but as a clergyman, I have no trouble telling his most intimate friends all about him. [general sobbing]<br />
'''Hermes''': Soothe us with sweet lies...</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': All those times I said, "Kill all humans," I'd always whisper "Except one." [sobbing] Fry was that one, and I never told him so! [crying]</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': He's walking on sunshine now...</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*In "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", the Professor has [[Career chip|career chips]] from his previous crew in an envelope labeled "Contents of [[Space Wasp]]'s stomach", rather than the space bees depicted in this episode.<br />
**While the writer admits in the commentary their research found no relationship between {{w|Bee|bees}} and {{w|Wasp|wasps}}, some wasps do invade {{w|Beehive|beehives}} to host their {{w|Larva|larvae}}.<br />
**This may not be a goof. When Leela hears of the mission, she claims "We're just as good as any of those other crews you sent to their deaths". One possible idea is that they were killed by space bees and then eaten by space wasps. Also, later, when they find the black box from the old Planet Express ship, one of the old crew says that the Professor was right, they weren't as good as the previous crew. This would make Leela, Fry, and Bender at least the third crew that the Professor sent to the Space Bee Hive. There could easily have been a fourth crew that died in the [[Space Wasp|space wasp's]] stomach. Additionally, in "[[When Aliens Attack]]", the Professor is seen hiring a replacement crew for Leela, Fry, and Bender, thinking that they have died fighting the [[Omicronians]].<br />
**It is also possible that whoever recovered the career chips (presumably not the Professor) may have misidentified the Space Bee as a Space Wasp, a mistake commonly made with the insects' counterparts on earth.<br />
*Fry and Leela are stung by a baby queen bee, then the stinger breaks off. Queen bees do not lose their stinger after they sting. A worker is killed by stinging, since the stinger is barbed and is ripped from the bee's body, along with its venom sac. Queens have less-barbed stingers and do not have them ripped free. A queen may sting multiple times without being injured.<br />
**These are space bees, not regular bees, so this may be one difference between the two.<br />
*When Bender jumps into the virtual lake to fetch a golf ball, the Prof. enters and gives the news. In the next scene, Bender is out of the water and on the fairway.<br />
*When Leela, Fry, and Bender escape from the bees on the Planet Express ship, Fry's hair is messed up. When he tells Leela to look out, his hair is normal. Then when he defends Leela from the baby queen bee, his hair is messy again.<br />
*The following goofs can be explained by the incongruous nature of dreams and hallucinations.<br />
**At the funeral:<br />
***[[Kug]], the [[Amazonian]] who says Fry did "good snu-snu", actually snu-snued [[Zapp Brannigan]] {{et|3ACV01}}.<br />
****Kug may not have been able to tell the difference between two human males. <br />
***The garland's distance from the coffin varies.<br />
***[[Seymour Asses|Seymour]] vanishes.<br />
***In a wide angle shot, Leela's hair is black.<br />
***The man to Dr. Zoidberg's right is shown with diferent hair and skin colors in the two shots.<br />
**In the scene where Leela opens Fry's coffin, the hinges have suddenly changed position. Now the casket opens from right to left, instead of opposite, regular left to right.<br />
**Right after the funeral, Leela is on her bed. She tears a tissue in half and puts it on her night-table. The camera zooms in, then out; and the tissue is gone.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
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*[[21st Century girl]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez]]<br />
*[[Father Changstein el Gamahl]]<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry]]<br />
*[[Gunther]]<br />
*[[Hattie]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela]]<br />
*[[Leo and Inez Wong]]<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Michelle]]<br />
*[[Morgan Proctor]]<br />
*[[Ron Whitey]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Santa Claus' Aides]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Seymour Asses]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Space Bee Queen]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Thog]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg]]<br />
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*Writer<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Brian Sheesley]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Dave Herman]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
**[[Brian Sheesley]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
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'''''Hypnotoad On Ice''''' is a spinoff of the popular [[television]] series ''[[Everybody Loves Hypnotoad]]'' Its airing is interrupted when a nuclear powered stripper melts down at Hedonism Bot's bachelor party. {{et|6ACV07}}.<br />
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<div>[[File:Smizmar.jpg|right|thumb|Amy is Kif's Smizmar]]<br />
A '''smizmar''' is the love partner in [[Amphibiosan]] culture. Unlike a mate, the smizmar may not necessarily be the parent of the offspring. When an Amphibiosan loves another individual (i.e. their smizmar), they enter a "receptive state", in which their skin becomes a semi-permeable membrane, which allows the passage of genetic material.<br />
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During this state, Amphibiosans should be extra sensitive to whom they touch, as anyone's touch can produce the pregnancy. Usually, the smizmar would be the biological parent, but in some cases, it may be someone else. However, regardless of contributor, the smizmar is always viewed as the parent in Amphibiosan culture.<br />
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An issue of this complexity it can cause is evident in "[[Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch]]", wherein [[Kif Kroker|Kif]] enters the "receptive state", because of his smizmar, [[Amy Wong]]. However, during an unfortunate event in the bridge of the ''[[Nimbus]]'', [[Turanga Leela]] ended up giving Kif this genetic material.<br />
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The concept is also apparent in the film, ''[[When a Man Loves a Smizmar]]''.<br />
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== Alternate usage ==<br />
In the [[Season 2]] episode "[[Raging Bender]]", seemingly before the final definition of the word was decided, smizmar is some sort of gender. The MC at the boxing match announces, "Ladies and gentlemen and smizmars, welcome to tonight's main event!" In the same episode, the marquee of the movie theater advertises the film "When A Man Loves A Smizmar."<br />
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<div>Is it my mistake in thinking the Spotty Teen Robot and the Refreshment-bot (from [[Raging Bender]], asking if Fry wants a super small Slurm) are the same robot?<br />
: [[User:Schaeffa|Schaeffa]] 09:47, 16 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
::You're right, it is the same robot. --[[User:Superbender|Superbender]] 11:49, 16 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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We need a picture of this guy, from either of his appearances.</div>220.233.85.116http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Burglarcenarsony&diff=112201Burglarcenarsony2012-05-20T07:54:14Z<p>220.233.85.116: Burglarcenarsony</p>
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<div>Burglarcenarsony is Bender's special crime that he is accused of while simultaneously appearing as a protected witness in a case against the Robot Mafia boss. The crime would apparently involve breaking and entering, personal theft, and setting fire to things. The concept is a "wholly owned trademark of Bender Crime Syndication Incorporated".</div>220.233.85.116http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=David_Duchovny&diff=112200David Duchovny2012-05-20T07:42:26Z<p>220.233.85.116: David Duchovny - Appearances</p>
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<div>David Duchovny is 'Mulder' from The X-Files. Calculon claims to have been David Duchovny during his life as a Werecar, however David Duchovny's head appears in one episode in the Head Museum.</div>220.233.85.116http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Chester_Z._Arthur%27s_head&diff=103971Chester Z. Arthur's head2011-11-09T08:42:41Z<p>220.233.85.116: Created page with "Chester Z Arthur is a head in the "All the Presidents' Heads" episode. It is obviously a joke on Chester A Arthur's name, but I am pretty sure this has been mentioned in anoth..."</p>
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<div>Chester Z Arthur is a head in the "All the Presidents' Heads" episode. It is obviously a joke on Chester A Arthur's name, but I am pretty sure this has been mentioned in another episode - "From Chester A Arther to Chester Z Arthur".</div>220.233.85.116http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Sharon_Anders%27_head&diff=103970Sharon Anders' head2011-11-09T08:39:54Z<p>220.233.85.116: Created page with "Sharon Anders is a head in the "All the President's Heads" episode. I could not find out who she is."</p>
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<div>Sharon Anders is a head in the "All the President's Heads" episode. I could not find out who she is.</div>220.233.85.116http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Melllvar&diff=83260Melllvar2011-04-13T10:16:39Z<p>220.233.85.116: /* Quotes */</p>
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|age=34 <small>(in [[Omega 3]] years)</small><br />
|species=[[Energy being]]<br />
|voiced by=Maurice LaMarche<br />
|family=''See [[#Family|Family]]''<br />
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'''Melllvar''' is a 34-year-old [[energy being]] living in his mother's basement on [[Omega 3]], and a giant fan of ''[[Star Trek]]'' ever since he found the remains of the series that had been sent away from [[Earth]] after the [[Star Trek wars]]. He is such a big fan, that he once captured the original ''Star Trek'' cast and forced them into a special ''Star Trek'' convention, before they were saved by the [[Planet Express Crew]] {{et|4ACV11}}. Despite claiming to know more about the series than anyone, he lost a trivia contest to [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]].<br />
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=== Family ===<br />
*[[Melllvar's mom|Mother]].<br />
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<poem>'''Melllvar''': I am Melllvar. Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!</poem><br />
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<poem>'''Sulu''': I think I've been to enough sci-fi conventions to know how to spell 'Melllvar'</poem><br />
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