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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=The Cryonic Woman<br />
|no=32<br />
|image=[[File:The cryonic woman.JPG|225px]]<br />
|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=3<br />
|number=2ACV19<br />
|caption=Not a Substitute for Human Interaction<br />
|first aired=3 December, 2000<br />
|written by=J. Stewart Burns<br />
|directed by=Mark Ervin<br />
|title reference=The TV show ''{{w|The Bionic Woman}}''<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon="Up to Mars" (1930)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S03E03<br />
|special guest=[[Pauly Shore]]<br>[[Nora Dunn]]<br />
|prev ep=The Honking<br />
|next ep=Amazon Women in the Mood<br />
|broad prev=War Is the H-Word<br />
|broad next=Parasites Lost<br />
}}<br />
"'''The Cryonic Woman'''" is the thirty-second episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the nineteenth and last of the [[Season 2|second production season]] and the third of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 3 December, 2000 on FOX. It guest stars [[Pauly Shore]] as himself.<br />
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[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] meets his former girlfriend, [[Michelle]], at [[Applied Cryogenics]]. Michelle decides they should flee together to the year 4000, but they mistakenly end up in [[Los Angeles]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "I’d like to reapply for my old job." ===<br />
[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] leaves the keys in the [[Planet Express Ship]] but it is attached by the [[Diamond-Filament Tether|unbreakable diamond tether]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] take off in it, taking the Planet Express building with them. They fly over the world and return with the building badly damaged. [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]] fires Fry, Bender and Leela (because she left the keys in the ship). Leela has kept their old career chips and they insert them into their palms. At the cryonics lab Leela finds out that she put in the delivery boy chip in her palm and the cryonic counsellor in Fry’s palm. Bender also gets a job there, as he has got the severed arm of the prime minister of Norway. Fry and Bender enjoy their new job by tricking people into thinking evil creatures like giant flys, gorillas and robots have taken over. Fry also prank call Leela and unfreeze [[Pauly Shore]]. The next person they try to trick turns out to by Fry’s ex girlfriend [[Michelle]] and they fall in love.<br />
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=== Act II: "So you froze yourself to come look for me?" ===<br />
Michelle tells her story of how she got married, divorced and then froze herself. Michelle has trouble fitting in with giant roaches, art tattooed on fat people and other weird things in the 31st century. Things get worse when she meets the rest of the [[Planet Express]] crew. Michelle tells Fry that she doesn’t fit in and that the only way out is to freeze themselves again for another 1000 years and that nothing matters but their love. This convinces Fry and they go in the tube, only to find that the year 4000 is a wasteland.<br />
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=== Act III: "Could we please join your society?" ===<br />
Fry and Michelle argue and Michelle demands that Fry builds a shelter and the best he can do is a hole which doesn’t satisfy Michelle. The next morning they are woken up by some kids with guns. They are taken to the place they live ruled by a boy named [[Butch]]. Michelle wants power and makes Fry challenge Butch's leadership. Fry wins this challenge, but then Butch's mom arrives and tells all the kids to come to Hebrew class. Fry and Michelle argue again and Fry leaves Michelle. He travels through the wasteland and spots something ahead. He finds himself in LA and the Planet Express ship lands. They explain that Fry was only frozen for 2 days, that he was in Pauly Shore’s tube and the people responsible for delivering it to his movie screening chucked it in a ditch when they found out it wasn’t him. Michelle is now dating Pauly Shore. Fry asks for his job back but is ejected out of a trap door in the ship after Bender reminds the professor why he fired him.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*{{w|"Weird Al" Yankovic}} is also seen in one of the [[cryo-tube]]s.<br />
*Michelle "first" meets Bender during the events of ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'', though it is possible this is not the case until late 3007, or that back in 2000 she thought it was a cheesy new years costume or was simply too drunk to remember that night. Otherwise her not recognizing and screaming because of Bender may be a continuity error of ''Bender's Big Score''. However, it is possible she screamed ''because'' she recognized him.<br />
*Before the deathrolling match, the chief's girlfriend counts up to 3 in Hebrew. <br />
*Names found in the Walk of Fame:<br />
**Clark Gable<br />
**[[Morbo]]<br />
**Mi Mi Barrymore<br />
**Dame Calista Flockhart<br />
**[[Florp]]<br />
**James Mason<br />
**Betty Chalke (?)<br />
*Fry's first consultee explains that he froze himself so that he could meet Shakespeare, figuring that time was cyclical. Fry tell him it is not so. Later in the series, in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]", it turns out that time is in fact cyclical.<br />
**Despite the [[Applied Cryogenics|defrostee]] Fry met being correct about the nature of time, his plan was still flawed. He cryogenically froze himself, hypothesising that time cyclical nature would make it possible for him to meet Shakespeare. However the man would have been unable to meet Shakespeare through cryogenics, because the cryogenics lab wouldn't have survived the destruction of Earth like the time machine does. Also, the end of the universe would have occurred somewhere around 10^38 years after the destruction of the planet. Even if the cryogenic tube had miraculously survived Earth’s destruction, the metal in the chamber would have broken down long before the universe would start over. Further, even if the chamber had somehow endured to see the universe restart, the defrostee would need to wait another 13.7 billion years to reach Shakespeare’s time.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': Have you lost all self respect?<br />
'''Fry''': All what?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Michelle''': Oh, look! Some little kids.<br />
'''Fry''': They'll save us. ''[The kids point guns at them.]'' We're saved!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': You were only frozen for two days. Uh, by the way, I broke your bed.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Butch''': I'm Butch, leader of this place. I took your hole and you can't do nothing about it.<br />
'''Michelle''': Okay.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': So you're saying these aren't the decaying ruins of New York in the year 4000?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': You wish! You're in Los Angeles!<br />
'''Fry''': But there was this gang of 10-year-olds with guns.<br />
'''Leela''': Exactly, you're in L.A.<br />
'''Fry''': But everyone is driving around in cars shooting at each other.<br />
'''Bender''': That's L.A. for you.<br />
'''Fry''': But the air is green and there's no sign of civilisation whatsoever.<br />
'''Bender''': He just won't stop with the social commentary.<br />
'''Fry''': And the people are all phoneys. No one reads. Everything has cilantro on it.</poem><br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
* Fry has, understandably, forgotten about the use of [[career chips]]. These were last mentioned in the [[Space Pilot 3000|pilot]].<br />
* Fry and Michelle think they awoke in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic waste land. A very similar theme appears within the plot for "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]".<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*After the ship destroys part of the Great Wall of China, some Mongol raiders enter China through the gap.<br />
*The gallery of tattoo art is probably a reference to Roald Dahl's story 'Skin', part of the ''Tales of The Unexpected'' series.<br />
*The children Fry and Michelle meet might be a reference to the New Zealand TV show "''{{w|The Tribe (TV series)|The Tribe}}''" or "''[[Wikipedia:Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome|Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome]]''".<br />
*The poster Ipgee takes out a of a monkey wearing a tie and the slogan "I Hate Mondays", is reference to {{w|Garfield}} that he doesn't like Mondays.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*When Fry is wishing to be back in the year 3000, he mentions [[Brain Spawn|brains flying through space]], these [[The Day the Earth Stood Stupid|have yet]] to be encountered. Then again, no one has been seen eating lasers either, so he may just be talking about a TV show, which got something correct. He could also mean the [[Spheroids]] from "[[War Is the H-Word]]", a previous episode.<br />
*The bandanna wraps around a pole with Fry and Butch on either end, when the dust clears the pole is missing.<br />
*Throughout the episode, there are times when Michelle is wearing pants, then is wearing a skirt in the next scene. This also happens vice versa.<br />
*When Bender begs for money, Leela tells him "for God's sake Bender, we're not veterans", but, in actuality they are after the events in "[[War Is the H-Word]]".<br />
*The career chip Leela gave Fry said Cryogenic Counsellor, when her old title was actually Fate Assignment Officer.<br />
*When Leela mentions that she left the keys in the spaceship, she's wearing her jacket. In the very next scene, she's flying through the air after the [[Planet Express Ship]] rips up the Planet Express headquarters, and she's wearing only her tank top.<br />
**It's possible that Leela's jacket fell off her right when she started flying through the air.<br />
*The cars driven in Los Angeles are not hover cars, but cars using wheels. This is strange because by the 31st Century, the wheel has become [[Mother's Day|obsolete]].<br />
*The Leaning Tower of Pisa, which was destroyed at [[Monument Beach]] reappears back in Italy (and is subsequently destroyed again).<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Butch]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Butch's gang]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Butch's girlfriend]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Butch's mom]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Ipgee]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Michelle]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Pauly Shore]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[J. Stewart Burns]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Mark Ervin]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Sarah Silverman]]<br />
**[[Kath Soucie]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[J. Stewart Burns]]<br />
**[[Bret Haaland]]<br />
**[[Scott Vanzo]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
*Special Guest<br />
**[[Pauly Shore]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|broad prev=War Is the H-Word<br />
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[[Category:A plots focusing on Fry]]</div>24.160.177.114http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Bender_Should_Not_Be_Allowed_on_Television&diff=83269Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television2011-04-13T12:29:28Z<p>24.160.177.114: /* Goofs */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television<br />
|image=[[File:Bender-TV.JPG|225px]]<br />
|no=60<br />
|season=4<br />
|number=4ACV06<br />
|broadcast season=5<br />
|broadcast number=S05E15<br />
|caption=Controlling you through a chip in your butt since 1999<br />
|first aired=3 August, 2003<br />
|written by=Lewis Morton<br />
|directed by=Brian Sheesley<br />
|title reference=Parent groups who spoke out against Futurama, particularly Bender.<br />
|opening cartoon=Much Ado About Mutton<br />
|next ep=Jurassic Bark<br />
|prev ep=A Taste of Freedom<br />
|broad prev=Obsoletely Fabulous<br />
|broad next=The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings<br />
}}<br />
"'''Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television'''" is the sixtieth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the sixth of the [[Season 4|fourth production season]] and the fifteenth of the [[Broadcast season 5|fifth broadcast season]]. It aired 3 August, 2003 on FOX. [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] joins the cast of ''[[All My Circuits]]'' as [[Bender (All My Circuits)|himself]], but the effect it has on youth leads to [[Fathers Against Rude Television|protests against Bender]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "For I have AMNESIA!" ===<br />
[[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]] and [[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]] are dreaming of imitating anything they see on TV, particularily anything on ''[[All My Circuits]]'', like amnesia which seems to have every character in its grip. As [[Calculon]] is throwing a big [[birthday]] party on screen, Cubert wants to have a big party too - but do clones even have birthdays? [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] says no, but he concedes that they can celebrate the day he scraped the cells for the cloning process off his back - thirteen years ago next week. Around this time it will be Dwights birthday too, so [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] has the idea of combining both events in one party at the office and writing it off as business expense. Meanwhile, on "All my Circuits", [[All My Circuits#Antonio Calculon, Jr.|Antonio Calculon, Jr.]] is having a technical breakdown, instead the popular show "Everybody loves Hypnotoad" is put on. Dwight's and Cubert's party is not a success, no one has turned up except the crew, their families and [[Tinny Tim]], but [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] brings the news that All my Circuits is holding an open casting call for a child robot to replace Antonio Calculon, Jr. and that he is intending to take it. At the audition, Bender boos out every competitor which makes Calculon reject them, and when it is Benders turn, he is accepted because [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] are cheering madly, despite the fact that Bender can't act worth a damn.<br />
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=== Act II: "Now my character has a British accent?" ===<br />
The first shooting in the studio starts with a disappointment for Bender, as his character is supposed to be in a coma. Bender, however, decides to do a little improvisation and does what he does best - singing, dancing, and smoking. Calculon decides to take the scene, as he never does two takes. After seeing the result, Calculon decides to fire Bender. But then, the [[Execu-Bots]] who run the network show up and decide that Bender stays on the show, for he stimulates the audience and is likely to make them rich. Bender becomes a TV star by doing the things he loves - smoking, drinking and stealing. Cubert, Dwight and even Tinny Tim embrace their new role model at once and imitate everything they see him do on TV. The Professor and Hermes are apalled and decide to form a protest group, [[Fathers Against Rude Television]] a.k.a. ''F.A.R.T.''. Cubert, Dwight and Tim decide to rob Bender in a desperate effort to imitate him without throwing up from drink or cigars.<br />
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=== Act III: "I once put a laugh-track on a sitcom that had no jokes in it!" ===<br />
The burglary at [[New New York#Robot Arms Apartments|Robot Arms Apts.]] goes as planned, and the three of them throw a huge party for all children they know with the cool stuff they nicked from Bender. The Professor and Hermes crash the party, and Farnsworth finds out with his [[Cool-O-Meter]] that Dwight and Cubert are exceptionally cool with all the stuff, and ask where it came from. Cubert and Dwight break down and confess, strengthening their parents resolve to do something against their role model. Bender suddenly emerges from a safe stolen by the boys, where he was apparently sleeping. At first Bender defends himself, but when he finds out the kids stole from him, he immediately does a 180° turn and now says that Bender should not be allowed on TV himself. Logically he joins F.A.R.T. and organizes a march on Hollywood. He wants to quit, but the network does not let him go and forces him to stay by force of arms. The Professor wants to resort to violence to solve the problem, bringing Bender between the fronts. He tricks both armed persons and seizes their guns so he can hold a climatic speech in peace. He states that violence, crime and drug abuse should not be shown to kids, but that a big share of the blame rests with the parents who just can't shut off the TV once in a while. With their differences solved, the crew has learned an important lesson - and congregates in front of the TV to celebrate this fact.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*This is one among few ''Futurama'' [[:Category:Media featuring its title|media featuring its title]], as the name of the episode is directly quoted by Bender.<br />
*This episode's theme song is remixed with [[John DiMaggio]] beatboxing and [[Billy West]] providing some "[[Zoidberg]], Zoidberg, Z-Z-Z-Z-Zoidberg" interjections.<br />
*Emotitron Jr., one of the child robots who auditions for the part of Antonio, is a spoof of the classic movie ''Mommie Dearest''. In the episode the mother hits her child screaming "no more hanging wires!" while in the movie she hits her daughter with clothes hangers screaming "no more wire hangers!".<br />
*Fry is seen reading a ''[[Space Boy in Outer Space]]'' comic, the cover of which matches the 1979 issue previously seen in "[[Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!]]"<br />
*There is a cardboard cut-out of [[Slurms MacKenzie]] facing out Fry and Bender's window.<br />
*The song "TV Party" by the punk band Black Flag is featured in this episode twice: First, in Act 2 when Bender is introduced in the theme song of ''All My Circuits'' but right before Dwight smokes his dad's "cigar". The second time is during the ending credits; however, this version is sung by the voice actors.<br />
*The sound effect during the Curiosity Company logo at the end is replaced by the Hypnotoad's "angry machine" sound effect.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Calculon''': ''[After Bender having auditioned.]'' That was so awful I think you gave me cancer! I don't care how popular you are, you'll never work on my show!<br />
'''Fry''': [outside] Yay Bender!<br />
'''Leela''': [outside] We demand Bender!<br />
'''Calculon''': However you've got the job.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': [watching ''Everybody loves Hypnotoad] ''This show has been going downhill since Season Three.''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Stupid damn coma. I could have been British.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': As unclean as it makes me feel, I agree with Bender. Kids don't turn rotten just by watching TV.<br />
'''Fry''': Yeah. Give a little credit to our public schools.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Bender should not be allowed on television!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh, I'm getting a reading of over forty Mega-Fonzies!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': TV would stink if everyone on it was a positive role model.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Pft! What kind of bozos would form a Bender protest group?<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': Good news, everyone! Hermes and I have formed a Bender protest group.<br />
'''Dr. Zoidberg''': That was uncanny.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Inside References ===<br />
* The [[Hypnotoad]] from "[[The Day the Earth Stood Stupid]]" now has its own TV series, ''[[Everybody Loves Hypnotoad]]''.<br />
* As the FARTers are marching down the street, a poster for ''[[The Scary Door]]'', a popular TV show in the Futurama universe, is seen on one of the studio doors.<br />
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=== Outside References ===<br />
* [[All My Circuits]] is running up to new heights of soap opera in this episode, imitating just about every other soap opera. Especially the much-liked amnesia is omnipresent in the first two minutes.<br />
* The [[Execu-Bots]] are a spoof of the executives of every TV network and their weird policies that at times seem like random mental spasms.<br />
* [[Calculon]] said that he only did one take. This may be an allusion to filmmaker Ed Wood, who usually used only one take to make his films.<br />
* The alarm that is set off when the Execu-Bots are coming is the same as the Red alert in ''[[Star Trek]]''.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*When the [[Fathers Against Rude Television|FART]] mob shows up, [[Calculon]] mentions "great Shatner's ghost", even though [[William Shatner's head]] is still alive. However, some argue this may simply be a thespian quip.<br />
**It's possible that the majority of Earth believed Shatner and the rest of the original "Star Trek" cast minus Leonard Nimoy, of course, died when they left Earth, and Calculon didn't hear they returned.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Antonio Calculon, Jr.]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Blek]]<br />
*[[Brett Blob]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Director]]<br />
*[[Donbot]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Emotitron Jr.]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Executive Alpha]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Executive Beta]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Executive Gamma]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Horrible Gelatinous Blob]]<br />
*[[Hypnotoad]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[McCauley Caulcon]]<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Stage Mom 7.0]]<br />
*[[Tinny Tim]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Cast ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Lewis Morton]]<br />
**[[Brian Sheesley]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|prev ep=A Taste of Freedom<br />
|broad prev=Obsoletely Fabulous<br />
|broad next=The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings<br />
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