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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=Leela's Homeworld<br />
|no=56<br />
|image=[[File:Leela's Homeworld.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=4<br />
|number=4ACV02<br />
|caption=It's like "{{w|Hee Haw}}" with lasers<br />
|first aired=17 February, [[2002]]<br />
|written by=Kristin Gore<br />
|directed A by=Mark Ervin<br />
|directed B by=Swinton O. Scott III<br />
|title reference=<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=''In a Cartoon Studio'', {{w|Van Beuren Studios}}, 1931<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S04E05<br />
|prev ep=Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch<br />
|next ep=Love and Rocket<br />
|broad prev=Love and Rocket<br />
|broad next=Where the Buggalo Roam<br />
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[[Leela]] finally learns the truth about [[Turanga family|her parents]] and her own identity.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Get back in the sewer, weirdy!" ===<br />
[[File:Leela's Homeworld 2.jpg|thumb|left|"Just make sure you get my nonchalant side."]]<br />
The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] builds a new [[Nose Machine|machine]] that produces glow-in-the-dark-noses, but also causes a great amount of toxic waste. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] wants the Professor to get rid of the waste for legal reasons, so the Professor hires [[Bender]] to dispose of it. He dumps it into the [[NNY Sewers|sewers]], ruining [[Vyolet|Vyolet's]] wedding.<br />
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Meanwhile, [[Leela]] is named "Orphan of the Year" in the orphanarium she grew up in, the [[Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium]], and attends a ceremony there receiving the award. During the ceremony, [[Warden Vogel|Vogel]] talks about the day Leela was left on his doorstep. She was found with a letter in [[AL1]] and a bracelet, but Vogel never translated the letter. After this, Leela gives a speech telling the [[orphans]] to be proud of who they are, and they come to admire her. However, after the ceremony, she confesses to [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] that although she gave a speech telling the orphans that she was stronger being orphans, all she ever wanted was to have parents. Fry comforts her, and Leela says that she thinks that somewhere up in space, [[Turanga family|her parents]] are looking for. After she says this, we see [[Turanga Munda]] and [[Turanga Morris]] in the sewers, revealing that Leela is not an [[List of alien species|alien]] but a [[Sewer Mutants|mutant]].<br />
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=== Act II: "Mu-tate! Mu-tate! Mu-tate!" ===<br />
After Bender shoves an entire whale in the sewers, the Sewer Mutants strike back and pull Bender, Leela, and Fry down with the whale. All three are sentenced to be dumped into [[Lake Mutagenic]] to be mutated. (The liquid can't harm mutants as they already are mutated; nor can it harm robots because they don't have DNA, but the mutants get around this by stating they'll beat Bender up afterwards). They are rescued by two mysterious robed strangers who somehow know Leela's full name. After the robed strangers help them, the mutants chase them, hoping to recapture them. While running from the mutants, the crew break into a house that has a complete biography of Leela pinned on the walls plus a lot of stuff she flushed down the toilet. They are caught by the mutants and sentenced to death, but the mysterious strangers intervene again and they are only banished from the sewers. Fry and Bender go to the surface, but Leela stays behind and dives into Lake Mutagenic in pursuit of the strangers.<br />
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=== Act III: "Isn't that the same machine that makes noses?" ===<br />
[[File:Teenage Leela.jpg|thumb|left|Leela as a teenager, holding a birthday present given to her by her parents.]]<br />
Leela finds that she is not mutated by the sewage and pursues the two strangers deep into the sewers. Fry, in the meantime, searches for clues on Leela's origins in the orphanarium, and acquires the note that was pinned to Leela's basket when she was abandoned from Vogel. The note is written in an [[Alien Languages|alien language]], so he takes it to the Professor to analyze it. He uses the Nose Machine, pointing out that there's no reason it can do things other than make noses. Although the Machine is unable to decode the language, it does find out that the note originated from the sewers.<br />
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During a flashback, we find out that Leela's parents are Sewer Mutants. Leela had so few mutations that they decided to give her up to the orphanarium to enable her to lead a real life on the surface. Her mother wrote the note in Alienese to convince the warden Leela was an alien, not a mutant. Her parents chose never to reveal her true origins so she would not learn the shameful truth. The only connection between them is a bracelet they left with their daughter, of which her mother has a duplicate.<br />
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Meanwhile, Leela caught up with the robed strangers after they fled to the house with Leela's biography. She threatens them with a gun, desperate to retrieve information about her origins. She finds the duplicate bracelet on one of the strangers, and suspects they have taken it from her parents after they killed them. The strangers confess the deed, and Leela is about to kill them when Fry literally drops in from above and reveals the truth - the strangers are indeed Leela's parents. They were so desperate that their daughter should not learn her true heritage that they were prepared to die rather than reveal that piece of information, and they fear their daughter might despise them because of all they did.<br />
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Leela, realizing that after decades of searching she has finally found her parents, embraces them - the family is reunited. During a flashback, we see that Leela's parents had been helping her all along, even though she didn't know who they were.<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
The episode was named #23 on {{w|IGN}}'s list of [http://middlebower.blogspot.com/2009/06/ign-top-25-futurama-episodes.html top 25 ''Futurama'' episodes].<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*The eagle on Hermes' badge holds a folder saying "To Be Filed".<br />
*One of the orphans who won an award for "Often Seen in the Background of News Spots" appears in the background of Leela's interview one minute later (see picture).<br />
**Other awards include "Diligent Flosser", "Has Tasted Every {{w|McDonald's}} Sandwich" and "Successfully Switched from Heroin to Methadone".<br />
*The closing song for this episode is "Baby Love Child" by Japanese pop-rock band {{w|Pizzicato Five}}. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFV1JNgJA7s Link]<br />
*The orphanage offers espresso to the orphans.<br />
*The pedestrian crossing sign in the sewers had an image of a person with two heads and three legs.<br />
*Fry was flashing the crowd at Space Mardi Gras.<br />
*When the mutants gave the gang a tour, all of the buildings behind Fry said "Dry Cleaners".<br />
*''Alien code:'' When Leela looks down at her bracelet, you see the first official appearance of Alien Code 3. The code hasn't officially been translated.<br />
*In the flashback of how Leela's parents watched over her as a child, one of the math problems on her worksheet is incorrect.<br />
*Warden Vogel claims nobody on Earth, not even Brainzilla, can translate AL1 (Alienese), yet many other episodes contain AL1 written in places on Earth. For example, in "[[Bendin' in the Wind]]", Utah has been renamed Human Farm, written in AL1.<br />
** Perhaps whoever writes it in other episodes do not know English.<br />
*This is one of the only episodes to have no debuting characters.<br />
*In the UK this episode was rated U by the BBFC (meaning that it's suitable for all ages), yet, in America, it had a TV-PG rating (not suitable for younger audiences; parents may watch with kids or use discretion before letting kids watch the show unsupervised) for suggestive dialogue (D) and, on Comedy Central, all of the episodes (including this one) are rated TV-14 (unsuitable for kids under 14 years old).<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV08}}<br />
**News paper front page in the "Leela Museum" about the PE crew saving Earth from the [[giant ball of garbage|garbage ball]].<br />
*{{e|2ACV01}}<br />
**Leela's parents appear in a mutant crowd but don't make contact.<br />
*{{e|2ACV08}}<br />
**Picture of Leela in a karate robe seen in the "Leela Museum".<br />
*{{e|2ACV05}}<br />
**Bender tells the story about how he became known as Honest Bender.<br />
*{{e|3ACV09}}<br />
**Many of the orphans seen are the ones Bender adopted.<br />
*{{e|4ACV01}}<br />
**Leela gives Kif and Amy the basket her parents left her in at the orphanarium. However it is revealed that Vogel dumps the baskets in a pile and given they are all identical, it is unlikely that it was the correct basket.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*When the screen pans over the orphan's awards, the "often Seen in the Background of News Spots" orphan is on the far left, but appears on the right as Warden Vogel hangs Leela's photo.<br />
*The bracelet on Leela's mother's tentacle only appears when Leela notices it and snatches it from her.<br />
*At the end of the episode, it shows Leela as an adult sleeping and before her parents tuck her in, you can see that she is not wearing her [[Wristlojackimator]]. In previous episodes, when you see Leela go to sleep or get out of bed, she normally has it on.<br />
**She could've just decided to take it off that night.<br />
*When they are in the hot-air balloon when they "fire up the sewer gas," Fry, Leela and Bender start coughing. Bender shouldn't cough when he is a [[robot]] who doesn't breathe or have a nose.<br />
**He may still have a sense of smell (one of his many senses), or he is just trying to fit in.<br />
**He does have a nose as revealed in "[[Bender Gets Made]]". He just never wears it.<br />
*There are no ladders to reach the sewers, unlike in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", "[[The Mutants Are Revolting]]" and "[[I Second that Emotion]]".<br />
**They may be in a different part of the sewer with no ladders, as we never see a ladder in other episodes in the places shown in this episode (except for the ladder that leads all the way out, as shown in "[[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles]]" to be right next to the [[Turanga house]]).<br />
*The baby Leela in the basket has a card hanging around her neck saying "Hello! My name is Turunga Leela". Later on when her parents remember leaving her there, she doesn't have it anymore.<br />
*In "[[Mother's Day]]", Leela's Wristlojackimator abandoned her and there was no bracelet under it.<br />
**The other times we have seen Leela without the Wristlojackimator she had opportunity to remove the bracelet as well, so those are not considered goofs.<br />
*Hermes' badge says "Federal Bureaucracy", yet in "[[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]" and "[[Lethal Inspection]]" he was working for the [[Central Bureaucracy]].<br />
*Raoul Inglis is previously shown and said to have only one ear, but is now shown with both ears intact.<br />
**Maybe he is constantly mutating since it is only in "I Second that Emotion" where he has one ear.<br />
<!--***That's impossible since it's been confirmed that mutants cannot mutate more.<br />
****Hey, you know what? I bet mutants undergo cosmetic surgery from time to time. Maybe he felt having one ear made him look weird?--><br />
*Although the orphanarium was renamed the "Bender B. Rodriquez Orphanarium" in "[[The Cyber House Rules]]", it seems to have reverted to the original name "[[Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium]]".<br />
*During most shots of the Leela's basket, the screw that connects the handle to the rest of the basket is silver. However, during one shot, the screw is brown.<br />
*Although the commentary states that the dead whale Bender stuffs into the sewer is [[Mushu]], this is impossible, since Mushu doesn't appear for fourteen more episodes, and since that whale is a completely different type of whale than Mushu (probably an orca).<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*When Leela emerges from the green wastes, [[Virginia|the octopus on her head]] looks like a reference to the movie ''{{w|Hot Shots! Part Deux}}'', when the fishing boat explodes and Ramada exits the water with an octopus on her head, which in itself is an allusion to the short story ''{{w|The Call of Cthulhu}}''.<br />
*The leg sewer mutant was wearing a {{w|Boston Red Sox}} baseball hat.<br />
*Among the parts of parade balloons used in creating the hot air balloon that returns to the surface is made from {{w|Underdog (TV series)|Underdog}}, {{w|Bart Simpson}}, {{w|Bullwinkle J. Moose}} and [[Garfield|Garfield's]] owner {{w|Jon Arbuckle}}.<br />
*Professor Farnsworth says that deciphering the alien language on Leela's note could take an hour or a hundred million years. This is a reference to the {{w|halting problem}} in {{w|Computability theory (computer science)|computability theory}}.<br />
<!--<br />
**The halting problem is undecidable meaning that there is no algorithm guaranteed to solve it (not even in a hundred million years). Professor's explanation implied that the problem of analyzing the alien note was decidable.<br />
***No, the professor states "Of course, even if it is possible to analyse the message, there's no way of knowing how long it would take." Therefore, it's not certain you can translate the message and if you can there's no way to know how long the process will last. In other words, the problem is in {{w|RE (complexity)|RE}}, which is the same class as the halting problem.<br />
--><br />
*The wall upon which Leela's parents have chronicled her life is a reference to ''{{w|Being John Malkovich}}''.<br />
*When Leela comes across the wall with her chronicled life, she gasps "Great {{w|Cheech Marin|Cheech}}'s ghost!", which is a reference to the {{w|Superman}} character {{w|Perry White}}, who often says "Great Caesar's ghost!" when angry, exasperated or surprised. A similar reference was also made in "[[Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television]]".<br />
*The {{cat|computer}} on the Warden's desk appears similar to the personal computers used in ''[[Star Trek]]: {{st|Star Trek: The Next Generation|The Next Generation}}''.<br />
*Businesses in the sewers include {{w|Bed Bath & Beyond|Bed, Bath and Beneath}}, {{w|Big Boy (restaurant)|Big Mutant Boy's}}, and {{w|Starbucks}}.<br />
*''{{w|Free Willy 3: The Rescue}}'' is referenced when Bender says he has to clean up the set and dumps a whale in the sewers.<br />
*The Professor's Glow-in-the-dark noses is an obscure reference to the movie ''{{w|Skin Deep (1989 film)|Skin Deep}}''.<br />
*The mutagenic lake when seen from above resembles one big eye.<br />
*One of the orphanarium's Wall-of-Famers is revealed to have been inducted for having successfully switched from heroin to methadone (visible on his photograph). This is a reference to the film "Annie Hall," in which Woody Allen imagines one of his former elementary school classmates to have stopped being a heroin addict in order to be a methadone addict.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Warden Vogel''': It is not easy being an orphan. Not if I've anything to do with it!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Hermes]]''': It looks like toxic waste. ''[He sniffs.]'' And it smells like toxic waste.<br />
'''Fry''': What does it taste like?<br />
''[Hermes tastes it.]''<br />
'''Hermes''': Delicious fig pudding! Ooh, that's good! But a distinct after-taste of toxic waste.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': Wow! Cool!<br />
'''Bender''': Now I can punch you in the nose in the dark! ''[Professor Farnsworth sneezes and turns the light on. The glow-in-the-dark nose is on Bender.]'' Where did it go?</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Time''': 3:32<br />
'''Location''': Note attached to Leela<br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br />
'''Translation''': YOUR PARENTS LOVE YOU VERY MUCH</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Albert]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Dwayne]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Leg Mutant]]<br />
*[[Turanga Morris and Munda|Turanga Morris]]<br />
*[[Turanga Morris and Munda|Turanga Munda]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mutant nurse]]<br />
*[[Nina]]<br />
*[[Raoul Inglis]]<br />
*[[Sally]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Vyolet]]<br />
*[[Warden Vogel]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Kristin Gore]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Mark Ervin]]<br />
**[[Swinton O. Scott III]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Kristin Gore]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Swinton O. Scott III]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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[[Category:Media wherein characters run away]]</div>69.127.181.177http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Roswell_that_Ends_Well&diff=144961Roswell that Ends Well2014-06-19T17:44:56Z<p>69.127.181.177: /* Allusions */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=Roswell that Ends Well<br />
|no=51<br />
|image=[[File:Roswell that ends well.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=4<br />
|number=3ACV19<br />
|caption=Fun for the whole family<br>Except grandma and grandpa<br />
|first aired=9 December, [[2001]]<br />
|written by=J. Stewart Burns<br />
|directed by=Rich Moore<br />
|title reference=[[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''{{w|All's Well That Ends Well}}''<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=''{{w|Congo Jazz}}''<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S04E01<br />
|nomination={{w|Annie Award|'''Annie Awards'''}}<br>Outstanding Directing in an Animated Television Production, 2003, [[Rich Moore]] '''(won)'''<br><br />
{{w|Emmy Award|'''Emmy Awards'''}}<br>{{w|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)#2000s|Outstanding Animated Program, 2002}} '''(won)'''<br />
|special commentary=directors<br />
|prev ep=Anthology of Interest II<br />
|next ep=Godfellas<br />
|broad prev=I Dated a Robot<br />
|broad next=A Tale of Two Santas<br />
|other title=originally titled "'''All's Well in Roswell'''"<br />
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Travelling back to July 1947 to Roswell, New Mexico, the {{Planet Express|crew}} causes the famed {{w|Roswell UFO incident|Roswell incident}}, and [[Dr. Zoidberg]] is captured by the [[U.S.]] [[United States Army|military]]. Meanwhile, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] accidentally kills his paternal grandfather [[Enos Fry]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Hey, what smells like blue?" ===<br />
21 September 3002: The crew of the [[Planet Express Ship]] is attending a unique event, accompanied by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] and [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]]: a supernova right up close. For this momentous occasion, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] makes some popcorn in the ship's microwave oven, but unfortunately, he uses a portion of corn wrapped in metal foil. This causes a microwave malfunction, which generates a field of blue radiation which collides with the red radiation emitted by the exploding star. Both fields react violently with each other and hurl the PE ship through a time tunnel which carries it to Earth. <br />
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Without the help of GPS and with a failing drive, the PE ship crash-lands in the desert. [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] refuses to buckle up and is ejected through one of the cockpit windows; upon landing his body is smashed to pieces across the desert, temporarily reducing him to his head. Zoidberg is left to pick up Bender's body, but just as he is finished, he is abducted with the parts by the soldiers of [[Roswell Army Air Field|a nearby air force base]]. It turns out that the crew has travelled back to July 1947 and has landed near Roswell, New Mexico. Bender's body is mistaken for an UFO, and Zoidberg is mistaken for an evil alien – almost correct.<br />
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=== Act II: "A Buffet! Oh, if only I had my wallet with me." ===<br />
Return to the future is only possible as long as the hole in the time-space continuum punched by the supernova remains open, which leaves exactly 24 hours. The crew has several tasks to complete: acquire a new microwave and rescue Zoidberg and Bender's body, all without upsetting history. Things become more complicated as Fry mentions that his grandfather [[Enos Fry]] is stationed at Roswell, which presents the danger of time paradoxes as he is the only one who can infiltrate the military base without arousing suspicion, as he is the right age to be a soldier, male and two-eyed. <br />
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Meanwhile, the bases officers are interrogating Zoidberg and doing tests on him, to little effect, and they inform the President. Fry, carrying Bender's head, sneaks onto the air base (disguised in an army uniform with the help of All Purpose Spray), and soon runs into his paternal grandfather, [[Enos Fry]]. Fry is desperate to remove him from any dangers that might threaten his life, but inadvertently pushes him into a pile of rusty bayonet heads, then drags him out of the base – and right into an active minefield. They eventually make it into the town and enter a local diner, where Fry also meets Enos' fiancé and Fry's grandmother, [[Mildred Fry|Mildred]]. However, Enos shows signs of homosexuality (or bisexuality). <br />
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Meanwhile, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and the Professor, both in heavy disguise, are attempting to buy a microwave oven, which does not exist in 1947. The sleazy salesman tries to unload a huge gas oven on them, offending Leela with his antiquated female role stereotypes. Fry, in his attempt to bring his grandfather to safety, drives him to a remote house and tells him to stay there, then leaves. Shortly afterwards, the house is vaporized by the blast of a nuclear weapon test nearby, as is Enos. <br />
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Bender's head taunts Fry: "And you are out of here!"<br />
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=== Act III: "Are you coming on to me?" ===<br />
Meanwhile, Leela and the Professor order lunch at the diner. Leela spots a radar dish in the air base, which would suffice as a substitute for a microwave as it emits the same radiation; but the Professor vetoes her proposal to steal it, insisting that they must not interfere with history. On that note, Fry arrives with the grim news that he has accidentally killed his grandfather, and everyone is puzzled why he (or, given their kinship, the Professor as well) did not vanish. Since he and the Professor are still alive, Enos must have already gotten Mildred pregnant (though nobody in the crew arrives at such a conclusion).<br />
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[[file:Mildred.jpg|thumb|left|160px|Upon receiving the news of [[Enos Fry|her fiancée's]] death, [[Mildred Fry|Mildred]] comes on to Fry.]]<br />
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Mildred receives the news of Enos' death and breaks down in tears. Fry attempts to comfort her, and agrees to walk her back to her house. She invites him in and they share a drink. Fry reminds Mildred of Enos and becomes attracted to him. Disturbed by the thought of incest, Fry tries to talk her out of sex. Mildred ignores him and rips open her shirt. Fry is shocked by this turn of events, and even more so the fact that he exists – he therefore reasons that Mildred cannot be his ''real'' grandmother, and that [[Yancy Fry, Sr.|his father]] must have actually been born to different parents, thereby making it okay to sleep with Mildred. <br />
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While this is happening, President [[Harry S. Truman]] himself arrives at Roswell to handle the UFO case and the interrogation of Zoidberg. The scientists have arranged Bender's parts in the shape of a flying saucer. The President orders a vivisection of Zoidberg, which costs him a number of his internal organs, including one of his four hearts which seems to be a permanent loss. <br />
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The following morning, Leela, the Professor and Bender track Fry down and are appalled at what they see. Fry states that Mildred is not really his grandmother. The Professor insists otherwise and states that Fry has become his own grandfather. Fry panics afterwards.<br />
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After Leela manages to finally calm Fry down (mostly by smacking him around) the Professor decides that they have no alternative: they must abandon secrecy and pursue their goals by means of force, as time is running out. History will have to take care of itself as Fry seemingly already messed things up. The PE ship [[Planet Express attack on Roswell Army Air Field|attacks]] Roswell Air Base, where the crew rescue Zoidberg and Bender's body and steal the radar dish. As the ship leaves the atmosphere, Bender's head falls out of the cargo hatch, and there is no time to retrieve it as the supernova hole is almost closed; the PE ship narrowly gets through it and returns to the future. <br />
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Fry is left mourning the fact that Bender is trapped 1,000 years in the past, until he realizes that Bender's head should still be where it fell. Bender survived a millennium without alcohol. Fry, Leela, and the Professor again travel to the remains of Roswell Air Base and search for Bender's head, eventually locating it and reuniting it with his still saucer-shaped body.<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
This episode was named #3 on {{w|IGN}}'s list of [http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/09/top-25-futurama-episodes?page=5 top 25 ''Futurama'' episodes] and #1 on {{w|io9}}'s list of [http://io9.com/5814694/the-10-best-futurama-episodes top 10 ''Futurama'' episodes].<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:August2007calendar.JPG|thumb|August - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The first photo taken by the Conspiracy Nut looks a lot like the famous 1997 Arizona UFOs which were described as hovering in a V-shaped path.<br />
*The photo of the Planet Express Ship turned into the iconic {{w|Loch Ness Monster#The 'Surgeon's Photograph' (1934)|'Surgeon's Photograph' (1934)}}.<br />
*Mildred has the {{w|Ten Commandments}} on her wall. In the 'Directors Commentary', episode director, Rich Moore, stats that the reason for this is that about seven of them are broken in this episode alone.<br />
*In 1947, {{w|Rock music}} did not exist so instead of the {{w|Hard Rock Cafe}} it is the "Hard Croon Cafe".<br />
*The {{w|Flag of the United States}} has 48 stars, as used between 1912 (when Arizona and New Mexico became States) and 1959 (when Alaska and Hawaii became States, bringing the total to 50).<br />
*In a previous episode we discover that Bender is only 4 years old. Due to his head (but not his body) spending over 1,000 years buried underground, following this episode his head's age is 1,055 years older than his body.<br />
*This is the first episode of Futurama to feature [[Time Travel]], a subject the show's creators did not want to broach too early/often due to the confusing direction that such stories can lead in. <br />
*This episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) in 2002.<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 is the second time that Bender was separated from his body for almost the whole episode, the first one being "[[{{e/titles/2ACV03}}]]".<br />
*{{w|Sci Fi Weekly}} gave the episode an "A" grade and noted that it was "a half hour of pure entertainment".<br />
*Although the episode was well received by critics, it continued to do poorly in its time slot. The original airing was in 83rd place for the week with a 3.1 rating/5 share.<br />
*Enos never got time to clean the toilet bowl. But still the sergeant's eating out of it! Then again, considering the sergeant apparently did not know about Enos's death, he may have just assumed that Enos had done it anyway.<br />
*Zoidberg apparently has no teeth since the devilled egg is lying completely intact in his stomach, though he is drawn with teeth in earlier episodes.<br />
**He's shown earlier in the episode to be a very messy eater. Perhaps he simply doesn't chew.<br />
*During their rescue of Bender and Zoidberg from the military base, the Planet Express ship fires a missile which clearly has the episode title painted on the side. This is one of the few episodes to mention the title during the episode, others being "[[{{e/titles/1ACV09}}]]" and "[[{{e/titles/4ACV06}}]]".<br />
*The windows of the hangar in the fight sequence between the planes and the PE ship has "DAMNED" written in the windows with different shades of glass.<br />
*The events of this episode introduce us to [[Time Travel|time]] paradoxes.<br />
*[[President of the United States|President]] [[Harry S. Truman]] mentions [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] when the Planet Express crew attacks [[Roswell Army Air Field]].<br />
*The Roswell UFO incident is often linked to {{w|Nevada}}'s {{w|Area 51}}, which is surrounded by a number of conspiracy theories related to alien life. This episode is episode 51.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Fry''': I've never seen a supernova blow up, but if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova, it'll light up the night sky.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': That's no flyin' saucer, that's my ass!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': OK, here's the plan. Zoidberg - pick up the pieces. Everyone else - take five.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Your grandfather?! Stay away from him, you dim-witted monkey! You mustn't interfere with the past! Don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to do it, in which case for the love of God, don't not do it!<br />
'''Fry''': Got it.<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': If, for example, you were to kill your grandfather, you would cease to exist.<br />
'''Fry''': But existing is basically all I do!</poem><br />
<poem>'''General''': What's your purpose?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Alright, officer, I'll move it along.<br />
'''Military Official''': What the general means is, why did you come to Earth?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Not a day goes by I don't ask myself the same question.</poem><br />
<poem>'''President Truman''': Whistlin' Dixie! I want [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|this]] sent to Area 51 for study!<br />
'''General''': But Sir, that's where we are building the fake [[moon]]-landing site!<br />
'''President Truman''': Then we'll have to really land on the moon! Invent [[NASA]] and tell them to get off their fannies!</poem><br />
<poem>'''President Truman''': If you come in peace, surrender or be destroyed. If you're here to make war, we surrender.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Start the ship, Leela! Let's just steal the dish and get back to our own time.<br />
'''Fry''': But won't that change history?<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oooh, a lesson in not changing history from "Mr. I'm-my-own-grandpa". Let's get the hell out of here already! Screw history!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Mildred''': In times like these I just need someone to hold me! [grabs Fry's arm] Mmmm you like holding me don't you?<br />
''[Fry starts shaking violently.]''<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, you know what always cheers you up, baking me a nice tray of sugar cookies!<br />
'''Mildred''': How about these cookies, sugar? ''[She rips her shirt off revealing her bra.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Base Officer''': Stomach contents: deviled egg.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Deviled egg? ''[Eats deviled egg.]''<br />
'''Base Officer''': The same deviled egg.</poem><br />
<poem>'''General''': This experiment will determine what, if anything, the alien eats.<br />
''[Zoidberg is released into a room with a large table of food in front of him.]''<br />
'''Zoidberg''': A buffet! Oh, if only I'd brought my wallet!<br />
'''General''': It's free.<br />
''[A scream of delight echoes as Zoidberg hurls himself at the buffet. Food splatters the window, followed by Zoidberg, who starts eating the food off the window.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Oh, I'm sorry. now I'll ask you again; where can we find a ''mi-cro-wave?''<br />
'''Salesman''': Sir, your wife's hysterical, so I'll address this to you. This oven is lightning fast. it takes only five hours to cook a roast.<br />
'''Farnsworth''': Ooh, that's good news! You know, you really don't cook enough roasts, Leela. ''[Leela turns the gas hob on, setting fire to Farnsworth's tie. He turns to the salesman.]'' Women!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Colonel''': ''[Interrogating Zoidberg.]'' Why did you come to Earth?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': [exasperated] Not a day goes by I don't ask myself the same question.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': The ship's fixed except for the cup-holder, and I should have ''that'' operational within ten hours.<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': You've got eight!</poem><br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV12}}<br />
**[[List of Products#All Purpose Spray|All Purpose Spray]] makes a second appearance. In "When Aliens Attack" the can doesn't have anything written on it but this time it does say "All Purpose Spray".<br />
*{{e|2ACV16}}<br />
**This episode explains why the universe was destroyed. Had Fry not been frozen, it would create a paradox and destroy the [[Timeline of Futurama|timeline]].<br />
*{{e|3ACV02}}<br />
**Fry's sperm production problem was healed. He was made sterile in "[[{{e/titles/1ACV13}}]]". It is conceivable that it was cured before "[[Parasites Lost]]" though this is the first time his cure is confirmed. Zoidberg is seen riding a sperm in the episode "Parasites Lost" as well.<br />
*{{e|4ACV05}}<br />
**Zoidberg states that two of his three hearts (one having been removed) are having attacks.<br />
*{{e|4ACV10}}<br />
**Fry says "What about the time we went back to Roswell?" The Professor does not remember this.<br />
*{{f|4}}<br />
**The [[Number 9 Man]] tells Fry that he has an unreadable brainwave, perhaps referring to his lack of the Delta Brainwave.<br />
*{{e|6ACV07}}<br />
**The Professor invents a [[forward time machine]] with the argument that it would prevent someone doing something disgusting, such as sleeping with ones own grandmother.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*This episode has many ''[[Star Trek]]'' references:<br />
**On the table in the diner, there's a Starfleet emblem in the glossy table pattern<br />
**Fry pushing Enos out of the way of an oncoming car is reference to {{w|The City on the Edge of Forever}} from {{w|Star Trek: The Original Series}}<br />
**The episode shares much in common with the episode {{w|Little Green Men (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)|Little Green Men}} of {{w|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''}}.<br />
**The time hole looks almost exactly like the Bajoran Wormhole from {{w|Emissary (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)}}<br />
**The Deep Space Nine episode {{w|Trials and Tribble-ations}} where Dr Bashir thinks he may have been sent back to become his own grandfather.<br />
**The fate of Bender's head is a parody of the {{w|Star Trek: The Next Generation|''Star Trek: The Next Generation''}} episode {{w|Time's Arrow (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|''Time's Arrow''}} in which {{w|Data (Star Trek)|Data's}} head is detached in the 19th century and found in an archaeological dig in 2368.<br />
**This episode also references Star Trek in general as Leela claims she will have the last of the ship fixed in ten hours Farnsworth in the classic fashion of Star Trek reduces that time by a couple of hours. In this case however the part of the ship that is broken is the cup holder.<br />
*This episode has many references to ''[[The Simpsons]]'':<br />
**One of the stores in the episode is called ''Gil's Televisual Radios''. {{s|Gil Gunderson}} is a character from ''The Simpsons'' who sells many different items.<br />
**One of the clocks they fly past and that ends up inside the ship is the cat clock from the Simpsons' house.<br />
**The way Enos' sergeant yells "Enos!" is like the way {{s|Gary Chalmers}} yells "Skinner!", which in turn is derived from the Sergeant's similar yell in {{w|Gomer Pyle}}..<br />
*Zoidberg seems to have a tongue similar to the ovipositor of the {{w|Alien (Alien franchise)#Facehugger|facehugger alien}} from the {{w|Alien (franchise)|Alien}} movies.<br />
*This episode spoofs {{w|Independence Day (film)|Independence Day}} when Zoidberg throws himself against the glass of the containment room, to the horror of the onlookers. This scene may also recall the Star Trek: TNG episode "Genesis," in which a spider-like Lt. Barclay startles Captain Picard by pressing his face to the viewports in Engineering.<br />
*The Professor's eyes reflecting the passing colours in the vortex is a reference to ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.<br />
*The drawing on the bomb is a reference to the crude cartoons and slogans scrawled on many American bombs during the Second World War, which also is referenced in {{w|Dr. Strangelove}}.<br />
*In the final scene, Bender, having been left behind in the Roswell desert, is recovered by the crew over a thousand years later, unchanged and in the same place. When Fry and Leela appear, he tells them "I was enjoying it until you guys showed up". This might be inspired by a similar scene in {{w|Douglas Adams|Douglas Adams'}} {{w|The Restaurant at the End of the Universe}}, in which {{w|Marvin the Paranoid Android}} is stranded in the restaurant's parking lot for millions of years. Like Bender, he shows neither surprise nor enthusiasm at finally being rescued by his former crew-mates.<br />
*Much of the plot of this episode references the Roswell UFO incident with the Planet Express crew as the alien invaders, particularly Dr. Zoidberg, and Bender being mistaken for the alien spacecraft.<br />
*Much of Enos' character is taken from {{w|The Andy Griffith Show|''The Andy Griffith Show’s''}} (and later ''{{w|Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.}}'') {{w|Gomer Pyle}}, such as his accent and use of Pyle’s trademark “Gol-ly!”, and rumours that the show's star, Jim Nabors, was gay.<br />
*The episode bears many obvious similarities to the {{w|Back to the Future (series)|''Back to the Future''}} movies. It also strikingly resembles an early draft of the script to the first film, in which {{w|Marty McFly}} uses the blast of an atomic bomb to reactivate the time machine, and eventually reappears in the present in a refrigerator left out in the desert, similar to how Bender's head was left in the desert for over a thousand years.<br />
*The dramatic jeep headlight effects when they find Zoidberg is similar to {{w|The X-Files}}. Also when Zoidberg is being interrogated, President Truman asks if he is here to create an alien-human hybrid. This is possibly a reference to the The X-Files, although it was the humans trying to create an alien-human hybrid.<br />
*This episode makes strong use of the {{w|Grandfather paradox|Grandfather Paradox}} which is often present when dealing with time travel to the past.<br />
*The [[Soylent Products]] that the Professor asks for come from the movie {{w|Soylent Green|''Soylent Green''}}.<br />
*There are some similarities to the movie {{w|No Time for Sergeants|''No Time for Sergeants''}} in the character of Enos and his fate.<br />
*In a short story by {{w|Robert A. Heinlein}}, {{w|—All You Zombies—|"All you Zombies"}}, the narrator, through time travel and sex change, is his own mother and father. Maybe Fry's zombie reference in connection with Enos' death is a spoof of this.<br />
*There was a song called {{w|I'm My Own Grandpa|"I'm My Own Grandpa"}} produced in 1947 (coincidentally, the year of the Roswell incident), which was also mentioned in Heinlein's short story "—All You Zombies—".<br />
*The missile has a drawing of Dr. Zoidberg done in the fashion of {{w|Kilroy was here|Kilroy}}.<br />
*Leela slaps Fry and shouts, "Snap out of it!" recalling a famous scene from the movie "Moonstruck," when Cher does the same to Nicholas Cage.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*In the opening scene, the supernova can be seen from Earth, but the light would not have reached Earth as it appears to be many lightyears away based on the size of it.<br />
*When Leela is slapping Fry, the buttons on her [[Wristlojackimator]] are on the wrong end.<br />
*When Bender crashes into the ground, his head is missing the antenna and is deformed by the crash, but when Fry holds his head, it's back to its original shape with antenna.<br />
*When they take the satellite, it was on the bathroom roof, but when we first see it, it's on a big brick building.<br />
*Enos died in an atomic test explosion at Roswell in 1947. The United States did no atomic explosion testing in 1947, either in mainland America or south Pacific atolls. Tests were performed in 1946 and on atolls in 1948, but none in 1947, for whatever reason.<br />
*The United States also never tested nuclear weapons near Roswell, New Mexico. Tests in the continental USA were performed at the Nevada Test Site, in a completely different state.<br />
** Perhaps Fry drove Enos far away to "protect" him.<br />
*Fry stares directly at a nuclear blast, which should permanently blind him.<br />
**He looks at it ''after'' it has gone off. It is the light from the initial explosion that will blind you, looking at the ''mushroom'' is perfectly okay.<br />
*The [[Statue of Liberty]] carries her trademark torch instead of a tube, which it carries in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", or a ray gun, which it carries in the [[opening sequence]].<br />
**Presumably the arm was rebuilt after it was destroyed at the end of "[[When Aliens Attack]]".<br />
*When Enos and Fry sit in the diner there are normal city-buildings across the street. When Leela and Farnsworth order a meal from Mildred there you can see Roswell Airbase.<br />
** Perhaps the diner has windows on two sides.<br />
*The fighters on the ground were {{w|P-51D#P-51D and P-51K|P-51Ds}} but the airborne fighters chasing the ship were P-51As, which in real life had been largely phased out of the U.S military.<br />
*Fry says that if watching a supernova explode is anything like his old Chevy Nova, then it would light up the night sky, even though it was established in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]" and "[[Jurassic Bark]]" that Fry had a bicycle (though the bike could have been his mode of transportation while working as a delivery boy for Panucci's Pizza) and doesn't know how to drive. Although Fry has in other episodes mentioned driving a car for example in "[[The Lesser of Two Evils]]" he is able to drive, albeit badly, a car at [[Past-O-Rama]].<br />
** Perhaps Fry had a car in the past (possibly the Chevy Nova), but it either got stolen, or (as stated), it blew up ("lit up the night sky").<br />
*Bender's head was buried in the desert for 1000 years, but when Fry digs him up, Bender shows no ill effects from going without alcohol for that time, like he did in "[[I, Roommate]]" and "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]". Though he may have offlined, this is backed up when he states that during his retirement he wants to switch his "on" switch to "off" during the episode "Insane in the Mainframe" and back in this episode he says "I was enjoying it [being stuck in a hole] until you guys showed up." This suggests that Bender enjoys being offline and presumably Robots don't use up alcohol when they're off.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': The [[conspiracy nutter]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Enos Fry]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry]]<br />
*[[Harry S. Truman]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Male CDC scientist]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mildred Fry]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[J. Stewart Burns]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[J. Stewart Burns]]<br />
**[[Susan Dietter]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
*Bonus Animators Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Claudia Katz]]<br />
**[[Scott Vanzo]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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