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A Clone of My Own

Production Number: 2ACV10
Title Caption: Coming soon to an illegal DVD
First Aired: April 9, 2000

The Story

Act I: "Surprise!"

The Professor receives a surprise 150th birthday party. The party makes him think he's wasted his life. He decides to name a successor. After a few days the professor returns from his lab to announce his successor's identity, Cubert, his clone.

Act II: "Is he dumb or just ugly?"

Cubert is released from the Clone-O-Mat. He is instantly critical of the staff. When the professor begins showing off his inventions he criticises them too. The Professor takes everyone to Elzar's for dinner to celebrate Cubert being named successor, but Cubert doesn't wasn't to be an inventor. The Professor records a message for his staff, he's actually 160 and he has alerted the sunset squad to take him away.

Act III: "Why do I have to be the hump?"

The crew and Cubert receive the message and use the Smell-O-Scope to track him down. They arrive at the Near Death Star and disguise themselves as sunset squad robots and the Professor (and the Professor's hump). They rescue the Professor, then escape. Cubert decides he does want to be an inventor.

Additional Info

Trivia

The speed of light was increased; it is impossible to go faster than this new speed of light. However, old light waves are still at the old speed.
This is one of several episodes written by Patric Verrone where the title rhymes with his last name.
The Near Death Star looks very similar to The Infosphere.

Quotes

Farnsworth: Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooh, suddenly you've gone too far.
Fry: Sorry, everyone, but need I remind you? Blood is thicker than water.
Zoidberg: [writing] Blood ... thicker ... water.
Farnsworth: I have a very dramatic announcement. So anyone with a weak heart should leave now. Goodbye.
Leela: Wait. If he's your clone, why doesn't his nose look like yours?
Farnsworth: I left him in his first tube too long and he got squished up against the side.
Barrierbot: Did your hump just say something?
Fry: Uh ... I-I've got talking hump syndrome.
Barrierbot: Ah, T.H.S.
Bender: Your social security cheque is late! Stuff costs more than it used to! Young people use curse words!

Inside References

Second reference to French being a dead language. Previously evident in the pilot.

Outside References

The Professor's time machine is based on the design of the time machine from the movie based on H. G. Wells book.
Star Wars:
- Near Death Star is based on the Death Star.
- The hologram is based on Leia's hologram in Star Wars IV, including looking to the side and turning off the recorder.
- The high-speed chase is based on the original Star Wars trilogy:
  - The start is based on the chase on the Moon of Endor in Return of the Jedi.
  - The center part on the runs on the surface of the Death Star in the original Star Wars.
  - The end on the escape from Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back.
Captain Musky is based on Star Trek's Captain Pike, and is named after a different fish. The wheelchair returns in a later episode.
The hookups of the elderly and their being kept in a phantasy world are reminiscent of the plight of humanity in The Matrix.

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

Episode Credits

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 ***The end on the escape from Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back.
 *Captain Musky is based on Star Trek's Captain Pike, and is named after a different fish. The wheelchair returns in [[Where No Fan has Gone Before|a later episode]].
-*The hookups of the elderly on the Near Death Star are reminiscent of the humans' pods in The Matrix.
+*The hookups of the elderly and their being kept in a phantasy world are reminiscent of the plight of humanity in The Matrix.
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