All the Presidents' Heads

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Season 6 episode
Broadcast season 8 episode
All the Presidents' Heads
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Fry enters the Hall of Presidents in the Head Museum.
No.111
Production number6ACV23
Written byJosh Weinstein
Directed byStephen Sandoval
Title captionAPPLY VIEWING OIL NOW
First air date28 July, 2011
Broadcast numberS08E07
Title referenceAll the President's Men
Opening cartoonZoich (2010)
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Season 6
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  2. In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
  3. Attack of the Killer App
  4. Proposition Infinity
  5. The Duh-Vinci Code
  6. Lethal Inspection
  7. The Late Philip J. Fry
  8. That Darn Katz!
  9. A Clockwork Origin
  10. The Prisoner of Benda
  11. Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
  12. The Mutants Are Revolting
  13. The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
  14. The Silence of the Clamps
  15. Möbius Dick
  16. Law and Oracle
  17. Benderama
  18. The Tip of the Zoidberg
  19. Ghost in the Machines
  20. Neutopia
  21. Yo Leela Leela
  22. Fry Am the Egg Man
  23. All the Presidents' Heads
  24. Cold Warriors
  25. Overclockwise
  26. Reincarnation
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"All the Presidents' Heads" is the one-hundred-and-eleventh episode of Futurama, the twenty-third of the sixth production season and the seventh of the eighth broadcast season. It aired 28 July, 2011 on Comedy Central. The crew members alter history when they travel back in time to the American Revolution.

Plot

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Production

During May of 2011, Countdown to Futurama released three items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of the Planet Express headquarters with a Tudor architecture design on 27 May, concept art of Nibbler wearing an English attire on 28 May, and part of the storyboard showing Professor Farnsworth meet Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere on 29 May.

To coincide with Sarah Palin mangling the story of Revere's ride, Comedy Central Insider released a video clip featuring the Planet Express crew in the 18th century with Benjamin Franklin and Revere.[1] This was the second video clip of the broadcast season not to be released by Countdown to Futurama, the first being from "Neutopia" and the third being from "Benderama".

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Reception

In the original U.S. broadcast on 28 July, 2011, the episode scored a 0.8 share among adults aged 18-49 and 1.493 million total viewers, both up from the previous week.[2]

Additional Info

Trivia

The Fourth Doctor in New New York.

Allusions

  • The title is a reference to the book (and the film) All the President's Men.
  • FDR's head says, "We have nothing to fear but running out of beer." This is a reference to his inauguration speech, "The only thing we need to fear is fear itself."
  • Scruffy, Hermes, Leela, and Bender chant, "Four more beers! Four more beers!" This is a parody of a presidential chant, "Four more years! Four more years!" after a President is about to finish his first term.
  • Upon entering Boston in 1775, there is a sign saying the groundbreaking of the Big Dig is tomorrow. The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the United States and was plagued with rising costs, construction problems, and was completed 10 years behind schedule.
  • After Fry removes the second lamp from the Old North Church, Farnsworth says he "really screwed the granny", referring to the incestuous deeds Fry performed in "Roswell that Ends Well", and how that too changed the course of history.
  • British Hermes is wearing a Manhattan United shirt, a reference to Manchester United F.C..
  • Some references are made in the third act to the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
    • When Zoidsmythe is walking towards the screen to turn on the documentary, he is walking in the same manner as John Cleese from the famous "The Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch.
    • The part of the documentary recalling Paul Revere's ride is done in the style of Terry Gilliam's animations on the series. Ironically the one American member of the cast.
  • Bender's redesigned flag of the United States saying "Bite my fhiny metal aff" and Fry's misreading "Maffachufets" allude to the character long s (ſ) that was in common use at the time of the American Revolution.

Continuity

  • In some ways, this is the second time Fry takes a job as a feeder at the Head Museum. The first time, he was his time duplicate Lars Fillmore a few years prior to Bender's Big Score. This is referenced when Dr. Cahill ignorantly calls him Lars when he shows up for work.
  • The Continental Congress declared New Jersey to be the official joke state, another in the long line of jabs at the state on Futurama.

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References