Game of Tones

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Season 7 episode
Broadcast season 10 episode
Game of Tones
No.137
Production number7ACV23
Written byMichael Rowe
Directed byEdmund Fong
Title captionIF UNABLE TO SEE THIS MESSAGE, TURN ON FUTURAMA NOW
First air date14 August, 2013
Broadcast numberS10E10
Title referenceThe TV series Game of Thrones
Special guest(s)Sarah Silverman
Seth MacFarlane
Tom Kenny
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript
Animatic

Pictures

Season 7
  1. The Bots and the Bees
  2. A Farewell to Arms
  3. Decision 3012
  4. The Thief of Baghead
  5. Zapp Dingbat
  6. The Butterjunk Effect
  7. The Six Million Dollar Mon
  8. Fun on a Bun
  9. Free Will Hunting
  10. Near-Death Wish
  11. 31st Century Fox
  12. Viva Mars Vegas
  13. Naturama
  14. Forty Percent Leadbelly
  15. 2-D Blacktop
  16. T.: The Terrestrial
  17. Fry and Leela's Big Fling
  18. The Inhuman Torch
  19. Saturday Morning Fun Pit
  20. Calculon 2.0
  21. Assie Come Home
  22. Leela and the Genestalk
  23. Game of Tones
  24. Murder on the Planet Express
  25. Stench and Stenchibility
  26. Meanwhile
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"Game of Tones" is the one hundred and thirty-seventh episode of Futurama, the twenty-third of the seventh production season and the tenth of the tenth broadcast season. It aired on 14 August, 2013, on Comedy Central. The crew journeys into Fry's dreams to seek the meaning of a mysterious alien melody.

Plot

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Production

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As late as 8 January 2013,[1] the episode's title was revealed.[2]

On 5 February, Vulture.com released a preview clip for the tenth broadcast season,[3] which contained footage from the episode.

On 19 June, it was revealed that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane would voice Seymour in the episode.[4]

By 9 July, part of the animatic for the episode had been released online.[5][6] In the animatic, the montage of Fry spending time with his family was longer, and the song "1999" played over it.

By 8 August, Comedy Central had released a two-minute preview clip featuring the crew trying to discover the source of the melody.[7]

Image gallery

Additional information

Trivia

  • Fry was also stuck on an inclined table in "Cold Warriors", which also featured Fry's family. In addition, the digits in the production code for "Cold Warriors" add up to the same amount as the digits in the production code for this episode.
  • The episode shares multiple similarities with the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. A mysterious ship arrives, sending a strange melody to communicate, which, however, damages the planet, and the main characters have to travel back in time (in this episode through dreams).
  • Nibbler says "bye-bye keys", which a toddler Bart Simpson says in the Simpsons episode "Lisa's First Word".
  • The song that plays at the end of the episode is "Manchild", by the Eels, from the 1996 album Beautiful Freak.

Allusions

Click here to see cultural mentions made in this episode.

Continuity

Goofs

  • Fry's alarm clock reads "09:01" thirty seconds after turning to nine o'clock.
    • This may be due to the fact that the clock is part of a dream.
  • The design of the radio-cranial dream injector in the second act is different from the design of the radio-cranial dream injector in the first and third acts. The animatic version of the design, however, is the same.
  • Fry laments that he didn't get to say goodbye to his parents, but in "Space Pilot 3000", he seems thrilled at the notion all the people he ever knew were dead.
    • His feelings may have changed as time went by.

Quotes

    Hermes: But what are those aliens tryin' to ask us? What do the tones mean?
    Professor Farnsworth: Isn't it obvious?
    Hermes: Uh... No.
    Professor Farnsworth: Drat! I was hoping it was.

    Fry: Can you guys hear the professor too?
    Fry's father: Yup.
    Fry: Does that seem strange to you?
    Fry's mother: Well, no. Not in a dream. Lotsa weird stuff could happen.
    Seymour: Philip. Have you lost weight?

Appearances

Characters

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Places

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Miscellaneous

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References

  1. ^ Eric Rogers (08 January 2012). EricRogersLA. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 17 January 2012.
  2. ^ FoxFast: Futurama. (FoxFast.com.) Retrieved on 17 January 2013.
  3. ^ Jesse David Fox (05 February 2013). Watch a Preview of Futurama’s Seventh Season. (Vulture.com.) Retrieved on 23 June 2013.
  4. ^ a b Dan Snierson (19 June 2013). 'Futurama': Seth MacFarlane to play.... -- EXCLUSIVE. (Entertainment Weekly.) Retrieved on 19 June 2013.
  5. ^ Roy Camacho. FUTURAMA 723 :Rufino Roy Camacho II. Retrieved on 09 July 2013.
  6. ^ Animatic video. Retrieved on 16 August 2013.
  7. ^ I Too Was on Earth That Day - Video Clip. (Comedy Central.) Retrieved on 08 August 2013.
  8. ^ Countdown to Futurama: Fry Licking Seymour. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 02 June 2013. Retrieved on 02 June 2013.
  9. ^ Countdown to Futurama: Nibblonian Ship. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 03 June 2013. Retrieved on 07 August 2013.
  10. ^ Countdown to Futurama: Nibbler and Digby. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 04 June 2013. Retrieved on 07 August 2013.
  11. ^ Taryn Ryder (20 March 2013). Seth MacFarlane and ‘Game of Thrones’ Star Emilia Clarke Break Up. (Omg.yahoo.com.) Retrieved on 19 June 2013.