How The West Was 1010001

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Season 8 episode
Broadcast season 11 episode
How The West Was 1010001
N/A
No.143
Production number8ACV03
Written byNona di Spargement
Directed byJames Kim
Title captionBased On An Actual UFO Sighting
First air date7 August, 2023 [1]
Broadcast numberS11E03
Title referenceThe 1962 film How the West Was Won, and the letter 'Q' in ASCII binary form.
Opening cartoonA Is for Atom by John Sutherland Productions (1953)
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript

Pictures

Season 8
  1. The Impossible Stream
  2. Children of a Lesser Bog
  3. How the West Was 1010001
  4. Parasites Regained
  5. Related to Items You've Viewed
  6. I Know What You Did Next Xmas
  7. Rage Against the Vaccine
  8. Zapp Gets Cancelled
  9. The Prince and the Product
  10. All the Way Down
← Season 7

"How The West Was 1010001" is the one hundred and forty-third episode of Futurama, the third of the eighth production season and the third of the eleventh broadcast season. It aired on 7 August, 2023 [1], on Hulu.


Plot

Act I

Act II

Act III

Production

The writer of record for this episode is Nona di Spargement.[2]. During the Futurama Fan Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2022, Patric Verrone revealed that the script was actually written by Ken Keeler.[3]

Reception

Additional information

Trivia

Allusions

  • 1010001 in binary is 51 in hexadecimal, 81 in decimal, and maps to the letter 'Q' in the ASCII standard.
  • During the Futurama Fan Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2022, Patric Verrone revealed that the number 81 itself also has a meaning.[4]
  • The title of this episode is also a reference to the 1962 film How the West Was Won.

Continuity

Quotes

Alien Language Sightings

Goofs

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References