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|image text=Concept art for the alien form featured in the episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/52240909970/countdown-to-futurama-alien-form-we-are|title=Countdown to Futurama: Alien Form|date=2013-6-5|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Central's Tumblr page]|accessdate=2013-6-5}}</ref>
|image text=Concept art for the [[alien]] form featured in the episode.<ref name="countdown">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/52240909970/countdown-to-futurama-alien-form-we-are|title=Countdown to Futurama: Alien Form|date=2013-6-5|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Central's Tumblr page]|accessdate=2013-6-5}}</ref>
|written by=Lewis Morton
|written by=Lewis Morton
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|directed by=Frank Marino
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
[[Planet Express crew|The crew]] get trapped aboard [[Planet Express ship|the ship]] with a horrific alien creature.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/52240909970/countdown-to-futurama-alien-form-we-are|title=Countdown to Futurama: Alien Form|date=2013-6-5|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Central's Tumblr page]|accessdate=2013-6-5}}</ref>
[[Planet Express crew|The crew]] get trapped aboard [[Planet Express ship|the ship]] with a horrific [[alien]] creature.<ref name="countdown"/>


== Additional information ==
== Additional information ==
=== Allusions ===
=== Allusions ===
*The episode's title is a reference to the novel ''{{w|Murder on the Orient Express}}'' by {{w|Agatha Christie}}.
 
**[[Zoidberg]] reads the book in a [[deleted scene]] from "[[The Tip of the Zoidberg]]".
* The episode's title is a reference to the novel ''{{w|Murder on the Orient Express}}'' by {{w|Agatha Christie}}.
** [[Zoidberg]] reads the book in a [[deleted scene]] from "[[The Tip of the Zoidberg]]".


=== Quotes ===
=== Quotes ===
{{q|
{{q|
<poem>''[Leela opens up a cabinet full of weapons inside the Planet Express ship and takes a rifle from inside; stood around her is Fry, Bender, Amy and Zoidberg]''
<poem>''[Leela opens up a cabinet full of weapons inside the Planet Express ship and takes a rifle from inside; stood around her is Fry, Bender, Amy and Zoidberg.]''
'''Leela''': It's time we solved this problem the old fashioned way. By shooting it!
'''[[Leela]]''': It's time we solved this problem the old fashioned way. By shooting it!
'''Bender''': Wait, wait, wait, wait, you can't give everybody guns! What if one of us is the creature? It could be any of us: ''[The camera pans to each character as Bender calls out their name]'' Fry. Leela. Amy. Zoidberg. ''[The camera pans to another Zoidberg stood next to the original]'' Zoidberg.
'''[[Bender]]''': Wait, wait, wait, wait, you can't give everybody guns! What if one of us is the creature? It could be any of us: ''[The camera pans to each character as Bender calls out their name.]'' Fry. Leela. Amy. Zoidberg. ''[The camera pans to another Zoidberg stood next to the original.]'' Zoidberg.
''[Everyone gasps and backs away]''
''[Everyone gasps and backs away.]''
</poem>
</poem>
}}
}}


=== Appearances ===
=== Characters ===
==== Characters ====
 
{{chars-begin}}
{{chars-begin}}
*'''Debut''': [[Alien form]]
* '''Debut''': [[Alien form]]
* [[Amy]]
* [[Amy]]
* [[Bender]]
* [[Bender]]
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* [[Leela]]
* [[Leela]]
* [[Zoidberg]]
* [[Zoidberg]]
{{chars-begin}}
{{chars-end}}


== References ==
== References ==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}



Revision as of 22:31, 5 June 2013

Season 7 episode
Broadcast season 10 episode
Murder on the Planet Express
Futurama Murder on the Planet Express Alien Form.jpg
Concept art for the alien form featured in the episode.[1]
No.138
Production number7ACV24
Written byLewis Morton
Directed byFrank Marino
Title captionN/A
First air date21 August, 2013
Broadcast numberS10E11
Title referenceThe 1934 Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript

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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"Murder on the Planet Express" is the one hundred and thirty-eighth episode of Futurama, the twenty-fourth of the seventh production season and the eleventh of the tenth broadcast season.

Plot

The crew get trapped aboard the ship with a horrific alien creature.[1]

Additional information

Allusions

Quotes

    [Leela opens up a cabinet full of weapons inside the Planet Express ship and takes a rifle from inside; stood around her is Fry, Bender, Amy and Zoidberg.]
    Leela: It's time we solved this problem the old fashioned way. By shooting it!
    Bender: Wait, wait, wait, wait, you can't give everybody guns! What if one of us is the creature? It could be any of us: [The camera pans to each character as Bender calls out their name.] Fry. Leela. Amy. Zoidberg. [The camera pans to another Zoidberg stood next to the original.] Zoidberg.
    [Everyone gasps and backs away.]

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References

  1. ^ a b Countdown to Futurama: Alien Form. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 05 June 2013. Retrieved on 05 June 2013.