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*At one point, the episode's production number was planned to be [[7ACV25]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedycentral.com/episodes/1w3i9s/futurama-futurama-live--season-7-ep-special|title=Futurama Live! - Episode - Season 7 - Ep. Special|date=2012-7-11|site=Comedy Central|accessdate=2013-7-10}}</ref>
*At one point, the episode's production number was planned to be [[7ACV25]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedycentral.com/episodes/1w3i9s/futurama-futurama-live--season-7-ep-special|title=Futurama Live! - Episode - Season 7 - Ep. Special|date=2012-7-11|site=Comedy Central|accessdate=2013-7-10}}</ref>
*This is the first segmented episode of the [[second run]] to not be a [[broadcast]]-season finale.
*This is the first segmented episode of the [[second run]] to not be a [[broadcast]]-season finale.
*[[Fry]] plays the Shaggy role. This is interesting because [[Billy West]], who voices Fry, provided the voice of Shaggy in ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island''.


=== Allusions ===
=== Allusions ===

Revision as of 13:17, 18 July 2013

Season 7 episode
Broadcast season 10 episode
Saturday Morning Fun Pit
Futurama and Friends Saturday Morning Fun Pit.jpg
Promotional picture featuring the Futurama and Friends: Saturday Morning Fun Pit! title card, released by Countdown to Futurama on 18 May, 2013.[1]
No.133
Production number7ACV19
Written byPatric M. Verrone
Directed byCrystal Chesney-Thompson
Title captionBROUGHT TO YOU BY Regretto PERMANENT CLOWN MAKEUP
First air date17 July, 2013
Broadcast numberS10E06
Special guest(s)George Takei
Kath Soucie
Larry Bird
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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"Saturday Morning Fun Pit" is the one hundred and thirty-third episode of Futurama, the nineteenth of the seventh production season, the sixth of the tenth broadcast season, and the sixth segmented episode. It aired on 17 July, 2013, on Comedy Central. The Futurama gang stars in a trio of craptastic morning cartoons.

Plot

Amid protests from angry viewers on the White House lawn, the head of Richard Nixon and the headless body of Spiro Agnew host a three-part episode featuring the Futurama gang in parodies of popular Saturday morning cartoons: Bendee Boo and the Mystery Crew (a Scooby-Doo parody featuring appearances by George Takei, Larry Bird, and the Harlem Globetrotters), Purpleberry Pond (a Strawberry Shortcake-meets-The Smurfs mash-up that was only created to plug its super-sugary cereal), and G.I. Zapp (a G.I. Joe parody that Nixon tries to edit for violence himself).

Act I: Bendee Boo and the Mystery Crew

Act II: Purpleberry Pond

Act III: G.I. Zapp

Production

On 2 September, 2012, it was revealed that the Scooby-Doo-esque segment of the episode would guest-star George Takei and Larry Bird.[2]

On 11 December, with the release of Volume 7 and its commentary for "Naturama", it was revealed that the episode would be directed by Crystal Chesney-Thompson.

The Countdown to Futurama posts from 19 May and 20 May, 2013, revealed the title of the Strawberry Shortcake-esque segment to be "Purpleberry Pond"[3] and the title of the Scooby-Doo-esque segment to be "Bendy Boo",[4] respectively. However, the Scooby-Doo-esque segment is actually called "Bendee Boo and the Mystery Crew".

By 9 July, the animatic for the Strawberry Shortcake segment had been released online.[5]

Image Gallery

Additional Information

Trivia

  • At one point, the episode's production number was planned to be 7ACV25.[8]
  • This is the first segmented episode of the second run to not be a broadcast-season finale.
  • Fry plays the Shaggy role. This is interesting because Billy West, who voices Fry, provided the voice of Shaggy in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.

Allusions

Click here to see cultural mentions made in this episode.
  • In the Bendee Boo segment, the crew members are re-imagined as Scooby-Doo characters. Fry plays the role of Shaggy, Leela plays the role of Daphne, Bender plays the role of Scooby-Doo, Hermes plays the role of Fred and Amy plays the role of Velma.
  • In the first Purpleberry Puffs commercial, there seem to be two Twix chocolate bars next to the bacon and the fried eggs.
  • Nixon renames the Leela character in G.I. Zapp as Pat. This is a reference to Nixon's wife — Pat Nixon.
  • Fry's name in the G.I. Zapp segment is Freezer Burn, a reference to the fact that he was frozen at the beginning of the show and has been frozen multiple times since.

Continuity

Quotes

    Narrator: Purpleberry Puffs are the sweetest part of your complete breakfast, along with juice, toast, ham, eggs, bacon, milk, cheese, liver, waffles and a biiiig horse vitamin!

Appearances

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Characters

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References

  1. ^ Countdown to Futurama: Futurama and Friends Saturday Morning Fun Pit. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 18 May 2013. Retrieved on 10 July 2013.
  2. ^ Tom Mohrman (02 September 2012). Bumbershoot Review Day 2: Futurama Writers Panel. (CultureMob.) Retrieved on 13 September 2012.
  3. ^ a b c Countdown to Futurama: Fry as Lord Loquat and Leela as Princess Purpleberry. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 19 May 2013. Retrieved on 10 July 2013.
  4. ^ a b Countdown to Futurama: Larry Bird Clones. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 20 May 2013. Retrieved on 10 July 2013.
  5. ^ Roy Camacho. FUTURAMA 719 (Purpleberry Pond) Animatic Board :Rufino Roy Camacho II. Retrieved on 09 July 2013.
  6. ^ Countdown to Futurama: Purpleberry Puffs Cereal. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 21 May 2013. Retrieved on 10 July 2013.
  7. ^ Comedy Central. Retrieved on 10 July 2013.
  8. ^ Futurama Live! - Episode - Season 7 - Ep. Special. (Comedy Central.) 11 July 2012. Retrieved on 10 July 2013.