The 30% Iron Chef

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Season 3 episode
Broadcast season 4 episode
The 30% Iron Chef
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No.54
Production number3ACV22
Written by[[Jeff Westbrook]][[Category:Episodes written by Jeff Westbrook|The 30% Iron Chef]]
Directed by[[Mike Smith]][[Category:Episodes directed by Mike Smith|The 30% Iron Chef]]
Title captionIf accidentally watched, induce vomiting
First air dateApril 14, 2002
Broadcast numberS04E11
Title referenceRefers to the competitive cooking show Iron Chef
Opening cartoon"Toys Will Be Toys"
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript

Pictures

Season 3
  1. Amazon Women in the Mood
  2. Parasites Lost
  3. A Tale of Two Santas
  4. The Luck of the Fryrish
  5. The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz
  6. Bendless Love
  7. The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
  8. That's Lobstertainment!
  9. The Cyber House Rules
  10. Where the Buggalo Roam
  11. Insane in the Mainframe
  12. The Route of All Evil
  13. Bendin' in the Wind
  14. Time Keeps on Slippin'
  15. I Dated a Robot
  16. A Leela of Her Own
  17. A Pharaoh to Remember
  18. Anthology of Interest II
  19. Roswell that Ends Well
  20. Godfellas
  21. Future Stock
  22. The 30% Iron Chef
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The Story

Act I: This food actually tastes better as vomit!

Opens with Bender watching Good Morning Earth with Morbo and Linda, Morbo hosts a segment with Bender's idol, the famous chef Elzar. Bender is cooking brunch in his usual, inedible style. Meanwhile, the Professor is showing off a scale model of the world's largest bottle. While the rest of the crew try to avoid eating Bender's cooking without hurting his feelings, Zoidberg stays behind and accidentally breaks the bottle. As he is returning to serve up glasses of mop-squeezings, he overhears Fry and Leela talking about how bad his cooking is. His feelings are so hurt, he leaves a note and runs away.

Act II: I thought you said "romo"

Bender tries to convince Elzar to teach him to cook, but he refuses. Miserable, he ends up meeting some hobos and joins them in hopping a train to the biggest hobo jungle in the quadrant, Bumbase Alpha, located on a remote asteroid. Meanwhile, Back at PE, Zoidberg concocts a plan to frame Fry for breaking the bottle.

Act III: That jerk Elzar ruined my dream of being a chef!

At Bumbase Alpha he meets Helmut Spargle, the chef who had once trained Elzar to cook. Spargle agrees to teach Bender to cook in order to get revenge on Elzar, who he blames for ending his career. In his final test, Bender serves Spargle a meal -- which kills him. Before he dies, he passes on the secret of perfect flavor, in the form of a diamond vial containing the essence of pure flavor. Bender vows to avenge his late teacher by defeating Elzar.< br/>

Back at Planet Express Headquarters, the Professor discovers the broken bottle and Zoidberg's fake clues pointing to Fry. Though he doesn't remember commiting the crime, Fry shrugs and pays the Professor $10 to replace the bottle. Zoidberg begins to feel guilty for framing his friend.

Act IV: You're going down!

Bender confronts Elzar and challenges him. They compete on the TV program "Iron Cook," where their secret ingredient was Soylent Green. Elzar produces a variety of eye-pleasing dishes, including a salad garnished with $100 bills. Although Bender's food looks awful, the judges declare that it tastes better and make him the winner. Bender gives a stirring speach, after which Zoidberg charges the stage to confess for framing Fry. Since he cannot repay the money, he attempts to commit seppuku, but ends up merely breaking a $5,000 sword on his shell.

Act V: Let me see that vial!

Back at PE, after watching the episode of Iron Cook on TV, the Professor tests Bender's vial of "pure flavor" and determines it to be water - laced with LSD!

Additional Info

Trivia

  • We learn in this episode that Bender has 8 senses, which do not include taste but do include an unexplaned sense, "Smision."

Quotes

  • Morbo: Pathetic humans, prepare to write down the recipe!!!
  • Leela: It's unbearable! How much do you think it would cost to have my tongue removed?
  • Hobo: We're going nearly the speed of light so, uh, roll when you land.
  • Bender: That is why I decline the title of Iron Cook, and accept only the lesser title of Zinc Saucier, which I just made up. Also, it comes with double prize money.
  • Martha Stewart's Head: I'm swimming in my own soylent waste. It's a good thing!
  • Bender: Master Spargle, if you can hear me up there in that ditch where I left you, this is for you!


Goofs

  • When Leela says the rest of the crew can escape, she says they can go to the ship and hide under the polar ice caps. While they are already in the room with the ship, they head out the door away from the ship.

Alien Language Sightings

Time: 00:15:10
Location: Store front sign as Bender walks by
Language: AL1
Translation: Used Human Probes

Time: 00:05:53
Location: Logo for show "Iron Cook"
Language: AL2
Translation: Iron Cook


Outside References

  • The montage showing Helmut Spargle teaching Bender to cook includes several references.
    • The music playing is from a training montage in The Karate Kid.
    • Bender peeling a hoverpotato with an enegy blade is a modeled after a scene from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, when Obi-Wan was teaching Luke to feel the force and use a light saber using a small, hovering drone that fired energy beams at him.
    • Bender accidentally chops up his arm along with a cucumber, and Spargle demonstrates that the blade is still sharp enough to slice through a tomato without crushing it - a reference to commercials for Ginsu knives.
  • Soylent Green is a reference to the cult-classic sci-fi movie by the same name.
  • The space train has cars bearing labels, all refrences to real railroad companies.
  • Koji's line "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto" is a reference to the song Mr. Roboto by the band Styx.
  • The show "Good Morning Earth" is a reference to the long-running ABC morning show Good Morning America.
  • The prism track splitter on the space rail track near Bumbase Alpha may be a reference to the cover for the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon.

Fast Forward

  • When Zoidberg sneaks into the bathroom to plant fake evidence, Fry is singing "I'm walking on sunshine," the same song he had taught his beloved pet Seymour. Seymour appears in the episode Jurassic Bark (4ACV07)


Characters

(In alphabetical order)

Episode Credits