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* [[Morbo]]'s quiz show ''[[Who Dares To Be A Millionaire?]]'' is a reference to the 20th century quiz show {{w|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?}}.
* [[Morbo]]'s quiz show ''[[Who Dares To Be A Millionaire?]]'' is a reference to the 20th century quiz show {{w|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?}}.
* [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]] calls his greatest influences inventor {{w|Leonardo da Vinci}}, astronomer {{w|Copernicus}} and mathematician {{w|Euclid}} (as well as [[Braino]]).
* [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]] calls his greatest influences inventor {{w|Leonardo da Vinci}}, astronomer {{w|Copernicus}} and mathematician {{w|Euclid}} (as well as [[Braino]]).
* Fry asks [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] to join the "Mile down club", a reference to {{w|Mile high club}}, which is "joined" by having sex in an airplane.
* Fry asks [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] to join the "Mile deep club", a reference to {{w|Mile high club}}, which is "joined" by having sex in an airplane.
* The [[Biff]] character is a reference to {{w|Biff Tannen}} from ''{{w|Back to the Future}}''.
* The [[Biff]] character is a reference to {{w|Biff Tannen}} from ''{{w|Back to the Future}}''.
* The scene where Fry falls into the doomsday device is a reference to the Charlie Chaplin film, {{w|Modern_Times_(film)|Modern Times}}.
* The scene where Fry falls into the doomsday device is a reference to the Charlie Chaplin film, {{w|Modern_Times_(film)|Modern Times}}.

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Season 6 episode
Broadcast season 7 episode
The Duh-Vinci Code
Da Vinci Lost Workshop.png
The crew discovering Da Vinci's lost workshop
No.93
Production number6ACV05
Written byMaiya Williams
Directed byRaymie Muzquiz
Title captionPut on 3-D monocle now
First air date15 July, 2010
Broadcast numberS07E05
Title referenceThe Da Vinci Code
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript
Storyboard

Pictures

Season 6
  1. Rebirth
  2. In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
  3. Attack of the Killer App
  4. Proposition Infinity
  5. The Duh-Vinci Code
  6. Lethal Inspection
  7. The Late Philip J. Fry
  8. That Darn Katz!
  9. A Clockwork Origin
  10. The Prisoner of Benda
  11. Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
  12. The Mutants Are Revolting
  13. The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
  14. The Silence of the Clamps
  15. Möbius Dick
  16. Law and Oracle
  17. Benderama
  18. The Tip of the Zoidberg
  19. Ghost in the Machines
  20. Neutopia
  21. Yo Leela Leela
  22. Fry Am the Egg Man
  23. All the Presidents' Heads
  24. Cold Warriors
  25. Overclockwise
  26. Reincarnation
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"The Duh-Vinci Code" is the ninety-third episode of Futurama, the fifth of the sixth production season and the seventh broadcast season. It aired 15 July, 2010 on Comedy Central. After Fry and the Professor discover a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci, the crew races to Rome to discover his big secret.

The Story

Act I: "All my life I've been inspired by great minds"

The Planet Express crew study Leonardo da Vinci's fabled painting The Last Supper.

Fry is trying his luck in Who Dares To Be A Millionaire?, a game show hosted by Morbo. He fails the first question, and gets "thrown out". Later, the crew is all gathered by the conference table discussing Fry's (lack of) intelligence. Hermes and the Professor accuse Fry of being dumb, while Amy and Leela stand up for him. The Professor then thinks he was too harsh on Fry, so he takes him to the lab to explain why he finds him so repugnant. Farnsworth tells Fry about the great minds that have inspired him all his life, such as Leonardo da Vinci, his personal role model. He shows "the dumb monkey" his most precious possessions, among which we find an Achilles' heel, some of Leonardo's creations, and his beard. Fry soon discovers a hidden drawing in the beard, a drawing of Da Vinci's fabled lost invention. He offers himself to help the Professor figure out what it was for, but all he gets in return is a teasing laugh.

In front of the Planet Express building, Philip is busy with sad thoughts, and gets hit by a hover car. Two weeks later, he returns from the hospital, while the Professor is trying to deduce the function of the mysterious device. Bender walks in with the original version of The Last Supper, which reveals a clue after a High-Powered X-Ray is fired at it. It seems that St. James was actually a robot... The crew then races to Future-Rome to unearth what became History's greatest mystery.

Act II: "My God - Robot St. James is a zombie!"

In Rome, the crew finds St. James' grave in the catacombs, but the robot inside explains he is not St. James but Animatronio, a robot built by Leonardo da Vinci to be his artist model. It is revealed that he was left to guard da Vinci's big secret and await his Shadow Society of Intellectuals. But when he realises the crew is not part of the Society, he refuses to tell them anymore, and dies before Leela can force him.

Even though Animitronio is dead, the Professor himself manages to deduce where the next clue is, and the crew travels to the Trevi Fountain that is guarded by a giant octopus. After Bender kills it in a battle and find a giant nickle featuring The Vitruvian Man in its deep, the crew continues through a sewerhole, though secretely followed by a cloaked man.

Coming out in the Pantheon, they discover a statue of the Vitruvian Man and a giant coin slot. When putting in Bender's nickle, the man moves and reveales da Vinci's secret workshop. As they observe the inventions, the cloaked man shows up, revealed to be Animitronio, and attacks them, but is knocked down by Bender and once again feigns death. The Professor and Fry sits down in da Vinci's nonfunctional flying machine and a mechanic starts. The Professor realises that it doesn't work in air because it's not supposed to - it's a space ship. The flying machine blasts off with Fry and the Professor in it.

Act III: "In truth, I am what you call a 'space alien'"

After a month of flight in space, the flying machine apparantly with a predestined destination, the couple land on an Earth-like planet. There they meet - Leonardo da Vinci. It is explained that he is from Planet Vinci, and but visited Earth many years ago. The species of the planet are incredibly smart, Leonardo being below average and for that reason leaving for Earth to feel intelligent, and returning when he was annoyed with being surrounded by unintelligent people. Leonardo explains that he used to enjoy himself by inventing, but that he since he lost the plans for his masterpiece, the Macchina Magnifica, can't find solace even in that. Fry shows the sketch for the lost invention they found, and it is revealed it is the one.

Fry and Leonardo find friendship, both being the stupidest of their planet, and build the Macchina Magnifica together. Meanwhile, the Professor find trouble feeling inferior and stupid when attending mathematical lectures on the planet. Finally the day comes for the big reveal of da Vinci's brilliant invention, and he shows off... a doomsday device! His plan is to have his revenge and exterminate everyone who has ever made him feel inferior. Though Fry protests, having been told it was an ice cream machine, the Professor too joins Leonardo, as long as they kill his math teacher first.

The doomsday device kills a few, but then Fry manages to stop it by falling inside it. In a last attempt Leonardo pulls a lever for a final attack, but the machine malfunctions and a clog falls over Leonardo, presumably killing him. Fry and Professor goes back to the flying machine and travels back home.

Reception

In its original American broadcast, "The Duh-Vinci Code" was viewed by an estimated 2.204 million people, a rise of nearly 200 000 since "Proposition Infinity".[1]

Additional Info

Trivia

  • It is revealed that Dr. John A. Zoidberg really is a doctor in art history and not medicine, which would explain quite a few things.
  • The Roman Numerals on the tomb do indeed equal 1. The equation is 2^11 - (23 x 89), which can be simplified to 2048 - 2047.
  • Niccolò Machiavelli, an Italian writer who is considered one of the main founders of modern political science, faked his own death. Animitronio doest it twice in this episode. Like Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli is considered a good example of the Renaissance Man.

Allusions

Goofs

  • When Bender, Leela, and Fry are talking to Animitronio in The Chamber, Bender's door isn't outlined.
  • There are many obvious problems with da Vinci's spacecraft. It could not have been launched into space by the cannon, as the force would not be sufficient. If the force of the cannon was strong enough, the spacecraft would have been destroyed, seeing as it was made of wood. Once in space, the fins and the turning headpiece appear to be propelling the ship by displacing air, although there is no air in space.
  • There couldn't possibly be enough food, water and oxygen on the ship to last Fry and the Professor for a month.

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References

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