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|number=2ACV06
|number=2ACV06
|caption=The show that watches back
|caption=The show that watches back
|first aired=February 20, 2000
|first aired={{date|20 February}}, [[2000]]
|written by=[[Eric Horsted]]
|written by=Eric Horsted
|directed by=[[Chris Sauve]]
|directed by=Chris Sauve
|title reference=
|title reference=
|caption reference=
|caption reference=
|opening cartoon="[[wikipedia:Felix the Cat|Felix the Cat]]" cartoon from 1920.
|opening cartoon=''Felix the Cat Trifles with Time'' ([[1920s|1925]])
|sponsor=Arachno Spores
|sponsor=Arachno Spores
|broadcast number=S02E11
|broadcast number=S02E11
|special guest=[[Bob Barker]]
|prev ep=Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?
|prev ep=Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?
|next ep=Put Your Head on My Shoulder
|next ep=Put Your Head on My Shoulders
|broad prev=Put Your Head on My Shoulder
|broad prev=Put Your Head on My Shoulders
|broad next=Raging Bender
|broad next=Raging Bender
|guest-stars=[[Bob Barker]] as [[Bob Barker's head|himself in a]] [[head jars|jar]]
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It is the first episode to be aired out of sync. After running into [[Flexo]], another [[bending units|bending unit]], [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] begins suspecting Flexo of being an evil version of [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]].


==The Story==
== The Story ==
===Act I: "Shut up and get to the point!"===
[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] are watching ''[[Television#Cop Department|Cop Department]]'' when an advertisement for [[Past-O-Rama]] appears on the television, Bender wishes to see a time before life was cheapened by heartless machines.
They look around Past-o-rama at various attractions such as a telephone booths and Al Sharpton’s burial chamber, then they come across a ancient car, Fry attempts to drive it but instead takes it through a wall.
Unable to stop they hit [[Flexo]], a bending unit with a beard.


===Act II: "He's the evil Bender."===
=== Act I: "Shut up and get to the point!" ===
The crew are nervously pacing around while Bender is looking at a robot pornography book and Flexo is successfully fixed.
[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] are watching ''[[Cop Department]]'' when an advertisement for [[Past-O-Rama]] appears on the television, Bender wishes to see a time before life was cheapened by heartless machines.
Flexo and Bender take Fry to a robot gentlemen's club where they pay a robot to give Fry a lap dance which results in injuires. Fry begins to think Flexo is evil.
They look around Past-o-rama at various attractions such as a telephone booths and Al Sharpton’s burial chamber.  Then, they come across a ancient car, and Fry attempts to drive it. He is unable, and he instead takes it through a wall.
The crew go into the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]]'s bedroom to see what he has to show them. He reveals to them the atom of Jumbonium which is so expensive, that if stolen it will cause [[Planet Express]] to go bankrupt, so the Professor hires Flexo to help out.
Unable to stop, they hit [[Flexo]], a bending unit with a beard.


===Act III: "And the winner is..."===
=== Act II: "He's the evil Bender." ===
Fry falls asleep during his watch because he spent his sleeping time watching Flexo. When the ship lands they discover the atom is gone, and they begin to search for Flexo.
The crew are nervously pacing around while Bender is looking at a {{robot}} pornography book and Flexo is successfully fixed. Flexo and Bender find that they like each other immediately.
Bender and Flexo begin to chase each other through the beauty pageant; it is revealed that Bender in fact stole the atom, and not Flexo.
They take Fry to a robot gentlemen's club where they pay a robot to give Fry a lap dance which results in injuries. Due to this, Fry begins to think Flexo is evil.
Flexo saw Bender steal the atom and ran to tell [[Bob Barker's Head]].
The crew go into the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]]'s bedroom at his request. He reveals to them the atom of [[Jumbonium]] which is so expensive, that if stolen it will cause [[Planet Express]] to go bankrupt. Due to this, the Professor hires Flexo to help the [[Planet Express Crew]] deliver it, despite some resistance from Fry.
The atom is returned; however, Barker mistakes Flexo for Bender, and Flexo is locked up in Bender's place.


==Additional Info==
=== Act III: "And the winner is..." ===
[[Image:Promo_2ACV06.jpg|right|thumbnail|Promo pic of this episode]]
Bender, Flexo, and Fry take turns watching the atom in that order.  Fry distrusts Flexo, so he watches Flexo during Flexo's turn to watch the atom.  Fry falls asleep during his watch due to this. When the ship lands they discover the atom is gone, and they begin to search for Flexo. Fry believes he stole it and starts watching Bender who is all the time covering his chin with different things.  Due to this, Fry suspects he could be Flexo covering his beard. However, he soon learns that it was Bender anyway. They can't find find Flexo so they tell [[Bob Barker's head]] and he orders them to find the atom. When they finally find Flexo, he and Bender begin to chase each other through the beauty pageant but [[Leela]] doesn't know who is Flexo because they're covering their chins and Flexo's beard can't be seen. Later it is revealed that Bender in fact stole the atom, and not Flexo. Flexo saw Bender steal the atom and ran to tell Bob Barker's Head. The atom is returned; however, Barker mistakes Flexo for Bender, and Flexo is locked up in Bender's place.


===Trivia===
== Additional Info ==
*Sponsored by Arachno Spores.
[[File:Promo 2ACV06.jpg|right|thumbnail|[[Promo pic]] of this episode]]
*Past-o-rama's logo is based on the Futurama logo.
 
*Flexo has a goatee, which is a reference to the goateed Mirror Universe Spock from the Mirror, Mirror episode of the original Star Trek.
[[File:Not sure if.png|225px|right|thumb|A screenshot of the advertisement for [[season 7]] aired by [[Comedy Central]] showing [[Fry meme|a meme]] based on a [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] scene from this episode.]]
*From Leela and Bender's guesses on the value of the Atomic Tiara, its value should be exactly $200,000.
 
=== Trivia ===
*Sponsored by [[Arachno Spores]], "The Fatal Spore With the Funny Name."
*Past-o-rama's logo is based on the Futurama logo. Title caption: Located on the former site of Brooklyn.
*Flexo has a goatee, which is a reference to the goateed Mirror Universe [[Spock]] from the "{{w|Mirror, Mirror}}" episode of the {{st|Star Trek: The Original Series|original}} ''[[Star Trek]]''.
*Electric Ladyland (the name of the robot strip club) is the name of the third Jimi Hendrix album.
*From Leela and Bender's guesses on the value of the Atomic Tiara, its value should be exactly $200,000. Based on Professor Farnsworth's earlier descriptions of its value, the nucleus is worth exactly $150,000.
*Bender states that both his and Flexo's serial numbers are expressible as the sum of two cubes.  For Flexo's serial number, 3370318 = 119^3 + 119^3.  Bender's serial number 2716057 = 952^3 + (-951)^3.
*Stills of Fry in this episode (while in suspicion of why Bender was wearing clothing) have now been used to help express the [[internet]] {{w|internet meme|meme}}: '[[Fry meme|I see what you did there]]', which "conveys a condescending or patronizing tone as a response to a banal joke".
*Contestants in the Miss Universe contest include  
*Contestants in the Miss Universe contest include  
**Miss Heaven (probably inaccurate due t events of [[The Beast with A Billion Backs]]
**Miss Heaven (who looks like [[M5438]])
**Miss Arrakis
**Miss Arrakis
**Miss Unnamed Planet
**Miss Unnamed Planet
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**Miss Earth's Moon, [[The Crushinator]]
**Miss Earth's Moon, [[The Crushinator]]
**Miss Pluto
**Miss Pluto
**Miss Vega 4 (Also known as the [[Parameciums]] Homeworld), Gladis Lenux (Info found during [[Raging Bender]])
**Miss Vega 4 (Also known as the [[Parameciums]] Homeworld), Gladis Lenux (Info found during "[[Raging Bender]]")
**[[Jellyfish Nurse]]
**[[Jellyfish Nurse]]
*The judges in the Miss Universe Contest are:
**Florp
**Calculon
**Zapp Brannigan
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===Alien Language Sightings===
=== Continuity ===
'''Time''':03:45<br />
*Miss Universe reappears in "[[Raging Bender]]" and ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]''.
'''Location''': Sign in subway<br />
*Flexo reappears in "[[Bendless Love]]".
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br />
*This is the first time Zapp Brannigan appears without Kif.
'''Translation''': laser tentacle surgery


===Quotes===
=== Censorship ===
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*This episode was subject to [[censorship]] by itself and {{w|Pick TV}}.
Format Example:
*'''Fry''': No I'm... doesn't.
-->
*'''Speaker''': ...The stately 1992 Latura.<br />'''Fry''': Hey, my girlfriend had one of those! Actually, it wasn't hers, it was her dad's. Actually, she wasn't my girlfriend. She just lived next door and never closed her curtains.<br />'''Leela''': Fry, remember I when I told you about always ending your stories a sentence earlier?
*'''Fry''': How's that robot I ran over?<br />'''Farnsworth''': We did all we could...<br />'''Fry''': You mean he's...?<br />'''Farnsworth''': Good as new? Yes!
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===Questions===
=== Allusions ===
*Who did that?
{{cultural mentions}}
**Fry did.
*[[Past-O-Rama]] shows that people in the [[31st century]] have little knowledge of the distant past. A few mistakes include:
**Mammoth hunts in New York.
**These "mistakes" could also be a satirical jab at the [[20th century]] &mdash; i.e. people in the 31st century think of people from the 20th century in the same way people in the 20th century think about earlier/more primitive civilizations (e.g. cavemen).
**''{{sw|Star Wars Episode IX|Star Wars 9}}: {{sw|Yoda}}'s {{w|Bar and Bat Mitzvah|Bar Mitzvah}}''.
***This might, at some point in the near future, be an actual movie, thus not qualifying as a mistake. In fact, it is most likely a jab at the ''[[Star Wars]]'' {{sw|prequel trilogy}} of the early [[21st century]].
****Yoda died in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi|Star Wars VI}}''. He probably wouldn't have a Bar Mitzvah as a {{sw|The Force|Force}} {{sw|Force ghost|ghost}}.
***It could also be referencing the rumours about a {{w|Star Wars sequel trilogy|sequel trilogy}} to the original trilogy, which would become fact [[2012|twelve years after]] the episode aired.
****{{w|Rogue One}} and the upcoming Han Solo film prove that Yoda's Bar Mitzvah is possible—but the people of the 31st century have forgotten that the "anthology films" aren't supposed to be numbered with the "saga films".
**Appearance of primitive robots.
**[[Albert Einstein]] and {{w|Hammurabi}}, the ancient King of Babylon, existing at the same time as each other and at the same time as disco.
**Cars running on tanks of burning fossils.
***However, cars ''are'' run on tanks of {{w|Gasoline|''one'' burning fossil}}.
**Cars being called Auto-mo-cars.
*While watching the primitive robots, Bender says "We've come a long way baby" and drags his cigar, a reference to {{w|Virginia Slims}} advertising.
*The Miss Arrakis is from {{w|Arrakis}}, the planet of {{w|Dune (novel)|the novel ''Dune''}}, by {{w|Frank Herbert}}.
*One of the contestants plays {{w|Gioachino Rossini|Rossini}}'s {{w|William Tell overture}} on her nose.


===Alien Language Sightings===
=== Quotes ===
'''Time''': <br />
{{q|
'''Location''': <br />
<poem>'''Speaker''': ...The stately [[1990s|1992]] Latura.
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, my girlfriend had one of those! Actually, it wasn't hers, it was her dad's. Actually, she wasn't my girlfriend. She just lived next door and never closed her curtains.
'''Translation''':  
'''Leela''': Fry, remember when I told you about always ending your stories a sentence earlier?</poem>
(change to AL2, if necessary)
<poem>'''Fry''': How's that robot I ran over?
'''Farnsworth''': We did all we could...
'''Fry''': You mean he's...?
'''Farnsworth''': Good as new? Yes!</poem>
<poem>'''Bender''': I think I got whiplash!
'''Leela''': You can't have whiplash, you don't even have a neck.
'''Bender''': I meant ass whiplash!</poem>
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': There it is, Miss Universe. There it is, looking weird...</poem>
<poem>'''Fry''': [[Flexo|He]] must've used a sleep-ray on me! Sleep-rays exist in the future, right?
'''Leela''': No.
'''Fry''': Oh. Then I must've fallen asleep.</poem>
}}


===Inside References===
=== Goofs ===
References to other things in the Futurama Universe
*Despite Bender being bad at math and not being a good calculator, he was able to tell that both his and Flexo's serial numbers are expressible as the sum of two cubes.
-->
**Bender might have been programmed to only be good at {{w|exponentiation}}.
*The car Fry was tasked with moving at the museum at the beginning of the episode should not have had any compatible fuel in the tank as whale oil has replaced fossil fuel.
**It could have been upgraded to run on flubber, we never explicitly see if it is free of any special engine modification.
**It's quite possible that a gasoline engine could be modified to run on whale oil (which is flammable). It might not run suitably (or at all) unmodified. Whale oil also might be refined in small batches to a more gasoline-like fuel for such antiques.
*The car ("1992 Latura") is an AMC Pacer (ceased production ca. 1980), which is a two-door. However, in several scenes, Leela, who is sitting in back, appears to be opening her own door.


===Outside References===
=== Alien Language Sightings ===
*Past-o-rama shows that people in the 31st century have little knowledge of the distant past a few mistakes include:
{{q|
**Mammoth hunts in New York
<poem>'''Time''': 03:45
**[[starwars:Star Wars|Star Wars]] [[starwars:Sequel trilogy|9]]: [[starwars:Yoda|Yoda's]] [[wikipedia:Bar and Bat Mitzvah|Bar Mitzvah]]
'''Location''': Sign in subway
**Appearance of primitive robots
'''Language''': [[Alien languages#AL1|AL1]]
'''Translation''': laser tentacle surgery</poem>
}}


===Fast Forward===
=== Appearances ===
*Miss Universe reappears in [[Raging Bender]] & {{flink|The Beast with a Billion Backs}}.
{{chars}}
*Flexo reappears in [[Bendless Love]]
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*'''Debut''': [[Albert Einstein]] {{small|(portrayed by an actor)}}
(In alphabetical order)
*[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]]
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*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]
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*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]
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*The Grand Midwife
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*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]
*'''Debut:''' [[Bob Barker's Head]]
*[[Calculon]]
*[[Calculon]]
*'''Debut''': [[Centipede alien]]
*'''Debut''': [[Centipede alien's wife and kids]]
*[[Florp]]
*[[Florp]]
*[[The Crushinator]]
*[[The Crushinator]]
*'''Debut:''' [[Gladice Lennox]]
*'''Debut''': [[Gladys Lennox]]
*'''Debut:''' [[Flexo]]
*'''Debut''': [[Flexo]]
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]  
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]  
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]
*[[Jellyfish Nurse]]
*[[Jellyfish nurse]]
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]
*[[Nine]]
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]
*[[Smitty and Url]]
*[[Smitty]]
*'''Debut:''' [[Stripperbot]]
*'''Debut''': [[Stripperbot]]
*[[URL]]
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]
*'''Debut''': Miss Arrakis 
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*'''Debut''': [[47th Street Butter Churns]]
*'''Debut''': [[St. Koch's Cathedral]] <br> {{miso}}
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== Episode Credits ==
{{credits-begin}}
*Writer
*Writer
**[[Eric Horsted]]
**[[Eric Horsted]]
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**[[John DiMaggio]]
**[[John DiMaggio]]
*Special Guest
*Special Guest
**[[Bob Barker's Head|Bob Barker]]
**[[Bob Barker]]
{{credits-end}}


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Season 2 episode
The Lesser of Two Evils
The Lesser of Two Evils.jpg
No.19
Production number2ACV06
Written byEric Horsted
Directed byChris Sauve
Title captionThe show that watches back
First air date20 February, 2000
Broadcast numberS02E11
Opening cartoonFelix the Cat Trifles with Time (1925)
SponsorArachno Spores
Special guest(s)Bob Barker
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)		Transcript

Pictures

Season 2
  1. I Second that Emotion
  2. Brannigan, Begin Again
  3. A Head in the Polls
  4. Xmas Story
  5. Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?
  6. The Lesser of Two Evils
  7. Put Your Head on My Shoulders
  8. Raging Bender
  9. A Bicyclops Built for Two
  10. A Clone of My Own
  11. How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
  12. The Deep South
  13. Bender Gets Made
  14. Mother's Day
  15. The Problem with Popplers
  16. Anthology of Interest I
  17. War Is the H-Word
  18. The Honking
  19. The Cryonic Woman
← Season 1Season 3 →

"The Lesser of Two Evils" is the nineteenth episode of Futurama, the sixth of the second production season and the eleventh of the second broadcast season. It aired on 20 February, 2000, on Fox. It guest-stars Bob Barker as himself in a jar. It is the first episode to be aired out of sync. After running into Flexo, another bending unit, Fry begins suspecting Flexo of being an evil version of Bender.

The Story

Act I: "Shut up and get to the point!"

Bender, Fry and Leela are watching Cop Department when an advertisement for Past-O-Rama appears on the television, Bender wishes to see a time before life was cheapened by heartless machines. They look around Past-o-rama at various attractions such as a telephone booths and Al Sharpton’s burial chamber. Then, they come across a ancient car, and Fry attempts to drive it. He is unable, and he instead takes it through a wall. Unable to stop, they hit Flexo, a bending unit with a beard.

Act II: "He's the evil Bender."

The crew are nervously pacing around while Bender is looking at a robot pornography book and Flexo is successfully fixed. Flexo and Bender find that they like each other immediately. They take Fry to a robot gentlemen's club where they pay a robot to give Fry a lap dance which results in injuries. Due to this, Fry begins to think Flexo is evil. The crew go into the Professor's bedroom at his request. He reveals to them the atom of Jumbonium which is so expensive, that if stolen it will cause Planet Express to go bankrupt. Due to this, the Professor hires Flexo to help the Planet Express Crew deliver it, despite some resistance from Fry.

Act III: "And the winner is..."

Bender, Flexo, and Fry take turns watching the atom in that order. Fry distrusts Flexo, so he watches Flexo during Flexo's turn to watch the atom. Fry falls asleep during his watch due to this. When the ship lands they discover the atom is gone, and they begin to search for Flexo. Fry believes he stole it and starts watching Bender who is all the time covering his chin with different things. Due to this, Fry suspects he could be Flexo covering his beard. However, he soon learns that it was Bender anyway. They can't find find Flexo so they tell Bob Barker's head and he orders them to find the atom. When they finally find Flexo, he and Bender begin to chase each other through the beauty pageant but Leela doesn't know who is Flexo because they're covering their chins and Flexo's beard can't be seen. Later it is revealed that Bender in fact stole the atom, and not Flexo. Flexo saw Bender steal the atom and ran to tell Bob Barker's Head. The atom is returned; however, Barker mistakes Flexo for Bender, and Flexo is locked up in Bender's place.

Additional Info

Promo pic of this episode
A screenshot of the advertisement for season 7 aired by Comedy Central showing a meme based on a Fry scene from this episode.

Trivia

  • Sponsored by Arachno Spores, "The Fatal Spore With the Funny Name."
  • Past-o-rama's logo is based on the Futurama logo. Title caption: Located on the former site of Brooklyn.
  • Flexo has a goatee, which is a reference to the goateed Mirror Universe Spock from the "Mirror, Mirror" episode of the original Star Trek.
  • Electric Ladyland (the name of the robot strip club) is the name of the third Jimi Hendrix album.
  • From Leela and Bender's guesses on the value of the Atomic Tiara, its value should be exactly $200,000. Based on Professor Farnsworth's earlier descriptions of its value, the nucleus is worth exactly $150,000.
  • Bender states that both his and Flexo's serial numbers are expressible as the sum of two cubes. For Flexo's serial number, 3370318 = 119^3 + 119^3. Bender's serial number 2716057 = 952^3 + (-951)^3.
  • Stills of Fry in this episode (while in suspicion of why Bender was wearing clothing) have now been used to help express the internet meme: 'I see what you did there', which "conveys a condescending or patronizing tone as a response to a banal joke".
  • Contestants in the Miss Universe contest include
    • Miss Heaven (who looks like M5438)
    • Miss Arrakis
    • Miss Unnamed Planet
    • Miss Demeanor
    • Miss Perfect Little
    • Miss Amazonia (Not labeled on the sash, but obviously from Amazonia)
    • Miss Methane Planet, Halitina Smogmire
    • Miss Earth's Moon, The Crushinator
    • Miss Pluto
    • Miss Vega 4 (Also known as the Parameciums Homeworld), Gladis Lenux (Info found during "Raging Bender")
    • Jellyfish Nurse
  • The judges in the Miss Universe Contest are:
    • Florp
    • Calculon
    • Zapp Brannigan

Continuity

Censorship

Allusions

Click here to see cultural mentions made in this episode.
  • Past-O-Rama shows that people in the 31st century have little knowledge of the distant past. A few mistakes include:
    • Mammoth hunts in New York.
    • These "mistakes" could also be a satirical jab at the 20th century — i.e. people in the 31st century think of people from the 20th century in the same way people in the 20th century think about earlier/more primitive civilizations (e.g. cavemen).
    • Star Wars 9: Yoda's Bar Mitzvah.
      • This might, at some point in the near future, be an actual movie, thus not qualifying as a mistake. In fact, it is most likely a jab at the Star Wars prequel trilogy of the early 21st century.
      • It could also be referencing the rumours about a sequel trilogy to the original trilogy, which would become fact twelve years after the episode aired.
        • Rogue One and the upcoming Han Solo film prove that Yoda's Bar Mitzvah is possible—but the people of the 31st century have forgotten that the "anthology films" aren't supposed to be numbered with the "saga films".
    • Appearance of primitive robots.
    • Albert Einstein and Hammurabi, the ancient King of Babylon, existing at the same time as each other and at the same time as disco.
    • Cars running on tanks of burning fossils.
    • Cars being called Auto-mo-cars.
  • While watching the primitive robots, Bender says "We've come a long way baby" and drags his cigar, a reference to Virginia Slims advertising.
  • The Miss Arrakis is from Arrakis, the planet of the novel Dune, by Frank Herbert.
  • One of the contestants plays Rossini's William Tell overture on her nose.

Quotes

    Speaker: ...The stately 1992 Latura.
    Fry: Hey, my girlfriend had one of those! Actually, it wasn't hers, it was her dad's. Actually, she wasn't my girlfriend. She just lived next door and never closed her curtains.
    Leela: Fry, remember when I told you about always ending your stories a sentence earlier?

    Fry: How's that robot I ran over?
    Farnsworth: We did all we could...
    Fry: You mean he's...?
    Farnsworth: Good as new? Yes!

    Bender: I think I got whiplash!
    Leela: You can't have whiplash, you don't even have a neck.
    Bender: I meant ass whiplash!

    Zapp Brannigan: There it is, Miss Universe. There it is, looking weird...

    Fry: He must've used a sleep-ray on me! Sleep-rays exist in the future, right?
    Leela: No.
    Fry: Oh. Then I must've fallen asleep.

Goofs

  • Despite Bender being bad at math and not being a good calculator, he was able to tell that both his and Flexo's serial numbers are expressible as the sum of two cubes.
  • The car Fry was tasked with moving at the museum at the beginning of the episode should not have had any compatible fuel in the tank as whale oil has replaced fossil fuel.
    • It could have been upgraded to run on flubber, we never explicitly see if it is free of any special engine modification.
    • It's quite possible that a gasoline engine could be modified to run on whale oil (which is flammable). It might not run suitably (or at all) unmodified. Whale oil also might be refined in small batches to a more gasoline-like fuel for such antiques.
  • The car ("1992 Latura") is an AMC Pacer (ceased production ca. 1980), which is a two-door. However, in several scenes, Leela, who is sitting in back, appears to be opening her own door.

Alien Language Sightings

    Time: 03:45
    Location: Sign in subway
    Language: AL1
    Translation: laser tentacle surgery

Appearances

(In alphabetic order)

Characters

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Episode Credits

Futurama episodes/films
1ACV
(Season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
2ACV
(Season 2)		 "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "A Clone of My Own" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "Mother's Day" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Anthology of Interest I" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Honking" • "The Cryonic Woman"
3ACV
(Season 3)		 "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Parasites Lost" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "The Route of All Evil" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Roswell that Ends Well" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "The 30% Iron Chef"
4ACV
(Season 4)		 "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Love and Rocket" • "Less than Hero" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "Jurassic Bark" • "Crimes of the Hot" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" • "The Sting" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
5ACV
(Season 5)
Bender's Big Score The Beast with a Billion Backs Bender's Game Into the Wild Green Yonder
Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4
6ACV
(Season 6)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
7ACV
(Season 7)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama" • "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
8ACV
(Season 8)		 "The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"
Specials Everybody Loves Hypnotoad: "Amazon Adventure" • "The Lost Adventure" • "Simpsorama"
S01E
(Broadcast season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots"
S02E
(Broadcast season 2)		 "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory" • "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "A Clone of My Own" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Mother's Day" • "Anthology of Interest I"
S03E
(Broadcast season 3)		 "The Honking" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Cryonic Woman" • "Parasites Lost" • "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot"
S04E
(Broadcast season 4)		 "Roswell that Ends Well" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Love and Rocket" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "The 30% Iron Chef" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
S05E
(Broadcast season 5)		 "Crimes of the Hot" • "Jurassic Bark" • "The Route of All Evil" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Less than Hero" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "The Sting" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
S06E
(Broadcast season 6)		 "Bender's Big Score Part 1" • "Bender's Big Score Part 2" • "Bender's Big Score Part 3" • "Bender's Big Score Part 4" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 2" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4" • "Bender's Game Part 1" • "Bender's Game Part 2" • "Bender's Game Part 3" • "Bender's Game Part 4" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 2" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 3" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4"
S07E
(Broadcast season 7)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular"
S08E
(Broadcast season 8)		 "Neutopia" • "Benderama" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Law and Oracle" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Möbius Dick" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
S09E
(Broadcast season 9)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama"
S10E
(Broadcast season 10)		 "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
S11E
(Broadcast Season 11)		 "The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"
Specials Everybody Loves Hypnotoad: "Amazon Adventure" • "The Lost Adventure" • "Simpsorama"
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