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"'''The Silence of the Clamps'''",<ref name="s6ep1-review">{{cite web |url=http://cbs4denver.com/wireapentertainment/It.s.back.2.1765063.html |title=Back To The Future With New 'Futurama' Episodes |publisher=cbs4denver |author=Moore, Frazier |date=2010-06-22 |accessdate=2010-06-22 |quote=With their scripts on easels in front of them, they began at Act 1, Scene 1 of "The Silence of the Clamps," performing each scene in sequence.}}</ref> originally titled "'''Bend on a Wire'''",<ref name="peel-cover">{{cite web |url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=18334.msg1094894#msg1094894 |title=""Hot Diggity Daffodil, Futurama's back!" (News thread) (No spoilers)" Page 5 |site=[[PEEL]] |author="MightyBooshFan91" |date=2010-02-10 |accessdate=2010-02-10}}</ref> is the one hundred and second episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourteenth of the [[Season 6|sixth production season]] and the fifth of the [[Broadcast season 8|eighth broadcast season]]. It is scheduled to air on 14 July, 2011.<ref name="msn" /> The episode was for some time thought to be the broadcast season premiere, but the announcement that "[[Neutopia]]" would air on 23 June in its place proved otherwise.
"'''The Silence of the Clamps'''" is the one-hundred-and-second episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourteenth of the [[Season 6|sixth production season]] and the fifth of the [[Broadcast season 8|eighth broadcast season]]. It aired 14 July, 2011 on [[Comedy Central]]. After testifying against the [[Robot Mafia]], [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] goes into hiding in the witness relocation program.


== Story ==
== Plot ==
[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] joins the witness relocation program after testifying against the [[Robot Mafia]].<ref name=CrushinatorDesign>[http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/22/countdown-to-futurama-crushinator-design/ Countdown to Futurama: Crushinator Design]</ref> [[Clamps]] gets a job at [[Planet Express]].<ref name="Video">{{cite web |url=http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/06/17/countdown-to-futurama-magnificent-squeezers/ |title=Magnificent Squeezers |work= |author=Tobey, Matt|date=17 June, 2011|accessdate=2011-6-17|speaker={{n|Tobey|Matt}} |quote='I used to fancy myself pretty skilled at digging wax out of people's ears, but then some jerk had to go and invent the cotton swab and show me up. So I can really relate to Zoidberg in this scene from the upcoming episode The Silence of the Clamps, wherein Clamps gets a job at the Planet Express and upstages the good doctor.'}}</ref>
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== Production ==
== Production ==
[[Maurice LaMarche]] revealed in an update online that this episode will have a large focus on [[Clamps]], indeed his great breakthrough episode.<ref name="peel-cover">{{cite web |url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=18334.msg1094894#msg1094894 |title=""Hot Diggity Daffodil, Futurama's back!" (News thread) (No spoilers)" Page 5 |site=[[PEEL]] |author="MightyBooshFan91" |date=2010-02-10 |accessdate=2010-02-10}}</ref> Episode writer [[Eric Rogers]] has also said, on his Twitter page, that "6ACV14 is directed by [[Frank Marino]], not [[Ray Claffey]]".<ref>[http://twitter.com/slurmed/statuses/28167548277104640 Eric Rogers' Twitter]</ref>
"The Silence of the Clamps" was originally titled "'''Bend on a Wire'''".<ref name="peel-cover">{{cite web |url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=18334.msg1094894#msg1094894 |title=""Hot Diggity Daffodil, Futurama's back!" (News thread) (No spoilers)" Page 5 |site=[[PEEL]] |author="MightyBooshFan91" |date=2010-02-10 |accessdate=2010-02-10}}</ref> [[Maurice LaMarche]] revealed in an update online that the episode would have a large focus on [[Clamps]], indeed his great breakthrough episode.<ref name="peel-cover">{{cite web |url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=18334.msg1094894#msg1094894 |title=""Hot Diggity Daffodil, Futurama's back!" (News thread) (No spoilers)" Page 5 |site=[[PEEL]] |author="MightyBooshFan91" |date=2010-02-10 |accessdate=2010-02-10}}</ref> [[Eric Rogers]] said on his Twitter page that the episode would be directed by [[Frank Marino]], not [[Ray Claffey]].<ref>[http://twitter.com/slurmed/statuses/28167548277104640 Eric Rogers' Twitter]</ref> A video clip from the episode featuring Bender meeting Bella and witnessing the crime was hidden on [[Volume 5]] as an [[Easter egg]]. "[[Neutopia]]" replaced the episode as the eighth broadcast season's first.


The [[character]]s Bender, [[Billionaire Bot]], the [[Queen of Yonkers]], [[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]], [[Fanny]], the [[Donbot]], [[Bella]], [[Calculon]], [[Clamps]], and [[Joey Mousepad]] appear in a clip from the episode hidden as an [[Easter egg]] on [[Volume 5]].<ref name=YouTube>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdVH1j-9Qyg YouTube - Robobium]</ref> More characters can also be seen in [[Storyboard:The Silence of the Clamps|the storyboard]].<ref name=Storyboard>[http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/23/countdown-to-futurama-robot-mistrial/ Countdown to Futurama: Robot Mistrial]</ref>
During May and June [[2011]], ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' released three items of promotional material for the episode: reused concept art of the [[Crushinator]] from "[[The Series Has Landed]]" (accompanied by two classic Crushinator clips) on 22 May, part of [[Storyboard:The Silence of the Clamps|the storyboard]] showing the [[Donbot]]'s trial on 23 May, and a video clip featuring Clamps arguing with [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] on 17 June.
 
During May and June [[2011]], ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' released three items of promotional material for the episode: reused concept art of the [[Crushinator]] from "[[The Series Has Landed]]" (accompanied by two classic Crushinator clips) on 22 May, part of [[Storyboard:The Silence of the Clamps|the storyboard]] showing the [[Donbot]]'s trial on 23 May, and a video clip featuring [[Clamps]] arguing with [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] on 17 June.


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Bender is told that he is being put in the witness relocation program.
No.102
Production number6ACV14
Written byEric Rogers
Directed byFrank Marino
Title captionNO REFUNDS
First air date14 July, 2011
Broadcast numberS08E05
Title referenceThe Silence of the Lambs
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"The Silence of the Clamps" is the one-hundred-and-second episode of Futurama, the fourteenth of the sixth production season and the fifth of the eighth broadcast season. It aired 14 July, 2011 on Comedy Central. After testifying against the Robot Mafia, Bender goes into hiding in the witness relocation program.

Plot

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Production

"The Silence of the Clamps" was originally titled "Bend on a Wire".[1] Maurice LaMarche revealed in an update online that the episode would have a large focus on Clamps, indeed his great breakthrough episode.[1] Eric Rogers said on his Twitter page that the episode would be directed by Frank Marino, not Ray Claffey.[2] A video clip from the episode featuring Bender meeting Bella and witnessing the crime was hidden on Volume 5 as an Easter egg. "Neutopia" replaced the episode as the eighth broadcast season's first.

During May and June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released three items of promotional material for the episode: reused concept art of the Crushinator from "The Series Has Landed" (accompanied by two classic Crushinator clips) on 22 May, part of the storyboard showing the Donbot's trial on 23 May, and a video clip featuring Clamps arguing with Zoidberg on 17 June.

Image gallery

  • The episode overview showing the working title, "Bend on a Wire".

  • The production script cover.

  • Reused concept art of the Crushinator from "The Series Has Landed".

  • Page 26 of the storyboard.

  • A screenshot from the video clip.

Additional Information

Trivia

  • This is first time that Space Pope has a larger role and talks in the series.

Allusions

  • The title is a reference to the novel (and the film) The Silence of the Lambs.
  • The episode features censored but uncommon use of cursing. Given the subject matter, this could be a reference to gangster films such as Goodfellas and Casino, which became famous for their frequent use of "blue" language. It is unknown whether this will be uncensored on the DVD.
  • The barn where Bender and Bella make out has the word "STABLES" on it, in the same font as the logo for office supply chain store Staples.
  • the first mission that Clamps goes on is the same one that Bender went on in the episode "The Series Has Landed"
  • When ordered to take care of Bender (who is actually Billy West) Clamps says that they're in space where no one can hear you clamp. The tagline of Alien is "In space no one can hear you scream".
  • The robot mistaken to be Bender was named Billy West, and Fry scoffs at that name.

Continuity

Quotes

    [Bender is seeing Clamps clamp Calculon.]
    Bella: Yeah, Daddy hates welchers. The only thing he hates more is witnesses... [Bender looks horrified.] ...and guys who mess around with his daughters... [Bender looks even more horrified.] ...and attempt to duplicate his meatball recipe. [Bender opens his chest cabinet and takes out a pan of steaming hot meatballs and looks even more horrifed.]

    Witness Relocation Robot: We're putting you in the Witness Relocation Program.
    Bender: I gotta hide? For how long?
    Witness Relocation Robot: Until the Robot Mafia finds and kills you. They're very good with that.

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References

  1. ^ a b "MightyBooshFan91" (10 February 2010). ""Hot Diggity Daffodil, Futurama's back!" (News thread) (No spoilers)" Page 5. (PEEL.) Retrieved on 10 February 2010.
  2. ^ Eric Rogers' Twitter
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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