The Tip of the Zoidberg
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| No. | 106 | ||||
| Production number | 6ACV18 | ||||
| Written by | Ken Keeler | ||||
| Directed by | Raymie Muzquiz | ||||
| Title caption | IT'S TENTACULAR! | ||||
| First air date | 18 August, 2011 | ||||
| Broadcast number | S08E10 | ||||
| Title reference | The idiom "the tip of the iceberg" | ||||
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"The Tip of the Zoidberg" is the one-hundred-and-sixth episode of Futurama, the eighteenth of the sixth production season and the tenth of the eighth broadcast season. It aired 18 August, 2011 on Comedy Central. The crew uncovers a dark secret concerning a covert mission undertaken by the Professor and Dr. Zoidberg many years earlier.
Plot
How zoidberg and Farnsworth meet and how zoidberg save the professor from yetism
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Production
While originally known as "Nine-tenths of a Zoidberg is Underwater", the episode title changed in the process.
During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released two items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of Triton Base Camp on 3 June and part of the storyboard showing a young Professor Farnsworth and Zoidberg on a Yeti-hunting trip on 4 June.
On 12 August, Comedy Central released a video clip featuring Zoidberg performing surgery on Fry, Leela, and Hermes.[1]
Image gallery
Concept art of Triton Base Camp.
Page 112 of the storyboard.
A screenshot from the video clip.
Additional Info
Trivia
- Mom's real name is revealed to be Carol.
Allusions
- Zoidberg causes Fry to lose blood and develop a host of syndromes named after pop culture figures.
- Fry first develops a condition called "Simpsons jaundice", referring to the yellow skin of characters from The Simpsons. He then says the phrase "Ay carumba!", a catchphrase of Bart Simpson.
- Fry then gets "Garfield syndrome", a reference to Garfield the cat. He looks like Garfield and even says his phrase "I hate Mondays".
- Fry then develops "Muppet gangrene". This causes him to act like Kermit the Frog and say that "It's not easy being gangrenous", referring to Kermit's famous refrain from "Bein' Green".
- Finally, Fry gets an unknown condition that makes him look like a Smurf.
- During Zoidberg's attempts at murdering the Professor, the song "Mr. Sandman" plays over the scene.
- The Tritonian Yeti, including its poisonous nature, is designed like the Mugato of the Star Trek episode "A Private Little War."
- The Murderlator is an example of a Rube Goldberg machine.
- Mom's three sons are told to "Stooge out," a reference to the Three Stooges.
- "Stooge out" could also refer to her sons being "stooges", e.g. devoted followers who are used by Mom for her own purposes.
Goofs
- Methan doesn't smell
Continuity
- The flashbacks reveal once again that people in the future do not age the same as people of the 21st century. In 2927, Professor Farnsworth would have been 85/86, yet appears youthful and is healthy enough for the rigors of military duty.
- Fry once again mistakes an inanimate object for a living alien, having previously made out with what he thought was "the radiator woman from the Radiator Planet", in "The Lesser of Two Evils".
- Bender once again shows his love for cooking by making a salad before adding his drop of poison on the death wheel.