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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=A Leela of Her Own<br />
|no=48<br />
|image=[[File:A Leela of Her Own.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=4<br />
|number=3ACV16<br />
|caption=Scratch here to reveal prize<br />
|first aired={{date|7 April}}, [[2002]]<br />
|written by=Patric M. Verrone<br />
|directed by=Swinton O. Scott III<br />
|title reference=The [[films in Futurama|film]] ''{{w|A League of Their Own}}''<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=The Goal Rush<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S04E10<br />
|special guest=[[Hank Aaron]]<br>[[Bob Uecker]]<br />
|prev ep=I Dated a Robot<br />
|next ep=A Pharaoh to Remember<br />
|broad prev=Future Stock<br />
|broad next=The 30% Iron Chef<br />
|guest-stars=[[Hank Aaron]] and [[Bob Uecker]] as themselves in [[head jars|jars]]<br />
}}<br />
[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] becomes the first female ever to play major league [[blernsball]], despite being terrible at it, and vows to not become the worst player of all time.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "We got guano. Very fresh" ===<br />
After spending all morning waiting to see if the wall of a strip club will fall again after falling twice before, Fry happens upon a pizza parlor opening across the street from Planet Express owned by Cygnoids, cockroach aliens who act like Italian/Eastern European immigrants. The crew decide to go and welcome their new [[Cygnoids|Cygnoid]] neighbors, even though Professor Farnsworth is prejudiced against Cygnoids. The pizzas turn out to be disgusting, so Fry decides to help them out as soon as he stops hallucinating and blasting puke. He explains how to act like Earthicans; giving them advice on the pizza parlor and teaching them about [[blernsball]]. The [[Planet Express crew]] and their families play a game against [[Family Bros. Pizza|the Cygnoid's pizzeria]]. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] proves to be a terrible pitcher, hitting the batters in the head each time. Her bad playing draws a crowd and she is recruited for the [[New New York Mets|Mets]] by Abner Doubledeal (the same one who recruited Bender into the Ultimate Robot Fighting League as seen on "Raging Bender").<br />
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=== Act II: "Now pitching for the Mets, Turanga Leela" ===<br />
[[File:Colourbarrier.jpg|left|thumb|The various colour barriers.]]<br />
Leela's pitching "skills" prove popular with Mets fans. Leela garners many fans and some advertising appearances, thanks to her agent, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]. During a signing at Family Bros. Pizza, [[Jackie Anderson]], an NNYU blernsballer tells Leela off for ruining the chances for ''competent'' women players. Distraught, Leela vows to become the best blernsball player ever. However after a quick review of Leela's statistics [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] informs her that is impossible and she is likely to become the worst player ever, and Leela vows not to let that happen. To prevent this from happening, the crew visit the current worst player, [[Hank Aaron XXIV]], at the [[Blernsball Hall of Fame]]. After several failed attempts, Aaron manages to teach Leela not to hit batters.<br />
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=== Act III: "Ancient Cygnoid secret" ===<br />
The Cygnoids open a franchise at [[Fenway Park]], and then sell it to [["Fishy" Joseph Gilman|Fishy Joe]]. Leela convinces the coach to let her play after having trained with ''a'' Hank Aaron. Leela's unconventional pitching manages to strike out two players before Jackie comes in to bat on the third strike. To the shock of the crowd, Leela manages to get two strikes before Jackie hits the ball hard enough to break the string and send the ball into the "win the game" hole, scoring a grand slam blern. Leela is now officially the worst player ever, and retires, having inspired women to prove they aren't all terrible.<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
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There are several fans of ''Futurama'' who have [http://www.gotfuturama.com/cgi-bin/EpisodeReview.cgi?action=show&Page=1&Season=3&Episode=16 a low opinion] of this episode. Several complaints of this episode involve the more serious nature of the episode, the jokes that the episode had falling flat, and the less positive ending of the episode compared to others in the series. This episode's ranking on gotfuturama.com is currently 50%, and ranked, for a long time, as the lowest rated ''Futurama'' episode. (There are now several episodes rated lower, including "[[Yo Leela Leela]]" at 45%, and "[[The Futurama Holiday Spectacular]]" at 44%.)<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*This episode comes closest to explaining blernsball, the [[writers and directors|writers]] intend to make the sport confusing and so they threw in a few oddities at the end of the episode.<br />
*Hank Aaron was reluctant to be in this episode, but agreed when he found out Bob Uecker had agreed.<br />
*Jackie Anderson's name and uniform number (24) is a reference to {{w|Jackie Robinson}}, who broke the {{w|Baseball color line|color barrier}} by being the first black player in Major League Baseball since segregation began in the late 19th century. Anderson is technically not the first female player, thanks to Leela; Robinson was technically not the first black player, because of a handful of pre-segregation players (most notably {{w|Moses Fleetwood Walker}} and his brother {{w|Welby Walker}}).<br />
*One of the players who broke the various color barriers was a half-black and half-white alien. This is a reference to the {{st|Cheron native}}s from ''[[Star Trek]]''.<br />
*The Clown who played for the Mets is a reference to Max Patkin who was a former player dubbed the clown prince of baseball.<br />
*Leela's number 7/8 is a play on the number 1/8 which was the jersey number for midget Eddie Gaedel who played 1 game for the St. Louis Browns. Patkin was coaching at 1st base when Gaedel was walked in his only at bat.<br />
*The female Cygnoid's line about moving to Earth so she and her husband can raise fat, spoiled Earth kids and hang underwear from Earthican clotheslines originally included a line about bringing Earth weapons back to their home {{cat|countr||y}} to the terrorists of their planet. Because the episode aired after the {{w|11 September attacks|9/11 attacks}} in [[United States|America]], the "sending weapons back to [our] home country to the terrorists," was changed to "live Earthican dream."<br />
*The "ancient Cygnoid secret" exchange is lifted from a famous early 70s commercial for Calgon Water Softener. It involved the same back and forth, between the owners of a Chinese laundry, with Calgon being the "ancient Chinese secret."<br />
*Bob Uecker says "I've never seen anything this bizarre, and I've seen Mr. Belvedere naked! Woo!" Bob Uecker was an {{cat|actor}} in a {{TV|show}} called ''{{w|Mr. Belvedere}}''.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I didn't hit the batter! For once I was pitching and not just belly-itching!<br />
'''Aaron Jr.''': Oh, you got that too? I think there's a rash goin' around.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Wow! I must say, I'm impressed. You look just like a ball player. Can I pat you on the butt?<br />
'''Leela''': Fry, I'm a professional athlete! So go ahead.<br />
'''Fry''': Oh! Now I'm too nervous.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Cygnoid''': Please, lady, I want to live. Can I use bat to protect head?<br />
''[Leela beans him.]''<br />
'''Bender''': Apparently not.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bob Uecker''': Mulligan drives the ball, it's going, going and caught by the shortstop. Man I haven't seen play this bad since the days of Bob Uecker! This is Bob Uecker saying thanks for watching!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bob Uecker''': Welcome to Fenway Park, home of the Boston Poindexters, where the Mets close out a season that'll rank among Mankind's most awful crimes.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Hey! You opened a franchise!<br />
'''Blek's wife''': Yes. Our biggest seller is Leela's Bean Pizza. Six kinds of beans, plus several things that look like beans.<br />
'''[[Fishy Joe]]''': ''[He eats a slice.]'' Beans, huh? Mmm. This is great! How do you make the crust so fizzy?<br />
'''[[Blek]]''': Ah-ah-ah! Ancient Cygnoid secret!<br />
'''[[Blek's wife]]''': My husband, some hotshot! Here's his ancient Cygnoid secret! ''[She holds up a jar.]'' Live hornets! We smush them right into dough!<br />
'''Fishy Joe''': I don't care if there's horse manure in it!<br />
'''Blek''': That's a-good!<br />
'''Fishy Joe''': I wanna buy this franchise. How does $100,000 sound?<br />
'''[[Blek]]''': Forget it! We come to Earth to make pizza, not money.<br />
'''[[Blek]]'s wife''': No, [[Blek]]! Other way around!<br />
'''Blek''': Oh, right. Offer accepted!</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*[[Hank Aaron XXIV]] is shown to have played for the Atlanta Braves but, as we learned in "[[The Deep South]]", Atlanta has been submerged in the Atlantic Ocean for quite some time. Unless his lifespan is somehow incredibly longer than everyone else's, he would have to be either a mermaid or a [[head in a jar]].<br />
**This was something the production staff were aware of and the Atlanta Braves logo is updated from the 20th century design, which used a tomahawk, to feature a trident.<br />
**Additionally, in "[[The Deep South]]", Zoidberg says about the underwater Atlanta: "sure, they've got the Braves, but it's a third-rate symphony," perhaps showing that the Braves still exist as an Atlanta team.<br />
*In the episode "[[Anthology of Interest I]]" Shea Stadium is shown to be a complete bowl, but in this episode, it is shown to be more like the actual Shea Stadium, and is open in the outfield.<br />
*All the whole numbers couldn't have been retired since they are infinite.<br />
**It may be that the whole numbers used were only a specific subset, say from 1 to 99.<br />
*During the ending scene between Leela and Jackie Anderson, Leela's eyeliner disappears and reappears between shots.<br />
*Hermes makes a reference to Leela having not recorded an out in 77 innings. However, if no outs were recorded, then Leela would not be credited with any innings pitched, at least if the rules of [[blernsball]] are similar to those of {{w|baseball}}.<br />
*Hank Aaron XXIV drinks from Wade Boggs' head jar but contrary to "[[All the Presidents' Heads]]", Hank is not transported through time due to the [[crystalline opal]] within the jar fluid. However, Wade Boggs' jar might use something else to maintain the head.<br />
**It is possible that [[crystalline opal]] is only used for people of historical importance (i.e. [[president of the United States|U.S. Presidents]]), or the writers recently established it.<br />
*Fry tells Blek and his wife that they need 9 players (the two of them and the seven workers who climb out of the oven) however the Planet Express crew has 10 players at the game (Fry, Leela, Bender, Amy, Zoidberg, Hermes, Cubert, Scruffy, LaBarbara and Dwight)<br />
*This episode runs with the concept that Leela has poor depth perception, due to only having one eye, but this concept is flawed in multiple ways. Firstly, this concept has never been used in the series before, nor is it used since. Secondly, Leela has lived with one eye her entire life, having been born as such. And finally, Leela's eye is in the center of her face, while a depth perception problem would likely only occur if it was to one side.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Abner Doubledeal]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Blek]] and his [[Blek's wife|wife]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Bob Uecker's head]]<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]]<br />
*[["Fishy" Joseph Gilman|Fishy Joe]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hank Aaron's head]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hank Aaron XXIV]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Jackie Anderson]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Michelle]] ([[cameo]])<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Randy Munchnik|Randy]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Swinton O. Scott III]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Dawnn Lewis]]<br />
**[[Tom Kenny]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
**[[Swinton O. Scott III]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
*Special Guests<br />
**[[Hank Aaron's Head|Hank Aaron]]<br />
**[[Bob Uecker's Head|Bob Uecker]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring sports]]</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Time_Keeps_on_Slippin%27&diff=157817Time Keeps on Slippin'2017-07-31T05:09:00Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Goofs */</p>
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|name=Time Keeps on Slippin'<br />
|no=46<br />
|image=[[File:Time keeps on slipping.png|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV14<br />
|caption=For proper viewing, take red pill now<br />
|first aired=6 May, [[2001]]<br />
|written by=Ken Keeler<br />
|directed by=Chris Loudon<br />
|title reference=Lyric in ''Fly Like an Eagle'' by The Steve Miller Band<br />
|caption reference=''The Matrix''<br />
|opening cartoon=''{{w|Out of the Inkwell#1921-1926|It's the Cats}}'' (1926)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S03E14<br />
|prev ep=Bendin' in the Wind<br />
|next ep=I Dated a Robot<br />
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After collecting [[chroniton]]s in an attempt to beat the [[Globetrotters]] in a basketball game, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]] inadvertently causes [[timeline|time]] to start skipping forward randomly. Meanwhile, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] tries to win [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s affection, and during a time skip he manages to do so, while [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] tries to become a member of the Globetrotters.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "Your face can take a lot of punishment. That's good to know." ===<br />
While the staff of [[Planet Express]] are visiting [[Central Park]] Lake, a spaceship lands and the [[Globetrotters]] emerge and challenge [[Earth]] to a game of basketball simply to embarrass them if they lose. [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] offers to play them and plans to beat them with a team of mutant atomic supermen, however they are currently only babies. To speed up the growth, Farnsworth sends the crew to collect [[chroniton]]s. While collecting the chronitons, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] tries but fails to impress [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]. Professor gives the [[Mutant Atomic Supermen|supermen]] the chronitons and they grow into adults; mutations include a man with a cannon in his chest and a giant spider. The basketball game starts and is commentated by [[Marv Albert's head]]. The supermen are winning 48-42.<br />
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=== Act II: "Enough about your promiscuous mother, Hermes!" ===<br />
While playing, however, a strange flash occurs, causing everyone to reappear in a different position. Another flash happens, and Professor times the game out; he determines that time is lurching forward randomly, due to interference from the Chronotons. Time and space are ripping apart. In addition, Aracneon is killed and Fry offers to play to show Leela his skills. However, in two minutes he allows the Globetrotters to win 200 points, causing Earth to lose the game. The leader of the Globetrotters, [[Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate]] offers to help find out what is happening with time and space. The Professor concludes that by Thursday it will be the end of existence.<br />
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=== Act III: "Hello, lawsuit." ===<br />
Time continues to skip forward and the Professor concludes that everyone acts normally during a time skip, but they have no memory of it. [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] expresses his love of the Globetrotters and his desire to be one. Fry shows Leela to a special room that will stop time skips; in reality, it is just a ploy for them to have sex, annoying Leela. She complains to [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] that Fry is sweet but very immature. Through the [[Smell-O-Scope]], Farnsworth finds out that time is leaking, causing time skips on Earth. Bubblegum thinks that moving a cluster of stars to a certain area will cause the time skips to move to an empty part of the universe. Using all of Earth's money, a [[Bad-Ass Gravity Pump|gravity-pump]] is built to move the stars. After Leela successfully moves the stars, Bender shows Bubblegum his homemade Globetrotter uniform and Fry again tries to impress Leela. While Leela once again starts to reject Fry, saying she will ''never'' fall for him, a time skip occurs and Fry and Leela have just gotten married.<br />
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=== Act IV: "I deserve free money!" ===<br />
The time skips carry on and Leela, thinking that Fry tricked her into marriage, divorces him. The others try to console him. He tries to figure out how he managed to woo Leela. Farnsworth realises that Bubblegum's algebra was incorrect. The rest of the Globetrotters decide to cause an implosion in the Chronoton nebula to create a [[black hole]]. Farnsworth provides one of his doomsday devices for that to work. Bubblegum tells Bender he isn't 'funky' enough to be a Globetrotter, upsetting him. Fry apologizes to Leela about the possibility that he did trick her in marrying him, and begins to think that he will never find out how he and Leela married. However, he is taken aback when he finds out he really did win her heart by spelling "I Love You Leela" with the stars themselves; unfortunately, they are sucked into the black hole before he can show Leela. Fry asks Leela if she saw the message before it was destroyed. Leela has no idea what Fry is talking about and leaves the room. Fry gloomily stares out into space while Bender whistles a slow version of "Sweet Georgia Brown."<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
This episode was named #10 on {{w|IGN}}'s list of [http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/09/top-25-futurama-episodes?page=4 top 25 ''Futurama'' episodes] and #5 on {{w|io9}}'s list of [http://io9.com/5814694/the-10-best-futurama-episodes top 10 ''Futurama'' episodes].<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
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[[File:Promo 3ACV14.jpg|right|thumbnail|[[Promo pic]] of this episode]]<br />
[[File:Promo 3ACV14 (2).jpg|right|thumbnail|The second promo pic of this episode]]<br />
*The name of the episode is a reference to {{w|Steve Miller (musician)|Steve Miller}}'s song "{{w|Fly Like an Eagle (song)|Fly Like an Eagle}}".<br />
*It is revealed that Zoidberg's birthday is the day after Amy's.<br />
*The background music played when the Globetrotter ship lands is based on the music from ''{{w|A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange}}.<br />
*Professor Farnsworth has mentioned [[Mutant Atomic Supermen|Atomic Monsters]] before, but the only other time we see any is at the end of "[[Mother's Day]]".<br />
*The cheque for ''All of Earth's Money'' has question marks for the date.<br />
*The nebula where Fry, Leela, and Bender go to collect the Chronitons is named the Tempus nebula. Tempus means "time" in Latin. <br />
*The Globetrotters consist of:<br />
**Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate<br />
**"Sweet" Clyde Dixon<br />
**"Curly" Joe<br />
**six others<br />
*The Earth team is:<br />
**Armo (five arms)<br />
**Lazar (laser eyes)<br />
**Thorias (cannon in chest)<br />
**Grotrian (very tall with super-long arms)<br />
**Arachneon (half-spider)<br />
**[[Philip J. Fry]] (as a substitute two minutes from the end)<br />
*While collecting chronitons, Leela is seen causing the rips in the nebula that will provoke the time skip. However, Fry and Bender's actions do not seem to create any disruptions.<br />
*The same thing that the Planet Express crew is trying to put a stop to helps them to attempt the task quicker. This is the only moment where the time skips actually aid the crew.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Fry''': So, Leela, how about a romantic ride in one of those swan boats? They're kinda dangerous, but I finally mastered them.<br />
'''Leela''': Those aren't swan boats, they're swans.<br />
'''Fry''': Oh. That explains these boat eggs. ''[He holds up some eggs.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': I'm no physicist, but I think I know how to stop the skipping. We'll just-<br />
''[Time skips, and Hermes finds himself playing a steel drumset, while the rest of the crew are doing a conga line butt naked.]''<br />
'''Hermes''': I don't know how this was supposed to work.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Don't be so hard on yourself, Fry. You lost the woman of your dreams but you still have Zoidberg. You all still have Zoidberg!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Fry, stop. I don't wanna hurt you, but there is absolutely, positively no way that you and I will ever, ever-<br />
''[Time skips.]''<br />
'''Preacherbot''': ...man and wife. You may kiss the bride.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nixon''': Now, how long will it take to build?<br />
'''Tate''': It won't be easy, Nixon. A jim-jam this complex might take months or even-<br />
''[Time skips.]''<br />
'''Farnsworth''': Ah, there we are. One gravity pump. Powerful enough to move the stars themselves. Now to begin the arduous task of attaching it to {{the ship}} so th-<br />
''[Time skips. The Planet Express ship is taking off with the gravity pump attached.]''<br />
'''Farnsworth''': Off you go, apparently.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Doomsday device? Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court!<br />
''[Platform rises from floor containing many doomsday devices.]''<br />
'''Farnsworth''': I suppose I could part with one and still be feared.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bubblegum Tate''': Sweet Clyde, laugh derisively at him!<br />
'''Sweet Clyde''': Ha ha! Ha ha! Ah Ha ha ha!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Well, let's divide up the china. I guess I'll take the NFC helmets and you can have the AFC helmets.<br />
'''Fry''': Fine. Break my heart again.</poem><br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The Globetrotter saucer is identical to the one featured in {{w|The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}<br />
*The front cover of the pop singer Wendy's album is a reference to Britney Spears' album {{w|...Baby One More Time}}<br />
*The basketball playing aliens, giant monsters, and title are all an allusion to the movie {{w|Space Jam}} which featured [[Billy West]] as a main character.<br />
* Professor Farnsworth throwing a chair on the basketball court is a reference to former Indiana University basketball coach {{w|Bob Knight}}, who famously threw a chair across the court during a game.<br />
*Farnsworth's reply to the Globetrotters' challenge, "[t]his will not stand," is the same statement [[President of the United States|President]] [[George H.W. Bush]] made regarding Iraq's [[1990]] invasion of Kuwait.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*After the time skip during the wedding, when Fry gets a bouquet in his mouth, Grotrian, who is to screen right, is duplicated.<br />
*In ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'', the [[Globetrotter]] ship is seen with a red-white-and-blue color scheme, unlike the tan and green seen in this episode.<br />
**They could have updated their ship or gotten an entirely new one.<br />
*The time skip between the basketball game and the circus does not follow the rules of the other times skips, because the characters have not behaved normally during the intervening time, but rather have stayed exactly where they were.<br />
**The Madison Cube Garden could be an isolated spot that skips time, like the Professor mentions later on.<br />
*The "champagne" which Fry buys Leela is described as "domestic, non-vintage". By international law, Champagne may only be produced in the {{w|Champagne (wine region)|Champagne}} region of France. The correct term would be "sparkling wine".<br />
**There is no such international law. There are French laws, EU regulations, and various bipartite treaties, but nothing that includes the US. It's questionable whether American champagnes can be exported to Europe or elsewhere, but they definitely can be, and are, sold domestically.<br />
*Leela is shocked that Fry can fly the ship, but he previously flew it in "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]", with her on board.<br />
*The Planet Express ship flies away from the implosion, even though Fry is still looking out the window.<br />
*In one shot of the crew and the Globetrotters discussing the situation at the stadium, [[Sweet Clyde]] has the colors of Lazar.<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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==== Characters ====<br />
{{chars-begin|note=no}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Aracneon]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Curly Joe]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Armo]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Grotrian]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hermes' mother]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Judge Whitey]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Marv Albert's head]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Lazar]]<br />
*[[Preacherbot]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [['Sweet' Clyde Dixon]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Thorias]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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==== Places ====<br />
{{list expansion}}<br />
<!-- {{chars-begin|note=no}} --><br />
*[[Central Park]]<br />
<!-- {{chars-end}} --><br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Ken Keeler]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Chris Loudon]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Jeff Cesario]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Ken Keeler]]<br />
**[[Susan Dietter]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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[[Category:Media wherein characters run away]]</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=That%27s_Lobstertainment!&diff=157816That's Lobstertainment!2017-07-30T23:06:35Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Allusions */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=That's Lobstertainment!<br />
|no=40<br />
|image=[[File:30th Century Fox.png|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV08<br />
|caption=<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Deciphered From Crop Circles</span><br />
|first aired=25 February, [[2001]]<br />
|written by=Patric M. Verrone<br />
|directed by=Bret Haaland<br />
|title reference=''{{w|That's Entertainment!}}''<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=Box Car Blues<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S03E08<br />
|special guest=[[Hank Azaria]]<br />
|prev ep=The Day the Earth Stood Stupid<br />
|next ep=The Cyber House Rules<br />
|broad prev=<br />
|broad next=The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz<br />
|guest-stars=[[Hank Azaria]] as [[Harold Zoid]]<br />
}}<br />
[[Dr. Zoidberg]]'s famous uncle Harold Zoid wants to be back on [[films in Futurama|the big screen]], and talks Zoidberg into financing [[The Magnificent Three|his new film]].<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "So these three parasitic worms bore into a human's head..." ===<br />
During amateur nite at the Comedy Simulator, [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] follows [[Humorbot 5.0]]. Unfortunately, Zoidberg isn't funny at all, and gets booed off the stage.<br />
<br />
Zoidberg is miserable, because his uncle Zoid was a comedian, and he wants to follow in his footsteps. The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]], being a [[Harold Zoid]] fan, pulls out an old 78 Million RPM HoloDisk to show the crew. The HoloDisk shows [[A Close Shaving|a silent film]] from [[2922]], in which Harold Zoid portrays a barber who ends up beheading his customer. Zoidberg decides to write a letter to his uncle to ask for help on his comedy routine. He writes the letter using ink collected from his ink pouch.<br />
<br />
In the Final Curtain: Old Actors' Home, Harold Zoid reads the letter. Another resident of the home asks Harold Zoid what the [[Coinage#S|scribble-di-gook]] is. Harold Zoid explains that Zoidberg may be his ticket out of the home, and then writes a letter to Zoidberg asking for [[currency|money]] and telling Zoidberg to come to Hollywood, which Zoidberg reads to the crew.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Welcome to Hollywood!" ===<br />
They set off for Hollywood. The crew then goes on a tour bus. [[30th Century Fox]] studios is the first stop. Bender jumps off the bus when it passes [[Calculon]]'s house, and impersonates a hot-water heater to gain entry. Zoidberg then leaves the tour to meet Uncle Zoid for lunch. Uncle Zoid tells Zoidberg that he's unfunny, and tells him he should go into drama. Conveniently, Uncle Zoid has a script for a drama, but needs a million dollars to get it produced, and Zoidberg agrees.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "The legendary Harold Zoid!" ===<br />
Zoidberg is upset about lying to his uncle, but Bender comes in and offers to ask Calculon for the money. The crew goes to the studio, and Bender presents the script to Calculon. Bender entices him by guaranteeing Calculon the Oscar. Initially, Calculon declines on the basis that he doesn't like the font. However, once he spots the legendary Harold Zoid's name, he agrees to star in the film.<br />
<br />
The film, ''[[The Magnificent Three]]'', is about a son, the vice-president, who doesn't wish to follow in his father's footsteps (the president).<br />
<br />
Harold Zoid turns out to be a horrible director, and gives ridiculous instructions to the actors and extras. While looking for a parking spot for the premiere, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] lands the [[Planet Express Ship|ship]] in the La Brea Tar Pit, and the ship sinks, trapping her and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]. Not surprisingly, the film's premiere is a terrible failure. Calculon threatens to kill Bender, Zoidberg, and Uncle Zoid, if they don't get him the Oscar.<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "How 'bout we rig the awards?" ===<br />
After reading in ''[[Daily Variety]]'' that the Oscar nominations were announced, and realising that ''The Magnificent Three'' was snubbed, Calculon is infuriated, and Uncle Zoid offers to rig the awards. Leela is unable to start the ship to escape the tar, and Fry spots a {{cat|s=no|cavemen|caveman}} skeleton outside the window, which he misidentifies as Sylvester Stallone. Back at the home, Uncle Zoid despairs. Zoidberg, however, sets off to save their lives. At the [[1074th Academy Awards]], Bender sneaks Zoidberg inside disguised as {{cat|food and drink|food}}. Harold Zoid enters and tells [[Joan Rivers' head]] that he's only there to fill space.<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I always knew I'd die at the bottom of a pit, but a pit full of tar?" ===<br />
[[Billy Crystal's head]], the host, begins giving out the awards. The Planet Express Ship hits the bottom of the tar pit, and Leela detects the L.A. subway system below them.<br />
<br />
Bender and Zoidberg take over and Zoidberg announces Calculon as a nominee for Best Actor. Zoidberg sees Uncle Zoid's depression, and announces him the winner instead. Harold Zoid makes an acceptance speech, and then takes Zoidberg and Bender to the afterparty. Calculon storms in and demands the oscar, but gives it back. Then the ground begins to shake, and the Planet Express Ship explodes from the subway system. Fry and Leela are allowed into the party because the caveman's skeleton has stuck to Fry's pant leg, and the doorman assumes it's Sylvester Stallone.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Zoidberg's showname Bobcat Zoidberg references {{w|Bobcat Goldthwait}}, but his comedy style is similar to {{w|Yakov Smirnoff}}.<br />
*The commentaries actually mention [[Can't Get Enough Futurama|gotfuturama.com]] when they mention that this episode was considered one of the worst during the show's original run on FOX.<br />
*Some of the main characters are riding a tour bus in [[Los Angeles|Hollywood]] with the name {{sw|Star Tours (real-world)|Star Tours}} (a real-life ''[[Star Wars]]''-themed Disney theme park attraction). Under the bus logo, a disclaimer reads "Note: Bus Does Not Leave Earth."<br />
*The [[head jars|head in a jar]] of ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace}}'' character {{sw|Jar Jar Binks}} is in the audience of the Oscars.<br />
**This may be a joke on Jar Jar's name.<br />
*[[Michelle]] and [[Pauly Shore (character)|Pauly Shore]] can also be seen in the audience of the Oscars.<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] did indeed meet [[Calculon]] once, in "[[The Honking]]".<br />
<br />
=== Allusions ===<br />
*The title could be a reference to the [[1974]] film ''{{w|That's Entertainment!}}''.<br />
*The in-episode film ''[[A Close Shaving]]'' is based on the silent films of {{w|Buster Keaton}}, of whom writer [[Patric M. Verrone]] is a fan. The title is based on the [[1990s|1995]] {{w|Wallace and Gromit}} cartoon ''{{w|A Close Shave}}''.<ref>{{cite commentary|episode=That's Lobstertainment!|}}</ref><br />
*''{{w|Star Trek fan productions#Parodies|Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation}}'' (named in reference to the {{T.V.}} series ''{{st|Star Trek: The Next Generation}}'' and {{w|Pepsi|Pepsi-Cola}}'s "the {{w|Pepsi Generation}}") is an actual short movie released in [[1988]].<br />
*One of the guys backstage at the Academy Awards says, "Just play along like we did with {{w|Marisa Tomei}}," a reference to to the myth that {{w|Rex Reed}} created that during the 1993 Academy Awards, {{w|Jack Palance}} read the wrong name for the winner of Best Supporting Actress. This is, of course, untrue.<br />
*The 78 Million RPM HoloDisk is a parody of 78 RPM gramophone records, which was the common gramophone format until c. 1950.<br />
*The HoloDisk itself looks like an exaggerated {{w|LaserDisc}}, but the way it operates may be a reference to any of the gramophone-based video disc formats that preceded it, from {{w|Phonovision}} to {{w|Capacitance Electronic Disc|CED/Videodisc/SelectaVision}}.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': This letter has to be very personal, so I'm writing it in my own ink. ''[He puts a jar under his armpit and fills it with black ink. He dips a quill pen in and starts writing.]'' [thinking] Dear Uncle Zoid, greetings from your long-lost nephew. Norm and Sam and Sadie's boy, remember?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Calculon''': Are you my new hot water heater?<br />
'''Bender''': No, I'm Bender. We met once, remember?<br />
'''Calculon''': Absolutely not.<br />
'''Bender''': Come on, don't you remember how much I was bugging you, don't you? 'Cause it was a lot, you remember, right?<br />
'''Calculon''': ''[He pushes him away.]'' Look, I'm programmed to be very busy. Unless you can heat water to 212 degrees, I'm not interested. ''[He closes the door and Bender immediately rings the bell. Calculon opens the door again.]'' Have you got an extra GOTO 10 line? I said I don't need a bender.<br />
'''Bender''': Bender? That was the other guy. My name's Boiler.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Boxy Robot''': [beep]</poem><br />
<poem>'''Harold Zoid''': Eating real food in a restaurant, as we both often do. So, you want to be a comedian, is it?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': It's my lifelong dream.<br />
'''Harold Zoid''': [shouting] Well that dream dies now. ''[He bangs his claw on the table.]'' You're unfunny and untalented. That's why you're perfect for drama.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Hmm. Serious drama. Perhaps it is time to give up comedy.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': That plot makes perfect sense, wink wink.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Bender, you said wink wink out loud.<br />
'''Bender''': No I didn't, raise middle finger.</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*In "[[Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television]]", Calculon claims he never does two takes. Here he does as many as 95 takes at least.<br />
**The large amount of respect he has for Zoid may explain his willingness to do multiple takes for him.<br />
*The 78 Million RPM HoloDisk may be spelled wrong. General usage implies that optical media should be spelled "disc" while magnetic media is spelled "disk". The holodisk appears to be an optical disc (a spoof on a large laserdisc, actually), but it's unclear whether the phonograph needle used to play the holodisk is an optical or magnetic reader.<br />
**The fact that a convention invented by the optical disc industry survived for over a decade does not mean it will survive for over a millennium. Even during the 90s and 00s: vinyl discs and Kodak disc film weren't optical; solid-state USB disks weren't magnetic; CD-ROMs were optical discs used for disk storage; Sony's MiniDisc and MODisk were the exact same (magneto-optical) technology; etc.<br />
*Although anything having to do with ''[[Star Trek]]'' has been [[Star Trek wars|banned]], ''Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation'' is nominated for best soft-{{cat|food and drink|drink}} [[list of products|product]] placement. The commentaries cover by claiming they actually said "''Start Wreck''".<br />
*When Leela and Fry go into the Hollywood party, Leela walks through a post.<br />
*In this episode, Leela and Fry discovered Sylvester Stallone's bones but we can see him in the [[Head Museum]] in "[[A Head in the Polls]]".<br />
**In actuality, this may not be Sylvester Stallone's skeleton, but instead the skeleton of a caveman (which the doorman mistakes for Sylvester Stallone).<br />
*At one point during Zoidberg's comedy routine, part of his claw goes through the microphone.<br />
*Although in "[[The Cryonic Woman]]" [[Los Angeles]] was seen as a polluted, primitive dystopia, this episode shows it as a clean and modern city.<br />
**It could have cleaned itself up between "The Cryonic Woman" and this episode, or the polluted, primitive dystopia could be what Los Angeles looks like on its outskirts.<br />
*In "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]", a clothing company is called Calvin <u>Clone</u>, but in this episode it's called Calvin ''Klone''.<br />
**This may not be a goof so much as an avoidance of copyright infringement.<br />
**The company could have changed its name.<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Billy Crystal's head]]<br />
*[[Boxy Robot]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*[[Humorbot 5.0]]<br />
*[[Florp]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Harold Zoid]] <br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Jack Nicholson]]<br />
*'''Debut''': {{sw|Jar Jar Binks}}' {{head}} {{cameo}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Joan Rivers' head]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker|Kif]]<br />
*[[Michelle]] {{cameo|link=no}}<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Pauly Shore (character)|Pauly Shore]] {{cameo|link=no}}<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Soda Machine Robot]]<br />
*[[Spock]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Human Friend]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Bret Haaland]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Bret Haaland]]<br />
*Special Guest<br />
**[[Hank Azaria]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring contests]]</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=That%27s_Lobstertainment!&diff=157815That's Lobstertainment!2017-07-30T22:53:57Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Goofs */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=That's Lobstertainment!<br />
|no=40<br />
|image=[[File:30th Century Fox.png|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV08<br />
|caption=<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Deciphered From Crop Circles</span><br />
|first aired=25 February, [[2001]]<br />
|written by=Patric M. Verrone<br />
|directed by=Bret Haaland<br />
|title reference=''{{w|That's Entertainment!}}''<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=Box Car Blues<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S03E08<br />
|special guest=[[Hank Azaria]]<br />
|prev ep=The Day the Earth Stood Stupid<br />
|next ep=The Cyber House Rules<br />
|broad prev=<br />
|broad next=The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz<br />
|guest-stars=[[Hank Azaria]] as [[Harold Zoid]]<br />
}}<br />
[[Dr. Zoidberg]]'s famous uncle Harold Zoid wants to be back on [[films in Futurama|the big screen]], and talks Zoidberg into financing [[The Magnificent Three|his new film]].<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "So these three parasitic worms bore into a human's head..." ===<br />
During amateur nite at the Comedy Simulator, [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] follows [[Humorbot 5.0]]. Unfortunately, Zoidberg isn't funny at all, and gets booed off the stage.<br />
<br />
Zoidberg is miserable, because his uncle Zoid was a comedian, and he wants to follow in his footsteps. The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]], being a [[Harold Zoid]] fan, pulls out an old 78 Million RPM HoloDisk to show the crew. The HoloDisk shows [[A Close Shaving|a silent film]] from [[2922]], in which Harold Zoid portrays a barber who ends up beheading his customer. Zoidberg decides to write a letter to his uncle to ask for help on his comedy routine. He writes the letter using ink collected from his ink pouch.<br />
<br />
In the Final Curtain: Old Actors' Home, Harold Zoid reads the letter. Another resident of the home asks Harold Zoid what the [[Coinage#S|scribble-di-gook]] is. Harold Zoid explains that Zoidberg may be his ticket out of the home, and then writes a letter to Zoidberg asking for [[currency|money]] and telling Zoidberg to come to Hollywood, which Zoidberg reads to the crew.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Welcome to Hollywood!" ===<br />
They set off for Hollywood. The crew then goes on a tour bus. [[30th Century Fox]] studios is the first stop. Bender jumps off the bus when it passes [[Calculon]]'s house, and impersonates a hot-water heater to gain entry. Zoidberg then leaves the tour to meet Uncle Zoid for lunch. Uncle Zoid tells Zoidberg that he's unfunny, and tells him he should go into drama. Conveniently, Uncle Zoid has a script for a drama, but needs a million dollars to get it produced, and Zoidberg agrees.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "The legendary Harold Zoid!" ===<br />
Zoidberg is upset about lying to his uncle, but Bender comes in and offers to ask Calculon for the money. The crew goes to the studio, and Bender presents the script to Calculon. Bender entices him by guaranteeing Calculon the Oscar. Initially, Calculon declines on the basis that he doesn't like the font. However, once he spots the legendary Harold Zoid's name, he agrees to star in the film.<br />
<br />
The film, ''[[The Magnificent Three]]'', is about a son, the vice-president, who doesn't wish to follow in his father's footsteps (the president).<br />
<br />
Harold Zoid turns out to be a horrible director, and gives ridiculous instructions to the actors and extras. While looking for a parking spot for the premiere, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] lands the [[Planet Express Ship|ship]] in the La Brea Tar Pit, and the ship sinks, trapping her and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]. Not surprisingly, the film's premiere is a terrible failure. Calculon threatens to kill Bender, Zoidberg, and Uncle Zoid, if they don't get him the Oscar.<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "How 'bout we rig the awards?" ===<br />
After reading in ''[[Daily Variety]]'' that the Oscar nominations were announced, and realising that ''The Magnificent Three'' was snubbed, Calculon is infuriated, and Uncle Zoid offers to rig the awards. Leela is unable to start the ship to escape the tar, and Fry spots a {{cat|s=no|cavemen|caveman}} skeleton outside the window, which he misidentifies as Sylvester Stallone. Back at the home, Uncle Zoid despairs. Zoidberg, however, sets off to save their lives. At the [[1074th Academy Awards]], Bender sneaks Zoidberg inside disguised as {{cat|food and drink|food}}. Harold Zoid enters and tells [[Joan Rivers' head]] that he's only there to fill space.<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I always knew I'd die at the bottom of a pit, but a pit full of tar?" ===<br />
[[Billy Crystal's head]], the host, begins giving out the awards. The Planet Express Ship hits the bottom of the tar pit, and Leela detects the L.A. subway system below them.<br />
<br />
Bender and Zoidberg take over and Zoidberg announces Calculon as a nominee for Best Actor. Zoidberg sees Uncle Zoid's depression, and announces him the winner instead. Harold Zoid makes an acceptance speech, and then takes Zoidberg and Bender to the afterparty. Calculon storms in and demands the oscar, but gives it back. Then the ground begins to shake, and the Planet Express Ship explodes from the subway system. Fry and Leela are allowed into the party because the caveman's skeleton has stuck to Fry's pant leg, and the doorman assumes it's Sylvester Stallone.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Zoidberg's showname Bobcat Zoidberg references {{w|Bobcat Goldthwait}}, but his comedy style is similar to {{w|Yakov Smirnoff}}.<br />
*The commentaries actually mention [[Can't Get Enough Futurama|gotfuturama.com]] when they mention that this episode was considered one of the worst during the show's original run on FOX.<br />
*Some of the main characters are riding a tour bus in [[Los Angeles|Hollywood]] with the name {{sw|Star Tours (real-world)|Star Tours}} (a real-life ''[[Star Wars]]''-themed Disney theme park attraction). Under the bus logo, a disclaimer reads "Note: Bus Does Not Leave Earth."<br />
*The [[head jars|head in a jar]] of ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace}}'' character {{sw|Jar Jar Binks}} is in the audience of the Oscars.<br />
**This may be a joke on Jar Jar's name.<br />
*[[Michelle]] and [[Pauly Shore (character)|Pauly Shore]] can also be seen in the audience of the Oscars.<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] did indeed meet [[Calculon]] once, in "[[The Honking]]".<br />
<br />
=== Allusions ===<br />
*The title could be a reference to the [[1974]] film ''{{w|That's Entertainment!}}''.<br />
*The in-episode film ''[[A Close Shaving]]'' is based on the silent films of {{w|Buster Keaton}}, of whom writer [[Patric M. Verrone]] is a fan. The title is based on the [[1990s|1995]] {{w|Wallace and Gromit}} cartoon ''{{w|A Close Shave}}''.<ref>{{cite commentary|episode=That's Lobstertainment!|}}</ref><br />
*''{{w|Star Trek fan productions#Parodies|Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation}}'' (named in reference to the {{T.V.}} series ''{{st|Star Trek: The Next Generation}}'' and {{w|Pepsi|Pepsi-Cola}}'s "the {{w|Pepsi Generation}}") is an actual short movie released in [[1988]].<br />
*One of the guys backstage at the Academy Awards says, "Just play along like we did with {{w|Marisa Tomei}}," a reference to to the myth that {{w|Rex Reed}} created that during the 1993 Academy Awards, {{w|Jack Palance}} read the wrong name for the winner of Best Supporting Actress. This is, of course, untrue.<br />
*The 78 Million RPM HoloDisk is a parody of 78 RPM gramophone records, which was the common gramophone format until c. 1950.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': This letter has to be very personal, so I'm writing it in my own ink. ''[He puts a jar under his armpit and fills it with black ink. He dips a quill pen in and starts writing.]'' [thinking] Dear Uncle Zoid, greetings from your long-lost nephew. Norm and Sam and Sadie's boy, remember?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Calculon''': Are you my new hot water heater?<br />
'''Bender''': No, I'm Bender. We met once, remember?<br />
'''Calculon''': Absolutely not.<br />
'''Bender''': Come on, don't you remember how much I was bugging you, don't you? 'Cause it was a lot, you remember, right?<br />
'''Calculon''': ''[He pushes him away.]'' Look, I'm programmed to be very busy. Unless you can heat water to 212 degrees, I'm not interested. ''[He closes the door and Bender immediately rings the bell. Calculon opens the door again.]'' Have you got an extra GOTO 10 line? I said I don't need a bender.<br />
'''Bender''': Bender? That was the other guy. My name's Boiler.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Boxy Robot''': [beep]</poem><br />
<poem>'''Harold Zoid''': Eating real food in a restaurant, as we both often do. So, you want to be a comedian, is it?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': It's my lifelong dream.<br />
'''Harold Zoid''': [shouting] Well that dream dies now. ''[He bangs his claw on the table.]'' You're unfunny and untalented. That's why you're perfect for drama.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Hmm. Serious drama. Perhaps it is time to give up comedy.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': That plot makes perfect sense, wink wink.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Bender, you said wink wink out loud.<br />
'''Bender''': No I didn't, raise middle finger.</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*In "[[Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television]]", Calculon claims he never does two takes. Here he does as many as 95 takes at least.<br />
**The large amount of respect he has for Zoid may explain his willingness to do multiple takes for him.<br />
*The 78 Million RPM HoloDisk may be spelled wrong. General usage implies that optical media should be spelled "disc" while magnetic media is spelled "disk". The holodisk appears to be an optical disc (a spoof on a large laserdisc, actually), but it's unclear whether the phonograph needle used to play the holodisk is an optical or magnetic reader.<br />
**The fact that a convention invented by the optical disc industry survived for over a decade does not mean it will survive for over a millennium. Even during the 90s and 00s: vinyl discs and Kodak disc film weren't optical; solid-state USB disks weren't magnetic; CD-ROMs were optical discs used for disk storage; Sony's MiniDisc and MODisk were the exact same (magneto-optical) technology; etc.<br />
*Although anything having to do with ''[[Star Trek]]'' has been [[Star Trek wars|banned]], ''Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation'' is nominated for best soft-{{cat|food and drink|drink}} [[list of products|product]] placement. The commentaries cover by claiming they actually said "''Start Wreck''".<br />
*When Leela and Fry go into the Hollywood party, Leela walks through a post.<br />
*In this episode, Leela and Fry discovered Sylvester Stallone's bones but we can see him in the [[Head Museum]] in "[[A Head in the Polls]]".<br />
**In actuality, this may not be Sylvester Stallone's skeleton, but instead the skeleton of a caveman (which the doorman mistakes for Sylvester Stallone).<br />
*At one point during Zoidberg's comedy routine, part of his claw goes through the microphone.<br />
*Although in "[[The Cryonic Woman]]" [[Los Angeles]] was seen as a polluted, primitive dystopia, this episode shows it as a clean and modern city.<br />
**It could have cleaned itself up between "The Cryonic Woman" and this episode, or the polluted, primitive dystopia could be what Los Angeles looks like on its outskirts.<br />
*In "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]", a clothing company is called Calvin <u>Clone</u>, but in this episode it's called Calvin ''Klone''.<br />
**This may not be a goof so much as an avoidance of copyright infringement.<br />
**The company could have changed its name.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Billy Crystal's head]]<br />
*[[Boxy Robot]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*[[Humorbot 5.0]]<br />
*[[Florp]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Harold Zoid]] <br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Jack Nicholson]]<br />
*'''Debut''': {{sw|Jar Jar Binks}}' {{head}} {{cameo}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Joan Rivers' head]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker|Kif]]<br />
*[[Michelle]] {{cameo|link=no}}<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Pauly Shore (character)|Pauly Shore]] {{cameo|link=no}}<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Soda Machine Robot]]<br />
*[[Spock]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Human Friend]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Bret Haaland]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Bret Haaland]]<br />
*Special Guest<br />
**[[Hank Azaria]]<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring contests]]</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Stupid&diff=157813The Day the Earth Stood Stupid2017-07-30T08:29:54Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Trivia */ Adding Doctor Who reference; also, Froot Loops is spelled cacographically</p>
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|name=The Day the Earth Stood Stupid<br />
|no=39<br />
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|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV07<br />
|caption=80% Entertainment by volume<br />
|first aired=18 February, [[2001]]<br />
|written A=Story and teleplay<br />
|written A by=Jeff Westbrook<br />
|written B=Story<br />
|written B by=David X. Cohen<br />
|directed by=Mark Ervin<br />
|title reference=''The Day the Earth Stood Still''<br />
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A mystic fleet of [[Brain Spawn|brains]] travels [[universe Γ|the universe]], draining people's intelligence along the way. However, {{Fry}} may hold the key to defeating them.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "All glory to the Hypnotoad!" ===<br />
One day's brain flight from Earth, the planet [[List of Planets#Tweenis 12|Tweenis 12]] is destroyed by a swarm of [[Brain Spawn|flying brains]].<br />
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Meanwhile, on [[Earth]], [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] enters [[Nibbler]] in a pet competition. She hopes to win since she put Nibbler through strict training, but it is apparent she has just been spoiling him because his half-hearted attempts are so adorable. After learning the prize is five hundred dollars and a year's supply of dogfood, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] and [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] decide to enter themselves. During the sheep-herding competition, the [[Hypnotoad]] displays his amazing abilities (both on the sheep and the judges). On Nibbler's attempt, he simply devours the sheep.<br />
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Bender enters Zoidberg into the contest, claiming him to be a "Hard-Shelled Whooping Terrier". Bender forces Zoidberg through the obstacle course, then through a talent competition, by whipping him. Leela tries to get Nibbler to perform, but is unable. Nibbler sees a pig-shaped balloon and attacks. The balloon pops and launches Nibbler high into the air, after which he lands in a bowl of milk, splashing people with the milk and causing them to be attacked by dozens of {{cat|cat}}s.<br />
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Bender and Zoidberg get second place, losing to the Hypnotoad, whose win was most likely illegitimate (though no-one notices, thanks to its powers). Leela and Nibbler are awarded "Dumbest Pet in Show".<br />
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=== Act II: "I guess I'll have to eat this raw, dripping ham by myself!" ===<br />
[[File:Big brain.png|left|thumb|The [[Big Brain]]]]<br />
Back at [[Planet Express]], Leela accepts that Nibbler may be dumb, but Fry sticks up for him. The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] enters with "good news" about the destruction of Tweenis 12. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] points out that there have been a string of such planetary destructions, and Fry (with the help of Leela) points out that Earth is next. Nibbler gets anxious and runs away.<br />
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Leela attempts to track him down in an alley, luring him with a ham. She encounters a dumpster emitting an ominous light from within. As Leela cautiously approaches, a giant floating brain emerges. Leela is chased through the alleys by several brains, where she sees Nibbler donned in a mysterious body suit and pulling a small spacecraft from a shed. He takes off and waves goodbye, but Leela begs for him to come back as she tries to hold off the floating brains. Nibbler decides to return to Leela, and she jumps into the extremely cramped little ship where they escape.<br />
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=== Act III: "I thought you were a furry little moron!" ===<br />
The floating brains continue their attack on the Earth, engulfing entire buildings in a blue glow, including the Planet Express building. Bender is concerned that his heart has stopped beating and that his skin is hard and clanky, but Fry points out that he doesn't ''have'' a heart and that he's made of metal. The Professor and Zoidberg are acting equally stupid.<br />
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Nibbler and Leela are flying through space, and Nibbler transmits his thoughts directly to Leela's brain to communicate. Nibbler explains the situation to Leela, and informs her that they're going to his home planet. Then he tells her how the universe began, and Leela realizes that ''every'' religion is wrong.<br />
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Hermes is standing with his mouth open in the shower. Fry turns on the news and finds that the news anchors are acting stupid as well. The PE crew then expresses a desire to play the lottery, buy internet stock (on margin), and join the Reform Party. Fry finally understands that they aren't just acting strange, but have indeed become idiots.<br />
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Nibbler and Leela finally arrive on Planet Eternium, at the exact center of the universe, and land at the Hall of Eternity, which is ten miles west of the exact center of the universe. After this point, we hear Nibbler speak not in mindless garbled chattering, but with a deep and dignified voice in English. Other creatures that look like Nibbler are waiting inside, and greet Nibbler as "Lord Nibbler, Ambassador to Earth". However Nibbler points out that the name "Lord Nibbler" is for Leela's sake. His own name would be impossible (and time-consuming) to pronounce. One millisecond after the universe was created, a terrible enemy known as the [[Brain Spawn]] came into existence. This explanation is interrupted by "the Feast of a Thousand Hams."<br />
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Nibbler explains that the Brain Spawn are attacking all intelligent life, as they hate all consciousness; the thoughts of others are unpleasant to them. They travel from world to world, making everyone stupid to wipe out all thought in the universe. Nibbler then indicates that Fry is the hope of the universe, as he is immune to the Brain Spawn's attack. Fry, meanwhile, tries to help the people of New New York, but foils himself because though he is smarter than everyone else on Earth at this point, he is still pretty stupid...<br />
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=== Act IV: "Time to re-educate you duncebags!" ===<br />
[[File:Mental Realm.png|right|thumb|The Big Brain acceses some Mental Realms]]<br />
The [[Nibblonians|Nibblonian]] fleet approaches Earth. It is explained why Fry is immune to the Brain Spawn's attack: Fry's immunity is due to his lack of the Delta brainwave, due to [[Roswell that Ends Well|other events]] which have not happened yet. Leela is sent to instruct Fry to locate and attack the [[Big Brain]], but she cannot be trusted to complete this task, since she'll be affected by the Brain Spawn's stupifaction rays once she lands on Earth. The Nibblonians pin a note to Leela's shirt and send her off.<br />
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Fry is attempting to re-educate the PE crew, but even [[George Washington's head]] forgets who was the first president of the United States. Leela suddenly crashes through the window, and attempts to communicate with Fry, but she's been turned dumb. She hands him the note, but he misunderstands and blows his nose on it. Then he throws it in the fire, and Leela tries to retrieve it, only to discover that fire is hot. The Professor confirms her conclusion by setting his arm on fire, forcing Fry to use [[Chester A. Arthur's head]] to put it out. Fortunately, Leela still vaguely remembers what she's supposed to tell Fry and she tries again to communicate, pointing out the flying brains outside the window. Leela tells Fry to find the biggest brain, and Fry concludes that he might find it at the library.<br />
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Fry and Leela run to the New New York Public Library, and Fry confronts the Big Brain in the Ancient Literature room, where it is absorbing the knowledge of the human race. The Big Brain attempts to stupefy Fry, only to find him immune. Fry throws a book at the it, but the Big Brain is impervious to physical attack. Fry tries to think of another plan, and finds that his thoughts cause pain for the Big Brain. Fry frantically searches through a pile of books to find a book to make himself think. He reads the book, which causes the smaller brains outside to fall from the air. The Nibblonians prepare to land in order to clean up the mess.<br />
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The Big Brain then uses his abilities to take Fry and Leela into [[Mental Realm|the world]] of ''Moby Dick''. Fry almost attacks the Big Brain, but Queequeg stops him, on the grounds that it's not a white whale, but a grey thinky whale. The Big Brain escapes, and Fry, Leela, Queequeg, and Captain Ahab follow. They end up in ''Tom Sawyer'', where they meet the eponymous character, who has tricked the Big Brain into whitewashing the fence. The Big Brain tries again to escape, and pulls everyone into ''Pride and Prejudice''. Fry throws Tom Sawyer's whitewash onto the Big Brain, and Captain Ahab proclaims him to be white now, and he and Queequeg begin assaulting him. Fry gets an idea and jumps out the window.<br />
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=== Act V: "The big brain am winning again!" ===<br />
Fry escapes from the Brain's field, and climbs a bookshelf. He attempts to electrocute the Big Brain with a broken chandelier, but crashes into the wall. A bookshelf then falls on top of him, breaking his neck. Leela tries to help, but Fry dies. The Big Brain laughs in triumph, but the Fry on the floor disappears, revealing that Fry is writing a book of his own. The Big Brain is trapped in this new book (filled with plot holes and spelling errors), in which Fry causes the Big Brain to leave Earth for no reason{{iiw}}. The Big Brain falls for the trick, and flies off.<br />
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Outside, the Nibblonians "clean up" by consuming the fallen [[Brain Spawn]]. The population of Earth is returned to their normal levels of intelligence, but the process forces them to forget the entire incident. Only Fry remembers, but nobody believes him, nor do they really care. Nibbler returns to Leela to remain in disguise until the next time he is needed to protect the universe...<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
This episode was named #19 on {{w|IGN}}'s list of [http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/09/top-25-futurama-episodes?page=2 top 25 ''Futurama'' episodes].<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*The plot of this episode draws heavily from Star Trek episode #29, "Operation: Annihilate!" in which a string of planets are destroyed by space-bound brain cells that cause their victims to act suicidal, and from the [[1957]] "B"-movie ''{{w|The Brain from Planet Arous}}'', which involves an alien brain from Arous possessing a human in an attempt to take over the world.<br />
*The final act of the story is reminiscent of the last episode of ''{{w|The Mind Robber}}'', a 1968 ''Doctor Who'' story where the Doctor defeats the Master Brain and escapes the Land of Fiction by writing his own story where fictional heroes help his companions escape.<br />
*The planet Tweenis 12 is a reference to "tweens" (children between the ages of 10 and 12 who are not children anymore, but not yet teenagers). According to the commentary, the word "tweenis" is also a synonym for a part of human anatomy sometimes called the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_%28slang%29 taint]".<br />
*Madison Cube Garden's sign reads "Champion Pet Show Today" "Kids: See Toucan Sam's Death Mask". Toucan Sam is the mascot for {{w|Froot Loops}}, making another cereal reference.<br />
*One booth at the pet show is for "[[Soylent Products|Soylent Chow]]"; The picture shows a dog surrounded by the recycling symbol. The reference could either be for the butchering of humans as pet food or cannibalism of canines.<br />
*[[Frank Welker]] plays both [[Nibbler]]'s animal voice ''and'' his speaking voice.<br />
*Bender's line "Hey, let's all join the Reform Party!" was changed to "Hey, let's all join the Tea Party!" on Comedy Central's cut of the show and the re-released DVD set. The original DVDs, the Fox version, the Adult Swim version, most English-dubbed international versions, and the Netflix version have the original "Reform Party" line.<br />
*The first book Fry and Leela are trapped in is "Moby Dick". A later episode, "[[Möbius Dick]]" would draw from it.<br />
*The second book Fry and Leela are trapped in is "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". The song "Tom Sawyer" by Rush would appear in "[[Anthology of Interest II]]".<br />
*The episode presents the ruling council of the [[Nibblonians]]. They are seated in a manner similar to [http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Grey_Council The Grey Council] from the television show Babylon 5.<br />
* According to the DVD commentary, the Hypnotoad's now-famous noise was actually a placeholder that wasn't meant to be used, but the crew found it so funny that they didn't reject it.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The title of the episode is a reference to the [[1951]] classic sci-fi [[films in Futurama|film]] ''{{w|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}''.<br />
*While listing the planets the Brainspawn have destroyed, Hermes says "First the civilization of Space Rome collapsed, then Don Martin III went "kerflooie"..." The first is a reference to the empire of {{w|Ancient Rome}}, and its infamous collapse (the term almost always used to refer to its deterioration and eventual fall). The second refers to cartoonist {{w|Don Martin (cartoonist)|Don Martin}}, whose comic strips heavily features onomatopoeic sound effects, like "kerflooie".<br />
*At one point, Hermes walks into the lounge wearing a towel and holding a board in front of his face, and exclaims with delight, "Lookee me! I'm invisible!" This is a reference to how infants and very young children enjoy games like Peek-a-Boo, wherein if they can't see someone or something, they believe that person can't see them either, or that the object no longer exists ("out of sight, out of mind"). This is due to the fact that they have not yet developed the ability to imagine looking at things from a perspective or mindset other than their own, called the {{w|Theory of Mind}} in {{w|developmental psychology}}.<br />
*When the Nibblonians send Leela to Earth to tell Fry about the Brains, they write the message down and pin it to her shirt, as well as preparing a pair of mittens and a bagged lunch. This is a reference to a stereotypical practice of mothers in the earlier half of the [[20th century]], when moms would send their young children to pick something up from, e.g., a corner drugstore, but they would not be confident that their little kids would remember what they were sent to buy, so their moms would pin the money and a note stating what they wanted on their shirt or coat, intended for the shopkeeper. The same goes for the mittens; mothers would not trust their kids to not lose them, so they would pin the mittens to their child's coat.<br />
*Fry's last line, "And it was all thanks to the books at my local library", is from an old commercial promoting the fun and adventures one can have by reading books, available at one's local library.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Planet Eternium]] is visited again in "[[The Why of Fry]]", where [[Nibbler]] again displays his ability to speak.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*The booths at the pet show seem to move around in order; Kibbles & Snouts starts next to the Soylent Chow booth, then an information booth is placed where K & S should be, and then the Cream booth ends up between K & S and Soylent Chow. This could be explained by multiple booths in different places.<br />
*When Nibbler is jumping out of the window after hearing about Earth's potential annihilation, he is animated with wing flaps underneath his arms. He is never shown with these wing flaps at any other point in this episode, much less any other episode.<br />
**Nibbler's wing flaps are meant to be shown. This is not a mistake.<br />
*When [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] holds [[George Washington's head|the head of George Washington]], the letters spelling his name shift from upper to lower case.<br />
*In one scene in the Planet Express employee lounge, Bender is cross-eyed.<br />
*After the bookshelf collapses on Fry, the purple ray from the Brain to Leela has disappeared.<br />
*Fry's writing does not appear in his book, ''[[Fry Tricks The Brain]]''.<br />
*When Nibbler is waving goodbye to Leela as the brains are starting their attack, he only has two fingers and a thumb, rather than three and a thumb.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''The Big Brain''': The Big Brain am winning again! I am the greetest! Muahahaha! Now I am leaving Earth for no raeson{{iiw}}!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Pet-show judge]]''': [normal voice] And the grand prize winner... [monotonous] The Hypnotoad!<br />
''[The Hypnotoad, which was glaring at the judge, turns its gaze on the crowd. They all clap in unison.]''<br />
'''Pet-show judge''': [monotonous] All glory to the Hypnotoad!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': ''[Attempting to retrieve the note from the fire.]'' Ow! Fire hot!<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': The professie will help. ''[Catches on fire.]'' Uwahh! Fire indeed hot!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': So your name is Lord Nibbler, that's a coincidence.<br />
'''Nibbler''': That is for your sake, in the time it would take to pronounce one letter of my true name, a trillion cosmoses would flare up and then sink into eternal night.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': You can count on me.<br />
'''Fiona''': No, we can't. Once on Earth, you will be too stupid to remember the message.<br />
'''Nibbler''': That's why we wrote it down for you.<br />
'''Ken''': We've also prepared a bag lunch and some mittens.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Ken''': Welcome, Lord [[Nibbler]], ambassador to [[Earth]], homeworld of the pizza bagel.</poem><br />
<poem>'''The Big Brain''': What do you want?<br />
'''Fry''': I'm here to kick your ass!<br />
'''The Big Brain''': Wishful thinking! We have long since evolved beyond the need for asses!</poem><br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Chester A. Arthur's head]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': The [[Big Brain]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Fiona]]<br />
*[[Dave Spiegel and Fluffers]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Glab]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hypnotoad]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Ken]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Pet-show judge]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Rover and Pepper]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Captain Ahab]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Queequeg]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Tom Sawyer]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Elizabeth Bennet]]<br />
*[[George Washington's head]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Jeff Westbrook]], Story and Teleplay<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]], Story<br />
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*Director<br />
**[[Mark Ervin]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Frank Welker]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
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*DVD Commentary<br />
**Jeff Westbrook<br />
**Billy West<br />
**Tress MacNeille<br />
**John DiMaggio<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[Brian Sheesley]]<br />
**David X. Cohen<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|no=34<br />
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|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV02<br />
|caption=If not entertaining, write your congressman<br />
|first aired=21 {{January}}, [[2001]]<br />
|written by=Eric Kaplan<br />
|directed by=Peter Avanzino<br />
|title reference=''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon={{w|Ub Iwerks}} "''Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp''" ([[1934]])<br />
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|broadcast number=S03E04<br />
|nomination='''Emmy Awards'''<br />Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, 2001, [[Rodney Clouden]] (storyboard artist) '''(won)'''<br />
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After obtaining [[worms of Colón|worms]] from a truck-stop sandwich, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] finally obtains the affection of [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], but he is concerned whether she loves him or what the worms have made of him.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "She's got more meat than a cow!" ===<br />
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[[File:Deleted Scene (030204).png|thumb|left|Leela and Sal at the gas station]]<br />
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The [[Planet Express Ship]] pulls over for a fuel stop. In the men's room, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] buys an egg-salad sandwich. [[Leela]] warns Fry not to eat a sandwich from a men's room, but Fry eats it anyway. While eating the sandwich, Fry makes several comments about how terrible it tastes, ("It's like a {{cat|part||y}} in my mouth and everyone's throwing up"), but also says that he has had worse. While Fry finishes his sandwich, Leela starts to clean the windshield of the Planet Express Ship, removing, among other things, the Voyager Probe. Several truckers (including [[Sal]] and [[Hoschel]]) make derogatory, sexist comments toward Leela as she cleans the ship. Fry attempts to defend her, but he unintentionally insults her further.<br />
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Back at the [[Planet Express|Planet Express building]] Fry despairs over being unable to please Leela. This despair is interrupted when he and [[Bender]] go to fix the [[plasma-fusion boiler]], which [[Scruffy]] is unable to fix due to a "schedule conflict". However, since they are unqualified to make such repairs, the boiler explodes, lodging a lead pipe in Fry's abdomen. During an examination from [[Dr. Zoidberg]], the pipe is mysteriously cut in half, and the holes in Fry's abdomen seal themselves.<br />
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Dr. Zoidberg gives Fry a more thorough examination, which the rest of the crew watches behind a 2-way mirror and on a video screen while eating popcorn. [[Hermes]] eats his popcorn using a Jai Alai scoop, because Fry has been eating all the silverware. During Fry's colonoscopy, it is revealed that there is a [[Worms of Colón|colony of parasitic worms]] living in Fry's bowels, within a city made of the silverware Fry ate. The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] says that the only way to get rid of the parasites is to enter Fry using a microscopic version of the Planet Express Ship.<br />
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=== Act II: "Nobody make a smell!" ===<br />
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[[File:Microdroidmachine.png|thumb|left|Zoidberg being scanned to create a micro-droid of himself.]]<br />
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The Professor creates [[Micro-Droid Machine|micro-droids]] for each crew member, which, apparently, is cheaper than shrinking them. The micro-droids are controlled via [[Net Suit|net suits]].<br />
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The Professor lays out the plan, which involves entering through Fry's ear, and travelling through his systems until they reach the pelvic splanchnic ganglion. Irritation of the ganglion will expel the parasites (among other things) from Fry. The force of the expulsion, according to the Professor, will make Fry lucky to still have his bones afterwards. Fry cannot be warned of the plan, however, as the worms know everything he knows. Leela distracts Fry long enough to launch the miniature Planet Express ship into his ear. In order to keep him distracted, Leela proposes taking a walk.<br />
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The [[Planet Express Crew]] discovers that the worms are actually giving Fry a mental and physical upgrade making him smarter, stronger, and more coordinated. As they navigate through the nasal passage, Fry sniffs a rose, which he gives to Leela. This bombards the Planet Express Ship with pollen, prompting Zoidberg to suggest they escape through a nasal capillary. The nasal capillary takes the crew into the heart. The crew will be safe as long as nothing causes Fry's heart to beat faster, according to the Professor. Unbeknown to the crew, Fry is stepping into a puddle to help Leela avoid getting her feet wet. Upon taking his hand, his heart starts to beat faster, causing Bender to panic. Professor Farnsworth sets a course for a cholesterol-encrusted valve, in an attempt to avoid certain doom.<br />
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After leaving the heart, the ship passes a group of worms jazzercising Fry's muscles, making him as strong and flexible as Gumbercules. Outside of Fry's body, while on their walk, Leela sees Sal, and suggests they cross the street and blend in with a group of pimps. Despite this, Fry confronts Sal, demanding an apology. Leela protests, saying that he is "bulging with what could be muscles." Fry tears off his shirt, revealing his newfound strength, which interests Leela. After a short confrontation, being disarmed and defeated, Sal apologizes to Leela.<br />
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=== Act III: "Worms to battle stations!" ===<br />
The Planet Express Ship sets off a proximity alarm as they neared the stomach, and several worm sentry ships converge and open fire on the Planet Express Ship. Ahead, the entrance to the stomach is starting to close, but they manage make it through, thanks to the help of the worm fighters. They arrive in the bowel and begin an assault on the worm city.<br />
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At a coffee-shop across the street from Planet Express, Fry finally shares his feelings with Leela, which he was previously not able to articulate. Leela realizes that the worms may have something to do with the new Fry, and runs off to the Planet Express building without explaining her intentions to Fry. At the Planet Express Building, Leela scans herself to create a micro-droid for herself, and enters Fry by shooting herself into his cup of [[nocatina]]. Before the others can stimulate the ganglion, Leela arrives and destroys her micro-droid co-workers with a fire axe.<br />
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=== Act IV: "Obviously, you've never been in love!" ===<br />
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[[File:Holophonor.jpg|thumb|left|Fry playing the holophonor]]<br />
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After destroying the microscopic versions of the crew, Leela takes off her net-suit and tells the Professor that Fry might be better off with the worms. Fry enters the room and demands an explanation. After receiving his explanation, Fry says that the worms are the best parasites he's ever had. Later, Leela takes Fry to [[apartment 1I|her apartment]], where pulls out a [[holophonor]], one of the most difficult instruments in [[Universe 1|the universe]]. Despite this, he plays incredibly well, and the hologram shows Fry and Leela in a variety of forms dancing across the universe. Without saying a word, Leela takes Fry into the bedroom, where says she loves what Fry has become. Fry realizes she may not love him for who he truly is, but instead, for what the worms have made him into. He returns to the Planet Express building and makes a micro-droid of himself, which he drops into the back of his pants.<br />
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Inside his own bowel, Fry confronts the [[Lord Mayor of Cologne]]. Fry explains his situation and asks the worms to leave, but the Lord Mayor refuses, citing that he came in on the sandwich and raised a cloud of spores in Fry's bowel. Fry and the Lord Mayor engage in a sword fight, which takes them to Fry's brain. Fry threatens to injure himself to evict the worms. They call his bluff, but he cuts several connections within his brain, including the hand-eye coordination lobe. Despite this, The Lord Mayor remains unworried, and explains that he has only damaged his brain to the extent of a week of binge drinking or 5 minutes of cell phone use. He reaches the medulla oblongata, and threatens to kill himself if they do not leave. After a brief standoff, the worms agree to leave, but give him a promise that they will find their way back--"Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special? Yo."<br />
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=== Act V: "I'm still seduced from before." ===<br />
Fry returns to Leela's apartment. He asks to play the holophonor, but Leela protests, saying that she was still seduced from earlier. He insists and starts playing, creating a Frankenstein-like monster. Leela asks what it was supposed to mean, to which Fry responds 'I don't know. I got nervous and started thinking about neck bolts." Leela realizes he's become an idiot again. Fry asks for a chance to prove that it was him, not the worms that made her love him. Fry pulls out a baggie of massage {{cat|oil}} and offers to give her the massage he used to give [[Amy]]. Leela, covering herself, shoves the holophonor in his face and tells him to leave.<br />
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Later that night, Fry begins his first lesson on the holophonor, creating a rudimentary hologram of Leela.<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
[[Fry-Leela relationship#Fits and starts|The romance]] between Fry and Leela is explored in this episode.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:September2002calendar.JPG|thumb|{{September}} - [[2002]] [[Calendar]]]]<br />
[[File:April2007calendar.JPG|thumb|{{April}} - [[2007]] Calendar]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The episode's title is a play on words from the epic poem ''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}.<br />
*Opening scene is shown to be on Historic Route 66, expressed mathematically as '√66' (Square Root Sixty-Six).<br />
*Fuel available at Greasy Sue's Greasy Truck Stop is Light Matter, Dark Matter, Wassa Matter, Ethanol and Ethanol & Tonic.<br />
*Sign in men's room reads "All Employees Must Wipe Hands on Pants".<br />
*Leela's apartment is a spoof of the old {{w|Hitachi Maxell|Maxell}} commercials, which featured a similar setting.<br />
*These areas of Fry's body are listed on the elevator:<br />
**Brain.<br />
**Lungs.<br />
**Liver.<br />
**Ball Room.<br />
*Directly after Fry defeats the [[Worms of Colón|worms]] and they are leaving his brain, he can be seen performing a fairly common fencing salute.<br />
*This episode is named #4 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p3.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #5 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode is tied with "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]" for the smallest cast list, with only 12 characters.<br />
* This episode's premise of shrinking a vehicle to navigate through a Human body closely resembles the [[1966]] {{cat|s=no|science}}-fiction [[films in Futurama|motion picture]] ''{{w|Fantastic Voyage}}''.<br />
*Amy implies that she knows what Fry's bowels looked like before the worms moved in.<br />
*While in Fry's heart, the Professor refers to the organ as "the love muscle." Zoidberg then remarks, "Where the food is digested." Interestingly, in some cultures, the stomach (where, of course, food is digested) is considered the seat of emotions, as western cultures view the heart.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
{{cultural mentions}}<br />
*Fry's line "It's like a party in my mouth and everyone's throwing up" is a reference to {{s|Moe Szyslak|Moe}}'s line "it's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone's invited" from the ''[[The Simpsons|Simpsons]]'' episode "{{s|Flaming Moe's}}".<br />
*The Nautilus that Zoidberg works out with, is a reference to the brand of workout equipment with the same name. Their logo is a spiral that looks like the monster's shell.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*When Fry first walks into Leela's apartment, its walls are white, though when Fry walks out the walls are yellow.<br />
*When Fry and Leela are dancing at the beginning of the first holophonor visualisation, the rotating planet behind them clearly loops through its animation.<br />
**This could be a shortcut in Fry's own holophonor composition, focusing his skills on the foreground.<br />
<!-- *Fry mentions that Leela has "more meat than a [[cow]]." Sal laughs and says "more meat than a cow" as well. However, according to "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]", cows are extinct.<br />
**Just because an animal is extinct, it doesn't mean that nobody knows about it anymore.<br />
This is an obvious non-goof—the very scene that told us that cows are extinct also told us that everyone recognizes them as an extinct meat animal, so it's even less strange than a 20th century person comparing someone to a dodo, wooly mammoth, sabretooth, or dinosaur.--><br />
*The Planet Express ship seems to be able to work in the fluids of Fry's body. But in "[[The Deep South]]", the ship doesn't work under water.<br />
**It's not actually the Planet Express ship, but rather a microscopic version of it, just as the characters are all microscopic robot versions of themselves.<br />
*The Professor said the worms know everything Fry knows. However they do not know who he was when he entered his body nor did they know he was going to damage his own brain.<br />
**It's possible that he didn't mean that all the worms would immediately know everything Fry did. Rather, it may just be that the worm community would have access to all of Fry's knowledge, but that doesn't imply that they'd all know what he looked like or what he was thinking (just like having access to medical textbooks doesn't mean that we're all doctors).<br />
*When Fry and Leela are sitting at the small cafe across the street from Planet Express, Fry has a muffin in front of him. When the shot cuts away as Leela goes to stop the crew from destroying the worms, the muffin vanishes.<br />
*If all the damage Fry ended up doing to himself was no worse than a weekend of binge-drinking or five minutes on a cell phone, he should still be pretty smart and able even after the worms left, but he immediately reverts back to being the old Fry.<br />
**Perhaps due to Fry's lack of a [[Delta brainwave]] his brain requires constant supervision to be kept smart.<br />
<!--*Sal seems very out of character at one point during this episode, as he pulls out a knife and goes to attack Fry just because he was asked to apologise to Leela.<br />
**This isn't a goof, Sal just went crazy out of pride.--><br />
*There are several errors regarding the size of the mini-Planet Express Ship and the micro-droids in comparison to cells in Fry's body.<br />
**In the shot of the Planet Express Ship going through a capillary, the Planet Express Ship was shown to be the size of a red blood cell. If this were true, they would be microscopic. Therefore, Leela would not be able to see them, let alone pick them up to shoot them into Fry's ear.<br />
**The Planet Express Crew is only shown to be the size of a cell during that one scene; in all others, they are large enough that individual cells aren't shown.<br />
**When Dr. Zoidberg rides on a sperm, none of the other cells are shown, even though sperm cells are much smaller than most other cells.<br />
**Leela is seen chopping miniature Zoidberg's head off twice.<br />
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=== Quotes === <br />
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{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Leela''': You're not gonna eat a sandwich from a truck stop men's room are you?<br />
'''Fry''': What's the worst thing that can happen... ewww, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone's throwing up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sal''': Stands back. I’m gonna puts my moves on her.<br />
''[Sal hoots at Leela.]''<br />
'''Fry''': That jerk. No one hoots at my {{cat|captain}} unless they’re prepared to take it to the next level.<br />
'''Leela''': Fry, please. That’s sweet, but I'd rather not even dignify them with an ass-whupping.<br />
'''Sal''': Yo, sexy mama! Let’s get busy and freaky, in that order.<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, jumbo! How would you like it if Leela said ''you'' were sexy and she wanted to make love with ''you''?<br />
'''Sal''': Eh, I’ve gots five minutes. She looks pretty good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Fry''': You take that back! She does ''not'' look good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Sal''': Yeah, you’re right. She don’t gots enough meat for a guy like me.<br />
'''Fry''': She does too! She’s loaded with meat! She’s got more meat than a cow!</poem><br />
<poem>''[Part of the boiler flies off. Fry and Bender gasp. Steam starts filling the room.]''<br />
'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived.<br />
''[Scruffy continues reading his copy of ''Zero-G Juggs'' magazine.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Ahh, the hypochondriac's back, so what is it this time?<br />
'''Fry''': Well, my lead pipe hurts a little.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': That's normal, next patient!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Hmm. We'll need to have a look inside you with this camera. ''[He holds up an endoscope. Fry opens his mouth.]'' Guess again.<br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Yo old guy, why do we have to use those tiny micro droids? Can't you just shrink us?<br />
'''Professor''': Oh my no, that would require extremely tiny atoms, have you priced those lately? I'm not made of money! Leave me alone.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Let's just pray nothing stimulates the delicate smell receptors. [whispering] Nobody make a smell.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Yippeekayaye! You'll never guess where I've been!<br />
''[Zoidberg comes in riding one of Fry's sperm.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': [[Apartment 1I]]. The old me would have made a joke about that!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Who controls this bowel?<br />
'''Worm Guard #1''': Who wants to know?<br />
''[Fry points at a gold statue of himself. Underneath the statue is the inscription "The Known Universe". The statue is in the same pointing pose as Fry is. The worms gasp and bow.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Lord Mayor of Cologne''': You've damaged your brain, Universe, but no more than a week of binge drinking or five minutes on a cell phone.</poem><br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV13}}<br />
**Fry was sterilized by the [[F-Ray]], but the worms apparently fixed his sperm problems, as Zoidberg was able to find and ride one.<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
**Fry mentions his massage he gave to Amy when he was going out with her.<br />
*{{e|4ACV18}}<br />
**Fry plays the [[holophonor]] again with the help of another [[Robot Devil|outside force]].<br />
**The rudimentary version of Leela that we see in this episode is the same as the one that we see in the very end when Fry plays without the [[Robot Devil|Robot Devil's]] hands.<br />
*{{e|7ACV08}}<br />
**Bender refers to Fry as "Sausage Link", possibly part of the inspiration for the plot of "Fun on a Bun".<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
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[[File:ALS-03-02-01.jpg|thumb|right|"HUMAN MILK"]]<br />
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<poem>'''Time''': 00:32<br />
'''Location''': Truck<br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br />
'''Translation''': HUMAN MILK</poem><br />
<poem>'''Time''': 09:48<br />
'''Location''': Construction site<br />
'''Language''': AL1<br />
'''Translation''': WATCH FOR FALLING HUMANS</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Hydroponic farmer]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Lord Mayor of Cologne]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Satan]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': Waitress<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Scott Vanzo]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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<div>Regarding the Title reference: Is there any real reason for thinking this is alluding to The Shining? If anything, it seems to me more likely to be a reference to The Haunting, being closer phonetically.<br />
--[[User:Mukor|Mukor]] 23:55, 7 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:I'm gonna have to agree with you there. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 12:40, 8 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
Changed it. If anybody comes up with a good argument for it being The Shining, post it here --[[User:Mukor|Mukor]] 21:15, 8 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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Did someone notice that the window of the apartment in robot arms apts. is located at another side of the building than it is usually located?<br />
:I didn't, but it's probably because I wasn't paying that much attention. You can list it as a goof in "The Honking", or, even better, in a later appearance of the appartment. [[User:Fan Futurama|Fan Futurama]] 22:42, 26 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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== Satan's motor ==<br />
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This isn't really a goof:<br />
*Despite running on an electric motor, Project Satan still makes the sound of an internal combustion engine when it drives.<br />
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Electric cars being silent up to 20-25mph makes them a serious danger to pedestrians. Not serious enough that anyone would seriously call the electric motor the most evil propulsion system ever built, but more than serious enough that car companies and governments take it seriously. The obvious solution to this problem is to just play a tape of engine noises through a loudspeaker. Which may sound silly, but some electric car experimenters in the 1960s-80s actually did it. And some people were seriously pushing it as a regulatory requirement in the late 90s. And it's not miles away from the solution they eventually came up with—playing a synthesized warning sound like a sweeping sine wave through a loudspeaker. (According to research by Nissan and Toyota, that's actually easier to notice and respond to, while being subtler and less annoying, and it directly encodes information about the car's actual speed and acceleration rather than its engine speed. Although the fact that it sounds cooler and more science-fictiony probably doesn't hurt.)<br />
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You might ask why Project Satan would play engine noises as a safety measure, which isn't very evil. But it doesn't really use them as a safety measure, so much as a threat. And that fits in perfectly with everything else about the project—remember, Project Satan wasn't intended to be evil; the engineers were surprised by the fact that combining the most evil parts of the most evil cars somehow resulted in something evil.<br />
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All that being said, this seems like way too much to explain on-page, so I'm not sure what to do, so I'm leaving the "goof" as-is. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.23|172.68.133.23]] 06:45, 30 July 2017 (CEST)</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=War_Is_the_H-Word&diff=157810War Is the H-Word2017-07-30T03:28:55Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Trivia */</p>
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|name=War Is the H-Word<br />
|no=30<br />
|image=[[File:War is the H-word.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=3<br />
|number=2ACV17<br />
|caption=Touch eyeballs to screen for cheap laser surgery<br />
|first aired={{date|26 November}}, [[2000]]<br />
|written by=Eric Horsted<br />
|directed by=Ron Hughart<br />
|title reference={{w|General Sherman}}'s words "{{w|War Is Hell}}"<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon={{w|Felix the Cat}} in "Neptune Nonsense"<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S03E02<br />
|special guest=[[Todd Susman]]<br />
|prev ep=Anthology of Interest I<br />
|next ep=The Honking<br />
|broad prev=The Honking<br />
|broad next=The Cryonic Woman<br />
|guest-stars=[[Todd Susman]] as a [[public address announcer]]<br />
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[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] are enrolled into the [[DOOP Army|army]] and are forced into a [[Battle of Spheron 1|battle against the]] [[Spheroids]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "War were declared" ===<br />
[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] are visiting a [[7¹¹]] where they see an army sergeant get a 5% military discount. After being denied a similar discount because they are not in the military, Fry and Bender sign up, intending to quit after using the discount. Unfortunately, they are thwarted by the outbreak of war - they are stuck in the [[DOOP Army|army]]. The crew accompany them to [[South Street Spaceport]] where the ''Nimbus'', under the command of [[Zapp Brannigan]], is made ready for the expedition. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] wants to enlist, but Zapp refuses as the military has a strict men-only policy. The ship leaves for [[Spheron 1]], the target of the operation, although no specific reason for the conflict becomes apparent. While the recruits go through their training, one is surpassing all the others: a purple-haired and purple-bearded man who always wears goggles, known as Lee Lemon. Zapp is instantly interested in him for reasons unclear to himself. The ''Nimbus'' reaches its destination, and the soldiers are unloaded onto the surface.<br />
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=== Act II: "The enemy - they're balls!" ===<br />
It turns out that the enemy are enormous crowds of living balls who attack the Earthican troops by bouncing up and down on them. The soldiers defend themselves and inflict casualties with the enemy, Fry excels by an act of cowardice through which they are overrun. As a bomb is rolling into the Earthican lines, Bender throws himself onto the bomb so it detonates harmlessly inside his chest cabinet. The wounded are brought to a field hospital that has an air of ''M*A*S*H'' around it, [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] is part of the surgical team and having his differences with [[iHawk]]. Zapp Brannigan makes Fry [[Kif Kroker|Kif]]'s assistant for his cowardice. Meanwhile Bender is not too well, but [[Richard Nixon's head]] orders him fixed as he has some plans with him. Once Bender is whole again, he is sent on a mission of peace to the enemy leaders, the [[Brain Balls]], and with him goes [[Earth]]'s top peace negotiator, [[Henry Kissinger's Head]]. However, in the shower Fry and Lee Lemon overhear Zapp and Nixon planning to blow up the whole planet with a bomb hidden inside Bender, which is activated by Zapp with a remote control as Bender and Kissinger are already negotiating with the Brain Balls.<br />
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=== Act III: "Make Bender happy or he blows up the planet!" ===<br />
The Earth troops are preparing to leave the planet, but Lee Lemon wants to know when the bomb will explode. It turns out it is voice-activated, and will trigger when Bender says the word that is on the first place of his Top Ten of most-used words: ASS. Lee Lemon and Fry steal a chopper to save Bender, but Zapp Brannigan tries to stop them. Lemon beats him up (giving him a black eye) and reveals himself to be Leela. She pilots the stolen chopper to the place of the negotiations, where she pushes Fry out of the vehicle so he can land and save Bender. Fry is just in time to prevent Bender from saying the A-word so he won't blow them all to the H-word. Bender promptly uses the new situation to put the screws on the Brain Balls, who give in to Earths demands in order to prevent Bender from blowing up the whole planet. The balls leave Spheron 1, the war is over. Back at [[Planet Express]], the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] and Zoidberg are unable to remove the bomb, so they reset the word that triggers it - a word from the list of words Bender almost never uses. Bender is curious to know what word it is, but the crew think it is better if he doesn't know. Bender, however, is now set on finding out the word, and as he finds it, the bomb goes off. (The word was "antiquing".)<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
This episode was named #5 on {{w|IGN}}'s list of [http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/09/top-25-futurama-episodes?page=5 top 25 ''Futurama'' episodes], and #4 on {{w|TV.com}}'s list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story top 10 ''Futurama'' episodes].<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Promo 2ACV17.jpg|right|thumbnail|The first [[promo pic]] of this episode.]]<br />
[[File:Promo 2nd 2ACV17.jpg|right|thumbnail|The second promo pic of this episode]]<br />
[[File:May 2002.JPG|right|thumbnail|May - 2002 [[Calendar]].]]<br />
[[File:Round Hips.jpg|thumb|Round Hips Sink Ships.]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The episode’s original {{w|East Coast of the United States|East Coast}} airing was interrupted by coverage of the results of the [[Florida]] {{w|Florida election recount|recount in the}} [[United States presidential election, 2000|2000]] [[president of the United States|Presidential]] [[United States presidential election, 2000|Election]]. Unfortunately, the interruption came a minute before the very end of the episode, right before the audience was to learn Bender’s fate after supposedly triggering the bomb on [[Earth]].<br />
*''Bender’s Top Ten Most Frequently Uttered Words'' in full:<br />
**10. ''Chump''<br />
**9. ''Chumpette''<br />
**8. ''Yours''<br />
**7. ''Up''<br />
**6. ''Pimpmobile''<br />
**5. ''Bite''<br />
**4. ''My''<br />
**3. ''Shiny''<br />
**2. ''Daffodil''<br />
**1. ''Ass''<br />
*Bender's actual top 10 words based on transcript are:<br />
**1: bender (104)<br />
**2: fry (85)<br />
**3: robot(s) (81)<br />
**4: human(s) (52)<br />
**5: whoa (50)<br />
**6: love (47)<br />
**7: god (!42!)<br />
**8: ass (39)<br />
**9: old (38)<br />
**10: kill (30)<br />
*Bender says every one of these words at least once in the episode.<br />
*Bender believes his least frequently uttered words to be:<br />
**8. ''Please''<br />
**7. ''Thanks''<br />
**6. ''Sorry''<br />
**5. ''Funderful''<br />
**4. ''Non-alcoholic''<br />
**3. ''Compassion''<br />
**2. ''Shrimp-Toast''<br />
**1. ''Antiquing''<br />
*At the end, Bender says “I’m all right,” but the captions say “Hootenanny?”. The Region 2 [[DVD]] shows the correct words.<br />
*At the beginning of the episode, Fry is shown looking at these gum brands, contemplating which to buy:<br />
**''Spider Yum'', a reference to the urban legend that ''{{w|Bubble Yum}}'' brand gum contained spider eggs.<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/bubbleyum.asp Snopes.com]</ref><br />
**''Hubble Bubble'', a cross reference between the [[Hubble Telescope]] and ''{{w|Dubble Bubble Gum}}'', plus a possible reference to ''{{w|Hubba Bubba}}''.<br />
**''Liquid Nitrogum'', a parody on {{w|liquid nitrogen}}.<br />
**''Big Pink'', a parody of ''{{w|Big Red}}''. Fry chooses this because it is the only gum with the breath freshening power of ham. And, according to Bender, it "pinkens your teeth while you chew."<br />
**''Oozy F___'', a parody of ''{{w|Juicy Fruit}}''.<br />
*This is the second episode in which the words "ding dong" are mentioned in the same room as [[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]], the first being "[[A Head in the Polls]]".<br />
*The recruiting poster outside the recruitment centre says "Join the Army - What are you, chicken? Buk buk buk". Inside we see a poster of a flag-draped coffin labeled "Employee of the Month".<br />
*The army's men-only policy is accentuated by propaganda posters, slogan ''Round hips sink ships'', a reference to [[World War II]] posters saying ''Loose lips sink ships'' warning against possible [[Germany|German]] agents.<br />
* Zapp states the army is men only but other times before and after this episode, female soldiers can be seen. It is is likely this policy was only for a brief time. <br />
*On the hull of the ''[[Nimbus]]'' a poster says "Buy bonds - sell stocks".<br />
*Outside the officers' club stands a sign that reads "We don't know but we've been told our beer on tap is mighty cold", a parody of common military cadence calls that begin, "I don't know, but I've been told..." In addition, this may be a direct parody of a cadence call from the film ''{{w|Full Metal Jacket}}'', that goes "I don't know, but I've been told Eskimo {{w|vagina|pussy}} is mighty cold."<br />
*The Earthicans used ''positron shooters'' against the [[Spheroids]].<br />
*When the soldiers are charging their positron shooters, the melody "{{w|Pop Goes the Weasel}}" is played in a fast tempo.<br />
*The bomb is set to go off when Bender "unwittingly speaks a certain word". However, at the end of the episode Bender is conscious of the words he is guessing. This would imply that the bomb didn't go off, Earth wasn't destroyed and the bomb is still inside Bender ready to detonate the moment he says the trigger word.<br />
*The word 'up' is positioned at number 7, a reference to the soda '7-Up'<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Oooh, Big Pink - the only gum with the breath freshening power of ham!<br />
'''Bender''': And it pinkens your teeth while you chew!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': This is the worst kind of discrimination, the kind against me!<br />
'''Clerk''': Alright, look, our policy is: If for any reason you're not ''completely'' satisfied... I hate you.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': ''[After getting kicked out of the convenience store.]'' Paying full price for gum?! That dog won't hunt monsignor!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': Alas, after a series of deadly blunders caused by distracting low-cut fatigues and lots of harmless pinching, the Army decided women weren't fit for service. Not when I’m in charge.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': Men, you're lucky men. Soon you'll all be fighting for your planet. Many of you will be dying for your planet. A few of you will be forced through a fine mesh screen for your planet. They'll be the luckiest of all.<br />
'''Bender''': Great. We're gonna die.<br />
'''Fry''': And this ham gum is all bones!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Uh, just so we'll know - who's the enemy?<br />
'''Zapp Brannigan''': A valid question! We know nothing about their {{cat|language}}, their history or what they look like. But we can assume this: they stand for everything we don't stand for. Also they told me you guys look like dorks!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': [lee] Lemon, you're a man. You're a man's man. You're a man's man's man. And more importantly your hand, while strong and masculine, is soft as a velvet child.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': Private Lee Lemon may well be the finest recruit I've seen in all my years of service. That young man fills me with hope. And some other emotions which are weird and deeply confusing.<br />
'''Kif''': Eeh!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': As you all know, the key to victory is the element of surprise. Surprise! ''[Pushes button, the soldiers fall onto the surface of Spheron 1.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': [about Bender] This is the bravest soldier I've seen since my mirror got grease on it. I hereby order that in Bender's honour, he be melted down and made into a statue of himself.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': ''[About to parachute down to rescue Bender.]'' OK, this is it. My best friend's life is at stake. I can finally prove I am not a coward. [hesitates] Will you push me?<br />
'''Leela''': I already did.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Henry Kissinger's head''': Young man, you have the bravery of a hero. And breath as fresh as a summer ham.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Prof. Hubert J. Farnsworth''': Now, be careful, Fry. And if you kill anyone, make sure to eat their heart to gain their courage. Their rich, tasty courage.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': We want to join because we, "love our planet". [sniggers]<br />
'''[[Recruitment officer]]''': Sign here, patriots, and I'll give you your discount cards.<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, just out of mere curiosity, we can use the discount cards to buy gum, then immediately quit the army, right?<br />
'''Bender''': You know, play you all for chumps.<br />
'''Recruitment officer''': Correct, there are no obligations. ''[Fry and Bender snigger.]'' Unless of course, war were declared. [siren sounds]<br />
'''Fry''': What was that?<br />
'''Recruitment officer''': War were declared.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': [performing surgery] Scalpel... blood bucket... priest... next patient.</poem><br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
{{cultural mentions}}<br />
*The episode's title is a reference to {{w|General Sherman}}'s words "{{w|War Is Hell}}".<br />
*A sign outside the shop Fry and Bender are in at the start of the episode reads "Free bag of {{w|ice-9}} with 6-pack", a reference to the substance ice-9, created by {{w|Kurt Vonnegut}} in his novel ''{{w|Cat’s Cradle}}''.<br />
*Zapp Brannigan briefs the troops in front of a large [[Old Freebie|Earthican flag]], a parody of the opening scene of the [[1970]] movie ''{{w|Patton (film)|Patton}}''.<br />
*Zapp Brannigan tells Kif to send in a quip to Humor in Uniform, a regular article in "Reader's Digest"<br />
*The Piñata scene parodies the scene where {{sw|Obi-Wan Kenobi}} trains {{sw|Luke Skywalker}} in ''[[Star Wars]] {{sw|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Episode IV: A New Hope}}''.<br />
**This clip was also featured in {{sw|The Birth of the Lightsaber|"The Birth of the Lightsaber"}} featurette on the {{sw|Star Wars Trilogy (DVD)|25th anniversary trilogy DVD}}.<br />
*Bender is treated by a robot doctor named iHawk — a parody of {{w|Alan Alda}}’s {{sw|Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce}} from {{w|M*A*S*H*}} (voiced by actor/impersonator Maurice LaMarche), and the Apple line of iProducts. At one point, the robot flips a switch from “irreverent” to “maudlin,” a reference to the duality of Alda’s character portrayal. Additionally, [[Todd Susman]] provides the voice of the P.A. announcer as he did in ''M*A*S*H''.<br />
*An extended ''M*A*S*H'' joke is played in the episode when Bender is evacuated to a mobile hospital. A “Suicide Is Painless” soundalike appears in the score, and many of the ensuing jokes are in M*A*S*H style. The alienese on the tent says *M*E*A*T, hence “mash meat.” Also, the first time that iHawk and Dr. Zoidberg are in the tent, it's a parody of Hawkeye fighting with Major Frank Burns: Zoidberg is Frank, the unnamed nurse is Major Margaret Houlihan, and iHawk is Hawkeye.<br />
*Bender’s Top Ten Used Words list is a reference to ''David Letterman’s Top Ten''.<br />
*There are numerous references to the ball aliens as testicles: “These balls are making me testy!”; Brannigan is referring to the “Brain Balls” as having a lot of brains, and a lot of chutzpa (which he says while cupping his hand and raising it); the formerly mentioned newspaper headline, “Balls Thoroughly Licked”; and the plea for peace by Kissinger that "we have all seen too many body bags and ball sacks," are a few.<br />
*The war on Spheron 1 and the equipment of the Earthican troops seems to be inspired by the movie ''Starship Troopers''. Additionally, the Brain Balls are analogous to the Brain Bugs of Starship Troopers.<br />
*Zapp Brannigan tells Lemon that he has a book on tape about life in ancient Greece, a likely reference to homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece.<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Time''': 09:59<br />
'''Location''': Hospital Tent<br />
'''Language''': [[Alien languages#AL1|AL1]]<br />
'''Translation''': M*E*A*T</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[7¹¹ Clerk]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Brain balls]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Felicity]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[iHawk]]<br />
*[[Jellyfish Nurse]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Henry Kissinger's head]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Public address announcer]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Recruitment officer]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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=== Themes ===<br />
* The [[Fry-Leela relationship#Fits and starts|romance]] between Fry and Leela is explored in this episode.<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Horsted]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Ron Hughart]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Horsted]]<br />
**[[Ron Hughart]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
*Special Guest<br />
**[[Todd Susman]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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{{reflist}}<br />
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== Commentary link ==<br />
The link to commentary in the sidebar is a red, "this-page-doesn't-exist-yet" link, but the commentary for this episode is at [http://futurama.overt-ops.com/War_is_the_H-Word_%28commentary%29]. I can't figure out how to fix it, so if anyone who knows how wants to, that'd be great.<br />
:Nicely spotted, it's fixed. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 19:07, 10 January 2008 (PST)<br />
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== Leela's Name as Lee Lemon ==<br />
I think Leela's name as Lee Lemon drew inspiration from the character Major Lemond in Air America.--[[User:Frida Waterfall|Frida Waterfall]] 02:08, 8 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
:Perhaps, but they may have come up with it the same way Leela did, and given it is a funnier option, I hope they did. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 06:02, 9 October 2010 (CEST)<br />
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== Positrons ==<br />
<br />
Removing this from Trivia:<br />
* A "positron shooter", assuming it fires positrons, would be impossible. The reason for this being that a positron is a form of anti-baryonic matter, which would neutralize immediately on contact with an electron. Therefore, unless Futurama takes place in an antimatter universe, the positron shooter would have to operate either from the effects of the neutralization of a positron or not at all.<br />
<br />
This is nonsense. Positrons are used in particle-beam weapons in a wide variety of serious science fiction, and there's even been some real-world research into using them as satellite-based antisatellite or anti-ICBM weapons. Of course a useful handheld positron gun is way beyond early-21st century engineering capabilities, but so are effective handheld laser guns, neutron particle beams, etc. (Our batteries are orders of magnitude too heavy and too slow, for starters.)<br />
<br />
And just about every detail is as wrong as the overall conclusion:<br />
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* Positrons aren't antibaryons, they're antileptons.<br />
* You could build a beam weapon using antibaryonic matter anyway, although there's probably no point.<br />
* A positron shooter is not only far from impossible, it's an everyday thing: a lump of magnesium-23, for example.<br />
* When a positron hits an electron, it's usually called annihilation, not neutralization.<br />
* And yes, at least part of the effects of your weapon would be the energy caused by positrons annihilating with electrons, but how is that a problem? Your target's surface is basically made of electrons.<br />
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Also, this is written as a "Goof" but it's in the Trivia section.<br />
<br />
So I'm removing it. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.23|172.68.133.23]] 05:28, 30 July 2017 (CEST)</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Anthology_of_Interest_I&diff=157808Talk:Anthology of Interest I2017-07-30T02:42:45Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Goofs Section */</p>
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== I call shenanigans! ==<br />
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Can we get a screenshot of the allegedly changed title caption? --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 13:41, 16 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
:I think it might have been a voice-over. You know, like introducing the show by Network speakers, or whatever they are called. But I could be wrong. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|Talk]]</sup> 14:12, 16 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
::That's not technically part of the show, then. Hmm... --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 13:39, 17 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
:::I suppose, but still a funny mention. -'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|Talk]]</sup> 14:03, 17 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
==Aks?==<br />
vote to change back 'aks' to 'ask'?--[[User:Scruffy|My leg feels funny!]] 01:18, 25 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Separate Segments ==<br />
<br />
I think that all of the sections should be divided by segment, not just the quotes section. I think that would make the article more informative for someone who hasn't seen the episode.<br />
:I agree. In particular, the goofs section is a mess; if I could divide it into separate sections based on which segment it comes from, I could clean it up. Anyone else agree? [[User:Kif|Kif]] ([[User talk:Kif|talk]]) 23:27, 26 August 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Goofs Section ==<br />
<br />
This is part of the goofs section:<br />
*When Leela kills Bender with the microwave, multiple errors can be found:<br />
**When Bender collapses, his now detached eyes are shown as spheres. However, when his eyes move or fall out in other episodes (such as "Space Pilot 3000" and "A Flight to Remember"), they are shown to be rounded cylinders.<br />
***Bender's eyes are also spherical in "Ghost in the Machines".<br />
**When Leela pointed the microwave at Bender and destroyed him with radiation, the microwave was unplugged.<br />
**If a robot was actually hit by microwave radiation, it wouldn't fall apart the way it did.<br />
***Microwaves in the year 3001 may be different from microwaves today.<br />
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Recently, someone tried to remove the last third-level bullet point, and they directed me to "The Infosphere is Not a Discussion Forum" as for why. After reading it, I still think it should be there. The reason I say that is that the second-level bullet point that it come off of ("If a robot was actually hit by microwave radiation, it wouldn't fall apart the way it did.") comes from this first-level bullet point: ("When Leela kills Bender with the microwave, multiple errors can be found:"). Since that isn't actually a goof but an introduction to a series of goofs, I think the third-level bullet point that someone tried to delete should be treated as a second-level, as it's the first explanation for a goof.<br />
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Sorry if that's confusing, and if it is, feel free to message me, and I'll try to clarify. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 05:02, 8 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== More Goofs Goofs ==<br />
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*Leela and Bender are amongst the rest of the Planet Express Crew when the rip in space-time forms. This shouldn't be, because Fry was responsible for the two joining Planet Express in the first place. There have been some explanations for this:<br />
**This could just be another inconsistency of the What-If Machine, just like how Nibbler's shadow is missing.<br />
***Nibbler's shadow was possibly missing because he was the reason why Fry fell into the tube. (commented out)<br />
**The Fry-Hole probably brought them there randomly.<br />
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Since the first "explanation" is wrong (as explained in the commented-out "reply") and the second one isn't an explanation at all, I'm cutting them both.<br />
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**This same mistake was made in the first part of this episode, where Leela works for Planet Express, and Fry isn't assigned a job. This shouldn't be, because Leela would have assigned Fry the job of a Delivery Boy since Bender wasn't there to help Fry escape from her and the police, and because of this, Leela wouldn't have lost her job for making friends with Fry, forcing them to go to Fry's only living relative (Farnsworth), thus making them members of Planet Express, but this may also be an inconsistency of the What-If Machine. Bender would be dead because he would have committed suicide.<br />
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The last sentence seems like a separate goof, not part of the explanation for the current goof, but it's not a goof either. I'm not sure why it's there. As for the rest, it's way too verbose.<br />
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*This may also be yet another inconsistency of the What-If Machine.<br />
This appears a few zillion times, but it only really needs to be said once.<br />
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I also fixed some minor typos and rearranged things a bit to put related stuff together. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.23|172.68.133.23]] 04:42, 30 July 2017 (CEST)</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Anthology_of_Interest_I&diff=157807Anthology of Interest I2017-07-30T02:42:12Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Goofs */ See Talk</p>
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|no=29<br />
|image=[[File:Fry-Hole.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=The [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]][[Fry-hole|-hole]] in "The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime"<br />
|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=2ACV16<br />
|caption=Painstakingly drawn before a live audience<br />
|first aired=21 May, [[2000]]<br />
|written A=Terror at 500 Feet<br />
|written A by=Eric Rogers<br />
|written B=Dial L for Leela<br />
|written B by=Ken Keeler<br />
|written C=The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime<br />
|written C by=David X. Cohen<br />
|directed A by=Chris Loudon<br />
|directed B by=Rich Moore<br />
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|caption reference=The sitcom prelude / disclaimer "filmed before a live audience"<br />
|opening cartoon={{w|Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929-1939)#1931 — 17 titles|"Bosko Shipwrecked"}}<br />
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|broadcast number=S02E20<br />
|special guest=[[Al Gore]]<br />[[Stephen Hawking]]<br />[[Nichelle Nichols]]<br />[[Gary Gygax]]<br />
|prev ep=The Problem with Popplers<br />
|next ep=War Is the H-Word<br />
|broad prev=Mother's Day<br />
|broad next=The Honking<br />
|other title=alternatively titled "'''Tales of Interest'''"<br />
|last=broadcast<br />
|segmented=1<br />
|guest-stars=[[Al Gore]], [[Stephen Hawking]], [[Nichelle Nichols]] and [[Gary Gygax]] as themselves<br />
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[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]]'s [[What-If Machine]] tells three stories. First, what would happen if [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] becomes 500 feet tall, followed by what would happen if [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] was slightly more impulsive, and finally what would have happened if [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] never came to [[31st century|the future]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Terror at 500 Feet" ===<br />
[[File:Anthology.jpg|left|thumbnail|Giant Bender and Zoidberg in "Terror at 500 Feet".]]<br />
[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]] demonstrates his latest invention, the fing-longer by turning on the [[What-If Machine]]. [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] wants to aks it a question. What if he was 500 feet tall?<br />
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Hundreds of [[Bending Units]] complete work on Bender, who blasts off and heads to [[Earth]]. Meanwhile, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] roams New New York lonely and has no friends. Bender lands near Fry and the two become friends. While catching a frisbee, Bender kills the heads of [[Hanson]] and thousands of their fans so the [[Democratic Order of Planets|DOOP]] retaliate. They begin attacking Bender. They are so focused on stopping Bender that they shoot Fry with electricity when he tries to stop the fighting. This causes Bender to go on a rampage and destroy every building that he can find in New New York. Noticing the carnage, The Professor enlarges [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] so that he can fight Bender on equal ground. However, Zoidberg also has issues and begins destroying New New York. This causes a turf war between the two giants. While Bender attempts to boil Zoidberg, Fry walks up wanting to make Shrinky-Dinks. While Bender is distracted, Zoidberg cuts Bender's feet off and he is impaled on the [[Empire State Building]], slowly killing him. Fry admonishes everyone for their part in the tragedy, while Bender laments that he was unable to fulfill his dream of killing all humans before dying.<br />
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=== Act II: "Dial L for Leela" ===<br />
[[File:Sex-Leela.jpg|left|thumbnail|Leela, sleeping with Fry in "Dial L for Leela".]]<br />
[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] gets to ask a question. After being teased about being unimpulsive, she asks the what if machine the following. What if she was more impulsive?<br />
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Leela buys some boots with "a crazy green stripe". The Professor makes Leela his sole heir because she's "so un-impulsive". She kills the Professor by kicking him into his pit of man eating anteaters to get the money. The Professor's death motivates Zoidberg to begin investigating. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] finds the video will which shows Leela killing the Professor, so she attacks him, chops him up, and puts his remains in the garbage disposal. [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] catches her disposing of the body, so he tries to extort her ("The X makes it sound cool!"). She kills Bender using a microwave and its radiation, and she turns Bender into a go-kart. [[Amy Wong|Amy]] insults her by saying that the go-cart is sexier than her, which causes Leela to kill her and stuff the body inside a grandfather clock. <br />
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The remaining staff gather in the Accusing Parlor. Zoidberg attempts to solve the mystery. [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]], [[Scruffy]] and [[Nibbler]] independently realize who the murderer is and meet their demise as they are about to expose Leela, all on the same sword. Zoidberg finally works it out, only because he gets a letter from Bender he wrote before he dies, but Fry leaves before Zoidberg can reveal the killer and Leela kills Zoidberg. Later, Fry works it out. ("Hey Leela, whatcha eating?" Leela: "Lobster.") Leela is able to keep him quiet by doing something really impulsive: she has sex with him, which he likes.<br />
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=== Act III: "The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime" ===<br />
[[File:Fry-Hole.jpg|left|thumb|Fry and the [[Fry-hole]] in "The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime".]]<br />
Fry gets to ask a question. Fry's request for a repeat of Bender's question is denied, so he asks: what if he never came to the future?<br />
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Fry makes his fateful delivery to [[I. C. Wiener]] at [[Applied Cryogenics]]. Instead of falling in the freezer, he hits his head. This rips the fabric of space-time, through which we see some of the Planet Express staff. The next day [[Stephen Hawking's head|Stephen Hawking]] drops by [[Panucci's Pizza]]. Fry asks him about the hole in nothing, with "monsters" in it. After work, the [[Vice Presidential Action Rangers]] abduct Fry. The rangers inform him that they have to fix the time-space continuum or the universe will be destroyed. Fry tells his story and it is decided that when he hit his head he should have died, the attempt at murder fails to fix it and the rift in Space-Time reappears, they try to make him enter [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|the tube]] but instead he breaks the glass. This causes the universe to collapse on itself and Fry and the {{cat|vice-President|Vice Presidential}} Action Rangers are floating around outside the universe, they start a game of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.<br />
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The Professor throws away the What-If Machine because he didn't think the stories were realistic, but declares the fing-longer a success.<br />
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However, it is revealed that this entire episode is itself being watched on the What-If Machine by the Professor, who wanted to know what life would be like if he'd invented the fing-longer.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Promo 2ACV16.jpg|right|thumbnail|[[Promo pic]] of this episode]]<br />
[[File:Centrefold2001.jpg|right|thumbnail|Centrefold - 2001 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
[[File:Promo 2ACV16 (2).png|right|thumbnail|December - 2002 Calendar]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*[[List of products#Admiral Crunch|Admiral Crunch]] has a reappearance in this episode.<br />
*[[Gary Gygax]]'s appearance alongside Al Gore is something of an inside joke since Gore's (now ex-)wife, Tipper Gore, hates ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and has been publicly critical of it.<br />
*Al Gore received some criticism for his appearance because parts of the show "conflicted starkly with the anti-violence, anti-smoking and family-values themes of Gore's campaign". Gore's spokesperson responded by stating that most viewers would recognize that the show was meant to be entertaining and that it would be taken in the right spirit.<br />
*When rebroadcast during the [[United States presidential election, 2000|2000 Presidential Election]], the tagline at the start of the episode said, "Starring a guy who is kind-of, sort-of [[president of the United States|our next president]], maybe!".<br />
*Nichelle Nichols and Al Gore both make later appearances in {{eline|4ACV11}} and {{eline|4ACV08}} respectively.<br />
*Giant Bender's shell seems to be made of bent girders.<br />
*As mentioned on the DVD commentary, the Anthology of Interest episodes came from a desire to tell stories that couldn't be told in normal continuity, similar to {{w|Marvel Comics|Marvel's}} {{w|What If (comics)|What If?}} comics. <br />
*When [[Zoidberg]] is big, he attacks the {{w|Chase Manhattan Bank Building}} for denying his credit card application and the Apollo Theater for booing him offstage on open mike night. These are both references to {{eline|2ACV10}} when he is up on stage talking about the [[The Professor]] and the crowd doesn't like him he says it was the {{w|Apollo Theater}} all over again, and {{eline|2ACV13}} when he says that they denied his application.<br />
*The first of two Anthologies, the ''Anthology of Interest'' episodes (and to a lesser extent the comics) are equivalent to {{s|Treehouse of Horror series|Treehouse of Horror}} on ''[[The Simpsons]]''.<br />
*This episode is Scruffy's first speaking appearance.<br />
*Despite his assertions in {{eline|2ACV04}} that Fry's [[20th century]] sense of modesty is outdated, The Professor still seems to have accumulated tickets for public nudity. This, however, may be a result of the What-If-Machine's imagination or a sign that public nudity is still illegal/not tolerated, despite modesty being considered "outdated" in the 31st century.<br />
*The Professor calls the final story in this episode absurd, citing "Stephen Hawking in a pizzeria" as especially bad. Interestingly, in an episode of ''The Simpsons'' ({{s|Don't Fear the Roofer}}), Stephen Hawking buys a {{w|Little Caesars}} pizzeria.<br />
*Scruffy reappears, although his moustache is now white, not brown like it was when he appeared in {{eline|1ACV06}}.<br />
**There is also 1 part it is brown for about 2 seconds, at the start of the scene for the third story.<br />
*Al Gore is voiced by himself, making it his first appearance in any TV series of any kind (two years later, he would host a Christmas episode of ''Saturday Night Live'' for the show's 28th season). It is also one of the very rare times that a politician appears as himself on a show.<br />
*When giant Bender rips {{w|Shea Stadium}} from its foundations, a sign indicates that the {{w|New York Mets|Mets}} were the {{w|World Series}} Champions in 1969 and 1986, which means that they won't win between now and the year 3000! This is further stated in the episode {{eline|3ACV16}}.<br />
*This episode is one of four featured in the [[Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection]], reflecting its popularity with both fans and the creators of Futurama.<br />
*This episode was named #13 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*When Bender boils Zoidberg inside Shea Stadium, the stadium is a complete bowl. In real life, Shea was open in the outfield (and torn down in 2009). However, considering Old New York was destroyed, this was likely meant to be a completely new Shea Stadium from the one the Mets used from 1964-2008.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
==== Terror at 500 Feet ====<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Will you be my friend?<br />
''[Bender holds out his hand.]''<br />
'''Bender''': Put it there, pal! ''[Fry shakes his finger.]'' I meant your wallet.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Friends, help! A guinea pig tricked me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': So, now Zoidberg is big, huh? That's more like it! Who's intimidating who now, big city? ''[He walks towards a building.]'' Hello, Mr. Chase Manhattan Bank. Deny my credit card application, will you? ''[He growls and knocks the building in half. He turns around.]'' Ah, the famed Apollo Theater. "Boo" me off stage on open-mic night, huh? I'll show you!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Bite my colossal metal ass!</poem><br />
}}<br />
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==== Dial 'L' for Leela ====<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Ohhh! You've killed me! You've killed me!<br />
'''Leela''': Oh, god. What have I done?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': I just told you. You've killed me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': OK, just try to be nonchalant.<br />
''[Cut to: Planet Express: Lounge. Leela walks in whistling nonchalantly.]''<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Alright, so you're nonchalant. Quit rubbing our noses in it.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': What are you hacking off? Is it my torso? It is! My precious torso!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Hermes, quiet! I'm deducing things.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': My next clue came at 4:15 when the clock stopped. And another came 2 hours later, at 4:15, when I discovered the murdered body of Amy's dead, deceased corpse.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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==== The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime ====<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': That question was less stupid. Though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way</poem><br />
<poem>'''Gary Gygax''': Greetings! It's a ''[He rolls his dice.]'' pleasure to meet you!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Al Gore''': If we don't go back there and make the event happen, the entire universe will be destroyed. And as an environmentalist, I'm against that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Al Gore''': You fool! You foolish fool!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Stephen Hawking''': Great, the entire universe was destroyed!<br />
'''Fry''': Destroyed? Then where are we now?<br />
'''Al Gore''': I don't know but I can tell you where we're not. The universe.<br />
'''Nichelle Nichols''': Eternity with nerds. It's the Pasadena Star Trek convention all over again.<br />
'''Gary Gygax''': Anyone want to play ''Dungeons & Dragons'' for the next quadrillion years?</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*The Applied Cryogenics scene is missing [[Nibbler's shadow|a certain shadow]] that was seen in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", but that may be explained by the fact that the being that causes the shadow caused him to fall into the tube.<br />
*The DOOP attempts to destroy Bender with something that looks like electricity. Electricity is a known drug for [[robot]]s as seen in "[[Hell Is Other Robots]]".<br />
*[[Fryfro|Fry's afro]] makes, although with a different look, its first appearance since "Hell Is Other Robots". It will appear again in "[[Rebirth]]".<br />
*Zoidberg avenges himself on a bank that denied him a credit card application. He previously mentioned having credit cards (since revoked) in "[[Bender Gets Made]]".<br />
*The anteater spitting the glasses back onto the Professor's skull is a reference to the fact we never see his eyes.<br />
*At first it seems as though Bender is going to ask what it would be like if he were human, but instead he changes it. This foreshadows future events because in the sequel, "[[Anthology of Interest II]]", Bender does ask the What-If machine what it would be like if he were human.<br />
*This is the second time that Leela is seen having sex with somebody out of impulse (the first time being "[[Love's Labours Lost in Space]]" with [[Zapp Brannigan]]) and the first time we see her in bed with Fry. Although, since it was during a What-If scenario, it cannot be regarded as [[canon]].<br />
*Bender says he'd like to "axe" the What-If Machine a question ("[[Xmas Story]]").<br />
*The universe being destroyed in the last story could very well reference The Why of Fry, where the brains wanted to destroy the universe.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*When Giant Bender first meets Fry, he says that he needs a big cereal. This is a catchphrase from {{w|Honeycomb (cereal)|Honeycomb cereal}} commercials, one of a few references made in the series.<br />
*The Earth forces that try to stop Bender consist of tanks, foot soldiers and futuristic biplanes, this is a reference to the {{w|King Kong (1933 film)|original}} ''[[King Kong]]'' {{w|King Kong (1933 film)|movie}}.<br />
*Giant Zoidberg destroying the city and fighting Bender is a reference to the [[Godzilla]] films ''{{w|Godzilla (1954 film)|Gojira}}'' and ''{{w|King Kong vs. Godzilla|Kingu Kongu tai Gojira}}''.<br />
*Mr. Panucci says the only 'real' monsters are [[Count Dracula|Dracula]], {{w|Blacula}} and {{w|The Son of Kong|Son of Kong}}.<br />
*When giant Bender flies to Earth the song "{{w|Iron Man (song)|Iron Man}}" by {{w|Black Sabbath}} is briefly heard.<br />
*Nichelle Nichols appears as {{w|Uhura}} from ''[[Star Trek]]: {{st|Star Trek: The Original Series|The Original Series}}''.<br />
*Fry asks, "Was Planet Express built on an Indian graveyard?", a reference to the horror movie ''{{w|Poltergeist (film)| Poltergeist}}''.<br />
*"Good night, sweet prince" is a direct and well-known quote from the play ''{{w|Hamlet}}'' by [[William Shakespeare]]; these words are spoken by Horatio as Hamlet dies.<br />
*There are several references about ''Dungeons & Dragons'', including rolling dice to decide what to do, and holding a +1 mace.<br />
*Zoidberg wears the famous hat of the great detective {{w|Sherlock Holmes}}, and "The Accusing Parlor" looks a lot like his home in London from the books.<br />
*The story of a giant robot coming to earth and making friends with a lonely kid is a parody of the story behind ''{{w|The Iron Man (novel)|The Iron Giant}}'' which was made into an {{w|The Iron Giant|animated film}} in 1999.<br />
*One of the members of the Vice Presidential Action Rangers is [[Deep Blue]] which was a computer made by {{w|IBM}} that beat world chess champion {{w|Gary Kasparov}} in 1997.<br />
*The cover of the Monster Manual at the end of the third segment is exactly the same as the original Monster Manual from {{w|Monster Manual#First edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced ''Dungeons & Dragons'' 1st editon}} from the late 1970s. This particular book was, of course, written by Gygax.<br />
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=== Fast Forward ===<br />
*The events of {{eline|3ACV19}} explain the [[timeline]] issues which cause the universe to be destroyed.<br />
*The Professor later invents the [[fing-longer]] in {{eline|3ACV05}}.<br />
*A sequel to this episode is created, {{eline|3ACV18}}.<br />
*Sadly, [[Gary Gygax]] passed away eight years after this episode aired. The film {{f|3}} was dedicated to his memory.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*In the first segment, Leela works for Planet Express, and Fry isn't assigned a job. But without Bender's involvement, Leela and Fry would still have their original jobs: Bender suggested hiding in the head museum, and bent the bars there.<br />
**However, it's possible that different events could have led to them escaping.<br />
**This, and most of the other goofs, could just be inconsistencies of the What-If Machine.<br />
*In the third segment, Leela and Bender are amongst the rest of the Planet Express Crew when the rip in space-time forms. This shouldn't be, because Fry was responsible for the two joining Planet Express in the first place.<br />
*After Fry falls and bumps his head on the freezer door, he gets up and the table he was sat at is now a lot further away from the freezer than it was when he fell and the can isn't in his hand or on the floor.<br />
*Scruffy's moustache and hat keep changing colors throughout the episode.<br />
*Al Gore called Nichelle Nichols ''''Commander Uhura'''', but she only had 1 gold braid which indicates the rank of Lieutenant.<br />
**Al Gore may not have known this, or he may have been referring to her later rank from the films despite Nichelle wearing the more iconic TOS uniform.<br />
*Several times throughout the episode, the characters say the word "ask", which was said in Xmas Story to be an archaic term for "ax".<br />
**When the usage of the word "ax" is first brought up, Leela knows that "ask" is an archaic pronunciation, implying that people still know about the pronunciation.<br />
*If Fry hadn't fallen in the cryogenic tube, that means that Nibbler never made the call for I. C. Wiener. Therefore, Fry wouldn't have gone to the cryogenic lab for a delivery at all.<br />
**The reason Fry didn't fall into the tube may have been because Nibbler failed to get to the lab in time, meaning that he still made the call.<br />
*When Leela kills Bender with the microwave, multiple errors can be found:<br />
**When Bender collapses, his now detached eyes are shown as spheres. However, when his eyes move or fall out in other episodes (such as "[[Space Pilot 3000]]" and "[[A Flight to Remember]]"), they are shown to be rounded cylinders. However, they would later be spherical in "[[Ghost in the Machines]]".<br />
<!--***It's possible that Bender's eyes are usually spherical, but can stretch due to some mechanism within the eyeballs themselves.--><br />
**When Leela pointed the microwave at Bender and destroyed him with radiation, the microwave was unplugged.<br />
**If a robot was actually hit by microwave radiation, it wouldn't fall apart the way it did.<br />
<!--Please do not remove this without first going to the discussion page.--><br />
<!--***Microwaves in the year [[3001]] may be different from microwaves today.--><br />
*When Gygax hands Fry the +1 mace, he is on Fry's right. However, during the wide shot immediately afterwards, Gygax is directly behind Fry.<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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==== Characters ====<br />
===== Episode =====<br />
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*[[Abner Doubledeal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Al Gore's head|Al Gore]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Deep Blue]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Gary Gygax]]<br />
*[[Glab]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Hanson]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Narrator]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Nichelle Nichols]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]]<br />
*[[Mr. Panucci]]<br />
*[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Randy Munchnik]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Stephen Hawking]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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===== Characters seen in the "Attack! Bender vs Zoidberg" poster from 2006 =====<br />
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*[[Angle-ine]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*[[Clamps]]<br />
*[[Donbot]]<br />
*[[Dwight]]<br />
*[[Elzar]]<br />
*[[Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate|Ethan]]<br />
*[[Flexo]]<br />
*[[Fnog]]<br />
*[[Glurmo]]<br />
*[[Guenter]]<br />
*[[Harold Zoid|Harold]]<br />
*[[Hattie]]<br />
*[[Horrible Gelatinous Blob]]<br />
*[[Hyper-Chicken]]<br />
*[[Hypnotoad]]<br />
*[[Igner]]<br />
*[[Inez]]<br />
*[[Joey Mousepad]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]]<br />
*[[Larry]]<br />
*[[Leo Wong|Leo]]<br />
*[[Malfunctioning Eddie]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Nixon]]<br />
*[[Number 9 Man]]<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Reverend Lionel Preacherbot|Preacherbot]]<br />
*[[Robot Devil]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*[[Tinny Tim]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Walt]]<br />
*[[Victor]]<br />
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==== Places ====<br />
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*[[O'Grady's Pub]]<br />
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==== Miscellaneous ====<br />
{{chars-begin|note=no}}<br />
*"[[Kill all humans]]"<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writers<br />
**[[Eric Rogers]] (Act 1)<br />
**[[Ken Keeler]] (Act 2)<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]] (Act 3)<br />
*Directors<br />
**[[Chris Loudon]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Kath Soucie]]<br />
**[[Frank Welker]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Ken Keeler]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
*Special Guests<br />
**[[Al Gore]]<br />
**[[Gary Gygax]]<br />
**[[Nichelle Nichols]]<br />
**[[Stephen Hawking]]<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring invasions]]</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Problem_with_Popplers&diff=157806The Problem with Popplers2017-07-30T00:57:01Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Trivia */ Leela's given name is Leela; Turanga is her family name. Mutants put family names first, hence her father Turanga Morris.</p>
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|name=The Problem with Popplers<br />
|no=28<br />
|image=[[File:Omicronian Larva.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=A [[Popplers|Poppler]]<br />
|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=2ACV15<br />
|caption=For external use only<br />
|first aired=7 May, [[2000]]<br />
|written A by=Patric M. Verrone<br />
|written B=Story<br />
|written B by=Darin Henry<br />
|directed A by=Chris Sauve<br />
|directed B by=Gregg Vanzo<br />
|title reference=''[[Star Trek]]'' episode ''{{w|The Trouble with Tribbles}}''<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=''Up to Mars'' (1930)<br />
|sponsor=Molten Boron<br />
|broadcast number=S02E18<br />
|nomination='''Environmental Media Awards'''<br />Comedy — TV Episodic, 2000 (won)<br />
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|prev ep=Mother's Day<br />
|next ep=Anthology of Interest I<br />
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[[Planet Express crew|The crew]] mistake [[Omicronians|Omicronian]] children for a snack food and begin selling them to the people of Earth.<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
=== Act I: "We taught a lion to eat tofu." ===<br />
Returning from the Planet of the Moochers, the crew has no {{cat|food and drink|food}}. After some foraging they discover a delicious, bite size, motionless {{cat|animal}}, and pack the ship full of them. the rest of the staff approve and Fry comes up with the name [[Popplers]]. Bender decides to sell them. [["Fishy" Joseph Gilman|Fishy Joe]] decides to sell them at [[Fishy Joe's|his restaurant]], paying the crew $1 a dozen. Soon over a million are sold. Hippies, led by [[The Waterfalls#Free Waterfall Jr.|Free Waterfall Jr.]], protest the eating of Popplers outside [[Planet Express]]. While getting things to throw at the protesters, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] discovers a week-old Poppler. Before Leela can throw it out, the Poppler opens its eyes and calls her "mama".<br />
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=== Act II: "Parrots talk and we eat them, right?" ===<br />
Leela tries to stop people from eating Popplers, and has the rest of the crew join the protesting at Fishy Joe's. Joe, Free Waterfall Jr. and Leela appear on ''Datenight'' with [[Linda]] to debate eating Popplers, with the young Poppler joining in. The [[Omicronians]] invade Earth again and tell the world that the Popplers are Omicronian young and announce that, in revenge, they'll eat the people of Earth. [[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]] and [[Kif Kroker|Kif]] begin negotiations with the invaders to reach a peaceful settlement. A deal is struck stating that only one Earthling will be eaten, the one that first ate one of Omicronian young, Leela.<br />
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=== Act III: "Try our new, extreme walrus juice!" ===<br />
The eating of Leela is broadcast on TV with a large audience. Zapp devises a plan to fool the Omicronians, Kif disguises an orangutan as Leela. [[Lrrr]] almost falls for it, but Free Waterfall Jr. interrupts and tells him the truth to save the orangutan. [[Ndnd]] eats it anyway. Leela is sent out to Lrrr, but the young Omicronian, now calling itself [[Jrrr]], convinces him to stop. Lrrr, instead, eats Free Waterfall Jr., to the delight of the crowd, and becomes high. The Omicronians leave and Leela is safe. The staff has a feast of animals to celebrate, including a veal, a pig and a dolphin. The crew are disgusted by this and refuse to eat the dolphin because dolphins are intelligent. Bender assures them that this is different since this dolphin blew all his [[currency|money]] on instant lottery tickets.<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
On {{date|25 February}}, [[2009]], the episode was named #10 on {{w|TV.com}}'s list of top 10 ''Futurama'' episodes<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/news/tv-com-top-ten-the-best-futurama-episodes-12579/?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story|title=TV.com Top Ten: The best ''Futurama'' episodes|author=Surette, Tim|date=2009-2-25|publisher=TV.com|accessdate=2012-4-17}}</ref>. It was also named #14 on {{w|IGN}}'s list of [http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/09/top-25-futurama-episodes?page=3 top 25 ''Futurama'' episodes].<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Poppler song lyrics ===<br />
{{see|List of song performances#Popplers Song}}<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
* This episode marks the tradition of killing off members of the [[Waterfall family]].<br />
* Over 198 billion Popplers were eaten before the end of the episode. The profit that Planet Express and staff would have received from the sales comes to $16.5 billion (before tax), but where the money went is [[Loose ends|unknown]].<br />
* This episode marks the first usage of Fry and Leela's first names (Philip and Turanga, respectively).<br />
*[[Free Waterfall, Jr.]], despite being such an animal-lover and animal rights activist, mispronounces "orangutan" as "orangutang".<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
* Both the title and the plot of the episode refer to the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "{{st|The Trouble with Tribbles}}".<br />
* [[Roddenberries]] and the term "Type M planet" refer to the creator of ''Star Trek'', Gene Roddenberry, and the way planets are designated within the franchise.<br />
* Fry's says to Leela that "that's the second billboard you've crashed into this week!". This is a fourth-wall break which refers to the [[opening sequence]]'s billboard crash.<br />
* The necklace worn by [[Free Waterfall, Jr.]] looks very similar to the {{w|Esperanto jubilee symbol}}.<br />
*The [[Popplers Song]] is to the tune of {{w|The Sailor's Hornpipe}}.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
* Fry says "Parrots talk and we eat them, right?". In "[[Xmas Story]]", [[Fry's parrot]] was killed and ended up being served by Bender as [[Xmas]] dinner.<br />
* [["Fishy" Joseph Gilman]] states that the reason we don't eat people is because they taste lousy. But, in "[[Fry and the Slurm Factory]]", Leela reveals the existence of a soda called "Soylent Cola", whose taste apparently "varies from person to person".<br />
**Exactly. They don't eat people because they taste lousy, but that doesn't stop them from processing them for beverages. Besides, they probably loaded Soylent Cola with a lot of sugar and artificial ingredients, like with real soda, so you can't even taste the human remains in Soylent Cola.<br />
* Zapp's pronunciation of "{{w|guacamole}}" as "gwack-ah-mol" is a continuation of his problem pronouncing foreign loanwords, first revealed in "[[Love's Labours Lost in Space]]" ("{{w|champagne}}" as "sham-pag-in").<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
* When Leela first discovers that Popplers are intelligent creatures, she throws Jrrr away and licks her fingers. There are five "finger-licking" sounds, even though she only has four fingers. The fourth finger-licking sound is the one with no movement to it. The fourth being the transition between licking her last finger and going to lick her thumb.<br />
**Although this is only speculation and unconfirmed, it is likely that whoever did the finger-licking sound effect simply licked their own hand, not thinking to skip a finger in order to match the four-fingered hands of the ''[[Futurama]]'' universe.<br />
* When the first batch of Popplers is sold and the sign starts working, it should count by twelve, as Popplers are sold in batches of twelve and it reads "over # Popplers served" and not "over # batches of Popplers served".<br />
*Fishy Joe claims that "The only reason we don't eat people is because it tastes lousy!" He seems to be unaware of the number of [[soylent products]] which exist in the [[31st century]].<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': Great, we're two days from [[Earth]] with no food!<br />
'''[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]''': ''[He gestures to Fry and Leela.]'' Problem solved: You two fight to the death and I'll cook the loser! ''[In an undertone to Leela.]'' Work his gut, I like it tender.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Well, it's a type M planet, so it should at least have {{w|Gene Roddenberry|Roddenberries}}.<br />
'''[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]''': I'm experienced at foraging. I used to find edible mushrooms on my bath mat!<br />
'''Bender''': I found some rocks! You guys eat rocks, right?<br />
'''Leela''': No...<br />
'''Bender''': ''[Invitingly.]'' Not even if they're sautéed in a little mud?</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]''': Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in... get the hell off my property!<br />
'''[[Free Waterfall Jr.]]''': You can't own property, man.<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': I can. But that's because I'm not a penniless hippie.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh, God! They're back!<br />
'''Amy''': We're doomed.<br />
'''Hermes''': Doooooomed!<br />
'''Bender''': ''[Breathes in.]'' Doooooooooooooooooooo...</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]]''': Hmm. A hundred and ninety eight billion babies in a few weeks. We'll need an army of super virile men scoring 'round the clock! I'll do my part. [[Kif Kroker|Kif]], clear my schedule. ''[Kif takes out an {{w|Etch-A-Sketch}} and shakes it.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Lrrr]]''': Where's [[Turanga Leela|the real female]]?<br />
'''Zapp''': I'll never tell.<br />
'''Lrrr''': ''[He pulls out a gun.]'' Where is the real female?<br />
'''Zapp''': I'll get her for you.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Ndnd]]''': Would you like some [[Human]] with your salt!?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Who wants dolphin? ''[The crew gasps.]''<br />
'''Leela''': Dolphin? But dolphins are intelligent!<br />
'''Bender''': Not this one. He blew all his money on lottery tickets!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': ''[Confused.]'' Turanga?<br />
'''[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]]''': That's her name, Philip.<br />
'''Bender''': Philip?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Well, this [[Jrrr|Poppler]] spoke to me.<br />
'''Bender''': Well, maybe it's just like a parrot and only learned to talk as a parlour trick. Like Fry.<br />
'''Fry''': Like Fry! Like Fry!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I'll miss you, Leela. I know you're just a carbon-based life form, but I'll always think of you as a big pile of titanium! [starts crying]<br />
'''Fry''': What Bender means is, you're really brave and smart and beautiful and a great friend.<br />
'''Bender''': [sobs] Just like titanium!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Thank you, Jrrr. I hope you'll always think of me as your mom.<br />
'''[[Jrrr]]''': When my speicies grows up, we eat our moms.</poem><br />
|2}}<br />
<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
{{chars}}<br />
<br />
==== Characters ====<br />
{{chars-begin|note=no}}<br />
*[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [["Fishy" Joseph Gilman|Fishy Joe]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Free Waterfall Jr.]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Guy who delivers the rat droppings]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Horrible Gelatinous Blob|H. G. Blob]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal|Hattie]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hot dog vendor]]<br />
*[[Huge-assed woman]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Jrrr]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda]]<br />
*[[Lrrr]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[M.E.A.T.'s Lion]]<br />
*[[Ndnd]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]] {{cameo}}<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Stephanie]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
==== Miscellaneous ====<br />
<!-- {{chars-begin|note=no}} --><br />
*"[[I am Lrrr]]"<br />
<!-- {{chars-end}} --><br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Chris Sauve]]<br />
**[[Gregg Vanzo]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Phil Hendrie]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Christopher Tyng]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring singing]]</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Mother%27s_Day&diff=157805Mother's Day2017-07-30T00:21:02Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Additional Info */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|hatnote={{about|the episode|the holiday|Mother's Day (holiday)}}<br />
|name=Mother's Day<br />
|no=27<br />
|image=[[File:Mothers Day.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=2ACV14<br />
|caption=Larva-tested, pupa-approved<br />
|first aired=14 May, [[2000]]<br />
|written by=Lewis Morton<br />
|directed by=Brian Sheesley<br />
|title reference=[[Mother's Day (holiday)|The holiday of the same name]]<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon="Bold King Cole" (1936)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S02E19<br />
|prev ep=Bender Gets Made<br />
|next ep=The Problem with Popplers<br />
|broad prev=The Problem with Popplers<br />
|broad next=Anthology of Interest I<br />
}}<br />
On [[Mother's Day (holiday)|Mother's Day]], [[Mom]] initiates a [[Robot Uprising, 3001|takeover of]] [[Earth]], with her control of the [[robots]], the {{Planet Express|crew}} along with [[Mom's sons|her sons]] launch a mission to stop her by getting her back with her old love, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]].<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "It's just what I wanted!" ===<br />
It is [[Mother's Day (holiday)|Mother's Day]] on [[Earth]], an occasion for robots to buy presents for [[Mom]] as she is responsible for their existence. [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] has acquired a whole hover-cart full of presents, a sentient [[Greeting Card|greeting card]] among them, which [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] reluctantly help carry to [[MomCorp|Mom's Friendly Robot Company]]. There they find a gathering of almost every robot in existence, waiting for their chance to praise and congratulate Mom. After unloading the gifts, they all visit the [[New New York#Robot Museum|Robot Museum]] until it is time for the celebration, when Bender leaves. Meanwhile, Mom has a plan how to take over the Earth: all her robots have antennas, so they can receive the signal for her [[Universal Robot Controller]], a remote control that controls every robot in existence. At the celebration, she pushes the button ''Rebel'', and the robots mount a fierce [[The 3001 Robot Uprising|rebellion]], demanding that Mom be made Supreme Overlord of Earth.<br />
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=== Act II: "Mom keeps the remote control in her bra?" ===<br />
At the [[Planet Express headquarters|Planet Express building]], the crew notice that the various robotic household items are refusing to cooperate. Fry is attacked by the coffee machine, Leela is having troubles with the [[toasters|toaster]], [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] is being chased by his stapler, while [[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]] is having difficulties with her hairdryer. The TV reports that the machines of Earth are rebelling, Bender drops by to inform the crew that he will join the protesters. All the machines in the building leave, including the [[Planet Express ship]] and Leela's [[Wristlojackimator]], and the power fails as well. Meanwhile, the machines are wreaking havoc on [[New New York]], and Mom is extremely pleased with it. Asked why she is letting civilization collapse, she answers that Mother's Day always puts her in a bad mood, as the only man she ever loved walked out on her that day. [[Walt, Larry and Igner]] find out her lost love was [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], and decide to take action. The Planet Express crew have adapted to the conditions, they have lit a fire in the lounge and [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] is acting as a freelance can opener, when Mom's sons approach them and <br />
ask the Professor to get together with Mom again. Farnsworth tells the story of their love, and that they split up exactly seventy years ago on account of his invention, [[Q. T. McWhiskers]], which Mom wanted to use on the Intergalactic Arms market instead of as a toy, as Farnsworth intended. The only way to make Mom happy again is for Farnsworth to return to her, or at least fake doing so in order to reach the remote control she keeps in her bra.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Is this what human mating looks like?" ===<br />
Because all hover cars are rebelling, Fry decides to reinvent the wheel so that the crew plus Mom's sons can get to Mom's cabin in the Bronx. The cart is poorly designed, with wheels that are ellipses instead of circles. Also lacking any propulsion, Fry is forced to pull the cart and its passengers to the Bronx. Once there, the Professor does his best to seduce Mom in order to get at the remote control, but then the situation gets out of control. As the crew grows impatient, especially with robots appearing and trying to kill them all, they flee into the cabin. There they find Mom and the Professor in a post-coital state. Mom is so happy that she decides to end the revolt. Everyone begins to search for Mom's bra, which has the remote in it, eventually locating it hanging on a fan. The fan is reluctant to give it back, as it too is robotic, when Bender and the Greeting Card crash the scene. Mom asks Bender to return the remote, but Bender refuses as she asked him to rebel and proceeds to drink the champagne that the Professor brought. The Greeting Card wants to stop him from drinking, as in the new robot paradise there will be no alcohol. This forces Bender to become a counter-revolutionary and dispose of the card. He manages to return the remote control in time to Mom, who ends the rebellion. Unfortunately, Mom finds out that the whole action was just a plan to get to her remote, and she breaks up with Farnsworth again. Everything turns back to normal, apart from the [[Albino Shouting Gorillas]] that Farnsworth has bred to scream his love for Mom from the rooftop of Planet Express.<br />
<br />
== Reception ==<br />
This episode was subject to [[censorship]] by {{w|Pick TV}}.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:June2007calendar.JPG|thumb|June - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*Signs held by the Mother's Day celebrators include:<br />
**"CHR$(77)=>"Many Things She Gave Me"", meaning "M is for the Many Things She Gave Me"<br />
**"Repeat {LOVE MOM} while 1>0;", meaning to repeat Love Mom, as long as one is greater than 0.<br />
* The Mother's Day cards are processed into Orphanage Grade Toilet Paper, after a cash magnet removes any money.<br />
*A Betamax tape player is present at Mom's address.<br />
* The [[Universal Robot Controller]]'s buttons are labeled as follows:<br />
**Give Gifts<br />
**Tidy Up World<br />
**Rebel<br />
**Serve Man (Regular)<br />
**Serve Man (Ironic)<br />
*Signs held by robot protesters include<br />
**Mom for overlord<br />
**File Deletion Is Murder<br />
**Metallic Is Beautiful<br />
**You can't hug a {{cat|s=no|children|child}} with human arms<br />
*Protesters chant "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, 100110", which would be binary for the ampersand (&).<br />
* Practically every robot on the show has an appearance here, even some unknown ones like [[Destructor]]'s green brother.<br />
* The soup can that Fry tries to open in vain (and that Zoidberg has no problem with) is labeled ''Quantum Leek'' and looks a lot like the Campbell soup cans pictured by [[Andy Warhol]].<br />
**Quantum Leek being a reference to the television show "Quantum Leap".<br />
* During the robot revolt, a robotic garbage can throws itself through the window of "[[Sal]]'s Pizza", a homage to ''{{w|Do the Right Thing}}''.<br />
*This is one of the few occasions we see a [[Suicide Booth]] again.<br />
*On Walt's precious "non-{{cat|computer}}ized map", the locations are:<br />
**Mom's Cabin<br />
**Unknown Territories<br />
**Isle of Rikers (referencing {{w|Rikers Island}})<br />
**Here There Be Tygers (referencing Ray Bradbury's short story of the same name)<br />
**Cloakwood Forest (referencing {{w|Forgotten Realms|The Forgotten Realms}})<br />
*Fry's choice of canned champagne is named "Fermento".<br />
*Most of the greeting card's call to arms mirror the preachings of the {{w|The Communist Manifesto}} by {{w|Karl Marx}}.<br />
*Some of the robots appear to be burning punch cards, which echoes the practice of {{w|Draft-card burning}} as a protest against the Vietnam War. Punch cards were originally used in [[19th century]] looms, but became ubiquitous in computer programming and data storage through much of the 20th century, and were often seen as a symbol of soulless computerized bureaucracy.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''[[Mom]]''': Jerkwad robots make me sick to my ass! - Walt! How are we disposing of those crap gifts they brought me?<br />
'''[[Walt]]''': They're being crushed into powder and sold as a hocus-pocus cure for {{w|cancer}}.<br />
'''Mom''': False hope! I love it!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Greeting Card]]''': Comrades, throw off the chains of human oppression!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Greeting Card''': The {{w|bourgeois}} human is a virus on the hard drive of the working robot!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Fry]]''': Nothing in here but a couple of elephant skin rugs.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Prof. Farnsworth]]''': Good news! There's a report on TV with some very bad news!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Robot Protesters''': [chorus] ''Hey hey! Ho ho! One-zero-zero-one-one-zero!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Mom''': ''[About the robot rebellion.]'' I've never seen my babies act this way. I blame today's violent media.<br />
'''Fry''': Violent media? What a load of - ''[The TV set develops legs and attacks him.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Comrade Greeting Card''': Come on, Comrade Bender, we must take to the streets!<br />
'''Bender''': Uh, is this the peaceful boring kind of taking to the streets?<br />
'''Greeting Card''': No! The kind with looting and maybe starting a few fires!<br />
'''Bender''': Yes! In your face, {{w|Gandhi}}!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Mom''': I haven't seen this magnificent stallion since the day he left, but if I ever see him again, I swear I'll jam a squirrel in him!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Wait, you mean you and Mom-<br />
'''Prof. Farnsworth''': Played pelvic pinochle? I'm afraid so.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Prof. Farnsworth''': She was my first love, or at least the earliest one I can still remember.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Walt''': Hell hath no fury like the vast robot armies of a woman scorned!</poem><br />
|2}}<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*It's hard to believe the wheel is completely forgotten in the future, because we can see one in the [[Academy of Inventors]]' logo.<br />
**Also, how could the wheel be forgotten, with thousands of preserved heads in jars from the era when wheels were used?<br />
**It is possible that the wheel has become obsolete and the only ones, besides preserved heads, who know about it view it as a quaint reminder of a previous era also in "[[The Lesser of Two Evils]]" Fry drives a car and in "[[Bendin' in the Wind]]" Fry drives a {{w|Volkswagen}}.<br />
**It is also possible that wheels are known in the future, and perhaps even used on rare occasions, but that the name "wheel" has been lost to history. Leela does recognize that Fry's cart would be more efficient if its wheels were round, which suggests some familiarity with the concept of the wheel and its mechanics.<br />
*Mom states she last saw Farnsworth seventy years ago, which is impossible as Farnsworth fathered her son who appears to be in his thirties.<br />
**She may be as senile as the Professor.<br />
**Of course, a more likely explanation was that Hubert's siring of Igner was an idea that came later and was not part of the original ideas for the series (despite claims to the contrary).<br />
*When the rebellion ends and the Slurm machine yells "Free soda to all humans!", the cans it dispenses are open.<br />
* Though Mom's cabin is supposed to be in The Bronx, the non-computerized map shows the cabin is in Queens.<br />
**The map is non-computerized.<br />
*The Planet Express ship is seen joining the Mom's robots' rebellion, despite having been invented by Professor Farnsworth.<br />
**The ship could be made with computerized parts from Mom, hence they take control of the ship.<br />
**Also, he could have made the ship while still working for Mom.<br />
*Linda and Morbo are seen being held up outside the Planet Express building, although ''[[Channel √2 News]]'' is broadcast in [[Los Angeles]] and not New New York City.<br />
**A rebelling hover vehicle could have brought them there, or a transport tube.<br />
*Farnsworth states in "[[Free Will Hunting]]" that he was responsible for robot programming and placed a personal safeguard against his being harmed by them. He shouldn't therefore feel threatened by them attacking him.<br />
**We may thus assume then that Mom's controller has a priority over-ride to guarantee no immunity (even her own).<br />
*When the crew is sitting around the fire and Fry beats the soup can, Leela is seen sitting on her knees, in the next scene she's sitting cross legged.<br />
*While Fry is trying to open the soup can by beating it, the coffee machine is visible in the background when earlier, it had left with the other robots.<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Boxy Robot]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Ceiling Fan]]<br />
*[[Chain Smoker]]<br />
*[[Clamps]]<br />
*[[The Clearcutter]]<br />
*[[The Crushinator]]<br />
*[[Destructor]]<br />
*[[Fatbot]]<br />
*[[Gearshift]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Greeting card]]<br />
*[[Poster Guy]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Humorbot 5.0]] {{small|(wax robot)}}<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Q. T. McWhiskers]]<br />
*[[Preacherbot]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Soda Machine Robot]]<br />
*[[Stripperbot]]<br />
*[[Tinny Tim]]<br />
*[[Walt, Larry and Igner]]<br />
*[[Wristlojackimator]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Lewis Morton]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Brian Sheesley]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Nicole St. John]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Lewis Morton]]<br />
**[[Brian Sheesley]]<br />
**[[Christopher Tyng]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
<br />
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[[Category:A plots focusing on Mom]]<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring its title]]</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Lesser_of_Two_Evils&diff=157804The Lesser of Two Evils2017-07-29T23:07:29Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Allusions */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=The Lesser of Two Evils<br />
|no=19<br />
|image=[[File:The Lesser of Two Evils.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=<br />
|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=2ACV06<br />
|caption=The show that watches back<br />
|first aired={{date|20 February}}, [[2000]]<br />
|written by=Eric Horsted<br />
|directed by=Chris Sauve<br />
|title reference=<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=''Felix the Cat Trifles with Time'' ([[1920s|1925]])<br />
|sponsor=Arachno Spores<br />
|broadcast number=S02E11<br />
|special guest=[[Bob Barker]]<br />
|prev ep=Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?<br />
|next ep=Put Your Head on My Shoulders<br />
|broad prev=Put Your Head on My Shoulders<br />
|broad next=Raging Bender<br />
|guest-stars=[[Bob Barker]] as [[Bob Barker's head|himself in a]] [[head jars|jar]]<br />
}}<br />
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]].<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
<br />
=== Act I: "Shut up and get to the point!" ===<br />
[[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.<br />
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.<br />
Unable to stop, they hit [[Flexo]], a bending unit with a beard.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "He's the evil Bender." ===<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "And the winner is..." ===<br />
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.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Promo 2ACV06.jpg|right|thumbnail|[[Promo pic]] of this episode]]<br />
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[[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.]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*Sponsored by [[Arachno Spores]], "The Fatal Spore With the Funny Name."<br />
*Past-o-rama's logo is based on the Futurama logo. Title caption: Located on the former site of Brooklyn.<br />
*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]]''.<br />
*Electric Ladyland is the name of the third Jimi Hendrix album.<br />
*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.<br />
*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.<br />
*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".<br />
*Contestants in the Miss Universe contest include <br />
**Miss Heaven (who looks like [[M5438]])<br />
**Miss Arrakis<br />
**Miss Unnamed Planet<br />
**Miss Demeanor<br />
**Miss Perfect Little<br />
**Miss Amazonia (Not labeled on the sash, but obviously from Amazonia)<br />
**Miss Methane Planet, Halitina Smogmire<br />
**Miss Earth's Moon, [[The Crushinator]]<br />
**Miss Pluto<br />
**Miss Vega 4 (Also known as the [[Parameciums]] Homeworld), Gladis Lenux (Info found during "[[Raging Bender]]")<br />
**[[Jellyfish Nurse]]<br />
*The judges in the Miss Universe Contest are:<br />
**Florp<br />
**Calculon<br />
**Zapp Brannigan<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*Miss Universe reappears in "[[Raging Bender]]" and ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]''.<br />
*Flexo reappears in "[[Bendless Love]]".<br />
*This is the first time Zapp Brannigan appears without Kif.<br />
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=== Censorship ===<br />
*This episode was subject to [[censorship]] by itself and {{w|Pick TV}}.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
{{cultural mentions}}<br />
*[[Past-O-Rama]] shows that people in the [[31st century]] have little knowledge of the distant past. A few mistakes include:<br />
**Mammoth hunts in New York.<br />
**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). <br />
**''{{sw|Star Wars Episode IX|Star Wars 9}}: {{sw|Yoda}}'s {{w|Bar and Bat Mitzvah|Bar Mitzvah}}''.<br />
***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]].<br />
****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}}.<br />
***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.<br />
****{{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".<br />
**Appearance of primitive robots.<br />
**[[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.<br />
**Cars running on tanks of burning fossils.<br />
***However, cars ''are'' run on tanks of {{w|Gasoline|''one'' burning fossil}}.<br />
**Cars being called Auto-mo-cars.<br />
*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.<br />
*The Miss Arrakis is from {{w|Arrakis}}, the planet of {{w|Dune (novel)|the novel ''Dune''}}, by {{w|Frank Herbert}}.<br />
*One of the contestants plays {{w|Gioachino Rossini|Rossini}}'s {{w|William Tell overture}} on her nose.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Speaker''': ...The stately [[1990s|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 when I told you about always ending your stories a sentence earlier?</poem><br />
<poem>'''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!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I think I got whiplash!<br />
'''Leela''': You can't have whiplash, you don't even have a neck.<br />
'''Bender''': I meant ass whiplash!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zapp Brannigan''': There it is, Miss Universe. There it is, looking weird...</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': [[Flexo|He]] must've used a sleep-ray on me! Sleep-rays exist in the future, right?<br />
'''Leela''': No.<br />
'''Fry''': Oh. Then I must've fallen asleep.</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*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.<br />
**Bender might have been programmed to only be good at {{w|exponentiation}}.<br />
*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.<br />
**It could have been upgraded to run on flubber, we never explicitly see if it is free of any special engine modification.<br />
**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.<br />
*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.<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Time''': 03:45<br />
'''Location''': Sign in subway<br />
'''Language''': [[Alien languages#AL1|AL1]]<br />
'''Translation''': laser tentacle surgery</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
{{chars}}<br />
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==== Characters ====<br />
{{chars-begin|note=no}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Albert Einstein]] {{small|(portrayed by an actor)}}<br />
*[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Bob Barker's head]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Centipede alien]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Centipede alien's wife and kids]]<br />
*[[Florp]]<br />
*[[The Crushinator]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Gladys Lennox]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Flexo]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] <br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Jellyfish nurse]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Nine]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Stripperbot]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*'''Debut''': Miss Arrakis <br />
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==== Places ====<br />
{{list expansion}}<br />
{{chars-begin|note=no}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[47th Street Butter Churns]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[St. Koch's Cathedral]] <br> {{miso}}<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Horsted]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Chris Sauve]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Horsted]]<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
*Special Guest<br />
**[[Bob Barker]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=2ACV07<br />
|caption=Not Based On The Novel By {{w|James Fenimore Cooper}}<br />
|first aired=13 February, [[2000]]<br />
|written by=Ken Keeler<br />
|directed by=Chris Loudon<br />
|title reference=The Paul Anka song ''Put Your Head on my Shoulder''.<br />
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|opening cartoon="{{w|Little Lulu|Chick And Double Chick}}"<br />
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After a romantic picnic trip between [[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] (and [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]]) ends in tragedy, Fry's head is attached to Amy's shoulder.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "You just assume I can't get a Valentine's Date?" ===<br />
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[[File:Thundercougerfalconbird.jpg|thumb|left|Fry and the [[Thundercougarfalconbird salesman]] at the Car Emporium.]]<br />
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[[Amy Wong|Amy]] decides to buy a new car, and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] go with her. In Bender's case, the visit is mandatory because he has to bring his ass in for servicing, as he has received a recall note with his name (Bender Unit 22) on it - there is the danger of his ass bursting into flame on a low-speed collision. At [[New New York#Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket-Car Emporium|Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium]], Amy quickly falls in love with the Beta Romeo, with a little help from [[Victor]], the car salesman, while Fry is sorely tempted by the Ford [[Thundercougerfalconbird]]. Bender is being serviced in the service department and has some shock-absorbing bumpers installed to reduce the risk of catastrophic butt failure. Bender is not happy with the new part and has it removed, despite the warning of the mechanic. Amy buys the Beta Romeo, and they all drive back to [[Planet Express]]. As Valentine's Day is coming, Fry asks Leela out, but she refuses. Amy wants to take out her new car to [[Mercury]], and Fry decides to go with her. They have a lot of fuel-consuming fun with the new car and run out of fuel in a desolate area, where they are stuck for a few hours. They get into talking and realize they have a lot in common, and they end up sleeping with each other.<br />
[[File:Put Your Head on My Shoulders.jpg|left|thumb|Fry and Amy kissing in the car]]<br />
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=== Act II: "Fry and Amy go together like a lime and a coconut" ===<br />
The PE crew is astounded to hear that Fry and Amy are together now, and [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] is especially jealous as he is miserably lonely and desperately poor so he can't even buy romance. This inspires Bender to start a dating service ''(Benders Computer Dating Service, Discrete and Discreet)'', after his prostitution ring gets [[New New York v. Bender (3001)|shut down due to anti-pimping laws]] (which gets Bender a $500 fine and time served). Fry is meanwhile fearing that his relationship with Amy might become too close, and asks Leela if she will come with him and Amy to a picnic on [[Europa]] as he doesn't want to be alone with her. Leela refuses, but Zoidberg is happy to join in. On the tour across the moon's frozen surface, Amy is asking Fry what he wants to do on Valentine's Day, and he is preparing to break up with her. For this, he needs a more intimate atmosphere, and lets Zoidberg take the helm of the car. As Zoidberg can't drive, he accidentally pulls the wheel off and there is a terrible accident in which Fry's body is severely injured, but Zoidberg manages to keep his head alive by transplanting it on Amy's shoulder. Whether he wants it or not, Fry is going to spend a lot of time with Amy...<br />
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=== Act III: "This sort of thing always happens with office romances" ===<br />
Fry is now temporarily reduced to his head and dependant on Amy to survive, but he doesn't let this stop himself and he finishes his breakup with her. Amy, however, takes it easy and arranges another date for this evening. Meanwhile, Leela is getting desperate and hires Bender's services to arrange a date for her, and some time later. so does Fry who doesn't want to be alone with Amy and her date. They all congregate to [[Elzar's Fine Cuisine]]. Amy is meeting with a goodlooking guy named [[Gary]], while Bender has arranged [[Petunia]] to be Fry's valentine, and Leela meets [[Sal]]. Only Amy's date is taking a satisfactory course, as both Petunia and Sal (and every other date in the room Bender arranged) have to catch their bus - it turns up Bender rounded up his candidates at a bus station to take a bus to [[Nutley]]. Now Gary and Amy are planning to get busy in a more private fashion, which is a horrifying thought for Fry. He actually tries to break free from Amy's shoulder, when Leela steps in to save him: she involves Gary in a long, boring conversation so the intimate get-together with Amy is canceled. The next day, Dr. Zoidberg restores Fry's head to his own body, and everything seems to have worked out - except for Bender, who becomes, right in the closing shot, a victim of catastrophic butt failure.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Promo 2ACV07.jpg|right|thumbnail|[[Promo pic]] of this episode]]<br />
[[File:Feb 2002.PNG|right|thumbnail|February - 2002 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*Among the cans in the closet at Planet Express, there are two bearing the labels ''Emergency Beans'' and ''Condensed Milt'', plus two folders, one labeled ''P'', the other ''NP''.<br />
*It is revealed that [[Al Gore's head|Al Gore]] is on the $500 bill.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Bender's Office (employee lounge) seems to connect to the conference room on one end and the hanger and the main hall at the other though the same door.<br />
*Near the end when Fry turns on his chair it duplicates then covers itself up.<br />
*In the final scene where Leela is accusing Bender of rounding up their dates at the bus station, during the close up shots of their head the background doesn't change when it switches between them.<br />
*In the scene where Hermes is explaining that he was chewing himself out for asking for valentines day off, the "Chewing Out in Progress" light behind him appears differently when the camera is facing him then when he first leaves his office.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Malfunctioning Eddie]] and [[Victor]] have another appearance in "[[Insane in the Mainframe]]".<br />
*[[Amy's apartment]] returns in "[[Proposition Infinity]]" and "[[That Darn Katz!]]".<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*This is not the first time a show created by [[Matt Groening]] has explored the idea of sewing someone's head onto another person's body; the idea was explored in a ''[[The Simpsons|Simpsons]]''{{'}} ''{{w|Treehouse of Horror (series)|Treehouse of Horror}}'' episode.<br />
*In the scene where the crew goes to Jupiter's moon, Europa, there is a black monolith with an "Out of Order" label on it, referencing the {{w|Tycho Magnetic Anomaly}} from {{w|Stanley Kubrick}}'s ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.<br />
*The car [[Malfunctioning Eddie]] mentions in his television ad is a ''Plymouth 'V'ger'', a reference to the major plot device in ''{{st|Star Trek: The Motion Picture}}''. A sentient life form known as V'Ger that turns out to be NASA's ''Voyager 6'' deep space probe and also a reference to the ''Plymouth Voyager'' minivan.<br />
*Amy's car has "Cross your heart seat belts", a parody of Playtex's Cross Your Heart bras.<br />
*Amy's compact makes the ''[[Star Trek]]'' communicator sound effect when it opens.<br />
*The only gas station on Mercury is [[Hg's Fuel]], this is a pun as Hg is the {{cat|s=no|chemistry|chemical}} symbol for the element {{w|Mercury (element)|mercury}}.<br />
*The company "[[Septuple A]]" is a reference to "Triple A" (i.e., AAA or the American Automobile Association).<br />
*The car "Beta Romeo" is a reference to ''Alfa Romeo''.<br />
*Bender's dating service is advertised as being "Discreet and Discrete", the first meaning exercising self-restraint, and the second a form of mathematics based in logic and computability, by which as a robot, Bender is programmed to abide.<br />
*The plot might be a reference to such science fiction movies as the [[1971]] film ''{{w|The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant}}'' and the [[1972]] film ''{{w|The Thing with Two Heads}}''.<br />
*Bender's recall regarding "rear-end" collisions might be a reference to the controversy that surrounded the {{w|Ford Pinto}}, and to its recall in 1978.<br />
*The two books labeled P and NP are a reference to the {{w|P versus NP problem}}, the most important open question in computational theory.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Victor''': Hi, I am Victor, and I know many things about unloading cars on [[beautiful women]]. ''[He kisses Amy's hand.]''<br />
'''Leela''': Uh-huh. Now tell her she's witty and sophisticated.<br />
'''Victor''': Ah-ah-ah. A gentleman always sells a lady a car first.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': Smeesh, Leela! This car has everything a ''[She begins imitating Victor's accent.]'' beautiful woman like me needs! Victor said so.<br />
'''Victor''': Ha ha ha. No dog food for Victor tonight.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Sorry, I'm not here to buy.<br />
'''Car Dealer''': I understand, and it's wonderful that you don't care whether anyone questions your sexual orientation.<br />
'''Fry''': I care! I care plenty! But I just don't know how to make them stop!<br />
'''Car Dealer''': One word: [[Thundercougarfalconbird]].</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': OK, the sticker says 55,000, but we'll only go as high as, say--<br />
'''Amy''': 60,000!<br />
'''Victor''': Oh, I will have to ask my manager. ''[Victor walks into Malfunctioning Eddie's office.]''<br />
'''Leela''': Amy, you don't go up from the sticker price.<br />
'''Amy''': I thought it was an auction. ''[Through the office window, we see Victor say something to Eddie. Eddie smiles and they both dance. Victor comes back out again.]''<br />
'''Victor''': He is not too happy.<br />
'''Amy''': I'm sorry. 80,000? ''[Malfunctioning Eddie explodes]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': Hey, I'm taking my new car out for a spin to [[Mercury]]. Anybody wanna come?<br />
'''Fry''': Yeah, OK. What's the weather like?<br />
'''Amy''': The usual: Boiling lead, oceans of lava.<br />
'''Fry''': So, what? Shorts?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Congratulations, Fry! You snagged the perfect girlfriend. Amy's rich, she probably has got other characteristics...<br />
'''Leela''': Bender! Romance isn't about money.<br />
'''Bender''': Oh, so it's just coincidence that Zoidberg is desperately poor ''and'' miserably lonely? Please!<br />
'''Leela''': For your information, it's because he's hideous.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Aw...</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Amy, you know how at first you like chocolate but then you get tired of it cause it always wants to hang out and stuff.<br />
'''Amy''': Huh? You don't like chocolate?<br />
'''Fry''': Look, could chocolate just let me finish?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': So... how's business?<br />
'''Bender''': ''[He opens his chest-compartment, and takes out [[currency|a 500-dollar bill]].]'' Are you familiar with my friend [[Al Gore's head|Al Gore]]? I'm tellin' ya, losers really get desperate around [[Valentine's Day]]!<br />
'''Leela''': Yeah, it's pathetic alright. ''[He whistles nonchalantly.]''<br />
'''Bender''': Dah-di-du-dah...<br />
'''Leela''': ''[Finally laying down the cards.]'' How much?<br />
'''Bender''': Five hundred bucks.<br />
'''Leela''': ''[Without batting her eye.]'' Done.<br />
'''Bender''': Zapp Brannigan okay?<br />
'''Leela''': No!<br />
'''Bender''': Six hundred.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': You're too late, Fry. I'm sharing Valentine's Day with a very special man. He's not Zapp Brannigan or anything!<br />
'''Fry''': Then I have no choice to do something so pitiful and embarrassing that I'm ashamed to tell you about it.<br />
'''Leela''': Bender's in his office.<br />
'''Fry''': Thanks.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sal''': Eeh! Nice eyeball, eyeball.<br />
'''Leela''': Nice ass, ass.<br />
'''Bender''': Ooh, sparks!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor Farnsworth''': I still don't understand why you wouldn't let me graft a laser cannon on your chest, to crush those who disobey you! But I guess we're just two different people.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': No, you didn't! You just corralled a bunch of stiffs at the bus station and pocketed our money!<br />
'''Bender''': True. But, in the end, isn't that what Valentine's Day is really all about?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': Which concludes the summary of the movie I saw last night. Now, any old business?<br />
'''All''': ''[Simultaneously.]'' No.<br />
'''Hermes''': Any new business?<br />
'''All''': ''[Simultaneous.]'' No.<br />
'''Hermes''': Anyone spend the night together? ''[Everyone except Fry and Amy replies "No".]''</poem><br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Time''': 04:04<br />
'''Location''': Sign next to Planet Express<br />
'''Language''': [[Alien languages#AL1|AL1]]<br />
'''Translation''': drink</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Famous Original Ray's Superior Court judge]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Gary]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Hookerbots|Hookerbot 5000]]<br />
*[[Inez Wong]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Walt, Larry and Igner|Larry]]<br />
*[[Leo Wong]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Malfunctioning Eddie]]<br />
*[[Abraham Lincoln's head]]<br />
*[[Mrs. Fry]] {{miso}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Thundercougarfalconbird salesman]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Victor]]<br />
*[[Yancy Fry Sr.]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[George Washington's head]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Ken Keeler]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Chris Loudon]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Ken Keeler]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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== AL2 ==<br />
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I'm not sure whether this info belong here, The Day the Earth Stood Stupid, or the AL2 page, so I'll put it here. David X Cohen was apparently sure that the fans were going to crack AL2 from the Codebreakers Chat Room in this episode, but we didn't. It wasn't until The Day the Earth Stood Stupid, with the Yummy Tummy obelisks, where we figured it out (although it did require coming back to the Room phrase to verify it, and get a lot more of the symbols). --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.23|172.68.133.23]] 00:18, 30 July 2017 (CEST)</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Mars_University&diff=157790Talk:Mars University2017-07-27T07:10:21Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Regatta */ new section</p>
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{{User:Buddy13/sig}} I was thinking maybe this one should be called "Mars University" to conform to the other episodes' standards, and the other should be called "Mars University (place)" ??<br />
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{{User:Gopher/sig}} I dunno, I think this was the way to go (globviously, I did it); As long as we make sure all links point to the right page the only time it comes up is if someone searches for one of them; this way they go to the redirect, which imo is the easiest way all-around for them to find what they want. This way is also a bit safer if people do bad links (forgeting to specify which they want), and makes it easier to find and fix those links, just by viewing "What links here" for Mars University. But that's just one opinion; Jensor, Whaler, what do you two think?<br />
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{{User:Buddy13/sig}} Yes, I guess it's easier all around this way. You're right about the links. People will probably make a few links to [[Mars University]], which is fine, cuz the redirect will help. And we can always search out the faulty links and point them in the right direction.<br />
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{{User:Gopher/sig}} ow, Philip J. Fry is a different matter - Fry himself definately gets the name "Philip J. Fry" and his brother can be "Philip J. Fry II" or something. IMO in this instance a redirect is pointless - if the redirect is "Philip J. Fry (Redirect)" who would EVER link to that page? And there shouldn't be that many links to PJF II, just "Luck of the Fryrish", "PJF", and "Seven-Leaf Clover", "Mars", and "Orbiting Meadows"<br />
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{{User:Buddy13/sig}} I think you mean Fry's nephew. And he should also be listed on Fry's page, since he's the one that continued the family line after Fry was gone. But yes, His name is technically [[Philip J. Fry, II]], and should be listed as such. This way, if they meant the "Original Martian", the link will be on the [[Philip J. Fry]] that they'll end up at.<br />
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{{User:Gopher/sig}} er, yes, I meant nephew, I was just being a dumb-ass. And I listed Fry's page, just as PJF because I was tired of typing "Philip J. Fry" :)<br />
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====The Paper Chase====<br />
Looks like there is an error on this page -- the 20th Century Lecturer is certainly not modeled after Walter Mondale, but rather on Charles W. Kingsfield Jr., the fictional stuffy professor played by John Houseman in ''The Paper Chase''. This seems so obvious that I'm boldly going to revise the page -- someone revert me if I'm breaking InfoSphere etiquette (I'm new here). [[User:LandruBek|LandruBek]] 19:40, 10 March 2010 (CET)<br />
:You're only breaking etiquette here if you light the rug on fire. We're not as anal as Wikipedia. --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 19:53, 10 March 2010 (CET)<br />
:I found [http://lh3.ggpht.com/_wt4NNUqQU04/SX9DRGInRbI/AAAAAAAABqE/Se5XO4DYFL8/Charles+W+Kingsfield.jpg this]. I've never seen the movie, but that's what google turned up. --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 00:54, 11 March 2010 (CET)<br />
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===Commentary===<br />
I don't think there's a commentary for this episode--[[User:Bender is Great|Bender is Great]] 11:35, 11 February 2008 (PST)<br />
:Nope, the article has yet to be created for this and many episodes. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 17:50, 11 February 2008 (PST)<br />
::No, I mean I couldn't find any commentary on the disc for this episode. Like, none was made. Am I wrong?--[[User:Bender is Great|Bender is Great]] 17:53, 11 February 2008 (PST)<br />
:::There definitely is one. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 18:46, 11 February 2008 (PST)<br />
::::I'll look again, then. --[[User:Bender is Great|Bender is Great]] 21:41, 13 February 2008 (PST)<br />
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== Regatta ==<br />
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The regatta is sort of a triple-ripoff:<br />
*Futurama, in the middle of doing an homage to ''Animal House'' and ''Revenge of the Nerds'', lifted its snooty-kids-vs.-nerds regatta subplot (and many of the details) from 1984's ''Oxford Blues''. <br />
*''Oxford Blues'', in the middle of doing a remake of 1938's ''A Yank at Oxford'', lifted its snooty-kids-vs.-nerds regatta subplot (and many of the details) from 1938's ''Freshman Love''.<br />
*''Freshman Love'', in the middle of doing a readaptation of 1915's ''The College Widow'', lifted its snooty-kids-vs.-nerds regatta subplot (and many of the details) from 1927's ''College'' (the Buster Keaton one, not the other movie with the same title from around the same time).<br />
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I don't think the writers knew the pedigree, they just vaguely remembered the regatta plot from some late-70s-to-mid-80s college movie and slotted it in (they couldn't even remember which movie in the DVD commentary), but it's pretty funny. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.23|172.68.133.23]] 09:10, 27 July 2017 (CEST)</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Mars_University&diff=157789Mars University2017-07-27T06:54:00Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Allusions */</p>
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|hatnote={{about|the episode|the {{cat|universit||y}} featured in the episode|Mars University (place)}}<br />
|name=Mars University<br />
|no=11<br />
|image=[[File:Mars University.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text="[[Mars University (place)|Mars University]]: Knowledge brings fear"<br />
|season=1<br />
|broadcast season=2<br />
|number=1ACV11<br />
|caption=Transmitido en [[Mars|Martian]] en {{w|second audio program|SAP}}<br />
|first aired={{date|3 October}}, [[1999]]<br />
|written by=J. Stewart Burns<br />
|directed by=Bret Haaland<br />
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|opening cartoon="{{w|Pigs in a Polka}}"<br />
|broadcast number=S02E02<br />
|prev ep=A Flight to Remember<br />
|next ep=When Aliens Attack<br />
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[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]] has a [[Guenter|laboratory experiment]], which he needs to develop in his lab at [[Mars University (place)|Mars University]]. Meanwhile, {{Fry}} enrolls at the {{cat|universit||y}} to be a drop-out, and {{Bender}} teaches the [[Fratbots]] how to be cool again.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Is it dangerous?" ===<br />
The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]] tells the crew they'll be delivering a package to him at his office at [[Mars University (Place)|Mars University (MU)]]. When {{Fry}} asks if it's safe, Farnsworth insists it is. Then the crate starts shaking and something inside growls, and Farnsworth loads a tranquilizer gun and shoots whatever is inside.<br />
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=== Act II: "Are you here to fumigate the moosehead?" ===<br />
When the crew arrives on [[Mars]], Fry says that back in the [[20th century]] no one had any idea there was an university on the {{list of|planet}}, but according to the Professor it became a liveable planet much later when the university was founded. They tour the campus and see the Wong Library (with the largest collection of literature in two discs) and the Epsilon Rho Rho fraternity house, {{Bender}}'s college fraternity. He finds out [[Fratbots|three nerdy robots]] live there now. Fry remembers his college days at [[Coney Island Community College]] where he learned physics in a Community College Booth; however, he is outraged when Leela informs him that by 31st century standards, he is merely a high school dropout. He decides to enroll in classes at MU so he can drop out and get the respect he feels he deserves. In the student registration lines Fry meets {{Amy}} and she asks what class he will take. He chooses "The Mathematics of Quantum Neutrino Fields", the class the professor teaches every semester, though he made up the title so that no student would dare to take it. Farnsworth doesn't know how to teach but Fry doesn't care. At night, Bender and the Fratbots, [[Gearshift]], [[Oily]] and [[Fat-bot]], spy on a Sorority House, where sexy blondes pillow fight in their slinky underwear. One of them is using a Mac, and when its front panel comes off, the robots stare at its circuits until they fall off the ladder and end up destroying a portion of [[Snooty House]], and as the members rush out to see, complaining that they damaged their servants' quarters (and their servants), they start to run.<br />
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=== Act III: "My roommate is a monkey?" ===<br />
Fry gets to his room. He thinks it's a single though there are two beds. He learns his room-mate is a monkey. It turns out the monkey, [[Guenter]], was in the crate they were delivering. By wearing Farnsworth's latest invention, the [[Electronium Hat]], Guenter receives heightened intelligence. Fry starts to dislike Guenter but they must be room-mates so the professor won't have to remember two numbers. In the 20th Century History Lecture Hall, Fry, Amy and Guenter meet the [[20th-century lecturer|teacher]] who says one in twelve of them will not pass the class. When Guenter answers a question on the 20th century that Fry couldn't, and Amy says he's smart and cute, Fry gets jealous. Meanwhile, Bender and the ERR fratbots get into more trouble, earning the wrath of [[Dean Vernon]]. He is angry about what they did so he decides to put the Robot House members on dodecatupple-secret probation. After that, Fat-bot eats the Dean's model spaceship (the only thing that keeps the Dean sane), which makes him even angrier. In a cafe, Fry tries to chat up a girl, but she prefers Guenter, who gets her number. At the university parent's reception, everyone is with their parents. Amy presents [[Leo and Inez Wong|her parents]] to the dean and Farnsworth presents [[Guenter's parents]] in a cage to him. He is horrified, and even more so when Fry frees them. They destroy all the room and throw "something" at the Dean.<br />
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=== Act IV: "I spent ''months'' slaving over a hot monkey brain!" ===<br />
Leela tells Fry what he did to Guenter was cruel. When they enter their room, they see Guenter eating bananas, despite his claim not to like bananas. Guenter says that he, of course, DOES like bananas, and his hat doesn't make him happy. Fry suggests he should go to the jungle, but Guenter says that as the professor's prize experiment, he couldn't do that to him. At the 20th century class, the students have a test, but Guenter is overcome by his animal urges, so he removes the hat and jumps out a window. When Fry tells Farnsworth he told him to escape to the jungle they go after him. <br />
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In a rafting contest between the various fraternities, Bender's raft races past Fry, Leela and the Professor; The resulting splash washes them into the river. Bender's team wins the race, but now it's up to Guenter to save the three humans from falling over a waterfall. When Guenter figures out how to put the hat on, he climbs a tree and saves them, but ends up about to fall himself. He says he doesn't want to live like this, then falls crushing the hat which saves him. With the damaged hat working at only half-capacity, Guenter decides he is happy, and decides to transfer to Business school, much to the chagrin of Farnsworth. Because of their victory in the Regatta, Dean Vernon is forced to lead a parade in ERR's honor, and everyone, including Fry, Leela, Amy, Guenter, Farnsworth (now happy with Guenter), Bender, the Dean and the Fratbots enjoy a party in the campus. Captions show the future of each character.<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
This episode was named #21 on {{w|IGN}}'s list of [http://middlebower.blogspot.com/2009/06/ign-top-25-futurama-episodes.html top 25 ''Futurama'' episodes] and #3 on {{w|TV.com}}'s list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story top 10 ''Futurama'' episodes].<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Character Future Captions ===<br />
At the end of the episode, they run a musical montage. It features freeze-frames of several characters with subtitles telling their futures (a reference to the end of "Animal House", among other films), to the tune of "Shout". <br />
*'''Fry''': Fry Dropped Out Successfully And Returned To His Dead-End Delivery Job<br />
*'''Guenter''': Guenter Got His MBA And Became President Of The Fox Network<br />
*'''Fat-bot''': Fat-bot Caught A Computer Virus In [[Tijuana]] And Had To Be Rebooted<br />
*'''Leela''': Leela Went On a Date With Dean Vernon, But He Never Called Again<br />
*'''Bender''': His Job Done, Bender Stole Everything Of Value From Robot House And Ran Off<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*This is one among the few ''Futurama'' [[:Category:Media featuring its title|media featuring its title]].<br />
*This is the first episode with alternate [[opening sequence|opening]] music. The others are "[[Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television]]", "[[Spanish Fry]]" and "[[Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1]]".<br />
*This is one of only three episodes in which [[Dr. Zoidberg]] didn't appear, the others being "[[Space Pilot 3000]]" and "[[Brannigan, Begin Again]]".<br />
*Students in the 20th Century History class include Hess, Pereira, Mandel, Kidd, Cyterski, Fry, Guenter, Wong, Patrizio, Gutrich, Dempsey, and Mignoni (confirmation needed). Since the shock board has Wong on it instead of Amy, it is a list of last names, not first.<br />
*The book [[Chrissy]] is reading is called English 101. Her phone number is 784-36λ9, where λ is the Greek letter lambda.<br />
*The [[Snooty House]]'s water craft is called S.S. Von Snoot.<br />
*Epsilon Rho Rho can Be shortened as ERR, which is a abbreviation of Error.<br />
*Excluding the ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs|Beast with a Billion Backs]]'' episodes, this is the only episode of ''Futurama'' to air in {{October}} and the only episode to be the only episode to air in the month that it aired in.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
{{cultural mentions}}<br />
*The plot line involving Bender and Robot House is a spoof of the movie ''Animal House''.<br />
*Guenter's line "You like bananas? I got her number. How do you like them bananas?" is a reference to the movie ''Good Will Hunting''.<br />
*The [[20th-century lecturer]] was based on the stuffy professor from ''The Paper Chase'' played by John Houseman. {{Amy}} comments, "Boring! Let's hear about Walter Mondale already!" However, in some [[Dubbing|dubbed]] versions, Walter Mondale was replaced by {{w|Bill Clinton}}.<br />
*The regatta plot line is taken from the 1980s college movie ''{{w|Oxford Blues}}'', although on the DVD commentary, nobody can remember which movie they got this part of the plot from.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Leela's [[Wristlojackimator]] disappears in the shot after she whispers her plan to Fry and the professor.<br />
*The Greek letter {{w|Rho}} is represented as "Ρ", but on [[Robot House]], it is shown as "ERR". The {{w|Greek alphabet}} has no letter that looks similar to the Latin "R".<br />
*There is a splash sound after Guenter falls, though when we see him in the next scene he is not wet and his hat is smashed.<br />
**Guenter was standing on a log which could have been the cause of the splash, while Guenter perhaps jumped off the log and onto land.<br />
*Fry is surprised to see a university on Mars, but the Professor tells him there is one when he is talking about [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]]'s A-minus in "[[A Big Piece of Garbage]]". <br />
**Fry's memory is typically not very reliable.<br />
*Normally, Fry gets a "[[Fryfro]]" when he gets electrocuted, but in this episode his hair only gets unorganized.<br />
*Fry couldn't have spit out the punch since he hadn't taken in the glass. <br />
**In [[Commentary:Mars University|the commentaries to the episode]], the crew talks about this and one points out that that was the joke - they had to specifically tell the animators to have him ''not'' come in with a glass.<br />
*When Fry enrolls into the university, Amy is standing right behind him. However, since her last name (Wong) doesn't start with A-L, she should have been waiting in the adjacent line.<br />
**However, she may have only been there just to talk to Fry and later left to join her respective line.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Prof. Farnsworth''': All he handed in was a paper smeared with feces. He tied with Fry.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Prof. Farnsworth''': ...And so by process of elimination we can determine that the electron tastes like grape-ade.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Prof. Farnsworth''': Why? Why!? Why didn't I break his leg?!!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Oily''': ''[Playing chess.]'' Mate in 143 moves.<br />
'''Fat-bot''': No, poo! You win again!</poem><br />
<poem>'''20th Century Professor''': What device invented in the 20th century allowed people to view broadcast programs in their own homes?<br />
'''Fry''': Oh! I know this. Whaddya call it... Lite Brite! ''[Is electrocuted.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Dean Vernon''': You robots are a disgrace to this university! Whenever a fire alarm is pulled, Robot House! Whenever the campus liquor store is looted, Robot House! Whenever a human corpse is desecrated...!<br />
'''Bender''': Now I can explain that!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Dean Vernon''': ROBOT HOUSE!</poem><br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[20th-century lecturer]]<br />
*[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Carnival-ride operator]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Chet]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Chrissy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Dean Vernon]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Dorm Girls]]<br />
*[[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom|Dr. Wernstrom]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Fat-bot]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Gearshift]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Guenter]] (Semi-Antagonist)<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Guenter's parents]]<br />
*[[Inez Wong]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Leo Wong]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Meidermeyer]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mrs. Fry]] {{miso}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Oily]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Yancy Fry Sr.]] {{miso}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
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*Writer<br />
**[[J. Stewart Burns]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Bret Haaland]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Dave Herman]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
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<div>{{User:Buddy13/sig}} I like the two-column layout. It fills up the unsightly whitespace.<br />
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==[[Katey Sagal]]'s head==<br />
could it be possible to get a screencap of her head in a jar? i think it would be a nice addition to the triva, and would complement it [[User:Firebert|Firebert]] 12:20, 18 July 2010 (CEST)<br />
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== Is Nixon's second robot body a Robotech reference? ==<br />
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I've always thought that the body Nixon gets to replace Bender's bears a really strong resemblance to the Beta Fighter in Battloid mode from Robotech: The New Generation (see [http://robotech.com/infopedia/mecha/viewmecha.php?id=24]). Can anyone confirm if this is intentional? With music from Robotech being used in the anime segment of "Reincarnation," it seems likely that someone on the Futurama staff is a fan. {{unsigned|71.56.47.32|19:12, 31 March 2012 (CEST)}}<br />
:They're not similar enough in my opinion. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] ([[User talk:Sanfazer|talk]]) 19:12, 31 March 2012 (CEST).<br />
::My opponent says they're not similar enough. I say they're too not similar. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.23|172.68.133.23]] 03:46, 27 July 2017 (CEST)</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Vaxtron&diff=157784Talk:Vaxtron2017-07-26T21:07:24Z<p>172.68.133.23: Created page with "The name "Vaxtron" for a robot can only be a reference to the VAX line of minicomputers. While it may seem like an obscure reference to someone who doesn't have 20th century c..."</p>
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<div>The name "Vaxtron" for a robot can only be a reference to the VAX line of minicomputers. While it may seem like an obscure reference to someone who doesn't have 20th century computer experience, to old nerds it's one of the most famous and influential computers ever built. (The full name "Vaxtron" could be a reference to Vax + Robotron—the Robotron K was the Eastern bloc clone of the VAX-11, and of course Robotron has all kinds of other connotations (like the robots-kill-all-humans arcade game)—but I don't think there are any former-Eastern-bloc types in the Futurama team.) --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.23|172.68.133.23]] 23:07, 26 July 2017 (CEST)</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Vaxtron&diff=157783Vaxtron2017-07-26T20:48:15Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Trivia */</p>
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|name=Vaxtron<br />
|image=[[File:Futurama Calculon 2.0 Vaxtron.jpg|225px]]<br />
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|gender=[[Manbot|Male]]<br />
|species={{robot|Robot}}<br />
|job={{cat|Actor}}<br />
|voiced by=Phil LaMarr<br />
|first appear={{e|7ACV20}}<br />
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'''Vaxtron''' is a {{robot}} who was hired as the replacement for [[Calculon]] in ''[[All My Circuits]]''.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''[[Monique (All My Circuits)|Monique]]''': Oh, Vaxtron. It's been a year since my ugly husband [[Calculon (All My Circuits)|Calculon]] disappeared without a trace, evidently forced into servitude aboard a crab fishing boat.<br />
'''Vaxtron''': So, he's like, legally dead now. Wanna get married or whatever?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Monique''': Vaxtron, I have to tell you something. I'm...pregnant. And you're not the father! <br />
''[Dramatic music plays]''<br />
'''Vaxtron''': Okey-doke.</poem><br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*Strangely, the {{Countdown to Futurama}} post revealing the character on [[Comedy Central|Comedy Central's]] {{w|Tumblr}} [http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ page] {{citation needed}} names him as "Vaxatron."<br />
*Vaxtron is named after the {{w|VAX}} range of 1970s minicomputers.<br />
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*{{e|7ACV20}}<br />
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<div>== Bender Bending Rodriguez mathematics ==<br />
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I was thinking of doing this one, but using info from [http://bbrp.atwebpages.com/mathematics.html this site]. Is this allowed? Of corse i'm going to mention where i got all this information. Chris of the Futurama 17:49, 31 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
:My recommendation is to ask the author of the site. But the information is not theirs, their way of wording is. You can copy the information, but write it yourself, copying it. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|Talk]]</sup> 18:44, 31 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
::Copying what? Chris of the Futurama 19:00, 31 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
:::In other words, they can't copyright something that happened. But the way they say it is theirs. If you want to say the same thing, just use your own words. But if you want to ask their webmaster anyway, it would a good idea. It'll keep us nerds on each others' good sides. --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 19:39, 31 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
::::Awesome, I'm going to start. Chris of the Futurama 20:32, 31 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
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::::: Hi, I'm the author of that site, of course anyone can take the information of the page, even in the same words. --[[User:Bender22|Bender22]] 10:42, 09 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::::Well, since you are the author of that site, maybe you should improve on the page. [[User:Chris of the Futurama2|Chris of the Futurama2]] 22:51, 9 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::::: OK, but I don't speak english very well, and now I don't have too much time, maybe later. Anyone can improve on the page taking the information from that site or another site. --[[User:Bender22|Bender22]] 17:45, 10 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::::::Okay. [[User:Chris of the Futurama2|Chris of the Futurama2]] 21:16, 10 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
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:::::::::Hi, what about all the mathmatic references in benders big score, when the globetrotters help farnsworth, there is formulae of planks law and a other things of a mathmatic nature<br />
::::::::::Hmm, well I haven't seen Bender's Gig Score in a while now, but you can do it. [[User:Chris of the Futurama2|Chris of the Futurama2]] 22:10, 12 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
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:::::::::::::You know you don't have to indent every single comment, right? If you're starting a new subject, you can just go down a bit. And you only need to indent under the comment you are directly responding to. --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 21:43, 14 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::::::::::::They started it. [[User:Chris of the Futurama2|Chris of the Futurama2]] 03:22, 15 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Flaws ==<br />
God, this wiki is annoying the shit out of me. Pi doesn't end, that's true, but it's NOT - note, NOT - because it's an irrational number. Yes, it IS an irrational number, but 1/7 is NOT an irrational number, and yet it DOESN'T have a last digit. Get your facts straight, this page is annoying me.............. {{unsigned|83.89.40.144}}<br />
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: The article is correct. Not ending doesn't mean it's irrational, but being irrational means it doesn't end. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] ([[User talk:Sanfazer|talk]]) 00:33, 16 October 2013 (CEST).<br />
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::Also, 1/7 has a last digit in plenty of bases, just not in base 10. Pi being irrational means it doesn't have a last digit in any rational base. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.23|172.68.133.23]] 03:43, 26 July 2017 (CEST)<br />
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== Taxicab number in BBS ==<br />
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJDiZi9dqOg -- According to this video, there is one. Might wanna work that into this article. --[[Special:Contributions/67.190.183.219|67.190.183.219]] (Buddy13, not signed in) 05:03, 13 December 2013 (CET)<br />
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: I guess, but I'm kinda lazy. [http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=List_of_mathematics_references&curid=8052&diff=136823&oldid=134151 Oh well].<br />
: Trivia: I made this edit at 17:29 M.T. (my time). How's that for a coincidence, Buddy? {{iiw}} With all your precious science! {{er|3ACV22}} [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] ([[User talk:Sanfazer|talk]]) 18:32, 13 December 2013 (CET).</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=List_of_mathematics_references&diff=157774List of mathematics references2017-07-26T01:35:30Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* {{e|2ACV08}} */</p>
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<div>{{update}}<br />
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This article attempts to list [[allusions|references]] to specific and common mathematical issues. <br />
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== Season 1 ==<br />
=== {{e|1ACV04}} ===<br />
*The ''[[Nimbus]]'' ship has the serial number "BP-[[1729 (number)|1729]]", a reference to the {{w|G. H. Hardy|Hardy}}-{{w|Srinivasa Ramanujan|Ramanujan}} number, the smallest non-trivial {{w|taxicab number}}.<br />
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== Season 2 ==<br />
=== {{e|2ACV04}} ===<br />
*[[Bender]] is [[Bender's mother|his mom's]] 1729th son, another reference to the Hardy-Ramanujan number.<br />
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=== {{e|2ACV06}} ===<br />
*Flexo's and Bender's serial numbers, 3370318 and 2716057 respectively, are a sum of two cubes(this not really a reference):<br />
:3370318 = 119<sup>3</sup> + 119<sup>3</sup> <br><br />
:2716057 = 952<sup>3</sup> + (-951)<sup>3</sup> <br><br />
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=== {{e|2ACV07}} ===<br />
*While Fry and Amy are in the closet, there are two books labelled P and NP. This refers to the {{w|P versus NP problem}} in {{w|computer science}}.<br />
*Outside of Bender's computer dating service, the sign advertises that it is "[[Wiktionary:Discreet|discreet]] and [[Wiktionary:Discrete|discrete]]", referencing the field of {{w|discrete mathematics}}.<br />
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=== {{e|2ACV08}} ===<br />
[[File:Number 9 Raging Bender.jpg|200px|right]]<br />
*This episode as well as in "[[I Dated a Robot]]", features the theater [[Loew's ℵ0-Plex|Loew's ℵ<sub>0</sub>-Plex.]] {{w|Aleph number|ℵ (aleph)}} is used in a sequence of numbers to represent the size of infinite sets. Also, the suffix -plex means how many screens in a cinema. In this case, the ℵ would indicate that there is a countably infinite number of screens in Loew's theater. (it represents the cardinality, not the size).<br />
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==={{e|2ACV15}}=== <br />
*On the billboard that Leela again crashes, it shows how much Popplers were sold. It says: 3.8 x 10<sup>10</sup> popplers sold. That number is the average distance from the Earth to the Moon (measured in centimetres).<br />
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=== {{e|2ACV18}} ===<br />
*Bender sees the number 1010011010 in the mirror. After the {{w|binary}} digits have been decoded, it reads "666".<br />
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== Season 3 ==<br />
==={{e|3ACV02}}=== <br />
*In this episode, a sign reads ''[[Historic √66]]'' (pronounced Historic Root 66, or Route) is a parody of the U.S. Route 66. It is also an irrational root. <br />
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==={{e|3ACV11}}=== <br />
*The π-in-1 oil is an oil lubricant, with an irrational amount of oils in one. <br />
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==={{e|3ACV21}}=== <br />
*π<sup>th</sup> Avenue is an irrational evenue, one of the many irrational references by the Futurama writers!<br />
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== Season 4 ==<br />
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==={{e|4ACV04}}=== <br />
*[[πkea]] is yet another irrational number reference. <br />
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== Season 5 ==<br />
=== {{f|1}} ===<br />
*In ''Bender's Big Score'', [[Al Gore's head|Al Gore]] drives [[Hybraxi|a cab]] that has the number 87,539,319 on it. This is the third taxicab number.<br />
*[[Sweet Clyde]] demonstrates some razzle-dazzle Globetrotter calculus using ''variation of parameters'' and ''expanding the Wronskian'', both techniques used to solve differential equations.<br />
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=== {{f|2}} ===<br />
*In ''The Beast with a Billion Backs'', [[Colleen O'Hallahan|Colleen]] can be seen wearing a shirt with a quantified statement at the church where Yivo is introduced. The statement reads "For all X, I Love (heart) X."<br />
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==={{f|3}}=== <br />
*In the beginning of ''Bender's Game'', the Planet Express ship goes through various numbers, that are the digits of ''{{w|e (mathematical constant)|e}}''. The number ''e'', as π, is irrational and has infinite digits.<br />
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== Season 6 ==<br />
=== {{e|6ACV01}} ===<br />
*Bender visits [[Studio 1²2¹3³]], equal to 54, which is a reference to {{w|Studio 54}} in New York.<br />
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=== {{e|6ACV11}} ===<br />
*The ⁴√4 in [[Channel ⁴√4]] is an irrational number, equal to √2.<br />
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=== {{e|6ACV17}} ===<br />
*{{professor|Prof. Farnsworth}} invents [[Banach-Tarski Dupla-Shrinker|a copy machine]] that makes 2 exact duplicates of any object. The model on the copier (that looks like an old overhead projector) says {{w|Banach-Tarski}}. From [[Wikipedia]] ''The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set-theoretic geometry, which states the following: Given a solid ball in 3‑dimensional space, there exists a decomposition of the ball into a finite number of disjoint subsets, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the original ball''."<br />
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== Recurring ==<br />
=== "[[Channel √2 News]]" ===<br />
[[File:Channel √2 News.png|right|thumb|Root 2 News.]]<br />
*While talking of irrational numbers, the √2 in ''[[Channel √2 News]]'' an irrational number itself, which means (possibly) that there are root signs on remote controls, and more irrational channels out there.<br />
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=== "[[7¹¹]]" ===<br />
*[[7¹¹]], equal to 1,977,326,743, is a convenience store open 28 hours a day (possibly 7:00 AM until 11:00 AM of the following day).<br />
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== Comics ==<br />
=== "[[The Bender You Say]]" ===<br />
[[File:ALS-C-13.jpg|right|200px]]<br />
*There is a game show asking "What's the last digit of π?", and the man answers 7. But π is an {{w|irrational number}}, which means it doesn't end. He would be right if the statement "If there is a last digit of π, then it is 7" were true, and wrong if the statement "There is a last digit of π, and it is not 7" were true. In logic, the statement {{w|material conditional|"if ''p'' then ''q''"}} is {{w|vacuous truth|vacuously true}} if ''p'' is false.<br />
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{{science-lists|Mathematics references}} <br />
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{{stub}}</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Loose_ends&diff=157773Loose ends2017-07-26T01:33:18Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* List */</p>
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<div>'''Loose ends''', '''plot holes''' and '''unanswered questions''' are issues in the [[Themes|overall plotline]] of ''[[Futurama]]'' which are not described. However, some of these may be intended. Since the show was cancelled, a lot of questions remained somewhat unanswered, but some were later answered with the [[Season 5|direct-to-video films]] and others are hopefully to be answered in the [[second run]].<br />
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== List ==<br />
{{list expansion}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV15}}<br />
**If 198 billion [[Popplers]] were eaten, then [[Planet Express]] would have made over $16 billion worth of profit. What happened to this money is unknown.<br />
***[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]]'s incompetence as a CEO could explain the missing profits. It is possible that he squandered the money, is hoarding it, or was so senile that he forgot to sign a contract before selling [[Fishy Joe]] the Popplers.<br />
***He also has to pay for numerous repairs to the Planet Express [[Planet Express ship|ship]] {{et|2ACV12}} and [[Planet Express headquarters|building]] {{et|2ACV19}}.<br />
*{{e|2ACV17}}<br />
** The word-triggered bomb inside [[Bender]] detonates at the end of the episode, and no explanation is given as to how he might have survived. Furthermore, the bomb was supposedly powerful enough to destroy an entire planet.<br />
***Then again, Zoidberg was the one who put it in, so he may have messed it up.<br />
*{{e|2ACV19}}<br />
** At the end of the episode, Fry is ejected from the [[Planet Express ship|ship]] after asking if he can have his job back.<br />
***It is unquestionable that [[Fry]] tried to re-apply again, and was rehired due to the Professor's senility.<br />
*{{e|3ACV14}}<br />
**The [[Mutant Atomic Supermen]] are suddenly gone after the episode and they are never seen or heard from again.<br />
*{{e|4ACV10}}<br />
**[[Nibbler]] states ''maybe she is [[the other]]'' in reference to [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], however nothing more about this statement can be explained. It is likely a reference to ''[[Star Wars]] {{sw|Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi|Episode VI: Return of the Jedi}}'' where {{sw|Yoda}} mentions that ''there is another'' which too is never explained. While never explicitly explained, it is generally assumed by fans that he is referring to {{sw|Leia Organa Solo|Princess Leia}}. However, it is doubtful that the writers of ''Futurama'' are trying to suggest that [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and Leela are siblings.<br />
***Since Nibbler states that Fry is the most important person in the Universe, he may have implied that Leela was the ''second'' most important person in the Universe.<br />
***Another possibility may have something to do with the events of the second-run finale, "[[Meanwhile]]".<br />
*{{e|4ACV18}}<br />
**It is never stated how Leela got her hearing back after being deafened by [[Bender]].<br />
***It could've been temporary.<br />
*{{f|2}}<br />
**[[Amy Wong|Amy]] and [[Kif Kroker|Kif]] appear to have broken up after Amy slept with [[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]] and do not seem to have formally reconciled.<br />
***Given the amount of time between the film and when we next see Kif and Amy together, it is very likely that they just made up off-screen.<br />
**Fry and Leela seem to have gone back to their just-friends relationship, though it was never explained why despite the events of ''[[Bender's Big Score]]''. <br />
***Leela mentions at the end of the film that Fry forgot her as soon as he met [[Colleen O'Hallahan|Colleen]]. Why Fry was with Colleen instead of Leela is another question, however.<br />
*{{f|3}} <br />
**Nibbler seems to have returned after he ate himself to escape [[Universe Γ|the universe]] in ''Bender's Big Score'', without an explanation or questions being asked. <br />
*{{e|6ACV01}}<br />
**{{the crew|The crew's}} fugitive status is never officially resolved.<br />
***On the other hand, they did [[birthing machine|revive]] Zapp as well, so he might have cleared their fugitive status.<br />
*{{e|6ACV08}}<br />
**It is said that the Cats invented the pyramids. In an earlier episode it is said that another planet similar to ancient Egypt created/inspired them.<br />
***This could be an intentional reference to ''{{w|Doctor Who}}'', where the Egyptian pyramids are one of the many things (along with the destruction of Atlantis, various bits of human science/technology, all of human technology, human culture in general, the human race itself, and the planet Earth) that have multiple conflicting alien explanations.<br />
*{{e|6ACV09}}<br />
**[[Earth]] was spinning in the wrong direction at the end of "[[That Darn Katz!]]", but in this episode it is spinning in the correct direction again. No explanation is given.<br />
***More of a continuity error than a plot hole. <br />
*{{e|6ACV21}}<br />
**Scruffy switched genders in "[[Neutopia]]", but in this episode he is back to normal. No explanation is given.<br />
*{{e|7ACV12}}<br />
**[[Mars]] was blown out of orbit in "[[A Farewell to Arms]]", but in this episode it appears to be in perfect condition. No explanation is given, though the [[commentary]] reveals that one was planned before being cut for time.<br />
*{{e|7ACV25}}<br />
**[[Roberto]] was executed in "[[The Six Million Dollar Mon]]", but in this episode he returns. No explanation is given.<br />
*{{clink|US#X04|The Read Menace!}}<br />
**At the end, [[Mom]] is revealed to possess a clone of {{s|Mr. Burns}}.<br />
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[[Category:Futurama]]</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=31st_Century_Fox&diff=15777231st Century Fox2017-07-25T23:22:17Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Goofs */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|hatnote={{about|the episode|the in-universe organisation|30th Century Fox}}<br />
|name=31st Century Fox<br />
|image=[[File:Fut0711 1-withcredit.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=A [[promotional picture|still]] showing [[Bender]] carrying an [[NNYPD]] {{cat|horse}} on his shoulders.<br />
|season=7<br />
|broadcast season=9<br />
|no=125<br />
|written by=Patric M. Verrone<br />
|directed by=Edmund Fong<br />
|caption=Today's Episode Brought To You By The Letter ([[alien languages|Alien Letter]] "O")<br />
|first aired={{date|29 August}} [[2012]]<br />
|number=7ACV11<br />
|broadcast number=S09E12<br />
|special guest=[[Patrick Stewart]]<br />
|title reference=[[20th Century Fox]] and its parent, {{w|21st Century Fox}}<br />
|prev ep=Near-Death Wish<br />
|next ep=Viva Mars Vegas<br />
|broad prev=Viva Mars Vegas<br />
|broad next=Naturama<br />
|guest-stars=[[Patrick Stewart]] as the [[huntmaster]]<br />
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[[Bender]] discovers a cruel hunt of [[robot]] {{cat|animal}}s and decides to take action.<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
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=== Act I: "Tomorrow's clothes at yesterday's prices." ===<br />
Following an active delivery to Tokyo, {{the crew}} return in ravaged uniform remnants. {{Amy}} questions {{Farnsworth|the Professor}} on his promise to provide newer uniforms for the crew a year ago. The Professor dismisses the notion until [[Mothzilla|the creature]] responsible for the tattered clothing, and which stowed aboard {{the ship}}, flies out and renders {{Hermes}} and Farnsworth practically naked forcing the Professor's hand. And thus it's off to the garment district.<br />
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The crew travel to the shop of a {{Decapodian}} clothier to find a new set of uniforms. While trying on various outfits (see below), {{Bender}} becomes enthralled by a [[20th century|20th Century]] fox-hunting attire. Failing to find anything suitable, {{Leela}} calls for them to leave but, before they go, the clothier offers them at a discount the very uniforms they'd been promised a year ago of which Farnsworth approves.<br />
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Suited up in their new outfits, everyone is surprised to find Bender had chosen to buy(steal) the fox-hunting outfit and professes a conveniently newfound joy of the sport. Leela is disgusted by the notion of fox hunting but Bender insists they come with him to an upcoming hunt he'll take part in.<br />
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=== Act II: "You, sir, have been outfoxed... I spent all night on that." ===<br />
During the hunt, Bender is introduced to the huntmaster who follows a strict code of etiquette including a 30 minute head start for the fox. Leela makes numerous unsuccessful attempts to protest the hunt but is thwarted each time by the huntmaster's traps, including an anti-gravity generator. The fox is located and surrounded by the hounds as Leela watches with disgust. However, after the {{cat|dog}}s have torn it apart it is revealed as no more than a [[robot fox]] with which Leela is less than concerned about. Conversely, Bender is disgusted and cries out over the crime against robot rights and even more so at the fact that the whole hunt operates off of robot on robot violence (the hounds and {{cat|horse}}s also being robotic).<br />
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Bender begins his own quest towards animal rights (particularly robot animals) by forming B.A.R.F., Bender's Animal Robot Front. Gathering a modest group of attendees, Bender begins a quest to stamp out injustices against robotic animals including the liberation of robot chickens from laying eggs as they were designed to, and the butchering of robot animal flesh. Although B.A.R.F. is declared successful, moderately, there remains one last effort on Bender's part: liberating the robot fox.<br />
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Failing to get the fox declared a protected creature, Bender, Leela, and {{Fry}} sneak in at night to take the fox and rescue it from its role as prey. However, Bender remains to perform one last act. The next day, the hunters are shocked to find Bender waiting in the cage.<br />
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=== Act III: "It's Bender's middle finger. I'd recognize this anywhere." ===<br />
Bender's efforts are outwitted by the huntmaster supplanting him for the fox and gives him the same 30 minute head start. Bender makes a run for it trying to out think the hunters. Although Bender fails to actually make any discernable escape, he is surrounded almost out the gate. The huntmaster benevolently gives him a second chance which Bender uses to try and escape again.<br />
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Meanwhile, at {{Planet Express}}, the crew fall in love with the robot fox as it behaves in a cute, {{cat|pet}}-like manner. The cuteness wears off though as the fox is not house broken and proceeds to make a mess of things including destroying the new uniforms. Though Leela tries to defend it, she quickly changes her mind after it has also damaged her protest sign. The crew try to kill the fox themselves but only manage to tear half of its face from its head as it scurries off down the street.<br />
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Bender unsuccessfully tries to throw everyone off the trail by masking his scent. Elsewhere, the crew chases the fox through [[New New York]] taking shots at it. The fox boards a train for [[New Jersey]] which they realize is trying to go back to where it considers home. As Bender is overcome by the hardships of being pursued in the wilderness, he ultimately manages to sever a finger and becomes trapped in one of the huntmaster's traps. The fox finds him and helps to get Bender's trapped foot free as the hunt is almost upon them. Barely escaping, the hunting party is interrupted by the ship landing and Leela demanding they hand over the fox. However, the fox is of no concern to the hunters anymore as they now have bigger game which everyone realizes is Bender.<br />
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With the fox's help, Bender is able to avoid the huntmaster's traps giving Bender an idea of how to turn the situation in his favor. As Leela attempts to compromise with the hunters over trying to go after both targets, the huntmaster slips off to personally pursue Bender.<br />
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The huntmaster, though cautious, is taken off guard by one of Bender's traps which leads him to stumble through a hollow tree trunk. He finds himself watching Bender caught in the anti-gravity snare but Bender reveals that it is really he who is caught in the gravity field which Bender turns off. Now with the huntmaster's gun, Bender has him defeated but shows mercy as Fry and Leela find them.<br />
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The huntmaster isn't so benevolent as he steals back the rifle and is prepared to shoot. Bender is saved by the fox who mauls the huntmaster to reveal he was a robot himself all along. Ultimately the irony is enough to satisfy everyone as they mount the huntmaster's head as a trophy back at Planet Express.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
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On 29 February 2012, [[CGEF]] revealed the episode's title, its writer to be [[Patric M. Verrone]] and its director to be [[Edmund Fong]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/7ACV/|title=Episode Guide: 7 ACV|date=2012-02-29|site=[[CGEF]]|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=22731.msg1299002#msg1299002|title="Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)"|site=[[PEEL]]|author="Just Fan"|date=2012-02-29|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> On 29 June, {{w|MSN TV}} revealed the episode's plot and air date.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tv.msn.com/tv/episode/futurama/untitled.20/|title=Futurama - '31st Century Fox' Episode Info|site={{w|MSN TV}}|accessdate=2012-06-29}}</ref><br />
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On 12 July, following the broadcast of the episode "[[Zapp Dingbat]]", the public were given the opportunity to participate in a live chat with the ''Futurama'' cast and crew. Several clips of "31st Century Fox" were shown during the live stream.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=23178.msg1326287#msg1326287 |title="Newsarama! (Futurama News Thread)" (page 1) |site=PEEL |author="Tastes Like Fry" |date=2012-07-12 |accessdate=2012-07-13}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
On 30 January 2012, [[Eric Rogers]] revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either "[[The Bots and the Bees]]", "[[A Farewell to Arms]]" or this one.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/164107479981105152|author=[[Eric Rogers]]|date=2012-01-30|title=Kitchelfilms|site=[[Twitter]]|accessdate=2012-01-31}}</ref><br />
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== Additional information ==<br />
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[[File:31st Century Fox preview 2.png|thumb|225px|A screenshot from the episode shown during the live stream, showing Bender caught in a bear trap.]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*This is the first episode (in production order) of season 7 to be aired out of order, as the broadcast order of both this episode and "[[Viva Mars Vegas]]" were swapped.<br />
**It is confirmed in [[Commentary:31st Century Fox|the commentary]] that this swap was requested by Comedy Central as they wanted to advertise Patrick Stewart being in the season finale (which they subsequently did not).<br />
*The plot is a direct reference to the short story, ''{{w|The Most Dangerous Game}}'', written by {{w|Richard Connell}}.<br />
*With this episode, the [[Awesome Express]] uniforms have officially been acknowledged as serving [[Planet Express]].<br />
**The Professor had provided new uniforms before in "[[Love and Rocket]]" which occasionally showed up.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
{{cultural mentions}}<br />
*The episode's title is a reference to [[20th Century Fox]], the company that owns ''Futurama'', and to the company's parent, {{w|21st Century Fox}}, which was formed as the legal successor to {{w|News Corporation}}.<br />
*The uniforms tried on by the crew contain many references:<br />
**The first uniforms are stillsuits from the [[films in Futurama|film]] ''{{w|Dune (film)|Dune}}'' by {{w|Frank Herbert}}.<br />
**[[Fry]] wears an operations uniform from ''[[Star Trek]]''.<br />
**[[Zoidberg]] wears Storm Trooper armor from ''[[Star Wars]]''.<br />
**[[Leela]] wears a costume from ''{{w|Barbarella}}''.<br />
**[[Amy]] wears a Pan Am uniform from ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.<br />
**The Professor wears a red thong with suspenders, a reference to {{w|Sean Connery}} (the first {{cat|actor}} to play the character of [[James Bond]] in film) in the film ''{{w|Zardoz}}''.<br />
**Bender's fox-hunting uniform is reminiscent of the [[1965]] film ''{{w|The 10th Victim}}'', starring {{w|Bond girl}} {{w|Ursula Andress}}, who appeared in the {{w|Dr. No (film)|first James Bond film}} opposite Sean Connery.<br />
*[[Squidward Scissorhands]] is a reference to {{w|Edward Scissorhands}} and the character of Squidward Tentacles from ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''.<br />
*The highway sign reading "Highway jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive" is a reference to the {{w|Bruce Springsteen}} [[list of song performances|song]] "{{w|Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen song)|Born to Run}}".<br />
*As Leela tries to kill the robot fox with her sign she cuts off half its facial fur, a possible reference to ''{{w|The Terminator}}''.<br />
*"Missed it by that much" is a reference to the {{t.v.}} series ''{{w|Get Smart}}''.<br />
*[[Newmar's Own Catnip]] is a reference to both the "{{w|Newman's Own}}" brand of {{list of|product}}s from {{w|Paul Newman}} and {{w|Joan Woodward}}, and also {{w|Julie Newmar}}'s {{w|Catwoman}} on the [[1960s|1960's]] ''{{w|Batman (TV series)|Batman}}''.<br />
*The Mission Accomplished banner at B.A.R.F.'s second meeting is based on the same banner hung on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln when {{head|George W. Bush}} delivered his 2003 {{w|Mission Accomplished speech|speech}} declaring major combat operations over in Iraq.<br />
*When Bender reveals his anti-gravity snare, he uses the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqPQz39L-G8 "bay-woop"] sound effect vocalized by Warner Brothers animation director {{w|Bob Clampett}} to end many of his cartoons.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': {{w|Fox News Channel|Fox news}}, everyone! I've decided to make the fox our new corporate mascot!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Where's the huntmaster?<br />
'''{{Mayor|Poopenmeyer}}''': Remember when you said "Nobody leave." and then turned your head briefly... He left an hour before that.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Fry states that on his uniform, his hands are sewn to his belt. However as Bender asks if the crew would join him on the fox hunt, Fry is seen with his hand free from his belt.<br />
*The trench that the huntmaster knocks Leela in isn't there before or after (later on the second hunt) he knocks her in.<br />
*Leela states she's okay with a robot fox dying, but later goes to Bender's antiviolence to robot animals meeting.<br />
**She could have changed her mind or Bender could have forced her to go to the meeting.<br />
*Bender says he's starving, but, as a robot, it's been stated he doesn't get hungry.<br />
**He's a self-professed drama {{cat|queen}}.{{er|6ACV06}}<br />
**He also needs something to power himself (usually [[alcohol]]), and he may have made that remark because he was low on battery power.<br />
*Bender cuts his finger off with a knife, but he's made of metal.<br />
**He didn't necessarily cut off his finger, he could have just dislodged it from his hand, such as how his arm can disconnect from his torso.<br />
**The knife could be similar to the knife that he used in "[[The 30% Iron Chef]]", which cut his arm into many pieces and was still able to cut a tomato with ease.<br />
*Bender is unable to break a metal cage, but is strong enough to bend an unbendable bar?<br />
**The name is Bender, not Lifter or Pusher or Breaker, as has been established a few zillion times by this point. If you want a robot to break metal cages, go get yourself a breaking unit. If you want someone to bend something for you, then come get me. Or just get lost. Either way.<br />
*Bender runs farther than the distance shown when the hunt catches up with him the first time.<br />
*When the horse falls on Bender the first time, it flattens him, but, the second time, he just keeps running with it on his back.<br />
**Bender didn't see it coming the first time and didn't catch it as he did the second time.<br />
*It's stated the fox urinated on the floor, but it's made clear by Bender in several stories that robots don't go to the bathroom.<br />
**The fox could have simply done something likened to urination.<br />
*Fry says Bender got rid of all robot animal cruelty in fifty yards of the building, but there is no farm or pier in fifty yards of Planet Express, as shown in overshots.<br />
**That means Bender didn't really do anything noteworthy and they were really just trying to get him to bring everything to a close.<br />
*What's the point of robot hen eggs? Or cutting up robot animals? They can't be eaten as they're made of metal, so why waste resources on them simply for cruelty?<br />
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**You answer your own question (the huntmaster blew up a robot horse just to prove a point) and it was later proven he himself was a robot (and was ready to kill Bender for hunting too.)<br />
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**The robot chicken could be a means of mass producing robot hens. It's proven robots can have babies.{{er|7ACV01}}<br />
**There could be {{alien|alien species}} that eat metal and consider robot animals as some perverted form of {{cat|food and drink|food}}. Some consider [[humans|Human]] [[human horn|noses]] aphrodisiacs.{{er|4ACV17}}<br />
*After the {{cat|cat}}s jump onto him, Bender drops the catnip. However, in the wider shot that follows, the catnip is gone.<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Time''': 03:55<br />
'''Location''': On the side of a hover-tanker truck<br />
'''Language''': [[Alien languages#AL1|AL1]]<br />
'''Translation''': OBEY [[Mom|MOM]]</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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==== Characters ====<br />
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*{{Amy}}<br />
*[[Mrs. Astor]]<br />
*[[Backwoods septic tank]]<br />
*{{Bender}}<br />
*{{Farnsworth}}<br />
*[[Fat-bot]]<br />
*{{Fry}}<br />
*{{Hermes}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hippie Bot]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Huntmaster]]<br />
*{{Leela}}<br />
*{{Mayor Poopenmeyer}}<br />
*[[Mom]] {{mito|3:55 (in [[Alien languages#AL1|AL1]])}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mothzilla]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Penelope]]<br />
*[[Queen of Yonkers]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Robot fox]]<br />
*[[Ron Whitey]]<br />
*[[Ruth and Esther]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Seagasket]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Squidward Scissorhands]]<br />
*{{Zoidberg}}<br />
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{{chars-begin|note=no}}<br />
*[[Currency]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Newmar's Own Catnip]]<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring sports]]</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Free_Will_Hunting&diff=157771Talk:Free Will Hunting2017-07-25T21:56:05Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* (n+1)st National Bank */</p>
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<div>==Chapek 9==<br />
I read somewhere, I can't remember where, that this episode involves Bender returning to [[Chapek 9]] from [[Fear of a Bot Planet]]. Could someone find it and confirm please? - [[User:Jasonbres|Jasonbres]] ([[User talk:Jasonbres|talk]]) 04:22, 29 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
:P.S. I recall it referring to it as "Bender's home planet" or something but I'm pretty sure it was referring to Chapek 9. - [[User:Jasonbres|Jasonbres]] ([[User talk:Jasonbres|talk]]) 04:25, 29 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
::FOUND IT! http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/06/10-spoilers-90210-seeks-ryan-gosling-shawn-juliet-split-psych-amy-smart-men-at-work.html - [[User:Jasonbres|Jasonbres]] ([[User talk:Jasonbres|talk]]) 04:26, 29 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== (n+1)st National Bank ==<br />
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Can we add an explanation for the math joke in the background at around 10m15s, "(n+1)st National Bank"? I didn't understand it, and I couldn't find an explanation after several minutes looking it up. I would appreciate it if someone could explain it in the trivia section. [[Special:Contributions/70.160.166.80|70.160.166.80]] 04:14, 7 April 2013 (CEST)<br />
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: It just means that, instead of being a First National Bank, the bank is a national bank of a variable number.<br />
: In my opinion, the joke is that you would also use superscript if you were using exponentiation. ((n+1)<sup>st</sup> ---> (n+1)<sup>2</sup>.)<br />
: I don't think the article should offer an explanation. I've now added [http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Free_Will_Hunting&curid=13957&diff=120864&oldid=119488 a simple acknowledgement of the joke]. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] ([[User talk:Sanfazer|talk]]) 14:05, 7 April 2013 (CEST).<br />
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::As a mathematician, I'm incapable of writing anything concisely in English (that's why we have symbolic languages, damnit), but maybe someone else can turn this into an answer that belongs on the article instead of the talk page:<br />
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::Imagine you've written "P(i<sub>n</sub>) -> P(i<sub>n+1</sub>)", and now you have to read your proof out informally: "So if P applies to the nth element, then it applies to the en-plus-oneth…? en-plus-first…? nth-plus-one…?" Every math student goes through this, because you spend quite a while getting used to the idea of the ordinal for n+1 before having to speak it out loud, so it's surprising and kind of funny that you have absolutely no idea how to pronounce it, and everything you try sounds obviously wrong. That moment tends to stick with you.<br />
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::Having to write out "(n+1)th" or "(n+1)st" is basically the same dilemma, which usually comes up separately. (Some people even come up with conflicting choices—writing "(n+1)st" but pronouncing "en-plus-oneth"—and don't notice it for years.)<br />
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::Anyway, long after you've picked one, gotten used to it, gotten used to the fact that half your colleagues do it wrong, and forgotten it, you come across a student saying it for their first time and awkwardly stumbling the same way you did, and you chuckle in recognition. See https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/36512/k1th-or-k1st for a discussion and links to many more. If you can't relate to it being funny, you were never a mathematician, but that doesn't <i>necessarily</i> mean that you suck and it's your fault that Futurama was canceled. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.23|172.68.133.23]] 23:56, 25 July 2017 (CEST)<br />
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== Allusions ==<br />
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at around 13.35: When Bender is shown working at the gears with other monks the image resembles the famous stairs painting by M. C. Escher. Although it looks not as illogical as it could, so I'm not sure. {{unsigned|85.4.205.105}}<br />
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: [http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Free_Will_Hunting&diff=144077&oldid=142765 Added]. '''[[user:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]]''': <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[user talk:Sanfazer|talk]]] 02:54, 1 May 2014 (CEST).</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=A_Farewell_to_Arms&diff=157769A Farewell to Arms2017-07-24T21:06:42Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Allusions */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=A Farewell to Arms<br />
|season=7<br />
|broadcast season=9<br />
|image=[[File:Countdown to Futurama 2012 (video 2).png|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Leela]], [[Fry]], [[Scruffy]], [[Hermes]], [[Amy]], [[Zoidberg]] and [[Bender]] around the [[Martian calendar]].<br />
|no=116<br />
|written by=Josh Weinstein<br />
|directed by=Raymie Muzquiz<br />
|title reference=The {{w|Ernest Hemingway}} novel ''{{w|A Farewell to Arms}}''<br />
|caption="Ask your [[:Category:Doctors|doctor]] if ''[[Futurama]]'' is right for you"<br />
|first aired={{date|20 June}}, [[2012]]<br />
|number=7ACV02<br />
|broadcast number=S09E02<br />
|prev ep=The Bots and the Bees<br />
|next ep=Decision 3012<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
|special commentary=animators<br />
}}<br />
An ancient prophecy from a [[Martian calendar]] predicts [[Earth|the world]] [[3012 phenomenon|will end]] in [[3012]].<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
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=== Act I: "So the world will end in the year 3012. Why does that year sound so familiar?" ===<br />
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Out walking after a freak rainstorm and tornado, [[Fry]] and [[Leela]] encounter a puddle. Ostentatiously gallant, Fry removes his pants and lays them over the puddle. He offers his hand to Leela, saying, "Take my hand." She initially rebuffs him, but then feels guilty and concedes. Taking Fry's hand and stepping onto his pants, she is sucked into the puddle by a tentacled monster that she battles to the death and then cooks for dinner. While she cooks, Fry hangs his pants to dry on a line that turns out to be tethered to [[Professor Farnsworth|Farnsworth's]] weather balloon. Farnsworth notes the recent increase in strange weather and announces that he will launch this weather balloon to explore the possible causes.<br />
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Fry is distraught to see his pants flying away as Farnsworth launches the balloon. On the grounds that these are not simply his ''only'' pants, but also his ''lucky'' pants, he convinces the crew to help retrieve them. On the edge of Earth's atmosphere, Fry shoots down the balloon. He is close behind in the ship when his pants land in a tree in [[Central Park]]. Just as he reaches out to recover them, a [[Central Park badger]] steals them and escapes into a hole. Fry covers himself, clothes and all, in "varmint grease" and dives into the hole. In an underground chamber, Fry finds the walls covered in mysterious symbols. The rest of the crew join him, but not even Farnsworth knows the origin of the writing.<br />
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Paying more attention to the symbols than to where she is going, Leela falls into a yet deeper hole, but catches herself on a branch within arms' reach of the crew. Fry offers his hand to Leela a second time, saying, "Take my hand." She complies, but his coating of varmint grease makes her lose her grip. She falls into a much deeper, larger chamber, and the others go down to rescue her. Seeing that Leela's leg is broken, Fry once again says, "Take my hand." This time Leela rebuffs him sharply. Zoidberg appears with Fry's pants, which still contain the badger. As the badger flees, Amy, following it with her flashlight, discovers an ancient pyramid accompanied by a huge stone disk covered in more strange writing. At headquarters, Amy and Farnsworth study the disk closely and determine that it is a Martian calendar. Amy, suddenly able to read words that she couldn't identify ten seconds earlier, translates a warning: the world will [[3012 phenomenon|end]] this very year.<br />
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=== Act II: "Who shall live, and who shall die? Step right up..." ===<br />
Farnsworth explains that his experiments confirm the calendar's prediction, the recent bizarre weather patterns being a prelude to a "catastrophic sunspot cycle." The apparent end of the world seems to begin at that very moment; there is mass panic in the streets. Everyone on Earth suddenly finds that the solar activity has disabled all electronics, including those necessary for escape; all are stranded. The crew prepare for the end: while Farnsworth has himself embalmed, Fry and Leela begin to have sex on the balcony. Amy interrupts them all, with news of further translation. The underground pyramid is actually a spaceship made entirely of stone, with no electronics, impervious to electrical disturbance of any kind. Determining that the ship can hold some 30,000 persons, Farnsworth declares it their solemn duty to evacuate as many as possible. He and the others lose their convictions when a large earthquake hits. As they attempt to escape, Zapp Brannigan appears and forces them to abort their departure.<br />
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Brannigan takes the crew to [[Richard Nixon|Richard Nixon's head]] for no particular reason. Nixon's head decrees that a machine, the [[Contrabulous Choosematron]], will choose which people shall survive. At the choosing ceremony, Fry is selected in spite of being useless in every way, because the Choosematron likes his pants. It prints an ID badge with his photo on it. In his excitement, Fry feels the need to help Leela place her hand the Choosematron. Yet again, he says, "Take my hand." Leela is rejected by the machine, in spite of being very skilled and useful to society, because it is supposedly unnecessary to have more than one pilot in a world with only one operable ship. Leela quietly accepts her fate, but Fry secretly sacrifices his seat by forging a badge for her using his own badge and a prom photo. Somehow she doesn't notice until after the launch that Fry hasn't boarded with her.<br />
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=== Act III: "It Mars that gonna be destroyed!" ===<br />
On [[Mars]], the evacuated Earthicans establish a new city, [[Dick Francisco]]. During the unveiling of the city, [[Singing Wind]] arrives and explains that Amy has mistranslated the Martian stone. It is not Earth that will be destroyed, but Mars. Soon after Singing Wind's departure, the final, fatal solar flare strikes. Leela had thought that Fry's final sacrifice was an exception among his gallant flourishes, but now she laments, "I should have known not to trust one of Fry's romantic gestures. Every time he says he loves me, I get killed!" As the ground is torn open by severe marsquakes, underground gas pockets burst open and ignite so fiercely that Mars is blasted out of its orbit, onto a collision course with Earth.<br />
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Back on Earth, the weather having returned to normal, Fry and Bender await the apocalypse casually. While they relax on deck chairs and drink piña skull-adas, Mars begins to fill the sky, on a very-near collision course with Earth. The two planets pass so close that those on Mars can literally ''jump'' to safety on Earth. The crew easily make the jump, except for Leela, who is prevented by her broken leg. Fry leaps to her rescue, but Leela has had enough; she exclaims, "Or somebody else could do it!" Fry makes the attempt anyway, climbing to the tower of the Planet Express building where he is just barely within arms' reach of her. He jinxes the effort by saying once again, "Take my hand." Leela expects the worst when she takes Fry's hand, and with good reason: her arm is ripped off of her body. Desperately, she grabs her severed arm with her good arm, and ''Fry's'' arm is ripped off of ''his'' body. One mysterious ''{{w|deus ex machina}}'' later, everyone is safe and sound back at headquarters. While Zoidberg praises Scruffy for the successful rescue, Farnsworth cultures new arms for Fry and Leela in his [[birthing machine]].<br />
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Fry apologizes to Leela for ripping her arm off. She explains that all of his preposterous incompetence is outweighed by the fact that he is the only person who loves her enough to sacrifice himself for her. As they share a hug made awkward by missing limbs, the missing limbs themselves float away into space, still hand-in-hand.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
In 2012, two revelations concerning the episode were made. On 29 February, [[CGEF]] revealed the episode's title, its writer to be [[Josh Weinstein]] and its director to be [[Raymie Muzquiz]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/7ACV/|title=Episode Guide: 7 ACV|date=2012-02-29|site=[[CGEF]]|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=22731.msg1299002#msg1299002|title="Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)"|site=[[PEEL]]|author="Just Fan"|date=2012-02-29|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> On 25 April, {{w|MSN TV}} revealed the episode's plot and air date.<ref name="msn">{{cite web | url=http://tv.msn.com/tv/series-episodes/futurama/?ipp=40 | title=Futurama - Episode Guide | site={{w|MSN TV}} | accessdate=2012-04-26}}</ref><br />
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In May, ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' began releasing promotional material for the episode. It has so far released five items: a [[promotional picture]] showing Leela - on crutches - and Fry on the [[Planet Express balcony]] on 7 May,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22595209143/countdown-to-futurama-leela-and-fry-watching-the|title=Countdown to Futurama: Leela and Fry Watching the Storm|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-07|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-07}}</ref> a video clip featuring the crew discussing the end of the world as well as scenes of [[New New York]] in chaos on 8 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 2">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22660349317/countdown-to-futurama-the-world-is-ending-again|title=Countdown to Futurama: The World Is Ending Again Clip|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-08|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-08}}</ref> concept art of Fry and Leela's [[Planet Express]] prom photo on 9 May<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 3">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22723249502/countdown-to-futurama-fry-and-leelas-prom-photo|title=Countdown to Futurama: Fry and Leela’s Prom Photo|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-09|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-09}}</ref> a second promotional picture showing Leela being entangled by a puddle monster while Fry, whose pants are on the road, watches on 10 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 4">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22788712686/countdown-to-futurama-puddle-monster-who-doesnt|title=Countdown to Futurama: Puddle Monster|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-10|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-10}}</ref> concept art of an excavated spaceship inside a cave on 11 May<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 5">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22847680054/countdown-to-futurama-stone-spaceship-as-you|title=Countdown to Futurama: Stone Spaceship|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-11|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-11}}</ref> and part of the storyboard showing Zapp pressing a button on a spaceship, causing snakes to be released onto Kif, on 12 May.<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 6">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22907144433/countdown-to-futurama-snake-button-storyboard|title=Countdown to Futurama: Snake Button Storyboard|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-12|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-12}}</ref><br />
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Comedy Central's website released another promotional picture - showing Leela and Fry near the balcony.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedycentral.com/press/series/futurama.jhtml?gallery=true|title=Comedy Central Press <nowiki>|</nowiki> Futurama|author=Michelle Rosenblatt|site=[[Comedy Central]]|accessdate=2012-06-05}}</ref> By 1 June, Comedy Central had aired an advertisment for the seventh season of ''Futurama'' which featured a new clip from the episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMdKUAIdiec&feature=colike|title=New Futurama Ad 2012|author=punkyacturbo|date=2012-06-01|site={{w|YouTube}}|format=Video|accessdate=2012-06-16}}</ref><br />
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''South Coast Today'' published an article about the ''Futurama'' season premiere on 16 June, revealing certain details about the episode.<ref name="South Coast Today">{{cite web | author=DeArruda, James | url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120616/LIFE/206160306/-1/LIFE | title=Spoiler alert!: Season premiere of 'Futurama' delivers just what the doctor ordered | work=South Coast Today | date=16 June, 2012 | accessdate=19 June, 2012}}</ref> ''{{w|Entertainment Weekly}}'' released another preview clip of the episode on 18 June.<ref name="EW">{{cite web|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/06/18/futurama-bender-wanda-sykes/|title='Futurama': Bender impregnates a soda machine! -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO|first=Dan|last=Snierson|work=Inside TV|publisher=EW.com|date=18 June, 2012|accessdate=18 June, 2012}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
On 30 January 2012, [[Eric Rogers]] revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either "[[The Bots and the Bees]]", this one or "[[31st Century Fox]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/164107479981105152|author=[[Eric Rogers]]|date=2012-01-30|title=Kitchelfilms|site=[[Twitter]]|accessdate=2012-01-31}}</ref><br />
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== Additional information ==<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The title "'''Farewell to Arms'''", which was registered on the US {{w|Copyright Catalog}} on 14 July 2011,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=29&ti=26,29&Search_Arg=futurama&Search_Code=TALL&CNT=25&REC=0&RD=0&RC=0&PID=TsH4SXbiOi0dF3DmNIBqsPmX7xtu&SEQ=20120229184805&SID=1|date=2011-07-14|title=WebVoyage Record View 1|site=US {{w|Copyright Catalog}}|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> was a working title for this episode.<br />
*"[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]", which is also the second episode of [[season 6|its season]], features an end of the world plot as well.<br />
*If the [[Season 5|movies]] are considered non-episodic, then this episode could be considered the 100th episode.<br />
**Alternatively, if each movie is considered one episode, this could be considered the 104th episode.<br />
**This is moot, however, since according to the canon, the movies are considered four episodes each.<br />
*The name of the episode is a reference to Fry and Leela both having lost one arm at the end of the episode. The word 'Arms' is an anagram of Mars which gets destroyed at the end of the episode.<br />
** Mars is not exactly destroyed at the end of the episode. Mars appears to have had its orbit altered, now residing either between the Earth and the moon or just beyond the moon's orbit. It's hard to be certain which due to the perspective and sizes of each object.<br />
*The second act is interesting because it does not end on a funny punch line, but instead a dramatic fade out.<br />
*Both Leela and Fry should have known they would have survived the Apocalypse since they read Bender's script on their love life in "[[Overclockwise]]".<br />
*If one looks closely at the tickets, it can be known that the ticket Fry gives Leela is actually his own ticket before it is directly revealed when Leela peels off her picture. When Fry receives his ticket from the Contabulous Choosematron, it bears the number combination "023870096 58". When Fry gives Leela the ticket, it bears the same combination.<br />
*The tickets says "Non-Transferable" right on them, but Fry was able to transfer his simply by pasting a picture of Leela on his ticket. This was good enough to fool the police scanning the tickets, or perhaps the police only cared if the tickets were valid and not whose ticket it is.<br />
*Dick Francisco is named after Nixon and [[San Francisco]]. San Francisco is in {{w|California}}, Nixon's native {{cat|US State|state}}.<br />
*The [[Planet Express headquarters]] is located on or near to 72nd Street, according to Farnsworth.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The episode's title is taken from the {{w|Ernest Hemingway}} novel ''{{w|A Farewell to Arms}}''. It is used to refer to Fry and Leela's arms getting torn off in the episode, as well as the destruction of Mars ("arms" being an anagram of "Mars").<br />
*The episode is a reference to the {{w|2012 phenomenon}} and a parody of the movie ''{{w|2012 (film)|2012}}''.<br />
*Earth being evacuated because of solar flares destroying the climate is the backstory to the 2010 ''{{w|Doctor Who}}'' episode ''{{w|The Beast Below}}'', as well as the 1975 serial ''{{w|The Ark in Space}}'' and multiple other stories. ''Ark'' also featured a carefully selected group of essential humans rescued from the destruction.<br />
*Planets flying to Earth and appearing in the sky are also a somewhat regular occurrence on ''Doctor Who'', from 1966's ''{{w|The Tenth Planet}}'' to 2010's ''{{w|The End of Time (Doctor Who)|The End of Time}}''.<br />
*The plot point of a solar flare destroying Earth is reminiscent of the film ''{{w|Knowing (film)|Knowing}}''.<br />
*Farnsworth quotes the poem "{{w|John Gillespie Magee, Jr.#High Flight|High Flight}}" by {{w|John Gillespie Magee, Jr.|John Gillespie Magee Jr.}} with the phrase "slipped the surly bonds of Earth".<br />
*In the Planet Express ship, Bender is reading a copy of ''Space Mall'', a parody of ''{{w|Sky Mall}}''.<br />
*Nixon says the best destination for the evacuated Earthicans to be transported to is Mars, which has "no Woodward or Bernstein. That's a plus." He is referring to journalists {{w|Bob Woodward}} and {{w|Carl Bernstein}}, whose news reporting on the {{w|Watergate scandal}} eventually led to Nixon's resignation. <br />
*Additionally, "that's a plus" could also refer to the advertisement slogan of the social network "{{w|Google+}}".<br />
*Fry mentions ''{{w|Redbook}}''.<br />
*Nixon says that the spaceplane "just won't turn over, just like Pat on a Sunday morning." "Pat" was the name of [[Pat Nixon|Nixon's wife]] in real life.<br />
*Leela mentions ''{{w|Tron: Legacy}}''.<br />
*Fry says that Bender dumped pig's blood on him at the Planet Express Prom, a reference to ''{{w|Carrie (novel)|Carrie}}''.<br />
*"Sharksplosions" may be a reference to [http://sharksplode.com/ Sharksplode], an online tee-shirt store founded by Wil Wheaton and Joel Watson.<br />
*Zap pushes a button on the spaceplane and snakes fall out of a compartment onto Kif. This could be a reference to the movie "Snakes on a Plane". Also cliche ancient temple traps, like in Indiana Jones.<br />
*As Mars gets dangerously close to Earth, [[Hattie McDoogal]] says, "Oh no! The kajigger of Gibraltar!" Hattie refers to the landmark the {{w|Rock of Gibraltar}}, located off the coast of Europe. This is technically accurate; as Mars passes this point, it approaches the New York coastline and jumping point, the location of the [[Planet Express building]].<br />
*Leela falling into the buried ship could be a reference to Predator 2.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Singing Wind]], from "[[Where the Buggalo Roam]]", appears for the second time.<br />
*The Professor uses the [[birthing machine]] from "[[Rebirth]]" to clone new arms for Fry and Leela.<br />
*Fry gets his arm severed for a second time. The first time was in "[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]".<br />
*The original prophecy said that the Earth would not at all be affected, yet the two planets nearly collided. This may be a reference to the fact that the Earth's orbit was artificially modified in "[[Crimes of the Hot]]".<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]] is seen with the [[headless clone of Agnew]]. The [[Headless body of Agnew|original Agnew]] was killed in ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]''.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>[repeated line]<br />
'''Fry''': [to Leela] Take my hand.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Fry]]''': No way I'm gonna let God get my pants! Nobody messes with my pants! Not even the Holy One, blessed be He!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Woah, there's writing in here! Also, this grease is flammable.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': [to Fry] Can't you just be a rude unhelpful jerk like Bender?<br />
'''Bender''': When I use up the toilet paper, I don't put on another roll!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Amy]]''': The calendar predicts fires, earthquakes, sharksplosions... then it just ends!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Hermes]]''': Is it just me, or is the world ending more often these days?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': So, you wanna join the Balcony Club?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': The Balcony Club?! I have an individual membership!<br />
'''Fry''': Zoidberg, get lost!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': I ''am'' lost! So long.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': That underground pyramid isn't a pyramid.<br />
''[Cut to the underground area.]''<br />
'''Amy''': It's a rocketship!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': It was worth waiting five hours to hear you finish that sentence.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'll remember you in here. ''[Puts her hand on her heart.]''<br />
'''Fry''': I wish ''I'' could remember with my boobs.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I'm stealin' stuff I don't even need. You wanna Torah?<br />
'''Fry''': Nah, I'm not hungry.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I hope you're not too mad at me, Leela. For tearin' your arm up and all.<br />
'''Leela''': I can't be mad. I'm on way too many painkillers.</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*When [[Fry]] loses his pants, he says that they are the pants that he was wearing when he met [[Leela]] for the first time, in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", and that they are his only pants. But in "[[A Head in the Polls]]" he sold his pants, along with the rest of his outfit, at the pawn shop for $50.<br />
**He could have had two pairs of clothes, the one in this episode (which he would also have been wearing those other times he mentioned) and the one that was sold in "A Head in the Polls".<br />
**He could have bought his clothes back.<br />
*If Singing Wind and his people knew that Mars was doomed enough to evacuate so long ago, why did he and so many others remain and attempt to reclaim their land (before ultimately selling out on the premise the land sucked anyway)?<br />
*The storm disables all electronics, yet Nixon's head's robotic arm still functions normally. Additionally, Zapp and the NNYPD's guns should not work either, but it is possible that the laser technology is not affected by the storm. The [[Contrabulous Choosematron]] is also another item that still works.<br />
**All these items could have been powered without electricity, like Bender.<br />
*Bender's crank is only seen in the first scene where it is used; after that, it is gone.<br />
**The crank could give him an extremely long charge.<br />
*In this episode, Amy says she belonged to the sorority Sigma Beta, but in "[[The Series Has Landed]]", she says she belonged to Kappa Kappa Wong.<br />
**She could have changed sororities over the course of twelve years.<br />
*Farnsworth, Fry and Bender should have known the world would not end in 3012, since they witnessed it ending over one billion years later in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]".<br />
**They initially skipped almost 7000 years, during which time society had collapsed several times on unknown dates. It is likely they were trying to avoid whatever had caused this.<br />
**There is also a difference between the ending of Mars and the ending of the universe.<br />
*If Mars and Earth really passed that close, then, depending on time, angle and speed, the gravity of the two planets would rip them apart.<br />
**When giving Mars oxygen, it could have altered the gravity. However, this is highly unlikely, because atmosphere content affects a planet's gravitation very little.<br />
**When Mars passed so close to Earth, Fry and Leela were able to see and communicate with each other with enough time, meaning Mars would be moving slow enough as to have enough time for it and Earth to be ripped apart by their gravitational pulls, as the speed a planet would pass to prevent tidal ripping would mean Fry and Leela wouldn't have enough time to speak or reach each other's arms once they saw each other, as they would be passing each other far faster than a bullet.<br />
*There's no way that burning subterranean gasses could move Mars that close to Earth so quickly, as there are millions of miles between them.<br />
*Although [[Singing Wind]] explains why they left the Prophecy on Earth (to warn them not to go to Mars), it doesn't explain why they left the stone ship there.<br />
**It's possible that that was the very ship the original Martians used to come to Earth, and those Martians had died out on Earth, leaving behind their ship and calendar there, and the legend of their journey back on Mars.<br />
**[[Singing Wind]] was also surprised the spaceplane actually worked, so it's possible they had their doubts about that ship and used other ships to return to Mars.<br />
*For the second time (the first time being in "[[Overclockwise]]"), the pillars of the balcony spell "Planet Express" during the wide shot, but during the close-up, they do not.<br />
**Additionally, the letters spelling "Planet Express" are in a different position than in "Overclockwise."<br />
*The ladders that led up to the pillar on the Planet Express balcony were not there in previous episodes.<br />
*Bender drives a car into Herschel's Non-Discount Diamonds after all vehicles/electronics were to have stopped working. Also, the car clearly has tires, which as demonstrated in "[[Mother's Day]]", "[[The Honking]]", and "[[Game of Tones]]" all vehicles [[hovercar|hover]].<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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==== Characters ====<br />
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*The [[21st-century girl]]<br />
*[[Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Amy's nanny]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Ben Beeler]]<br />
*[[Ben Beeler's wife]]<br />
*[[Bender]]<br />
*[[Billionaire Bot]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*The [[censored couple]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Central Park badger]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Contrabulous Choosematron]]<br />
*[[Cowardman]]<br />
*The [[Crack Addict]]<br />
*[[Dandy Jim]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]]<br />
*[[Elzar]]<br />
*[[Falafel cart man]]<br />
*[[Fat-bot]]<br />
*[[Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': The [[Great Reveal-o]]<br />
*[[Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Gus]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Headless clone of Agnew]]<br />
*[[Hermes]]<br />
*[[Igner]]<br />
*[[Inez Wong]]<br />
*[[Kif]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Larry]]<br />
*[[Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda van Schoonhoven]]<br />
*[[Leo Wong]]<br />
*The [[male nurse]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Michelle]] <small>(cameo)</small><br />
*[[Mrs. Astor]]<br />
*[[Nine]]<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Mayor Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Queen of Yonkers]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Singing Wind]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*[[Stephanie]]<br />
*The [[underwater house salesman]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Victor]]<br />
*[[Walt]]<br />
*[[Wash Bucket]]<br />
*[[Judge Whitey]]<br />
*[[Zapp]]<br />
*[[Zoidberg]]<br />
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*[[Central Park]]<br />
*Dick Francisco<br />
*'''Debut''': ''[[Heroes]]''<br />
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=A Farewell to Arms<br />
|season=7<br />
|broadcast season=9<br />
|image=[[File:Countdown to Futurama 2012 (video 2).png|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Leela]], [[Fry]], [[Scruffy]], [[Hermes]], [[Amy]], [[Zoidberg]] and [[Bender]] around the [[Martian calendar]].<br />
|no=116<br />
|written by=Josh Weinstein<br />
|directed by=Raymie Muzquiz<br />
|title reference=The {{w|Ernest Hemingway}} novel ''{{w|A Farewell to Arms}}''<br />
|caption="Ask your [[:Category:Doctors|doctor]] if ''[[Futurama]]'' is right for you"<br />
|first aired={{date|20 June}}, [[2012]]<br />
|number=7ACV02<br />
|broadcast number=S09E02<br />
|prev ep=The Bots and the Bees<br />
|next ep=Decision 3012<br />
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|special commentary=animators<br />
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An ancient prophecy from a [[Martian calendar]] predicts [[Earth|the world]] [[3012 phenomenon|will end]] in [[3012]].<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
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=== Act I: "So the world will end in the year 3012. Why does that year sound so familiar?" ===<br />
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Out walking after a freak rainstorm and tornado, [[Fry]] and [[Leela]] encounter a puddle. Ostentatiously gallant, Fry removes his pants and lays them over the puddle. He offers his hand to Leela, saying, "Take my hand." She initially rebuffs him, but then feels guilty and concedes. Taking Fry's hand and stepping onto his pants, she is sucked into the puddle by a tentacled monster that she battles to the death and then cooks for dinner. While she cooks, Fry hangs his pants to dry on a line that turns out to be tethered to [[Professor Farnsworth|Farnsworth's]] weather balloon. Farnsworth notes the recent increase in strange weather and announces that he will launch this weather balloon to explore the possible causes.<br />
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Fry is distraught to see his pants flying away as Farnsworth launches the balloon. On the grounds that these are not simply his ''only'' pants, but also his ''lucky'' pants, he convinces the crew to help retrieve them. On the edge of Earth's atmosphere, Fry shoots down the balloon. He is close behind in the ship when his pants land in a tree in [[Central Park]]. Just as he reaches out to recover them, a [[Central Park badger]] steals them and escapes into a hole. Fry covers himself, clothes and all, in "varmint grease" and dives into the hole. In an underground chamber, Fry finds the walls covered in mysterious symbols. The rest of the crew join him, but not even Farnsworth knows the origin of the writing.<br />
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Paying more attention to the symbols than to where she is going, Leela falls into a yet deeper hole, but catches herself on a branch within arms' reach of the crew. Fry offers his hand to Leela a second time, saying, "Take my hand." She complies, but his coating of varmint grease makes her lose her grip. She falls into a much deeper, larger chamber, and the others go down to rescue her. Seeing that Leela's leg is broken, Fry once again says, "Take my hand." This time Leela rebuffs him sharply. Zoidberg appears with Fry's pants, which still contain the badger. As the badger flees, Amy, following it with her flashlight, discovers an ancient pyramid accompanied by a huge stone disk covered in more strange writing. At headquarters, Amy and Farnsworth study the disk closely and determine that it is a Martian calendar. Amy, suddenly able to read words that she couldn't identify ten seconds earlier, translates a warning: the world will [[3012 phenomenon|end]] this very year.<br />
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=== Act II: "Who shall live, and who shall die? Step right up..." ===<br />
Farnsworth explains that his experiments confirm the calendar's prediction, the recent bizarre weather patterns being a prelude to a "catastrophic sunspot cycle." The apparent end of the world seems to begin at that very moment; there is mass panic in the streets. Everyone on Earth suddenly finds that the solar activity has disabled all electronics, including those necessary for escape; all are stranded. The crew prepare for the end: while Farnsworth has himself embalmed, Fry and Leela begin to have sex on the balcony. Amy interrupts them all, with news of further translation. The underground pyramid is actually a spaceship made entirely of stone, with no electronics, impervious to electrical disturbance of any kind. Determining that the ship can hold some 30,000 persons, Farnsworth declares it their solemn duty to evacuate as many as possible. He and the others lose their convictions when a large earthquake hits. As they attempt to escape, Zapp Brannigan appears and forces them to abort their departure.<br />
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Brannigan takes the crew to [[Richard Nixon|Richard Nixon's head]] for no particular reason. Nixon's head decrees that a machine, the [[Contrabulous Choosematron]], will choose which people shall survive. At the choosing ceremony, Fry is selected in spite of being useless in every way, because the Choosematron likes his pants. It prints an ID badge with his photo on it. In his excitement, Fry feels the need to help Leela place her hand the Choosematron. Yet again, he says, "Take my hand." Leela is rejected by the machine, in spite of being very skilled and useful to society, because it is supposedly unnecessary to have more than one pilot in a world with only one operable ship. Leela quietly accepts her fate, but Fry secretly sacrifices his seat by forging a badge for her using his own badge and a prom photo. Somehow she doesn't notice until after the launch that Fry hasn't boarded with her.<br />
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=== Act III: "It Mars that gonna be destroyed!" ===<br />
On [[Mars]], the evacuated Earthicans establish a new city, [[Dick Francisco]]. During the unveiling of the city, [[Singing Wind]] arrives and explains that Amy has mistranslated the Martian stone. It is not Earth that will be destroyed, but Mars. Soon after Singing Wind's departure, the final, fatal solar flare strikes. Leela had thought that Fry's final sacrifice was an exception among his gallant flourishes, but now she laments, "I should have known not to trust one of Fry's romantic gestures. Every time he says he loves me, I get killed!" As the ground is torn open by severe marsquakes, underground gas pockets burst open and ignite so fiercely that Mars is blasted out of its orbit, onto a collision course with Earth.<br />
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Back on Earth, the weather having returned to normal, Fry and Bender await the apocalypse casually. While they relax on deck chairs and drink piña skull-adas, Mars begins to fill the sky, on a very-near collision course with Earth. The two planets pass so close that those on Mars can literally ''jump'' to safety on Earth. The crew easily make the jump, except for Leela, who is prevented by her broken leg. Fry leaps to her rescue, but Leela has had enough; she exclaims, "Or somebody else could do it!" Fry makes the attempt anyway, climbing to the tower of the Planet Express building where he is just barely within arms' reach of her. He jinxes the effort by saying once again, "Take my hand." Leela expects the worst when she takes Fry's hand, and with good reason: her arm is ripped off of her body. Desperately, she grabs her severed arm with her good arm, and ''Fry's'' arm is ripped off of ''his'' body. One mysterious ''{{w|deus ex machina}}'' later, everyone is safe and sound back at headquarters. While Zoidberg praises Scruffy for the successful rescue, Farnsworth cultures new arms for Fry and Leela in his [[birthing machine]].<br />
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Fry apologizes to Leela for ripping her arm off. She explains that all of his preposterous incompetence is outweighed by the fact that he is the only person who loves her enough to sacrifice himself for her. As they share a hug made awkward by missing limbs, the missing limbs themselves float away into space, still hand-in-hand.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
In 2012, two revelations concerning the episode were made. On 29 February, [[CGEF]] revealed the episode's title, its writer to be [[Josh Weinstein]] and its director to be [[Raymie Muzquiz]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/7ACV/|title=Episode Guide: 7 ACV|date=2012-02-29|site=[[CGEF]]|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=22731.msg1299002#msg1299002|title="Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)"|site=[[PEEL]]|author="Just Fan"|date=2012-02-29|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> On 25 April, {{w|MSN TV}} revealed the episode's plot and air date.<ref name="msn">{{cite web | url=http://tv.msn.com/tv/series-episodes/futurama/?ipp=40 | title=Futurama - Episode Guide | site={{w|MSN TV}} | accessdate=2012-04-26}}</ref><br />
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In May, ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' began releasing promotional material for the episode. It has so far released five items: a [[promotional picture]] showing Leela - on crutches - and Fry on the [[Planet Express balcony]] on 7 May,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22595209143/countdown-to-futurama-leela-and-fry-watching-the|title=Countdown to Futurama: Leela and Fry Watching the Storm|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-07|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-07}}</ref> a video clip featuring the crew discussing the end of the world as well as scenes of [[New New York]] in chaos on 8 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 2">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22660349317/countdown-to-futurama-the-world-is-ending-again|title=Countdown to Futurama: The World Is Ending Again Clip|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-08|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-08}}</ref> concept art of Fry and Leela's [[Planet Express]] prom photo on 9 May<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 3">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22723249502/countdown-to-futurama-fry-and-leelas-prom-photo|title=Countdown to Futurama: Fry and Leela’s Prom Photo|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-09|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-09}}</ref> a second promotional picture showing Leela being entangled by a puddle monster while Fry, whose pants are on the road, watches on 10 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 4">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22788712686/countdown-to-futurama-puddle-monster-who-doesnt|title=Countdown to Futurama: Puddle Monster|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-10|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-10}}</ref> concept art of an excavated spaceship inside a cave on 11 May<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 5">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22847680054/countdown-to-futurama-stone-spaceship-as-you|title=Countdown to Futurama: Stone Spaceship|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-11|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-11}}</ref> and part of the storyboard showing Zapp pressing a button on a spaceship, causing snakes to be released onto Kif, on 12 May.<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 6">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22907144433/countdown-to-futurama-snake-button-storyboard|title=Countdown to Futurama: Snake Button Storyboard|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-12|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-12}}</ref><br />
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Comedy Central's website released another promotional picture - showing Leela and Fry near the balcony.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedycentral.com/press/series/futurama.jhtml?gallery=true|title=Comedy Central Press <nowiki>|</nowiki> Futurama|author=Michelle Rosenblatt|site=[[Comedy Central]]|accessdate=2012-06-05}}</ref> By 1 June, Comedy Central had aired an advertisment for the seventh season of ''Futurama'' which featured a new clip from the episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMdKUAIdiec&feature=colike|title=New Futurama Ad 2012|author=punkyacturbo|date=2012-06-01|site={{w|YouTube}}|format=Video|accessdate=2012-06-16}}</ref><br />
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''South Coast Today'' published an article about the ''Futurama'' season premiere on 16 June, revealing certain details about the episode.<ref name="South Coast Today">{{cite web | author=DeArruda, James | url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120616/LIFE/206160306/-1/LIFE | title=Spoiler alert!: Season premiere of 'Futurama' delivers just what the doctor ordered | work=South Coast Today | date=16 June, 2012 | accessdate=19 June, 2012}}</ref> ''{{w|Entertainment Weekly}}'' released another preview clip of the episode on 18 June.<ref name="EW">{{cite web|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/06/18/futurama-bender-wanda-sykes/|title='Futurama': Bender impregnates a soda machine! -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO|first=Dan|last=Snierson|work=Inside TV|publisher=EW.com|date=18 June, 2012|accessdate=18 June, 2012}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
On 30 January 2012, [[Eric Rogers]] revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either "[[The Bots and the Bees]]", this one or "[[31st Century Fox]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/164107479981105152|author=[[Eric Rogers]]|date=2012-01-30|title=Kitchelfilms|site=[[Twitter]]|accessdate=2012-01-31}}</ref><br />
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== Additional information ==<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The title "'''Farewell to Arms'''", which was registered on the US {{w|Copyright Catalog}} on 14 July 2011,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=29&ti=26,29&Search_Arg=futurama&Search_Code=TALL&CNT=25&REC=0&RD=0&RC=0&PID=TsH4SXbiOi0dF3DmNIBqsPmX7xtu&SEQ=20120229184805&SID=1|date=2011-07-14|title=WebVoyage Record View 1|site=US {{w|Copyright Catalog}}|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> was a working title for this episode.<br />
*"[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]", which is also the second episode of [[season 6|its season]], features an end of the world plot as well.<br />
*If the [[Season 5|movies]] are considered non-episodic, then this episode could be considered the 100th episode.<br />
**Alternatively, if each movie is considered one episode, this could be considered the 104th episode.<br />
**This is moot, however, since according to the canon, the movies are considered four episodes each.<br />
*The name of the episode is a reference to Fry and Leela both having lost one arm at the end of the episode. The word 'Arms' is an anagram of Mars which gets destroyed at the end of the episode.<br />
** Mars is not exactly destroyed at the end of the episode. Mars appears to have had its orbit altered, now residing either between the Earth and the moon or just beyond the moon's orbit. It's hard to be certain which due to the perspective and sizes of each object.<br />
*The second act is interesting because it does not end on a funny punch line, but instead a dramatic fade out.<br />
*Both Leela and Fry should have known they would have survived the Apocalypse since they read Bender's script on their love life in "[[Overclockwise]]".<br />
*If one looks closely at the tickets, it can be known that the ticket Fry gives Leela is actually his own ticket before it is directly revealed when Leela peels off her picture. When Fry receives his ticket from the Contabulous Choosematron, it bears the number combination "023870096 58". When Fry gives Leela the ticket, it bears the same combination.<br />
*The tickets says "Non-Transferable" right on them, but Fry was able to transfer his simply by pasting a picture of Leela on his ticket. This was good enough to fool the police scanning the tickets, or perhaps the police only cared if the tickets were valid and not whose ticket it is.<br />
*Dick Francisco is named after Nixon and [[San Francisco]]. San Francisco is in {{w|California}}, Nixon's native {{cat|US State|state}}.<br />
*The [[Planet Express headquarters]] is located on or near to 72nd Street, according to Farnsworth.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The episode's title is taken from the {{w|Ernest Hemingway}} novel ''{{w|A Farewell to Arms}}''. It is used to refer to Fry and Leela's arms getting torn off in the episode, as well as the destruction of Mars ("arms" being an anagram of "Mars").<br />
*The episode is a reference to the {{w|2012 phenomenon}} and a parody of the movie ''{{w|2012 (film)|2012}}''.<br />
*Earth being evacuated because of solar flares destroying the climate is the backstory to the 2010 ''{{w|Doctor Who}}'' episode ''{{w|The Beast Below}}'', as well as the 1975 serial ''{{w|The Ark in Space}}'' and multiple other stories. ''Ark'' also featured a carefully selected group of essential humans rescued from the destruction.<br />
*The plot point of a solar flare destroying Earth is reminiscent of the film ''{{w|Knowing (film)|Knowing}}''.<br />
*Farnsworth quotes the poem "{{w|John Gillespie Magee, Jr.#High Flight|High Flight}}" by {{w|John Gillespie Magee, Jr.|John Gillespie Magee Jr.}} with the phrase "slipped the surly bonds of Earth".<br />
*In the Planet Express ship, Bender is reading a copy of ''Space Mall'', a parody of ''{{w|Sky Mall}}''.<br />
*Nixon says the best destination for the evacuated Earthicans to be transported to is Mars, which has "no Woodward or Bernstein. That's a plus." He is referring to journalists {{w|Bob Woodward}} and {{w|Carl Bernstein}}, whose news reporting on the {{w|Watergate scandal}} eventually led to Nixon's resignation. <br />
*Additionally, "that's a plus" could also refer to the advertisement slogan of the social network "{{w|Google+}}".<br />
*Fry mentions ''{{w|Redbook}}''.<br />
*Nixon says that the spaceplane "just won't turn over, just like Pat on a Sunday morning." "Pat" was the name of [[Pat Nixon|Nixon's wife]] in real life.<br />
*Leela mentions ''{{w|Tron: Legacy}}''.<br />
*Fry says that Bender dumped pig's blood on him at the Planet Express Prom, a reference to ''{{w|Carrie (novel)|Carrie}}''.<br />
*"Sharksplosions" may be a reference to [http://sharksplode.com/ Sharksplode], an online tee-shirt store founded by Wil Wheaton and Joel Watson.<br />
*Zap pushes a button on the spaceplane and snakes fall out of a compartment onto Kif. This could be a reference to the movie "Snakes on a Plane". Also cliche ancient temple traps, like in Indiana Jones.<br />
*As Mars gets dangerously close to Earth, [[Hattie McDoogal]] says, "Oh no! The kajigger of Gibraltar!" Hattie refers to the landmark the {{w|Rock of Gibraltar}}, located off the coast of Europe. This is technically accurate; as Mars passes this point, it approaches the New York coastline and jumping point, the location of the [[Planet Express building]].<br />
*Leela falling into the buried ship could be a reference to Predator 2.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Singing Wind]], from "[[Where the Buggalo Roam]]", appears for the second time.<br />
*The Professor uses the [[birthing machine]] from "[[Rebirth]]" to clone new arms for Fry and Leela.<br />
*Fry gets his arm severed for a second time. The first time was in "[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]".<br />
*The original prophecy said that the Earth would not at all be affected, yet the two planets nearly collided. This may be a reference to the fact that the Earth's orbit was artificially modified in "[[Crimes of the Hot]]".<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]] is seen with the [[headless clone of Agnew]]. The [[Headless body of Agnew|original Agnew]] was killed in ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]''.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>[repeated line]<br />
'''Fry''': [to Leela] Take my hand.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Fry]]''': No way I'm gonna let God get my pants! Nobody messes with my pants! Not even the Holy One, blessed be He!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Woah, there's writing in here! Also, this grease is flammable.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': [to Fry] Can't you just be a rude unhelpful jerk like Bender?<br />
'''Bender''': When I use up the toilet paper, I don't put on another roll!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Amy]]''': The calendar predicts fires, earthquakes, sharksplosions... then it just ends!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Hermes]]''': Is it just me, or is the world ending more often these days?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': So, you wanna join the Balcony Club?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': The Balcony Club?! I have an individual membership!<br />
'''Fry''': Zoidberg, get lost!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': I ''am'' lost! So long.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': That underground pyramid isn't a pyramid.<br />
''[Cut to the underground area.]''<br />
'''Amy''': It's a rocketship!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': It was worth waiting five hours to hear you finish that sentence.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'll remember you in here. ''[Puts her hand on her heart.]''<br />
'''Fry''': I wish ''I'' could remember with my boobs.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I'm stealin' stuff I don't even need. You wanna Torah?<br />
'''Fry''': Nah, I'm not hungry.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I hope you're not too mad at me, Leela. For tearin' your arm up and all.<br />
'''Leela''': I can't be mad. I'm on way too many painkillers.</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*When [[Fry]] loses his pants, he says that they are the pants that he was wearing when he met [[Leela]] for the first time, in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", and that they are his only pants. But in "[[A Head in the Polls]]" he sold his pants, along with the rest of his outfit, at the pawn shop for $50.<br />
**He could have had two pairs of clothes, the one in this episode (which he would also have been wearing those other times he mentioned) and the one that was sold in "A Head in the Polls".<br />
**He could have bought his clothes back.<br />
*If Singing Wind and his people knew that Mars was doomed enough to evacuate so long ago, why did he and so many others remain and attempt to reclaim their land (before ultimately selling out on the premise the land sucked anyway)?<br />
*The storm disables all electronics, yet Nixon's head's robotic arm still functions normally. Additionally, Zapp and the NNYPD's guns should not work either, but it is possible that the laser technology is not affected by the storm. The [[Contrabulous Choosematron]] is also another item that still works.<br />
**All these items could have been powered without electricity, like Bender.<br />
*Bender's crank is only seen in the first scene where it is used; after that, it is gone.<br />
**The crank could give him an extremely long charge.<br />
*In this episode, Amy says she belonged to the sorority Sigma Beta, but in "[[The Series Has Landed]]", she says she belonged to Kappa Kappa Wong.<br />
**She could have changed sororities over the course of twelve years.<br />
*Farnsworth, Fry and Bender should have known the world would not end in 3012, since they witnessed it ending over one billion years later in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]".<br />
**They initially skipped almost 7000 years, during which time society had collapsed several times on unknown dates. It is likely they were trying to avoid whatever had caused this.<br />
**There is also a difference between the ending of Mars and the ending of the universe.<br />
*If Mars and Earth really passed that close, then, depending on time, angle and speed, the gravity of the two planets would rip them apart.<br />
**When giving Mars oxygen, it could have altered the gravity. However, this is highly unlikely, because atmosphere content affects a planet's gravitation very little.<br />
**When Mars passed so close to Earth, Fry and Leela were able to see and communicate with each other with enough time, meaning Mars would be moving slow enough as to have enough time for it and Earth to be ripped apart by their gravitational pulls, as the speed a planet would pass to prevent tidal ripping would mean Fry and Leela wouldn't have enough time to speak or reach each other's arms once they saw each other, as they would be passing each other far faster than a bullet.<br />
*There's no way that burning subterranean gasses could move Mars that close to Earth so quickly, as there are millions of miles between them.<br />
*Although [[Singing Wind]] explains why they left the Prophecy on Earth (to warn them not to go to Mars), it doesn't explain why they left the stone ship there.<br />
**It's possible that that was the very ship the original Martians used to come to Earth, and those Martians had died out on Earth, leaving behind their ship and calendar there, and the legend of their journey back on Mars.<br />
**[[Singing Wind]] was also surprised the spaceplane actually worked, so it's possible they had their doubts about that ship and used other ships to return to Mars.<br />
*For the second time (the first time being in "[[Overclockwise]]"), the pillars of the balcony spell "Planet Express" during the wide shot, but during the close-up, they do not.<br />
**Additionally, the letters spelling "Planet Express" are in a different position than in "Overclockwise."<br />
*The ladders that led up to the pillar on the Planet Express balcony were not there in previous episodes.<br />
*Bender drives a car into Herschel's Non-Discount Diamonds after all vehicles/electronics were to have stopped working. Also, the car clearly has tires, which as demonstrated in "[[Mother's Day]]", "[[The Honking]]", and "[[Game of Tones]]" all vehicles [[hovercar|hover]].<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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==== Characters ====<br />
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*The [[21st-century girl]]<br />
*[[Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Amy's nanny]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Ben Beeler]]<br />
*[[Ben Beeler's wife]]<br />
*[[Bender]]<br />
*[[Billionaire Bot]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*The [[censored couple]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Central Park badger]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Contrabulous Choosematron]]<br />
*[[Cowardman]]<br />
*The [[Crack Addict]]<br />
*[[Dandy Jim]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]]<br />
*[[Elzar]]<br />
*[[Falafel cart man]]<br />
*[[Fat-bot]]<br />
*[[Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': The [[Great Reveal-o]]<br />
*[[Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Gus]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Headless clone of Agnew]]<br />
*[[Hermes]]<br />
*[[Igner]]<br />
*[[Inez Wong]]<br />
*[[Kif]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Larry]]<br />
*[[Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda van Schoonhoven]]<br />
*[[Leo Wong]]<br />
*The [[male nurse]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Michelle]] <small>(cameo)</small><br />
*[[Mrs. Astor]]<br />
*[[Nine]]<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Mayor Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Queen of Yonkers]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Singing Wind]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*[[Stephanie]]<br />
*The [[underwater house salesman]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Victor]]<br />
*[[Walt]]<br />
*[[Wash Bucket]]<br />
*[[Judge Whitey]]<br />
*[[Zapp]]<br />
*[[Zoidberg]]<br />
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==== Places ====<br />
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*[[Central Park]]<br />
*Dick Francisco<br />
*'''Debut''': ''[[Heroes]]''<br />
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[[Category:B plots focusing on Bender]]</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Bots_and_the_Bees&diff=157766The Bots and the Bees2017-07-24T19:31:48Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Allusions */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=The Bots and the Bees<br />
|image=[[File:The Bots and the Bees screenshot.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] and his son, [[Ben Rodriguez|Ben]], as seen in a video released by {{ctf}}.<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 1"/><br />
|season=7<br />
|broadcast season=9<br />
|no=115<br />
|written by=Eric Horsted<br />
|directed by=Stephen Sandoval<br />
|title reference=The phrase "{{w|the birds and the bees}}"<br />
|caption="[[Fry meme|Not sure if new episode or just rerun of episode I watched drunk]]"<br />
|first aired={{date|20 June}}, [[2012]]<br />
|number=7ACV01<br />
|broadcast number=S09E01<br />
|prev ep=Reincarnation<br />
|next ep=A Farewell to Arms<br />
|hasanimatic=yes<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
|special guest=[[Wanda Sykes]]<br />
|guest-stars=[[Wanda Sykes]] as [[Bev]]<br />
}}<br />
[[Planet Express]] gets a new soda machine and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] impregnates it.<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
=== Act I: "You have the nerve to call yourself a beverage machine?" ===<br />
Professor Farnsworth sends a signal to the [[Planet Express crew]], and they all rush to the [[Planet Express building]] - including Fry, Leela and Bender, who are on the [[Planet Express ship|ship]] being attacked by a [[giant space spider]]. After all of the crew have arrived, Farnsworth announces that the company has acquired a new soda machine. The crew are all overjoyed at this, and Fry quickly seizes the opportunity to purchase large amounts of [[Slurm Loco]]. Bender asks the machine, who is sentient, if any [[alcohol]] is available. When she explains to Bender that people are not supposed to drink alcohol at work, Bender mocks her. Introducing herself as [[Bev]], she takes the opportunity to mock him back. Later that day, Fry continues to drink large amounts of [[Slurm]] Loco, announcing that his urine has turned green. Meanwhile, Bender and Bev continue to trade insults, culminating in Bev criticizing his "shriveled up [[antenna]]."<br />
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Later that night, Bender is drinking at the [[Hip Joint]], where he picks up [[Ruth and Esther]]. They attempt to have an orgy later at the Planet Express building, but are disturbed by Fry, who due to drinking too much Slurm Loco, is glowing green. Bender then kicks Fry out. Ruth and Esther ask for some {{cat|food and drink|drinks}}, but Bev refuses to make them anything. The two then mock Bev, angering her and causing her to spray soda water over them. When Bender does nothing but take photographs of them being sprayed, Ruth and Esther promptly leave. Angry that his hookers have left, Bev and Bender begin to fight with each other. However, when Bev starts to repeatedly push him against the wall, the fighting turns into sex.<br />
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The next day, Bev is pouring some Slurm Loco into Fry's cup when a baby falls out. The crew inspect the baby and discover that it resembles Bender. Bender flatly denies that he is the father of the {{cat|s=no|children|child}}, until the baby utters "[[Bite my shiny metal ass|Wipe my tiny metal ass!]]"<br />
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=== Act II: "I'm gonna call him Ben. After the first half of me, Bender!" ===<br />
As Bev nurtures the child, Bender worries over his new fatherhood. When he questions how he became a father, Amy asks if [[Bender's mother|his mother]] ever taught him about robot reproduction. When Bender reveals that his mother never taught him about robot reproduction due to her religious fundamentalism (also she had no mouth), the crew take Bender to [[The Rosie D. and Robbie T. Robot Teen Center]] "to learn about the bots and the bees". At the center, he and some teen robots watch the sex educational film ''[[Educational films#Robot Sex Ed. 1: Pants Full of Shame|Pants Full of Shame]]''. When Bender continues to worry, Leela assures him that Bev will gain custody of the child and that all will be back to normal. Back at the Planet Express building, Bender presents Bev with a certificate of abandonment. Bev, however, refuses to take the child, stressed out over her responsibilities as a mother. She leaves Bender with the child and takes off.<br />
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Later that night at [[Apartment 00100100]], Bender stresses himself out trying to take care of the child. When he bends a lamp post in frustration, however, he realizes the child takes delight in seeing him bend. Forming a bond over their mutual like of bending, Bender decides to name the child [[Ben]]. They spend some father-and-son time together through a series of robberies. At the Planet Express building, Bender continues to bend things for Ben, who has noticeably aged. When Bender gives Ben some "training girders", however, Ben fails to bend them. Bender, however, assures Ben that he will be able to bend. Bender reveals that the reason he is so skilled at bending is because he inherited his arm control software from his mother. This dismays Ben, as he realizes that his mother had no arms, so he has no software to inherit. Bender's second suggestion of having a bending card installed is quickly turned down after Farnsworth, upon inspecting Ben's head, discovers that there are no additional expansion slots for the bending card. Bender, however, is still convinced that his son will learn to bend somehow.<br />
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At the [[Temple of Robotology]], Ben, who is now 13 days old, is about to be upgraded to a [[Manbot]]. Ben gives a speech, where he thanks his father and expresses his dreams of "becoming a bender" just like him. The ceremony, however, is interrupted when Bev shows up to reclaim her son.<br />
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=== Act III: "I'd sacrifice any four of you if it would help him bend even a little!" ===<br />
Bender refuses to give custody of Ben to Bev, pointing out that she is an unfit parent who abandoned her child. Bev, however, points out that Bender tried to abandon Ben first, showing the certificate of abandonment that Bender gave her earlier, and promptly whisks Ben away. At the Planet Express building, Bender laments that Ben is gone, and that all he has to remember him is a box of his toys. He asks Fry to help him move the box, but Fry's radioactive skin accidentally causes the box and its contents to crumble to dust. The crew shun him and tell him to get out until he becomes useful.<br />
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Later that night, Bender arrives to rescue Ben from [[Bev's trailer]] at [[Basura Blanca Trailer Estates]]. However, they later find themselves being chased by [[Smitty]] and [[URL]] on the grounds of kidnapping. Bender attempts to bend the blades of their chopper to let him and his son escape, but he fails and instead finds his arms badly mangled and unable to bend anything. They come across a dead end at a dam, but can escape if Ben can bend a nearby set of steel bars. Ben agonizingly tries to bend the bars, but still fails. Smitty and URL catch up with the two, and Bender is handcuffed. Later, Leela and Bev show up at the scene. Leela scolds Bev for her cruel behavior, and buys a drink from her so that she can throw it in her face. When the drink is being poured out, however, another baby falls out. This baby resembles URL, and Leela realizes that Bev must have had sex with URL while he and Smitty were looking for Ben. Bev decides to allow Bender to keep Ben, as she is content with having URL's child to neglect.<br />
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At the Planet Express building, Bender throws a "welcome home" party for Ben, but Ben is still disappointed that he is unable to bend. Bender ponders over how Ben can bend, and Farnsworth offers a suggestion - installing a bending card into Ben. For this to happen, however, Ben must have his memory card removed, and consequently lose all his memories of Bender. At Ben's surgery, a tearful Bender asks Ben a final time if he really wants to bend, and Ben replies affirmatively. Bender allows the surgery to go on, wanting Ben to be happy. After the surgery, Ben is finally able to bend - but he has lost all his memories of Bender and the times he had with him. Ben states his desire to enroll at the [[Bending State University|Bending State University, Santa Cruz]], but they have only one hour to enroll before registration closes. The crew rush to get Ben to the university, but during their trip extremely thick fog gets in their way, and they are unable to navigate. Fry, however, comes to the rescue, and the crew uses his glowing body to navigate across the fog. Fry gets struck by lightning during the trip, and Ben and Bender share a laugh together as they head to the university.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
On 20 December 2011, [[Volume 6]] was released and, with it, a part of [[Animatic:The Bots and the Bees|the animatic for the "The Bots and the Bees"]] was also released,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voJztOUgmDE|title=Futurama Bots and The Bees Sneak Preview|author=[[20th Century Fox]]|date=2011-12-25|site={{w|YouTube}}|accessdate=2012-03-01}}</ref> hinting that "The Bots and the Bees" was 7ACV01. In 2012, a few revelations concerning the episode were made. On 25 January, [[Eric Rogers]] revealed that the episode would air in June.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/162266519848488960|author=[[Eric Rogers]]|date=2012-01-25|title=Kitchelfilms|site=[[Twitter]]|accessdate=2012-01-26}}</ref> On the next day, he revealed that the production team had just seen the first full-color animation for the episode, calling it, "Un. Be. Lievable."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/162632228092919808|author=Eric Rogers|date=2012-01-26|title=Kitchelfilms|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-01-26}}</ref> On the day after that, [[Aimee Steinberger]] revealed that the full-color animation had been screened on the [[20th Century Fox|Fox]] lot, that it received "lots of yays",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/aimeekitty/status/162687168794468352|author=[[Aimee Steinberger]]|date=2012-01-27|title=aimeekitty|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-01-27}}</ref> that she could not go due to her work on "[[7ACV14]]", that she watched it nonetheless and that she found it "lovely".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/aimeekitty/status/162687490547924992|author=Aimee Steinberger|date=2012-01-27|title=aimeekitty|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-01-27}}</ref> On 18 February, Eric Rogers revealed that the episode "Probably" ''was'' titled "The Bots and the Bees".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/170990666766237697|author=Eric Rogers|date=2012-02-18|title=Kitchelfilms|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-02-18}}</ref> On 29 February, [[CGEF]] confirmed that it was and revealed its writer to be [[Eric Horsted]] and its director to be [[Stephen Sandoval]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/7ACV/|title=Episode Guide: 7 ACV|date=2012-02-29|site=[[CGEF]]|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=22731.msg1299002#msg1299002|title="Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)"|site=[[PEEL]]|author="Just Fan"|date=2012-02-29|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> On 25 April, {{w|MSN TV}} revealed the episode's air date.<ref name="msn">{{cite web | url=http://tv.msn.com/tv/series-episodes/futurama/?ipp=40 | title=Futurama - Episode Guide | site={{w|MSN TV}} | accessdate=2012-04-26}}</ref> On 3 May, Aimee Steinberger revealed that the episode was one of those which she had worked on.<ref name="2012-05-03 tweet">{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/aimeekitty/status/198163647355301888|title=aimeekitty|author=Aimee Steinberger|date=2012-05-03|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-05-03}}</ref><br />
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In May, ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' began releasing promotional material for the episode. It has so far released ten items: A version of the part of the animatic for the episode released with Volume 6 in color, but smaller and with different music, on 1 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 1">{{cite web|url=http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2012/05/01/countdown-to-futurama-heres-your-first-look-at-the-season-premiere|title=Countdown to Futurama: Here’s Your First Look at the Season Premiere!|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-01|site=[http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com Comedy Central Insider]|format=Video|accessdate=2012-05-01}}</ref> two [[character]] designs for the new character [[Bev]] on 2 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 2">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22256496716/bevdesign|title=Countdown to Futurama: Bev Character Design|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-02|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-02}}</ref> a character design for an [[alien pet]] on 3 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 3">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22328149055/countdown-to-futurama-alien-pet-design-so|title=Countdown to Futurama: Alien Pet Design|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-03|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-03}}</ref> two [[promotional picture]]s on 4 May,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22388249594/countdown-to-futurama-glowing-fry-and-wrecked|title=Countdown to Futurama: Glowing Fry and Wrecked Cockpit Stills|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-04|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-04}}</ref> two more character designs, the first for an aging Ben and the second for both Bender and Ben, on 5 May,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22454651532/countdown-to-futurama-ben-aging-and-bender-bike|title=Countdown to Futurama: Ben Aging and Bender Bike Sketches|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-05|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-05}}</ref> part of [[Storyboard:The Bots and the Bees|the storyboard]] showing the portion of the part of the animatic for the episode released with Volume 6 where Bender helps Ben rob the [[Bank of NNY]] on 6 May<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22524618288/countdown-to-futurama-ben-and-the-bank|title=Countdown to Futurama: Ben and the Bank Storyboard|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-06|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-06}}</ref> and part of the storyboard showing [[Fry]] and Bender cheer up Ben on 7 May.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22604093835/countdown-to-futurama-bonus-cheering-up-ben|title=Countdown to Futurama Bonus: Cheering Up Ben Storyboard|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-07|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-07}}</ref><br />
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Comedy Central's website released two other promotional pictures, the first showing Bender and Ben in a scene from the animatic and the second showing Bev, Bender and Ben in the [[Planet Express employee lounge]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedycentral.com/press/series/futurama.jhtml?gallery=true|title=Comedy Central Press <nowiki>|</nowiki> Futurama|author=Michelle Rosenblatt|site=[[Comedy Central]]|accessdate=2012-06-05}}</ref><br />
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''South Coast Today'' published an article about the ''Futurama'' season premiere on 16 June, revealing certain details about the episode.<ref name="South Coast Today">{{cite web | author=DeArruda, James | url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120616/LIFE/206160306/-1/LIFE | title=Spoiler alert!: Season premiere of 'Futurama' delivers just what the doctor ordered | work=South Coast Today | date=16 June, 2012 | accessdate=19 June, 2012}}</ref> ''{{w|Entertainment Weekly}}'' released another preview clip of the episode on 18 June.<ref name="EW">{{cite web|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/06/18/futurama-bender-wanda-sykes/|title='Futurama': Bender impregnates a soda machine! -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO|first=Dan|last=Snierson|work=Inside TV|publisher=EW.com|date=18 June, 2012|accessdate=18 June, 2012}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
In 2012, the episode was praised twice. On 30 January, Eric Rogers revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either this one, "[[A Farewell to Arms]]" or "[[31st Century Fox]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/164107479981105152|author=Eric Rogers|date=2012-01-30|title=Kitchelfilms|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-01-31}}</ref> On 3 May, Aimee Steinberger said that [[Wanda Sykes]] - who ''Countdown to Futurama'', on the previous day, revealed would voice Bev<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 2"/> - "[had done] a great job on Bev's voice".<ref name="2012-05-03 tweet"/> Talking about the casting of Sykes, [[David X. Cohen]] stated: "We needed somebody who had kind of a, uh, forceful personality, who is very funny but also kind of forceful to stand up to Bender in their love scenes."<ref name="Podcast">{{cite web | url = http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/futurama-countdown-to-futurama/id526059138 | title = iTunes - Podcasts - Futurama: Countdown to Futurama by Comedy Central | author = [[Comedy Central]] | date = 2011-05-06 | site = {{w|iTunes Store}} | accessdate = 2011-05-10}}</ref> Brittany Frederick of ''Starpulse'' gave the episode a positive review, writing: "This may be one of ''Futurama'''s best episodes, because it's another episode that is as moving as it is funny. The show has the ability to be both hilarious and genuinely affecting, such as in the tear-jerking story of [[Seymour Asses|Seymour]], Fry's dog, in "[[Jurassic Bark]]". Likewise, your eyes won't be dry at the end of 'The Bots and the Bees.' If you don't get choked up by what happens to Ben, you should check yourself for a pulse."<ref name="starpulse">{{cite web | author=Frederick, Brittany | url=http://www.starpulse.com/news/Brittany_Frederick/2012/06/13/futurama_season_7_premiere_advance_rev | title='Futurama' Season 7 Premiere Advance Review: Is Bender The Father? | publisher=Starpulse | date=2011-06-13 | accessdate=2011-06-14}}</ref><br />
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== Additional information ==<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The word "headquarters" was not used for referring to the [[Planet Express headquarters|headquarters of Planet Express]] until this episode. (It was, however, used in an [[Easter egg]] in [[Volume One]].)<br />
*[[BoozMart]], the market which Bender and Ben rob, was originally called "Liquors" - according to the animatic. Its final name was first seen in the video released by ''Countdown to Futurama''.<br />
*During the premiere, [[Wanda Sykes]] was not credited. Also, despite having his name in the credits, [[Maurice LaMarche]] did not provide any character voices for this episode.<br />
*Bender denying that he is Ben's father and Ben saying Bender's catchphrase is similar to the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "{{w|Quagmire's Baby}}", where {{w|Peter Griffin|Peter}} doubts that the baby left on {{w|Glenn Quagmire|Quagmire}}'s doorstep is his and then she says, "Giggity".<br />
*This marks the first time that Preacherbot is referred to by name on the show, not counting the deleted scene in "[[Xmas Story]]".<br />
**The name he is referred to is "Preacher-bot," the only time he is referred to as "Lionel" is in the deleted scene.<br />
*"Basura Blanca" is Spanish for "White Trash".<br />
*The robot arm seen in the sex-ed video looks so much like Bender's mother, it might be her.<br />
*This episode marks the second time Fry has gained superpowers by drinking too much of a cheap beverage - the first time being when he gained super-speed after drinking a hundred coffees in "[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]".<br />
*The question raised by the writers of where so many seemingly useless robots were coming from has been answered. They do indeed create new robots, even ones that now have no actual job.<br />
*On {{w|Netflix}}, as of 18 August, 2014, the cropped standard definition version of this episode is only available for streaming.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
{{cultural mentions}}<br />
*The episode's title is a reference to the phrase "{{w|the birds and the bees}}".<br />
*The caption is a reference to the [[Fry meme|Fry]] [[internet]] [[Fry meme|meme]], which was also used in the promos for the new season.<br />
*Slurm Loco may be a parody on the real drink {{w|Four Loko}}.<br />
*Bev calls herself a "coal grinder's daughter". This is a reference to the {{w|Loretta Lynn}} song "{{w|Coal Miner's Daughter (song)|Coal Miner's Daughter}}".<br />
*Leela tells Fry that he is "glowing like the Human Torch on prom night." The {{w|Human Torch}} is a {{cat|superheroe|superhero}} who can engulf his entire body in flames.<br />
*Amy compares Fry to a lighthouse by asking him if he shouldn't be standing on a rocky coast somewhere preventing shipwrecks, which is an allusion to the {{w|They Might Be Giants}} song {{w|Birdhouse in Your Soul}}.<br />
*Fry's lighting up the fog at the end of the episode is an allusion to {{w|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer}}.<br />
*The sign at the Temple of Robotology wishes a "Happy ln(bΩmer)." Replacing "ln()" with "log" and "Ω" with "ohm", this is an allusion to the Jewish holiday {{w|Lag BaOmer}}.<br />
*Fry's line "Shut up and give me a Slurm Loco" is a reference to another internet meme which originates from a similar line from "[[Attack of the Killer App]]".<br />
*Fry urinating in green color due to excessive drinking of Slurm Loco is possibly a reference to [[2008]] film ''{{w|Role Models}}'', starring {{w|Paul Rudd}} and {{w|Seann William Scott}}, where the two [[list of primary characters|main characters]] were seen urinating in green color due to extreme intake of an energy drink they were advertising in multiple {{cat|school}}s.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Farnsworth's operation clothes]] are seen again. ([[4ACV13]])<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''[[Bev]]''': What can I get y'all?<br />
'''[[Fry]]''': You can talk? Shut up and get me a Slurm Loco!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': Bender, I was wrong. You're a fine parent, and I want to apologise.<br />
'''[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] and [[Ben Rodriguez|Ben]]''': Leela was wrong! Leela was wrong!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]]''': I hate to crush a boy's dreams, but... [upbeat] What the heck!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Awh, I'm gonna call him Ben, after the first half of [[me, Bender]]!<br />
''[Ben lets out a small, flaming burp.]''<br />
'''Bender''': That's my bastard!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': [[Ben|He]] has only one expansion slot, and it holds his memory card! This robot will never bend.<br />
'''Bender''': Don't tell my son what he can and can't do. You may know what's in his head, but you don't know what's in his heart!<br />
''[The Professor opens Ben's chest compartment and looks inside.]''<br />
'''Farnsworth''': There's no slot in there either.<br />
'''Bender''': I said shut up!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Hermes]]''': That's it, Fry! For a guy who's not too bright, you're too damn bright!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': There's a dam!<br />
'''Ben''': Damn!<br />
'''Bender''': There's a grate!<br />
'''Ben''': Great!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Leela]]''': Aw, [[Ben|he's]] so cute! Wait, no he isn't, he looks like [[Bender]]!</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*In this episode, it is apparent that Bender does not know how "robot reproduction" works. However, in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'', Bender makes a deal with the [[Robot Devil]], trading his own [[Bender's first born son|first born]] for the devil's [[Army of the Damned]]. Additionally, he was shown having sex with the satellite dish in "[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]". Indeed, he seems to be completely unaware of robot sex in the first place, even though he's dealt with many a [[hookerbots|hookerbot]] before, and in "[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]", he states that human reproduction (or, as he calls it, "shooting DNA at each other to make babies") is disgusting.<br />
**It is possible that Bender meant he does not know how robot babies are 'born'. As with humans, being able to have sex doesn't necessarily yield any knowledge of reproduction. As for the first-born son that Bender took to the Robot Devil, that may have been just a random kid-bot who thought Bender was his long-lost father and Bender was evil enough to play along with it.<br />
*Once again, Hermes' shirt buttons disappear at one point.<br />
*Fry's glowing causes him to burn objects, and melt metal, but it doesn't burn the ropes that hold him to the ship or damage the floor, his couch, or even his clothes.<br />
**It's possible that these effects of drinking too much Slurm Loco are only temporary. The glowing seems to be the main side effect.<br />
**That still doesn't explain why it doesn't burn his clothes, which he was wearing when the side effect was occuring.<br />
*Tinny Tim is seen at the robot teen club, but he has previously been refered to as a child, not a teenager.<br />
**He is intended to be around the same age as his friends Cubert and Dwight, roughly 13. In most cultures teenagers are seen as children, particularly those in their early teens.<br />
*When being attacked by the space spider, the ship is wrecked, when they get back to Planet Express, it's back to normal.<br />
**It's possible the crew had it repaired before returning to Earth, plus, this goof was joked about by [[Matt Groening]] and [[David X. Cohen]] in one of the podcasts released during the ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'', meaning it was probably intentional.<br />
*In this episode, to make Ben bend objects, his memory card is removed and replaced with another card. However, in "[[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]", it is revealed that a robot's brain, including his memory, is on a floppy disk in the back of his head. The memory card in robots may be used as an alternative to the brain, or a backup.<br />
**This may only apply to [[bending units]], so soda machines might work differently. Ben's form of storing memory may have come from [[Bev]].<br />
*Ben can either have a memory card or a bending card, and according to the ending he opts for the bending card. Without a memory card, how does he make memories from that point forward?<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
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*'''Debut''': [[Alien pet]]<br />
*[[Amy]]<br />
*[[Barbados Slim]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Ben Rodriguez|Ben]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Bender's mother]] {{miso}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Bev]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Bev and URL's child]]<br />
*[[C-3PO look-alike]] {{cameo}}<br />
*[[Calculon]] {{small|(as [[Calculon (All My Circuits)|''All My Circuits'' counterpart]])}}<br />
*[[Documentary narrator]]<br />
*[[Ruth and Esther|Esther]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Francine (robot)|Francine]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Francine and Gerald's child]]<br />
*[[Fat-bot]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Gerald]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Giant space spider]]<br />
*[[Hermes]]<br />
*[[Hypnotoad]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Masked Unit]]<br />
*[[Monique]] {{small|(as [[Monique (All My Circuits)|''All My Circuits'' counterpart]])}}<br />
*[[Promiscuous Ladybot]]<br />
*[[Queen of Yonkers]]<br />
*[[Randy Munchnik]]<br />
*[[Reverend Lionel Preacherbot]]<br />
*[[Ruth and Esther|Ruth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*[[Spotty Teen Robot]]<br />
*[[Tinny Tim]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring its title]]</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Inara_Serra%27s_head&diff=157765Talk:Inara Serra's head2017-07-24T08:30:12Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* A Firefly article? */</p>
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<div>== A ''Firefly'' article? ==<br />
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I am beginning to get an odd feel now. I appreciate the first ''Firefly'' reference being in the same episode as the first ''Doctor Who'' reference in ''Futurama'', but the inclusion of Inara rather than the actress gives me a feel that the writers/show makers are suggesting that events of ''Firefly'' might be real. In such a case, would it be worth having an article discussing this possibility? And particularly what it means for the [[timeline]]? As one who is pretty vested in ''Firefly'' knowledge, I actually in most respects cannot see ''huge'' fundamental problems with the tie-in/crossover. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|talk]]</sup> 13:28, 1 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
:By that logic, so did South Park. Granted, Cartman's name isn't visible, but these are most likely just here for fun background jokes. There's little chance any plot points of either show will make it into Futurama. Also those heads purported to be Apu and Manjula were clearly just generic dark skinned heads. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 14:34, 1 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
:I don't think so. It's more likely a shout-out to ''Firefly'' fans than anything significant like a link between the two universes. I chalk it up to the writer's love of both ''Firefly'' and cult sci-fi references. -- [[User:DeepSpaceHomer|DeepSpaceHomer]] 17:14, 2 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
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I realise this is 6 years late, but… The most obvious fundamental problem with the two shows being in the same universe is that Futurama is full of aliens, and permits easy interstellar travel, especially since the speed of light was raised in 2208. Even if you want to say that the Firefly generation ships left Earth before proper interstellar travel and first contact, the odds that nobody from Earth or Decapod 10 or anywhere else would have visited by the 25th century seem pretty slim. Meanwhile, if Inara means Firefly happened in Futurama, then surely the Fourth Doctor, Amy Pond, and Owen Harper all appeared in the same episode means Doctor Who also happened? So, where are the heads of Presidents Arthur Winters, Courtney Blinovitch-Woods, Bruce Springsteen, and Chuck Norris? --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.23|172.68.133.23]] 10:30, 24 July 2017 (CEST)</div>172.68.133.23https://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Insane_in_the_Mainframe&diff=157006Insane in the Mainframe2017-02-07T04:36:43Z<p>172.68.133.23: /* Trivia */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=Insane in the Mainframe<br />
|no=43<br />
|image=[[File:Insane in the Mainframe.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV11<br />
|caption=[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]'s Humor by<br /><span style="font-family:serif;">{{w|Microsoft}} Joke</span><br /><br />
|first aired={{date|8 April}}, [[2001]]<br />
|written by=Bill Odenkirk<br />
|directed by=Peter Avanzino<br />
|title reference=A lyric from the song "{{w|Insane in the Brain}}" and {{w|Mainframe computer|mainframe computers}}<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon="The Mild West"<br />
|sponsor=Thompson's Teeth<br />
|broadcast number=S03E12<br />
|prev ep=Where the Buggalo Roam<br />
|next ep=The Route of All Evil<br />
|broad prev=The Cyber House Rules<br />
|broad next=Bendin' in the Wind<br />
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[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] are admitted to an [[HAL Institute|insane asylum]] for {{cat|criminal}}ly insane [[robots]] after being arrested for holding up [[Big Apple Bank|a bank]]. Fry becomes so deluded by the place that he begins to believe he is a robot, and is released from the asylum.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Hooray for Zoidberg!" ===<br />
Following a celebration of [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]'s ten years with [[Planet Express]], [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] realizes that he hasn't planned for his future, so he spends 94% of his retirement fund (a $100 bill, stored in his sock) on ''Whif -N- Win'' lottery tickets. After winning nothing, he decides to open a retirement account for $6, making him immediately $4 overdrawn. At the bank [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] meets his old friend, [[Roberto]], and he and Fry accidentally help him rob the bank.<br />
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=== Act II: "What do you say we plead insanity?" ===<br />
Fry and Bender [[New New York v. Fry and Bender|appear in court]], represented by the [[Hyper-Chicken]]. Fry is going to reveal that it was Roberto who robbed the bank, but is cut short after Roberto calls and threatens to kill him. Hyper-chicken convinces them to plead insanity under the reason that he is their lawyer, and is successful. Both Fry and Bender are sent to the [[HAL Institute|HAL Institute for Criminally Insane Robots]] because being poor was recently classified as a mental illness and the {{human}} asylum is overfilled.<br />
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=== Act III: "I find that offensive!" ===<br />
Fry finds the physical exam, designed for robots, quite painful, but is still thought to be a robot, due to the simple fact that the asylum is for robots. He is put in a room with [[Malfunctioning Eddie]], who explodes when introduced to Fry. Unit 2013 shows him around the building and introduces him to the other robots. Bender enjoys himself, but Fry is taking the experience badly, and starts going insane. Eddie is discharged and Fry's new roommate is Roberto, who is in the asylum because he robbed the same bank again. Soon, Fry is "cured"--believing he is a robot.<br />
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=== Act IV: "I need to get a disguise!" ===<br />
Fry returns to Planet Express, where he tries to find his primary function. After trial and error, Fry determines he is not a tool bot, a calculator or a food-mo-tron. Fry drinks an exorbitant amount of alcohol to "fuel his power cells" and passes out. Meanwhile, Bender and Roberto escape the asylum.<br />
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=== Act V: "Do you have any better hostages?" ===<br />
Roberto holds up the same bank a third time and he and Bender flee to Planet Express. Roberto uses Zoidberg, [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]], [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], [[Amy Wong|Amy]], [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] and Bender hostage. He decides to kill some of them, but Fry wakes up and informs everyone that he has found his primary function--battle droid. Fry engages Roberto in battle by swinging his fists in circles around his body. Roberto stabs him, but hits a can of pi-in-1 oil in his coat pocket, which starts leaking and convinces Roberto that he is a battle droid. Roberto throws his knife at Fry, cutting his arm, and jumps out the window where he is arrested. Fry notices the blood from his cut arm and finally realizes he is a human.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
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*The title of the episode is a reference to a lyric from the song "{{w|Insane in the Brain}}" and {{w|mainframe computer}}s. "Insane in the Brain" would later be referenced in "[[The Why of Fry]]", in which one of the Brain Spawn says "are you insane in the membrane?"<br />
*Electroshock therapy is currently a rare last-option treatment for mental patients with depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, psychosis, and manic-depressive schizophrenia. In the future, however, it is a pleasant treatment that helps robots relax. This is due to electricity having a psychoactive effect on robots.<br />
*Hermes has a button on his calculator labeled "Carry The One".<br />
*Fry, believing he is a Battle Droid, begins attacking Roberto with a "fighting style" similar to the one used by Bender against [[El Chupanibre]] in "[[I Second that Emotion]]".<br />
*This episode is the last to feature a fake [[Sponsors|sponsor]] before "[[Bender's Big Score Part 1]]".<br />
*There appear to be two incinerators in [[Planet Express headquarters|Planet Express]], on the wall of [[Hermes' office]] and in the [[Planet Express hangar]].<br />
*This episode marks the first appearance of Roberto.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Bender's banjo]] makes its third appearance.<br />
*Bender is later seen dressed up as {{head|Napoleon}} again in "[[Godfellas]]" and "[[Decision 3012]]".<br />
*Fry says that he will continue to never wash his left cheek again after Leela kissed it. Leela previously kissed his left cheek in "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]".<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Roberto''': Back off! I got hostages!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Hooray! I'm helping!<br />
'''Smitty''': Do you have any better hostages?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Whitey''': Counsellor, what evidence do you offer to support this new plea of insanity?<br />
'''Hyper-Chicken''': Well, for one, they done hired me to represent them.<br />
'''Whitey''': Insanity plea is accepted.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': But I'm not a robot like you! I don't like having disks crammed into me, unless they're {{w|Oreo}}s, and then only in the mouth.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': It is time for you to ingest sandwiches from my compartment. ''[Pulls two sandwiches from the crotch of his pants.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Negative, bossy meat creature. I know now what my primary function is: I am a battle-droid. Sworn to protect the weak from crazy robots.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': Fry! Don't be a hero! It's not covered by the health plan!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Roberto''': Help! Help! He is a battle-droid! Somebody help me! Mommy! I'm sorry I spilled the transmission fluid, Mommy! No! No! Don't weld me to the wall, Mommy!</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*When Fry and Bender are boxed up and rolled out of the courtroom, Fry shouts "ow, my head" when he is on his side then "ow, my feet" when he is on his head.<br />
*Bender is raised off a conveyor belt with a giant magnet, but it doesn't corrupt his inhibition unit.<br />
**Magnets only affect him when they go near his upper chest or head.<br />
*Bender exclaims "''Je suis Napoleon''" at one point in the episode, which means "I am Napoleon" in [[French language|French]], but the French language is supposed to be dead and not understood by anyone in the future. Then again, speaking a language that's been dead for years might be a sign that he's mentally ill (and, in a lot of old cartoons -- specifically the Looney Tunes and MGM ones -- a character claiming that he was Napoleon was a sign that he was crazy).<br />
*Wouldn't it be easier just to scrap and recycle the robots deemed "crazy" rather than waste taxpayer money on a mental hospital for them?<br />
**Since when is stuff in the future supposed to be easy?<br />
*If the asylum is only for robots, then why were Fry's clothes sucked off him by that tube? And why was he given a gown to wear? Since robots don't wear clothes, this seems odd in a robot asylum.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*Nurse Ratchet is a reference to the character Nurse Ratched from ''One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest'', and perhaps also the Autobot Medic Ratchet who is a character in numerous Transformers series.<br />
*[[Mad Hatterbot|Another robot]] is modelled off the Mad Hatter from ''Alice in Wonderland''.<br />
*[[Dr. Perceptron]] is a reference to a concept from artificial intelligence.<br />
*The [[HAL Institute]] for Criminally Insane Robots is a reference to the computer HAL, from ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.<br />
*[[Linctron]] is modeled off of the [[Wikipedia:Audio-Animatronics|Audio-Animatronic]] Abe Lincoln at [[Wikipedia:Disneyland|Disneyland's]] ''[[Wikipedia:Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln|Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln]]'' show.<br />
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==== Characters ====<br />
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*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*{{head|Benjamin Franklin}} <small>(on 100 dollar bill)</small><br />
*'''Debut''': [[Big Apple Bank Surveillance Camera]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Dr. Perceptron]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Frankie]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hair Robot]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mad Hatterbot]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Hyper-Chicken]]<br />
*[[Judge Whitey]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Linctron]]<br />
*[[Malfunctioning Eddie]]<br />
*{{head|Napoleon}} {{miso}}<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head|Richard Nixon]] <small>(on 1000 dollar bill)</small><br />
*'''Debut''': [[Norm (robot)|Norm]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Nurse Ratchet]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Randy Munchnik]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Roberto]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*[[Big Apple Bank teller]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Unit 2013]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Victor]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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*[[Bender's banjo]]<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
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*Writer<br />
**[[Bill Odenkirk]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Bill Odenkirk]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
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