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"'''2-D Blacktop'''" is the one hundred and twenty-ninth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fifteenth of the [[Season 7|seventh production season]] and the first of the [[Broadcast season 10|tenth broadcast season]]. It aired on 19 June 2013 on [[Comedy Central]]. [[Professor Farnsworth]] joins [[street-racing gang|a gang of street-racing punks]]. | "'''2-D Blacktop'''" is the one hundred and twenty-ninth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fifteenth of the [[Season 7|seventh production season]] and the first of the [[Broadcast season 10|tenth broadcast season]]. It aired on 19 June [[2013]] on [[Comedy Central]]. [[Professor Farnsworth]] joins [[street-racing gang|a gang of street-racing punks]]. | ||
== Story == | == Story == | ||
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On 14 December 2011, geek blog {{w|Geekologie}} posted a picture of the episode's production script to their {{w|Facebook}} page.<ref name="script">{{cite web|url=http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150512507002597&set=a.422604262596.221974.27290042596&type=1|work=Geekologie|date=2011-12-14|title=Wall Photos|site={{w|Facebook}}|accessdate=2012-04-14}}</ref> The picture was accompanied by the following description. | On 14 December [[2011]], geek blog {{w|Geekologie}} posted a picture of the episode's production script to their {{w|Facebook}} page.<ref name="script">{{cite web|url=http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150512507002597&set=a.422604262596.221974.27290042596&type=1|work=Geekologie|date=2011-12-14|title=Wall Photos|site={{w|Facebook}}|accessdate=2012-04-14}}</ref> The picture was accompanied by the following description. | ||
{{quote|got to see [[Matt Groening]], [[Leela]] AND [[Fry]] (Leela has two eyes and looks like {{w|Peggy Bundy}} FYI). No [[Bender]] though (I think he was scared)}} | {{quote|got to see [[Matt Groening]], [[Leela]] AND [[Fry]] (Leela has two eyes and looks like {{w|Peggy Bundy}} FYI). No [[Bender]] though (I think he was scared)}} | ||
In February 2012, the episode's title was registered on the US {{w|Copyright Catalog}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peelified.com/Futurama-Forum-1/Topic-22731-0-Futurama_News_preseason.html|title="Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)"|site=[[PEEL]]|author="Just Fan"|date=2012-02-23|accessdate=2012-02-23}}</ref> | In February [[2012]], the episode's title was registered on the US {{w|Copyright Catalog}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peelified.com/Futurama-Forum-1/Topic-22731-0-Futurama_News_preseason.html|title="Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)"|site=[[PEEL]]|author="Just Fan"|date=2012-02-23|accessdate=2012-02-23}}</ref> | ||
On 30 April 2013, [[Comedy Central]] released a preview clip of the episode as the first item in the year's ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'', and revealed the air date of the episode to be 19 June 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/49273106881/countdown-to-futurama-eat-and-digest-clip|title=Countdown to Futurama: Eat and Digest Clip|date=2013-04-30|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Central Tumblr blog]|accessdate=2013-04-30}}</ref> | On 30 April 2013, [[Comedy Central]] released a preview clip of the episode as the first item in the year's ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'', and revealed the air date of the episode to be 19 June 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/49273106881/countdown-to-futurama-eat-and-digest-clip|title=Countdown to Futurama: Eat and Digest Clip|date=2013-04-30|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Central Tumblr blog]|accessdate=2013-04-30}}</ref> |
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No. | 129 | ||||
Production number | 7ACV15 | ||||
Written by | Michael Rowe | ||||
Directed by | Raymie Muzquiz | ||||
Title caption | Put On 2-D Glasses Now | ||||
First air date | 19 June 2013 | ||||
Broadcast number | S10E01 | ||||
Title reference | The 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop | ||||
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"2-D Blacktop" is the one hundred and twenty-ninth episode of Futurama, the fifteenth of the seventh production season and the first of the tenth broadcast season. It aired on 19 June 2013 on Comedy Central. Professor Farnsworth joins a gang of street-racing punks.
Story
Production
On 14 December 2011, geek blog Geekologie posted a picture of the episode's production script to their Facebook page.[1] The picture was accompanied by the following description.
“ | got to see Matt Groening, Leela AND Fry (Leela has two eyes and looks like Peggy Bundy FYI). No Bender though (I think he was scared) | ” |
In February 2012, the episode's title was registered on the US Copyright Catalog.[2]
On 30 April 2013, Comedy Central released a preview clip of the episode as the first item in the year's Countdown to Futurama, and revealed the air date of the episode to be 19 June 2013.[3]
Image gallery
The Professor explains how the digestive system works in the 2-D dimension.[citation needed]
The Planet Express ship converted into a hot rod.[citation needed]
A hot rod hovercar.[citation needed]
A design of the Planet Express ship after being crashed.[citation needed]
A gif featuring Professor Farnsworth talking to maniac street racers.[4]
Additional information
Trivia
- The Professor names the Planet Express ship "Bessie".
- Coincidentally, the upcoming Wii U game Mario Kart 8 will feature a Möbius-strip track.
Allusions
- Click here to see cultural mentions made in this episode.
- The episode's title is a reference to the 1971 road movie Two-Lane Blacktop, directed by Monte Hellman and starring James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates and Laurie Bird.
- The episode itself is a reference to the 1884 book Flatland, written by Edwin Abbott Abbott.
- A wrecked USS Enterprise from the Star Trek franchise can be seen in the scrap when the Professor approaches Impound Lot 136.
- The Bonneville Salt Flatlands in Flatbush are a reference to the Bonneville Salt Flats located in Utah. There is also an area of the flats known as the Bonneville Speedway, where many land speed records have been broken.
Continuity
- Bender's vandalism tile-art from "Proposition Infinity" re-appears.
- Fry previously did karate in "Attack of the Killer App" and "Forty Percent Leadbelly".
Goofs
- Leela introduces the new ship as slower to make it safer, however later on she is able to beat the old ship in a drag race.
- When they are in the race, the Professor is wearing his racing clothes (black leather lab coat, black hat) but when he arrives in the second dimension he is wearing his standard attire.
- Initially the Lords of Flatbush have guns, but when chasing the crew they only have spears.
- It's possible that spears were the closest weapons at hand for the Lords to chase the crew with.
- The Professor makes it clear that it's impossible to go around others in the second dimension, but when they are eating at the castle, several of the creatures are sitting behind them.
- As the Professor says, the laws of physics in Flatbush are different.
- The creatures are actually above, not behind.
- Hermes claims the crew has only been gone for five minutes, however it was afternoon when they left, and it's clearly dusk when they arrive back.
Quotes
Professor Farnsworth: Ah, perfect timing! I just turbo-charged the ship's matter compressor!
Fry: What's the matter compressor?
Professor Farnsworth: Nothing's the matter, Fry, now that I've turbo-charged the matter compressor.
Professor Farnsworth: That's it, you hoodlums! Your mouth just wrote a PayPal transfer request that your butt has insufficient funds to honor!
Racer #1: Yo. It is on! Before that it was off.
Racer #2: Marks. Set. Go, yo!
Amy: [upset] Do you think they're...dead?
Hermes: No, no. I choose to believe they're alive in some other dimension. Screamin' in agony.
[Amy wipes away a tear.]
Amy: I hope so.
King of Flatbush: The feast is served. Choose whatever two-dimensional foods you like. Crêpes, flatbread, McDonald's hamburgers. You get the idea.
Leela: Yum, apples! [She grabs a piece of apple and attempts to eat it.] Hey, how come I can't swallow?
Professor Farnsworth: Hmm, I guess it's because our two-ended digestive system can't exist in this dimension. I suppose that could be an issue.
[Leela mumbles and spits the piece of apple out.]
Leela: I knew it! I knew he'd get us killed somehow!
[The Professor begins to type on a computer.]
Professor Farnsworth: As you can see, or rather can't see, but take my word for it, such a digestive system would divide a 2-D being into separate pieces!
King of Flatbush: He's opening our minds to new ideas. Kill him!
Alien-language sightings
Time: 06:54
Location: Sign on a building next to where Smitty and URL brake their police hovercar
Language: AL1
Translation: HOT BLOOD
Appearances
Characters
- Albert (montage)
- Amy
- Auctioneer (cameo, 5:42)
- Bender
- Debut: Benny (mentioned in speech only)
- Crack addict (cameo, 9:25)
- Professor Farnsworth
- Fry
- Hermes
- H.G. Blob
- Debut: King of Flatbush
- Leela
- Debut: Lords of Flatbush
- Debut: Minx
- Nina (montage)
- Debut: Pimparoo
- Randy Munchnik
- Sal
- Sally (montage)
- Sam (human) (montage)
- Scruffy
- Smitty
- Debut: Speed Racer
- Debut: Street-racing gang
- URL
- Debut: Yellow car
Places
- Debut: Big Boy Karate
- Debut: Bonneville Salt Flatlands
- Debut: Flatbush
- Debut: Glorianimous 3
- Debut: Möbius drag strip
- Impound Lot 136
- Debut: New New Jack City
- Planet Express conference room
- Planet Express hangar
- Planet Express headquarters
- Planet Express lab
- Debut: Thingly Wiggly
- Tokyo (mentioned in speech only)
References
- ^ a b Wall Photos. (Facebook.) 14 December 2011. Retrieved on 14 April 2012.
- ^ "Just Fan" (23 February 2012). "Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)". (PEEL.) Retrieved on 23 February 2012.
- ^ Countdown to Futurama: Eat and Digest Clip. (Comedy Central Tumblr blog.) 30 April 2013. Retrieved on 30 April 2013.
- ^ Countdown to Futurama: Maniac Street Racers. (Comedy Central Tumblr blog.) 13 June 2013. Retrieved on 13 June 2013.