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No. | 138 | ||||
Production number | 7ACV24 | ||||
Written by | Lewis Morton | ||||
Directed by | Frank Marino | ||||
Title caption | #1 Rated Show in Universe 3 | ||||
First air date | 21 August, 2013 | ||||
Broadcast number | S10E11 | ||||
Title reference | The 1934 Agatha Christie novel Murder on the Orient Express | ||||
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"Murder on the Planet Express" is the one hundred and thirty-eighth episode of Futurama, the twenty-fourth of the seventh production season and the eleventh of the tenth broadcast season. It aired on 21 August, 2013, on Comedy Central. The crew get trapped aboard the ship with a horrific alien creature.
Plot
Production
On 5 February, 2013, Vulture.com released a preview clip for the tenth broadcast season,[1] which contained footage from the episode.
On 14 August, Comedy Central released a two-minute preview clip featuring the crew picking up Blorgulax.[2]
Image gallery
Concept art of the alien form featured in the episode.[3]
A promotional picture featuring the alien form sneaking up behind Bender.[4]
Additional information
Trivia
- After Bender denies having polished his ass with Fry's toothbrush, Fry's eyes narrow. An image of Fry with narrowed eyes in "The Lesser of Two Evils" became popular as an internet meme. [6]
- Fry and Bender name their winning combination "Friender". "Friender" is also the name of the Fry/Bender merger in one of the special features on the D.V.D. for Bender's Game.
- Bender asks Fry what the square root of 2345.4 is. The answer is approximately 48.43.
Allusions
- Click here to see cultural mentions made in this episode.
- The episode's title is a reference to the 1934 Agatha Christie novel Murder on the Orient Express.
- Zoidberg reads the book in a deleted scene from "The Tip of the Zoidberg".
- The name "For Your Eyes Mainly" is a reference to the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.
Continuity
- Bender also used Fry's toothbrush for polishing in "The Butterjunk Effect".
- Nine calls Fry an old paranoid kook, a reference to Into the Wild Green Yonder.
- Fry wears the space suit from "A Big Piece of Garbage".
- The ship's basement was first seen in "Proposition Infinity".
Quotes
Dan McMasters: So I hear we've been having some trust issues, huh? Well, for the next week... we'll be doing hundreds of trust falls from every possible height and level of gravity.
Bender: Or we could not do that.
Dan McMasters: Hello Planet Express! I'm Dan McMasters, and I'll be your retreat leader for a week of fun and personal empowerment!
Professor Farnsworth: [looking annoyed at the crew] I hope you're happy!
[Leela opens up a cabinet full of weapons inside the Planet Express ship and takes a rifle from inside; stood around her are Fry, Bender, Amy and Zoidberg.]
Leela: It's time we solved this problem the old fashioned way. By shooting it!
Bender: Wait, wait, wait, wait, you can't give everybody guns! What if one of us is the creature? It could be any of us: [The camera pans to each character as Bender calls out their name.] Fry. Leela. Amy. Zoidberg. [The camera pans to another Zoidberg stood next to the original.] Zoidberg.
[Everyone gasps and backs away.]
Appearances
Characters
Places
- Apartment 00100100
- Debut: For Your Eyes Mainly
- Debut: Panic room
- Planet Express conference room
- Planet Express employee lounge
- Planet Express hangar
- Planet Express headquarters
- Planet Express kitchen
- Robot Arms Apartments
Miscellaneous
- "Bite my shiny metal ass" (alluded to)
- Channel √2 News
- Dark-matter afterburner
- Dark-matter engines
- Facebook (mentioned in speech only)
- Fry-Bender relationship
- Fry-Leela relationship
- "Good news, everyone"
- "Me, Bender"
- "My manwich!"
References
- ^ Jesse David Fox (05 February 2013). Watch a Preview of Futurama’s Seventh Season. (Vulture.com.) Retrieved on 23 June 2013.
- ^ Team Building Retreat - Video Clip. (Comedy Central.) Retrieved on 08 August 2013.
- ^ Countdown to Futurama: Alien Form. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 05 June 2013. Retrieved on 05 June 2013.
- ^ Countdown to Futurama: Alien Sneaking Up Behind Bender. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 06 June 2013. Retrieved on 06 June 2013.
- ^ Countdown to Futurama: Fry with a Monster Mouth. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 07 June 2013. Retrieved on 07 June 2013.
- ^ Futurama Fry / Not Sure If X. (Know Your Meme.) Retrieved on 22 August 2013.
- Episodes written by Lewis Morton
- Episodes directed by Frank Marino
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- A plots focusing on Planet Express ship
- B plots focusing on Amy
- B plots focusing on Bender
- B plots focusing on Fry
- B plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth
- B plots focusing on Hermes
- B plots focusing on Leela
- B plots focusing on Zoidberg