Free Will Hunting
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Season 7 episode Broadcast season 9 episode | |||||
Free Will Hunting | |||||
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No. | 123 | ||||
Production number | 7ACV09 | ||||
Written by | David X. Cohen | ||||
Directed by | Raymie Muzquiz | ||||
Title caption | Warning: Do Not Show To Horses | ||||
First air date | 8 August, 2012[1] | ||||
Broadcast number | S09E09 | ||||
Title reference | The 1997 film Good Will Hunting | ||||
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"Free Will Hunting" is the one hundred and twenty-third episode of Futurama, the ninth of the seventh production season and the ninth broadcast season. As as a robot, Bender lacks free will so he embarks on a quest for the meaning of life.[1] This will feature a return to Chapek 9.[2]
Plot
Production
On 27 November 2011, CGEF revealed the episode's title to be "Freewill Hunting".[3] On 29 February 2012, it revealed the actual title, its writer to be David X. Cohen and its director to be Raymie Muzquiz.[4][5] On 28 June, MSN TV revealed the episode's plot and air date.[1]
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 "Free Will Hunting" were shown during the live stream.[6]
Additional information
Allusions
- The episode's title is a parody of the 1997 drama film, Good Will Hunting.
Continuity
- "Overclockwise" (6ACV25)
- When Bender became overclocked, he found out the meaning of life, which he later forgot.
Goofs
- In this story, they can't charge Bender, because as a robot he doesn't have freewill, but this has never been brought up before, when he or any other robot is on trial.
- The Professor states he programmed all robots, so they would be unable to harm him, but in the Late Philip J Fry, Bender and him get into a fist fight, Also in Bender's Game he almost sells the professor out to the orcs, and in Bendless Love he three times bends the Professor's spine. Why has this never worked before now?
- Regarding the fist fight, Bender isn't doing anything of major consequence to the Professor, while bending his spine merely affected him, though Bender was unaware of his actions and was on impulse. The other thing is part of a fantasy.
- When Fry arrives at his apartment, he's alone, but moments later Leela's with him.
- Some time may have passed.
- If the Freewill device was built after the Robots, then how did they know what shape it was going to be, to give to the robots?
- Farnsworth was designing it around that anticipated shape.
- Bender seems incapable of overcoming his programming in this episode, but in Space Pilot 3000 he's able to after being electrocuted.
Characters
References
- ^ a b c d Futurama - Episode Guide. (MSN TV.) Retrieved on 09 June 2012.
- ^ MacKenzie, Carina Adly (17 June 2024). 10 Spoilers: '90210' Season 5 seeks Ryan Gosling, Shawn and Juliet sort of split on 'Psych,' and Amy Smart returns to 'Men at Work'. Retrieved on 28 June 2024.
- ^ Awesome Auction Action!. (CGEF.) 27 November 2011. Retrieved on 27 November 2011.
- ^ Episode Guide: 7 ACV. (CGEF.) 29 February 2012. Retrieved on 29 February 2012.
- ^ "Just Fan" (29 February 2012). "Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)". (PEEL.) Retrieved on 29 February 2012.
- ^ "Tastes Like Fry" (12 July 2012). "Newsarama! (Futurama News Thread)" (page 1). (PEEL.) Retrieved on 13 July 2012.