"A Clockwork Origin"[1] is the ninety-seventh episode of Futurama, the ninth of the sixth production season and the seventh broadcast season.
The Story
Professor Farnsworth, fed up with Creationists on Earth, moves to a Planetoid to escape the ignorance of humanity. Only to inadvertently create mechanical life which evolved from small cleaner robots designed to clean tainted water on the rock.
Additional Info
Allusions
- Scenes in which the crew fights and tries to escape from robot dinosaurs are in reference to the novel turned movie Jurassic Park.
Continuity
- Hermes finds a fossilised dog and says "uh-oh, another one of Fry's dogs", a reference to "Jurassic Bark" in which the crew finds Fry's old dog Seymour Asses fossilised.
- Amy accidentally cuts of her finger without making a big fuss about it, much like Fry gets his hands eaten off in "I Dated a Robot".
- Zoidberg tries to do comedy in front of Cubert. His life-long dream to be a comedian was the main plot to "That's Lobstertainment!".
- Bender suggests that a robotic entity could have started life on earth. This might be because he knows of the Galactic Entity ("Godfellas"), which seemed capable of such acts.
Characters
- (In alphabetic order)
References