All the Presidents' Heads
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Season 6 episode Broadcast season 8 episode | |||||
All the Presidents' Heads | |||||
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No. | 111 | ||||
Production number | 6ACV23 | ||||
Written by | Josh Weinstein | ||||
Directed by | Stephen Sandoval | ||||
Title caption | APPLY VIEWING OIL NOW | ||||
First air date | 28 July, 2011[1] | ||||
Broadcast number | S08E07 | ||||
Title reference | All the President's Men | ||||
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"All the Presidents' Heads" is the one-hundred-and-eleventh episode of Futurama, the twenty-third of the sixth production season and the seventh of the eighth broadcast season. It is scheduled to air 28 July, 2011 on Comedy Central. The crew members alter history when they travel back in time to the American Revolution.[1]
Plot
Fry licks George Washington's head, and it sends him on a "trip" back to the Revolutionary War. It is believed that other characters will go on other 'trips' to presidential eras.
Production
During May of 2011, Countdown to Futurama released three items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of the Planet Express headquarters with a Tudor architecture design on 27 May, concept art of Nibbler wearing an English attire on 28 May, and part of the storyboard showing Professor Farnsworth meet Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere on 29 May.
To coincide with Sarah Palin mangling the story of Revere's ride, Comedy Central Insider released a video clip featuring the Planet Express crew in the 18th century with Benjamin Franklin and Revere.[2] This was the second video clip of the broadcast season not to be released by Countdown to Futurama, the first being from "Neutopia" and the third being from "Benderama".
Image gallery
Additional Info
Trivia
- In broadcast order, the seventh episode of broadcast season 7, "The Late Philip J. Fry", involved time travel. "All The Presidents' Heads" is the seventh episode in broadcast season 8 and also involves time travel.
Allusions
- The title is a reference to the book (and the film) All the President's Men.
- FDR's head says, "We have nothing to fear but running out of beer." This is a reference to his inauguration speech, "The only thing we need to fear is fear itself."
- Scruffy, Hermes, Leela, and Bender chant, "Four more beers! Four more beers!" This is a parody of a presidential chant, "Four more years! Four more years!" after a President is about to finish his second term.
Continuity
Characters
- Bender
- Dwight D. Eisenhower's head
- Benjamin Franklin
- Debut: David Farnsworth
- Professor Farnsworth
- Fry
- George Washington's head
- Hermes
- Andrew Jackson's head
- Leela
- Nibbler
- James K. Polk's head
- Amelia Pond's head
- Debut: Paul Revere
- Franklin D. Roosevelt's head
- Scruffy
- Theodore Roosevelt's head
- Thomas Jefferson's head
- Warren G. Harding's head