The Tip of the Zoidberg
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Season 6 episode Broadcast season 8 episode | |||||
The Tip of the Zoidberg | |||||
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No. | 106 | ||||
Production number | 6ACV18 | ||||
Written by | Ken Keeler | ||||
Directed by | Raymie Muzquiz | ||||
Title caption | IT'S TENTACULAR! | ||||
First air date | 18 August, 2011 | ||||
Broadcast number | S08E10 | ||||
Title reference | The idiom "the tip of the iceberg" | ||||
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"The Tip of the Zoidberg" is the one-hundred-and-sixth episode of Futurama, the eighteenth of the sixth production season and the tenth of the eighth broadcast season. It aired 18 August, 2011 on Comedy Central. The crew uncovers a dark secret concerning a covert mission undertaken by the Professor and Dr. Zoidberg many years earlier.
Plot
How zoidberg and Farnsworth meet and how zoidberg save the professor from yetism
Production
While originally known as "Nine-tenths of a Zoidberg is Underwater", the episode title changed in the process.
During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released two items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of Triton Base Camp on 3 June and part of the storyboard showing a young Professor Farnsworth and Zoidberg on a Yeti-hunting trip on 4 June.
On 12 August, Comedy Central released a video clip featuring Zoidberg performing surgery on Fry, Leela, and Hermes.[1]
Image gallery
Additional Info
Trivia
- Mom's real name is revealed to be Carol.
Allusions
- Zoidberg causes Fry to lose blood and develop a host of syndromes named after pop culture figures.
- Fry first develops a condition called "Simpsons jaundice", referring to the yellow skin of characters from The Simpsons. He then says the phrase "Ay carumba!", a catchphrase of Bart Simpson.
- Fry then gets "Garfield syndrome", a reference to Garfield the cat. He looks like Garfield and even says his phrase "I hate Mondays".
- Fry then develops "Muppet gangrene". This causes him to act like Kermit the Frog and say that "It's not easy being gangrenous", referring to Kermit's famous refrain from "Bein' Green".
- Finally, Fry gets an unknown condition that makes him look like a Smurf.
- During Zoidberg's attempts at murdering the Professor, the song "Mr. Sandman" plays over the scene.
- The Tritonian Yeti, including its poisonous nature, is designed like the Mugato of the Star Trek episode "A Private Little War."
- The Murderlator is an example of a Rube Goldberg machine.
- Mom's three sons are told to "Stooge out," a reference to the Three Stooges.
- "Stooge out" could also refer to her sons being "stooges", e.g. devoted followers who are used by Mom for her own purposes.
Goofs
- Methan doesn't smell
Continuity
- The flashbacks reveal once again that people in the future do not age the same as people of the 21st century. In 2927, Professor Farnsworth would have been 85/86, yet appears youthful and is healthy enough for the rigors of military duty.
- Fry once again mistakes an inanimate object for a living alien, having previously made out with what he thought was "the radiator woman from the Radiator Planet", in "The Lesser of Two Evils".
- Bender once again shows his love for cooking by making a salad before adding his drop of poison on the death wheel.