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''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' | During June [[2011]], ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' released three items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of the [[Planet Express ship]] with sails on 1 June, part of [[Storyboard:Möbius Dick|the storyboard]] showing [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] crash in the ship's escape pod on 2 June, and a video clip of the [[Planet Express crew]] hunting [[four-dimensional space whale|the whale]] down on 18 June. | ||
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<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
Image:Episode 6ACV14 on episode overview.jpg|The episode overview showing what appears to be a whale. | Image:Episode 6ACV14 on episode overview.jpg|The episode overview showing what appears to be a whale. | ||
File:615-Sail-Ship.jpg|Concept art of the Planet Express ship with sails. | File:615-Sail-Ship.jpg|Concept art of the Planet Express ship with sails. | ||
File:615-Board A.jpg|Page 121 of the storyboard. | File:615-Board A.jpg|Page 121 of the storyboard. | ||
File:Whale.png|A screenshot from | File:Whale.png|A screenshot from the video clip. | ||
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'''Leela''': Miss Wong, you have the 'poon.</poem> | '''Leela''': Miss Wong, you have the 'poon.</poem> | ||
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=== Characters === | === Characters === | ||
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*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] | *[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] | ||
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] | *[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] | ||
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg| | *[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] | ||
{{chars-end}} | {{chars-end}} | ||
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| No. | 103 | ||||
| Production number | 6ACV15 | ||||
| Written by | Dan Vebber | ||||
| Directed by | N/A | ||||
| Title caption | N/A | ||||
| First air date | 4 August, 2011[1] | ||||
| Broadcast number | S08E08 | ||||
| Title reference | Moby Dick and Möbius strips | ||||
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"Möbius Dick" is the one hundredth and third episode of Futurama, the fifteenth of the sixth production season and the eighth of the eighth broadcast season.
Story
The crew encounters a dangerous four-dimensional space whale.[2]
Production
During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released three items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of the Planet Express ship with sails on 1 June, part of the storyboard showing Zoidberg crash in the ship's escape pod on 2 June, and a video clip of the Planet Express crew hunting the whale down on 18 June.
Image gallery
The episode overview showing what appears to be a whale.
Concept art of the Planet Express ship with sails.
Page 121 of the storyboard.
A screenshot from the video clip.
Additional Info
Trivia
- The episode was for some time thought to be the broadcast season's second episode, but the announcement that "Benderama" would air on 23 June in its place proved otherwise.[3]
- This is the first episode where Dr. Zoidberg is addressed as "Johnny" (his first name being John).
Allusions
- The title and the overall plot is a parody of the Herman Melville-penned novel Moby Dick, which was previously referenced in "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid". The title is a portmanteau of Moby Dick and the Möbius strip.
- Möbius Dick is also well known in the mathematics community as the answer to a pun-based math riddle: What's non-orientable and lives in the ocean?
- Mobius Dick is also the title of a 2000 science-fiction novel by Andrew Crumey.
- When Leela calls the crew "you space dogs", she is referring both to the expression "you dog", and to the Soviet space dogs of the 1950s and 1960s.
Goofs
- When hunting the whale, Bender calls for Leela from above the ship and Leela replies. Seeing as sound can't travel in space, they couldn't have heard each other. Similar goofs have been made in the past as well.
- Leela calls Amy "miss Wong" instead of "Dr. Wong". Of course this could have been a mistake on Leela's and not the writers' part.
Quotes
Leela: Okay, which of you space dogs has the guts and know how to harpoon that whale?
Amy: I spent a semester in Africa harpooning giraffes, and giraffes are basically just land space whales.
Leela: Miss Wong, you have the 'poon.
Characters
References
- ^ Futurama - Episode Guide - MSN TV
- ^ Can't get enough Futurama: Episode Guide: 6 ACV
- ^ reed (03 May 2011). "How many Benders is too many?". CGEF. Retrieved on 04 May 2011.