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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=Bend Her<br />
|no=67<br />
|image=[[File:Bend Her.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=Bender as [[Coilette]].<br />
|season=4<br />
|broadcast season=5<br />
|number=4ACV13<br />
|caption=Too hot for radio<br />
|first aired=20 July, 2003<br />
|written by=Michael Rowe<br />
|directed by=James Purdum<br />
|title reference=A play on "Bender" / ''{{w|Ben Hur}}''<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=Naughty But Mice (1947)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S05E13<br />
|prev ep=The Sting<br />
|next ep=Obsoletely Fabulous<br />
|broad prev=Spanish Fry<br />
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"'''Bend Her'''" is the sixty-seventh episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the thirteenth of the [[Season 4|fourth production season]] and of the [[Broadcast season 5|fifth broadcast season]]. It aired 20 July, 2003 on FOX. To win the fembot Olympic event, [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] turns himself into a [[fembot]], while [[Coilette|female he]] finds himself in a romantic relationship with [[Calculon]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "Sweden? I don't think so!" ===<br />
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[[File:Female robot oil.png|thumb|left|Farnsworth reaching for [[Femzoil]] in [[Farnsworth's operation clothes|his operation clothes]]]].<br />
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The crew attend to the [[3004 Earth Olympiad|3004 Olympic Games]]. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] competes in the Men's 500 meter Limbo contest, as the rest of the Jamaican team have been detained at the airport because of "other interests". Since he is a bit out of shape, Hermes relies on his body-shaping {{w|spandex}} suit the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] gave him in order to uphold Jamaica's honour and beat his bitter rival [[Barbados Slim]]. He almost succeeds, but the suit bursts shortly before he reaches the finish line and Hermes loses. Meanwhile [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] is dreaming of winning a few medals in the bending contests for himself, but as he sees no chance of beating the ultra-powerful manbots, he disguises himself as a fembot and enrols under the name "Coilette from Robonia". He wins five medals, but in order to pass the gender check afterwards, he undergoes a sex change operation/oil change the Professor gives him. The operation is a success and Bender gets to keep his medals, however, he is now female.<br />
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=== Act II: "Maybe she's right about the lipstick!" ===<br />
As the winner of five gold medals, "Coilette" is an instant celebrity and is invited to [[Television|Late Night with Humorbot 5.0]]. She decides to stay female for the time being, although it endangers her ability to change back. At the Late Night show, she meets [[Calculon]] who instantly falls in love with her. They go on a date, while [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Amy Wong|Amy]] start worrying together with the rest of the crew. Coilette undergoes wild mood swings that are connected with the sex change. Shortly thereafter, Calculon asks Coilette to marry him and she accepts.<br />
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=== Act III: "If I help you with this, do you promise to get out of my gender and stay out?" ===<br />
Coilette wants to make the wedding a scam to get at Calculon's money, but then realizes she truly loves him and can't bring herself to hurt him. The crew rush to her aid to create a proper ending for the liason which Calculon can deal with: a Soap Opera Death. At the wedding, Leela, Fry, Hermes and Zoidberg stage an elaborate and very stylish death for Coilette so Calculon can accept the loss. Afterwards, the Professor changes Coilette back into Bender, much to the relief of Leela and Amy.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
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=== Nations participating in the [[3004 Earth Olympiad]] ===<br />
*[[Cyberia]]<br />
*[[Nation of Joe]]<br />
*[[Devil's Island]]<br />
*[[Republic of French Stereotypes]]<br />
*Canada <br />
*[[United States of America|America]]<br />
*[[United Kingdom]] <br />
*Sweden <br />
*Jamaica <br />
*Belgium <br />
*South Korea <br />
*Chile<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Bender/Coilette''': [singing] Hail, hail, Robonia - a land I didn't make up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Calculon''': I've always said many things.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': You're making us look like jerks in front of the other genders!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender/Coilette''': Is it trampy to go on a first date ''nude''?<br />
'''Amy''': ''Yes''!<br />
'''Bender/Coilette''': Perfect! [strips off]</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender/Coilette''': Why don't all of you back off? Can't a girl enjoy herself without being judged? ''[Bender/Coilette walks off.]''<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth''': Oh, dear. Her mood swings are getting wilder. She's becoming a slave to her emotions. Just like all women. Particularly you, Leela. ''[Leela slaps the Professor.]''<br />
'''Leela''': I'm worried about him too, Professor.</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
* In a previous flashback showing Hermes at the Olympics, he was competing for Earth, not for Jamaica. However there may be both an Earth Olympics and an interplanetary Olympics.<br />
* During all scenes with Bender wearing the five medals, the colours of some of the straps change every time the scene shifts back to Bender. Originally one medal with red straps and the rest with blue, and then afterwards alternates between another medal having one red and one blue strap, one with a completely red strap, or back to four blues and one red.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*[[Femmzoil]] refers to the word "female" and the American oil company {{w|Pennzoil}}.<br />
*Near the end of the episode, the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] shouts "Turn off that crap-o-rama!", a possible reference to [[Futurama|the show]] itself.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*The [[unbendable girder]] makes its second appearance.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Barbados Slim]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Boxy Robot]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Coilette]]<br />
*[[Elzar]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hedonism Bot]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Humorbot 5.0]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Joe (Nation of Joe)|Joe]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Reverend Lionel Preacherbot]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Michael Rowe]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[James Purdum]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Michael Rowe]]<br />
**[[James Purdum]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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<div>[[File:Farnsworth promo 2.jpg|right|thumb|Professor Farnsworth himself.]]<br />
'''Farnsworth''' may refer to one of the following.<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], an aged, eccentric inventor, founder and owner of [[Planet Express]].<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]], a clone of the Professor.<br />
*[[Farnsworth's grandmother]].<br />
*[[Farnsworth's laboratory]].<br />
*The [[device that makes anyone sound like Farnsworth]] {{et|3ACV12}}.<br />
*The [[Farnsworth Foundation]], an organisation created by the Professor for the purpose of combating [[Proposition ∞]] {{et|6ACV04}}.<br />
*''[[Homo farnsworth]]'', the "missing link" discovered by the Professor {{et|6ACV09}}.<br />
*[[Robo-Farnsworth]], a [[Robot]] equivalent of the Professor (6ACV09).<br />
*''[[Everyone v. Farnsworth]]'', the trial of the century on the [[Robo-planetoid]] according to ''[[USB Today]]'' (6ACV09).<br />
*The [[Farnsworth novelty disintegrator ray]], nothing more than a common teleporter ray {{et|6ACV11}}.<br />
*[[Farnsworth's parents]].<br />
*The [[Mom-Farnsworth conflict|Mom-Farnsworth]] [[conflict]].<br />
*The [[Mom-Farnsworth relationship|Mom-Farnsworth]] [[relationship]].<br />
*"[[The Farnsworth Parabox]]", the sixty-ninth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fifteenth of [[Season 4|the fourth production season]] and the tenth of [[Broadcast season 5|the fifth broadcast season]], aired 8 June, [[2003]] on [[Fox Network|Fox]].<br />
**[[Transcript:The Farnsworth Parabox|The transcript]] for this episode.<br />
**[[Commentary:The Farnsworth Parabox|The commentary]] for this episode.<br />
*''[[Mom v. Farnsworth]]'', a trial in which [[Mom]] accused Professor Farnsworth and Cubert Farnsworth of violating the license agreement on a [[Bending Unit]]. ([[6ACV25]])<br />
*[[Farnsworth's tennis instructor]], a person who teaches [[Farnsworth]] tennis.<br />
*[[Farnsworth's operation clothes]], an outfit that [[Farnsworth]] wears when he's performing an operation.<br />
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[[Category:Disambiguation pages]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Farnsworth%27s_operation_clothes&diff=115312Farnsworth's operation clothes2012-07-11T01:22:13Z<p>66.32.188.127: </p>
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|name = Farnsworth's operation clothes<br />
|image = [[File:Female robot oil.png|225px]]<br />
|image text = Farnsworth in these clothes reaching for [[Femzoil]]<br />
|owner = [[Hubert J. Farnsworth]]<br />
|type = Clothes<br />
|usage = External Wear<br />
|status = Still being worn occasionally<br />
|first appear = {{e|4ACV13}}<br />
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Farnsworth's operation clothes are clothes that he wears when he performs operations. He wore it when turning [[Bender]] from a [[manbot]] to a [[fembot]] ([[4ACV13]]), and when he removed [[Ben|Ben's]] memory card and replaced it with a bending card. ([[7ACV01]])<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|4ACV13}}<br />
*{{e|7ACV01}}</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Farnsworth%27s_operation_clothes&diff=115311Farnsworth's operation clothes2012-07-11T01:21:34Z<p>66.32.188.127: </p>
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|owner = [[Hubert J. Farnsworth]]<br />
|type = Clothes<br />
|usage = External Wear<br />
|status = Still being worn occasionally<br />
|first appear = {{e|4ACV13}}<br />
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Farnsworth's operation clothes are clothes that he wears when he performs operations. He wore it when turning [[Bender]] from a [[manbot]] to a [[fembot]] ([[4ACV13]]), and when he removed [[Ben|Ben's]] memory card and replaced it with a bending card. ([[7ACV01]])<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|4ACV13}}<br />
*{{e|7ACV01}}</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Farnsworth%27s_operation_clothes&diff=115310Farnsworth's operation clothes2012-07-11T01:20:53Z<p>66.32.188.127: Created page with "{{item infobox |name = Farnsworth's operation clothes |image = 225px |image text = Farnsworth in these clothes re..."</p>
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|image text = Farnsworth in these clothes reaching for [[Femzoil]]<br />
|owner = [[Hubert J. Farnsworth]]<br />
|type = Clothes<br />
|usage = External Wear<br />
|status = Still being worn occasionally<br />
|first appear = {{e|4ACV13}}<br />
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Farnsworth's operation clothes are clothes that he wears when he performs operations. He wore it when turning [[Bender]] from a [[manbot]] to a [[fembot]]([[4ACV13]]), and when he removed [[Ben|Ben's]] memory card and replaced it with a bending card([[7ACV01]]).<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{4ACV13}}<br />
*{{7ACV01}}</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Fembots&diff=115309Fembots2012-07-11T01:14:41Z<p>66.32.188.127: Redirected page to Fembot</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Fembot]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Scary_Door&diff=115308The Scary Door2012-07-10T23:22:45Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* The Most Evil Creature of them All */</p>
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|name = The Scary Door<br />
|image = [[File:The Scary Door.jpg|225px]] <br />
|genre = Anthology<br />
|first appear = {{e|2ACV03}}<br />
|runtime = 15 seconds<br />
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'''''The Scary Door''''' is a science-fiction horror [[television]] program in the [[31st century]]. It is a spoof of the classic science fiction TV series ''{{w|The Twilight Zone}}'', and references several other TV shows and films, including the ending of ''{{w||War of the Worlds}}''. Seven episodes of ''The Scary Door'' have so far been seen in ''[[Futurama]]'' media.<br />
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= References to ''The Twilight Zone'' =<br />
[[File:the twilight zone.jpg|thumb|left|The title card to the 1960's series [[The Twilight Zone]].]]<br />
While referencing multiple shows and films, the main reference to ''The Scary Door'' is the classic TV series ''{{w|The Twilight Zone}}'', famous for its dramatic stories with big twists by the end, often revealing that everything was entirely the other way around of what one would have expected, or introducing extreme irony; for example in ''Time Enough At Last'', a man who loves reading enjoys the fact that he is the sole survivor of human race as he finally gets time to read - but then he breaks his glasses.<br />
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Most obviously, the opening sequence to the two are very similar: the camera drifts through space, with several strange objects flying around, with a host (originally {{w|Rod Serling}}) introducing the viewer to the strange area of ''The Twilight Zone'' (or in Futurama's version, one enters ''The Scary Door'').<br />
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While some episodes clearly are references to specific episodes of ''The Twilight Zone'' (for example ''Last Man on Earth'', which has almost the exact story as ''Time Enough At Last'' but takes it a bit further in irony), others are less specific. ''The Gambler'' have multiple references to episodes of Twilight Zone, as well as a lot of original scenes. Others, such as ''The Most Evil Creature of Them All'', are not specific references to episodes but rather mockery of the show overall, which sometimes is extremely overdramatic and always have a twist. The soundtrack is also very similar, including the dramatic twist music in every episode.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
The name of the episodes aren't official but describe the main subject of the episode.<br />
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== The Last Man on Earth ==<br />
[[file:The Scary Door Ep1.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Episode 1, "The Last Man on Earth".]]<br />
'''Appearance''': {{e|2ACV03}}<br />
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=== Transcript ===<br />
:''[Opening credits.]''<br />
<poem>'''Announcer''': You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.</poem><br />
:''['''Scene''': In a desolated world, a man with glasses walks through a library that was somehow spared from destruction.]''<br />
<poem>'''Announcer''': As per your request, please find enclosed the last man on Earth.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[The Last Man on Earth (character)|Man]]''': Finally, solitude. I can read books for all eternity!</poem><br />
:''[He drops his glasses and they break]''<br />
<poem>'''Man''': It's not fair... [panicked] it's not fair! [calmer] Wait, my eyes aren't that bad; I can still read the large-print books.</poem><br />
:''[As he reaches for a book, his eyes fall out]''<br />
<poem>'''Man''': [hysterical] It's not f-... [calmer] Well, lucky I know how to read Braille.</poem><br />
:''[His hands fall off. He screams, and then his tongue falls out. Then his head falls off.]''<br />
<poem>'''Man''': Hey, look at that weird mirror...</poem><br />
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=== Credits ===<br />
*'''Announcer''': [[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*'''[[The Last Man on Earth (character)|The Last Man on Earth]]''': [[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
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=== Reference ===<br />
*''The Twilight Zone'' episode ''{{w|Time Enough at Last}}''.<br />
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== The Gambler ==<br />
[[File:The Scary Door Ep2.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Episode 2, "The Gambler".]]<br />
'''Appearance''': {{e|3ACV15}}<br />
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=== Transcript ===<br />
:''[Opening credits.]''<br />
<poem>'''Announcer''': You're entering a realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic, or contains some kind of monster... The second one. Prepare to enter ''the Scary Door''.</poem><br />
:''['''Scene''': An elderly man wearing a green visor exits 3-Eyed Jack's Casino.]''<br />
<poem>'''Announcer''': Please send the man 'round back and pick up Clyde Smith. A professional gambler who's about to have an unfortunate accident.</poem><br />
:''[While crossing the street, Clyde is hit by a car.]''<br />
:''[Clyde wakes up in front of a slot machine. He pulls the lever and it comes up with three Bars.]''<br />
<poem>'''Clyde''': ''[laughs]'' A casino where I'm winning? That car must've killed me; I must be in heaven!</poem><br />
:''[He pulls the lever again, three Bars come up again.]''<br />
<poem>'''Clyde''': A casino where I always win? That's boring. I must really be... [dramatic] In hell!</poem><br />
:''[Enter man.]<br />
<poem>'''Sebastian Cabot''': No, Mr. Smith, you're not in heaven ''or'' hell. You're on an airplane!</poem><br />
:''[Man opens curtain, revealing airplane windows. Clyde looks out the window and sees a gremlin on the wing, tearing out the wiring.]''<br />
<poem>'''Clyde''': There's a gremlin destroying the plane! You've gotta believe me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sebastian Cabot''': Why should I believe you? You're '''Hitler!'''</poem><br />
:''[Man holds up a mirror, revealing that Clyde's reflection is that of [[Adolf Hitler]].]''<br />
<poem>'''Clyde''': No!</poem><br />
:''[Clyde is transformed into Hitler. He turns to the person next to him.]''<br />
<poem>'''Clyde''': {{w|Eva Braun}}, help me!</poem><br />
:''[Eva Braun pulls off her face to reveal that she's actually a giant fly. Clyde screams.]''<br />
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=== Credits ===<br />
*'''Announcer''': [[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*'''Clyde Smith''': [[Dave Herman]]<br />
*'''Sebastian Cabot''': [[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
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=== Reference ===<br />
*''The Twilight Zone'' episodes ''{{w|Nightmare at 20,000 Feet}},'' ''{{w|A Nice Place to Visit}},'' and ''{{w|The Man in the Bottle}}''.<br />
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== The Most Evil Creature of them All ==<br />
[[File:Scary door 3.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Episode 3, "The Most Evil Creature of them All".]]<br />
'''Appearance''': {{e|4ACV17}}<br />
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=== Transcript ===<br />
:''[Opening credits.]''<br />
<poem>'''Announcer''': You're on a scenic route through a state recreational area known as the human mind. You ask a passer-by for directions, only to find he has no face or something. Suddenly up ahead, a door in the road. You swerve, narrowly avoiding The Scary Door.</poem><br />
:''['''Scene''': A scientist is in a Frankensteinesque laboratory mixing chemicals in a beaker.]''<br />
<poem>'''Scientist''': I have combined the DNA of the world's most evil animals to make the most evil creature of them all.</poem><br />
:''[A pod reminiscent of the ones from the movie "The Fly" opens with a cloud of steam. It clears, revealing a naked human male.]''<br />
<poem>'''Naked Man''': It turns out it's man.</poem><br />
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=== Credits ===<br />
*'''Announcer''': [[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*'''Scientist''': [[Billy West]]<br />
*'''Man''': [[Dave Herman]]<br />
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=== Notes ===<br />
* This episode was originally a deleted scene from "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]".<br />
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== First Degree Irony ==<br />
[[File:Scary door 4.png|right|thumb|220px|Episode 4, "First Degree Irony".]]<br />
'''Appearance:''' {{clink|US#028|Let's Twist Again}}<br />
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=== Transcript ===<br />
:''[Opening credits.]''<br />
<poem>'''Announcer:''' Imagine, if you will, a three by seven inch wooden frame -- a frame that's a gateway to a world of imagination. Wipe your mind on the welcome mat. You're about to enter The Scary Door.</poem><br />
:''['''Scene''': A man in a car]''<br />
<poem>'''Announcer:''' Meet Brad Thompson, a man on his way home from a boring day at the office.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Brad:''' Man, I wish something exciting would happen... anything at all.</poem><br />
:''[A fire truck drives behind him.]''<br />
<poem>'''Brad:''' What's this? A fire truck is trying to pass me? To get to my neighborhood? I'll bet my neighbours house is on fire. I'd better speed up if I want to watch that.</poem><br />
:''[He gets to his neighbour's house]''<br />
<poem>'''Brad:''' Wait a minute. My neighbour's house isn't on fire. But then, what's with all the smoke?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Man:''' Oh... hi Brad, sorry to be the one to have to tell you, but... '''you're''' on fire!</poem><br />
:''[Brad is shown on fire]''<br />
<poem>'''Brad:''' Yaaaaah!</poem><br />
:''[Brad's skeleton is on the floor]''<br />
<poem>'''Fireman:''' We tried to warn him that he was spontaneously combusting, but he drove away from us.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Announcer:''' Official cause of death, third degree burns... actual cause of death, first degree irony!</poem><br />
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== That Humblest of God's Creatures ==<br />
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[[File:Scary Door 5.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Episode 5, "That Humblest of God's Creatures".]]<br />
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'''Appearance:''' {{f|3}}<br />
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=== Transcript ===<br />
:''[Opening credits.]''<br />
<poem>'''Announcer:''' Imagine, if you will, an announcer you can barely understand. He refers to a ''[mutters]'', but you're not quite sure what he said. He seems to be eating something, or perhaps he's a little drunk. It's remotely possible that he just said something about ''the Scary Door''.</poem><br />
:''['''Scene:''' A farm. Suddenly, it is attacked by UFOs shooting at everything in sight. Military forces are there, firing at the UFOs.]''<br />
<poem>'''Private:''' It's all over! Our guns and bombs are useless against the aliens.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farmer:''' The saucers! They's a-crashin'!</poem><br />
:''[The UFOs starts to crash.]''<br />
<poem>'''Announcer:''' In the end, it was not guns or bombs that defeated the aliens, but that humblest of all God's creatures, the Tyrannosaurus Rex.</poem><br />
:''[A Tyrannosaurus Rex is seen crashing a UFO and eating the alien inside.]''<br />
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=== Credits ===<br />
*'''Announcer:''' [[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*'''Private:''' [[Dave Herman]]<br />
*'''Farmer:''' [[Billy West]]<br />
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=== Reference ===<br />
*''{{w|The War of the Worlds}}'' by {{w|H. G. Wells}}.<br />
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== The Aliens Are Among Us ==<br />
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[[file:The Scary Door 6.png|thumb|right|220px|Episode 6, "The Aliens Are Among Us".]]<br />
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'''Appearance:''' {{e|6ACV11}}<br />
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=== Transcript ===<br />
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:''[Opening credits.]''<br />
<poem>'''Announcer''': You're taking a vacation from normality. The setting: a weird motel where the bed is stained with mystery. And there's also some mystery floating in the pool. Your key card may not open the exercise room because someone smeared mystery on the lock. But it will open ''the Scary Door''.</poem><br />
:''['''Scene''': Outside Capitol Hill where a press conference is taking place.]''<br />
<poem>'''Announcer''': Submitted for your Emmy consideration: a popular Senator with unpopular ideas.<br />
</poem><br />
<poem>'''Senator''': There's no such thing as space aliens!<br />
</poem><br />
<poem>'''Man''': Oh? How can you be so sure them aliens aren't already among us?<br />
</poem><br />
<poem>'''Senator''': I'll tell you how! ''[takes off the man's face revealing an alien lifeform]'' Because you ''ARE'' ONE!!!<br />
</poem><br />
:''[musical sting]''<br />
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=== Credits ===<br />
*'''Announcer''': [[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*'''Senator''': [[Billy West]]<br />
*'''Man/Alien''': [[John DiMaggio]]<br />
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== Be Careful What You Wish For ==<br />
[[File:The Scary Door 6ACV17.png|thumb|right|220px|Episode 7, "Be Careful What You Wish For".]]<br />
'''Appearance:''' {{e|6ACV17}}<br />
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=== Transcript ===<br />
:''[Opening credits.]''<br />
<poem>'''[[The Scary Door narrator|''The Scary Door'' narrator]]''': Enclosed is a .pdf attachment, {{w|Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds|a picture of yourself in a boat on a river}}. It's a river that flows in two directions. Make that three. It's a magic river. That's how. It is flowing down the eerie canal to... ''The Scary Door''. That's ''eerie'' with two ''E''s. ''['''C.U.''': On TV, a scientist's laboratory. The scientist finishes welding a [[Robot]].]'' Consider, if you have the energy, Dr. Daniel Zenus, an inventor with a terminal case of the lazies.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Dr. Daniel Zenus]]''': This Robot will do everything for me! Robot, activate yourself and do my research.</poem><br />
:''[The Robot flips its own on switch and powers up. It begins tinkering with test tubes as the scientist leans back in a chair with a pillow.]''<br />
<poem>'''Dr. Daniel Zenus''': Ah!</poem><br />
:''['''Cut to''': Later.]''<br />
<poem>'''Dr. Daniel Zenus''': Next, assume my social obligations.</poem><br />
:''[The scientist kicks back in an armchair as the Robot, wearing a black tie, offers his arm to the scientist's wife. She takes it and they exit. We see a clock. The hands spin. Years later, the scientist, now older, is still kicking back as an official enters.]''<br />
<poem>'''Official''': Dr. Zenus, for a lifetime of scientific achievement, we present this award to... Your Robot!</poem><br />
:''[The official gives the Robot the trophy. A boy enters.]''<br />
<poem>'''Boy''': Daddy, I love you!</poem><br />
:''[The boy turns away from the scientist and hugs the Robot.]''<br />
<poem>'''Dr. Daniel Zenus''': If only I'd programmed the Robot to be more careful what I wished for! Robot, experience this tragic irony for me!</poem><br />
:''[The Robot buries his face in his hands.]''<br />
<poem>'''Robot''': [extendedly] No!</poem><br />
:''[The scientist pops open a beer and takes a sip.]''<br />
<poem>'''Dr. Daniel Zenus''': Ah!</poem><br />
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=== Credits ===<br />
:'''Announcer/Robot''': [[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
:'''Dr. Daniel Zenus''': [[David Herman]]<br />
:'''Official''': [[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
:'''Boy''': [[Lauren Tom]]<br />
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=== Notes ===<br />
*In the Comic-Con reading of this episode, LaMarche was the voice of Dr. Zenus as well as the announcer and Billy West did the voice of the robot.<br />
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= Background =<br />
The comic "[[Let's Twist Again]]" reveals that the ideas for ''The Scary Door'' come from an [[Alternate Universes|alternate universe]] where everything is ironic and there is only one writer for the show.<br />
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= Additional info =<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* The third episode which appears behind the ending credits of "[[Spanish Fry]]" was originally going to appear in "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]", but the scene was [[List of deleted scenes#DVD 1 3|deleted]].<br />
* One episode was seen in each of the first five season, including one in the four movies that encompass [[season 5]]. [[Season 6]], however, includes two episodes of ''The Scary Door''.<br />
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== Appearances ==<br />
*{{e|2ACV03}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV05}} (in [[List of deleted scenes#Season 3|a deleted scene]])<br />
*{{e|3ACV15}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV17}}<br />
*{{f|3}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV11}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV17}}<br />
*{{clink|US#028|Let's Twist Again}}<br />
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[[Category:The Scary Door]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=A_Farewell_to_Arms&diff=115307A Farewell to Arms2012-07-10T23:12:05Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Goofs */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=A Farewell to Arms<br />
|season=7<br />
|broadcast season=9<br />
|image=[[File:Countdown to Futurama 2012 (video 2).png|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Leela]], [[Fry]], [[Scruffy]], [[Hermes]], [[Amy]], [[Zoidberg]] and [[Bender]] around the [[Martian calendar]].<br />
|no=116<br />
|written by=Josh Weinstein<br />
|directed by=Raymie Muzquiz<br />
|title reference=The {{w|Ernest Hemingway}} novel ''{{w|A Farewell to Arms}}''<br />
|caption="Ask your doctor if ''Futurama'' is right for you"<br />
|first aired=20 June 2012<br />
|number=7ACV02<br />
|broadcast number=S09E02<br />
|prev ep=The Bots and the Bees<br />
|next ep=Decision 3012<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
}}<br />
"'''A Farewell to Arms'''" is the one hundred and sixteenth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the second of the [[Season 7|seventh production season]] and the [[Broadcast season 9|ninth broadcast season]]. It aired on 20 June 2012 on [[Comedy Central]]. An ancient prophecy from a [[Martian calendar]] predicts [[Earth|the world]] [[3012 phenomenon|will end]] in [[3012]].<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
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=== Act I: "So the world will end in the year 3012...why does that year sound so familiar?" ===<br />
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After a storm, [[Fry]] and [[Leela]] encounter a puddle as they are walking. He takes off his pants and puts them over the puddle, and offers to hold Leela's hand and walk her over the puddle. Though she initially refuses, she eventually agrees, but is sucked into the puddle by a puddle monster as she walks over it. Back at [[Planet Express headquarters]], Leela is covered in tentacle marks as a result of the incident. Fry, meanwhile, hangs his wet pants to a dry on a rope. [[Professor Farnsworth]] announces that he will be launching a weather balloon to investigate the odd weather conditions affecting [[Earth]]. The balloon is released, but takes Fry's pants along with it as Fry had tied his pants to the balloon's string. Not wanting to lose his "lucky pants", Fry gets the crew to track down the balloon so he can reclaim his pants. He eventually shoots the balloon down in space, which causes the pants to fall back to Earth in [[Central Park]]. As he is about to take his pants, which are hanging from a tree branch, he is blocked by a [[Central Park badger]] which promptly steals the pants and escapes into a hole. Fry chases down the badger in the hole covered in varmint grease, and discovers a mysterious set of symbols underground. <br />
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The crew come down as well to investigate the symbols, but [[Leela]] accidentally slips into a hole. Fry attempts to save her, but the grease on his hands causes her to lose her grip and fall down into the hole. The crew follow her down using a rope made of Fry's clothes. After she regains her consciousness, she discovers her leg is broken. In the hole, they find a huge stone pyramid as well as a disk. They take it back to Planet Express headquarters, where they discover the disk is a actually [[Martian calendar]]. Amy translates the Martian symbols on the calendar, which state that [[3012 phenomenon|the world will end in 3012]], shocking the [[Planet Express|crew]].<br />
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=== Act II: "Is it just me, or is the world endin' more often these days?" ===<br />
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Professor Farnsworth reveals that the weather balloon detected the onset of a catastrophic sunspot cycle. It begins its effect on Earth, and mass panic ensues in the streets of [[New New York]]. The crew attempt to escape, but discover that all electric power on Earth has been disabled by the electromagnetic storm. The crew spend what they believe will be their last time on Earth: Fry and Leela are about to have sex, and Professor Farnsworth is embalming himself. Amy, however, finds a possible solution: escape through the stone pyramid, which she learns is actually a [[Martian stone spaceship|spaceship]]. The crew inspect their ship, which Leela estimates can hold around 30,000 people. Though initially intending to save as many lives as they can, they later attempt to make their escape on the ship as the storm worsens. [[Zapp]], however, arrives and reports the ship to [[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]], who decides that the ship's destination will be [[Mars]]. Fry is disheartened due to the probability that he will not be able to board the ship, as he possesses no special skills. The [[Contrabulous Choosematron]] is assigned to choose evacuees. To his surprise, Fry is accepted and given a ticket, due to the fact that the Contrabulous Choosematron liked his pants. Fry holds Leela's hand as she places her hand into the Contrabulous Choosematron's slot, but she is rejected due to the fact that with all spaceships inoperable, only one pilot will be needed: Zapp. Fry, however, is somehow able to manage to get her a ticket, and he hands her a ticket with her picture on it. As the ship takes off, Leela realizes that her ticket is actually Fry's ticket with her picture glued on to it. Fry has sacrificed his seat on the ship and has stayed behind in Earth with [[Bender]], who is eager to loot. <br />
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=== Act III: "It Mars that gonna be destroyed!" ===<br />
On Mars, the evacuated Earthicans establish a new city, [[Dick Francisco]]. During the unveiling of the city, [[Singing Wind]] arrives, asking what they are doing on Mars. As Amy explains the translated symbols on the calendar, he reveals that it is not Earth that will be destroyed, but rather Mars, and points out how his people were so eager to abandon Mars. Soon, lightning strikes and Mars is hit with severe solar flares and dust storms. As subsurface gas pockets begin to erupt on the Martian surface, Mars blasts out of orbit. Back on Earth, however, the weather has returned to normal. Fry and Bender are relaxing on deck chairs, drinking piña skull-adas and preparing for the "apocalypse". Bender notices Mars visible in the sky, and Mars begins to hover dangerously close to Earth, bringing panic in New New York. The Martian evacuees jump from Mars to Earth, with the exception of Leela, who cannot jump due to her broken leg. Fry attempts to rescue her, and lifts out her hand to grab her. He fails, however, and causes both of their hands to sever. Eventually, [[Scruffy]] rescues her with the help of a ladder and Farnsworth creates new arms for Fry and Leela with the help of his [[birthing machine]]. Fry apologizes for his actions. Leela, however, says that despite the fact Fry failed in trying to save her, he is the only person who loves her enough to try. They share a hug as the scene fades into a shot of Fry and Leela's severed arms, hands held together, floating in space.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
In 2012, two revelations concerning the episode were made. On 29 February, [[CGEF]] revealed the episode's title, its writer to be [[Josh Weinstein]] and its director to be [[Raymie Muzquiz]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/7ACV/|title=Episode Guide: 7 ACV|date=2012-02-29|site=[[CGEF]]|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=22731.msg1299002#msg1299002|title="Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)"|site=[[PEEL]]|author="Just Fan"|date=2012-02-29|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> On 25 April, {{w|MSN TV}} revealed the episode's plot and air date.<ref name="msn">{{cite web | url=http://tv.msn.com/tv/series-episodes/futurama/?ipp=40 | title=Futurama - Episode Guide | site={{w|MSN TV}} | accessdate=2012-04-26}}</ref><br />
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In May, ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' began releasing promotional material for the episode. It has so far released five items: a [[promotional picture]] showing Leela - on crutches - and Fry on the [[Planet Express balcony]] on 7 May,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22595209143/countdown-to-futurama-leela-and-fry-watching-the|title=Countdown to Futurama: Leela and Fry Watching the Storm|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-07|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-07}}</ref> a video clip featuring the crew discussing the end of the world as well as scenes of [[New New York]] in chaos on 8 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 2">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22660349317/countdown-to-futurama-the-world-is-ending-again|title=Countdown to Futurama: The World Is Ending Again Clip|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-08|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-08}}</ref> concept art of Fry and Leela's [[Planet Express]] prom photo on 9 May<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 3">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22723249502/countdown-to-futurama-fry-and-leelas-prom-photo|title=Countdown to Futurama: Fry and Leela’s Prom Photo|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-09|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-09}}</ref> a second promotional picture showing Leela being entangled by a puddle monster while Fry, whose pants are on the road, watches on 10 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 4">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22788712686/countdown-to-futurama-puddle-monster-who-doesnt|title=Countdown to Futurama: Puddle Monster|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-10|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-10}}</ref> concept art of an excavated spaceship inside a cave on 11 May<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 5">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22847680054/countdown-to-futurama-stone-spaceship-as-you|title=Countdown to Futurama: Stone Spaceship|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-11|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-11}}</ref> and part of the storyboard showing Zapp pressing a button on a spaceship, causing snakes to be released onto Kif, on 12 May.<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 6">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22907144433/countdown-to-futurama-snake-button-storyboard|title=Countdown to Futurama: Snake Button Storyboard|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-12|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-12}}</ref><br />
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Comedy Central's website released another promotional picture - showing Leela and Fry near the balcony.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedycentral.com/press/series/futurama.jhtml?gallery=true|title=Comedy Central Press <nowiki>|</nowiki> Futurama|author=Michelle Rosenblatt|site=[[Comedy Central]]|accessdate=2012-06-05}}</ref> By 1 June, Comedy Central had aired an advertisment for the seventh season of ''Futurama'' which featured a new clip from the episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMdKUAIdiec&feature=colike|title=New Futurama Ad 2012|author=punkyacturbo|date=2012-06-01|site={{w|YouTube}}|format=Video|accessdate=2012-06-16}}</ref><br />
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''South Coast Today'' published an article about the ''Futurama'' season premiere on 16 June, revealing certain details about the episode.<ref name="South Coast Today">{{cite web | author=DeArruda, James | url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120616/LIFE/206160306/-1/LIFE | title=Spoiler alert!: Season premiere of 'Futurama' delivers just what the doctor ordered | work=South Coast Today | date=16 June, 2012 | accessdate=19 June, 2012}}</ref> ''{{w|Entertainment Weekly}}'' released another preview clip of the episode on 18 June.<ref name="EW">{{cite web|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/06/18/futurama-bender-wanda-sykes/|title='Futurama': Bender impregnates a soda machine! -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO|first=Dan|last=Snierson|work=Inside TV|publisher=EW.com|date=18 June, 2012|accessdate=18 June, 2012}}</ref><br />
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=== Image gallery ===<br />
<gallery perrow=4><br />
Leela on crutches.jpg|The first promotional picture.<br />
Fry and Leela prom photo.jpg|The first piece of concept art.<br />
Puddle monster.jpg|The second promotional picture.<br />
Stone spaceship.jpg|The second piece of concept art.<br />
A Farewell to Arms storyboard - Scene 189.jpg|The first page of the storyboard to be released.<br />
702 2-withcredit.jpg|The third promotional picture.<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
On 30 January 2012, [[Eric Rogers]] revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either "[[The Bots and the Bees]]", this one or "[[31st Century Fox]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/164107479981105152|author=[[Eric Rogers]]|date=2012-01-30|title=Kitchelfilms|site={{w|Twitter}}|accessdate=2012-01-31}}</ref><br />
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1.645 million viewers.<br />
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== Additional information ==<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The title "'''Farewell to Arms'''", which was registered on the US {{w|Copyright Catalog}} on 14 July 2011,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=29&ti=26,29&Search_Arg=futurama&Search_Code=TALL&CNT=25&REC=0&RD=0&RC=0&PID=TsH4SXbiOi0dF3DmNIBqsPmX7xtu&SEQ=20120229184805&SID=1|date=2011-07-14|title=WebVoyage Record View 1|site=US {{w|Copyright Catalog}}|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> was a working title for this episode.<br />
*"[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]", which is also the second episode of [[season 6|its season]], features an end of the world plot as well.<br />
*If the [[Season 5|movies]] are considered non-episodic, then this episode could be considered the 100th episode.<br />
**Alternatively, if each movie is considered one episode, this could be considered the 104th episode.<br />
**This is moot, however, since according to the canon, the movies are considered four episodes each.<br />
*The name of the episode is a reference to Fry and Leela both having lost one arm at the end of the episode. The word 'Arms' is an anagram of Mars which gets destroyed at the end of the episode.<br />
*The second act is interesting because it does not end on a funny punch line, but instead a dramatic fade out.<br />
*Both Leela and Fry should have known they would have survived the Apocalypse since they read Bender's script on their love life in "[[Overclockwise]]".<br />
*If one looks closely at the tickets, it can be known that the ticket Fry gives Leela is actually his own ticket before it is directly revealed when Leela peels off her picture. When Fry receives his ticket from the Contabulous Choosematron, it bears the number combination "023870096 58". When Fry gives Leela the ticket, it bears the same combination.<br />
*The [[Planet Express headquarters]] is located on or near to 72nd Street, according to Farnsworth.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The episode's title is taken from the {{w|Ernest Hemingway}} novel ''{{w|A Farewell to Arms}}''. It is used to refer to Fry and Leela's arms getting torn off in the episode.<br />
*The episode is a parody of the {{w|2012 phenomenon}}.<br />
*In the Planet Express ship, Bender is reading a copy of ''Space Mall'', a parody of ''{{w|Sky Mall}}''.<br />
*Nixon says the best destination for the evacuated Earthicans to be transported to is [[Mars]], which has "no Woodward or Bernstein. That's a plus." He is referring to journalists {{w|Bob Woodward}} and {{w|Carl Bernstein}}, whose news reporting on the {{w|Watergate scandal}} eventually led to Nixon's resignation. <br />
*Additionally, "that's a plus" could also refer to the advertisement slogan of the social network "Google+".<br />
*Fry mentions ''{{w|Redbook}}''.<br />
*Nixon says that the spaceplane "just won't turn over, just like Pat on a Sunday morning." "Pat" was the name of {{w|Pat Nixon|Nixon's wife}} in real life.<br />
*Leela mentions ''{{w|Tron: Legacy}}''.<br />
*Fry says that Bender dumped pig's blood on him at the Planet Express Prom, a reference to ''{{w|Carrie (novel)|Carrie}}''.<br />
*"Sharksplosions" may be a reference to [http://sharksplode.com/ Sharksplode], an online tee-shirt store founded by Wil Wheaton and Joel Watson.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Singing Wind]] appears for the second time.<br />
*The Professor uses the [[birthing machine]] to clone new arms for Fry and Leela.<br />
*Fry gets his arm severed for a second time. The first time was in "[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]".<br />
*The original prophecy said that the Earth would not at all be affected, yet the two planets nearly collided. This may be a reference to the fact that the Earth's orbit was artificially modified in "[[Crimes of the Hot]]".<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]] is seen with the [[Headless clone of Agnew]]. The [[Headless body of Agnew|original Agnew]] was killed in ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]''.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>[repeated line]<br />
'''Fry''': [to Leela] Take my hand.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Fry]]''': No way I'm gonna let God get my pants! Nobody messes with my pants! Not even the Holy One, blessed be He!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Woah, there's writing in here! Also, this grease is flammable.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': [to Fry] Can't you just be a rude unhelpful jerk like Bender?<br />
'''Bender''': When I use up the toilet paper, I don't put on another roll!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Amy]]''': The calendar predicts fires, earthquakes, sharksplosions...then it just ends!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Hermes]]''': Is it just me, or is the world ending more often these days?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': So, you wanna join the Balcony Club?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': The Balcony Club?! I have an individual membership!<br />
'''Fry''': Zoidberg, get lost!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': I ''am'' lost! So long.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': That underground pyramid isn't a pyramid.<br />
''[Cut to the underground area.]''<br />
'''Amy''': It's a rocketship!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': It was worth waiting five hours to hear you finish that sentence.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'll remember you in here. ''[Puts her hand on her heart.]''<br />
'''Fry''': I wish ''I'' could remember with my boobs.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I'm stealin' stuff I don't even need. You wanna Torah?<br />
'''Fry''': Nah, I'm not hungry.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I hope you're not too mad at me, Leela. For tearin' your arm up and all.<br />
'''Leela''': I'm not mad. I'm on way too many painkillers.</poem><br />
|2}}<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*The storm disables all electronics, yet Nixon's head's robotic arm still functions normally. Additionally, Zapp and the NNYPD's guns should not work either, but it is possible that the laser technology is not affected by the storm. The [[Contrabulous Choosematron]] is also another item that still works.<br />
**All these items could have been powered without electricity, like Bender.<br />
*Bender's crank is only seen in the first scene where it is used; after that, it is gone.<br />
**The crank could give him an extremly long charge.<br />
*In this episode, Amy says she belonged to the sorority Sigma Beta, but in "[[The Series Has Landed]]", she says she belonged to Kappa Kappa Wong.<br />
**She could have changed sororities over the course of twelve years.<br />
*Farnsworth, Fry and Bender should have known the world would not end in 3012, since they witnessed it ending over one billion years later in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]".<br />
**They initially skipped almost 7000 years, during which time society had collapsed several times on unknown dates. It is likely they were trying to avoid whatever had caused this.<br />
*If Mars and Earth really passed that close, then the gravity of the two planets would rip them appart.<br />
**When giving Mars oxygen, it could have altered the gravity. However, this is highly unlikely, because atmosphere content affects a planet's gravitation very little.<br />
*There's no way that burning subteranian gasses could move Mars that close to Earth so quickly, as there are millions of miles between them.<br />
*The Contrabulous Choosematron gives Fry two passes, so he should have been able to go with everyone to Mars, regardless of giving one to [[Leela]].<br />
**He got accepted twice, but he didnt get two passes.<br />
*Although [[Singing Wind]] explains why they left the Prophecy on Earth (to warn them not to go to Mars), it doesn't explain why they left the stone ship there.<br />
**It's possible that that was the very ship the original Martians used to come to Earth, and those Martians had died out on Earth, leaving behind their ship and [[Martian calendar|calendar]] there, and the legend of their journey back on Mars.<br />
*For the second time (the first time being in "[[Overclockwise]]"), the pillars of the balcony spell "Planet Express" during the wide shot, but during the close-up, they do not.<br />
**Additionally, the letters spelling "Planet Express" are in a different position than in "Overclockwise."<br />
*The ladders that led up to the pillar on the Planet Express balcony were not there in previous episodes.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*The [[21st-century girl]]<br />
*[[Amy]]<br />
*[[Ben Beeler]]<br />
*[[Ben Beeler's wife]]<br />
*[[Bender]]<br />
*[[Billionaire Bot]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*The [[censored couple]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Contrabulous Choosematron]]<br />
*[[Cowardman]]<br />
*The [[Crack Addict]]<br />
*[[Dandy Jim]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]]<br />
*[[Elzar]]<br />
*[[Falafel cart man]]<br />
*[[Fat-bot]]<br />
*[[Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': The [[Great Reveal-o]]<br />
*[[Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Gus]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Headless clone of Agnew]]<br />
*[[Hermes]]<br />
*[[Igner]]<br />
*[[Inez Wong]]<br />
*[[Kif]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Larry]]<br />
*[[Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda van Schoonhoven]]<br />
*[[Leo Wong]]<br />
*The [[male nurse]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Mrs. Astor]]<br />
*[[Nine]]<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Mayor Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Queen of Yonkers]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Singing Wind]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*[[Stephanie]]<br />
*The [[underwater house salesman]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Victor]]<br />
*[[Walt]]<br />
*[[Wash Bucket]]<br />
*[[Judge Whitey]]<br />
*[[Zapp]]<br />
*[[Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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|prev ep=The Bots and the Bees<br />
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[[Category:A plots focusing on Fry]]<br />
[[Category:A plots focusing on Leela]]<br />
[[Category:B plots focusing on Bender]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=IZac&diff=115304IZac2012-07-10T18:37:39Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Appearances */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=iZac<br />
|type=s<br />
|image=[[File:IZac.jpg|225px]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Robot]]<br />
|voiced by=Phil LaMarr<br />
|job=Bartender<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV10}}<br />
}}{{lowercase}}<br />
'''iZac''' (which sounds like Isaac) was a bartender on the [[Titanic]] who brewed the cheapest beer available. After the Titanic disaster, he went on to work at [[O'Zorgnax Pub]].<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*He is based on Isaac Washington, the bartender from ''{{w|The Love Boat}}''.<br />
*[[iHawk]] might be a possible relative who appears in "[[War Is the H-Word]]"<br />
*His name follows the pattern (and parodies) of many Apple products, specifically the {{w|iMac}}, which insert a lower-case "i" before a common word to make a product name. iHawk is another example.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''iZac''': You got it! After these 800 people.</poem><br />
<poem>'''iZac''': It's obvious, [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Mr. B]]. You're in love.</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
===Appearances=== <br />
*{{e|1ACV10}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV06}} (cameo)<br />
*{{e|4ACV08}} (cameo)<br />
*{{e|4ACV14}}<br />
*{{f|4}} ([[Audience scene|cameo]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV12}} ([[100th Delivery Party#Guests|cameo]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV14}}<br />
*{{e|7ACV03}}<br />
*{{clink|US#006|Xmas Time Is Fear}}<br />
*{{clink|US#009|Freaky Fry-day}}<br />
*{{clink|US#034|Planet Michelle}}<br />
*{{clink|US#035|Son of the Sun}}<br />
*{{clink|US#X03|Slaves of New New York!}}<br />
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[[Category:Robots]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Law_and_Oracle&diff=115303Law and Oracle2012-07-10T18:36:04Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Goofs */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=Law and Oracle<br />
|image=[[File:Law and Oracle infobox.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] enters the [[Planet Express conference room]] in his [[New New York Police Department|police]] uniform.<br />
|season=6<br />
|broadcast season=8<br />
|no=104<br />
|written by=Josh Weinstein<br />
|directed by=Stephen Sandoval<br />
|caption=FOR THE SOPHISTICATED SHUT-IN<br />
|first aired=7 July, 2011<br />
|number=6ACV16<br />
|broadcast number=S08E04<br />
|title reference=The {{w|NBC}} television series ''{{w|Law & Order}}'' or the phrase "{{w|law and order (politics)|law and order}}"<br />
|prev ep=Möbius Dick<br />
|next ep=Benderama<br />
|broad prev=Ghost in the Machines<br />
|broad next=The Silence of the Clamps<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
}}<br />
<br />
"'''Law and Oracle'''" is the one hundred and fourth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the sixteenth of the [[Season 6|sixth production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 8|eighth broadcast season]]. It aired 7 July, 2011 on [[Comedy Central]]. [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] quits [[Planet Express|his job]] and becomes a [[New New York Police Department|police]] officer assigned to the Future Crimes Division.<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
=== Act I: "I'd like to enroll in Police Academy." ===<br />
<!--[[File:Law and Oracle 1.png|left|thumb|[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] finds a new job.]]--><br />
After being sent on yet another prank delivery, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] becomes disillusioned with his job as a delivery boy. At [[Planet Express]], the [[Planet Express crew|crew]] witness officers [[Smitty]] and [[URL]] subdue [[Roberto]], and Fry decides that joining the [[New New York Police Department|police]] force would be a more fulfilling role. He resigns at Planet Express, and applies at the [[Police Academy]], from which he graduates.<br />
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=== Act II: "Ever heard of the Future Crimes Division?" ===<br />
<!--[[File:Law and Oracle 2.png|left|thumb|[[Chief O'Mannahan]] promotes the two policemen.]]--><br />
Upon joining the force, Fry is paired with URL. The pair soon make a [[Erwin Schrödinger|major arrest]], and are rewarded with a promotion to the [[Future Crimes Division]]. The division works to prevent crimes from occurring, by using an "oracle" named [[Pickles]] to calculate the future and predict crimes in advance.<br />
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Meanwhile, at Planet Express, the crew struggle with the loss of Fry. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] are sent on a delivery to [[Pandora]], the "3-D planet" (meaning that it's depicted as an anaglyph image). Without Fry accompanying them, the two find it difficult to be in each other's company. [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], [[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]], [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] and [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Doctor Zoidberg]] find working at Planet Express to be boring without Fry's antics. At the precinct, Fry receives a vision of a future larceny, and discovers that the culprit is Bender.<br />
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=== Act III: "Are you the calloused working man I ordered?" ===<br />
[[File:Law and Oracle 3.png|left|thumb|[[Hedonism Bot]] lets the thieving [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] in his house.]]<br />
Fry questions Bender about the details of the crime, hoping to prevent him from committing it. Instead, Fry inadvertently informs Bender about the target of the crime; a priceless bottle of strong malt liquor stored in [[Hedonism Bot]]'s wine cellar. Upon examining the vision in closer detail, Fry sees that he will fatally shoot Bender to prevent him from stealing the bottle. He decides that he will deliberately not shoot Bender, which causes a vision of an alternate future to be created, in which Bender escapes. The alternate vision shows that Bender will share the stolen liquor with the crew at Planet Express, poisoning and killing all of them.<br />
<br />
Bender arrives at Hedonism Bot's mansion, and proceeds to the cellar. Bender obtains the bottle, but is stopped by an armed Fry. Bender declares that he will not steal anything, and Fry exclaims that the oracle was wrong. Suddenly, Pickles appears, aiming a gun at both Bender and Fry. Pickles reveals that both visions were a set-up to allow him to steal the liquor, and frame Fry and Bender for the robbery. Pickles states that he wants the liquor to destroy his human brain cells, as he finds his precognition to be an unbearable burden. Fry attempts to shoot Pickles, but the bullet strikes Bender, knocking him down. Pickles shoots Fry down, and proceeds to drink the liquor, successfully damaging his brain and precognitive abilities. [[Chief O'Mannahan|The Chief]] and URL choose this moment to appear, and Fry and Bender stand up and expose their bulletproof armor. They reveal that they became aware that Pickles was intending to commit a crime, because Bender would never share anything with anyone, thus realising the vision Pickles had shared was an attempt to deceive them.<br />
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Fry receives his investigator's shield for stopping Bender, but is also fired for tipping off Bender in the first place. The Professor welcomes Fry back to Planet Express, promoting him to "executive delivery boy". Hermes notes that the "executive" title is simply a psychological trick to make Fry feel good about himself (and immediately after, the end credits show the Executive Producers).<br />
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== Production ==<br />
During May and June [[2011]], ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' released three items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of the [[New New York Police Department|police]] station's future crimes division on 20 May, part of [[Storyboard:Law and Oracle|the storyboard]] showing Fry be pranked by [[Ipgee]], [[Terry]] and [[Lou]] on 21 May, and a video clip showing [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[URL]] in a {{w|light cycle}} chase in [[Circuit City]] on 16 June.<br />
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=== Image gallery ===<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:616-Police-Station.jpg|Concept art of the police station's future crimes division.<br />
Image:616-Board A.jpg|Page 84 of the storyboard.<br />
Image:Law and Oracle screenshot.jpg|A screenshot from the video clip.<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== Reception ==<br />
In its original U.S. broadcast on 7 July, 2011, "Law and Oracle" scored a 0.7 share among adults 18-49 and 1.548 million viewers,<ref>{{cite web |url =http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/07/08/thursday-cable-ratings-burn-notice-suits-rise-but-swamp-people-still-tops-night-wilfred-futurama-louie-more/97544/|title =Thursday Cable Ratings: Burn Notice, Suits rise, but Swamp People still top night + Wilfred, Futurama, Louie & More|author = Seidman, Robert|date = 2011-07-08||site = TVbytheNumbers.com|accessdate = 2011-07-08}}</ref> down about 400,000 viewers since "[[Ghost in the Machines]]", making it the second lowest rated episode of [[season 6]] after "[[The Futurama Holiday Spectacular]]".<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*The high scores on the ''[[Delivery Command]]'' video game are:<br />
**[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|BBR]]:{{w|65535 (number)|65535}}<br />
**[[Lord Nibbler|NIB]]:40565<br />
**[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|HJF]]:00254<br />
***65535 the upper limit of an unsigned integer, consequently the maximum score in many games. The joke being that Bender had reached the highest score.<br />
*In the cryogenic lab the silhouette of one person in a cryogenic pod has a cigarette. <br />
*A couple listed as being 'wanted' at the police station is also seen walking in front of the police station obliviously.<br />
*After Fry says he got fired for tipping off Bender, Bender's {{w|the finger|middle finger is clearly raised}} unblurred.<br />
*The gloves used in the future crimes division are Nintendo Power Gloves.<br />
<br />
=== Allusions ===<br />
<!-- The allusions section should be ordered chronologically, i. e. what happens first in the episode, should be listed first. Please follow this.--><br />
<!-- Overall --><br />
* The title of the episode is a parody of the long-running {{w|NBC}} legal drama television franchise ''{{w|Law & Order}}''.<br />
* Above the stage on which [[Chief O'Mannahan]] is standing during the [[Police Academy]] graduation ceremony, there is a sign reading ''TODAY: POLICE ACADEMY GRADUATION, TONIGHT: POLICE {{w|Academy Award|ACADEMY AWARDS}}''.<br />
* [[Pickles]], the colored balls, the screens controlled by hand movements, and the overall concept of trying people for crimes committed in the future, are all obvious references to the [[2002]] film ''{{w|Minority Report (film)|Minority Report}}''.<br />
* The concept of a "hybrid" machine floating in a liquid container resembles the {{w|Cylon_(reimagining)#Hybrids|Hybrids}} of {{w|Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica}}.<br />
* The Chief describes Pickles as being the collection of various great investigators and their experiences. A similar description was given to the Timelord Matrix on {{w|Doctor Who|Doctor Who}}.<br />
<!-- Act I --><br />
* The opening scene is a direct reference to the opening scene of "[[Space Pilot 3000]]".<br />
** The video game ''[[Delivery Command]]'' resembles ''{{w|Paperboy_(video_game)|Paperboy}}''. It's name could be a reference to [[Missile Command]].<br />
* The [[Sound Effects 5000]] is a direct parody of Sgt. Larvelle Jones from the ''{{w|Police Academy}}'' films. The sign in front of the police academy also states that they are not affiliated with ''{{w|Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol |Police Academy IV}}''.<br />
* Bender and Leela make a delivery to the 3-D planet of [[Pandora]], and Leela asks if they can use their avatars. This is a reference to the 2009 3-D blockbuster film ''{{w|Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar}}'', which largely takes place on a planet called Pandora.<br />
* [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] moves the ship back and forth as she tries to land in front of the giant tree on Pandora. This is a reference to cheap gags in some 3-D movies where objects seems to jump out of the screen at the audience.<br />
** At the end of the 3-D sequence, Bender throws his sandwich at the screen, to similar effect.<br />
<!-- Act II --><br />
[[File:Law and Oracle screenshot 2.jpg|thumb|right|A screenshot from the chase scene which is an obvious ''{{w|Tron}}'' parody.]]<br />
<br />
* [[Circuit City]] is a reference to the American retailer of the same name, {{w|Circuit City Stores|Circuit City}}.<br />
* The light cycle chase scene, featuring [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[URL]] in [[Circuit City]], is an obvious reference to the 1982 science-fiction movie ''{{w|Tron}}'' and its sequel, ''{{w|Tron Legacy}}''.<br />
* Fry mentions to URL that he learned his light cycle skills from a commercial for juice drink {{w|SunnyD}}.<br />
* The man being chased in the light cycle scene is [[Erwin Schrödinger]], a 20th-century Austrian physicist known for his {{w|Schrödinger's cat}} paradox. The cat is found alive in a box inside Schrödinger's car, along with a lot of drugs. Schrödinger had also suggested in his book ''{{w|What is Life?}}'' that DNA is closely related to reproduction of biological organisms.<br />
* The door of the Future Crimes division has a sign that says, "We know what you did next summer." This is a parody of the thriller film ''{{w|I Know What You Did Last Summer}}''.<br />
* Fry makes two references to "{{w|Speed Buggy}}", a 1970's Hanna-Barbera cartoon similar to {{w|Scooby-Doo}} about a mystery-solving trio of teenagers and their talking car, Speed Buggy.<br />
* The [[Maltese Liquor]] is a reference to the priceless stuffed falcon known as the Maltese Falcon, which is also the subject of attempted thievery in the {{w|The Maltese Falcon (film)|film of the same name}}.<br />
<!-- Act III --><br />
* Leela says that she and Bender had to listen to Bender's {{w|Eagles (band)|Eagles}} album, and Bender says, "It beats talkin' to you, {{W|Witchy Woman}}."<br />
* In the alternate future, URL mentions that it is fatal for anyone other than robots and {{w|Billy Dee Williams}} to drink the Maltese Liquor. This is most likely a reference to Williams' appearances in commercials for {{w|Colt 45}} malt liquor.<br />
* After Fry is named "Executive Delivery Boy", [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] whispers to [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] that "executive" is a meaningless title that helps people with low self esteem feel better about themselves. This is a fourth-wall break that mocks the numerous "Executive Producer" and "Co-Executive Producer" credits on the show, including a direct jab at [[Matt Groening]] and [[David X. Cohen]] whose "Executive Producer" credits appear right after Hermes finished talking.<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
<!-- The continuity section should be ordered chronologically, i. e. what happens first in the episode, should be listed first. Please follow this.--><br />
<!-- Overall --><br />
<!-- Act I --><br />
* The beginning of the episode is a reenactment of the [[cold opening]] of [[Space Pilot 3000|the first episode of the series]], with Zoidberg in the role of [[20th-century kid|the boy who calls Fry a loser]] and Leela replacing [[Mr. Panucci]]. Fry is once again delivering a pizza to a prank name at [[Applied Cryogenics]], while being frustrated about his dead-end job.<br />
*[[Delivery Command]] appears to have been produced before the formation of Earthican government as it contains an FBI warning instead of an EBI warning.<br />
* This is the second time [[Roberto]] uses [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] as a hostage, the first being in "[[Insane in the Mainframe]]".<br />
<!-- Act II --><br />
* This is the first time [[Dandy Jim]] is seen alone, after only having been seen with his [[hobo]] friend [[Gus]] before.<br />
* Schrödinger's [[career chip]] is the first one mentioned since ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'', and the fourth appearance of career chips in the series. Oddly, no mention is made of Fry's chip, which would prevent him from simply leaving his delivery job and starting another.<br />
* This is [[Wash bucket]]'s first [[cameo]] appearance since her introduction in "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]". Apparantly, she still works together with [[Scruffy]].<br />
* Leela had trouble with 3-D previously, in "[[Fear of a Bot Planet]]". Also, this is not the first delivery Leela and Bender have done without Fry. They had a very successful delivery in "[[The Why of Fry]]", even being awarded medals at some point during.<br />
<!-- Act III --><br />
*Fry had previously been promoted to "Executive Delivery boy" by [[Morgan Proctor]] in "[[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]".<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
<!-- The goofs section should be ordered chronologically, i. e. what happens first in the episode, should be listed first. Please follow this.--><br />
<!-- Overall --><br />
<!-- Act I --><br />
*In "[[The Silence of the Clamps]]", it is clear that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been replaced by the [[Earth Bureau of Investigation]], thus it does not make sense that [[Delivery Command|the game in this episode]] has an FBI warning.<br />
**The game might have come out before this replacement happened.<br />
**Another possibility is that "The Silence of the Clamps" is wrong, as the tooth fairy is the head of the FBI in "[[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles]]".<br />
*[[Fat-bot]] is drawn with a closed grin on his face instead of a light-up mouth.<br />
*When the Police Academy graduates throw their lightsticks up into the air, way more fall down on them then were thrown up. Also, the lightsticks fall onto the people in the stadium as well, even though they only should have fallen in the area where the graduates were.<br />
<!-- Act II --><br />
<!-- Act III --><br />
*While likely a joke, it is impossible for alcohol to be 210 proof, since {{w|Alcohol proof|proof}} is twice the percentage of alcohol per volume in a liquid. 210 proof would be 105% alcohol per volume.<br />
*Hattie McDoogal's hair is tan instead of grey when the scene first starts.<br />
*Pickles does not predict his own capture. The whole area is NOT prediction proof, just the back room.<br />
**A likely answer is that Pickles doesn't possess the ability to see the future. It seems plausible to assert that his incredible mind is able to calculate how the future will go, based on all the data he is given, which is theoretically possible. However, if a variable is deliberately removed from his field of vision (the projection proof glass), it may impair his calculations and cause them to fall apart.<br />
*[[URL]] has no "Police" in white on his suit, it's gone and never reappears in the episode.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]''': Hi, I'm Fry!<br />
'''[[Sound Effects 5000]]''': I'm the Sound Effects 5000! ''[Produces various police-themed sound effects.]''<br />
'''Fry''': Wow! That would be impressive if you were a human!<br />
'''Sound Effects 5000''': [gloomily] Yeah...</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sound Effects 5000''': ''[Produces a cheering sound effect.]''<br />
'''[[Gretsky]]''': Ah, my tinnitus!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Police officer''': Yeah, that's great. Now can you actually turn on the ignition?<br />
'''Sound Effects 5000''': I don't have any hands!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Chief O'Mannahan]]''': ''[In the locker room topless.]'' Congratulations on your big bust.<br />
'''Fry''': You, too.</poem><br />
<poem>''[In Space Pilot 3000.]''<br />
'''[[20th-century kid]]''': You stink, loser.<br />
'''[[Mr. Panucci]]''': Hey, Fry. Pizza going out. C'mon!<br />
''[In this episode.]''<br />
'''[[Dr. Zoidberg]]''': You stink, loser.<br />
'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': Hey, Fry. Pizza going out. C'mon!</poem><br />
<poem>'''FBI warning''': ''Winners don't play video games.''</poem><br />
|2}}<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Bert O'Mannahan]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Connor O'Bocop]] ([[List of deleted scenes#Volume 6|deleted scene]])<br />
*[[Dandy Jim]]<br />
*[[Fat-bot]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Gretsky]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal]]<br />
*[[Hedonism Bot]]<br />
*[[Hyper-Chicken]] (on sign)<br />
*[[Ipji]]<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Chief O'Mannahan]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Pickles]]<br />
*[[Roberto]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Erwin Schrödinger]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Sound Effects 5000]]<br />
*[[Spotty Teen Robot]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Wash bucket]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
{{navigation bottom<br />
|prev ep=Möbius Dick<br />
|next ep=Benderama<br />
|broad prev=Ghost in the Machines<br />
|broad next=The Silence of the Clamps<br />
}}</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Floozies&diff=115276Floozies2012-07-10T01:34:16Z<p>66.32.188.127: </p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name = Floozies<br />
|type = t<br />
|gender = [[Fembot|Fembots]]<br />
|species = [[Robot]]<br />
|origin = Probably [[Earth]]<br />
|first appear = {{e|2ACV08}}<br />
|voiced by = Tress MacNeille<br />
}}<br />
<br />
The Floozies are two [[Fembot|fembots]] that [[Bender]] dates on occasion. In [[3001]], when Bender was Bender the Offender, they both dated him. ([[2ACV08]]). In [[3003]], he dated them while at the same time dating the [[Planet Express Ship]]. At the time, they were under the impression that he was a lawyer for [[Mayor|the mayor's]] office and the world's strongest millionaire. ([[4ACV03]])<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Hey, Bender the Offender doesn't need [[Leela|you]]. Bender the Offender doesn't need anybody!<br />
'''Floozie #1''': What about us, Mr. The Offender?<br />
'''Bender''': Well obviously I need floozies! Let's roll!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fembot #1''': What's it like being a lawyer for the Mayor's office and also the world's strongest millionaire?<br />
'''Bender''': Well, baby, for starters you need to be honest all the time!<br />
''[Enter [[Elzar]].]''<br />
'''Elzar''': Good evening, Bender. And to your lady friends may I say, [[Catchphrase#Others|"Bam"]]!<br />
''[The Floozies giggle and Elzar leaves.]''<br />
'''Floozie #2''': You know Elzar?</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV08}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV03}}</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Floozies&diff=115275Floozies2012-07-10T01:33:17Z<p>66.32.188.127: </p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name = Floozies<br />
|type = t<br />
|gender = [[Fembot|Fembots]]<br />
|species = [[Robot]]<br />
|origin = Probably [[Earth]]<br />
|first appear = {{e|2ACV08}}<br />
|voiced by = Tress MacNeille<br />
}}<br />
<br />
The Floozies are two [[Fembot|fembots]] that [[Bender]] dates on occasion. In [[3001]], when Bender was Bender the Offender, they both dated him. ([[2ACV08]]). In [[3003]], he dated them while at the same time dating the [[Planet Express Ship]]. At the time, they were under the impression that he was a lawyer for [[Mayor|the mayor's]] office. ([[4ACV03]])<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Hey, Bender the Offender doesn't need [[Leela|you]]. Bender the Offender doesn't need anybody!<br />
'''Floozie #1''': What about us, Mr. The Offender?<br />
'''Bender''': Well obviously I need floozies! Let's roll!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fembot #1''': What's it like being a lawyer for the Mayor's office and also the world's strongest millionaire?<br />
'''Bender''': Well, baby, for starters you need to be honest all the time!<br />
''[Enter [[Elzar]].]''<br />
'''Elzar''': Good evening, Bender. And to your lady friends may I say, [[Catchphrase#Others|"Bam"]]!<br />
''[The Floozies giggle and Elzar leaves.]''<br />
'''Floozie #2''': You know Elzar?</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV08}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV03}}</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Floozies&diff=115274Floozies2012-07-10T01:32:17Z<p>66.32.188.127: </p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name = Floozies<br />
|type = t<br />
|gender = [[Fembot|Fembots]]<br />
|species = [[Robot]]<br />
|origin = Probably [[Earth]]<br />
|first appear = {{e|2ACV08}}<br />
|voiced by = [[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
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The Floozies are two [[Fembot|fembots]] that [[Bender]] dates on occasion. In [[3001]], when Bender was Bender the Offender, they both dated him. ([[2ACV08]]). In [[3003]], he dated them while at the same time dating the [[Planet Express Ship]]. At the time, they were under the impression that he was a lawyer for [[Mayor|the mayor's]] office. ([[4ACV03]])<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Bender''': Hey, Bender the Offender doesn't need [[Leela|you]]. Bender the Offender doesn't need anybody!<br />
'''Floozie #1''': What about us, Mr. The Offender?<br />
'''Bender''': Well obviously I need floozies! Let's roll!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fembot #1''': What's it like being a lawyer for the Mayor's office and also the world's strongest millionaire?<br />
'''Bender''': Well, baby, for starters you need to be honest all the time!<br />
''[Enter [[Elzar]].]''<br />
'''Elzar''': Good evening, Bender. And to your lady friends may I say, [[Catchphrase#Others|"Bam"]]!<br />
''[The Floozies giggle and Elzar leaves.]''<br />
'''Floozie #2''': You know Elzar?</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV08}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV03}}</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Floozies&diff=115273Floozies2012-07-10T01:31:05Z<p>66.32.188.127: Created page with "{{character infobox |name = Floozies |type = t |image = 225px |gender = Fembot |species ..."</p>
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|gender = [[Fembot]]<br />
|species = [[Robot]]<br />
|origin = Probably [[Earth]]<br />
|first appear = {{e|2ACV08}}<br />
|voiced by = [[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
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The Floozies are two [[fembots]] that [[Bender]] dates on occasion. In [[3001]], when Bender was Bender the Offender, they both dated him. ([[2ACV08]]). In [[3003]], he dated them while at the same time dating the [[Planet Express Ship]]. At the time, they were under the impression that he was a lawyer for [[Mayor|the mayor's]] office. ([[4ACV03]])<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Bender''': Hey, Bender the Offender doesn't need [[Leela|you]]. Bender the Offender doesn't need anybody!<br />
'''Floozie #1''': What about us, Mr. The Offender?<br />
'''Bender''': Well obviously I need floozies! Let's roll!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fembot #1''': What's it like being a lawyer for the Mayor's office and also the world's strongest millionaire?<br />
'''Bender''': Well, baby, for starters you need to be honest all the time!<br />
''[Enter [[Elzar]].]''<br />
'''Elzar''': Good evening, Bender. And to your lady friends may I say, [[Catchphrase#Others|"Bam"]]!<br />
''[The Floozies giggle and Elzar leaves.]''<br />
'''Floozie #2: You know Elzar?'''</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV08}}<br />
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<div>[[File:Smizmar.jpg|right|thumb|Amy is Kif's Smizmar]]<br />
A '''smizmar''' is the love partner in [[Amphibiosan]] culture. Unlike a mate, the smizmar may not necessarily be the parent of the offspring. When an Amphibiosan loves another individual (i.e. their smizmar), they enter a "receptive state", in which their skin becomes a semi-permeable membrane, which allows the passage of genetic material.<br />
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During this state, Amphibiosans should be extra sensitive to whom they touch, as anyone's touch can produce the pregnancy. Usually, the smizmar would be the biological parent, but in some cases, it may be someone else. However, regardless of contributor, the smizmar is always viewed as the parent in Amphibiosan culture.<br />
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An issue of this complexity it can cause is evident in "[[Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch]]", wherein [[Kif Kroker|Kif]] enters the "receptive state", because of his smizmar, [[Amy Wong]]. However, during an unfortunate event in the bridge of the ''[[Nimbus]]'', [[Turanga Leela]] ended up giving Kif this genetic material.<br />
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The concept is also apparent in the film, ''[[When a Man Loves a Smizmar]]''.<br />
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== Alternate usage ==<br />
In the [[Season 2]] episode "[[Raging Bender]]", seemingly before the final definition of the word was decided, smizmar is some sort of gender. The MC at the boxing match announces, "Ladies and gentlemen and smizmars, welcome to tonight's main event!" In the same episode, the marquee of the movie theater advertises the film "When A Man Loves A Smizmar." This usage occurs again in [[The Thief of Baghead]].<br />
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<div>Hey, [[The Scary Door]] finally made the cut while I was MIA? Excellent, those were one of my favorite bits from the series and I put a bit of work into getting that article started. {{User:Gopher/sig}} [[User:Gopher|Gopher]] 20:06, 19 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Quolnok's Picks? ==<br />
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I think Quolnok is the only one keeping this section alive. I wish we had more members to nominate and vote for things, but we're sadly stagnant in that department. Thanks, Quolnok for working on this area when you can. --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 19:37, 22 November 2007 (PST)<br />
:Yeah, it would be nice to have more nominators and voters. I'm glad we're only doing this monthly. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 19:49, 22 November 2007 (PST)<br />
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== weekly? ==<br />
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anyone reckon we should do this weekly? I think it would be a good idea if we did.--[[User:Scruffy|I&#39;m Scruffy... the Janitor.]] 03:17, 26 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
:I'm thinking not. I much prefer the fortnightly format, especially given the infrequent nominations (although certainly more than three years ago). In fact, I've actually been considering reducing the frequency again. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 03:24, 27 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== new featured article ==<br />
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Why hasn't there been a new featured article in like a month? It's getting kinda boring looking at BWABB all the tme and Season 6 could definitely be there now. --[[User:Scruffy|I&#39;m Scruffy... the Janitor.]] 08:12, 16 August 2010 (CEST)<br />
:sorry if I sound like a prat, Quolnok probably has been going on with Real Life. --[[User:Scruffy|I&#39;m Scruffy... the Janitor.]] 08:13, 16 August 2010 (CEST)<br />
::Okay, this is it, I'm going all Hitler on your asses and add a new featured article. [[User:Aki|Aki]] 19:48, 29 August 2010 (CEST)<br />
:Finally, a new featured article. You made the right call, Aki. Although I would have preferred the ''Season 6'' article. Well, but it's my own fault. WHY DIDN'T I VOTE?? [[User:Fan Futurama|Fan Futurama]] 20:10, 29 August 2010 (CEST)<br />
::I know, me too, but it wasn't good enough, there were too many "update" and not enough material. If you fix it it can be there next time? :) [[User:Aki|Aki]] 20:12, 29 August 2010 (CEST)<br />
:::The problem with the Season 6 article is that it could be ''so much better''. It's a shame to feature it before it gets to that point. But one of the prevailing arguments remain that we simply doesn't know the entire season. We have only seen about half of it. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|talk]]</sup> 20:26, 29 August 2010 (CEST)<br />
:::Challenge accepted. From now on, I'm going to update the article as much as I can. I really think it's the kind of article that should be on the main page. But I agree with Svip. It should only be featured when all the episodes are aired. [[User:Fan Futurama|Fan Futurama]] 21:21, 29 August 2010 (CEST)<br />
::::Awesome. Awesome to the max. Having the article go up there ready and perfect when the time comes is... awesome. [[User:Aki|Aki]] 23:07, 29 August 2010 (CEST)<br />
:::::TO THE MAX. [[User:Fan Futurama|Fan Futurama]] 23:47, 29 August 2010 (CEST)<br />
:Hi all. Things keep taking my free time, but I'm glad something new was finally put there. I've been trying to get caught up with looking at the new edits, I'm around a week behind, but I should probably consider stopping that now that we're oh so very active. I also wasn't overly thrilled with the quality of the season six article and wanted to hold out on it but also wasn't thrilled by the next option in the list (although it is better now). I'd also been going to implement a defaulting system to shove old features on the main page when I forget to update, but like everything else I just haven't got around to it. Also fortnight 17 ends today, so I've made it 18's feature too. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 00:43, 30 August 2010 (CEST)<br />
::Oh, great. Activity is always nice from everyone, especially such a big contributor as you, but as you say there are several active people keeping the wiki updated and keeping vandalism away, so take any free time you need without worry. [[User:Aki|Aki]] 15:17, 30 August 2010 (CEST)<br />
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== 19 ==<br />
As Quolnok pointed out, forthnight 19 is here and we're still pretty low on activity. I voted on ''[[A Flight to Remember]]'' making it win by 2-0, and choose it as a featured. We really need to get better activity in this field, and prep the one for 20 asap. [[User:Aki|Aki]] 11:10, 13 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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== Defaulting ==<br />
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I've implemented a defaulting featured article via these new templates [[Template:FeaturedArticleDefault]] and [[Template:FeaturedArticleNameFortnightly]]. If we ever neglect to add a feature in time again (and we will) it will automatically grab that numbered fortnight from 2009. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 06:24, 27 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
:You would not prefer <nowiki>{{CURRENTYEAR}}-1</nowiki> instead of 2009? --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|talk]]</sup> 08:46, 27 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
::Theoretically, yes. But if for some reason in 2011 we don't update features for several weeks between 11 and 18 consecutively, well have no variety again. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 10:30, 27 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
:::And more importantly; if we miss one entirely in 2011, or later this year, we'd wind up with redlink feature articles on the main page with the previous year's date a year later if we miss that same week. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 10:39, 27 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
::::Or maybe the bot could fix that at year's end. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|talk]]</sup> 14:15, 27 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
:I'm really happy with this news, everyone. We'll be able to see a different image on the Main Page at least twice a month! And that's a pretty good upgrade to me. ^^ [[User:Fan Futurama|Fan Futurama]] 23:29, 27 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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== The next few fortnights... ==<br />
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The current defaulting system is really handy. I'm thinking I set up the next few fortnights on my own and whoever wants to argue can do so, but overall it's extremely nice to have an extra in case we forget to do it in time. Try updating the list though, and add ''(reprise)'' (see the current one). [[User:Aki|Aki]] 21:09, 15 December 2010 (CET)<br />
:What are your (featured article) choices? [[User:San Saber|San Saber]] 01:57, 16 December 2010 (CET)<br />
::You can see the upcoming two ones at the [[Infosphere:Featured articles]] page: [[Where No Fan Has Gone Before]] for fortnight 26 and [[Tinny Tim]] for 27. Both of these were already candidates, I just made the decision. [[User:Aki|Aki]] 10:05, 16 December 2010 (CET)<br />
:::Nice. Yeah, there's no 27th fortnights. Fortnight 1 of 2011 starts on the 3rd, so I've moved the feature. Trivia: 2013's fortnight 26 will be three weeks long, as was 2008's. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 01:45, 20 December 2010 (CET)<br />
::::Thanks. It should be moved to the next (2011's) featured articles page (that's yet to be created) though. [[User:Aki|Aki]] 15:40, 20 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== 2010 goes gonsis ==<br />
Seeing as we're on our last fortnight for the year, the 2010 article has been archived to "Featured articles/2010". "Featured articles" still redirects there, and [[Infosphere:Featured articles/2011]] is on its own article. On Jan 1, 2011, it should be moved to "Featured articles". Any future discussion on the featured articles should be on its talk page. [[User:Aki|Aki]] 16:25, 20 December 2010 (CET)<br />
:I've just shuffled this a bit. In previous years, when I've had more time, I'd started the archive about halfway through the year and done an include from the years page to hide the first few, then about 5-6 features into the next year remove the old ones entirely. Basically, I think we should try to keep at least the six most recent features on this page, regardless of whether they are from the current year. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 21:59, 20 December 2010 (CET)<br />
::Sounds good. Thanks. [[User:Aki|Aki]] 13:27, 21 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Article shortcuts ==<br />
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Can an admin do to this page [http://www.theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Infosphere:Featured_article_nominations&diff=79940&oldid=79913 what I did] to ''[[Infosphere:Featured article nominations]]'' yesterday? (What do you mean, you can't do it?) [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 21:47, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
:And then make it look even better by doing something similar to [http://www.theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Infosphere:Featured_article_nominations&curid=1748&diff=80060&oldid=80059 this]? [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 21:51, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
::Third time's the charm: Remember that ''[[I:FAN]]'' should become ''[[I:FA]]'' and ''[[I:Fan]]'', ''[[I:Fa]]''. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 21:54, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
:::Like [http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Infosphere:Featured_articles&action=historysubmit&diff=80208&oldid=79984 so]? [[User:Aki|Aki]] 15:53, 27 February 2011 (CET)<br />
::::Yes. Thanks, Administrator Aki. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 23:57, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Reprises... why? ==<br />
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For the last two fortnights, we've been doing reprises, even though there's an article (Old New York) that has two votes for and none against. Why isn't it being featured?</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Love_and_Rocket&diff=115246Love and Rocket2012-07-09T02:08:21Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Goofs */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=Love and Rocket<br />
|no=57<br />
|image=[[File:Love and Rocket.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=Fry and Leela in the brain room surrounded by conversation hearts<br />
|season=4<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=4ACV03<br />
|caption=When you see the robot, drink!<br />
|first aired=10 February, 2002<br />
|written by=Dan Vebber<br />
|directed by=Brian Sheesley<br />
|title reference={{w|Love and Rockets (band)|Love and Rockets}}, an alternative rock band of the [[1980s]], or ''{{w|Love and Rockets (comics)|Love and Rocket}}'', the comic book by {{w|Gilbert Hernandez|Gilbert}} and {{w|Jaime Hernandez}} that the band was named after<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=''In a Cartoon Studio'' (1931)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S04E04<br />
|special guest=[[Sigourney Weaver]]<br />[[Lucy Liu's Head|Lucy Liu]]<br />
|prev ep=Leela's Homeworld<br />
|next ep=Less than Hero<br />
|broad prev=Anthology of Interest II<br />
|broad next=Leela's Homeworld<br />
}}<br />
"'''Love and Rocket'''" is the fifty-seventh episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the third of the [[Season 4|fourth production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 4|fourth broadcast season]]. It aired 10 February, 2002 on FOX. It guest stars [[Sigourney Weaver]] as the [[Planet Express Ship]] and reprises [[Lucy Liu's Head|Lucy Liu]] as herself in a [[Head Jars|jar]]. As [[Valentine's Day]] approaches... [[Bender]]'s romance with the [[Planet Express Ship]] puts the crew in jeopardy.<br />
== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "U-R-2 Cute" ===<br />
Shortly before Valentine's Day, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] and the [[Planet Express Ship]] are having major differences. Meanwhile, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] informs the crew that [[Planet Express]] has landed a big contract with [[Romanticorp]] and is able to afford some modifications to the ship, including an improved personality (female) software for the Planet Express Ship, whom Bender immediately falls in love with.<br />
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=== Act II: "I Wuv U" ===<br />
Meanwhile, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] tries to find the perfect pickup line from the huge load of {{w|Sweethearts (candy)|conversation hearts}} they are supposed to deliver in order to impress [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] with it. Bender has become tired of the Planet Express ship, and starts to date cheap floozies on the side. This arouses the ship's suspicions and makes her jealous. Bender keeps stalling the Planet Express Ship, and makes her more suspicious.<br />
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As the crew delivers a load of conversation hearts to [[Omicron Persei 8]] as a peace offering from [[Earth]]'s government, the [[Omicronians]] get mad at the 'I Wuv U' hearts and chase the crew off the planet, and then attack them with a fleet of Omicronian fighters. Bender picks this moment to break up with the ship, because he likes a dump to be as devastating as it is memorable. The Planet Express Ship screams and shuts down its engines, as it starts to sob. Seeing the opportunity for a fatal blow, the Omicronians fire several missiles, which leave the ship in ruins.<br />
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=== Act III: "U leave me breathless" ===<br />
[[File:Bender and the Planet Express ship 4ACV03.png|left|thumb|[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] and the [[Planet Express ship]] in the ship's matrix-like world.]]<br />
The ship is surprisingly unharmed, save her feelings and some scorch marks, and despite Leela's best efforts to console her, is still deeply depressed. Losing all hope to get together with Bender, the ship decides to fly into the nearest quasar to unite her and Bender into a quantum singularity. The crew tries to stop the ship, which disables life support and artificial gravity. Bender offers to merge his programming with the ship's to distract it, while Leela tries shutting down the ship's brain.<br />
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While Fry and Leela are in the brain room, Fry continues looking for the ultimate heart line while Leela is busy shutting down the ship's brain. As Fry is searching, he notices that Leela's oxygen is running out. Unaware of the situation, Leela ignores Fry, thinking he is trying to give her a conversation heart. Fry secretly plugs his oxygen supply into Leela's helmet. Meanwhile, Bender is being chased around the matrix-like world of the ship's computer by her personality icon, but cannot evade merging their programming. Leela succeeds in shutting down the computer, which brings life support and gravity back online. This also stops the ship from flying into the quasar. Leela, cautiously optimistic, speaks to Fry, who does not respond. She discovers that he sacrificed his own oxygen for her. She attempts to resuscitate Fry, who has lost consciousness. While pounding on his chest to make him breathe, Fry coughs up the candy heart he has been searching for ''U leave me breathless''. Bender separates himself from the computer's consciousness, but seems to have ingested part of her personality.<br />
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The crew dumps the now useless conversation hearts into the quasar, causing a mystical love radiation spreading across the universe, destroying many, many planets--including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. Earth, however, was exactly the right distance to not be destroyed by them, but rather to see the beautiful romantic rays, with coupless around the world, such as Leela and Fry (and Zoidberg, who is inexplicably narratng this section) who watch the romantic sky.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Much of the episode is inspired by the epic Sci Fi movie ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', like the computer's eye ({{w|HAL 9000}}) and Bender singing "{{w|Daisy Bell}}".<br />
*According to the DVD commentary, Leela lights a vanilla-scented candle on the bridge while consoling the ship and feeds it several buckets of ice cream - her standard method of coping with romantic problems, judging from her feelings expressed by Bender in "[[I Second that Emotion]]".<br />
*Leela's comment about Six Flags is a reference to a Coca-Cola promotion where specially marked cans would give the drinker a free ticket to Six Flags.<br />
*When [[Bender]] is trapped after having [[merge programming|merged programming]] with the [[Planet Express ship]], Bender cannot continue because he has run into a {{w|Zener diode}}.<br />
*The scene in which the lady chooses between the two talking wire mesh dummies is a reference to psychologist {{w|Harry Harlow}}'s maternal-separation and social isolation experiments on {{w|Rhesus Macaque|Rhesus monkeys}}.<br />
*Lucy Liu's lines were from an earlier recording session during the time she recorded her lines for "[[I Dated a Robot]]".<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Bender crosses a diode in the chase sequence, meaning he supposedly can't go back across it. However the diode is actually pointing the wrong way. Pointing the way it does in the episode, he should have been blocked from crossing it in the first place.<br />
**It's explained in [[Commentary:Love and Rocket|the DVD commentary]] that the diode represents the wall that Bender runs into, not that he can't cross over it again.<br />
**The sign on a diode shows the way a theoretical "electric current" made of positive particles would flow (from + to -). So if Bender is a "negative particle" in this circuit....<br />
*The quantity of candy hearts are referred to as "trillions," then "20 billion," and finally "millions."<br />
**Though these are likely referring separately to: the trillions of hearts in the Romaticorp warehouse, a delivery of 20 billion to the Omicronians, and whatever millions are left on the ship for other contracted deliveries or were undelivered due to the Omicronians becoming infuriated.<br />
*In the first scene, the fuselage of the Planet Express ship is incorrectly colored gray.<br />
*Turning off the oxygen instantaneously makes Fry and Leela choke until they get their rebreathers. However, when the supply is turned off, there would still be plenty of oxygen left in the ship for them to easily breathe for several hours without even noticing the halt in oxygen.<br />
**The hissing sound that can be heard when the Planet Express Ship "turns off the oxygen" might indicate that the entire air (or at least the oxygen) is actively removed from the room, rather than just the supply of fresh oxygen being shut down.<br />
*When the Planet Express Ship comes to Fry's window, it is much smaller in proportion to Fry than in all other scenes in the show.<br />
*During the close-up of Fry holding the candy heart that says "You're my man," his index finger is on the right side of the heart from the viewer's perspective. However, during the shot immediately afterward, his index finger is on the left side of the heart.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Remember, we've got to show these people we're not bitter husks of human beings who long ago abandoned hope of finding love in this lifetime. Leela, you'll have to do some acting.<br />
'''Leela''': Check!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Clothing, delicious clothing!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Call me old-fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Look, Ship, if I learned anything from my mutual breakup with Shawn that was totally mutual, it's that happiness can only come from within you.<br />
'''Planet Express Ship''': [crying] But Bender IS within me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Planet Express Ship''': I'm afraid I can't do that, Leela.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Lrrr]]''': This is ancient Earth's most foolish {{w|Friends|program}}. Why does {{w|Ross Geller|Ross}}, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?<br />
'''[[Ndnd]]''': Perhaps they are saving that for sweeps.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Lrrr''': Eugh! These candies are chalky and unpleasant.<br />
'''Ndnd''': And what is this emotion you humans call "wuv?"<br />
'''Lrrr''': Surely it says "love?"<br />
'''Ndnd''': No, "wuv". With an Earth "W". Behold!<br />
'''Lrrr''': This concept of "wuv" confuses and infuriates us!!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': ''[Voice-over.]'' As the candy hearts poured into the fiery quasar, a wondrous thing happened, why not. They vaporized into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe, destroying many, many planets, including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was at exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays, but not be destroyed by them: Earth. So all over the world, couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg! And no one could have been happier unless it would have also been Valentine's Day. What? It was? Hooray!</poem><br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
[[File:Crew Quarters.jpg|right|thumb|The Crew Quarters]]<br />
*Some items in Fry's and Bender's cabin refer to earlier episodes, among them are: a sword (probably nicked from [[Alcazar]]) leaning on the wall, a [[Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP)|DOOP]] uniform on the ground, a model of the [[Titanic]] on a shelf, the helmet Fry wore in "[[When Aliens Attack]]", a [[Mars University (Place)|Mars University]] pennant on the wall and a suitcase. The same gadgets are already there in "[[The Deep South]]", and some of them can be seen in other episodes as well, like the sword in "[[Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch]]". The pink cloth on the hilt of the sword looks suspiciously like Gender Bender's tutu from "[[Raging Bender]]".<br />
*Bender sings "{{w|Daisy Bell}}" in this episode. The song was previously referenced as the title of [[A Bicyclops Built for Two|another episode]].<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
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*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Floozies]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Sheldon and Gwen|Gwen]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Lrrr]]<br />
*[[Lucy Liu's Head|Lucy Liu]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker|Kif]]<br />
*[[Ndnd]]<br />
*[[Planet Express Ship]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Sheldon and Gwen|Sheldon]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
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*Writer<br />
**[[Dan Vebber]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Brian Sheesley]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Dan Vebber]]<br />
**[[Brian Sheesley]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*Guest Stars<br />
**[[Sigourney Weaver]]<br />
**[[Lucy Liu's Head|Lucy Liu]]<br />
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=Love and Rocket<br />
|no=57<br />
|image=[[File:Love and Rocket.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=Fry and Leela in the brain room surrounded by conversation hearts<br />
|season=4<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=4ACV03<br />
|caption=When you see the robot, drink!<br />
|first aired=10 February, 2002<br />
|written by=Dan Vebber<br />
|directed by=Brian Sheesley<br />
|title reference={{w|Love and Rockets (band)|Love and Rockets}}, an alternative rock band of the [[1980s]], or ''{{w|Love and Rockets (comics)|Love and Rocket}}'', the comic book by {{w|Gilbert Hernandez|Gilbert}} and {{w|Jaime Hernandez}} that the band was named after<br />
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|opening cartoon=''In a Cartoon Studio'' (1931)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S04E04<br />
|special guest=[[Sigourney Weaver]]<br />[[Lucy Liu's Head|Lucy Liu]]<br />
|prev ep=Leela's Homeworld<br />
|next ep=Less than Hero<br />
|broad prev=Anthology of Interest II<br />
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"'''Love and Rocket'''" is the fifty-seventh episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the third of the [[Season 4|fourth production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 4|fourth broadcast season]]. It aired 10 February, 2002 on FOX. It guest stars [[Sigourney Weaver]] as the [[Planet Express Ship]] and reprises [[Lucy Liu's Head|Lucy Liu]] as herself in a [[Head Jars|jar]]. As [[Valentine's Day]] approaches... [[Bender]]'s romance with the [[Planet Express Ship]] puts the crew in jeopardy.<br />
== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "U-R-2 Cute" ===<br />
Shortly before Valentine's Day, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] and the [[Planet Express Ship]] are having major differences. Meanwhile, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] informs the crew that [[Planet Express]] has landed a big contract with [[Romanticorp]] and is able to afford some modifications to the ship, including an improved personality (female) software for the Planet Express Ship, whom Bender immediately falls in love with.<br />
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=== Act II: "I Wuv U" ===<br />
Meanwhile, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] tries to find the perfect pickup line from the huge load of {{w|Sweethearts (candy)|conversation hearts}} they are supposed to deliver in order to impress [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] with it. Bender has become tired of the Planet Express ship, and starts to date cheap floozies on the side. This arouses the ship's suspicions and makes her jealous. Bender keeps stalling the Planet Express Ship, and makes her more suspicious.<br />
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As the crew delivers a load of conversation hearts to [[Omicron Persei 8]] as a peace offering from [[Earth]]'s government, the [[Omicronians]] get mad at the 'I Wuv U' hearts and chase the crew off the planet, and then attack them with a fleet of Omicronian fighters. Bender picks this moment to break up with the ship, because he likes a dump to be as devastating as it is memorable. The Planet Express Ship screams and shuts down its engines, as it starts to sob. Seeing the opportunity for a fatal blow, the Omicronians fire several missiles, which leave the ship in ruins.<br />
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=== Act III: "U leave me breathless" ===<br />
[[File:Bender and the Planet Express ship 4ACV03.png|left|thumb|[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] and the [[Planet Express ship]] in the ship's matrix-like world.]]<br />
The ship is surprisingly unharmed, save her feelings and some scorch marks, and despite Leela's best efforts to console her, is still deeply depressed. Losing all hope to get together with Bender, the ship decides to fly into the nearest quasar to unite her and Bender into a quantum singularity. The crew tries to stop the ship, which disables life support and artificial gravity. Bender offers to merge his programming with the ship's to distract it, while Leela tries shutting down the ship's brain.<br />
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While Fry and Leela are in the brain room, Fry continues looking for the ultimate heart line while Leela is busy shutting down the ship's brain. As Fry is searching, he notices that Leela's oxygen is running out. Unaware of the situation, Leela ignores Fry, thinking he is trying to give her a conversation heart. Fry secretly plugs his oxygen supply into Leela's helmet. Meanwhile, Bender is being chased around the matrix-like world of the ship's computer by her personality icon, but cannot evade merging their programming. Leela succeeds in shutting down the computer, which brings life support and gravity back online. This also stops the ship from flying into the quasar. Leela, cautiously optimistic, speaks to Fry, who does not respond. She discovers that he sacrificed his own oxygen for her. She attempts to resuscitate Fry, who has lost consciousness. While pounding on his chest to make him breathe, Fry coughs up the candy heart he has been searching for ''U leave me breathless''. Bender separates himself from the computer's consciousness, but seems to have ingested part of her personality.<br />
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The crew dumps the now useless conversation hearts into the quasar, causing a mystical love radiation spreading across the universe, destroying many, many planets--including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. Earth, however, was exactly the right distance to not be destroyed by them, but rather to see the beautiful romantic rays, with coupless around the world, such as Leela and Fry (and Zoidberg, who is inexplicably narratng this section) who watch the romantic sky.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Much of the episode is inspired by the epic Sci Fi movie ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', like the computer's eye ({{w|HAL 9000}}) and Bender singing "{{w|Daisy Bell}}".<br />
*According to the DVD commentary, Leela lights a vanilla-scented candle on the bridge while consoling the ship and feeds it several buckets of ice cream - her standard method of coping with romantic problems, judging from her feelings expressed by Bender in "[[I Second that Emotion]]".<br />
*Leela's comment about Six Flags is a reference to a Coca-Cola promotion where specially marked cans would give the drinker a free ticket to Six Flags.<br />
*When [[Bender]] is trapped after having [[merge programming|merged programming]] with the [[Planet Express ship]], Bender cannot continue because he has run into a {{w|Zener diode}}.<br />
*The scene in which the lady chooses between the two talking wire mesh dummies is a reference to psychologist {{w|Harry Harlow}}'s maternal-separation and social isolation experiments on {{w|Rhesus Macaque|Rhesus monkeys}}.<br />
*Lucy Liu's lines were from an earlier recording session during the time she recorded her lines for "[[I Dated a Robot]]".<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Bender crosses a diode in the chase sequence, meaning he supposedly can't go back across it. However the diode is actually pointing the wrong way. Pointing the way it does in the episode, he should have been blocked from crossing it in the first place.<br />
**It's explained in [[Commentary:Love and Rocket|the DVD commentary]] that the diode represents the wall that Bender runs into, not that he can't cross over it again.<br />
**The sign on a diode shows the way a theoretical "electric current" made of positive particles would flow (from + to -). So if Bender is a "negative particle" in this circuit....<br />
*The quantity of candy hearts are referred to as "trillions," then "20 billion," and finally "millions."<br />
**Though these are likely referring separately to: the trillions of hearts in the Romaticorp warehouse, a delivery of 20 billion to the Omicronians, and whatever millions are left on the ship for other contracted deliveries or were undelivered due to the Omicronians becoming infuriated.<br />
*In the first scene, the fuselage of the Planet Express ship is incorrectly colored gray.<br />
*Turning off the oxygen instantaneously makes Fry and Leela choke until they get their rebreathers. However, when the supply is turned off, there would still be plenty of oxygen left in the ship for them to easily breathe for several hours without even noticing the halt in oxygen.<br />
**The hissing sound that can be heard when the Planet Express Ship "turns off the oxygen" might indicate that the entire air (or at least the oxygen) is actively removed from the room, rather than just the supply of fresh oxygen being shut down.<br />
*When the Planet Express Ship comes to Fry's window, it is much smaller than in all other shots in the show.<br />
*During the close-up of Fry holding the candy heart that says "You're my man," his index finger is on the right side of the heart from the viewers perspective. However, during the shot immediately afterward, his index finger is on the left side of the heart.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Remember, we've got to show these people we're not bitter husks of human beings who long ago abandoned hope of finding love in this lifetime. Leela, you'll have to do some acting.<br />
'''Leela''': Check!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Clothing, delicious clothing!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Call me old-fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Look, Ship, if I learned anything from my mutual breakup with Shawn that was totally mutual, it's that happiness can only come from within you.<br />
'''Planet Express Ship''': [crying] But Bender IS within me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Planet Express Ship''': I'm afraid I can't do that, Leela.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Lrrr]]''': This is ancient Earth's most foolish {{w|Friends|program}}. Why does {{w|Ross Geller|Ross}}, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?<br />
'''[[Ndnd]]''': Perhaps they are saving that for sweeps.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Lrrr''': Eugh! These candies are chalky and unpleasant.<br />
'''Ndnd''': And what is this emotion you humans call "wuv?"<br />
'''Lrrr''': Surely it says "love?"<br />
'''Ndnd''': No, "wuv". With an Earth "W". Behold!<br />
'''Lrrr''': This concept of "wuv" confuses and infuriates us!!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': ''[Voice-over.]'' As the candy hearts poured into the fiery quasar, a wondrous thing happened, why not. They vaporized into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe, destroying many, many planets, including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was at exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays, but not be destroyed by them: Earth. So all over the world, couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg! And no one could have been happier unless it would have also been Valentine's Day. What? It was? Hooray!</poem><br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
[[File:Crew Quarters.jpg|right|thumb|The Crew Quarters]]<br />
*Some items in Fry's and Bender's cabin refer to earlier episodes, among them are: a sword (probably nicked from [[Alcazar]]) leaning on the wall, a [[Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP)|DOOP]] uniform on the ground, a model of the [[Titanic]] on a shelf, the helmet Fry wore in "[[When Aliens Attack]]", a [[Mars University (Place)|Mars University]] pennant on the wall and a suitcase. The same gadgets are already there in "[[The Deep South]]", and some of them can be seen in other episodes as well, like the sword in "[[Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch]]". The pink cloth on the hilt of the sword looks suspiciously like Gender Bender's tutu from "[[Raging Bender]]".<br />
*Bender sings "{{w|Daisy Bell}}" in this episode. The song was previously referenced as the title of [[A Bicyclops Built for Two|another episode]].<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Floozies]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Sheldon and Gwen|Gwen]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Lrrr]]<br />
*[[Lucy Liu's Head|Lucy Liu]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker|Kif]]<br />
*[[Ndnd]]<br />
*[[Planet Express Ship]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Sheldon and Gwen|Sheldon]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Dan Vebber]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Brian Sheesley]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Dan Vebber]]<br />
**[[Brian Sheesley]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*Guest Stars<br />
**[[Sigourney Weaver]]<br />
**[[Lucy Liu's Head|Lucy Liu]]<br />
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== Wikipedia ==<br />
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While technically not dealing with ''Futurama'' exclusively, Wikipedia has some serious focus on ''Futurama''. However, due to Wikipedia's noticeable requirements, Wikipedia cannot have articles (and even mentions) of everything ''Futurama''.<br />
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The Infosphere's general view of Wikipedia is that we are in partnership with Wikipedia; we link a lot to them, and they in turn link to us. They can be considered a competition, but if people want a lot more information on ''Futurama'', they know where to go (i.e. us).<br />
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== Wikia's Futurama Wiki ==<br />
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Wikia's Futurama wiki is perhaps the biggest other ''Futurama'' wiki (the Infosphere is still far larger than Wikia's), which also deals exclusively with ''Futurama''. Wikia's wiki started sometime in 2005, and has since then have had a certain very unsteady contribution degree, from being almost completely dead, to be pretty active.<br />
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The Infosphere's view of Wikia's wiki is generally dislike. Not only because they are a direct competition, but also because they have been violated our [[Infosphere:Copyrights|licence]] on numerous occasions with regards to attribution. In addition to that, we find that Wikia's wiki's quality is generally a lot lower than that of the Infosphere's. While we too believe that quality over quantity is important, we feel we are still beating at both quality and quantity.<br />
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Our contributors are recommended not to also contribute to Wikia's wiki. A general ignoring of them is appreciated. They are simply too far behind to catch with up with us, and their contributors are hardly as dedicated, and their main contributors also vary in performance, and just like their stability, new contributors appear all the time, and the others vanish quickly. At the time of writing, their front page still claims that ''"[[Yo Leela Leela]]"'' is the newest release ''Futurama'' media.<br />
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Another dead wiki of not so decent quality. As of July 7, 2012, it has only 36 articles.</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Anthology_of_Interest_I&diff=115206Talk:Anthology of Interest I2012-07-08T03:02:12Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Goofs Section */ new section</p>
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== I call shenanigans! ==<br />
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Can we get a screenshot of the allegedly changed title caption? --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 13:41, 16 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
:I think it might have been a voice-over. You know, like introducing the show by Network speakers, or whatever they are called. But I could be wrong. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|Talk]]</sup> 14:12, 16 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
::That's not technically part of the show, then. Hmm... --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 13:39, 17 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
:::I suppose, but still a funny mention. -'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|Talk]]</sup> 14:03, 17 December 2008 (UTC)<br />
==Aks?==<br />
vote to change back 'aks' to 'ask'?--[[User:Scruffy|My leg feels funny!]] 01:18, 25 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Separate Segments ==<br />
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I think that all of the sections should be divided by segment, not just the quotes section. I think that would make the article more informative for someone who hasn't seen the episode.<br />
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== Goofs Section ==<br />
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This is part of the goofs section:<br />
*When Leela kills Bender with the microwave, multiple errors can be found:<br />
**When Bender collapses, his now detached eyes are shown as spheres. However, when his eyes move or fall out in other episodes (such as "Space Pilot 3000" and "A Flight to Remember"), they are shown to be rounded cylinders.<br />
***Bender's eyes are also spherical in "Ghost in the Machines".<br />
**When Leela pointed the microwave at Bender and destroyed him with radiation, the microwave was unplugged.<br />
**If a robot was actually hit by microwave radiation, it wouldn't fall apart the way it did.<br />
***Microwaves in the year 3001 may be different from microwaves today.<br />
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Recently, someone tried to remove the last third-level bullet point, and they directed me to "The Infosphere is Not a Discussion Forum" as for why. After reading it, I still think it should be there. The reason I say that is that the second-level bullet point that it come off of ("If a robot was actually hit by microwave radiation, it wouldn't fall apart the way it did.") comes from this first-level bullet point: ("When Leela kills Bender with the microwave, multiple errors can be found:"). Since that isn't actually a goof but an introduction to a series of goofs, I think the third-level bullet point that someone tried to delete should be treated as a second-level, as it's the first explanation for a goof.<br />
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Sorry if that's confusing, and if it is, feel free to message me, and I'll try to clarify. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 05:02, 8 July 2012 (CEST)</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Anthology_of_Interest_I&diff=115205Anthology of Interest I2012-07-08T02:56:10Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Goofs */</p>
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|name=Anthology of Interest I<br />
|no=29<br />
|image=[[File:Fry-Hole.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=The [[Fry-hole]] in "The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime"<br />
|season=2<br />
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|number=2ACV16<br />
|caption=Painstakingly drawn before a live audience<br />
|first aired=21 May, 2000<br />
|written A=Terror at 500 Feet<br />
|written A by=Eric Rogers<br />
|written B=Dial L for Leela<br />
|written B by=Ken Keeler<br />
|written C=The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime<br />
|written C by=David X. Cohen<br />
|directed A by=Chris Loudon<br />
|directed B by=Rich Moore<br />
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|caption reference=The sitcom prelude / disclaimer "filmed before a live audience"<br />
|opening cartoon={{w|Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929-1939)#1931 — 17 titles|"Bosko Shipwrecked"}}<br />
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|broadcast number=S02E20<br />
|special guest=[[Al Gore]]<br />[[Stephen Hawking]]<br />[[Nichelle Nichols]]<br />[[Gary Gygax]]<br />
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"'''Anthology of Interest I'''", alternatively titled "'''Tales of Interest'''", is the twenty-ninth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the sixteenth of the [[Season 2|second production season]], the twentieth and the last of the [[Broadcast season 2|second broadcast season]] and the first [[Anthology of Interest]] episode. It aired 21 May, 2000 on FOX. It guest stars [[Al Gore]], [[Stephen Hawking]], [[Nichelle Nichols]] and [[Gary Gygax]] as themselves. The [[What-If Machine]] tells three stories, one in which [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] becomes a 150 feet tall robot, another with [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] being slightly more impulsive and finally what would have happened if [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] never came to the future. And that's what things would have been like if [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]] had invented the [[Fing-Longer]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Terror at 500 Feet" ===<br />
[[File:Anthology.jpg|left|thumbnail|Giant Bender and Zoidberg in "Terror at 500 Feet".]]<br />
[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]] demonstrates his latest invention, the [[Fing-Longer]] by turning on the [[What-If Machine]]. [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] wants to aks it a question. What if he was 500 feet tall?<br />
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Hundreds of [[Bending Units]] complete work on Bender, who blasts off and heads to [[Earth]]. Meanwhile, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] roams New New York lonely and has no friends. Bender lands near Fry and the two become friends. While catching a frisbee, Bender kills the heads of [[Hanson]] and thousands of their fans so the [[Democratic Order of Planets|DOOP]] retaliate. They begin attacking Bender. They are so focused on stopping Bender that they shoot Fry with electricity when he tries to stop the fighting. This causes Bender to go on a rampage and destroy every building that he can find in New New York. Noticing the carnage, The Professor enlarges [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] so that he can fight Bender on equal ground. However, Zoidberg also has issues and begins destroying New New York. This causes a turf war between the two giants. While Bender attempts to boil Zoidberg, Fry walks up wanting to make Shrinky-Dinks. While Bender is distracted, Zoidberg cuts Bender's feet off and he is impaled on the [[Empire State Building]], slowly killing him. Fry admonishes everyone for their part in the tragedy, while Bender laments that he was unable to fulfill his dream of killing all humans before dying.<br />
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=== Act II: "Dial L for Leela" ===<br />
[[File:Sex-Leela.jpg|left|thumbnail|Leela, sleeping with Fry in "Dial L for Leela".]]<br />
[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] gets to aks a question. After being teased about being unimpulsive, she asks the what if machine the following. What if she was more impulsive?<br />
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Leela buys some boots with "a crazy green stripe". The Professor makes Leela his sole heir because she's "so un-impulsive". She kills the Professor by kicking him into his pit of man eating anteaters to get the money. The Professor's death motivates Zoidberg to begin investigating. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] finds the video will which shows Leela killing the Professor, so she attacks him, chops him up, and puts his remains in the garbage disposal. [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] catches her disposing of the body, so he tries to extort her ("The X makes it sound cool!"). She kills Bender using a microwave and its radioactivity, and she turns Bender into a go-kart. [[Amy Wong|Amy]] insults her by saying that the go-cart is sexier than her, which causes Leela to kill her and stuff the body inside a grandfather clock. <br />
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The remaining staff gather in the Accusing Parlor. Zoidberg attempts to solve the mystery. [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]], [[Scruffy]] and [[Nibbler]] independently realize who the murderer is and meet their demise as they are about to expose Leela, all on the same sword. Zoidberg finally works it out, only because he gets a letter from Bender he wrote before he dies, but Fry leaves before Zoidberg can reveal the killer and Leela kills Zoidberg. Later, Fry works it out. ("Hey Leela, whatcha eating?" Leela: "Lobster.") Leela is able to keep him quiet by doing something really impulsive: having sex with him, which he likes.<br />
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=== Act III: "The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime" ===<br />
[[File:Fry-Hole.jpg|left|thumb|Fry and the [[Fry-hole]] in "The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime".]]<br />
Fry gets to aks a question. Fry's request for a repeat of Bender's question is denied, so he asks: what if he never came to the future?<br />
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Fry makes his fateful delivery to [[I. C. Wiener]] at [[Applied Cryogenics]]. Instead of falling in the freezer, he hits his head. This rips the fabric of space-time, through which we see some of the Planet Express staff. The next day [[Stephen Hawking's head|Stephen Hawking]] drops by [[Panucci's Pizza]]. Fry asks him about the hole in nothing, with "monsters" in it. After work, the [[Vice Presidential Action Rangers]] abduct Fry. The rangers inform him that they have to fix the time-space continuum or the universe will be destroyed. Fry tells his story and it is decided that when he hit his head he should have died, the attempt at murder fails to fix it and the rift in Space-Time reappears, they try to make him enter [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|the tube]] but instead he breaks the glass. This causes the universe to collapse on itself and Fry and the Vice Presidential Action Rangers are floating around outside the universe, they start a game of Dungeons and Dragons.<br />
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The Professor throws away the What-If Machine because he didn't think the stories were realistic, but declares the Fing-Longer a success.<br />
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However, it is revealed that this entire episode is itself being watched on the What-If Machine by the Professor, who wanted to know what life would be like if he'd invented the Fing-Longer.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Promo 2ACV16.jpg|right|thumbnail|[[Promo pic]] of this episode]]<br />
[[File:Centrefold2001.jpg|right|thumbnail|Centrefold - 2001 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
[[File:Promo 2ACV16 (2).png|right|thumbnail|December - 2002 Calendar]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*[[List of products#Admiral Crunch|Admiral Crunch]] has a reappearance in this episode.<br />
*[[Gary Gygax]]'s appearance alongside Al Gore is something of an inside joke since Gore's (now ex-)wife, Tipper Gore, hates {{w|Dungeons & Dragons}} and has been publicly critical of it.<br />
*Al Gore received some criticism for his appearance because parts of the show "conflicted starkly with the anti-violence, anti-smoking and family-values themes of Gore's campaign". Gore's spokesperson responded by stating that most viewers would recognize that the show was meant to be entertaining and that it would be taken in the right spirit.<br />
*When rebroadcast during the {{w|United States presidential election, 2000|2000 Presidential Election}} fiasco, the tagline at the start of the episode said, "Starring a guy who is kind-of, sort-of our next president, maybe!".<br />
*Nichelle Nichols and Al Gore both make later appearances in {{e|4ACV11}} and {{e|4ACV08}} respectively<br />
*Giant Bender's shell seems to be made of bent girders.<br />
*As mentioned on the DVD commentary, the Anthology of Interest episodes came from a desire to tell stories that couldn't be told in normal continuity, similar to {{w|Marvel Comics|Marvel's}} {{w|What If (comics)|What If?}} comics. <br />
*When [[Zoidberg]] is big, he attacks the {{w|Chase Manhattan Bank Building}} for denying his credit card application and the Apollo Theater for booing him offstage on open mike night. These are both references to {{e|2ACV10}} when he is up on stage talking about the [[The Professor]] and the crowd doesn't like him he says it was the {{w|Apollo Theater}} all over again, and {{e|2ACV13}} when he says that they denied his application.<br />
*The first of two Anthologies, the ''Anthology of Interest'' episodes (and to a lesser extent the comics) are equivalent to {{w|Treehouse of Horror (series)|Treehouse of Horror}} on [[Simpsons Connections|The Simpsons]].<br />
*This episode is Scruffy's first speaking appearance.<br />
*Despite his assertions in {{e|2ACV04}} that Fry's 20th century sense of modesty is outdated, The Professor still seems to have accumulated tickets for public nudity (although this may be a result of the What-If-Machine's imagination).<br />
*The Professor calls the final story in this episode absurd, citing "Stephen Hawking in a pizzeria" as especially bad. Interestingly, in an episode of The Simpsons ({{w|Don't Fear the Roofer}}), Stephen Hawking buys a {{w|Little Caesars}} pizzeria.<br />
*Scruffy reappears, although his moustache is now white, not brown like it was when he appeared in {{e|1ACV06}}.<br />
*Al Gore is voiced by himself, making it his first appearance in any TV series of any kind. It is also one of the very rare times that a politician appears as himself on a show.<br />
*When giant Bender rips {{w|Shea Stadium}} from its foundations, a sign indicates that the {{w|New York Mets|Mets}} were the {{w|World Series}} Champions in 1969 and 1986, which means that they won't win between now and the year 3000! This is further stated in the episode {{e|3ACV16}}.<br />
*This episode is one of four featured in the [[Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection]], reflecting its popularity with both fans and the creators of Futurama.<br />
*This episode was named #13 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*When Bender boils Zoidberg inside Shea Stadium, the stadium is a complete bowl. In real life, Shea was open in the outfield (and torn down in 2009). However, considering Old New York was destroyed, this was likely meant to be a completely new Shea Stadium from the one the Mets used from 1964-2008.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
==== Terror at 500 Feet ====<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Will you be my friend?<br />
''[Bender holds out his hand.]''<br />
'''Bender''': Put it there, pal! [Fry shakes his finger.] I meant your wallet.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Friends, help! A guinea pig tricked me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': So, now Zoidberg is big, huh? That's more like it! Who's intimidating who now, big city? [He walks towards a building.] Hello, Mr. Chase Manhattan Bank. Deny my credit card application, will you? [He growls and knocks the building in half. He turns around.] Ah, the famed Apollo Theater. "Boo" me off stage on open-mic night, huh? I'll show you!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Bite my colossal metal ass!</poem><br />
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==== Dial 'L' for Leela ====<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Ohhh! You've killed me! You've killed me!<br />
'''Leela''': Oh, god. What have I done?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': I just told you. You've killed me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': OK, just try to be nonchalant.<br />
''[Cut to: Planet Express: Lounge. Leela walks in whistling nonchalantly.]''<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Alright, so you're nonchalant. Quit rubbing our noses in it.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': What are you hacking off? Is it my torso? It is! My precious torso!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Hermes, quiet! I'm deducing things.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': My first clue came at 4:15 when the clock stopped. My next clue came 2 hours later, at 4:15, when I found Amy's dead deceased body.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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==== The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime ====<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': That question was less stupid. Though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way</poem><br />
<poem>'''Gary Gygax''': Greetings! It's a ''[He rolls his dice.]'' pleasure to meet you!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Al Gore''': If we don't go back there and make the event happen, the entire universe will be destroyed. And as an environmentalist, I'm against that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Al Gore''': You fool! You foolish fool!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Stephen Hawking''': Great, the entire universe was destroyed!<br />
'''Fry''': Destroyed? Then where are we now?<br />
'''Al Gore''': I don't know but I can tell you where we're not. The universe.<br />
'''Nichelle Nichols''': Eternity with nerds. It's the Pasadena Star Trek convention all over again.<br />
'''Gary Gygax''': Anyone want to play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*The Applied Cryogenics scene is missing [[Nibbler's shadow|a certain shadow]] that was seen in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", but that may be explained by the fact that the being that causes the shadow caused him to fall into the tube.<br />
*The DOOP attempts to destroy Bender with something that looks like electricity. Electricity is a known drug for [[robot]]s as seen in "[[Hell Is Other Robots]]".<br />
*[[Fryfro|Fry's afro]] makes, although with a different look, its first appearance since "Hell Is Other Robots". It will appear again in "[[Rebirth]]".<br />
*Zoidberg avenges himself on a bank that denied him a credit card application. He previously mentioned having credit cards (since revoked) in "[[Bender Gets Made]]".<br />
*The anteater spitting the glasses back onto the Professor's skull is a reference to the fact we never see his eyes.<br />
*At first it seems as though Bender is going to ask what it would be like if he were human, but instead he changes it. This foreshadows future events because in the sequel, "[[Anthology of Interest II]]", Bender does ask the What-If machine what it would be like if he were human.<br />
*This is the second time that Leela is seen having sex with somebody out of impulse (the first time being "[[Love's Labours Lost in Space]]" with [[Zapp Brannigan]]) and the first time we see her in bed with Fry. Although, since it was during a What-If scenario, it cannot be regarded as [[canon]].<br />
*Bender says he'd like to "axe" the What-If Machine a question ("[[Xmas Story]]").<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*When Giant Bender first meets Fry, he says that he needs a big cereal. This is a catchphrase from {{w|Honeycomb (cereal)|Honeycomb cereal}} commercials, one of a few references made in the series.<br />
*The Earth forces that try to stop Bender consist of tanks, foot soldiers and futuristic biplanes, this is a reference to the {{w|King Kong (1933 film)|original ''King Kong'' movie}}.<br />
*Bender destroying the city and fighting Giant Zoidberg is a reference to ''{{w|Godzilla (1954 film)|Gojira}}'' and ''{{w|King Kong vs. Godzilla|Kingu Kongu tai Gojira}}''.<br />
*Mr. Panucci says the only 'real' monsters are {{w|The Son of Kong|Son of Kong}}, {{w|Count Dracula|Dracula}} and {{w|Blacula}}<br />
*When giant Bender flies to Earth the song "{{w|Iron Man (song)|Iron Man}}" by {{w|Black Sabbath}} is briefly heard.<br />
*Nichelle Nichols appears as {{w|Uhura}} from ''[[Star Trek]]: {{st|Star Trek: The Original Series|The Original Series}}''.<br />
*Fry asks, "Was Planet Express built on an Indian graveyard?", a reference to the horror movie ''{{w|Poltergeist (film)| Poltergeist}}''.<br />
*"Good night, sweet prince" is a direct and well-known quote from the play ''{{w|Hamlet}}'' by [[William Shakespeare]]; these words are spoken by Horatio as Hamlet dies.<br />
*There are several references about [[Dungeons & Dragons]], including rolling dice to decide what to do, and holding a +1 mace.<br />
*Zoidberg wears the famous hat of the great detective {{w|Sherlock Holmes}}, and "The Accusing Parlor" looks a lot like his home in London from the books.<br />
*The story of a giant robot coming to earth and making friends with a lonely kid is a parody of the story behind ''{{w|The Iron Man (novel)|The Iron Giant}}'' which was made into an {{w|The Iron Giant|animated film}} in 1999.<br />
*One of members of the Vice-Presidential Action Rangers is [[Deep Blue]] which was a computer made by {{w|IBM}} that beat world chess champion {{w|Gary Kasparov}} in 1997.<br />
*The cover of the Monster Manual at the end of the third segment is exactly the same as the original Monster Manual from {{w|Monster manual#1st Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st editon}} from the late 1970s. This particular book was, of course, written by Gygax.<br />
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=== Fast Forward ===<br />
*The events of {{e|3ACV19}} explain the [[timeline]] issues which cause the universe to be destroyed.<br />
*The Professor later invents the [[Fing-Longer]] in {{e|3ACV05}}.<br />
*A sequel to this episode is created, {{e|3ACV18}}.<br />
*Sadly, [[Gary Gygax]] passed away eight years after this episode aired. The film {{f|3}} was dedicated to his memory.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Leela and Bender are amongst the rest of the Planet Express Crew when the rip in space-time forms. This shouldn't be, because Fry was responsible for the two joining Planet Express in the first place. There have been some explanations for this:<br />
**This could just be another inconsistency of the What-If Machine, just like how Nibbler's shadow is missing.<br />
***Nibblers shadow was possibly missing because he was the reason why Fry fell into the tube.<br />
****The Fry-Hole probably brought them their randomly.<br />
*This same mistake was made in the first part of this episode, where Leela works for Planet Express, and Fry isn't assigned a job. This shouldn't be, because Leela would have assigned Fry the job of a Delivery Boy since Bender wasn't there to help Fry escape from her and the police, and because of this, Leela wouldn't have lost her job for making friends with Fry, forcing them to go to Fry's only living relative (Farnsworth), thus making them members of Planet Express, but this may also be an inconsistency of the What-If Machine. Bender would be dead because he would have committed suicide.<br />
**Though Fry and Leela could still have ended up as employees at Planet Express because Fry's attempted escape could still have ensued and could have arrived at the same conclusion without Bender, though without Bender's participation the events leading up to this similar conclusion would have been different. The only major effort on Benders part was the Bending of the bars at the head museum, and they had only attempted to hide there because of Bender's suggestion that it was free on Tuesdays.<br />
*After Fry falls and bumps his head on the freezer door, he gets up and the table he was sat at is now a lot further away from the freezer than it was when he fell and the can isn't in his hand or on the floor.<br />
*Scruffy's moustache and hat keep changing colors throughout the episode.<br />
*Al Gore called Nichelle Nichols ''''Commander Uhura'''', but she only had 1 gold braid which indicates the rank of Lieutenant.<br />
**Al Gore may not have known this. This may also be yet another inconsistency of the What-If Machine.<br />
*Several times throughout the episode, the characters say the word "ask", which was said in Xmas Story to be an archaic term for "ax".<br />
**When the usage of the word "ax" is first brought up, Leela knows that "ask" is an archaic pronunciation, implying that people still know about the pronunciation.<br />
*If Fry hadn't fallen in the cryogenic tube, that means that Nibbler never made the call for I. C. Wiener. Therefore, Fry wouldn't have gone to the cryogenic lab for a delivery at all.<br />
**The reason Fry didn't fall into the tube may have been because Nibbler failed to get to the lab in time, meaning that he still made the call.<br />
*When Leela kills Bender with the microwave, multiple errors can be found:<br />
**When Bender collapses, his now detached eyes are shown as spheres. However, when his eyes move or fall out in other episodes (such as "[[Space Pilot 3000]]" and "[[A Flight to Remember]]"), they are shown to be rounded cylinders.<br />
***Bender's eyes are also spherical in "[[Ghost in the Machines]]".<br />
**When Leela pointed the microwave at Bender and destroyed him with radiation, the microwave was unplugged.<br />
**If a robot was actually hit by microwave radiation, it wouldn't fall apart the way it did.<br />
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***Microwaves in the year [[3001]] may be different from microwaves today.<br />
*When Gygax hands Fry the +1 mace, he is on Fry's right. However, during the wide shot immediately afterwords, Gygax is directly behind Fry.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Abner Doubledeal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Al Gore's head|Al Gore]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Deep Blue]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Gary Gygax]]<br />
*[[Glab]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Hanson]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Narrator]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Nichelle Nichols]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]]<br />
*[[Mr. Panucci]]<br />
*[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Randy Munchnik]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Stephen Hawking]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writers<br />
**[[Eric Rogers]] (Act 1)<br />
**[[Ken Keeler]] (Act 2)<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]] (Act 3)<br />
*Directors<br />
**[[Chris Loudon]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Kath Soucie]]<br />
**[[Frank Welker]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Ken Keeler]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
*Special Guests<br />
**[[Al Gore]]<br />
**[[Gary Gygax]]<br />
**[[Nichelle Nichols]]<br />
**[[Stephen Hawking]]<br />
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|written C by=David X. Cohen<br />
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"'''Anthology of Interest I'''", alternatively titled "'''Tales of Interest'''", is the twenty-ninth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the sixteenth of the [[Season 2|second production season]], the twentieth and the last of the [[Broadcast season 2|second broadcast season]] and the first [[Anthology of Interest]] episode. It aired 21 May, 2000 on FOX. It guest stars [[Al Gore]], [[Stephen Hawking]], [[Nichelle Nichols]] and [[Gary Gygax]] as themselves. The [[What-If Machine]] tells three stories, one in which [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] becomes a 150 feet tall robot, another with [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] being slightly more impulsive and finally what would have happened if [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] never came to the future. And that's what things would have been like if [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]] had invented the [[Fing-Longer]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Terror at 500 Feet" ===<br />
[[File:Anthology.jpg|left|thumbnail|Giant Bender and Zoidberg in "Terror at 500 Feet".]]<br />
[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]] demonstrates his latest invention, the [[Fing-Longer]] by turning on the [[What-If Machine]]. [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] wants to aks it a question. What if he was 500 feet tall?<br />
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Hundreds of [[Bending Units]] complete work on Bender, who blasts off and heads to [[Earth]]. Meanwhile, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] roams New New York lonely and has no friends. Bender lands near Fry and the two become friends. While catching a frisbee, Bender kills the heads of [[Hanson]] and thousands of their fans so the [[Democratic Order of Planets|DOOP]] retaliate. They begin attacking Bender. They are so focused on stopping Bender that they shoot Fry with electricity when he tries to stop the fighting. This causes Bender to go on a rampage and destroy every building that he can find in New New York. Noticing the carnage, The Professor enlarges [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] so that he can fight Bender on equal ground. However, Zoidberg also has issues and begins destroying New New York. This causes a turf war between the two giants. While Bender attempts to boil Zoidberg, Fry walks up wanting to make Shrinky-Dinks. While Bender is distracted, Zoidberg cuts Bender's feet off and he is impaled on the [[Empire State Building]], slowly killing him. Fry admonishes everyone for their part in the tragedy, while Bender laments that he was unable to fulfill his dream of killing all humans before dying.<br />
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=== Act II: "Dial L for Leela" ===<br />
[[File:Sex-Leela.jpg|left|thumbnail|Leela, sleeping with Fry in "Dial L for Leela".]]<br />
[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] gets to aks a question. After being teased about being unimpulsive, she asks the what if machine the following. What if she was more impulsive?<br />
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Leela buys some boots with "a crazy green stripe". The Professor makes Leela his sole heir because she's "so un-impulsive". She kills the Professor by kicking him into his pit of man eating anteaters to get the money. The Professor's death motivates Zoidberg to begin investigating. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] finds the video will which shows Leela killing the Professor, so she attacks him, chops him up, and puts his remains in the garbage disposal. [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] catches her disposing of the body, so he tries to extort her ("The X makes it sound cool!"). She kills Bender using a microwave and its radioactivity, and she turns Bender into a go-kart. [[Amy Wong|Amy]] insults her by saying that the go-cart is sexier than her, which causes Leela to kill her and stuff the body inside a grandfather clock. <br />
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The remaining staff gather in the Accusing Parlor. Zoidberg attempts to solve the mystery. [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]], [[Scruffy]] and [[Nibbler]] independently realize who the murderer is and meet their demise as they are about to expose Leela, all on the same sword. Zoidberg finally works it out, only because he gets a letter from Bender he wrote before he dies, but Fry leaves before Zoidberg can reveal the killer and Leela kills Zoidberg. Later, Fry works it out. ("Hey Leela, whatcha eating?" Leela: "Lobster.") Leela is able to keep him quiet by doing something really impulsive: having sex with him, which he likes.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime" ===<br />
[[File:Fry-Hole.jpg|left|thumb|Fry and the [[Fry-hole]] in "The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime".]]<br />
Fry gets to aks a question. Fry's request for a repeat of Bender's question is denied, so he asks: what if he never came to the future?<br />
<br />
Fry makes his fateful delivery to [[I. C. Wiener]] at [[Applied Cryogenics]]. Instead of falling in the freezer, he hits his head. This rips the fabric of space-time, through which we see some of the Planet Express staff. The next day [[Stephen Hawking's head|Stephen Hawking]] drops by [[Panucci's Pizza]]. Fry asks him about the hole in nothing, with "monsters" in it. After work, the [[Vice Presidential Action Rangers]] abduct Fry. The rangers inform him that they have to fix the time-space continuum or the universe will be destroyed. Fry tells his story and it is decided that when he hit his head he should have died, the attempt at murder fails to fix it and the rift in Space-Time reappears, they try to make him enter [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|the tube]] but instead he breaks the glass. This causes the universe to collapse on itself and Fry and the Vice Presidential Action Rangers are floating around outside the universe, they start a game of Dungeons and Dragons.<br />
<br />
The Professor throws away the What-If Machine because he didn't think the stories were realistic, but declares the Fing-Longer a success.<br />
<br />
However, it is revealed that this entire episode is itself being watched on the What-If Machine by the Professor, who wanted to know what life would be like if he'd invented the Fing-Longer.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Promo 2ACV16.jpg|right|thumbnail|[[Promo pic]] of this episode]]<br />
[[File:Centrefold2001.jpg|right|thumbnail|Centrefold - 2001 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
[[File:Promo 2ACV16 (2).png|right|thumbnail|December - 2002 Calendar]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*[[List of products#Admiral Crunch|Admiral Crunch]] has a reappearance in this episode.<br />
*[[Gary Gygax]]'s appearance alongside Al Gore is something of an inside joke since Gore's (now ex-)wife, Tipper Gore, hates {{w|Dungeons & Dragons}} and has been publicly critical of it.<br />
*Al Gore received some criticism for his appearance because parts of the show "conflicted starkly with the anti-violence, anti-smoking and family-values themes of Gore's campaign". Gore's spokesperson responded by stating that most viewers would recognize that the show was meant to be entertaining and that it would be taken in the right spirit.<br />
*When rebroadcast during the {{w|United States presidential election, 2000|2000 Presidential Election}} fiasco, the tagline at the start of the episode said, "Starring a guy who is kind-of, sort-of our next president, maybe!".<br />
*Nichelle Nichols and Al Gore both make later appearances in {{e|4ACV11}} and {{e|4ACV08}} respectively<br />
*Giant Bender's shell seems to be made of bent girders.<br />
*As mentioned on the DVD commentary, the Anthology of Interest episodes came from a desire to tell stories that couldn't be told in normal continuity, similar to {{w|Marvel Comics|Marvel's}} {{w|What If (comics)|What If?}} comics. <br />
*When [[Zoidberg]] is big, he attacks the {{w|Chase Manhattan Bank Building}} for denying his credit card application and the Apollo Theater for booing him offstage on open mike night. These are both references to {{e|2ACV10}} when he is up on stage talking about the [[The Professor]] and the crowd doesn't like him he says it was the {{w|Apollo Theater}} all over again, and {{e|2ACV13}} when he says that they denied his application.<br />
*The first of two Anthologies, the ''Anthology of Interest'' episodes (and to a lesser extent the comics) are equivalent to {{w|Treehouse of Horror (series)|Treehouse of Horror}} on [[Simpsons Connections|The Simpsons]].<br />
*This episode is Scruffy's first speaking appearance.<br />
*Despite his assertions in {{e|2ACV04}} that Fry's 20th century sense of modesty is outdated, The Professor still seems to have accumulated tickets for public nudity (although this may be a result of the What-If-Machine's imagination).<br />
*The Professor calls the final story in this episode absurd, citing "Stephen Hawking in a pizzeria" as especially bad. Interestingly, in an episode of The Simpsons ({{w|Don't Fear the Roofer}}), Stephen Hawking buys a {{w|Little Caesars}} pizzeria.<br />
*Scruffy reappears, although his moustache is now white, not brown like it was when he appeared in {{e|1ACV06}}.<br />
*Al Gore is voiced by himself, making it his first appearance in any TV series of any kind. It is also one of the very rare times that a politician appears as himself on a show.<br />
*When giant Bender rips {{w|Shea Stadium}} from its foundations, a sign indicates that the {{w|New York Mets|Mets}} were the {{w|World Series}} Champions in 1969 and 1986, which means that they won't win between now and the year 3000! This is further stated in the episode {{e|3ACV16}}.<br />
*This episode is one of four featured in the [[Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection]], reflecting its popularity with both fans and the creators of Futurama.<br />
*This episode was named #13 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*When Bender boils Zoidberg inside Shea Stadium, the stadium is a complete bowl. In real life, Shea was open in the outfield (and torn down in 2009). However, considering Old New York was destroyed, this was likely meant to be a completely new Shea Stadium from the one the Mets used from 1964-2008.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
==== Terror at 500 Feet ====<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Will you be my friend?<br />
''[Bender holds out his hand.]''<br />
'''Bender''': Put it there, pal! [Fry shakes his finger.] I meant your wallet.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Friends, help! A guinea pig tricked me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': So, now Zoidberg is big, huh? That's more like it! Who's intimidating who now, big city? [He walks towards a building.] Hello, Mr. Chase Manhattan Bank. Deny my credit card application, will you? [He growls and knocks the building in half. He turns around.] Ah, the famed Apollo Theater. "Boo" me off stage on open-mic night, huh? I'll show you!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Bite my colossal metal ass!</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
==== Dial 'L' for Leela ====<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Ohhh! You've killed me! You've killed me!<br />
'''Leela''': Oh, god. What have I done?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': I just told you. You've killed me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': OK, just try to be nonchalant.<br />
''[Cut to: Planet Express: Lounge. Leela walks in whistling nonchalantly.]''<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Alright, so you're nonchalant. Quit rubbing our noses in it.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': What are you hacking off? Is it my torso? It is! My precious torso!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Hermes, quiet! I'm deducing things.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': My first clue came at 4:15 when the clock stopped. My next clue came 2 hours later, at 4:15, when I found Amy's dead deceased body.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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==== The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime ====<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': That question was less stupid. Though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way</poem><br />
<poem>'''Gary Gygax''': Greetings! It's a ''[He rolls his dice.]'' pleasure to meet you!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Al Gore''': If we don't go back there and make the event happen, the entire universe will be destroyed. And as an environmentalist, I'm against that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Al Gore''': You fool! You foolish fool!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Stephen Hawking''': Great, the entire universe was destroyed!<br />
'''Fry''': Destroyed? Then where are we now?<br />
'''Al Gore''': I don't know but I can tell you where we're not. The universe.<br />
'''Nichelle Nichols''': Eternity with nerds. It's the Pasadena Star Trek convention all over again.<br />
'''Gary Gygax''': Anyone want to play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*The Applied Cryogenics scene is missing [[Nibbler's shadow|a certain shadow]] that was seen in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", but that may be explained by the fact that the being that causes the shadow caused him to fall into the tube.<br />
*The DOOP attempts to destroy Bender with something that looks like electricity. Electricity is a known drug for [[robot]]s as seen in "[[Hell Is Other Robots]]".<br />
*[[Fryfro|Fry's afro]] makes, although with a different look, its first appearance since "Hell Is Other Robots". It will appear again in "[[Rebirth]]".<br />
*Zoidberg avenges himself on a bank that denied him a credit card application. He previously mentioned having credit cards (since revoked) in "[[Bender Gets Made]]".<br />
*The anteater spitting the glasses back onto the Professor's skull is a reference to the fact we never see his eyes.<br />
*At first it seems as though Bender is going to ask what it would be like if he were human, but instead he changes it. This foreshadows future events because in the sequel, "[[Anthology of Interest II]]", Bender does ask the What-If machine what it would be like if he were human.<br />
*This is the second time that Leela is seen having sex with somebody out of impulse (the first time being "[[Love's Labours Lost in Space]]" with [[Zapp Brannigan]]) and the first time we see her in bed with Fry. Although, since it was during a What-If scenario, it cannot be regarded as [[canon]].<br />
*Bender says he'd like to "axe" the What-If Machine a question ("[[Xmas Story]]").<br />
<br />
=== Allusions ===<br />
*When Giant Bender first meets Fry, he says that he needs a big cereal. This is a catchphrase from {{w|Honeycomb (cereal)|Honeycomb cereal}} commercials, one of a few references made in the series.<br />
*The Earth forces that try to stop Bender consist of tanks, foot soldiers and futuristic biplanes, this is a reference to the {{w|King Kong (1933 film)|original ''King Kong'' movie}}.<br />
*Bender destroying the city and fighting Giant Zoidberg is a reference to ''{{w|Godzilla (1954 film)|Gojira}}'' and ''{{w|King Kong vs. Godzilla|Kingu Kongu tai Gojira}}''.<br />
*Mr. Panucci says the only 'real' monsters are {{w|The Son of Kong|Son of Kong}}, {{w|Count Dracula|Dracula}} and {{w|Blacula}}<br />
*When giant Bender flies to Earth the song "{{w|Iron Man (song)|Iron Man}}" by {{w|Black Sabbath}} is briefly heard.<br />
*Nichelle Nichols appears as {{w|Uhura}} from ''[[Star Trek]]: {{st|Star Trek: The Original Series|The Original Series}}''.<br />
*Fry asks, "Was Planet Express built on an Indian graveyard?", a reference to the horror movie ''{{w|Poltergeist (film)| Poltergeist}}''.<br />
*"Good night, sweet prince" is a direct and well-known quote from the play ''{{w|Hamlet}}'' by [[William Shakespeare]]; these words are spoken by Horatio as Hamlet dies.<br />
*There are several references about [[Dungeons & Dragons]], including rolling dice to decide what to do, and holding a +1 mace.<br />
*Zoidberg wears the famous hat of the great detective {{w|Sherlock Holmes}}, and "The Accusing Parlor" looks a lot like his home in London from the books.<br />
*The story of a giant robot coming to earth and making friends with a lonely kid is a parody of the story behind ''{{w|The Iron Man (novel)|The Iron Giant}}'' which was made into an {{w|The Iron Giant|animated film}} in 1999.<br />
*One of members of the Vice-Presidential Action Rangers is [[Deep Blue]] which was a computer made by {{w|IBM}} that beat world chess champion {{w|Gary Kasparov}} in 1997.<br />
*The cover of the Monster Manual at the end of the third segment is exactly the same as the original Monster Manual from {{w|Monster manual#1st Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st editon}} from the late 1970s. This particular book was, of course, written by Gygax.<br />
<br />
=== Fast Forward ===<br />
*The events of {{e|3ACV19}} explain the [[timeline]] issues which cause the universe to be destroyed.<br />
*The Professor later invents the [[Fing-Longer]] in {{e|3ACV05}}.<br />
*A sequel to this episode is created, {{e|3ACV18}}.<br />
*Sadly, [[Gary Gygax]] passed away eight years after this episode aired. The film {{f|3}} was dedicated to his memory.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*Leela and Bender are amongst the rest of the Planet Express Crew when the rip in space-time forms. This shouldn't be, because Fry was responsible for the two joining Planet Express in the first place. There have been some explanations for this:<br />
**This could just be another inconsistency of the What-If Machine, just like how Nibbler's shadow is missing.<br />
***Nibblers shadow was possibly missing because he was the reason why Fry fell into the tube.<br />
****The Fry-Hole probably brought them their randomly.<br />
*This same mistake was made in the first part of this episode, where Leela works for Planet Express, and Fry isn't assigned a job. This shouldn't be, because Leela would have assigned Fry the job of a Delivery Boy since Bender wasn't there to help Fry escape from her and the police, and because of this, Leela wouldn't have lost her job for making friends with Fry, forcing them to go to Fry's only living relative (Farnsworth), thus making them members of Planet Express, but this may also be an inconsistency of the What-If Machine. Bender would be dead because he would have committed suicide.<br />
**Though Fry and Leela could still have ended up as employees at Planet Express because Fry's attempted escape could still have ensued and could have arrived at the same conclusion without Bender, though without Bender's participation the events leading up to this similar conclusion would have been different. The only major effort on Benders part was the Bending of the bars at the head museum, and they had only attempted to hide there because of Bender's suggestion that it was free on Tuesdays.<br />
*After Fry falls and bumps his head on the freezer door, he gets up and the table he was sat at is now a lot further away from the freezer than it was when he fell and the can isn't in his hand or on the floor.<br />
*Scruffy's moustache and hat keep changing colors throughout the episode.<br />
*Al Gore called Nichelle Nichols ''''Commander Uhura'''', but she only had 1 gold braid which indicates the rank of Lieutenant.<br />
**Al Gore may not have known this. This may also be yet another inconsistency of the What-If Machine.<br />
*Several times throughout the episode, the characters say the word "ask", which was said in Xmas Story to be an archaic term for "ax".<br />
**When the usage of the word "ax" is first brought up, Leela knows that "ask" is an archaic pronunciation, implying that people still know about the pronunciation.<br />
*If Fry hadn't fallen in the cryogenic tube, that means that Nibbler never made the call for I. C. Wiener. Therefore, Fry wouldn't have gone to the cryogenic lab for a delivery at all.<br />
**The reason Fry didn't fall into the tube may have been because Nibbler failed to get to the lab in time, meaning that he still made the call.<br />
*When Leela kills Bender with the microwave, multiple errors can be found:<br />
**When Bender collapses, his now detached eyes are shown as spheres. However, when his eyes move or fall out in other episodes (such as "[[Space Pilot 3000]]" and "[[A Flight to Remember]]"), they are shown to be rounded cylinders.<br />
<!-- ***That may be when he's alive or his eyes can extend into cylinders after they fall out.<br />
****This is almost defiantly not true, as every other time his eyes have come out, they have been rounded cylinders. --><br />
***Bender's eyes are also spherical in "[[Ghost in the Machines]]".<br />
**When Leela pointed the microwave at Bender and destroyed him with radiation, the microwave was unplugged.<br />
**If a robot was actually hit by microwave radiation, it wouldn't fall apart the way it did.<br />
***Microwaves in the year [[3001]] may be different from microwaves today.<br />
*When Gygax hands Fry the +1 mace, he is on Fry's right. However, during the wide shot immediately afterwords, Gygax is directly behind Fry.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Abner Doubledeal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Al Gore's head|Al Gore]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Deep Blue]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Gary Gygax]]<br />
*[[Glab]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Hanson]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Narrator]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Nichelle Nichols]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]]<br />
*[[Mr. Panucci]]<br />
*[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Randy Munchnik]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Stephen Hawking]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writers<br />
**[[Eric Rogers]] (Act 1)<br />
**[[Ken Keeler]] (Act 2)<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]] (Act 3)<br />
*Directors<br />
**[[Chris Loudon]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Kath Soucie]]<br />
**[[Frank Welker]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Ken Keeler]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
*Special Guests<br />
**[[Al Gore]]<br />
**[[Gary Gygax]]<br />
**[[Nichelle Nichols]]<br />
**[[Stephen Hawking]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|type=t<br />
|image=[[File:Censored couple.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=Next to [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] {{et|1ACV01}}.<br />
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|origin=Probably [[Earth]]<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV01}}<br />
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The '''censored couple''' is a group of [[cameo]] [[characters]] consisting of two [[humans]], a male and a female, who wear transparent clothes and whose private parts are covered with black bars. They have been in [[New New York]] {{et|1ACV01}} and in [[Los Angeles]] {{et|2ACV19}}, also attending the [[violet dwarf star implosion]] ceremony in slightly deep space ([[Into the Wild Green Yonder|ITWGY]]), and the [[Parade Day]] Parade {{et|6ACV19}}.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Alien Overlord & Taylor front.jpg|thumb|left|Outside [[Alien Overlord & Taylor]].]]<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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*{{e|1ACV01}}<br />
*{{e|1ACV06}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV19}}<br />
*{{f|4}} ([[audience scene]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV19}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV04}}<br />
*{{e|7ACV02}}<br />
*{{e|7ACV03}} (Woman only)<br />
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[[Category:Humans]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Parasites_Lost&diff=115165Parasites Lost2012-07-06T19:50:40Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Quotes */</p>
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|name=Parasites Lost<br />
|no=34<br />
|image=[[File:Parasites Lost.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV02<br />
|caption=If not entertaining, write your congressman<br />
|first aired=21 January, 2001<br />
|written by=Eric Kaplan<br />
|directed by=Peter Avanzino<br />
|title reference=''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon={{w|Ub Iwerks}} "''Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp''" (1934)<br />
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|broadcast number=S03E04<br />
|nomination='''Emmy Awards'''<br />Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, 2001, [[Rodney Clouden]] (storyboard artist) '''(won)'''<br />
|prev ep=Amazon Women in the Mood<br />
|next ep=A Tale of Two Santas<br />
|broad prev=The Cryonic Woman<br />
|broad next=Amazon Women in the Mood<br />
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"'''Parasites Lost'''" is the thirty-fourth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the second of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 21 January, 2001 on FOX. After obtaining worms from a truck stop sandwich, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] finally obtains the affection of [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], but he is concerned whether she loves him or what the worms have made of him.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "She's got more meat than a cow!" ===<br />
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[[File:Deleted Scene (030204).png|thumb|left|Leela and Sal at the gas station]]<br />
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The [[Planet Express Ship]] pulls over for a fuel stop. Lighting his cigar while refuelling on ethanol and tonic, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] blows himself up. In the men's room, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] buys an egg-salad sandwich. While eating the sandwich, Fry makes several comments about how terrible it tastes, ("It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up"), but also says that he has had worse. While Fry finishes his sandwich, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] starts to clean the windshield of the Planet Express Ship, removing, among other things, the Voyager Probe. Several truckers (including [[Sal]] and [[Hoschel]]) make derogatory, sexist comments toward Leela as she cleans the ship, and Fry attempts to defend her, but only ends up insulting her further.<br />
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Back at the [[Planet Express|Planet Express building]] Fry despairs over being unable to please Leela. This despair is interrupted when he and Bender go to fix the [[plasma-fusion boiler]], which [[Scruffy]] is unable to fix due to a "schedule conflict". However, since they are unqualified to make such repairs, the boiler explodes, lodging a lead pipe in Fry's abdomen. During an examination from Dr. Zoidberg, who claims that it is normal for your lead pipe to hurt, the pipe is cut in half mysteriously, and the holes in Fry's abdomen seal themselves.<br />
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Dr. Zoidberg gives Fry a more thorough examination, which the rest of the crew watches behind a 2-way mirror and on a video screen, while eating popcorn. Hermes eats his popcorn using a Jai Alai scoop, because Fry has been eating all the silverware. During Fry's colonoscopy, it is revealed that there is a [[Worms of Colón|colony of parasitic worms]] living in Fry's bowels, within a city made of the silverware Fry ate. The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] reveals that the only way to get rid of the parasites is to enter Fry using a microscopic version of the Planet Express Ship. After learning of their journey, Bender calls shotgun, to the disappointment of Dr. Zoidberg.<br />
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=== Act II: "Nobody make a smell!" ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Microdroidmachine.png|thumb|left|Zoidberg being scanned to create a micro-droid of himself.]]<br />
<br />
The Professor creates [[Micro-Droid Machine|micro-droids]] for each crew member, which, apparently, are cheaper than shrinking them. The micro-droids are controlled via [[Net Suit|net suits]].<br />
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The Professor lays out the plan, which involves entering through Fry's ear, and travelling through his systems until they reach the pelvic splanchnic ganglion. Irritation of the ganglion will expel the parasites, among other things, from Fry. The force of the expulsion, according to the Professor, will make Fry lucky to still have his bones afterwards. Fry cannot be warned of the plan, however, as the worms know everything he knows. Leela distracts Fry long enough to launch the miniature Planet Express ship into his ear. In order to keep him distracted, Leela proposes taking a walk.<br />
<br />
The Planet Express Crew discovers that the worms are actually giving Fry a mental and physical upgrade making him smarter, stronger, and more coordinated. As they were navigating through the nasal passage, Fry sniffed a rose, which he gave to Leela. This bombarded the Planet Express Ship with pollen, prompting Zoidberg to suggest they escape through a nasal capillary. This surprises everyone, as it's the first time he's expressed any ''correct'' knowledge of human anatomy. He reveals, however, that he learned it from a decongestant commercial.<br />
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The nasal capillary takes the crew into the heart, or "love muscle", as the Professor calls it. Dr. Zoidberg's usual lack of knowledge of human anatomy returns as he mentions that the heart is where food is digested. The crew will be safe as long as nothing causes Fry's heart to beat faster, according to the Professor. Unbeknown to the crew, Fry is stepping into a puddle to help Leela avoid getting her feet wet. Upon taking his hand, his heart starts to beat faster, causing Bender to panic. Professor Farnsworth sets a course for a cholesterol-encrusted valve, in an attempt to avoid certain doom.<br />
<br />
After leaving the heart, the ship passes a group of worms jazzercising Fry's muscles, making him as strong and flexible as Gumbercules. Outside of Fry's body, while on their walk, Leela sees Sal, and suggests they cross the street and blend in with a group of pimps. Fry confronts Sal, demanding an apology. Leela protests, saying that he is "bulging with what could be muscles." Fry tears off his shirt, revealing his newfound strength, which interests Leela. After a short confrontation, being disarmed and defeated, Sal apologizes to Leela.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Worms to battle stations!" ===<br />
The Planet Express Ship sets off a proximity alarm as they neared the stomach, and several worm sentry ships converge and open fire on the Planet Express Ship. After taking a couple hits from the worm fighters, Bender tries to abandon ship through the emergency exit (for the third time), but is restrained by Hermes and Zoidberg. Ahead, the entrance to the stomach is starting to close, and barely make it through, thanks to the help of the worm fighters. They arrive in the bowel and begin an assault on the worm city.<br />
<br />
At a coffee-shop across the street from Planet Express, Fry finally shares his feelings with Leela, which he was previously not able to articulate. Leela realizes that the worms may have something to do with the new Fry, and runs off to the Planet Express building.<br />
<br />
Just before reaching the ganglion, Zoidberg enters the room, revealing that, although Fry was sterilized by the professor's F-Ray ([[Fry and the Slurm Factory|1ACV13]]), the worms were able to repair the damage. Leela scans herself to create a micro-droid for herself, and enters Fry by shooting herself into his cup of coffee. Before the others can stimulate the ganglion, Leela arrives and destroys her micro-droid co-workers with a fire axe.<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "Obviously, you've never been in love!" ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Holophonor.jpg|thumb|left|Fry playing the holophonor]]<br />
<br />
After destroying the microscopic versions of the crew, Leela takes off her net-suit and tells the Professor that Fry might be better off with the worms. Fry enters the room and demands an explanation.<br />
<br />
After receiving his explanation, Fry says that the worms are the best parasites he's ever had. Later, Leela takes Fry to her apartment, where pulls out a [[holophonor]], one of the most difficult instruments in the universe. He plays, and the hologram shows Fry and Leela in a variety of forms, dancing across the universe. Without saying a word, Leela takes Fry into the bedroom, where says she loves what Fry has become. Fry realizes she may not love him for who he truly is, but instead, for what the worms have made him into. He returns to the Planet Express building and makes a micro-droid of himself, which he drops into the back of his pants.<br />
<br />
Inside his own bowel, Fry confronts the Lord Mayor of Col&oacute;n. Fry explains his situation and asks the worms to leave, but the Lord Mayor refuses, citing that he came in on the sandwich and raised a cloud of spores in Fry's bowel. Fry and the Lord Mayor engage in a sword fight, which takes them to Fry's brain. Fry threatens to injure himself to evict the worms. They call his bluff, but he cuts several connections within his brain, including the hand-eye coordination lobe. The Lord Mayor explains that he has only damaged his brain to the extent of a week of binge drinking or 5 minutes of cell phone use. He reaches the medulla oblongata, and threatens to kill himself if they do not leave. After a brief standoff, the worms agree to leave, but give him a promise that they will find their way back--"Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special? Yo."<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I'm still seduced from before." ===<br />
Fry returns to Leela's apartment. He asks to play the holophonor, but Leela protests, saying that she was still seduced from earlier. He insists and starts playing, creating a Frankenstein-like monster. Leela asks what it was supposed to mean, to which Fry responds 'I don't know. I got nervous and started thinking about neck bolts." Leela realizes he's become an idiot again. Fry asks for a chance to prove that it was him, not the worms that made her love him. Fry pulls out a baggie of massage oil and offers to give her the massage he used to give Amy. Leela, covering herself, shoves the holophonor in his face and tells him to leave.<br />
<br />
Later that night, Fry begins his first lesson on the holophonor, creating a rudimentary hologram of Leela.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:September2002calendar.JPG|thumb|September - 2002 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
[[File:April2007calendar.JPG|thumb|April - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The episode's title is a play on words from the epic poem ''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}.<br />
*Opening scene is shown to be on Historic Route 66 (expressed mathmatically).<br />
*Fuel available at Greasy Sue's Greasy Truck Stop is Light Matter, Dark Matter, Wassa Matter, Ethanol and Ethanol & Tonic.<br />
*Sign in men's room reads "All Employees Must Wipe Hands on Pants".<br />
*Leela's apartment is a spoof of the old {{w|Hitachi Maxell|Maxell}} commercials, which featured a similar setting.<br />
*These areas of Fry's body are listed on the elevator:<br />
**Brain.<br />
**Lungs.<br />
**Liver.<br />
**Ball Room.<br />
*Directly after Fry defeats the [[Worms of Colón|worms]] and they are leaving his brain, he can be seen performing a fairly common fencing salute.<br />
*This episode is named #4 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p3.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #5 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This has the least number of characters of any episode, with only 12 characters.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*When Fry first walks into Leela's apartment, its walls are white, though when Fry walks out the walls are yellow.<br />
*When Fry and Leela are dancing at the beginning of the first holophonor visualisation, the rotating planet behind them clearly loops through its animation.<br />
*Fry mentions that Leela has "more meat than a [[cow]]." Sal laughs and says "more meat than a cow" as well. However, according to "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]", cows are extinct.<br />
**Just because an animal is extinct, it doesn't mean that nobody knows about it anymore.<br />
*The Planet Express ship seems to be able to work in the fluids of Fry's body. But in "[[The Deep South]]", the ship doesn't work under water.<br />
**Not actually the Planet Express ship, but rather a microscopic version of it, just as the characters are all microscopic robot versions of them.<br />
*The Professor said the worms know everything Fry knows, however they do not know who he was when he entered his body nor did they know he was going to damage his own brain.<br />
**It's unlikely though that he meant all the worms would immediately know everything Fry did. Rather, it may just be that the worm community would have access to all of Fry's knowledge, but that doesn't imply that they'd all know what he looked like or what he was thinking (any more than having access to medical text books makes us all doctors).<br />
*If all the damage Fry ended up doing to himself was no worse than some binge drinking, he should still be pretty smart and able even after the worms left, but he immediately reverts back to being the old Fry.<br />
**Perhaps due to Fry's lack of a Delta brainwave his brain requires constant supervision to be kept smart.<br />
*Sal seems very out of character at one point during this episode, as he pulls out a knife and goes to attack Fry just because he was asked to apologise to Leela.<br />
**This isn't a goof, Sal just went crazy out of pride.<br />
<br />
*In the shot of the bloodstream, the Planet Express Ship was shown to be the size of a red blood cell. If this were true, they would be microscopic. Therefor, Leela would not be able to see them, let alone pick them up to shoot them into Fry's ear.<br />
<br />
=== Broadcast On BBC Two And Another Time Change ===<br />
This was the first episode of Season 3 to be shown on BBC Two, but they had the feeling they should change the time it was on yet again, because many child viewers were in bed by 10pm on Thursdays. So they changed the time from Thursdays at 10pm to Saturdays at 5pm.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes === <br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Leela''': You're not gonna eat a sandwich from a truck stop men's room are you?<br />
'''Fry''': What's the worst thing that can happen... ewww, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sal''': Stands back. I’m gonna puts my moves on her. ''[He hoots at Leela.]''<br />
'''Fry''': That jerk. No one hoots at my captain unless they’re prepared to take it to the next level.<br />
'''Leela''': Fry, please. That’s sweet, but I'd rather not even dignify them with an ass-whupping.<br />
'''Sal''': Yo, sexy mama! Let’s get busy and freaky, in that order.<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, jumbo! How would you like it if Leela said ''you'' were sexy and she wanted to make love with ''you''?<br />
'''Sal''': Eh, I’ve gots five minutes. She looks pretty good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Fry''': You take that back! She does ''not'' look good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Sal''': Yeah, you’re right. She don’t gots enough meat for a guy like me.<br />
'''Fry''': She does too! She’s loaded with meat! She’s got more meat than a cow!</poem><br />
<poem>''[Part of the boiler flies off. Fry and Bender gasp. Steam starts filling the room.]''<br />
'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived. ''[He continues looking at the magazine.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Ahh, the hypochondriac's back, so what is it this time?<br />
'''Fry''': Well, my lead pipe hurts a little.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': That's normal, next patient!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Hmm. We'll need to have a look inside you with this camera. ''[He holds up an endoscope. Fry opens his mouth.]'' Guess again.<br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Yo old guy, why do we have to use those tiny micro droids? Can't you just shrink us?<br />
'''Professor''': Oh my no, that would require extremely tiny atoms, have you priced those lately? I'm not made of money! Leave me alone</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Let's just pray nothing stimulates the delicate smell receptors. ''[whispering]'' Nobody make a smell.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Yippeekayaye! You'll never guess where I've been! ''[Comes in riding one of Fry's sperm.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Apartment 1I. The old me would have made a joke about that!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Who controls this bowel?<br />
'''Worm Guard #1''': Who wants to know?<br />
''[Fry points at a gold statue of himself. Underneath the statue is the inscription "The Known Universe". The statue is in the same pointing pose as Fry is. The worms gasp and bow.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Worm Mayor''': You've damaged your brain, Universe, but no more than a week of binge drinking or five minutes on a cell phone.</poem><br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV13}}<br />
**Fry was sterilized by the [[F-Ray]], but the worms apparently fixed his sperm problems.<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
**Fry mentions his massage he gave to Amy when he was going out with her.<br />
*{{e|4ACV18}}<br />
**Fry plays the [[holophonor]] again with the help of another [[Robot Devil|outside force]].<br />
<br />
=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
<br />
[[File:ALS-03-02-01.jpg|thumb|right|"HUMAN MILK"]]<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 00:32 <br><br />
'''Location''': Truck<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': HUMAN MILK<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 09:48<br><br />
'''Location''': Construction site<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': WATCH FOR FALLING HUMANS<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Worms of colon|Lord Mayor Worm]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' Waitress<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Scott Vanzo]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|number=3ACV02<br />
|caption=If not entertaining, write your congressman<br />
|first aired=21 January, 2001<br />
|written by=Eric Kaplan<br />
|directed by=Peter Avanzino<br />
|title reference=''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}<br />
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"'''Parasites Lost'''" is the thirty-fourth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the second of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 21 January, 2001 on FOX. After obtaining worms from a truck stop sandwich, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] finally obtains the affection of [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], but he is concerned whether she loves him or what the worms have made of him.<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "She's got more meat than a cow!" ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Deleted Scene (030204).png|thumb|left|Leela and Sal at the gas station]]<br />
<br />
The [[Planet Express Ship]] pulls over for a fuel stop. Lighting his cigar while refuelling on ethanol and tonic, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] blows himself up. In the men's room, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] buys an egg-salad sandwich. While eating the sandwich, Fry makes several comments about how terrible it tastes, ("It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up"), but also says that he has had worse. While Fry finishes his sandwich, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] starts to clean the windshield of the Planet Express Ship, removing, among other things, the Voyager Probe. Several truckers (including [[Sal]] and [[Hoschel]]) make derogatory, sexist comments toward Leela as she cleans the ship, and Fry attempts to defend her, but only ends up insulting her further.<br />
<br />
Back at the [[Planet Express|Planet Express building]] Fry despairs over being unable to please Leela. This despair is interrupted when he and Bender go to fix the [[plasma-fusion boiler]], which [[Scruffy]] is unable to fix due to a "schedule conflict". However, since they are unqualified to make such repairs, the boiler explodes, lodging a lead pipe in Fry's abdomen. During an examination from Dr. Zoidberg, who claims that it is normal for your lead pipe to hurt, the pipe is cut in half mysteriously, and the holes in Fry's abdomen seal themselves.<br />
<br />
Dr. Zoidberg gives Fry a more thorough examination, which the rest of the crew watches behind a 2-way mirror and on a video screen, while eating popcorn. Hermes eats his popcorn using a Jai Alai scoop, because Fry has been eating all the silverware. During Fry's colonoscopy, it is revealed that there is a [[Worms of Colón|colony of parasitic worms]] living in Fry's bowels, within a city made of the silverware Fry ate. The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] reveals that the only way to get rid of the parasites is to enter Fry using a microscopic version of the Planet Express Ship. After learning of their journey, Bender calls shotgun, to the disappointment of Dr. Zoidberg.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Nobody make a smell!" ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Microdroidmachine.png|thumb|left|Zoidberg being scanned to create a micro-droid of himself.]]<br />
<br />
The Professor creates [[Micro-Droid Machine|micro-droids]] for each crew member, which, apparently, are cheaper than shrinking them. The micro-droids are controlled via [[Net Suit|net suits]].<br />
<br />
The Professor lays out the plan, which involves entering through Fry's ear, and travelling through his systems until they reach the pelvic splanchnic ganglion. Irritation of the ganglion will expel the parasites, among other things, from Fry. The force of the expulsion, according to the Professor, will make Fry lucky to still have his bones afterwards. Fry cannot be warned of the plan, however, as the worms know everything he knows. Leela distracts Fry long enough to launch the miniature Planet Express ship into his ear. In order to keep him distracted, Leela proposes taking a walk.<br />
<br />
The Planet Express Crew discovers that the worms are actually giving Fry a mental and physical upgrade making him smarter, stronger, and more coordinated. As they were navigating through the nasal passage, Fry sniffed a rose, which he gave to Leela. This bombarded the Planet Express Ship with pollen, prompting Zoidberg to suggest they escape through a nasal capillary. This surprises everyone, as it's the first time he's expressed any ''correct'' knowledge of human anatomy. He reveals, however, that he learned it from a decongestant commercial.<br />
<br />
The nasal capillary takes the crew into the heart, or "love muscle", as the Professor calls it. Dr. Zoidberg's usual lack of knowledge of human anatomy returns as he mentions that the heart is where food is digested. The crew will be safe as long as nothing causes Fry's heart to beat faster, according to the Professor. Unbeknown to the crew, Fry is stepping into a puddle to help Leela avoid getting her feet wet. Upon taking his hand, his heart starts to beat faster, causing Bender to panic. Professor Farnsworth sets a course for a cholesterol-encrusted valve, in an attempt to avoid certain doom.<br />
<br />
After leaving the heart, the ship passes a group of worms jazzercising Fry's muscles, making him as strong and flexible as Gumbercules. Outside of Fry's body, while on their walk, Leela sees Sal, and suggests they cross the street and blend in with a group of pimps. Fry confronts Sal, demanding an apology. Leela protests, saying that he is "bulging with what could be muscles." Fry tears off his shirt, revealing his newfound strength, which interests Leela. After a short confrontation, being disarmed and defeated, Sal apologizes to Leela.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Worms to battle stations!" ===<br />
The Planet Express Ship sets off a proximity alarm as they neared the stomach, and several worm sentry ships converge and open fire on the Planet Express Ship. After taking a couple hits from the worm fighters, Bender tries to abandon ship through the emergency exit (for the third time), but is restrained by Hermes and Zoidberg. Ahead, the entrance to the stomach is starting to close, and barely make it through, thanks to the help of the worm fighters. They arrive in the bowel and begin an assault on the worm city.<br />
<br />
At a coffee-shop across the street from Planet Express, Fry finally shares his feelings with Leela, which he was previously not able to articulate. Leela realizes that the worms may have something to do with the new Fry, and runs off to the Planet Express building.<br />
<br />
Just before reaching the ganglion, Zoidberg enters the room, revealing that, although Fry was sterilized by the professor's F-Ray ([[Fry and the Slurm Factory|1ACV13]]), the worms were able to repair the damage. Leela scans herself to create a micro-droid for herself, and enters Fry by shooting herself into his cup of coffee. Before the others can stimulate the ganglion, Leela arrives and destroys her micro-droid co-workers with a fire axe.<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "Obviously, you've never been in love!" ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Holophonor.jpg|thumb|left|Fry playing the holophonor]]<br />
<br />
After destroying the microscopic versions of the crew, Leela takes off her net-suit and tells the Professor that Fry might be better off with the worms. Fry enters the room and demands an explanation.<br />
<br />
After receiving his explanation, Fry says that the worms are the best parasites he's ever had. Later, Leela takes Fry to her apartment, where pulls out a [[holophonor]], one of the most difficult instruments in the universe. He plays, and the hologram shows Fry and Leela in a variety of forms, dancing across the universe. Without saying a word, Leela takes Fry into the bedroom, where says she loves what Fry has become. Fry realizes she may not love him for who he truly is, but instead, for what the worms have made him into. He returns to the Planet Express building and makes a micro-droid of himself, which he drops into the back of his pants.<br />
<br />
Inside his own bowel, Fry confronts the Lord Mayor of Col&oacute;n. Fry explains his situation and asks the worms to leave, but the Lord Mayor refuses, citing that he came in on the sandwich and raised a cloud of spores in Fry's bowel. Fry and the Lord Mayor engage in a sword fight, which takes them to Fry's brain. Fry threatens to injure himself to evict the worms. They call his bluff, but he cuts several connections within his brain, including the hand-eye coordination lobe. The Lord Mayor explains that he has only damaged his brain to the extent of a week of binge drinking or 5 minutes of cell phone use. He reaches the medulla oblongata, and threatens to kill himself if they do not leave. After a brief standoff, the worms agree to leave, but give him a promise that they will find their way back--"Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special? Yo."<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I'm still seduced from before." ===<br />
Fry returns to Leela's apartment. He asks to play the holophonor, but Leela protests, saying that she was still seduced from earlier. He insists and starts playing, creating a Frankenstein-like monster. Leela asks what it was supposed to mean, to which Fry responds 'I don't know. I got nervous and started thinking about neck bolts." Leela realizes he's become an idiot again. Fry asks for a chance to prove that it was him, not the worms that made her love him. Fry pulls out a baggie of massage oil and offers to give her the massage he used to give Amy. Leela, covering herself, shoves the holophonor in his face and tells him to leave.<br />
<br />
Later that night, Fry begins his first lesson on the holophonor, creating a rudimentary hologram of Leela.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:September2002calendar.JPG|thumb|September - 2002 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
[[File:April2007calendar.JPG|thumb|April - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*The episode's title is a play on words from the epic poem ''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}.<br />
*Opening scene is shown to be on Historic Route 66 (expressed mathmatically).<br />
*Fuel available at Greasy Sue's Greasy Truck Stop is Light Matter, Dark Matter, Wassa Matter, Ethanol and Ethanol & Tonic.<br />
*Sign in men's room reads "All Employees Must Wipe Hands on Pants".<br />
*Leela's apartment is a spoof of the old {{w|Hitachi Maxell|Maxell}} commercials, which featured a similar setting.<br />
*These areas of Fry's body are listed on the elevator:<br />
**Brain.<br />
**Lungs.<br />
**Liver.<br />
**Ball Room.<br />
*Directly after Fry defeats the [[Worms of Colón|worms]] and they are leaving his brain, he can be seen performing a fairly common fencing salute.<br />
*This episode is named #4 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p3.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #5 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This has the least number of characters of any episode, with only 12 characters.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*When Fry first walks into Leela's apartment, its walls are white, though when Fry walks out the walls are yellow.<br />
*When Fry and Leela are dancing at the beginning of the first holophonor visualisation, the rotating planet behind them clearly loops through its animation.<br />
*Fry mentions that Leela has "more meat than a [[cow]]." Sal laughs and says "more meat than a cow" as well. However, according to "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]", cows are extinct.<br />
**Just because an animal is extinct, it doesn't mean that nobody knows about it anymore.<br />
*The Planet Express ship seems to be able to work in the fluids of Fry's body. But in "[[The Deep South]]", the ship doesn't work under water.<br />
**Not actually the Planet Express ship, but rather a microscopic version of it, just as the characters are all microscopic robot versions of them.<br />
*The Professor said the worms know everything Fry knows, however they do not know who he was when he entered his body nor did they know he was going to damage his own brain.<br />
**It's unlikely though that he meant all the worms would immediately know everything Fry did. Rather, it may just be that the worm community would have access to all of Fry's knowledge, but that doesn't imply that they'd all know what he looked like or what he was thinking (any more than having access to medical text books makes us all doctors).<br />
*If all the damage Fry ended up doing to himself was no worse than some binge drinking, he should still be pretty smart and able even after the worms left, but he immediately reverts back to being the old Fry.<br />
**Perhaps due to Fry's lack of a Delta brainwave his brain requires constant supervision to be kept smart.<br />
*Sal seems very out of character at one point during this episode, as he pulls out a knife and goes to attack Fry just because he was asked to apologise to Leela.<br />
**This isn't a goof, Sal just went crazy out of pride.<br />
<br />
*In the shot of the bloodstream, the Planet Express Ship was shown to be the size of a red blood cell. If this were true, they would be microscopic. Therefor, Leela would not be able to see them, let alone pick them up to shoot them into Fry's ear.<br />
<br />
=== Broadcast On BBC Two And Another Time Change ===<br />
This was the first episode of Season 3 to be shown on BBC Two, but they had the feeling they should change the time it was on yet again, because many child viewers were in bed by 10pm on Thursdays. So they changed the time from Thursdays at 10pm to Saturdays at 5pm.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes === <br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Leela''': You're not gonna eat a sandwich from a truck stop men's room are you?<br />
'''Fry''': What's the worst thing that can happen... ewww, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sal''': Stands back. I’m gonna puts my moves on her. ''[He hoots at Leela.]''<br />
'''Fry''': That jerk. No one hoots at my captain unless they’re prepared to take it to the next level.<br />
'''Leela''': Fry, please. That’s sweet, but I'd rather not even dignify them with an ass-whupping.<br />
'''Sal''': Yo, sexy mama! Let’s get busy and freaky, in that order.<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, jumbo! How would you like it if Leela said ''you'' were sexy and she wanted to make love with ''you''?<br />
'''Sal''': Eh, I’ve gots five minutes. She looks pretty good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Fry''': You take that back! She does ''not'' look good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Sal''': Yeah, you’re right. She don’t gots enough meat for a guy like me.<br />
'''Fry''': She does too! She’s loaded with meat! She’s got more meat than a cow!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Ahh, the hypochondriac's back, so what is it this time?<br />
'''Fry''': Well, my lead pipe hurts a little.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': That's normal, next patient!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Yo old guy, why do we have to use those tiny micro droids? Can't you just shrink us?<br />
'''Professor''': Oh my no, that would require extremely tiny atoms, have you priced those lately? I'm not made of money! Leave me alone!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Yippeekayaye! You'll never guess where I've been! ''[Comes in riding one of Fry's sperm.]''</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV13}}<br />
**Fry was sterilized by the [[F-Ray]], but the worms apparently fixed his sperm problems.<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
**Fry mentions his massage he gave to Amy when he was going out with her.<br />
*{{e|4ACV18}}<br />
**Fry plays the [[holophonor]] again with the help of another [[Robot Devil|outside force]].<br />
<br />
=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
<br />
[[File:ALS-03-02-01.jpg|thumb|right|"HUMAN MILK"]]<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 00:32 <br><br />
'''Location''': Truck<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': HUMAN MILK<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 09:48<br><br />
'''Location''': Construction site<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': WATCH FOR FALLING HUMANS<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Worms of colon|Lord Mayor Worm]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' Waitress<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Scott Vanzo]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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[[Category:A plots focusing on Leela]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Parasites_Lost&diff=115156Parasites Lost2012-07-06T17:52:22Z<p>66.32.188.127: </p>
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|no=34<br />
|image=[[File:Parasites Lost.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV02<br />
|caption=If not entertaining, write your congressman<br />
|first aired=21 January, 2001<br />
|written by=Eric Kaplan<br />
|directed by=Peter Avanzino<br />
|title reference=''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon={{w|Ub Iwerks}} "''Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp''" (1934)<br />
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"'''Parasites Lost'''" is the thirty-fourth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the second of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 21 January, 2001 on FOX. After obtaining worms from a truck stop sandwich, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] finally obtains the affection of [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], but he is concerned whether she loves him or what the worms have made of him.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "She's got more meat than a cow!" ===<br />
The [[Planet Express Ship]] pulls over for a fuel stop. Lighting his cigar while refuelling on ethanol and tonic, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] blows himself up. In the men's room, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] buys an egg-salad sandwich. While eating the sandwich, Fry makes several comments about how terrible it tastes, ("It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up"), but also says that he has had worse. While Fry finishes his sandwich, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] starts to clean the windshield of the Planet Express Ship, removing, among other things, the Voyager Probe. Several truckers (including [[Sal]]) make derogatory, sexist comments toward Leela as she cleans the ship, and Fry attempts to defend her, but only ends up insulting her further.<br />
<br />
Back at the [[Planet Express|Planet Express building]] Fry despairs over being unable to please Leela. This despair is interrupted when he and Bender go to fix the [[plasma-fusion boiler]], which [[Scruffy]] is unable to fix due to a "schedule conflict". However, since they are unqualified to make such repairs, the boiler explodes, lodging a lead pipe in Fry's abdomen. During an examination from Dr. Zoidberg, who claims that it is normal for your lead pipe to hurt, the pipe is cut in half mysteriously, and the holes in Fry's abdomen seal themselves.<br />
<br />
Dr. Zoidberg gives Fry a more thorough examination, which the rest of the crew watches behind a 2-way mirror and on a video screen, while eating popcorn. Hermes eats his popcorn using a Jai Alai scoop, because Fry has been eating all the silverware. During Fry's colonoscopy, it is revealed that there is a [[Worms of Colón|colony of parasitic worms]] living in Fry's bowels, within a city made of the silverware Fry ate. The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] reveals that the only way to get rid of the parasites is to enter Fry using a microscopic version of the Planet Express Ship. After learning of their journey, Bender calls shotgun, to the disappointment of Dr. Zoidberg.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Nobody make a smell!" ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Microdroidmachine.png|thumb|left|Zoidberg being scanned to create a micro-droid of himself.]]<br />
<br />
The Professor creates [[Micro-Droid Machine|micro-droids]] for each crew member, which, apparently, are cheaper than shrinking them. The micro-droids are controlled via [[Net Suit|net suits]].<br />
<br />
The Professor lays out the plan, which involves entering through Fry's ear, and travelling through his systems until they reach the pelvic splanchnic ganglion. Irritation of the ganglion will expel the parasites, among other things, from Fry. The force of the expulsion, according to the Professor, will make Fry lucky to still have his bones afterwards. Fry cannot be warned of the plan, however, as the worms know everything he knows. Leela distracts Fry long enough to launch the miniature Planet Express ship into his ear. In order to keep him distracted, Leela proposes taking a walk.<br />
<br />
The Planet Express Crew discovers that the worms are actually giving Fry a mental and physical upgrade making him smarter, stronger, and more coordinated. As they were navigating through the nasal passage, Fry sniffed a rose, which he gave to Leela. This bombarded the Planet Express Ship with pollen, prompting Zoidberg to suggest they escape through a nasal capillary. This surprises everyone, as it's the first time he's expressed any ''correct'' knowledge of human anatomy. He reveals, however, that he learned it from a decongestant commercial.<br />
<br />
The nasal capillary takes the crew into the heart, or "love muscle", as the Professor calls it. Dr. Zoidberg's usual lack of knowledge of human anatomy returns as he mentions that the heart is where food is digested. The crew will be safe as long as nothing causes Fry's heart to beat faster, according to the Professor. Unbeknown to the crew, Fry is stepping into a puddle to help Leela avoid getting her feet wet. Upon taking his hand, his heart starts to beat faster, causing Bender to panic. Professor Farnsworth sets a course for a cholesterol-encrusted valve, in an attempt to avoid certain doom.<br />
<br />
After leaving the heart, the ship passes a group of worms jazzercising Fry's muscles, making him as strong and flexible as Gumbercules. Outside of Fry's body, while on their walk, Leela sees Sal, and suggests they cross the street and blend in with a group of pimps. Fry confronts Sal, demanding an apology. Leela protests, saying that he is "bulging with what could be muscles." Fry tears off his shirt, revealing his newfound strength, which interests Leela. After a short confrontation, being disarmed and defeated, Sal apologizes to Leela.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Worms to battle stations!" ===<br />
The Planet Express Ship sets off a proximity alarm as they neared the stomach, and several worm sentry ships converge and open fire on the Planet Express Ship. After taking a couple hits from the worm fighters, Bender tries to abandon ship through the emergency exit (for the third time), but is restrained by Hermes and Zoidberg. Ahead, the entrance to the stomach is starting to close, and barely make it through, thanks to the help of the worm fighters. They arrive in the bowel and begin an assault on the worm city.<br />
<br />
At a coffee-shop across the street from Planet Express, Fry finally shares his feelings with Leela, which he was previously not able to articulate. Leela realizes that the worms may have something to do with the new Fry, and runs off to the Planet Express building.<br />
<br />
Just before reaching the ganglion, Zoidberg enters the room, revealing that, although Fry was sterilized by the professor's F-Ray ([[Fry and the Slurm Factory|1ACV13]]), the worms were able to repair the damage. Leela scans herself to create a micro-droid for herself, and enters Fry by shooting herself into his cup of coffee. Before the others can stimulate the ganglion, Leela arrives and destroys her micro-droid co-workers with a fire axe.<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "Obviously, you've never been in love!" ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Holophonor.jpg|thumb|left|Fry playing the holophonor]]<br />
<br />
After destroying the microscopic versions of the crew, Leela takes off her net-suit and tells the Professor that Fry might be better off with the worms. Fry enters the room and demands an explanation.<br />
<br />
After receiving his explanation, Fry says that the worms are the best parasites he's ever had. Later, Leela takes Fry to her apartment, where pulls out a [[holophonor]], one of the most difficult instruments in the universe. He plays, and the hologram shows Fry and Leela in a variety of forms, dancing across the universe. Without saying a word, Leela takes Fry into the bedroom, where says she loves what Fry has become. Fry realizes she may not love him for who he truly is, but instead, for what the worms have made him into. He returns to the Planet Express building and makes a micro-droid of himself, which he drops into the back of his pants.<br />
<br />
Inside his own bowel, Fry confronts the Lord Mayor of Col&oacute;n. Fry explains his situation and asks the worms to leave, but the Lord Mayor refuses, citing that he came in on the sandwich and raised a cloud of spores in Fry's bowel. Fry and the Lord Mayor engage in a sword fight, which takes them to Fry's brain. Fry threatens to injure himself to evict the worms. They call his bluff, but he cuts several connections within his brain, including the hand-eye coordination lobe. The Lord Mayor explains that he has only damaged his brain to the extent of a week of binge drinking or 5 minutes of cell phone use. He reaches the medulla oblongata, and threatens to kill himself if they do not leave. After a brief standoff, the worms agree to leave, but give him a promise that they will find their way back--"Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special? Yo."<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I'm still seduced from before." ===<br />
Fry returns to Leela's apartment. He asks to play the holophonor, but Leela protests, saying that she was still seduced from earlier. He insists and starts playing, creating a Frankenstein-like monster. Leela asks what it was supposed to mean, to which Fry responds 'I don't know. I got nervous and started thinking about neck bolts." Leela realizes he's become an idiot again. Fry asks for a chance to prove that it was him, not the worms that made her love him. Fry pulls out a baggie of massage oil and offers to give her the massage he used to give Amy. Leela, covering herself, shoves the holophonor in his face and tells him to leave.<br />
<br />
Later that night, Fry begins his first lesson on the holophonor, creating a rudimentary hologram of Leela.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:September2002calendar.JPG|thumb|September - 2002 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
[[File:April2007calendar.JPG|thumb|April - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The episode's title is a play on words from the epic poem ''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}.<br />
*Opening scene is shown to be on Historic Route 66 (expressed mathmatically).<br />
*Fuel available at Greasy Sue's Greasy Truck Stop is Light Matter, Dark Matter, Wassa Matter, Ethanol and Ethanol & Tonic.<br />
*Sign in men's room reads "All Employees Must Wipe Hands on Pants".<br />
*Leela's apartment is a spoof of the old {{w|Hitachi Maxell|Maxell}} commercials, which featured a similar setting.<br />
*These areas of Fry's body are listed on the elevator:<br />
**Brain.<br />
**Lungs.<br />
**Liver.<br />
**Ball Room.<br />
*Directly after Fry defeats the [[Worms of Colón|worms]] and they are leaving his brain, he can be seen performing a fairly common fencing salute.<br />
*This episode is named #4 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p3.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #5 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This has the least number of characters of any episode, with only 12 characters.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*When Fry first walks into Leela's apartment, its walls are white, though when Fry walks out the walls are yellow.<br />
*When Fry and Leela are dancing at the beginning of the first holophonor visualisation, the rotating planet behind them clearly loops through its animation.<br />
*Fry mentions that Leela has "more meat than a [[cow]]." Sal laughs and says "more meat than a cow" as well. However, according to "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]", cows are extinct.<br />
**Just because an animal is extinct, it doesn't mean that nobody knows about it anymore.<br />
*The Planet Express ship seems to be able to work in the fluids of Fry's body. But in "[[The Deep South]]", the ship doesn't work under water.<br />
**Not actually the Planet Express ship, but rather a microscopic version of it, just as the characters are all microscopic robot versions of them.<br />
*The Professor said the worms know everything Fry knows, however they do not know who he was when he entered his body nor did they know he was going to damage his own brain.<br />
**It's unlikely though that he meant all the worms would immediately know everything Fry did. Rather, it may just be that the worm community would have access to all of Fry's knowledge, but that doesn't imply that they'd all know what he looked like or what he was thinking (any more than having access to medical text books makes us all doctors).<br />
*If all the damage Fry ended up doing to himself was no worse than some binge drinking, he should still be pretty smart and able even after the worms left, but he immediately reverts back to being the old Fry.<br />
**Perhaps due to Fry's lack of a Delta brainwave his brain requires constant supervision to be kept smart.<br />
*Sal seems very out of character at one point during this episode, as he pulls out a knife and goes to attack Fry just because he was asked to apologise to Leela.<br />
**This isn't a goof, Sal just went crazy out of pride.<br />
<br />
*In the shot of the bloodstream, the Planet Express Ship was shown to be the size of a red blood cell. If this were true, they would be microscopic. Therefor, Leela would not be able to see them, let alone pick them up to shoot them into Fry's ear.<br />
<br />
=== Broadcast On BBC Two And Another Time Change ===<br />
This was the first episode of Season 3 to be shown on BBC Two, but they had the feeling they should change the time it was on yet again, because many child viewers were in bed by 10pm on Thursdays. So they changed the time from Thursdays at 10pm to Saturdays at 5pm.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes === <br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Leela''': You're not gonna eat a sandwich from a truck stop men's room are you?<br />
'''Fry''': What's the worst thing that can happen... ewww, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sal''': Stands back. I’m gonna puts my moves on her. ''[He hoots at Leela.]''<br />
'''Fry''': That jerk. No one hoots at my captain unless they’re prepared to take it to the next level.<br />
'''Leela''': Fry, please. That’s sweet, but I'd rather not even dignify them with an ass-whupping.<br />
'''Sal''': Yo, sexy mama! Let’s get busy and freaky, in that order.<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, jumbo! How would you like it if Leela said ''you'' were sexy and she wanted to make love with ''you''?<br />
'''Sal''': Eh, I’ve gots five minutes. She looks pretty good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Fry''': You take that back! She does ''not'' look good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Sal''': Yeah, you’re right. She don’t gots enough meat for a guy like me.<br />
'''Fry''': She does too! She’s loaded with meat! She’s got more meat than a cow!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Ahh, the hypochondriac's back, so what is it this time?<br />
'''Fry''': Well, my lead pipe hurts a little.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': That's normal, next patient!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Yo old guy, why do we have to use those tiny micro droids? Can't you just shrink us?<br />
'''Professor''': Oh my no, that would require extremely tiny atoms, have you priced those lately? I'm not made of money! Leave me alone!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Yippeekayaye! You'll never guess where I've been! ''[Comes in riding one of Fry's sperm.]''</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV13}}<br />
**Fry was sterilized by the [[F-Ray]], but the worms apparently fixed his sperm problems.<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
**Fry mentions his massage he gave to Amy when he was going out with her.<br />
*{{e|4ACV18}}<br />
**Fry plays the [[holophonor]] again with the help of another [[Robot Devil|outside force]].<br />
<br />
=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
<br />
[[File:ALS-03-02-01.jpg|thumb|right|"HUMAN MILK"]]<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 00:32 <br><br />
'''Location''': Truck<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': HUMAN MILK<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 09:48<br><br />
'''Location''': Construction site<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': WATCH FOR FALLING HUMANS<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Worms of colon|Lord Mayor Worm]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' Waitress<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Scott Vanzo]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
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[[Category:A plots focusing on Leela]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Parasites_Lost&diff=115155Parasites Lost2012-07-06T17:46:39Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Characters */</p>
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|no=34<br />
|image=[[File:Parasites Lost.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV02<br />
|caption=If not entertaining, write your congressman<br />
|first aired=21 January, 2001<br />
|written by=Eric Kaplan<br />
|directed by=Peter Avanzino<br />
|title reference=''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon={{w|Ub Iwerks}} "''Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp''" (1934)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
|broadcast number=S03E04<br />
|nomination='''Emmy Awards'''<br />Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, 2001, [[Rodney Clouden]] (storyboard artist) '''(won)'''<br />
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"'''Parasites Lost'''" is the thirty-fourth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the second of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 21 January, 2001 on FOX. After obtaining worms from a truck stop sandwich, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] finally obtains the affection of [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], but he is concerned whether she loves him or what the worms have made of him.<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "She's got more meat than a cow!" ===<br />
The [[Planet Express Ship]] pulls over for a fuel stop. Lighting his cigar while refuelling on ethanol and tonic, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] blows himself up. In the men's room, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] buys an egg-salad sandwich. While eating the sandwich, Fry makes several comments about how terrible it tastes, ("It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up"), but also says that he has had worse. While Fry finishes his sandwich, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] starts to clean the windshield of the Planet Express Ship, removing, among other things, the Voyager Probe. Several truckers (including [[Sal]]) make derogatory, sexist comments toward Leela as she cleans the ship, and Fry attempts to defend her, but only ends up insulting her further.<br />
<br />
Back at the [[Planet Express|Planet Express building]] Fry despairs over being unable to please Leela. This despair is interrupted when he and Bender go to fix the [[plasma-fusion boiler]], which [[Scruffy]] is unable to fix due to a "schedule conflict". However, since they are unqualified to make such repairs, the boiler explodes, lodging a lead pipe in Fry's abdomen. During an examination from Dr. Zoidberg, who claims that it is normal for your lead pipe to hurt, the pipe is cut in half mysteriously, and the holes in Fry's abdomen seal themselves.<br />
<br />
Dr. Zoidberg gives Fry a more thorough examination, which the rest of the crew watches behind a 2-way mirror and on a video screen, while eating popcorn. Hermes eats his popcorn using a Jai Alai scoop, because Fry has been eating all the silverware. During Fry's colonoscopy, it is revealed that there is a [[Worms of Colón|colony of parasitic worms]] living in Fry's bowels, within a city made of the silverware Fry ate. The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] reveals that the only way to get rid of the parasites is to enter Fry using a microscopic version of the Planet Express Ship. After learning of their journey, Bender calls shotgun, to the disappointment of Dr. Zoidberg.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Nobody make a smell!" ===<br />
The Professor creates [[Micro-Droid Machine|micro-droids]] for each crew member, which, apparently, are cheaper than shrinking them. The micro-droids are controlled via [[Net Suit|net suits]].<br />
<br />
The Professor lays out the plan, which involves entering through Fry's ear, and travelling through his systems until they reach the pelvic splanchnic ganglion. Irritation of the ganglion will expel the parasites, among other things, from Fry. The force of the expulsion, according to the Professor, will make Fry lucky to still have his bones afterwards. Fry cannot be warned of the plan, however, as the worms know everything he knows. Leela distracts Fry long enough to launch the miniature Planet Express ship into his ear. In order to keep him distracted, Leela proposes taking a walk.<br />
<br />
The Planet Express Crew discovers that the worms are actually giving Fry a mental and physical upgrade making him smarter, stronger, and more coordinated. As they were navigating through the nasal passage, Fry sniffed a rose, which he gave to Leela. This bombarded the Planet Express Ship with pollen, prompting Zoidberg to suggest they escape through a nasal capillary. This surprises everyone, as it's the first time he's expressed any ''correct'' knowledge of human anatomy. He reveals, however, that he learned it from a decongestant commercial.<br />
<br />
The nasal capillary takes the crew into the heart, or "love muscle", as the Professor calls it. Dr. Zoidberg's usual lack of knowledge of human anatomy returns as he mentions that the heart is where food is digested. The crew will be safe as long as nothing causes Fry's heart to beat faster, according to the Professor. Unbeknown to the crew, Fry is stepping into a puddle to help Leela avoid getting her feet wet. Upon taking his hand, his heart starts to beat faster, causing Bender to panic. Professor Farnsworth sets a course for a cholesterol-encrusted valve, in an attempt to avoid certain doom.<br />
<br />
After leaving the heart, the ship passes a group of worms jazzercising Fry's muscles, making him as strong and flexible as Gumbercules. Outside of Fry's body, while on their walk, Leela sees Sal, and suggests they cross the street and blend in with a group of pimps. Fry confronts Sal, demanding an apology. Leela protests, saying that he is "bulging with what could be muscles." Fry tears off his shirt, revealing his newfound strength, which interests Leela. After a short confrontation, being disarmed and defeated, Sal apologizes to Leela.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Worms to battle stations!" ===<br />
The Planet Express Ship sets off a proximity alarm as they neared the stomach, and several worm sentry ships converge and open fire on the Planet Express Ship. After taking a couple hits from the worm fighters, Bender tries to abandon ship through the emergency exit (for the third time), but is restrained by Hermes and Zoidberg. Ahead, the entrance to the stomach is starting to close, and barely make it through, thanks to the help of the worm fighters. They arrive in the bowel and begin an assault on the worm city.<br />
<br />
At a coffee-shop across the street from Planet Express, Fry finally shares his feelings with Leela, which he was previously not able to articulate. Leela realizes that the worms may have something to do with the new Fry, and runs off to the Planet Express building.<br />
<br />
Just before reaching the ganglion, Zoidberg enters the room, revealing that, although Fry was sterilized by the professor's F-Ray ([[Fry and the Slurm Factory|1ACV13]]), the worms were able to repair the damage. Leela scans herself to create a micro-droid for herself, and enters Fry by shooting herself into his cup of coffee. Before the others can stimulate the ganglion, Leela arrives and destroys her micro-droid co-workers with a fire axe.<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "Obviously, you've never been in love!" ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Holophonor.jpg|thumb|left|Fry playing the holophonor]]<br />
<br />
After destroying the microscopic versions of the crew, Leela takes off her net-suit and tells the Professor that Fry might be better off with the worms. Fry enters the room and demands an explanation.<br />
<br />
After receiving his explanation, Fry says that the worms are the best parasites he's ever had. Later, Leela takes Fry to her apartment, where pulls out a [[holophonor]], one of the most difficult instruments in the universe. He plays, and the hologram shows Fry and Leela in a variety of forms, dancing across the universe. Without saying a word, Leela takes Fry into the bedroom, where says she loves what Fry has become. Fry realizes she may not love him for who he truly is, but instead, for what the worms have made him into. He returns to the Planet Express building and makes a micro-droid of himself, which he drops into the back of his pants.<br />
<br />
Inside his own bowel, Fry confronts the Lord Mayor of Col&oacute;n. Fry explains his situation and asks the worms to leave, but the Lord Mayor refuses, citing that he came in on the sandwich and raised a cloud of spores in Fry's bowel. Fry and the Lord Mayor engage in a sword fight, which takes them to Fry's brain. Fry threatens to injure himself to evict the worms. They call his bluff, but he cuts several connections within his brain, including the hand-eye coordination lobe. The Lord Mayor explains that he has only damaged his brain to the extent of a week of binge drinking or 5 minutes of cell phone use. He reaches the medulla oblongata, and threatens to kill himself if they do not leave. After a brief standoff, the worms agree to leave, but give him a promise that they will find their way back--"Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special? Yo."<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I'm still seduced from before." ===<br />
Fry returns to Leela's apartment. He asks to play the holophonor, but Leela protests, saying that she was still seduced from earlier. He insists and starts playing, creating a Frankenstein-like monster. Leela asks what it was supposed to mean, to which Fry responds 'I don't know. I got nervous and started thinking about neck bolts." Leela realizes he's become an idiot again. Fry asks for a chance to prove that it was him, not the worms that made her love him. Fry pulls out a baggie of massage oil and offers to give her the massage he used to give Amy. Leela, covering herself, shoves the holophonor in his face and tells him to leave.<br />
<br />
Later that night, Fry begins his first lesson on the holophonor, creating a rudimentary hologram of Leela.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:September2002calendar.JPG|thumb|September - 2002 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
[[File:April2007calendar.JPG|thumb|April - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The episode's title is a play on words from the epic poem ''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}.<br />
*Opening scene is shown to be on Historic Route 66 (expressed mathmatically).<br />
*Fuel available at Greasy Sue's Greasy Truck Stop is Light Matter, Dark Matter, Wassa Matter, Ethanol and Ethanol & Tonic.<br />
*Sign in men's room reads "All Employees Must Wipe Hands on Pants".<br />
*Leela's apartment is a spoof of the old {{w|Hitachi Maxell|Maxell}} commercials, which featured a similar setting.<br />
*These areas of Fry's body are listed on the elevator:<br />
**Brain.<br />
**Lungs.<br />
**Liver.<br />
**Ball Room.<br />
*Directly after Fry defeats the [[Worms of Colón|worms]] and they are leaving his brain, he can be seen performing a fairly common fencing salute.<br />
*This episode is named #4 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p3.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #5 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This has the least number of characters of any episode, with only 12 characters.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*When Fry first walks into Leela's apartment, its walls are white, though when Fry walks out the walls are yellow.<br />
*When Fry and Leela are dancing at the beginning of the first holophonor visualisation, the rotating planet behind them clearly loops through its animation.<br />
*Fry mentions that Leela has "more meat than a [[cow]]." Sal laughs and says "more meat than a cow" as well. However, according to "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]", cows are extinct.<br />
**Just because an animal is extinct, it doesn't mean that nobody knows about it anymore.<br />
*The Planet Express ship seems to be able to work in the fluids of Fry's body. But in "[[The Deep South]]", the ship doesn't work under water.<br />
**Not actually the Planet Express ship, but rather a microscopic version of it, just as the characters are all microscopic robot versions of them.<br />
*The Professor said the worms know everything Fry knows, however they do not know who he was when he entered his body nor did they know he was going to damage his own brain.<br />
**It's unlikely though that he meant all the worms would immediately know everything Fry did. Rather, it may just be that the worm community would have access to all of Fry's knowledge, but that doesn't imply that they'd all know what he looked like or what he was thinking (any more than having access to medical text books makes us all doctors).<br />
*If all the damage Fry ended up doing to himself was no worse than some binge drinking, he should still be pretty smart and able even after the worms left, but he immediately reverts back to being the old Fry.<br />
**Perhaps due to Fry's lack of a Delta brainwave his brain requires constant supervision to be kept smart.<br />
*Sal seems very out of character at one point during this episode, as he pulls out a knife and goes to attack Fry just because he was asked to apologise to Leela.<br />
**This isn't a goof, Sal just went crazy out of pride.<br />
<br />
*In the shot of the bloodstream, the Planet Express Ship was shown to be the size of a red blood cell. If this were true, they would be microscopic. Therefor, Leela would not be able to see them, let alone pick them up to shoot them into Fry's ear.<br />
<br />
=== Broadcast On BBC Two And Another Time Change ===<br />
This was the first episode of Season 3 to be shown on BBC Two, but they had the feeling they should change the time it was on yet again, because many child viewers were in bed by 10pm on Thursdays. So they changed the time from Thursdays at 10pm to Saturdays at 5pm.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes === <br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Leela''': You're not gonna eat a sandwich from a truck stop men's room are you?<br />
'''Fry''': What's the worst thing that can happen... ewww, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sal''': Stands back. I’m gonna puts my moves on her. ''[He hoots at Leela.]''<br />
'''Fry''': That jerk. No one hoots at my captain unless they’re prepared to take it to the next level.<br />
'''Leela''': Fry, please. That’s sweet, but I'd rather not even dignify them with an ass-whupping.<br />
'''Sal''': Yo, sexy mama! Let’s get busy and freaky, in that order.<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, jumbo! How would you like it if Leela said ''you'' were sexy and she wanted to make love with ''you''?<br />
'''Sal''': Eh, I’ve gots five minutes. She looks pretty good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Fry''': You take that back! She does ''not'' look good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Sal''': Yeah, you’re right. She don’t gots enough meat for a guy like me.<br />
'''Fry''': She does too! She’s loaded with meat! She’s got more meat than a cow!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Ahh, the hypochondriac's back, so what is it this time?<br />
'''Fry''': Well, my lead pipe hurts a little.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': That's normal, next patient!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Yo old guy, why do we have to use those tiny micro droids? Can't you just shrink us?<br />
'''Professor''': Oh my no, that would require extremely tiny atoms, have you priced those lately? I'm not made of money! Leave me alone!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Yippeekayaye! You'll never guess where I've been! ''[Comes in riding one of Fry's sperm.]''</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV13}}<br />
**Fry was sterilized by the [[F-Ray]], but the worms apparently fixed his sperm problems.<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
**Fry mentions his massage he gave to Amy when he was going out with her.<br />
*{{e|4ACV18}}<br />
**Fry plays the [[holophonor]] again with the help of another [[Robot Devil|outside force]].<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
<br />
[[File:ALS-03-02-01.jpg|thumb|right|"HUMAN MILK"]]<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 00:32 <br><br />
'''Location''': Truck<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': HUMAN MILK<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 09:48<br><br />
'''Location''': Construction site<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': WATCH FOR FALLING HUMANS<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Worms of colon|Lord Mayor Worm]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' Waitress<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Scott Vanzo]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
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|first aired=21 January, 2001<br />
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|directed by=Peter Avanzino<br />
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"'''Parasites Lost'''" is the thirty-fourth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the second of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 21 January, 2001 on FOX. After obtaining worms from a truck stop sandwich, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] finally obtains the affection of [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], but he is concerned whether she loves him or what the worms have made of him.<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "She's got more meat than a cow!" ===<br />
The [[Planet Express Ship]] pulls over for a fuel stop. Lighting his cigar while refuelling on ethanol and tonic, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] blows himself up. In the men's room, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] buys an egg-salad sandwich. While eating the sandwich, Fry makes several comments about how terrible it tastes, ("It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up"), but also says that he has had worse. While Fry finishes his sandwich, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] starts to clean the windshield of the Planet Express Ship, removing, among other things, the Voyager Probe. Several truckers (including [[Sal]]) make derogatory, sexist comments toward Leela as she cleans the ship, and Fry attempts to defend her, but only ends up insulting her further.<br />
<br />
Back at the [[Planet Express|Planet Express building]] Fry despairs over being unable to please Leela. This despair is interrupted when he and Bender go to fix the [[plasma-fusion boiler]], which [[Scruffy]] is unable to fix due to a "schedule conflict". However, since they are unqualified to make such repairs, the boiler explodes, lodging a lead pipe in Fry's abdomen. During an examination from Dr. Zoidberg, who claims that it is normal for your lead pipe to hurt, the pipe is cut in half mysteriously, and the holes in Fry's abdomen seal themselves.<br />
<br />
Dr. Zoidberg gives Fry a more thorough examination, which the rest of the crew watches behind a 2-way mirror and on a video screen, while eating popcorn. Hermes eats his popcorn using a Jai Alai scoop, because Fry has been eating all the silverware. During Fry's colonoscopy, it is revealed that there is a [[Worms of Colón|colony of parasitic worms]] living in Fry's bowels, within a city made of the silverware Fry ate. The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] reveals that the only way to get rid of the parasites is to enter Fry using a microscopic version of the Planet Express Ship. After learning of their journey, Bender calls shotgun, to the disappointment of Dr. Zoidberg.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Nobody make a smell!" ===<br />
The Professor creates [[Micro-Droid Machine|micro-droids]] for each crew member, which, apparently, are cheaper than shrinking them. The micro-droids are controlled via [[Net Suit|net suits]].<br />
<br />
The Professor lays out the plan, which involves entering through Fry's ear, and travelling through his systems until they reach the pelvic splanchnic ganglion. Irritation of the ganglion will expel the parasites, among other things, from Fry. The force of the expulsion, according to the Professor, will make Fry lucky to still have his bones afterwards. Fry cannot be warned of the plan, however, as the worms know everything he knows. Leela distracts Fry long enough to launch the miniature Planet Express ship into his ear. In order to keep him distracted, Leela proposes taking a walk.<br />
<br />
The Planet Express Crew discovers that the worms are actually giving Fry a mental and physical upgrade making him smarter, stronger, and more coordinated. As they were navigating through the nasal passage, Fry sniffed a rose, which he gave to Leela. This bombarded the Planet Express Ship with pollen, prompting Zoidberg to suggest they escape through a nasal capillary. This surprises everyone, as it's the first time he's expressed any ''correct'' knowledge of human anatomy. He reveals, however, that he learned it from a decongestant commercial.<br />
<br />
The nasal capillary takes the crew into the heart, or "love muscle", as the Professor calls it. Dr. Zoidberg's usual lack of knowledge of human anatomy returns as he mentions that the heart is where food is digested. The crew will be safe as long as nothing causes Fry's heart to beat faster, according to the Professor. Unbeknown to the crew, Fry is stepping into a puddle to help Leela avoid getting her feet wet. Upon taking his hand, his heart starts to beat faster, causing Bender to panic. Professor Farnsworth sets a course for a cholesterol-encrusted valve, in an attempt to avoid certain doom.<br />
<br />
After leaving the heart, the ship passes a group of worms jazzercising Fry's muscles, making him as strong and flexible as Gumbercules. Outside of Fry's body, while on their walk, Leela sees Sal, and suggests they cross the street and blend in with a group of pimps. Fry confronts Sal, demanding an apology. Leela protests, saying that he is "bulging with what could be muscles." Fry tears off his shirt, revealing his newfound strength, which interests Leela. After a short confrontation, being disarmed and defeated, Sal apologizes to Leela.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Worms to battle stations!" ===<br />
The Planet Express Ship sets off a proximity alarm as they neared the stomach, and several worm sentry ships converge and open fire on the Planet Express Ship. After taking a couple hits from the worm fighters, Bender tries to abandon ship through the emergency exit (for the third time), but is restrained by Hermes and Zoidberg. Ahead, the entrance to the stomach is starting to close, and barely make it through, thanks to the help of the worm fighters. They arrive in the bowel and begin an assault on the worm city.<br />
<br />
At a coffee-shop across the street from Planet Express, Fry finally shares his feelings with Leela, which he was previously not able to articulate. Leela realizes that the worms may have something to do with the new Fry, and runs off to the Planet Express building.<br />
<br />
Just before reaching the ganglion, Zoidberg enters the room, revealing that, although Fry was sterilized by the professor's F-Ray ([[Fry and the Slurm Factory|1ACV13]]), the worms were able to repair the damage. Leela scans herself to create a micro-droid for herself, and enters Fry by shooting herself into his cup of coffee. Before the others can stimulate the ganglion, Leela arrives and destroys her micro-droid co-workers with a fire axe.<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "Obviously, you've never been in love!" ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Holophonor.jpg|thumb|left|Fry playing the holophonor]]<br />
<br />
After destroying the microscopic versions of the crew, Leela takes off her net-suit and tells the Professor that Fry might be better off with the worms. Fry enters the room and demands an explanation.<br />
<br />
After receiving his explanation, Fry says that the worms are the best parasites he's ever had. Later, Leela takes Fry to her apartment, where pulls out a [[holophonor]], one of the most difficult instruments in the universe. He plays, and the hologram shows Fry and Leela in a variety of forms, dancing across the universe. Without saying a word, Leela takes Fry into the bedroom, where says she loves what Fry has become. Fry realizes she may not love him for who he truly is, but instead, for what the worms have made him into. He returns to the Planet Express building and makes a micro-droid of himself, which he drops into the back of his pants.<br />
<br />
Inside his own bowel, Fry confronts the Lord Mayor of Col&oacute;n. Fry explains his situation and asks the worms to leave, but the Lord Mayor refuses, citing that he came in on the sandwich and raised a cloud of spores in Fry's bowel. Fry and the Lord Mayor engage in a sword fight, which takes them to Fry's brain. Fry threatens to injure himself to evict the worms. They call his bluff, but he cuts several connections within his brain, including the hand-eye coordination lobe. The Lord Mayor explains that he has only damaged his brain to the extent of a week of binge drinking or 5 minutes of cell phone use. He reaches the medulla oblongata, and threatens to kill himself if they do not leave. After a brief standoff, the worms agree to leave, but give him a promise that they will find their way back--"Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special? Yo."<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I'm still seduced from before." ===<br />
Fry returns to Leela's apartment. He asks to play the holophonor, but Leela protests, saying that she was still seduced from earlier. He insists and starts playing, creating a Frankenstein-like monster. Leela asks what it was supposed to mean, to which Fry responds 'I don't know. I got nervous and started thinking about neck bolts." Leela realizes he's become an idiot again. Fry asks for a chance to prove that it was him, not the worms that made her love him. Fry pulls out a baggie of massage oil and offers to give her the massage he used to give Amy. Leela, covering herself, shoves the holophonor in his face and tells him to leave.<br />
<br />
Later that night, Fry begins his first lesson on the holophonor, creating a rudimentary hologram of Leela.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:September2002calendar.JPG|thumb|September - 2002 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
[[File:April2007calendar.JPG|thumb|April - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*The episode's title is a play on words from the epic poem ''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}.<br />
*Opening scene is shown to be on Historic Route 66 (expressed mathmatically).<br />
*Fuel available at Greasy Sue's Greasy Truck Stop is Light Matter, Dark Matter, Wassa Matter, Ethanol and Ethanol & Tonic.<br />
*Sign in men's room reads "All Employees Must Wipe Hands on Pants".<br />
*Leela's apartment is a spoof of the old {{w|Hitachi Maxell|Maxell}} commercials, which featured a similar setting.<br />
*These areas of Fry's body are listed on the elevator:<br />
**Brain.<br />
**Lungs.<br />
**Liver.<br />
**Ball Room.<br />
*Directly after Fry defeats the [[Worms of Colón|worms]] and they are leaving his brain, he can be seen performing a fairly common fencing salute.<br />
*This episode is named #4 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p3.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #5 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This has the least number of characters of any episode, with only 12 characters.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*When Fry first walks into Leela's apartment, its walls are white, though when Fry walks out the walls are yellow.<br />
*When Fry and Leela are dancing at the beginning of the first holophonor visualisation, the rotating planet behind them clearly loops through its animation.<br />
*Fry mentions that Leela has "more meat than a [[cow]]." Sal laughs and says "more meat than a cow" as well. However, according to "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]", cows are extinct.<br />
**Just because an animal is extinct, it doesn't mean that nobody knows about it anymore.<br />
*The Planet Express ship seems to be able to work in the fluids of Fry's body. But in "[[The Deep South]]", the ship doesn't work under water.<br />
**Not actually the Planet Express ship, but rather a microscopic version of it, just as the characters are all microscopic robot versions of them.<br />
*The Professor said the worms know everything Fry knows, however they do not know who he was when he entered his body nor did they know he was going to damage his own brain.<br />
**It's unlikely though that he meant all the worms would immediately know everything Fry did. Rather, it may just be that the worm community would have access to all of Fry's knowledge, but that doesn't imply that they'd all know what he looked like or what he was thinking (any more than having access to medical text books makes us all doctors).<br />
*If all the damage Fry ended up doing to himself was no worse than some binge drinking, he should still be pretty smart and able even after the worms left, but he immediately reverts back to being the old Fry.<br />
**Perhaps due to Fry's lack of a Delta brainwave his brain requires constant supervision to be kept smart.<br />
*Sal seems very out of character at one point during this episode, as he pulls out a knife and goes to attack Fry just because he was asked to apologise to Leela.<br />
**This isn't a goof, Sal just went crazy out of pride.<br />
<br />
*In the shot of the bloodstream, the Planet Express Ship was shown to be the size of a red blood cell. If this were true, they would be microscopic. Therefor, Leela would not be able to see them, let alone pick them up to shoot them into Fry's ear.<br />
<br />
=== Broadcast On BBC Two And Another Time Change ===<br />
This was the first episode of Season 3 to be shown on BBC Two, but they had the feeling they should change the time it was on yet again, because many child viewers were in bed by 10pm on Thursdays. So they changed the time from Thursdays at 10pm to Saturdays at 5pm.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes === <br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Leela''': You're not gonna eat a sandwich from a truck stop men's room are you?<br />
'''Fry''': What's the worst thing that can happen... ewww, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sal''': Stands back. I’m gonna puts my moves on her. ''[He hoots at Leela.]''<br />
'''Fry''': That jerk. No one hoots at my captain unless they’re prepared to take it to the next level.<br />
'''Leela''': Fry, please. That’s sweet, but I'd rather not even dignify them with an ass-whupping.<br />
'''Sal''': Yo, sexy mama! Let’s get busy and freaky, in that order.<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, jumbo! How would you like it if Leela said ''you'' were sexy and she wanted to make love with ''you''?<br />
'''Sal''': Eh, I’ve gots five minutes. She looks pretty good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Fry''': You take that back! She does ''not'' look good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Sal''': Yeah, you’re right. She don’t gots enough meat for a guy like me.<br />
'''Fry''': She does too! She’s loaded with meat! She’s got more meat than a cow!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Ahh, the hypochondriac's back, so what is it this time?<br />
'''Fry''': Well, my lead pipe hurts a little.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': That's normal, next patient!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Yo old guy, why do we have to use those tiny micro droids? Can't you just shrink us?<br />
'''Professor''': Oh my no, that would require extremely tiny atoms, have you priced those lately? I'm not made of money! Leave me alone!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Yippeekayaye! You'll never guess where I've been! ''[Comes in riding one of Fry's sperm.]''</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV13}}<br />
**Fry was sterilized by the [[F-Ray]], but the worms apparently fixed his sperm problems.<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
**Fry mentions his massage he gave to Amy when he was going out with her.<br />
*{{e|4ACV18}}<br />
**Fry plays the [[holophonor]] again with the help of another [[Robot Devil|outside force]].<br />
<br />
=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
<br />
[[File:ALS-03-02-01.jpg|thumb|right|"HUMAN MILK"]]<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 00:32 <br><br />
'''Location''': Truck<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': HUMAN MILK<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 09:48<br><br />
'''Location''': Construction site<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': WATCH FOR FALLING HUMANS<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut:'''[[Worms of Colon|Lord Mayor Worm]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut:'''Waitress<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Scott Vanzo]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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[[Category:A plots focusing on Leela]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Parasites_Lost&diff=115152Parasites Lost2012-07-06T17:42:24Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Additional Info */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=Parasites Lost<br />
|no=34<br />
|image=[[File:Parasites Lost.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV02<br />
|caption=If not entertaining, write your congressman<br />
|first aired=21 January, 2001<br />
|written by=Eric Kaplan<br />
|directed by=Peter Avanzino<br />
|title reference=''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}<br />
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|opening cartoon={{w|Ub Iwerks}} "''Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp''" (1934)<br />
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|broadcast number=S03E04<br />
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"'''Parasites Lost'''" is the thirty-fourth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the second of the [[Season 3|third production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 3|third broadcast season]]. It aired 21 January, 2001 on FOX. After obtaining worms from a truck stop sandwich, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] finally obtains the affection of [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], but he is concerned whether she loves him or what the worms have made of him.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "She's got more meat than a cow!" ===<br />
The [[Planet Express Ship]] pulls over for a fuel stop. Lighting his cigar while refuelling on ethanol and tonic, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] blows himself up. In the men's room, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] buys an egg-salad sandwich. While eating the sandwich, Fry makes several comments about how terrible it tastes, ("It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up"), but also says that he has had worse. While Fry finishes his sandwich, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] starts to clean the windshield of the Planet Express Ship, removing, among other things, the Voyager Probe. Several truckers (including [[Sal]]) make derogatory, sexist comments toward Leela as she cleans the ship, and Fry attempts to defend her, but only ends up insulting her further.<br />
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Back at the [[Planet Express|Planet Express building]] Fry despairs over being unable to please Leela. This despair is interrupted when he and Bender go to fix the [[plasma-fusion boiler]], which [[Scruffy]] is unable to fix due to a "schedule conflict". However, since they are unqualified to make such repairs, the boiler explodes, lodging a lead pipe in Fry's abdomen. During an examination from Dr. Zoidberg, who claims that it is normal for your lead pipe to hurt, the pipe is cut in half mysteriously, and the holes in Fry's abdomen seal themselves.<br />
<br />
Dr. Zoidberg gives Fry a more thorough examination, which the rest of the crew watches behind a 2-way mirror and on a video screen, while eating popcorn. Hermes eats his popcorn using a Jai Alai scoop, because Fry has been eating all the silverware. During Fry's colonoscopy, it is revealed that there is a [[Worms of Colón|colony of parasitic worms]] living in Fry's bowels, within a city made of the silverware Fry ate. The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] reveals that the only way to get rid of the parasites is to enter Fry using a microscopic version of the Planet Express Ship. After learning of their journey, Bender calls shotgun, to the disappointment of Dr. Zoidberg.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Nobody make a smell!" ===<br />
The Professor creates [[Micro-Droid Machine|micro-droids]] for each crew member, which, apparently, are cheaper than shrinking them. The micro-droids are controlled via [[Net Suit|net suits]].<br />
<br />
The Professor lays out the plan, which involves entering through Fry's ear, and travelling through his systems until they reach the pelvic splanchnic ganglion. Irritation of the ganglion will expel the parasites, among other things, from Fry. The force of the expulsion, according to the Professor, will make Fry lucky to still have his bones afterwards. Fry cannot be warned of the plan, however, as the worms know everything he knows. Leela distracts Fry long enough to launch the miniature Planet Express ship into his ear. In order to keep him distracted, Leela proposes taking a walk.<br />
<br />
The Planet Express Crew discovers that the worms are actually giving Fry a mental and physical upgrade making him smarter, stronger, and more coordinated. As they were navigating through the nasal passage, Fry sniffed a rose, which he gave to Leela. This bombarded the Planet Express Ship with pollen, prompting Zoidberg to suggest they escape through a nasal capillary. This surprises everyone, as it's the first time he's expressed any ''correct'' knowledge of human anatomy. He reveals, however, that he learned it from a decongestant commercial.<br />
<br />
The nasal capillary takes the crew into the heart, or "love muscle", as the Professor calls it. Dr. Zoidberg's usual lack of knowledge of human anatomy returns as he mentions that the heart is where food is digested. The crew will be safe as long as nothing causes Fry's heart to beat faster, according to the Professor. Unbeknown to the crew, Fry is stepping into a puddle to help Leela avoid getting her feet wet. Upon taking his hand, his heart starts to beat faster, causing Bender to panic. Professor Farnsworth sets a course for a cholesterol-encrusted valve, in an attempt to avoid certain doom.<br />
<br />
After leaving the heart, the ship passes a group of worms jazzercising Fry's muscles, making him as strong and flexible as Gumbercules. Outside of Fry's body, while on their walk, Leela sees Sal, and suggests they cross the street and blend in with a group of pimps. Fry confronts Sal, demanding an apology. Leela protests, saying that he is "bulging with what could be muscles." Fry tears off his shirt, revealing his newfound strength, which interests Leela. After a short confrontation, being disarmed and defeated, Sal apologizes to Leela.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Worms to battle stations!" ===<br />
The Planet Express Ship sets off a proximity alarm as they neared the stomach, and several worm sentry ships converge and open fire on the Planet Express Ship. After taking a couple hits from the worm fighters, Bender tries to abandon ship through the emergency exit (for the third time), but is restrained by Hermes and Zoidberg. Ahead, the entrance to the stomach is starting to close, and barely make it through, thanks to the help of the worm fighters. They arrive in the bowel and begin an assault on the worm city.<br />
<br />
At a coffee-shop across the street from Planet Express, Fry finally shares his feelings with Leela, which he was previously not able to articulate. Leela realizes that the worms may have something to do with the new Fry, and runs off to the Planet Express building.<br />
<br />
Just before reaching the ganglion, Zoidberg enters the room, revealing that, although Fry was sterilized by the professor's F-Ray ([[Fry and the Slurm Factory|1ACV13]]), the worms were able to repair the damage. Leela scans herself to create a micro-droid for herself, and enters Fry by shooting herself into his cup of coffee. Before the others can stimulate the ganglion, Leela arrives and destroys her micro-droid co-workers with a fire axe.<br />
<br />
=== Act IV: "Obviously, you've never been in love!" ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Holophonor.jpg|thumb|left|Fry playing the holophonor]]<br />
<br />
After destroying the microscopic versions of the crew, Leela takes off her net-suit and tells the Professor that Fry might be better off with the worms. Fry enters the room and demands an explanation.<br />
<br />
After receiving his explanation, Fry says that the worms are the best parasites he's ever had. Later, Leela takes Fry to her apartment, where pulls out a [[holophonor]], one of the most difficult instruments in the universe. He plays, and the hologram shows Fry and Leela in a variety of forms, dancing across the universe. Without saying a word, Leela takes Fry into the bedroom, where says she loves what Fry has become. Fry realizes she may not love him for who he truly is, but instead, for what the worms have made him into. He returns to the Planet Express building and makes a micro-droid of himself, which he drops into the back of his pants.<br />
<br />
Inside his own bowel, Fry confronts the Lord Mayor of Col&oacute;n. Fry explains his situation and asks the worms to leave, but the Lord Mayor refuses, citing that he came in on the sandwich and raised a cloud of spores in Fry's bowel. Fry and the Lord Mayor engage in a sword fight, which takes them to Fry's brain. Fry threatens to injure himself to evict the worms. They call his bluff, but he cuts several connections within his brain, including the hand-eye coordination lobe. The Lord Mayor explains that he has only damaged his brain to the extent of a week of binge drinking or 5 minutes of cell phone use. He reaches the medulla oblongata, and threatens to kill himself if they do not leave. After a brief standoff, the worms agree to leave, but give him a promise that they will find their way back--"Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special? Yo."<br />
<br />
=== Act V: "I'm still seduced from before." ===<br />
Fry returns to Leela's apartment. He asks to play the holophonor, but Leela protests, saying that she was still seduced from earlier. He insists and starts playing, creating a Frankenstein-like monster. Leela asks what it was supposed to mean, to which Fry responds 'I don't know. I got nervous and started thinking about neck bolts." Leela realizes he's become an idiot again. Fry asks for a chance to prove that it was him, not the worms that made her love him. Fry pulls out a baggie of massage oil and offers to give her the massage he used to give Amy. Leela, covering herself, shoves the holophonor in his face and tells him to leave.<br />
<br />
Later that night, Fry begins his first lesson on the holophonor, creating a rudimentary hologram of Leela.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:September2002calendar.JPG|thumb|September - 2002 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
[[File:April2007calendar.JPG|thumb|April - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The episode's title is a play on words from the epic poem ''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}.<br />
*Opening scene is shown to be on Historic Route 66 (expressed mathmatically).<br />
*Fuel available at Greasy Sue's Greasy Truck Stop is Light Matter, Dark Matter, Wassa Matter, Ethanol and Ethanol & Tonic.<br />
*Sign in men's room reads "All Employees Must Wipe Hands on Pants".<br />
*Leela's apartment is a spoof of the old {{w|Hitachi Maxell|Maxell}} commercials, which featured a similar setting.<br />
*These areas of Fry's body are listed on the elevator:<br />
**Brain.<br />
**Lungs.<br />
**Liver.<br />
**Ball Room.<br />
*Directly after Fry defeats the [[Worms of Colón|worms]] and they are leaving his brain, he can be seen performing a fairly common fencing salute.<br />
*This episode is named #4 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p3.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #5 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This has the least number of characters of any episode, with only 12 characters.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*When Fry first walks into Leela's apartment, its walls are white, though when Fry walks out the walls are yellow.<br />
*When Fry and Leela are dancing at the beginning of the first holophonor visualisation, the rotating planet behind them clearly loops through its animation.<br />
*Fry mentions that Leela has "more meat than a [[cow]]." Sal laughs and says "more meat than a cow" as well. However, according to "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]", cows are extinct.<br />
**Just because an animal is extinct, it doesn't mean that nobody knows about it anymore.<br />
*The Planet Express ship seems to be able to work in the fluids of Fry's body. But in "[[The Deep South]]", the ship doesn't work under water.<br />
**Not actually the Planet Express ship, but rather a microscopic version of it, just as the characters are all microscopic robot versions of them.<br />
*The Professor said the worms know everything Fry knows, however they do not know who he was when he entered his body nor did they know he was going to damage his own brain.<br />
**It's unlikely though that he meant all the worms would immediately know everything Fry did. Rather, it may just be that the worm community would have access to all of Fry's knowledge, but that doesn't imply that they'd all know what he looked like or what he was thinking (any more than having access to medical text books makes us all doctors).<br />
*If all the damage Fry ended up doing to himself was no worse than some binge drinking, he should still be pretty smart and able even after the worms left, but he immediately reverts back to being the old Fry.<br />
**Perhaps due to Fry's lack of a Delta brainwave his brain requires constant supervision to be kept smart.<br />
*Sal seems very out of character at one point during this episode, as he pulls out a knife and goes to attack Fry just because he was asked to apologise to Leela.<br />
**This isn't a goof, Sal just went crazy out of pride.<br />
<br />
*In the shot of the bloodstream, the Planet Express Ship was shown to be the size of a red blood cell. If this were true, they would be microscopic. Therefor, Leela would not be able to see them, let alone pick them up to shoot them into Fry's ear.<br />
<br />
=== Broadcast On BBC Two And Another Time Change ===<br />
This was the first episode of Season 3 to be shown on BBC Two, but they had the feeling they should change the time it was on yet again, because many child viewers were in bed by 10pm on Thursdays. So they changed the time from Thursdays at 10pm to Saturdays at 5pm.<br />
<br />
=== Quotes === <br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Leela''': You're not gonna eat a sandwich from a truck stop men's room are you?<br />
'''Fry''': What's the worst thing that can happen... ewww, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sal''': Stands back. I’m gonna puts my moves on her. ''[He hoots at Leela.]''<br />
'''Fry''': That jerk. No one hoots at my captain unless they’re prepared to take it to the next level.<br />
'''Leela''': Fry, please. That’s sweet, but I'd rather not even dignify them with an ass-whupping.<br />
'''Sal''': Yo, sexy mama! Let’s get busy and freaky, in that order.<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, jumbo! How would you like it if Leela said ''you'' were sexy and she wanted to make love with ''you''?<br />
'''Sal''': Eh, I’ve gots five minutes. She looks pretty good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Fry''': You take that back! She does ''not'' look good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Sal''': Yeah, you’re right. She don’t gots enough meat for a guy like me.<br />
'''Fry''': She does too! She’s loaded with meat! She’s got more meat than a cow!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Ahh, the hypochondriac's back, so what is it this time?<br />
'''Fry''': Well, my lead pipe hurts a little.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': That's normal, next patient!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Yo old guy, why do we have to use those tiny micro droids? Can't you just shrink us?<br />
'''Professor''': Oh my no, that would require extremely tiny atoms, have you priced those lately? I'm not made of money! Leave me alone!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Yippeekayaye! You'll never guess where I've been! ''[Comes in riding one of Fry's sperm.]''</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV13}}<br />
**Fry was sterilized by the [[F-Ray]], but the worms apparently fixed his sperm problems.<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
**Fry mentions his massage he gave to Amy when he was going out with her.<br />
*{{e|4ACV18}}<br />
**Fry plays the [[holophonor]] again with the help of another [[Robot Devil|outside force]].<br />
<br />
=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
<br />
[[File:ALS-03-02-01.jpg|thumb|right|"HUMAN MILK"]]<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 00:32 <br><br />
'''Location''': Truck<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': HUMAN MILK<br />
<br />
'''Time''': 09:48<br><br />
'''Location''': Construction site<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': WATCH FOR FALLING HUMANS<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
<br />
== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Scott Vanzo]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
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[[Category:A plots focusing on Leela]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Less_than_Hero&diff=115151Less than Hero2012-07-06T15:23:32Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Goofs */</p>
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|name=Less than Hero<br />
|no=58<br />
|image=[[File:New Justice Team.png|225px]]<br />
|season=4<br />
|broadcast season=5<br />
|number=4ACV04<br />
|caption=Soon to be a major religion<br />
|first aired=2 March, 2003<br />
|written by=Ron Weiner<br />
|directed by=Susan Dietter<br />
|title reference=The term "Less than zero"<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=''The Dover Boys'', by Warner Brothers, 1942.<br />
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|broadcast number=S05E06<br />
|prev ep=Love and Rocket<br />
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"'''Less than Hero'''" is the fifty-eighth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourth of the [[Season 4|fourth production season]] and the sixth of the [[Broadcast season 5|fifth broadcast season]]. It aired 2 March, 2003 on FOX. When [[Fry]] and [[Leela]] discover a [[Dr. FlimFlam's miracle cream|mysterious cream]] that gives them unusual powers, they form a Superhero team along with [[Bender]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "Ready for your big trip to the surface?" ===<br />
[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s [[Turanga Morris and Munda|parents]] are going to visit the surface the next weekend, and as they are [[Sewer Mutants|mutants]] who are not allowed above ground for legal reasons, Leela visits [[Citihall]] to get them special one-day surface permits. Meanwhile, the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]], who has gone temporarily insane, is getting a supercollider from [[πkea]], which turns out to be exhausting to assemble - [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and Leela are sore all over and receive treatment by [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] with genuine [[Dr. FlimFlam's Miracle Cream|Miracle Cream]]. The supercollider super explodes, and the Professor asks Leela and Fry to take it back.<br />
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On the way to return the collider they are attacked by a mugger who attempts to kill them, but are able to defeat him with powers usually not found with humans. They find out that the Miracle Cream temporarily causes superpowers in humans, including invulnerability, super strength and "lickety speed". A fourth power, the ability to command the loyalty of sea creatures, is not expressed and Zoidberg refuses to obey them. As they have super powers and are Americans, they decide to form a team of super heros, including [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] who provides the costumes and as a robot already has some sort of super powers.<br />
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They choose appropriate names: Fry becomes [[Captain Yesterday]], Bender is [[Superking]] and Leela chooses to be [[Clobberella]] - thus the [[The New Justice Team|New Justice Team]] is forged and fights crimes all over [[New New York]]. The team becomes well known but all three are anxious to protect their real identities, although sometimes Fry needs reminding.<br />
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=== Act II: "Attention, all crooks, lowlifes and lawbreakers!" ===<br />
In civilian guise, the crew returns to [[Citihall]] pick up the special one day permits for Leela's parents. While they are talking with the [[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor]], he learns of a dastardly plot. He uses a secret button to call for the New Justice Team, so they have to make a quick exit to reappear in their super hero costumes.<br />
<br />
The Mayor warns them that at precisely 9 A.M. tomorrow, the [[Museum of Natural History]] will be robbed by the super villain [[The Zookeeper|Zookeeper]] and his gang of highly trained animals. Their target: the priceless [[Quantum Gemerald]]. Leela makes good use of the timing, and arranges for her parents to meet her at the museum at 10 A.M., an hour after the robbery.<br />
<br />
The next morning the Zookeeper and his gang turn up an hour late. The New Justice Team foils his attempt to steal the Gemerald, but the Zookeeper escapes while they are protecting it. Leela's parents witness the action, but since she is still in costume she cannot talk to them without revealing her secret identity. They return to the sewers disappointed, thinking their daughter is too ashamed of them to meet in public.<br />
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=== Act III: "Mom, Dad - I'm Clobberella!" ===<br />
Seeing their disappointment, Leela visits her parents in the sewers to offer an excuse. Her attempts backfire, and further anguish her when her parents see through her excuses and suggest they fully understand her shame. She's finally guilted into revealing her secret identity.<br />
<br />
Morris's bragging inadvertently reveals the team's identities to the Zookeeper, who kidnaps Leela's parents to coerce the New Justice Team into stealing the Quantum Gemerald for him. This is complicated by the fact that they have run out of Miracle Cream, and they have to pull off the heist without their super powers. They deliver the gem to the Zookeeper, and Leela's parents are released. As they have now committed a crime and are out of Miracle Cream anyway, Bender and Fry commit a few more crimes under the cover of their super hero identities.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The phone number of [[Leela's parents]] is 1566.<br />
**This could just be the last four digits of the number.<br />
*Assembling the supercollider requires a hammer, a screwdriver, and a [[bending unit]].<br />
*Bender uses his left hand as a circular saw.<br />
*The binary that pops up when Bender is punched by the kangaroo translates to the letter J.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*[[SewerCom]] is a reference to [http://www.skycom.com/en/ SkyCom].<br />
*[[πkea]] is a spoof of {{w|Ikea|Ikea}}, a [[Swedish]] furniture manufacturer known for its do-it-yourself products that are sometimes shoddy or missing the parts required to assemble it.<br />
*The "ability to command the loyalty of sea creatures" power that Leela surmises she and Fry have gained (and ultimately they do not have) is a nod to [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Aquaman Aquaman], who is (in)famous for having this as one of his main abilities.<br />
*The song at the end credits names "Superking, Clobberella, and all the rest" even though there was just Captain Yesterday left. This may be a reference to the original {{w|Gilligan's Island#Theme song|''Gilligan's Island'' theme}}, which names all the characters and then "the rest" even though only the Professor and Mary Ann are left. The same reference is made in "[[Rebirth]]".<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*The title caption for this episode says that ''Futurama'' is "soon to be a major religion". ''[[Star Trek]]'', which is referenced in nearly every episode, will be revealed to have become [[Church of Trek|a religion]] centuries ago in "[[Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]".<br />
*[[Superking]]'s crown looks suspiciously like the one Bender stole from the statue in "[[A Bicyclops Built for Two]]".<br />
* Two [[mermaid]]s, presumably from the "[[The Deep South]]", are seen as Fry chases down the purse snatcher.<br />
* The [[Zookeeper]]'s gigantic, land-walking piranha is seen wearing [[Dr. Wernstrom]]'s patented [[reverse scuba suit]], sans the rubber suit and air tank (which would have obscured its menacing piranha visage otherwise). This suit was first seen in "[[A Big Piece of Garbage]]".<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Amy''': Are you off your rocket? Your parents are mutants! It's illegal for them to come above ground because they're inferior genetic scum! Ah - present company excluded, of course...</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': While you're there, could you pick me up a license to kill?<br />
'''Leela''': Sure. Bare hands or weapon?<br />
'''Hermes''': Uh... what does piano wire count as?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Wow! A superpowers drug you can just rub into your skin? You'd think it'd be something you have to freebase.<br />
'''Leela''': Let's see. Which super powers do we have? Super-strength?<br />
'''Fry''': Yup. <br />
'''Leela''': Uh-huh. Lickity Speed?<br />
'''Fry''' Check.<br />
'''Leela''': Yes, sir! Ability to command the loyalty of sea creatures? <br />
'''Fry''': Hey, Zoidberg! Get in here!<br />
'''Dr. Zoidberg''': Screw you!<br />
'''Fry''': Nope.<br />
'''Leela''': Ain't got that.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Wow, super powers! I'll be able to pack my day with twice as many humdrum activities!<br />
'''Fry''': Leela, I think you're missing the big picture. When you were a kid, what was your biggest fantasy?<br />
'''Leela''': To have parents...<br />
'''Fry''': Whatever. The correct answer is to be a superhero! We ''have'' super powers, and we are [[United States of America|Americans]]. This is our chance!<br />
'''Leela''': Hmmm. I've been looking for a way to serve the community that incorporates my violence. Let's do it!<br />
'''Fry''': You'll barely regret this.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Nine, ten... A big fat hen... ''[Puffs cigar.]'' The name's ''Bender''.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Oh, no. I completely forgot. I left my apartment on fire!</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
* On the ''[[πkea]]'' box is the letter ''{{w|ø}}'', which is common in Danish, Faroese and Norwegian but not in Swedish (which uses ''{{w|ö}}'' for the same sound).<br />
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* When the New Justice Team is fighting the Zookeeper and his animals in the museum, the clock reads 9:35 when it should be after 10:00 as Leela says.<br />
** The clock could be wrong.<br />
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=== Alien language sightings ===<br />
'''Time''': 4:40<br><br />
'''Location''': [[Miracle cream]]<br><br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br><br />
'''Translation''': Keep out of reach of children under the age of five hundred. For best results, sacrifice a small mammal xanroc, then apply evenly to interior of eyeball. Would you like to sell Dr. FlimFlam products? Contact a representative at a covered wagon near you.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
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*'''Debut''': [[πkea Robot]]<br />
*[[7¹¹ Clerk]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Andrew]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Turanga Morris and Munda|Turanga Morris]]<br />
*[[Turanga Morris and Munda|Turanga Munda]]<br />
*[[Randy Munchnik]]<br />
*[[Organ Dealer]]<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Tour Guide]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [['tude Guard]]<br />
*[[Leg Mutant]]<br />
*[[Raoul Inglis]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[The Zookeeper]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
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*Writer<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Susan Dietter]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Ron Weiner]]<br />
**[[Susie Dietter]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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|name=A Farewell to Arms<br />
|season=7<br />
|broadcast season=9<br />
|image=[[File:Countdown to Futurama 2012 (video 2).png|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Leela]], [[Fry]], [[Scruffy]], [[Hermes]], [[Amy]], [[Zoidberg]] and [[Bender]] around the [[Martian calendar]].<br />
|no=116<br />
|written by=Josh Weinstein<br />
|directed by=Raymie Muzquiz<br />
|title reference=The {{w|Ernest Hemingway}} novel ''{{w|A Farewell to Arms}}''<br />
|caption="Ask your doctor if ''Futurama'' is right for you"<br />
|first aired=20 June 2012<br />
|number=7ACV02<br />
|broadcast number=S09E02<br />
|prev ep=The Bots and the Bees<br />
|next ep=Decision 3012<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
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"'''A Farewell to Arms'''" is the one hundred and sixteenth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the second of the [[Season 7|seventh production season]] and the [[Broadcast season 9|ninth broadcast season]]. It aired on 20 June 2012 on [[Comedy Central]]. An ancient prophecy from a [[Martian calendar]] predicts [[Earth|the world]] [[3012 phenomenon|will end]] in [[3012]].<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
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=== Act I: "So the world will end in the year 3012...why does that year sound so familiar?" ===<br />
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After a storm, [[Fry]] and [[Leela]] encounter a puddle as they are walking. He takes off his pants and puts them over the puddle, and offers to hold Leela's hand and walk her over the puddle. Though she initially refuses, she eventually agrees, but is sucked into the puddle by a puddle monster as she walks over it. Back at [[Planet Express headquarters]], Leela is covered in tentacle marks as a result of the incident. Fry, meanwhile, hangs his wet pants to a dry on a rope. [[Professor Farnsworth]] announces that he will be launching a weather balloon to investigate the odd weather conditions affecting [[Earth]]. The balloon is released, but takes Fry's pants along with it as Fry had tied his pants to the balloon's string. Not wanting to lose his "lucky pants", Fry gets the crew to track down the balloon so he can reclaim his pants. He eventually shoots the balloon down in space, which causes the pants to fall back to Earth in [[Central Park]]. As he is about to take his pants, which are hanging from a tree branch, he is blocked by a [[Central Park badger]] which promptly steals the pants and escapes into a hole. Fry chases down the badger in the hole covered in varmint grease, and discovers a mysterious set of symbols underground. <br />
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The crew come down as well to investigate the symbols, but [[Leela]] accidentally slips into a hole. Fry attempts to save her, but the grease on his hands causes her to lose her grip and fall down into the hole. The crew follow her down using a rope made of Fry's clothes. After she regains her consciousness, she discovers her leg is broken. In the hole, they find a huge stone pyramid as well as a disk. They take it back to Planet Express headquarters, where they discover the disk is a actually [[Martian calendar]]. Amy translates the Martian symbols on the calendar, which state that [[3012 phenomenon|the world will end in 3012]], shocking the [[Planet Express|crew]].<br />
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=== Act II: "Is it just me, or is the world endin' more often these days?" ===<br />
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Professor Farnsworth reveals that the weather balloon detected the onset of a catastrophic sunspot cycle. It begins its effect on Earth, and mass panic ensues in the streets of [[New New York]]. The crew attempt to escape, but discover that all electric power on Earth has been disabled by the electromagnetic storm. The crew spend what they believe will be their last time on Earth: Fry and Leela are about to have sex, and Professor Farnsworth is embalming himself. Amy, however, finds a possible solution: escape through the stone pyramid, which she learns is actually a [[Martian stone spaceship|spaceship]]. The crew inspect their ship, which Leela estimates can hold around 30,000 people. Though initially intending to save as many lives as they can, they later attempt to make their escape on the ship as the storm worsens. [[Zapp]], however, arrives and reports the ship to [[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]], who decides that the ship's destination will be [[Mars]]. Fry is disheartened due to the probability that he will not be able to board the ship, as he possesses no special skills. The [[Contrabulous Choosematron]] is assigned to choose evacuees. To his surprise, Fry is accepted and given a ticket, due to the fact that the Contrabulous Choosematron liked his pants. Fry holds Leela's hand as she places her hand into the Contrabulous Choosematron's slot, but she is rejected due to the fact that with all spaceships inoperable, only one pilot will be needed: Zapp. Fry, however, is somehow able to manage to get her a ticket, and he hands her a ticket with her picture on it. As the ship takes off, Leela realizes that her ticket is actually Fry's ticket with her picture glued on to it. Fry has sacrificed his seat on the ship and has stayed behind in Earth with [[Bender]], who is eager to loot. <br />
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=== Act III: "It Mars that gonna be destroyed!" ===<br />
On Mars, the evacuated Earthicans establish a new city, [[Dick Francisco]]. During the unveiling of the city, [[Singing Wind]] arrives, asking what they are doing on Mars. As Amy explains the translated symbols on the calendar, he reveals that it is not Earth that will be destroyed, but rather Mars, and points out how his people were so eager to abandon Mars. Soon, lightning strikes and Mars is hit with severe solar flares and dust storms. As subsurface gas pockets begin to erupt on the Martian surface, Mars blasts out of orbit. Back on Earth, however, the weather has returned to normal. Fry and Bender are relaxing on deck chairs, drinking piña skull-adas and preparing for the "apocalypse". Bender notices Mars visible in the sky, and Mars begins to hover dangerously close to Earth, bringing panic in New New York. The Martian evacuees jump from Mars to Earth, with the exception of Leela, who cannot jump due to her broken leg. Fry attempts to rescue her, and lifts out her hand to grab her. He fails, however, and causes both of their hands to sever. Eventually, [[Scruffy]] rescues her with the help of a ladder and Farnsworth creates new arms for Fry and Leela with the help of his [[birthing machine]]. Fry apologizes for his actions. Leela, however, says that despite the fact Fry failed in trying to save her, he is the only person who loves her enough to try. They share a hug as the scene fades into a shot of Fry and Leela's severed arms, hands held together, floating in space.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
In 2012, two revelations concerning the episode were made. On 29 February, [[CGEF]] revealed the episode's title, its writer to be [[Josh Weinstein]] and its director to be [[Raymie Muzquiz]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/7ACV/|title=Episode Guide: 7 ACV|date=2012-02-29|site=[[CGEF]]|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=22731.msg1299002#msg1299002|title="Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)"|site=[[PEEL]]|author="Just Fan"|date=2012-02-29|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> On 25 April, {{w|MSN TV}} revealed the episode's plot and air date.<ref name="msn">{{cite web | url=http://tv.msn.com/tv/series-episodes/futurama/?ipp=40 | title=Futurama - Episode Guide | site={{w|MSN TV}} | accessdate=2012-04-26}}</ref><br />
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In May, ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' began releasing promotional material for the episode. It has so far released five items: a [[promotional picture]] showing Leela - on crutches - and Fry on the [[Planet Express balcony]] on 7 May,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22595209143/countdown-to-futurama-leela-and-fry-watching-the|title=Countdown to Futurama: Leela and Fry Watching the Storm|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-07|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-07}}</ref> a video clip featuring the crew discussing the end of the world as well as scenes of [[New New York]] in chaos on 8 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 2">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22660349317/countdown-to-futurama-the-world-is-ending-again|title=Countdown to Futurama: The World Is Ending Again Clip|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-08|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-08}}</ref> concept art of Fry and Leela's [[Planet Express]] prom photo on 9 May<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 3">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22723249502/countdown-to-futurama-fry-and-leelas-prom-photo|title=Countdown to Futurama: Fry and Leela’s Prom Photo|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-09|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-09}}</ref> a second promotional picture showing Leela being entangled by a puddle monster while Fry, whose pants are on the road, watches on 10 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 4">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22788712686/countdown-to-futurama-puddle-monster-who-doesnt|title=Countdown to Futurama: Puddle Monster|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-10|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-10}}</ref> concept art of an excavated spaceship inside a cave on 11 May<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 5">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22847680054/countdown-to-futurama-stone-spaceship-as-you|title=Countdown to Futurama: Stone Spaceship|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-11|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-11}}</ref> and part of the storyboard showing Zapp pressing a button on a spaceship, causing snakes to be released onto Kif, on 12 May.<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 6">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22907144433/countdown-to-futurama-snake-button-storyboard|title=Countdown to Futurama: Snake Button Storyboard|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-12|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-12}}</ref><br />
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Comedy Central's website released another promotional picture - showing Leela and Fry near the balcony.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedycentral.com/press/series/futurama.jhtml?gallery=true|title=Comedy Central Press <nowiki>|</nowiki> Futurama|author=Michelle Rosenblatt|site=[[Comedy Central]]|accessdate=2012-06-05}}</ref> By 1 June, Comedy Central had aired an advertisment for the seventh season of ''Futurama'' which featured a new clip from the episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMdKUAIdiec&feature=colike|title=New Futurama Ad 2012|author=punkyacturbo|date=2012-06-01|site={{w|YouTube}}|format=Video|accessdate=2012-06-16}}</ref><br />
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''South Coast Today'' published an article about the ''Futurama'' season premiere on 16 June, revealing certain details about the episode.<ref name="South Coast Today">{{cite web | author=DeArruda, James | url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120616/LIFE/206160306/-1/LIFE | title=Spoiler alert!: Season premiere of 'Futurama' delivers just what the doctor ordered | work=South Coast Today | date=16 June, 2012 | accessdate=19 June, 2012}}</ref> ''{{w|Entertainment Weekly}}'' released another preview clip of the episode on 18 June.<ref name="EW">{{cite web|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/06/18/futurama-bender-wanda-sykes/|title='Futurama': Bender impregnates a soda machine! -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO|first=Dan|last=Snierson|work=Inside TV|publisher=EW.com|date=18 June, 2012|accessdate=18 June, 2012}}</ref><br />
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=== Image gallery ===<br />
<gallery perrow=4><br />
Leela on crutches.jpg|The first promotional picture.<br />
Fry and Leela prom photo.jpg|The first piece of concept art.<br />
Puddle monster.jpg|The second promotional picture.<br />
Stone spaceship.jpg|The second piece of concept art.<br />
A Farewell to Arms storyboard - Scene 189.jpg|The first page of the storyboard to be released.<br />
702 2-withcredit.jpg|The third promotional picture.<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
On 30 January 2012, [[Eric Rogers]] revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either "[[The Bots and the Bees]]", this one or "[[31st Century Fox]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/164107479981105152|author=[[Eric Rogers]]|date=2012-01-30|title=Kitchelfilms|site={{w|Twitter}}|accessdate=2012-01-31}}</ref><br />
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1.645 million viewers.<br />
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== Additional information ==<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The title "'''Farewell to Arms'''", which was registered on the US {{w|Copyright Catalog}} on 14 July 2011,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=29&ti=26,29&Search_Arg=futurama&Search_Code=TALL&CNT=25&REC=0&RD=0&RC=0&PID=TsH4SXbiOi0dF3DmNIBqsPmX7xtu&SEQ=20120229184805&SID=1|date=2011-07-14|title=WebVoyage Record View 1|site=US {{w|Copyright Catalog}}|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> was a working title for this episode.<br />
*"[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]", which is also the second episode of [[season 6|its season]], features an end of the world plot as well.<br />
*If the [[Season 5|movies]] are considered non-episodic, then this episode could be considered the 100th episode.<br />
**Alternatively, if each movie is considered one episode, this could be considered the 104th episode.<br />
**This is moot, however, since according to the canon, the movies are considered four episodes each.<br />
*The name of the episode is a reference to Fry and Leela both having lost one arm at the end of the episode. The word 'Arms' is an anagram of Mars which gets destroyed at the end of the episode.<br />
*The second act is interesting because it does not end on a funny punch line, but instead a dramatic fade out.<br />
*Both Leela and Fry should have known they would have survived the Apocalypse since they read Bender's script on their love life in "[[Overclockwise]]".<br />
*If one looks closely at the tickets, it can be known that the ticket Fry gives Leela is actually his own ticket before it is directly revealed when Leela peels off her picture. When Fry receives his ticket from the Contabulous Choosematron, it bears the number combination "023870096 58". When Fry gives Leela the ticket, it bears the same combination.<br />
*The [[Planet Express headquarters]] is located on or near to 72nd Street, according to Farnsworth.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The episode's title is taken from the {{w|Ernest Hemingway}} novel ''{{w|A Farewell to Arms}}''. It is used to refer to Fry and Leela's arms getting torn off in the episode.<br />
*The episode is a parody of the {{w|2012 phenomenon}}.<br />
*In the Planet Express ship, Bender is reading a copy of ''Space Mall'', a parody of ''{{w|Sky Mall}}''.<br />
*Nixon says the best destination for the evacuated Earthicans to be transported to is [[Mars]], which has "no Woodward or Bernstein. That's a plus." He is referring to journalists {{w|Bob Woodward}} and {{w|Carl Bernstein}}, whose news reporting on the {{w|Watergate scandal}} eventually led to Nixon's resignation. <br />
*Additionally, "that's a plus" could also refer to the advertisement slogan of the social network "Google+".<br />
*Fry mentions ''{{w|Redbook}}''.<br />
*Nixon says that the spaceplane "just won't turn over, just like Pat on a Sunday morning." "Pat" was the name of {{w|Pat Nixon|Nixon's wife}} in real life.<br />
*Leela mentions ''{{w|Tron: Legacy}}''.<br />
*Fry says that Bender dumped pig's blood on him at the Planet Express Prom, a reference to ''{{w|Carrie (novel)|Carrie}}''.<br />
*"Sharksplosions" may be a reference to [http://sharksplode.com/ Sharksplode], an online tee-shirt store founded by Wil Wheaton and Joel Watson.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Singing Wind]] appears for the second time.<br />
*The Professor uses the [[birthing machine]] to clone new arms for Fry and Leela.<br />
*Fry gets his arm severed for a second time. The first time was in "[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]".<br />
*The original prophecy said that the Earth would not at all be affected, yet the two planets nearly collided. This may be a reference to the fact that the Earth's orbit was artificially modified in "[[Crimes of the Hot]]".<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]] is seen with the [[Headless clone of Agnew]]. The [[Headless body of Agnew|original Agnew]] was killed in ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]''.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>[repeated line]<br />
'''Fry''': [to Leela] Take my hand.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Fry]]''': No way I'm gonna let God get my pants! Nobody messes with my pants! Not even the Holy One, blessed be He!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Woah, there's writing in here! Also, this grease is flammable.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': [to Fry] Can't you just be a rude unhelpful jerk like Bender?<br />
'''Bender''': When I use up the toilet paper, I don't put on another roll!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Amy]]''': The calendar predicts fires, earthquakes, sharksplosions...then it just ends!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Hermes]]''': Is it just me, or is the world ending more often these days?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': So, you wanna join the Balcony Club?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': The Balcony Club?! I have an individual membership!<br />
'''Fry''': Zoidberg, get lost!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': I ''am'' lost! So long.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': That underground pyramid isn't a pyramid.<br />
''[Cut to the underground area.]''<br />
'''Amy''': It's a rocketship!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': It was worth waiting five hours to hear you finish that sentence.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'll remember you in here. ''[Puts her hand on her heart.]''<br />
'''Fry''': I wish ''I'' could remember with my boobs.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I'm stealin' stuff I don't even need. You wanna Torah?<br />
'''Fry''': Nah, I'm not hungry.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I hope you're not too mad at me, Leela. For tearin' your arm up and all.<br />
'''Leela''': I'm not mad. I'm on way too many painkillers.</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*The storm disables all electronics, yet Nixon's head's robotic arm still functions normally. Additionally, Zapp and the NNYPD's guns should not work either, but it is possible that the laser technology is not affected by the storm. The [[Contrabulous Choosematron]] is also another item that still works.<br />
**All these items could have been powered without electricity, like Bender.<br />
*Bender's crank is only seen in the first scene where it is used; after that, it is gone.<br />
**The crank could give him an extremly long charge.<br />
*In this episode, Amy says she belonged to the sorority Sigma Beta, but in "[[The Series Has Landed]]", she says she belonged to Kappa Kappa Wong.<br />
**She could have changed sororities over the course of twelve years.<br />
*Farnsworth, Fry and Bender should have known the world would not end in 3012, since they witnessed it ending over one billion years later in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]".<br />
**They initially skipped almost 7000 years, during which time society had collapsed several times on unknown dates. It is likely they were trying to avoid whatever had caused this.<br />
*If Mars and Earth really passed that close, then the gravity of the two planets would rip them appart.<br />
**When giving Mars oxygen, it could have altered the gravity. However, this is highly unlikely, because atmosphere content affects a planet's gravitation very little.<br />
*There's no way that burning subteranian gasses could move Mars that close to Earth so quickly, as there are millions of miles between them.<br />
*The Contrabulous Choosematron gives Fry two passes, so he should have been able to go with everyone to Mars, regardless of giving one to [[Leela]].<br />
**He got accepted twice, but he didnt get two passes.<br />
*Although [[Singing Wind]] explains why they left the Prophecy on Earth (to warn them not to go to Mars), it doesn't explain why they left the stone ship there.<br />
**It's possible that that was the very ship the original Martians used to come to Earth, and those Martians had died out on Earth, leaving behind their ship and [[Martian calendar|calendar]] there, and the legend of their journey back on Mars.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*The [[21st-century girl]]<br />
*[[Amy]]<br />
*[[Ben Beeler]]<br />
*[[Ben Beeler's wife]]<br />
*[[Bender]]<br />
*[[Billionaire Bot]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*The [[censored couple]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Contrabulous Choosematron]]<br />
*[[Cowardman]]<br />
*The [[Crack Addict]]<br />
*[[Dandy Jim]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]]<br />
*[[Elzar]]<br />
*[[Falafel cart man]]<br />
*[[Fat-bot]]<br />
*[[Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': The [[Great Reveal-o]]<br />
*[[Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Gus]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Headless clone of Agnew]]<br />
*[[Hermes]]<br />
*[[Igner]]<br />
*[[Inez Wong]]<br />
*[[Kif]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Larry]]<br />
*[[Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda van Schoonhoven]]<br />
*[[Leo Wong]]<br />
*The [[male nurse]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Mrs. Astor]]<br />
*[[Nine]]<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Mayor Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Queen of Yonkers]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Singing Wind]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*[[Stephanie]]<br />
*The [[underwater house salesman]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Victor]]<br />
*[[Walt]]<br />
*[[Wash Bucket]]<br />
*[[Judge Whitey]]<br />
*[[Zapp]]<br />
*[[Zoidberg]]<br />
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Bender Bending Rodríguez<br />
|image=[[File:Bender promo 2.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=A [[promotional picture]] of Bender holding a cigar and a bottle of [[Olde Fortran]].<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|birth date=Before [[2993]]<br />
|age={{age|2993}} plus unknown thousands of years due to [[Bender's Big Score|continuous time travel]]; [[Roswell that Ends Well|head]] is 1055 years older than body, see [[#Age|age section]] for details <!-- please refrain from adding the comic book "fact", as it is not necessarily canon. --><br />
|type=p<br />
|job=Assistant Manager of Sales at [[Planet Express]]<br />
|voiced by=John DiMaggio<br />
|first appear={{e|1}}<br />
|origin=[[Earth]], [[Mexico]], [[Tijuana]]<br />
|species=[[Robot]] ([[Bending Units|Bending Unit]])<br />
|family=''See [[#Family|family]] section.''<br />
}}<br />
'''Bender Bending Rodr&iacute;guez''' (Model: '''[[Bending Units|Bending Unit]] 22''') is a bending unit (serial number: 2716057), who works at [[Planet Express]] as Assistant Manager of Sales, formerly chef of the company. He is one of the primary characters and is known for his "in-your-face interface".<br />
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He weighs 525 pounds (238kg) and his central processing unit is a {{w|MOS Technology 6502|MOS Technologies 6502 processor}}. His arms and legs can be separated from the body and may act independently from it, and his head is able to survive without his body.<br />
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His internal fuel cells are recharged by drinking alcohol or any other liquid capable of delivering chemical energy, such as mineral oil or [[Dark Matter|dark matter oil]]. If he does not drink alcohol for a while, he suffers symptoms of intoxication, develops five-o'-clock rust around his mouth and leaks oil from his armpits. He carries a nuclear pile that seems to be composed of fissionable material, enabling the construction of miniature nuclear weapons.<br />
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Bender has a highly addictive personality, and his favorite pastimes are watching [[All My Circuits]], stealing things, drinking, and smoking. He lives in the [[New New York#Robot Arms Apartments|Robot Arms Apartments]] with his roommate [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]. In spite of his general selfishness and family-sized ego, he has occasionally demonstrated a capacity for generosity, even self-sacrifice, where his good friends are involved.<br />
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One of Bender's life-long dreams is to be a folk singer&mdash;a dream he briefly lived when he toured with [[Beck]] ([[Bendin' in the Wind|3ACV13]]). Normally his inhibition unit keeps his musical urges under control, but it tends to shut down in the presence of strong magnetic fields (especially in close proximity to his head). Ultimately things turned out tragically; fortunately for Bender, he's a robot with many life-long dreams. Another is being a great chef, like his idol [[Elzar]]. He achieved this dream as well when he defeated Elzar on the show ''[[Iron Cook]]'' ([[The 30% Iron Chef|3ACV22]]).--><br />
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== Personality and abilities ==<br />
Bender is often selfish and insensitive to other people's emotions. At one point, he flushed Leela's beloved pet Nibbler down the toilet. He is also quite vain, frequently bragging about how great he is. Bender has no qualms about committing crimes and often steals people's wallets or items from shops. He loves smoking and drinking, though as a Robot he has to drink alcohol to keep him going. (The cigars just make him look cool.) Bender can also be cruel at times and even sometimes treats his own friends badly. He is also extremely lazy, and is often seen sitting around on the couch drinking a beer and/or watching television.<br />
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However, he is capable of caring for others and is close friends with Leela and Fry, even though he often acts obnoxious and mean towards them. Bender seems genuinely happy for Leela when she is reunited with her long lost parents and was devastated when he is ordered to kill Fry in ''[[Bender's Big Score]]''. Considering he is still upset when he returns to the future it's possible he might have been mourning Fry for nearly a thousand years.<br />
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[[File:Countessdelaroca.png|thumb|right|Countess de la Roca, one of the fembots he had a relationship with.]]<br />
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Bender also has a fair few romantic relationships with fembots, such as [[Countess de la Roca]] and [[Agleyne]]. Bender can be quite emotional at times, despite stating that robots aren't supposed to have emotions, and is empathic towards turtles since they have hard shells and have difficulty getting up if they fell on their backs, two things they share in common with Bender. He also becomes the leader of a group of penguins at one point. Bender also idolised the Harlem Globetrotters and wanted to become one of them and started crying when they refused to let him join.<br />
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Bender also loves cooking though he had little talent for it and would often cook things that were either inedible or just barely edible. In certain episodes however, he has been able to make food successfully, making a cake for Nibbler's birthday party which was promptly eaten by the Nibblonian.<br />
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As a robot, Bender has quite a lot of abilities. He is able to stretch his arms long distances as well as record data in his head, once using this to get Richard Nixon to give him back his body. He also breathes fire whenever he burps and when he is terrified he sometimes ejects bricks from his backside which is his variant of defecation. (This is a reference to the slang phrase, to "s**t bricks", meaning to be very scared or surprised.) Although he usually only does this while in a state of shock, he has also done it after eating an {{w|Olestra}} potato chip from the 20th century. Bender is also very strong, even managing to bend a supposedly [[unbendable girder]]. <br />
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Bender is able to remove numerous parts of his body such as his head, arms, legs and even eyes. When he is staring at something or someone his eyes frequently extended out of his head. Like turtles he can withdraw into his chest when he chooses to. Bender can also survive in lava for a short time, though when he displays this ability his eyes melted as soon as he came out of the lava. Bender's body has also been used as a popcorn maker {{et|1ACV05}}, crock pot {{et|6ACV23}}, and steam engine (6ACV23).<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Montholdbender.png|thumb|left|Bender when he was only a month old]]<br />
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=== Early years ===<br />
Bender Bending Rodríguez was built in [[Tijuana]], Mexico in the early [[2990s]], although he believed it was in [[2998]], by [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]]. He has a fatal defect leaving him as mortal as a human. Inspector 5 (Hermes) knew of the defect but let him live. There is some speculation about what happened in the following two years, except few things are certain, he briefly studied Bending at Bending State University, which may or may not be the facility he was built in. He minored in Robo-American Studies.<br />
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He soon got a job bending girders, but after realizing that the purpose of the girders he bent were for [[suicide booth]]s, he figured that his purpose was meaningless and thus decided to kill himself in one of the suicide booths he had helped construct.<br />
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=== You really want a robot for a friend? ===<br />
{{further|Season 1}}<br />
While waiting in line to kill himself on 31 December, 2999, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], who was clearly not familiar with suicide booths, stood in front of him, thinking it was a phone booth. Bender helped him along. But they managed to get out of the suicide booth alive. Bender soon learns that Fry is from the 20th Century and had been frozen for a thousand years.<br />
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But since Fry refused to get [[Career chip|assigned]] to his job, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] was on his tail. Bender helped him escape through the [[Head Museum]] and soon down to [[Old New York]] below [[New New York]]. Here Leela finally caught up with them and agreed to help Fry. Bender decided to stay with them and they headed over to Fry's nephew, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]. Farnsworth soon offered them jobs, and luckily for them, he had the proper career chips.<br />
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=== Farnsworth's asset ===<br />
As an employee at Planet Express he continued his kleptomania, drinking and smoking. He convinced Fry to move in with him and soon [[Hermes Conrad]] forced him to actually do something around the company. He got assigned as chef of the company, one of his dreams was apparently to cook, but having no sense of taste made vile meals for the staff.<br />
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Bender got into trouble when he began abusing electricity (jacking on), and his friends were not in favor of it. Saddened by their discontent, he sought new opportunities in [[religion]]. He joined Robotology, but this only served to make him more annoying to his friends. So they decided to make Bender sin to become his regular self again, inadvertently condemning him to [[Robot Hell]]. Feeling guilty, Fry and Leela tracked Bender down and saved him from the [[Robot Devil]].<br />
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Bender has, in fact, found true love before, in the form of an aristocratic fembot, the [[Countess de leRoca]], with whose relationship with her strongly resembled that found in the movie ''[[Titanic]]''. When the [[Titanic]] was being sucked into a black hole (due to [[Zapp Brannigan]] altering the ship's course), she was the only passenger to go down with it. But, despite this, his personality continued to be a problem for his friends, and Leela became very upset with him when he flushed [[Nibbler]] down the toilet. The Professor "carefully" implanted an empathy chip in Bender, which forced him to feel Leela's every emotion for a short while.<br />
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[[File:Bender.png|thumb|right|180px|Bender Bending Rodríguez]]<br />
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=== The lesser of two evils ===<br />
{{further|Season 2}}<br />
During a visit to [[Past-O-Rama]] they bumped into [[Flexo]] (serial number: 3370318), another Bending Unit, possibly also of the same model number (22). Flexo and Bender became good friends, but Fry feared that Flexo is evil, and in a mix up at the Miss Universe contest Flexo was arrested for Bender's attempt to steal the tiara.<br />
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Bender briefly joined the [[Robot Mafia]] and fought in the [[Ultimate Robot Fighting]] League until his popularity slipped and he was rigged out of the league. Together with his fellow robots he rebelled against [[Humans|humanity]].<br />
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=== Well - I'm rich ===<br />
Bender's Uncle [[Vladimir]] died and Bender was to inherit his castle, on the condition that he had to spend one night within its walls. Bender was not at all comfortable in his new castle and the start up sound of Windows 98 was not helping either.<br />
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While being chased by several hologram ghosts, he fled out in the yard where he was run over by a [[Were-Car|were-car]]. The collision caused a virus to be beamed into him and he became a were-car. Bender did not realize this until later, but the [[Gypsy]] told them the only way to get rid of the virus would be destroy the original were-car. So through a long journey they found the original were-car and destroyed it, and thus Bender was free of the virus.<br />
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Whether he kept the castle or not is unknown.<br />
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=== Now when I'm found in a million years, people will know what the score was ===<br />
{{further|Season 3}}<br />
Bender continued his life with many adventures together with Fry and Leela. He temporarily worked for [[Calculon]] as his water heater. He met up with Flexo again, but this time he was not happy to see him, because Bender figured that his second true love was still in love with Flexo. Bender screwed it up and the divorcees got back together.<br />
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He was briefly sent to an institute for insane robots, along with [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], who went temporarily insane. He got to go on tour with [[Beck]] after becoming paralysed from a freak accident with a can opener, thus fulfilling his dream of becoming a folk-singer, became Pharaoh of an entire planet, driving everyone (including Fry and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]) into slavery, and beat [[Elzar]] on the [[television]] show ''[[Iron Cook]]''. However, he did not accept the title of Iron Cook, only the lesser title of Zinc Saucier (which he made up, and comes with double prize money).<br />
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During a battle with [[Space Pirates]], Bender was shot out through the torpedo slot and was forced to drift through space. He, for some time, became the God of the [[Shrimpkins]], which was a life form that had grown on his stomach. But, after they viciously killed each other in a nuclear war, started by Bender's need for booze, Bender met up with the [[Galactic Entity]], who he believes ''is'' God. The Entity eventually sent Bender back to [[Earth]] after receiving a radio signal from Fry.<br />
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=== I should not be allowed on TV! ===<br />
{{further|Season 4}}<br />
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[[File:Bender-TV.JPG|thumb|right|Bender as [[Antonio]] on [[All My Circuits]]]]<br />
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Bender was still wanting his fame, he found interest in becoming [[Bender (All My Circuits)|the new]] [[Antonio Calculon, Jr.|Antonio]] on [[All My Circuits]]. He got the job. But Calculon was hardly impressed by Bender's performance, however the Network executives disagreed. So Bender got to continue on the show, but in his true nature.<br />
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But when Bender realized that his behaviour on TV causes [[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]] and [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]] to steal his stuff, he called off the show.<br />
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Bender joined Fry and Leela briefly as they gained super powers in [[the New Justice Team]], he has had an affair with the [[Planet Express Ship]], he got modeled into a fembot and had a relationship shortly with Calculon, and helped [[Robot Santa]] as a replacement.<br />
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=== Dumb dumb away! ===<br />
{{further|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
But the company got into trouble when the [[Box Network]] canceled its license, and for two years they were not able to deliver packages. Luckily though, their license was renewed and they went back in business.<br />
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Bender became the centre of attention as the new masters of the company lead by [[Nudar]] infected him with an [[iObey]] virus and they forced him to go back in time and steal all of Earth's valuables. But when Fry managed to escape back into the past, they send him after Fry to kill him, and after 12 years tireless hunting, he managed to do so.<br />
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But he soon learned that the Fry he killed was doomed anyway because he was a [[time paradox duplicate]]. But after being stranded on [[Neptune]] for a while, humanity and he decided to fight back, and after the war was won (with the help of Hermes), he revealed that he himself had kept [[the Spheroboom]] that the scammers had told him to keep safe, thus saving the day. <br />
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However, while on a trip back in time to make sense out of everything that had happened that year, a mishap led to him accidentally tearing the universe open.<br />
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=== Death to humans! ===<br />
{{further|The Beast with a Billion Backs}}<br />
After becoming an official stalker for [[Calculon]] by Calculon, Bender fell into a deep depression after Calculon informed him that there was no such thing as the [[League of Robots]], a society of robots which came to the aid of robots abused by humans, and which Bender had worshipped for his entire life. He contemplated commiting suicide until he was approached by the League led by Calculon himself; he lied about its non-existence to ensure its secrecy.<br />
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Bender became the newest member of the League and began to personally enforce the no-humans policy of the organization, becoming very famous within it. However, Bender was caught helping his human friends and his bluffs were called by Calculon, whom Bender challenged to a duel. Bender broke the rules of the duel, severely injuring Calculon and nearly exposing the League, but instead of being kicked out of the League, Calculon resigned his position as President and gave it to Bender.<br />
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Bender organized the [[Army of the Damned]] (trading [[Bender's First Born Son|his firstborn son]] to the [[Robot Devil]] for it) to take over the world, only to discover that its entire population was already leaving to live on the body of a giant tentacled monster named [[Yivo]]. Bender soon received a letter from Fry describing how wonderful life was there, but Bender ended up interfering by [[The Robot Invasion of Heaven|attacking Yivo]] and attempting to bring humanity back. Soon, for personal reasons, Yivo unwittingly complied with Bender and had everybody return to Earth.<br />
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=== I know not of this Bender ===<br />
{{further|Bender's Game}}<br />
Bender finds himself attempting to catch up with a game of Dungeons and Dragons, played by [[Cubert Farnsworth]] and his friends. He soon hits the obstacle of realising he has no imagination. But the more he tries, he eventually believes he is [[Titanius Anglesmith]], Fancy Man of [[Cornwood]].<br />
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Unfortunately, his imagination grows wild, and he is sent to [[HAL Institute]] to be cured. The therapy is unsuccessful and they decide to give him a "robotomy". But during the operation, the [[dark matter]] crystals becomes close enough, allowing Bender's imagination to become real.<br />
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In his fantasy, he is the owner of a castle. When he hears of [[Waltazar, Larius and Ignus|Black Knights]] approaching, he sets out with his friends, [[Leegola]] and [[Frydo]]. Discovering the [[Die of Power]], he sets off to [[Great Wizard Greyfarn|Greyfarn]], where they learn of the story behind the Die. Titanius is slightly against the quest, but decides to tag along. On several occasions, he refers to going back, such as when they have just passed through the [[Cave of Hopelessness]].<br />
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On the other side, [[Fellowship]] decides to seek [[Wipe Castle]] for help. Unfortunately, the [[King of Cornwood]] is insane, and the entire royal army is gone, because the king declared war on scallops, tied the entire army to a rock, and pushed them into the ocean. As [[Momon]]'s forces arrive, they have a large, unwinnable battle at hand. But as things seems darkest, [[Leegola]] and her centaur army saves Wipe Castle. Knowing of Frydo's quest, the Fellowship decides to go help him. However, they are too late and Momon wins the battle, causing them to return to their world.<br />
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=== I'm...so...GREAT!! ===<br />
{{further|Into the Wild Green Yonder}}<br />
Bender takes a trip to [[Mars Vegas]] with the rest of the crew. There, he falls in love with [[Fanny]], a burlesque dancer, who is the [[Donbot]]'s wife. He enters the [[Universal Poker Championship]] Tournament for her and wins against Fry with five kings.<br />
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After returning to Earth, Bender feels upset that the [[Feministas]] are committing more felonies than him. He gets hired by [[Zapp Brannigan]] to help him capture the Feministas. By getting Bender to wire tap Fry's "cellphone-telephone" Zapp finds out where the Feministas are hiding and chases them aboard the [[Nimbus]], along with Bender and [[Kif Kroker|Kif]]. After an exciting space chase, Bender captures the Feministas and goes against them in court. They are found guilty and sent to [[Maxi-Padlock]] Prison.<br />
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Bender then breaks into the women's prison and helps the Feministas escape, because by doing so, he would have committed way more felonies than the women. He bends a brick wall and calls Farnsworth, who pilots the Planet Express Ship down to rescue them from the prison's forces. They crash a demolition ceremony, and in the end, Bender is sent through a [[Panama Wormhole|wormhole]] with the rest of the Planet Express Crew.<br />
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=== Dying sucks butt! ===<br />
{{further|Season 6}}<br />
After crashing the ship into Earth and being rebirthed {{et|6ACV01}}, Bender starts a [[robosexual]] relationship with [[Amy Wong|Amy]] {{et|6ACV04}}, after [[Kif Kroker|Kif]] dumps her for flirting with criminal inmates, despite his previously affirming that "[[Humans]] dating [[Robots]] is sick" {{et|3ACV15}}. Amy and Bender decided to marry, and manage to pass [[Proposition ∞|a proposition]] to legalize robosexual marriage. However, Bender leaves her upon realizing she wants a monogamous marriage. He participated in a [[Sith Invasion re-enactment|re-enactment of the Sith-il War]], after which he learned that he was built without a back-up unit {{et|6ACV06}}. He then goes with [[Hermes Conrad]] to determine why. Despite failing to do so, Bender uses the experience to reaffirm his stance on life. <br />
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Later, Bender witnesses robots undergoing evolution on a [[Robo-planetoid|deserted planetoid]] {{et|6ACV09}}. He was nearly killed after [[Mind-switcher|switching bodies]] with a [[Emperor Nikolai|Robo-Hungarian Emperor]] {{et|6ACV10}}. Later, he threw a [[100th Delivery Party|party celebrating Planet Express' 100th delivery]] {{et|6ACV12}}. After abruptly ending the party, Bender participated in the [[Devolution Revolution]], using his expertise to bend the [[Westside Pipeway]]. <br />
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When the crew crashes on [[Neutopia (planet)|a gender-neutral planet]], everyone's genders are switched in a freak accident and Bender resumes his feminine [[Coilette]] persona before the genders are corrected {{et|6ACV20}}. He then runs havok with the Professor's duplicator, creating exponentially miniature versions of himself that almost consume Earth but later band together to save it from [[Unattractive giant monster|a hideous monster]] {{et|6ACV17}}, though he dies soon afterward when a [[suicide booth]] murders him {{et|6ACV19}}. Bender lingers as a ghost but bargains with the [[Robot Devil]] to get his material body back in exchange for [[Fry]]. He attempts to scare him to death, but when Fry discloses his love for Bender, Bender refuses to kill Fry and ends up protecting him. [[Robot God]] then invites Bender to an existence in Robot Heaven as his reward, but Bender declines and returns to the crew.<br />
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After crashing a [[Robot Mafia]] wedding and making out with [[Bella]], [[Donbot]]'s daughter, Bender is forced to enter the witness relocation program {{et|6ACV14}}, and [[Francis X. Clampazzo|Clamps]] replaces him at work as an in for the Mafia to discover Bender's whereabouts and kill him. The crew is led to the [[Moon]] to [[Billy West (robot)|a hillbilly robot]] identical to Bender, but Bender is discovered to be in hiding as a waiter at the [[Family Bros. Pizza|pizza parlor]] across the street, and returns to work when the Mafia takes him for dead.<br />
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=== A new child ===<br />
{{further|Season 7}}<br />
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[[File:The Bots and the Bees screenshot.png|thumb|right|Bender and his son, [[Ben]]]]<br />
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In [[3012]], Planet Express acquired a new soda machine named [[Bev]]. They did not get along very well, but a fight of theirs eventually culminated in sex. The next day, Bev gave birth to Bender's child. Bender did not take this well, worrying over his fatherhood and eventually learning about robot reproduction for the first time, as his mother's religious fundamentalism kept her from teaching him this information. He attempted to give custody of the child to Bev, presenting her with a certificate of abandonment, but she too did not take having a child well, and she left Bender with custody of the child. Though he was initially disappointed over this, he eventually discovered that his child took an interest in bending. Naming the child [[Ben Rodríguez|Ben]], they formed a bond with each other, but to their surprise, discovered that Ben's lack of arm control software and an additional expansion slot prevented him from bending. At Ben's Bot-Mitzvah, Ben expressed for his appreciation for his father as well as his hopes of bending just like him. At the ceremony, however, Bev regained custody of Ben, separating him from his father. That night, Bender broke Ben out of [[Bev's trailer]], but were caught in their escape by the police, who arrested Bender on grounds of kidnapping. Bev showed up at the scene and gave birth to [[Bev and URL's child|another child]], and content with having another child to neglect, allowed Bender to keep Ben. Ben, however, was still disappointed in not being unable to bend, so he takes up an offer by the Professor to have a bending card installed in him - consequently losing all his memories of Bender. Bender, though tearful, allowed the surgery to go on, and eventually accompanied his son to his enrollment at [[Bending State University]] in Santa Cruz {{et|7ACV01}}.<br />
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== Character description ==<br />
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=== Composition ===<br />
Bender routinely claims to be made of thirty to forty percent of various metals, typically following his claims up by knocking on his own chassis. Unfortunately, his credibility on this matter is thrown into question by the fact that his various claims now add up to well over one hundred percent. Bender has alternately claimed to be:<br />
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*40% Zinc {{et|1ACV13}}.<br />
*40% Titanium {{et|A Head in the Polls}}.<br />
*30% Iron {{et|The 30% Iron Chef}}, presumably mixed with osmium, {{et|3ACV17}}.<br />
*40% Dolomite {{et|4ACV07}}.<br />
*40% Lead ([[Futurama (video game)|FVG]]). Canon status of video game uncertain.<br />
*40% Luck/horseshoes ([[Into the Wild Green Yonder|ITWGY]]). Composition of the horseshoes unknown.<br />
*40% Chromium {{et|Attack of the Killer App}}. Bender was not the one to make this claim. It was an [[Antarian]].<br />
*60% Storage space {{et|The Prisoner of Benda}}.<br />
*40% Scrap metal {{et|All the Presidents' Heads}}.<br />
*40% Wire {{et|Decision 3012}}<br />
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Total: 150% - 370% or greater. The number is dependent on whether or not one counts various claims as true. First the "40% Horseshoes" claim, as the supposed horseshoes could have been made of one or more of the other metals previously stated (Titanium, Iron, or Lead), meaning that one could have been a restatement rather than a new figure. Second, it depends on whether or not he considers his storage space and wires to be part of the total percentage of himself, in which case the remaining 40% each that he often claims to be would constitute the rest of his body. Third, the claim of "40% Lead" is dependent on whether the video game can be considered canon. Fourth and finally, whether the claim of "40% Chromium" is accepted at all. This claim was not made by Bender but rather one of the Antarians. It is plausible that the claim is false and that it was just made to justify the in-progress cannibalization of Bender's body. Even if all previous points made are taken into account and only the first four claims were used, Bender's composition would be 150%, far more than what is possible. This error can be explained as due to Bender's being a poor calculator, making it plausible that he has given the wrong percentages {{et|3ACV09}}.<br />
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Alternatively, it's possible that Bender's comments were written by comedy writers because Futurama is a television show.<br />
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Additionally, he has a 0.04% nickel impurity, which doesn't ''increase'' total percentage, but slightly ''decreases'' the percentages of everything else. This is apparently not a standard impurity, and is cited as making him unique {{et|3ACV17}}.<br />
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There's also a mention that robots are made from recycled beer cans and beer cans are made from recycled robots {{et|1ACV08}}, so depending on the year 3000 composition of beer cans, he may have a certain percentage of aluminum in his alloy.<br />
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As a side note, ''{{w|Dolemite}}'' is also the title of a 1974 film. The film's main character, Dolemite, is a pimp who leads an army of hookers skilled in kung-fu.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072895/ IMDB - Dolemite]</ref> Bender has been a pimp many times throughout the series.<br />
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Bender's composition will possibly be referenced in the episode "[[Forty Percent Leadbelly]]".<br />
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=== Family ===<br />
[[File:Bender's Xmas 2.jpg|right|thumb|Bender's mother, whom he refers to as his mommy.]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], Bender's owner and the creator of the sports utility robot on which Bender and all/most other modern robots are based.<br />
*[[Flexo]], not exactly a relative, but another [[Bending Unit]] of the same model. (presumed deceased)<br />
*[[Billy West (character)|Billy West]], identical model (deceased)<br />
*[[Mom]], owner of [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]].<br />
*[[Bender's mother|His mother]], a robotic arm who sends him [[Xmas]] cards.<br />
*[[Ben Rodríguez]], son.<br />
*[[Bender's father|His father]], who was killed by a giant can opener {{et|2ACV01}}.<br />
*Uncle [[Vladimir]], who lived in [[Thermostadt]], capital of the [[Robo-Hungarian Empire]], and died at the ripe old age of 211.<br />
*[[Tandy]], Uncle Vladimir's son and hence Bender's cousin.<br />
*Screwy Aunt Rita, who ''is'' a screw. (Note that Bender stated that he had an Aunt Rita during Leela's coma fantasy in the episode "[[The Sting]]", so this may not be true.)<br />
*[[Albert]], [[Sally]], [[Nina]], [[Sam]] and 8 other orphans, briefly adopted from the [[Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium]].<br />
*Three penguin "children" {{et|3ACV05}}.<br />
*[[Junior]], a child born to [[The Crushinator]] ([[Freaky Fry-day|US#009]]). Comic books of uncertain canon status.<br />
*[[Bender's first born son|His first born son]], Bender exchanges him for an [[Army of the Damned]].<br />
*Bender's grandmother, who is a bulldozer.<br />
*Buster, identical cousin.<br />
*Turner, another cousin {{et|6ACV08}}.<br />
*Commodore LXIV, or Commodore 64. A painting of this robot is hanging in Uncle [[Vladimir]]'s dining hall and can be assumed to be one of Bender's ancestors.<br />
*[[Bender's guinea pig|His guinea pig]], who died off-screen prior to the [[V-GINY]]'s rampage {{et|6ACV02}}.<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]], Inspector at Mom's friendly robot plant in Tijuana, Mexico {{et|6ACV06}}.<br />
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=== Age ===<br />
According to himself, Bender was originally constructed in [[2998]], making him one year old when Fry met him in 2999, but several later discoveries supports the theory that he was in fact born earlier. Bender's memory as newborn is as a complete, fullgrown robot, but events in "[[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles]]" suggest that his current, fullgrown body merely was the final stage, and it is possible that Bender only remembers entering this final stage - what he considers being born.<br />
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In [[season 6]] episode "[[Lethal Inspection]]", it is revealed that Hermes supervised Bender's construction before getting the job in [[Planet Express]], and is seen much younger than he must have been in the late [[2990s]]. We also see that the state in which he was supervised - reminiscent of a human baby - much differs from the one Bender remembers from 2998. In "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]", it can be shown that Hermes was already in the company in [[2993]], and thus Bender must have been born in that year at least, and possibly even earlier.<br />
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[[File:Roswell that ends well.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The events of "[[Roswell that Ends Well]]" aged Bender's head 1055 years ahead of his body.]]<br />
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The events in "[[Roswell that Ends Well]]" make his head 1055 years older than the rest of his body. The incident in "[[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles]]" does largely not count as an aging or the opposite, and fans largely regard his age to remain intact. In {{f|1}}, Bender travels back in time several times, though the amount of times is unknown, the amount of Benders that appear at the end, may suggest at least a couple of thousand times. Given how many of these travels seems to be between 1000 to 5000 years in the past (from about 3007), an educated guess would make him at least a million years old, but probably more. An alternative theory could suggest when the time duplicates explode at the end of the first film, Bender is the same age he was at the end of the original run plus 995 years, as the Bender that went back 995 years in time to kill Fry is presumed to be the original and therefore wouldn't expire like the rest of them.<br />
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In the comic, "[[Rust in Peace]]", it is revealed that Bender, due to too much time travelling, must be inserted into a renewed unit. Farnsworth determines his age to be 27,203 before moving him to his new body. But 27,203 seems a lot less than what would be a quick educated guess. 27,203 would require Bender to have gone at least about a thousand years back each time and only gone 27 times, or instead gone more years back and done fewer than 27 times. But regardless of the ordeal, the amount of Benders appearing at the end of ''Bender's Big Score'' seems to contradict this fact. The event in the comic is thus not considered [[canon]].<br />
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=== Durability ===<br />
Bender frequently displays incredible durability, to the point that he appears to be indestructible. He has been completely flattened, hit point-blank with a shotgun, had several chips removed from his severed head, then had his head [[Roswell That Ends Well|buried for over a thousand years]], had his lower torso melted from a cosmic electrical disturbance, been [[Godfellas|launched out of a torpedo tube then withstood atmospheric reentry]], [[Jurassic Bark|submerged himself in lava]], and been burned to nothing but his eyes and mouth after converting his body entirely into wood<br />
(though this was a [[Obsoletely Fabulous|dream]], but it is implied the dream could actually happen). In "[[Rebirth]]", after having been nearly eaten by a [[cyclophage]] and have a [[Doomsday Devices|doomsday device]] explode inside him, he remarks "What does it take to kill me?". A bomb has also exploded inside him in "[[War Is the H-Word]]" (twice). He survives being shot point-blank at [[Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences|least]] [[Law and Oracle|three]] [[Benderama|times]] in Season 6, survived [[Neutopia|being completely melted]], was [[Ghost in the Machines|able to come out of Limbo after having been killed]] and [[The Tip of the Zoidberg|had his head sliced in half by spinning blades.]]<br />
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However, as it's revealed in "[[Lethal Inspection]]", Bender was built without a backup unit. This means he can't download his personality or memories to another body, which he wanted to do if his original body got killed. Therefore, if his body is destroyed, he dies. As it turned out, [[Hermes Conrad|Inspector #5]] was the one responsible for mercifully approving Bender as a perfect robot, thus allowing him to live despite actually being a defective [[Robots|robot]].<br />
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[[File:Were-Car.jpg|right|thumb|Bender as a were-car.]]<br />
[[File:Human Bender.jpg|right|thumb|Human Bender, with floozies.]]<br />
[[File:Super King.jpg|thumb|right|Bender as [[Superking]]]]<br />
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=== Alternate appearances ===<br />
[[File:Ghost in the Machines infobox.png|200px|thumb|Bender as a ghost]]<br />
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*'''[[2ACV08]]''': '''Bender the Offender/Gender Bender''' Bender joins the [[Ultimate Robot Fighting League]], and become 'Bender the Offender', but after he becomes less popular, [[Abner Doubledeal]], the Commissioner of the URFL, changed his persona to 'The Gender Bender'<br />
*'''[[2ACV16]]''': '''Giant Bender:''' In a [[canon|non-canon]] scenario, Bender is pictured as 500 feet tall. During the episode, he claims to weigh 7 billion tons (14 trillion pounds).<br />
**'''Go-Kart Bender:''' After being murdered by [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] in aforementioned episode, she reassembles his parts into a sporty go-kart.<br />
*'''[[2ACV18]]''': '''[[Were-Car]] Bender:''' In "[[The Honking]]", Bender is transformed each midnight into a malicious were-car, determined to kill [[Philip J. Fry|his closest friend]].<br />
*'''[[3ACV03]]''': '''[[Robot Santa Claus|Santa]] Bender:''' Bender becomes a good Santa. This appearance basically has Bender's body painted red.<br />
*'''[[3ACV15]]''': '''Parallel Bender:''' The only difference apparent between Bender and his counterpart in the parallel universe (the ''only'' alternate universe at the time) was that parallel Bender (along with the rest of the parallel Planet Express crew) was wearing a cowboy hat and vest when both crews visited the [[Edge of the Universe]]. Whether this is the norm for the parallel Crew, or was due to some difference in parallel Fry's touristy adventure that day was never mentioned.<br />
*'''[[3ACV18]]''': '''Human Bender:''' In "[[Anthology of Interest II]]", Bender asks what it would be like if he were human. Despite being Mexican, he appears to be Caucasian. (Note: this could be a ''default setting'' on the professors device.)<br />
*'''[[3ACV19]]''': '''Flying Saucer Bender:''' After crashing to the New Mexico desert, the US military mistakenly reassembles Bender's body to resemble a small (functional) flying saucer.<br />
*'''[[4ACV04]]''': '''Superking:''' Bender joins the [[New Justice Team]] as the superhero "Superking", with a cape, a mask and a royal crown.<br />
*'''[[4ACV09]]''': '''Young Bender:''' Bender takes several reverted forms in "[[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles]]", including a software disc and a set of "Bending unit blueprints". Modifications include braces and dish-antenna-like ears.<br />
*'''[[4ACV13]]''': '''[[Coilette]]:''' Bender undergoes a sex-change operation in order to win five olympic gold medals. Faked his(her) own death with a fictional disease called "[[African Hydraulic Fever]]" because he(she) did not want to marry [[Calculon]].<br />
*'''[[4ACV14]]''': '''Wooden Bender:''' In a [[canon|dream]], Bender downgrades to a wooden, steam-powered version, and he also has termites inside him.<br />
*'''[[4ACV15]]''': '''Golden Bender:''' In [[Universe 1]], Bender's coin flip resulted in his choosing the gold finish instead of the foghat grey that we're used to.<br />
*'''[[Bender's Big Score|BBS]]''': '''[[iObey]] Bender:''' In ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'', Bender was tricked into downloading the iObey obedience virus. He is forced to do anything the naked scammers tell him, and his pupils become red pixel swirls.<br />
*'''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs|BwBB]]''': '''LOR Bender:''' Bender is given a luxurious ascot to wear, as he becomes a new member of the [[League of Robots]].<br />
**'''Pirate Bender:''' He dressed as a pirate in honor of Fry in his attempt to retrieve him from [[Yivo]]'s body.<br />
*'''[[Bender's Game|BG]]''': '''[[Titanius Anglesmith]]:''' While playing ''Dungeons & Dragons'' in ''[[Bender's Game]]'', Bender convinces himself that he is a knight and goes insane. <!-- When [[Cornwood]] is created, his delusions are made real. --><br />
*'''[[6ACV17]]''': '''Gray Goo Bender:'''Bender calls upon his legions of microscopic [[Bender duplicates]] to join together with him and form a gigantic version of him, in order to defeat the [[Unattractive giant monster]].<br />
*'''[[6ACV19]]''': '''Ghost Bender:''' After Bender's death, his software takes on a ghostly existence.<br />
*'''[[6ACV25]]''': '''Overclocked Bender:''' In a cave behind a waterfall, he has processed inside out.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Anthology.jpg|right|thumb|Giant Bender as seen in a "What If?" scenario, about to get attacked by giant [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]].]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*Benders E-mail is: bender@iloveBender.com<br />
*It is recommended that he run on 5 gigawatts.<br />
*Interestingly enough, Bender appears to have been an entirely different [[Robot]] before having met Fry. They meet when Bender is (at the very least) guilty and willing to kill himself over his dismay at finding out that the girders he had been bending were for [[suicide booth]]s. However, after Bender bends the bars keeping them from escaping Leela, Bender declares that from then on he will live his life only for him and do only what he wants to do. This may, however, just be an overlook by the writers of the show simply for the sake of introducing Fry to the drastic changes the future has brought (booths that are as ubiqitous as phone booths for suicide; walking, talking Robots).<br />
**This sudden change could be explained by the electric shock Bender received shortly before bending the bars. Not only did it allow Bender the freedom to disobey his programming, it changed his opinions on various things.<br />
**A year later however, Bender presents a picture of himself when he was only a month old with a bottle of beer and a cigar {{et|2ACV14}}, showing he has always been a "precocious little scamp" {{et|3ACV06}}.<br />
***All robots need beer to function, and that may not have been a cigar.<br />
****It was probably a cigar. However, drinking and smoking do not necessarily mean he is amoral befor the electric shock. He smoked cigars from the very first episode, saying "they make me look cool".<br />
*He has been [[New New York v. Bender|charged]] for pimping.<br />
*Bender's apartment number is 00100100. This is a binary representation of the ASCII character '$' or 36 in decimal.<br />
*Bender's serial number is 2716057. This can be expressed as the sum of 2 cubes. Specifically, 952<sup>3</sup> + (-951)<sup>3</sup>.<br />
*Additionally, he seems to be the [[1729]]<sup>th</sup> unit produced by his "mommy".<br />
*The word "bender" can refer to a drinking spree, hinting at Bender's heavy alcohol use.<br />
*Bender's head contains a {{w|MOS Technology 6502|6502 Microprocessor}} {{et|1ACV13}}, and his ass an {{w|Athlon II}} {{et|6ACV25}}. After Cubert overclocks Bender's ass, Bender discovers that he has "an extra processor in his compartment of mystery".<br />
*Bender dies at the end of both of his what-if scenarios in each Anthology of Interest and both have one of the characters saying "Goodnight, sweet prince" (Fry in the first and Farnsworth in the second) to Bender when he dies.<br />
*His self-destruct code is "Destruct Sequence 1A2B3". However, this appears to cause only his head to self-destruct, leaving the rest of his body intact and functional. This is a reference to the self-destruct codes of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.<br />
*Bender cannot have magnets attached to his head, or it will "screw up his inhibition unit", thus causing him to sing crazy variations of folk songs.<br />
*Apparently stole the Prime Minister of Norway's arm.<br />
*Despite Bender being made of various metals as hard as iron and titanium, [[humans]] and other organic organisms seem to have little to no difficulty harming his metal body using only their fists and feet.<br />
*His birthstone is [[Robobium]].<br />
*Is able to simultaneously reattach each of his severed arms with the other.<br />
*He cannot get up when he is knocked on his back. At least not until he learns how to from the majestic turtle.<br />
*His [[antenna]] interferes with satelite televisions, along with some cellphones.<br />
*He, along with [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], appears in all episodes of the series.<br />
*No one can say he doesn't own John Laraquette's Spine.<br />
*In addition, he seems to own the skeletal remains of Charlamagne, as shown in "[[Jurassic Bark]]".<br />
*Bender has Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, fear of the number 666, as hinted in "[[The Honking]]".<br />
*Bender is the most evil robot in the series, as acknowledged by [[Robot Santa]] and the [[Robot Devil]].<br />
*Bender has named his hands "Grabby and Squeezy," and his footcups "Stompy and Smashy."<br />
*Bender's favorite cause of death is being crushed to death by a big rig driven by The Incredible Hulk.<br />
*In Firefox 3, if you type "about:robots" into the address bar, a page with several cultural references to robots is displayed. The fourth bullet point says "Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten."<br />
*His vanity plate reads “1 DVS BSTD” (one devious bastard).<br />
*He said the last sentence in all 4 [[film]]s: "Well, we're boned" {{et|BBS}}, "I love you, meatbags!" {{et|TBwaBB}}, "Whip harder, Professor!" {{et|BG}}, "Into the breach, meatbags. Or not, whatever" {{et|ItWGY}}.<br />
*Bender's waste management facilities may convert material he consumes into bricks.<br />
*Bender's mighty robot powers allow him to get sick of things much quicker than humans.<br />
*His full name is first mentioned aloud in the episode "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]".<br />
*Bender is said to be roughly 500 pounds in "[[Gender Bender]]" but in ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'' he says he is 2 tons.<br />
*He goes into sleep mode whenever there is too much exposition.<br />
*Bender has appeared in both ''[[Family Guy]]'' and ''[[The Cleveland Show]]''.<br />
*He has referred to his chest compartment as his "compartment of mystery" (6ACV25).<br />
*Bender was featured on the front cover of all the Futurama DVDs, until [[Volume 6]].<br />
*In March 2012, hackers elected Bender to the {{w|District of Columbia Public Schools|D.C. school board}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2012/03/02/futuramas-bender-elected-to-dc-schoolboard/|title=Futurama's Bender Elected to DC School Board! <nowiki>|</nowiki> Comedy Central Insider <nowiki>|</nowiki> Funny, TV and Comedy Blog|author=Tobey, Matt|date=2012-03-02|site=[[Comedy Central]] Insider|accessdate=2012-03-02}}</ref>|<br />
*Even though his head has been shown to function as a camera many times before (the first time being in [[1ACV12|"When Aliens Attack"]], he still carries around his own portable camera (with film!) to remember "neat" events.<br />
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=== Voice ===<br />
Of all the voices on the show, Bender's voice was the most difficult to cast. This is because none of the creators and crew were sure what a robot should sound like yet. So they had every voice actor who auditioned also audition for the role of Bender. Even [[David X. Cohen]] was suggested for the role.<br />
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[[John DiMaggio]] originally auditioned with Bender's voice for Professor Farnsworth. Among the bases for the voice were the character of Taggart from {{w|Blazing Saddles}} and DiMaggio's original character "Charlie the Sausage Lover". In the [[Commentary:Spanish Fry|audio commentary of Spanish Fry]], David X. Cohen joked about it also being "90 parts John DiMaggio."<br />
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=== Catchphrases ===<br />
Bender's basic catchphrase is "[[Bite my shiny metal ass]]".<br />
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Variations on this include the following:<br />
*Bite my red-hot glowing ass! [[When Aliens Attack|(1ACV12)]]<br />
*Lick my frozen metal ass! [[Xmas Story|(2ACV04)]]<br />
*Bite my colossal metal ass! [[Anthology of Interest I|(2ACV16)]]<br />
*Bite my splintery wooden ass! [[Obsoletely Fabulous|(4ACV14)]]<br />
*Bite my glorious golden ass! [[The Farnsworth Parabox|(4ACV15)]]<br />
*Bite my shiny metal face!! {{f|3}}<br />
*Bite my shiny metal hat. (Said by [[Fry]], {{f|4}}<br />
*Bite my tiny metal ass! (Said by a Microscopic [[Bender duplicate]]) {{et|6ACV17}}<br />
*Byte my 8-bit metal ass! (Said by Bender During the Video Game Segment) {{et|6ACV26}}<br />
*Bite my fhiny metal aff [[All the Presidents' Heads| (6ACV23)]]<br />
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Other common catchphrases are:<br />
*"[[Me, Bender]]": whenever he says "me", he usually follows it with "Bender", thus producing the sentence "me, Bender." Thus making this the most said character name on the show.<br />
*"Well, [[we're boned]].", said in situations where he, or a group of people including him, are in a large amount of trouble.<br />
*"I'm back, baby!" whenever he makes an intriguing appearance on the scene; Bender had also said the phrase "We're back, baby!" on numerous occasions, particularly in reference to the series' revival. At one point, Bender just said, "Yeah, we're back." while filing his "nails" after escaping the wormhole.<br />
*"[[Neat!]]", when Bender is taking a picture with [[Bender's camera|his purple camera]], usually of something disturbing or disgusting.<br />
*"Cheese it!" whenever he encourages other characters to run away from trouble. This is used less commonly.<br />
*"[[Fun on the bun]]", another less common catchphrase that is used whenever Bender describes amusement.<br />
*"He's pending for a bending.", a phrase used as a warning very few times throughout the show.<br />
*"[[Bender is great!]]", like "Me, Bender", he usually likes to say this to emphasize his enormous ego.<br />
*"Oooh!", a ghostly/eerie noise often accompanied by jazz hands when feigning supernatural abilities, etc... (The Gypsy machine also did this once to Fry)<br />
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Bender also has a tendency to call humans "meatbag" when he is displeased or annoyed with them. Additionally, Bender regularly says "Kill all humans", although, in [[The Sting|Leela's dream]] he claims to whisper "except one", referring to Fry, every time too.<br />
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As stated in "[[War Is the H-Word]]", the top ten words that Bender uses more than any others is as follows:<br />
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<ol start="10"><br />
<li>Chump</li><br />
<li value="9">Chumpette</li><br />
<li value="8">Yours</li><br />
<li value="7">Up</li><br />
<li value="6">Pimpmobile</li><br />
<li value="5">Bite</li><br />
<li value="4">My</li><br />
<li value="3">Shiny</li><br />
<li value="2">Daffodil</li><br />
<li value="1">Ass</li><br />
</ol><br />
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It is by no means impossible that the second word in the list is not "metal" considering all the variations of his catchphrase. In reference to his use of the word "daffodil", he said the sentence "Hot-diggidy-daffodil" in this episode and again in {{f|2}}. "Chumpette" is only uttered once though. "Pimpmobile" was also spoken by Bender in [[Futurama (video game)|the game]]. However, in all likelihood, Bender's real most spoken words would most likely be along the lines of any other speaker of the English language: the, and, I, a, so; etc.<br />
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=== Assets and titles ===<br />
Bender has, over the years gained many assets and ranks in various organizations and a large amount of wealth. Some of these include:<br />
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*Served as Prime Minister of [[Trisol]] under the brief rule of [[Philip J. Fry|Fry the Solid]] (most likely terminated when the old emperor came back into power or when Bender and the rest of the crew fled Trisol).<br />
*A castle, inherited from his [[Vladimir|uncle]], though possibly forfeited when he failed to spend a night within.<br />
*Leader of the [[League of Robots]]<br />
*Commander of the [[Army of the Damned]]<br />
*[[Iron Cook]], on the television show of the same name (Zinc Saucier)<br />
*The [[Dirty Double Cross]], Earth's highest honor in swindling<br />
*[[Calculon]]'s official stalker (possibly fired when he maimed Calculon during a duel)<br />
*Spy for the [[DOOP]]<br />
*An enormous amount of wealth from various crimes<br />
*Pharaoh of [[Osiris 4]]<br />
*Prime Minister of Norway, due to him having the real Prime Minister of Norway's hand AND career chip<br />
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=== Functions, attachments, and accessories ===<br />
As we can see during the episodes, Bender has a lot of different functions. Here is a list of them:<br />
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*'''Trash Can''': Bender's own cavity can be used as a trash can. First seen "[[Space Pilot 3000]]" as he throws a bottle of beer inside himself.<br />
*'''Extenso-matic Eyes''': His eyes can zoom out of his normal layer, so he can get a better view on things; they tend to fall out when he zooms too far. First seen also in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]".<br />
*'''Subway Car''': His legs can extend onto rail tracks and his feet work like wheels, allowing Fry, Leela, and a random bum transportation in Old New York. Seen only in "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]".<br />
*'''Extenso-matic arms''': Bender's arms and legs are capable of extending to many times their normal length. First seen in "[[The Series Has Landed]]".<br />
*'''[[GayDar]]''': Bender pulls out a small radar device to prove to [[Amy]] and [[Leela]] that a man they are interested in is gay. It surprisingly works, seen in "[[Love's Labours Lost in Space]]".<br />
*'''Video Camera''': Each of Bender's eyes can be used as a camera, either to take pictures or to film things. Both are first seen in "[[When Aliens Attack]]". He also has one more camera, located "below the equator" which does not always "perform". The camera is never seen, but it can be heard extending.<br />
*'''Cowcatcher''': In "[[A Taste of Freedom]]", Bender has a 19th century style cowcatcher installed to his front to clear a path through the crowd outside the Decapodian Embassy.<br />
*'''Barbecue''': Bender's cavity is used the same way as a barbecue. He used it to cook some burgers. First seen in "[[When Aliens Attack]]".<br />
*'''Oven''': His cavity can be used as an oven, to cook things. The real function name is "E-z Bake", and is used to cook a cake for [[Nibbler]], in the episode "[[I Second that Emotion]]".<br />
*'''Refrigerator''': His cavity can also be used to refrigerate, as seen also in "[[I Second that Emotion]]".<br />
*'''Stage Light''': A light can come out of his cavity. He used it for the first time in "[[When Aliens Attack]]".<br />
*'''AC Power''' generator: Bender plugs a television power cord into his side in [[Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV]].<br />
*'''Popcorn maker''': Bender can make some popcorn in his cavity. He can also push down on his antenna to dispense butter. First seen in "[[Fear of a Bot Planet]]".<br />
*'''Keg''': Bender can also serve some beers within is cavity. First seen in "[[Hell Is Other Robots]]".<br />
*'''Toilet''': Bender's cavity is used as a toilet in the episode "[[The Cyber House Rules]]". He pushes his antenna to flush.<br />
*'''Recorder:''' Bender can record things with his head. First seen in "[[A Head in the Polls]]", to record [[Richard Nixon's head]]'s words. He records onto magnetic tape cassettes.<br />
[[File:Lighthouse bender.png|right|thumb|Bender as a lighthouse]]<br />
*'''Oxygen Supplier''': In the episode "[[The Deep South]]", Bender is used as an Oxygen Supplier, that comes via some masks.<br />
*'''Exhaust Port''': Bender's exhaust port is present in his ass, as seen in "[[Crimes of the Hot]]".<br />
*'''Flotation Device''': In "[[The Deep South]]", Bender refer to his ass as a Flotation Device.<br />
*'''Pepper Grinder''': In "[[The 30% Iron Chef]]", Bender inserts peppercorns in his mouth and shakes ground pepper out of his ass.<br />
*'''Beer Tub''': Beer ferments in Bender's chest cavity in the episode "[[The Route of All Evil]]". It has a capacity of at least five gallons, six ounces.<br />
*'''Pager''': Antenna glows and vibrates to notify the New Justice Team of a call from the mayor in "[[Less than Hero]]".<br />
*'''Oil Sprayer :''' Bender sprays oil on a cosmetic saleswoman in "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]".<br />
*'''Mail Box''': Bender's antenna indicates when he is receiving mail. First seen in "[[Crimes of the Hot]]".<br />
*'''Chicken Deboner''': Bender can debone a chicken by putting it into his mouth. He then regurgitates the chicken's skeleton and a feather duster. Seen in "[[The 30% Iron Chef]]".<br />
*'''Card Shuffler''': Bender can put a deck of cards into his mouth to shuffle them, and then spit them back out to deal them. He can apparently spit them with enough force for them to cut through objects such as apples and hair. Seen in "[[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]".<br />
*'''Circular Saw''': Bender can use his hands as a circular saw and lower a matching eyeshade to protect his eyes. First seen in "[[Less than Hero]]".<br />
*'''EFTPOS Machine''': In "[[Leela's Homeworld]]", Bender takes the Professor's credit card and swipes it between his teeth to check its balance.<br />
*'''Laser Show''': In "[[Jurassic Bark]]", Bender projects an expensive-looking laser show with his head, complete with techno music.<br />
*'''Flamethrower''': Bender boils some water using flames coming out of his mouth in "[[Anthology of Interest I]]". May not be a real feature due the scene being part of a simulation.<br />
*'''Stadium air horn''': In "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]", the [[Robot Devil]] installs a stadium air horn under Bender's nose.<br />
*'''Voice Modifier''': In "[[Bender Gets Made]]", Bender changed his voice via a control panel. Two voices are available : Robot (his normal voice), and King (his normal voice with a British accent).<br />
*'''Bug Zapper''': In "[[Spanish Fry]]", Bender shows that he is apparently capable of charging his surface with electricity and using his head to electrocute bugs.<br />
*'''Lighthouse''': In "[[Obsoletely Fabulous]]", Bender's revolving head and luminous eyes acted as a fully functional lighthouse. He can also emit a foghorn sound.<br />
*'''Pistol''': In the cover of [[Futurama (video game)|the game]], Bender is shown using his finger as a pistol. Canon status of the game uncertain.<br />
*'''Cheating Unit''': In "[[A Flight to Remember]]", Bender speaks of his "cheating unit" which predicts (inaccurately) the coming roll of the dice at craps.<br />
*'''Water Boiler''': Boils and produces hot water for [[Calculon]] in "[[That's Lobstertainment!]]".<br />
*'''Safe''': In "[[Put Your Head on My Shoulder]]", Bender stores money in his cavity, the combination lock dial can be seen on his door.<br />
*'''Movie Projector''': In "[[Crimes of the Hot]]" Bender's head projects an educational film.<br />
*'''Pen''': Finger can turn into a pen. Used to write down an address in "[[Xmas Time Is Fear]]" and to write down a joke in "[[Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?]]", and to write a "A Plea For Attention" in "[[The 30% Iron Chef]]".<br />
*'''Cigar Lighter''': His finger also flips up to reveal a cigar lighter. He uses this throughout the series to light his cigars. <br />
*'''Paper Shredder''': Paper is inserted into his mouth, shredded and comes out of his chest. Used to shred the menu in [[Hell Is Other Robots]].<br />
*'''Food Processor''': Bender purées fish and regurgitates it to his surrogate penguin children in "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]".<br />
*'''Answering Machine''': In "[[Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch]]", [[Amy]] apparently uses him as an answering machine. He isn't a very good one, though, as he doesn't alert people to new messages, and then deletes them anyway.<br />
*'''CD Player''': Bender can open his mouth panel to insert and play music CDs, as revealed in "[[Obsoletely Fabulous]]".<br />
*'''Projector''': A deleted scene from the opening of ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'' shows Bender projecting the Futurama logo, and the blue beams displayed behind it, from the top of his head, possibly from his antenna.<br />
*'''Spray Paint''': Bender is capable of spraying paint from his mouth, and does this when writing graffiti as seen in "[[A Pharaoh to Remember]]".<br />
*'''Suction Cup Feet''': Bender can use his feet as suction cups, allowing him to walk on walls. This is seen in "[[Bendless Love]]".<br />
*'''Vacuum''': Bender's arm can also can be used as a vacuum. As seen in the fourth movie; ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'', sucking up slot coins.<br />
*'''Pencil Sharpener''': Bender can sharpen a pencil, as seen in "[[Lethal Inspection]]".<br />
*'''Gyroscope''': Bender is gyroscopically stable, as seen in "[[The Mutants Are Revolting]]".<br />
*'''Roller Skates''': Roller Skates can extend from Bender's feet. Only seen once in "[[A Pharaoh to Remember]]".<br />
*'''Flash Camera''': He uses his eyes to take pictures for the [[Girly Calendars]] in "[[Neutopia]]".<br />
*'''Cannon''': If cannon ball is placed in his chest cabinet, his antenna can be lit to activate his cannon function. Bender didn't know he could do this. Seen in "[[All the Presidents' Heads]]". <br />
*'''Bicycle''': He serves as a bicycle for himself and his son [[Ben]] in "[[The Bots and the Bees]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22454651532/countdown-to-futurama-ben-aging-and-bender-bike|title=Countdown to Futurama: Ben Aging and Bender Bike Sketches|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-05|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-05}}</ref><br />
*'''Tripod''': He grows a third leg so that he can be his own tripod to photograph Leela, Farnsworth, Fry, Amy, Hermes and Zoidberg - in "[[The Thief of Baghead]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/23552096012/countdown-to-futurama-just-take-the-damn-picture|title=Countdown to Futurama: Just Take the Damn Picture|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-22|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-22}}</ref><br />
*'''Defibrillators''': Located inside his chest cabinet as seen in "[[How Much is that Mutant in the Window?]]".<br />
*'''Telephone Device''': This was seen in "How Much is that Mutant in the Window?" on the inside of Bender's chest door, the tip of his antenna lit up red when he used it to call a tow ship to get himself, [[Fry]], [[Leela]] and [[Nibbler]] home.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Dream on, skin tube.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I can't see what's happening. Are we boned?<br />
'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': Yeah, we're boned.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I love stealin'; I love takin' things!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Ah, TV's Elzar. This is the greatest nanosecond of my life. No, this one is. No, this one. Wait, that one was slightly worse. So far so good on this one.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Ah, I'm so excited I wish I could wet my pants.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Oh wait, you're serious, let me laugh even harder.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Bite my shiny, metal ass!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]]''': I was just regaling your former coworkers with a tale of bedroom antics, the likes of which-<br />
'''Bender''': Yeah yeah, big whoop, no one cares; I've got ''Bender'' related news.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Our love isn't any different than yours, except ours is hotter because I'm involved.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Something's happening on television!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I'm Bender baby! Please insert liquor!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hookerbot''': Bender, honey, we love you.<br />
'''Bender''': Shut up baby, I know it!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Look, [[Lrrr|hoss]], [[Ndnd|your wife]] threw you out. That’s your license to be a jerk. Do whatever you want, then walk away and light a cigar!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Aww, [[Thubanian leader|its]] anus looks like an asterisk!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': ''[in [[Emperor Nikolai|Emperor Nikolai's]] body.]'' Ah! I have everything I ever wanted. Money, wealth, riches. Yet something's missing. [[Princess Flavia|A hot princess with whom to get grizzly]].</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Amy Wong|Amy]]''': Remember, [[Robosexuality|love between]] a [[Human]] and a [[Robot]] is taboo. ''[She takes a brush from Bender's cabinet and fixes her hair.]'' We can't tell anyone, not even [[Planet Express crew|our co-workers]].<br />
'''Bender''': ''[To [[Amy Wong|Amy]].]'' Got it. I'll show the utmost discretion as we get nasty in this [[Tube Transport System|glass tube]].</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
While Bender appears in every episode, film or comic, the following categories may be of interest;<br />
*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Bender|A plots focusing on Bender]]<br />
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Bender|B plots focusing on Bender]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:All My Circuits]]<br />
[[Category:Articles with outdatable content|4 (0 also)]]<br />
[[Category:Bender's family]]<br />
[[Category:LGBT characters]]<br />
[[Category:Planet Express]]<br />
[[Category:Robosexuals]]<br />
[[Category:Robots]]<br />
[[Category:Ultimate Robot Fighting]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Bender_Bending_Rodriguez&diff=115134Bender Bending Rodriguez2012-07-05T23:04:02Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Personality and abilities */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Bender Bending Rodríguez<br />
|image=[[File:Bender promo 2.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=A [[promotional picture]] of Bender holding a cigar and a bottle of [[Olde Fortran]].<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|birth date=Before [[2993]]<br />
|age={{age|2993}} plus unknown thousands of years due to [[Bender's Big Score|continuous time travel]]; [[Roswell that Ends Well|head]] is 1055 years older than body, see [[#Age|age section]] for details <!-- please refrain from adding the comic book "fact", as it is not necessarily canon. --><br />
|type=p<br />
|job=Assistant Manager of Sales at [[Planet Express]]<br />
|voiced by=John DiMaggio<br />
|first appear={{e|1}}<br />
|origin=[[Earth]], [[Mexico]], [[Tijuana]]<br />
|species=[[Robot]] ([[Bending Units|Bending Unit]])<br />
|family=''See [[#Family|family]] section.''<br />
}}<br />
'''Bender Bending Rodr&iacute;guez''' (Model: '''[[Bending Units|Bending Unit]] 22''') is a bending unit (serial number: 2716057), who works at [[Planet Express]] as Assistant Manager of Sales, formerly chef of the company. He is one of the primary characters and is known for his "in-your-face interface".<br />
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He weighs 525 pounds (238kg) and his central processing unit is a {{w|MOS Technology 6502|MOS Technologies 6502 processor}}. His arms and legs can be separated from the body and may act independently from it, and his head is able to survive without his body.<br />
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His internal fuel cells are recharged by drinking alcohol or any other liquid capable of delivering chemical energy, such as mineral oil or [[Dark Matter|dark matter oil]]. If he does not drink alcohol for a while, he suffers symptoms of intoxication, develops five-o'-clock rust around his mouth and leaks oil from his armpits. He carries a nuclear pile that seems to be composed of fissionable material, enabling the construction of miniature nuclear weapons.<br />
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Bender has a highly addictive personality, and his favorite pastimes are watching [[All My Circuits]], stealing things, drinking, and smoking. He lives in the [[New New York#Robot Arms Apartments|Robot Arms Apartments]] with his roommate [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]. In spite of his general selfishness and family-sized ego, he has occasionally demonstrated a capacity for generosity, even self-sacrifice, where his good friends are involved.<br />
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One of Bender's life-long dreams is to be a folk singer&mdash;a dream he briefly lived when he toured with [[Beck]] ([[Bendin' in the Wind|3ACV13]]). Normally his inhibition unit keeps his musical urges under control, but it tends to shut down in the presence of strong magnetic fields (especially in close proximity to his head). Ultimately things turned out tragically; fortunately for Bender, he's a robot with many life-long dreams. Another is being a great chef, like his idol [[Elzar]]. He achieved this dream as well when he defeated Elzar on the show ''[[Iron Cook]]'' ([[The 30% Iron Chef|3ACV22]]).--><br />
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== Personality and abilities ==<br />
Bender is often selfish and insensitive to other people's emotions. At one point, he flushed Leela's beloved pet Nibbler down the toilet. He is also quite vain, frequently bragging about how great he is. Bender has no qualms about committing crimes and often steals people's wallets or items from shops. He loves smoking and drinking, though as a Robot he has to drink alcohol to keep him going. (The cigars just make him look cool.) Bender can also be cruel at times and even sometimes treats his own friends badly. He is also extremely lazy, and is often seen sitting around on the couch drinking a beer and/or watching television.<br />
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However, he is capable of caring for others and is close friends with Leela and Fry, even though he often acts obnoxious and mean towards them. Bender seems genuinely happy for Leela when she is reunited with her long lost parents and was devastated when he is ordered to kill Fry in ''[[Bender's Big Score]]''. Considering he is still upset when he returns to the future it's possible he might have been mourning Fry for nearly a thousand years.<br />
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[[File:Countessdelaroca.png|thumb|right|Countess De La Roca, one of the fembots he had a relationship with.]]<br />
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Bender also has a fair few romantic relationships with fembots, such as [[Countess De La Roca]] and [[Angelyne]]. Bender can be quite emotional at times, despite stating that robots aren't supposed to have emotions, and is empathic towards turtles since they have hard shells and have difficulty getting up if they fell on their backs, two things they share in common with Bender. He also becomes the leader of a group of penguins at one point. Bender also idolised the Harlem Globetrotters and wanted to become one of them and started crying when they refused to let him join.<br />
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Bender also loves cooking though he had little talent for it and would often cook things that were either inedible or just barely edible. In certain episodes however, he has been able to make food successfully, making a cake for Nibbler's birthday party which was promptly eaten by the Nibblonian.<br />
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As a robot, Bender has quite a lot of abilities. He is able to stretch his arms long distances as well as record data in his head, once using this to get Richard Nixon to give him back his body. He also breathes fire whenever he burps and when he is terrified he sometimes ejects bricks from his backside which is his variant of defecation. (This is a reference to the slang phrase, to "s**t bricks", meaning to be very scared or surprised.) Although he usually only does this while in a state of shock, he has also done it after eating an {{w|Olestra}} potato chip from the 20th century. Bender is also very strong, even managing to bend a supposedly [[unbendable girder]]. <br />
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Bender is able to remove numerous parts of his body such as his head, arms, legs and even eyes. When he is staring at something or someone his eyes frequently extended out of his head. Like turtles he can withdraw into his chest when he chooses to. Bender can also survive in lava for a short time, though when he displays this ability his eyes melted as soon as he came out of the lava. Bender's body has also been used as a popcorn maker {{et|1ACV05}}, crock pot {{et|6ACV23}}, and steam engine (6ACV23).<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Montholdbender.png|thumb|left|Bender when he was only a month old]]<br />
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=== Early years ===<br />
Bender Bending Rodríguez was built in [[Tijuana]], Mexico in the early [[2990s]], although he believed it was in [[2998]], by [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]]. He has a fatal defect leaving him as mortal as a human. Inspector 5 (Hermes) knew of the defect but let him live. There is some speculation about what happened in the following two years, except few things are certain, he briefly studied Bending at Bending State University, which may or may not be the facility he was built in. He minored in Robo-American Studies.<br />
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He soon got a job bending girders, but after realizing that the purpose of the girders he bent were for [[suicide booth]]s, he figured that his purpose was meaningless and thus decided to kill himself in one of the suicide booths he had helped construct.<br />
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=== You really want a robot for a friend? ===<br />
{{further|Season 1}}<br />
While waiting in line to kill himself on 31 December, 2999, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], who was clearly not familiar with suicide booths, stood in front of him, thinking it was a phone booth. Bender helped him along. But they managed to get out of the suicide booth alive. Bender soon learns that Fry is from the 20th Century and had been frozen for a thousand years.<br />
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But since Fry refused to get [[Career chip|assigned]] to his job, [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] was on his tail. Bender helped him escape through the [[Head Museum]] and soon down to [[Old New York]] below [[New New York]]. Here Leela finally caught up with them and agreed to help Fry. Bender decided to stay with them and they headed over to Fry's nephew, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]. Farnsworth soon offered them jobs, and luckily for them, he had the proper career chips.<br />
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=== Farnsworth's asset ===<br />
As an employee at Planet Express he continued his kleptomania, drinking and smoking. He convinced Fry to move in with him and soon [[Hermes Conrad]] forced him to actually do something around the company. He got assigned as chef of the company, one of his dreams was apparently to cook, but having no sense of taste made vile meals for the staff.<br />
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Bender got into trouble when he began abusing electricity (jacking on), and his friends were not in favor of it. Saddened by their discontent, he sought new opportunities in [[religion]]. He joined Robotology, but this only served to make him more annoying to his friends. So they decided to make Bender sin to become his regular self again, inadvertently condemning him to [[Robot Hell]]. Feeling guilty, Fry and Leela tracked Bender down and saved him from the [[Robot Devil]].<br />
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Bender has, in fact, found true love before, in the form of an aristocratic fembot, the [[Countess de leRoca]], with whose relationship with her strongly resembled that found in the movie ''[[Titanic]]''. When the [[Titanic]] was being sucked into a black hole (due to [[Zapp Brannigan]] altering the ship's course), she was the only passenger to go down with it. But, despite this, his personality continued to be a problem for his friends, and Leela became very upset with him when he flushed [[Nibbler]] down the toilet. The Professor "carefully" implanted an empathy chip in Bender, which forced him to feel Leela's every emotion for a short while.<br />
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[[File:Bender.png|thumb|right|180px|Bender Bending Rodríguez]]<br />
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=== The lesser of two evils ===<br />
{{further|Season 2}}<br />
During a visit to [[Past-O-Rama]] they bumped into [[Flexo]] (serial number: 3370318), another Bending Unit, possibly also of the same model number (22). Flexo and Bender became good friends, but Fry feared that Flexo is evil, and in a mix up at the Miss Universe contest Flexo was arrested for Bender's attempt to steal the tiara.<br />
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Bender briefly joined the [[Robot Mafia]] and fought in the [[Ultimate Robot Fighting]] League until his popularity slipped and he was rigged out of the league. Together with his fellow robots he rebelled against [[Humans|humanity]].<br />
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=== Well - I'm rich ===<br />
Bender's Uncle [[Vladimir]] died and Bender was to inherit his castle, on the condition that he had to spend one night within its walls. Bender was not at all comfortable in his new castle and the start up sound of Windows 98 was not helping either.<br />
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While being chased by several hologram ghosts, he fled out in the yard where he was run over by a [[Were-Car|were-car]]. The collision caused a virus to be beamed into him and he became a were-car. Bender did not realize this until later, but the [[Gypsy]] told them the only way to get rid of the virus would be destroy the original were-car. So through a long journey they found the original were-car and destroyed it, and thus Bender was free of the virus.<br />
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Whether he kept the castle or not is unknown.<br />
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=== Now when I'm found in a million years, people will know what the score was ===<br />
{{further|Season 3}}<br />
Bender continued his life with many adventures together with Fry and Leela. He temporarily worked for [[Calculon]] as his water heater. He met up with Flexo again, but this time he was not happy to see him, because Bender figured that his second true love was still in love with Flexo. Bender screwed it up and the divorcees got back together.<br />
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He was briefly sent to an institute for insane robots, along with [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], who went temporarily insane. He got to go on tour with [[Beck]] after becoming paralysed from a freak accident with a can opener, thus fulfilling his dream of becoming a folk-singer, became Pharaoh of an entire planet, driving everyone (including Fry and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]) into slavery, and beat [[Elzar]] on the [[television]] show ''[[Iron Cook]]''. However, he did not accept the title of Iron Cook, only the lesser title of Zinc Saucier (which he made up, and comes with double prize money).<br />
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During a battle with [[Space Pirates]], Bender was shot out through the torpedo slot and was forced to drift through space. He, for some time, became the God of the [[Shrimpkins]], which was a life form that had grown on his stomach. But, after they viciously killed each other in a nuclear war, started by Bender's need for booze, Bender met up with the [[Galactic Entity]], who he believes ''is'' God. The Entity eventually sent Bender back to [[Earth]] after receiving a radio signal from Fry.<br />
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=== I should not be allowed on TV! ===<br />
{{further|Season 4}}<br />
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[[File:Bender-TV.JPG|thumb|right|Bender as [[Antonio]] on [[All My Circuits]]]]<br />
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Bender was still wanting his fame, he found interest in becoming [[Bender (All My Circuits)|the new]] [[Antonio Calculon, Jr.|Antonio]] on [[All My Circuits]]. He got the job. But Calculon was hardly impressed by Bender's performance, however the Network executives disagreed. So Bender got to continue on the show, but in his true nature.<br />
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But when Bender realized that his behaviour on TV causes [[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]] and [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]] to steal his stuff, he called off the show.<br />
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Bender joined Fry and Leela briefly as they gained super powers in [[the New Justice Team]], he has had an affair with the [[Planet Express Ship]], he got modeled into a fembot and had a relationship shortly with Calculon, and helped [[Robot Santa]] as a replacement.<br />
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=== Dumb dumb away! ===<br />
{{further|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
But the company got into trouble when the [[Box Network]] canceled its license, and for two years they were not able to deliver packages. Luckily though, their license was renewed and they went back in business.<br />
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Bender became the centre of attention as the new masters of the company lead by [[Nudar]] infected him with an [[iObey]] virus and they forced him to go back in time and steal all of Earth's valuables. But when Fry managed to escape back into the past, they send him after Fry to kill him, and after 12 years tireless hunting, he managed to do so.<br />
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But he soon learned that the Fry he killed was doomed anyway because he was a [[time paradox duplicate]]. But after being stranded on [[Neptune]] for a while, humanity and he decided to fight back, and after the war was won (with the help of Hermes), he revealed that he himself had kept [[the Spheroboom]] that the scammers had told him to keep safe, thus saving the day. <br />
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However, while on a trip back in time to make sense out of everything that had happened that year, a mishap led to him accidentally tearing the universe open.<br />
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=== Death to humans! ===<br />
{{further|The Beast with a Billion Backs}}<br />
After becoming an official stalker for [[Calculon]] by Calculon, Bender fell into a deep depression after Calculon informed him that there was no such thing as the [[League of Robots]], a society of robots which came to the aid of robots abused by humans, and which Bender had worshipped for his entire life. He contemplated commiting suicide until he was approached by the League led by Calculon himself; he lied about its non-existence to ensure its secrecy.<br />
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Bender became the newest member of the League and began to personally enforce the no-humans policy of the organization, becoming very famous within it. However, Bender was caught helping his human friends and his bluffs were called by Calculon, whom Bender challenged to a duel. Bender broke the rules of the duel, severely injuring Calculon and nearly exposing the League, but instead of being kicked out of the League, Calculon resigned his position as President and gave it to Bender.<br />
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Bender organized the [[Army of the Damned]] (trading [[Bender's First Born Son|his firstborn son]] to the [[Robot Devil]] for it) to take over the world, only to discover that its entire population was already leaving to live on the body of a giant tentacled monster named [[Yivo]]. Bender soon received a letter from Fry describing how wonderful life was there, but Bender ended up interfering by [[The Robot Invasion of Heaven|attacking Yivo]] and attempting to bring humanity back. Soon, for personal reasons, Yivo unwittingly complied with Bender and had everybody return to Earth.<br />
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=== I know not of this Bender ===<br />
{{further|Bender's Game}}<br />
Bender finds himself attempting to catch up with a game of Dungeons and Dragons, played by [[Cubert Farnsworth]] and his friends. He soon hits the obstacle of realising he has no imagination. But the more he tries, he eventually believes he is [[Titanius Anglesmith]], Fancy Man of [[Cornwood]].<br />
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Unfortunately, his imagination grows wild, and he is sent to [[HAL Institute]] to be cured. The therapy is unsuccessful and they decide to give him a "robotomy". But during the operation, the [[dark matter]] crystals becomes close enough, allowing Bender's imagination to become real.<br />
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In his fantasy, he is the owner of a castle. When he hears of [[Waltazar, Larius and Ignus|Black Knights]] approaching, he sets out with his friends, [[Leegola]] and [[Frydo]]. Discovering the [[Die of Power]], he sets off to [[Great Wizard Greyfarn|Greyfarn]], where they learn of the story behind the Die. Titanius is slightly against the quest, but decides to tag along. On several occasions, he refers to going back, such as when they have just passed through the [[Cave of Hopelessness]].<br />
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On the other side, [[Fellowship]] decides to seek [[Wipe Castle]] for help. Unfortunately, the [[King of Cornwood]] is insane, and the entire royal army is gone, because the king declared war on scallops, tied the entire army to a rock, and pushed them into the ocean. As [[Momon]]'s forces arrive, they have a large, unwinnable battle at hand. But as things seems darkest, [[Leegola]] and her centaur army saves Wipe Castle. Knowing of Frydo's quest, the Fellowship decides to go help him. However, they are too late and Momon wins the battle, causing them to return to their world.<br />
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=== I'm...so...GREAT!! ===<br />
{{further|Into the Wild Green Yonder}}<br />
Bender takes a trip to [[Mars Vegas]] with the rest of the crew. There, he falls in love with [[Fanny]], a burlesque dancer, who is the [[Donbot]]'s wife. He enters the [[Universal Poker Championship]] Tournament for her and wins against Fry with five kings.<br />
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After returning to Earth, Bender feels upset that the [[Feministas]] are committing more felonies than him. He gets hired by [[Zapp Brannigan]] to help him capture the Feministas. By getting Bender to wire tap Fry's "cellphone-telephone" Zapp finds out where the Feministas are hiding and chases them aboard the [[Nimbus]], along with Bender and [[Kif Kroker|Kif]]. After an exciting space chase, Bender captures the Feministas and goes against them in court. They are found guilty and sent to [[Maxi-Padlock]] Prison.<br />
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Bender then breaks into the women's prison and helps the Feministas escape, because by doing so, he would have committed way more felonies than the women. He bends a brick wall and calls Farnsworth, who pilots the Planet Express Ship down to rescue them from the prison's forces. They crash a demolition ceremony, and in the end, Bender is sent through a [[Panama Wormhole|wormhole]] with the rest of the Planet Express Crew.<br />
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=== Dying sucks butt! ===<br />
{{further|Season 6}}<br />
After crashing the ship into Earth and being rebirthed {{et|6ACV01}}, Bender starts a [[robosexual]] relationship with [[Amy Wong|Amy]] {{et|6ACV04}}, after [[Kif Kroker|Kif]] dumps her for flirting with criminal inmates, despite his previously affirming that "[[Humans]] dating [[Robots]] is sick" {{et|3ACV15}}. Amy and Bender decided to marry, and manage to pass [[Proposition ∞|a proposition]] to legalize robosexual marriage. However, Bender leaves her upon realizing she wants a monogamous marriage. He participated in a [[Sith Invasion re-enactment|re-enactment of the Sith-il War]], after which he learned that he was built without a back-up unit {{et|6ACV06}}. He then goes with [[Hermes Conrad]] to determine why. Despite failing to do so, Bender uses the experience to reaffirm his stance on life. <br />
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Later, Bender witnesses robots undergoing evolution on a [[Robo-planetoid|deserted planetoid]] {{et|6ACV09}}. He was nearly killed after [[Mind-switcher|switching bodies]] with a [[Emperor Nikolai|Robo-Hungarian Emperor]] {{et|6ACV10}}. Later, he threw a [[100th Delivery Party|party celebrating Planet Express' 100th delivery]] {{et|6ACV12}}. After abruptly ending the party, Bender participated in the [[Devolution Revolution]], using his expertise to bend the [[Westside Pipeway]]. <br />
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When the crew crashes on [[Neutopia (planet)|a gender-neutral planet]], everyone's genders are switched in a freak accident and Bender resumes his feminine [[Coilette]] persona before the genders are corrected {{et|6ACV20}}. He then runs havok with the Professor's duplicator, creating exponentially miniature versions of himself that almost consume Earth but later band together to save it from [[Unattractive giant monster|a hideous monster]] {{et|6ACV17}}, though he dies soon afterward when a [[suicide booth]] murders him {{et|6ACV19}}. Bender lingers as a ghost but bargains with the [[Robot Devil]] to get his material body back in exchange for [[Fry]]. He attempts to scare him to death, but when Fry discloses his love for Bender, Bender refuses to kill Fry and ends up protecting him. [[Robot God]] then invites Bender to an existence in Robot Heaven as his reward, but Bender declines and returns to the crew.<br />
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After crashing a [[Robot Mafia]] wedding and making out with [[Bella]], [[Donbot]]'s daughter, Bender is forced to enter the witness relocation program {{et|6ACV14}}, and [[Francis X. Clampazzo|Clamps]] replaces him at work as an in for the Mafia to discover Bender's whereabouts and kill him. The crew is led to the [[Moon]] to [[Billy West (robot)|a hillbilly robot]] identical to Bender, but Bender is discovered to be in hiding as a waiter at the [[Family Bros. Pizza|pizza parlor]] across the street, and returns to work when the Mafia takes him for dead.<br />
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=== A new child ===<br />
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[[File:The Bots and the Bees screenshot.png|thumb|right|Bender and his son, [[Ben]]]]<br />
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In [[3012]], Planet Express acquired a new soda machine named [[Bev]]. They did not get along very well, but a fight of theirs eventually culminated in sex. The next day, Bev gave birth to Bender's child. Bender did not take this well, worrying over his fatherhood and eventually learning about robot reproduction for the first time, as his mother's religious fundamentalism kept her from teaching him this information. He attempted to give custody of the child to Bev, presenting her with a certificate of abandonment, but she too did not take having a child well, and she left Bender with custody of the child. Though he was initially disappointed over this, he eventually discovered that his child took an interest in bending. Naming the child [[Ben Rodríguez|Ben]], they formed a bond with each other, but to their surprise, discovered that Ben's lack of arm control software and an additional expansion slot prevented him from bending. At Ben's Bot-Mitzvah, Ben expressed for his appreciation for his father as well as his hopes of bending just like him. At the ceremony, however, Bev regained custody of Ben, separating him from his father. That night, Bender broke Ben out of [[Bev's trailer]], but were caught in their escape by the police, who arrested Bender on grounds of kidnapping. Bev showed up at the scene and gave birth to [[Bev and URL's child|another child]], and content with having another child to neglect, allowed Bender to keep Ben. Ben, however, was still disappointed in not being unable to bend, so he takes up an offer by the Professor to have a bending card installed in him - consequently losing all his memories of Bender. Bender, though tearful, allowed the surgery to go on, and eventually accompanied his son to his enrollment at [[Bending State University]] in Santa Cruz {{et|7ACV01}}.<br />
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== Character description ==<br />
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=== Composition ===<br />
Bender routinely claims to be made of thirty to forty percent of various metals, typically following his claims up by knocking on his own chassis. Unfortunately, his credibility on this matter is thrown into question by the fact that his various claims now add up to well over one hundred percent. Bender has alternately claimed to be:<br />
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*40% Zinc {{et|1ACV13}}.<br />
*40% Titanium {{et|A Head in the Polls}}.<br />
*30% Iron {{et|The 30% Iron Chef}}, presumably mixed with osmium, {{et|3ACV17}}.<br />
*40% Dolomite {{et|4ACV07}}.<br />
*40% Lead ([[Futurama (video game)|FVG]]). Canon status of video game uncertain.<br />
*40% Luck/horseshoes ([[Into the Wild Green Yonder|ITWGY]]). Composition of the horseshoes unknown.<br />
*40% Chromium {{et|Attack of the Killer App}}. Bender was not the one to make this claim. It was an [[Antarian]].<br />
*60% Storage space {{et|The Prisoner of Benda}}.<br />
*40% Scrap metal {{et|All the Presidents' Heads}}.<br />
*40% Wire {{et|Decision 3012}}<br />
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Total: 150% - 370% or greater. The number is dependent on whether or not one counts various claims as true. First the "40% Horseshoes" claim, as the supposed horseshoes could have been made of one or more of the other metals previously stated (Titanium, Iron, or Lead), meaning that one could have been a restatement rather than a new figure. Second, it depends on whether or not he considers his storage space and wires to be part of the total percentage of himself, in which case the remaining 40% each that he often claims to be would constitute the rest of his body. Third, the claim of "40% Lead" is dependent on whether the video game can be considered canon. Fourth and finally, whether the claim of "40% Chromium" is accepted at all. This claim was not made by Bender but rather one of the Antarians. It is plausible that the claim is false and that it was just made to justify the in-progress cannibalization of Bender's body. Even if all previous points made are taken into account and only the first four claims were used, Bender's composition would be 150%, far more than what is possible. This error can be explained as due to Bender's being a poor calculator, making it plausible that he has given the wrong percentages {{et|3ACV09}}.<br />
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Alternatively, it's possible that Bender's comments were written by comedy writers because Futurama is a television show.<br />
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Additionally, he has a 0.04% nickel impurity, which doesn't ''increase'' total percentage, but slightly ''decreases'' the percentages of everything else. This is apparently not a standard impurity, and is cited as making him unique {{et|3ACV17}}.<br />
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There's also a mention that robots are made from recycled beer cans and beer cans are made from recycled robots {{et|1ACV08}}, so depending on the year 3000 composition of beer cans, he may have a certain percentage of aluminum in his alloy.<br />
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As a side note, ''{{w|Dolemite}}'' is also the title of a 1974 film. The film's main character, Dolemite, is a pimp who leads an army of hookers skilled in kung-fu.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072895/ IMDB - Dolemite]</ref> Bender has been a pimp many times throughout the series.<br />
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Bender's composition will possibly be referenced in the episode "[[Forty Percent Leadbelly]]".<br />
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=== Family ===<br />
[[File:Bender's Xmas 2.jpg|right|thumb|Bender's mother, whom he refers to as his mommy.]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], Bender's owner and the creator of the sports utility robot on which Bender and all/most other modern robots are based.<br />
*[[Flexo]], not exactly a relative, but another [[Bending Unit]] of the same model. (presumed deceased)<br />
*[[Billy West (character)|Billy West]], identical model (deceased)<br />
*[[Mom]], owner of [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]].<br />
*[[Bender's mother|His mother]], a robotic arm who sends him [[Xmas]] cards.<br />
*[[Ben Rodríguez]], son.<br />
*[[Bender's father|His father]], who was killed by a giant can opener {{et|2ACV01}}.<br />
*Uncle [[Vladimir]], who lived in [[Thermostadt]], capital of the [[Robo-Hungarian Empire]], and died at the ripe old age of 211.<br />
*[[Tandy]], Uncle Vladimir's son and hence Bender's cousin.<br />
*Screwy Aunt Rita, who ''is'' a screw. (Note that Bender stated that he had an Aunt Rita during Leela's coma fantasy in the episode "[[The Sting]]", so this may not be true.)<br />
*[[Albert]], [[Sally]], [[Nina]], [[Sam]] and 8 other orphans, briefly adopted from the [[Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium]].<br />
*Three penguin "children" {{et|3ACV05}}.<br />
*[[Junior]], a child born to [[The Crushinator]] ([[Freaky Fry-day|US#009]]). Comic books of uncertain canon status.<br />
*[[Bender's first born son|His first born son]], Bender exchanges him for an [[Army of the Damned]].<br />
*Bender's grandmother, who is a bulldozer.<br />
*Buster, identical cousin.<br />
*Turner, another cousin {{et|6ACV08}}.<br />
*Commodore LXIV, or Commodore 64. A painting of this robot is hanging in Uncle [[Vladimir]]'s dining hall and can be assumed to be one of Bender's ancestors.<br />
*[[Bender's guinea pig|His guinea pig]], who died off-screen prior to the [[V-GINY]]'s rampage {{et|6ACV02}}.<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]], Inspector at Mom's friendly robot plant in Tijuana, Mexico {{et|6ACV06}}.<br />
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=== Age ===<br />
According to himself, Bender was originally constructed in [[2998]], making him one year old when Fry met him in 2999, but several later discoveries supports the theory that he was in fact born earlier. Bender's memory as newborn is as a complete, fullgrown robot, but events in "[[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles]]" suggest that his current, fullgrown body merely was the final stage, and it is possible that Bender only remembers entering this final stage - what he considers being born.<br />
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In [[season 6]] episode "[[Lethal Inspection]]", it is revealed that Hermes supervised Bender's construction before getting the job in [[Planet Express]], and is seen much younger than he must have been in the late [[2990s]]. We also see that the state in which he was supervised - reminiscent of a human baby - much differs from the one Bender remembers from 2998. In "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]", it can be shown that Hermes was already in the company in [[2993]], and thus Bender must have been born in that year at least, and possibly even earlier.<br />
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[[File:Roswell that ends well.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The events of "[[Roswell that Ends Well]]" aged Bender's head 1055 years ahead of his body.]]<br />
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The events in "[[Roswell that Ends Well]]" make his head 1055 years older than the rest of his body. The incident in "[[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles]]" does largely not count as an aging or the opposite, and fans largely regard his age to remain intact. In {{f|1}}, Bender travels back in time several times, though the amount of times is unknown, the amount of Benders that appear at the end, may suggest at least a couple of thousand times. Given how many of these travels seems to be between 1000 to 5000 years in the past (from about 3007), an educated guess would make him at least a million years old, but probably more. An alternative theory could suggest when the time duplicates explode at the end of the first film, Bender is the same age he was at the end of the original run plus 995 years, as the Bender that went back 995 years in time to kill Fry is presumed to be the original and therefore wouldn't expire like the rest of them.<br />
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In the comic, "[[Rust in Peace]]", it is revealed that Bender, due to too much time travelling, must be inserted into a renewed unit. Farnsworth determines his age to be 27,203 before moving him to his new body. But 27,203 seems a lot less than what would be a quick educated guess. 27,203 would require Bender to have gone at least about a thousand years back each time and only gone 27 times, or instead gone more years back and done fewer than 27 times. But regardless of the ordeal, the amount of Benders appearing at the end of ''Bender's Big Score'' seems to contradict this fact. The event in the comic is thus not considered [[canon]].<br />
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=== Durability ===<br />
Bender frequently displays incredible durability, to the point that he appears to be indestructible. He has been completely flattened, hit point-blank with a shotgun, had several chips removed from his severed head, then had his head [[Roswell That Ends Well|buried for over a thousand years]], had his lower torso melted from a cosmic electrical disturbance, been [[Godfellas|launched out of a torpedo tube then withstood atmospheric reentry]], [[Jurassic Bark|submerged himself in lava]], and been burned to nothing but his eyes and mouth after converting his body entirely into wood<br />
(though this was a [[Obsoletely Fabulous|dream]], but it is implied the dream could actually happen). In "[[Rebirth]]", after having been nearly eaten by a [[cyclophage]] and have a [[Doomsday Devices|doomsday device]] explode inside him, he remarks "What does it take to kill me?". A bomb has also exploded inside him in "[[War Is the H-Word]]" (twice). He survives being shot point-blank at [[Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences|least]] [[Law and Oracle|three]] [[Benderama|times]] in Season 6, survived [[Neutopia|being completely melted]], was [[Ghost in the Machines|able to come out of Limbo after having been killed]] and [[The Tip of the Zoidberg|had his head sliced in half by spinning blades.]]<br />
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However, as it's revealed in "[[Lethal Inspection]]", Bender was built without a backup unit. This means he can't download his personality or memories to another body, which he wanted to do if his original body got killed. Therefore, if his body is destroyed, he dies. As it turned out, [[Hermes Conrad|Inspector #5]] was the one responsible for mercifully approving Bender as a perfect robot, thus allowing him to live despite actually being a defective [[Robots|robot]].<br />
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[[File:Were-Car.jpg|right|thumb|Bender as a were-car.]]<br />
[[File:Human Bender.jpg|right|thumb|Human Bender, with floozies.]]<br />
[[File:Super King.jpg|thumb|right|Bender as [[Superking]]]]<br />
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=== Alternate appearances ===<br />
[[File:Ghost in the Machines infobox.png|200px|thumb|Bender as a ghost]]<br />
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*'''[[2ACV08]]''': '''Bender the Offender/Gender Bender''' Bender joins the [[Ultimate Robot Fighting League]], and become 'Bender the Offender', but after he becomes less popular, [[Abner Doubledeal]], the Commissioner of the URFL, changed his persona to 'The Gender Bender'<br />
*'''[[2ACV16]]''': '''Giant Bender:''' In a [[canon|non-canon]] scenario, Bender is pictured as 500 feet tall. During the episode, he claims to weigh 7 billion tons (14 trillion pounds).<br />
**'''Go-Kart Bender:''' After being murdered by [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] in aforementioned episode, she reassembles his parts into a sporty go-kart.<br />
*'''[[2ACV18]]''': '''[[Were-Car]] Bender:''' In "[[The Honking]]", Bender is transformed each midnight into a malicious were-car, determined to kill [[Philip J. Fry|his closest friend]].<br />
*'''[[3ACV03]]''': '''[[Robot Santa Claus|Santa]] Bender:''' Bender becomes a good Santa. This appearance basically has Bender's body painted red.<br />
*'''[[3ACV15]]''': '''Parallel Bender:''' The only difference apparent between Bender and his counterpart in the parallel universe (the ''only'' alternate universe at the time) was that parallel Bender (along with the rest of the parallel Planet Express crew) was wearing a cowboy hat and vest when both crews visited the [[Edge of the Universe]]. Whether this is the norm for the parallel Crew, or was due to some difference in parallel Fry's touristy adventure that day was never mentioned.<br />
*'''[[3ACV18]]''': '''Human Bender:''' In "[[Anthology of Interest II]]", Bender asks what it would be like if he were human. Despite being Mexican, he appears to be Caucasian. (Note: this could be a ''default setting'' on the professors device.)<br />
*'''[[3ACV19]]''': '''Flying Saucer Bender:''' After crashing to the New Mexico desert, the US military mistakenly reassembles Bender's body to resemble a small (functional) flying saucer.<br />
*'''[[4ACV04]]''': '''Superking:''' Bender joins the [[New Justice Team]] as the superhero "Superking", with a cape, a mask and a royal crown.<br />
*'''[[4ACV09]]''': '''Young Bender:''' Bender takes several reverted forms in "[[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles]]", including a software disc and a set of "Bending unit blueprints". Modifications include braces and dish-antenna-like ears.<br />
*'''[[4ACV13]]''': '''[[Coilette]]:''' Bender undergoes a sex-change operation in order to win five olympic gold medals. Faked his(her) own death with a fictional disease called "[[African Hydraulic Fever]]" because he(she) did not want to marry [[Calculon]].<br />
*'''[[4ACV14]]''': '''Wooden Bender:''' In a [[canon|dream]], Bender downgrades to a wooden, steam-powered version, and he also has termites inside him.<br />
*'''[[4ACV15]]''': '''Golden Bender:''' In [[Universe 1]], Bender's coin flip resulted in his choosing the gold finish instead of the foghat grey that we're used to.<br />
*'''[[Bender's Big Score|BBS]]''': '''[[iObey]] Bender:''' In ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'', Bender was tricked into downloading the iObey obedience virus. He is forced to do anything the naked scammers tell him, and his pupils become red pixel swirls.<br />
*'''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs|BwBB]]''': '''LOR Bender:''' Bender is given a luxurious ascot to wear, as he becomes a new member of the [[League of Robots]].<br />
**'''Pirate Bender:''' He dressed as a pirate in honor of Fry in his attempt to retrieve him from [[Yivo]]'s body.<br />
*'''[[Bender's Game|BG]]''': '''[[Titanius Anglesmith]]:''' While playing ''Dungeons & Dragons'' in ''[[Bender's Game]]'', Bender convinces himself that he is a knight and goes insane. <!-- When [[Cornwood]] is created, his delusions are made real. --><br />
*'''[[6ACV17]]''': '''Gray Goo Bender:'''Bender calls upon his legions of microscopic [[Bender duplicates]] to join together with him and form a gigantic version of him, in order to defeat the [[Unattractive giant monster]].<br />
*'''[[6ACV19]]''': '''Ghost Bender:''' After Bender's death, his software takes on a ghostly existence.<br />
*'''[[6ACV25]]''': '''Overclocked Bender:''' In a cave behind a waterfall, he has processed inside out.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Anthology.jpg|right|thumb|Giant Bender as seen in a "What If?" scenario, about to get attacked by giant [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]].]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*Benders E-mail is: bender@iloveBender.com<br />
*It is recommended that he run on 5 gigawatts.<br />
*Interestingly enough, Bender appears to have been an entirely different [[Robot]] before having met Fry. They meet when Bender is (at the very least) guilty and willing to kill himself over his dismay at finding out that the girders he had been bending were for [[suicide booth]]s. However, after Bender bends the bars keeping them from escaping Leela, Bender declares that from then on he will live his life only for him and do only what he wants to do. This may, however, just be an overlook by the writers of the show simply for the sake of introducing Fry to the drastic changes the future has brought (booths that are as ubiqitous as phone booths for suicide; walking, talking Robots).<br />
**This sudden change could be explained by the electric shock Bender received shortly before bending the bars. Not only did it allow Bender the freedom to disobey his programming, it changed his opinions on various things.<br />
**A year later however, Bender presents a picture of himself when he was only a month old with a bottle of beer and a cigar {{et|2ACV14}}, showing he has always been a "precocious little scamp" {{et|3ACV06}}.<br />
***All robots need beer to function, and that may not have been a cigar.<br />
****It was probably a cigar. However, drinking and smoking do not necessarily mean he is amoral befor the electric shock. He smoked cigars from the very first episode, saying "they make me look cool".<br />
*He has been [[New New York v. Bender|charged]] for pimping.<br />
*Bender's apartment number is 00100100. This is a binary representation of the ASCII character '$' or 36 in decimal.<br />
*Bender's serial number is 2716057. This can be expressed as the sum of 2 cubes. Specifically, 952<sup>3</sup> + (-951)<sup>3</sup>.<br />
*Additionally, he seems to be the [[1729]]<sup>th</sup> unit produced by his "mommy".<br />
*The word "bender" can refer to a drinking spree, hinting at Bender's heavy alcohol use.<br />
*Bender's head contains a {{w|MOS Technology 6502|6502 Microprocessor}} {{et|1ACV13}}, and his ass an {{w|Athlon II}} {{et|6ACV25}}. After Cubert overclocks Bender's ass, Bender discovers that he has "an extra processor in his compartment of mystery".<br />
*Bender dies at the end of both of his what-if scenarios in each Anthology of Interest and both have one of the characters saying "Goodnight, sweet prince" (Fry in the first and Farnsworth in the second) to Bender when he dies.<br />
*His self-destruct code is "Destruct Sequence 1A2B3". However, this appears to cause only his head to self-destruct, leaving the rest of his body intact and functional. This is a reference to the self-destruct codes of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.<br />
*Bender cannot have magnets attached to his head, or it will "screw up his inhibition unit", thus causing him to sing crazy variations of folk songs.<br />
*Apparently stole the Prime Minister of Norway's arm.<br />
*Despite Bender being made of various metals as hard as iron and titanium, [[humans]] and other organic organisms seem to have little to no difficulty harming his metal body using only their fists and feet.<br />
*His birthstone is [[Robobium]].<br />
*Is able to simultaneously reattach each of his severed arms with the other.<br />
*He cannot get up when he is knocked on his back. At least not until he learns how to from the majestic turtle.<br />
*His [[antenna]] interferes with satelite televisions, along with some cellphones.<br />
*He, along with [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], appears in all episodes of the series.<br />
*No one can say he doesn't own John Laraquette's Spine.<br />
*In addition, he seems to own the skeletal remains of Charlamagne, as shown in "[[Jurassic Bark]]".<br />
*Bender has Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, fear of the number 666, as hinted in "[[The Honking]]".<br />
*Bender is the most evil robot in the series, as acknowledged by [[Robot Santa]] and the [[Robot Devil]].<br />
*Bender has named his hands "Grabby and Squeezy," and his footcups "Stompy and Smashy."<br />
*Bender's favorite cause of death is being crushed to death by a big rig driven by The Incredible Hulk.<br />
*In Firefox 3, if you type "about:robots" into the address bar, a page with several cultural references to robots is displayed. The fourth bullet point says "Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten."<br />
*His vanity plate reads “1 DVS BSTD” (one devious bastard).<br />
*He said the last sentence in all 4 [[film]]s: "Well, we're boned" {{et|BBS}}, "I love you, meatbags!" {{et|TBwaBB}}, "Whip harder, Professor!" {{et|BG}}, "Into the breach, meatbags. Or not, whatever" {{et|ItWGY}}.<br />
*Bender's waste management facilities may convert material he consumes into bricks.<br />
*Bender's mighty robot powers allow him to get sick of things much quicker than humans.<br />
*His full name is first mentioned aloud in the episode "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]".<br />
*Bender is said to be roughly 500 pounds in "[[Gender Bender]]" but in ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'' he says he is 2 tons.<br />
*He goes into sleep mode whenever there is too much exposition.<br />
*Bender has appeared in both ''[[Family Guy]]'' and ''[[The Cleveland Show]]''.<br />
*He has referred to his chest compartment as his "compartment of mystery" (6ACV25).<br />
*Bender was featured on the front cover of all the Futurama DVDs, until [[Volume 6]].<br />
*In March 2012, hackers elected Bender to the {{w|District of Columbia Public Schools|D.C. school board}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2012/03/02/futuramas-bender-elected-to-dc-schoolboard/|title=Futurama's Bender Elected to DC School Board! <nowiki>|</nowiki> Comedy Central Insider <nowiki>|</nowiki> Funny, TV and Comedy Blog|author=Tobey, Matt|date=2012-03-02|site=[[Comedy Central]] Insider|accessdate=2012-03-02}}</ref>|<br />
*Even though his head has been shown to function as a camera many times before (the first time being in [[1ACV12|"When Aliens Attack"]], he still carries around his own portable camera (with film!) to remember "neat" events.<br />
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=== Voice ===<br />
Of all the voices on the show, Bender's voice was the most difficult to cast. This is because none of the creators and crew were sure what a robot should sound like yet. So they had every voice actor who auditioned also audition for the role of Bender. Even [[David X. Cohen]] was suggested for the role.<br />
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[[John DiMaggio]] originally auditioned with Bender's voice for Professor Farnsworth. Among the bases for the voice were the character of Taggart from {{w|Blazing Saddles}} and DiMaggio's original character "Charlie the Sausage Lover". In the [[Commentary:Spanish Fry|audio commentary of Spanish Fry]], David X. Cohen joked about it also being "90 parts John DiMaggio."<br />
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=== Catchphrases ===<br />
Bender's basic catchphrase is "[[Bite my shiny metal ass]]".<br />
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Variations on this include the following:<br />
*Bite my red-hot glowing ass! [[When Aliens Attack|(1ACV12)]]<br />
*Lick my frozen metal ass! [[Xmas Story|(2ACV04)]]<br />
*Bite my colossal metal ass! [[Anthology of Interest I|(2ACV16)]]<br />
*Bite my splintery wooden ass! [[Obsoletely Fabulous|(4ACV14)]]<br />
*Bite my glorious golden ass! [[The Farnsworth Parabox|(4ACV15)]]<br />
*Bite my shiny metal face!! {{f|3}}<br />
*Bite my shiny metal hat. (Said by [[Fry]], {{f|4}}<br />
*Bite my tiny metal ass! (Said by a Microscopic [[Bender duplicate]]) {{et|6ACV17}}<br />
*Byte my 8-bit metal ass! (Said by Bender During the Video Game Segment) {{et|6ACV26}}<br />
*Bite my fhiny metal aff [[All the Presidents' Heads| (6ACV23)]]<br />
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Other common catchphrases are:<br />
*"[[Me, Bender]]": whenever he says "me", he usually follows it with "Bender", thus producing the sentence "me, Bender." Thus making this the most said character name on the show.<br />
*"Well, [[we're boned]].", said in situations where he, or a group of people including him, are in a large amount of trouble.<br />
*"I'm back, baby!" whenever he makes an intriguing appearance on the scene; Bender had also said the phrase "We're back, baby!" on numerous occasions, particularly in reference to the series' revival. At one point, Bender just said, "Yeah, we're back." while filing his "nails" after escaping the wormhole.<br />
*"[[Neat!]]", when Bender is taking a picture with [[Bender's camera|his purple camera]], usually of something disturbing or disgusting.<br />
*"Cheese it!" whenever he encourages other characters to run away from trouble. This is used less commonly.<br />
*"[[Fun on the bun]]", another less common catchphrase that is used whenever Bender describes amusement.<br />
*"He's pending for a bending.", a phrase used as a warning very few times throughout the show.<br />
*"[[Bender is great!]]", like "Me, Bender", he usually likes to say this to emphasize his enormous ego.<br />
*"Oooh!", a ghostly/eerie noise often accompanied by jazz hands when feigning supernatural abilities, etc... (The Gypsy machine also did this once to Fry)<br />
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Bender also has a tendency to call humans "meatbag" when he is displeased or annoyed with them. Additionally, Bender regularly says "Kill all humans", although, in [[The Sting|Leela's dream]] he claims to whisper "except one", referring to Fry, every time too.<br />
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As stated in "[[War Is the H-Word]]", the top ten words that Bender uses more than any others is as follows:<br />
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<ol start="10"><br />
<li>Chump</li><br />
<li value="9">Chumpette</li><br />
<li value="8">Yours</li><br />
<li value="7">Up</li><br />
<li value="6">Pimpmobile</li><br />
<li value="5">Bite</li><br />
<li value="4">My</li><br />
<li value="3">Shiny</li><br />
<li value="2">Daffodil</li><br />
<li value="1">Ass</li><br />
</ol><br />
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It is by no means impossible that the second word in the list is not "metal" considering all the variations of his catchphrase. In reference to his use of the word "daffodil", he said the sentence "Hot-diggidy-daffodil" in this episode and again in {{f|2}}. "Chumpette" is only uttered once though. "Pimpmobile" was also spoken by Bender in [[Futurama (video game)|the game]]. However, in all likelihood, Bender's real most spoken words would most likely be along the lines of any other speaker of the English language: the, and, I, a, so; etc.<br />
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=== Assets and titles ===<br />
Bender has, over the years gained many assets and ranks in various organizations and a large amount of wealth. Some of these include:<br />
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*Served as Prime Minister of [[Trisol]] under the brief rule of [[Philip J. Fry|Fry the Solid]] (most likely terminated when the old emperor came back into power or when Bender and the rest of the crew fled Trisol).<br />
*A castle, inherited from his [[Vladimir|uncle]], though possibly forfeited when he failed to spend a night within.<br />
*Leader of the [[League of Robots]]<br />
*Commander of the [[Army of the Damned]]<br />
*[[Iron Cook]], on the television show of the same name (Zinc Saucier)<br />
*The [[Dirty Double Cross]], Earth's highest honor in swindling<br />
*[[Calculon]]'s official stalker (possibly fired when he maimed Calculon during a duel)<br />
*Spy for the [[DOOP]]<br />
*An enormous amount of wealth from various crimes<br />
*Pharaoh of [[Osiris 4]]<br />
*Prime Minister of Norway, due to him having the real Prime Minister of Norway's hand AND career chip<br />
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=== Functions, attachments, and accessories ===<br />
As we can see during the episodes, Bender has a lot of different functions. Here is a list of them:<br />
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*'''Trash Can''': Bender's own cavity can be used as a trash can. First seen "[[Space Pilot 3000]]" as he throws a bottle of beer inside himself.<br />
*'''Extenso-matic Eyes''': His eyes can zoom out of his normal layer, so he can get a better view on things; they tend to fall out when he zooms too far. First seen also in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]".<br />
*'''Subway Car''': His legs can extend onto rail tracks and his feet work like wheels, allowing Fry, Leela, and a random bum transportation in Old New York. Seen only in "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]".<br />
*'''Extenso-matic arms''': Bender's arms and legs are capable of extending to many times their normal length. First seen in "[[The Series Has Landed]]".<br />
*'''[[GayDar]]''': Bender pulls out a small radar device to prove to [[Amy]] and [[Leela]] that a man they are interested in is gay. It surprisingly works, seen in "[[Love's Labours Lost in Space]]".<br />
*'''Video Camera''': Each of Bender's eyes can be used as a camera, either to take pictures or to film things. Both are first seen in "[[When Aliens Attack]]". He also has one more camera, located "below the equator" which does not always "perform". The camera is never seen, but it can be heard extending.<br />
*'''Cowcatcher''': In "[[A Taste of Freedom]]", Bender has a 19th century style cowcatcher installed to his front to clear a path through the crowd outside the Decapodian Embassy.<br />
*'''Barbecue''': Bender's cavity is used the same way as a barbecue. He used it to cook some burgers. First seen in "[[When Aliens Attack]]".<br />
*'''Oven''': His cavity can be used as an oven, to cook things. The real function name is "E-z Bake", and is used to cook a cake for [[Nibbler]], in the episode "[[I Second that Emotion]]".<br />
*'''Refrigerator''': His cavity can also be used to refrigerate, as seen also in "[[I Second that Emotion]]".<br />
*'''Stage Light''': A light can come out of his cavity. He used it for the first time in "[[When Aliens Attack]]".<br />
*'''AC Power''' generator: Bender plugs a television power cord into his side in [[Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV]].<br />
*'''Popcorn maker''': Bender can make some popcorn in his cavity. He can also push down on his antenna to dispense butter. First seen in "[[Fear of a Bot Planet]]".<br />
*'''Keg''': Bender can also serve some beers within is cavity. First seen in "[[Hell Is Other Robots]]".<br />
*'''Toilet''': Bender's cavity is used as a toilet in the episode "[[The Cyber House Rules]]". He pushes his antenna to flush.<br />
*'''Recorder:''' Bender can record things with his head. First seen in "[[A Head in the Polls]]", to record [[Richard Nixon's head]]'s words. He records onto magnetic tape cassettes.<br />
[[File:Lighthouse bender.png|right|thumb|Bender as a lighthouse]]<br />
*'''Oxygen Supplier''': In the episode "[[The Deep South]]", Bender is used as an Oxygen Supplier, that comes via some masks.<br />
*'''Exhaust Port''': Bender's exhaust port is present in his ass, as seen in "[[Crimes of the Hot]]".<br />
*'''Flotation Device''': In "[[The Deep South]]", Bender refer to his ass as a Flotation Device.<br />
*'''Pepper Grinder''': In "[[The 30% Iron Chef]]", Bender inserts peppercorns in his mouth and shakes ground pepper out of his ass.<br />
*'''Beer Tub''': Beer ferments in Bender's chest cavity in the episode "[[The Route of All Evil]]". It has a capacity of at least five gallons, six ounces.<br />
*'''Pager''': Antenna glows and vibrates to notify the New Justice Team of a call from the mayor in "[[Less than Hero]]".<br />
*'''Oil Sprayer :''' Bender sprays oil on a cosmetic saleswoman in "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]".<br />
*'''Mail Box''': Bender's antenna indicates when he is receiving mail. First seen in "[[Crimes of the Hot]]".<br />
*'''Chicken Deboner''': Bender can debone a chicken by putting it into his mouth. He then regurgitates the chicken's skeleton and a feather duster. Seen in "[[The 30% Iron Chef]]".<br />
*'''Card Shuffler''': Bender can put a deck of cards into his mouth to shuffle them, and then spit them back out to deal them. He can apparently spit them with enough force for them to cut through objects such as apples and hair. Seen in "[[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]".<br />
*'''Circular Saw''': Bender can use his hands as a circular saw and lower a matching eyeshade to protect his eyes. First seen in "[[Less than Hero]]".<br />
*'''EFTPOS Machine''': In "[[Leela's Homeworld]]", Bender takes the Professor's credit card and swipes it between his teeth to check its balance.<br />
*'''Laser Show''': In "[[Jurassic Bark]]", Bender projects an expensive-looking laser show with his head, complete with techno music.<br />
*'''Flamethrower''': Bender boils some water using flames coming out of his mouth in "[[Anthology of Interest I]]". May not be a real feature due the scene being part of a simulation.<br />
*'''Stadium air horn''': In "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]", the [[Robot Devil]] installs a stadium air horn under Bender's nose.<br />
*'''Voice Modifier''': In "[[Bender Gets Made]]", Bender changed his voice via a control panel. Two voices are available : Robot (his normal voice), and King (his normal voice with a British accent).<br />
*'''Bug Zapper''': In "[[Spanish Fry]]", Bender shows that he is apparently capable of charging his surface with electricity and using his head to electrocute bugs.<br />
*'''Lighthouse''': In "[[Obsoletely Fabulous]]", Bender's revolving head and luminous eyes acted as a fully functional lighthouse. He can also emit a foghorn sound.<br />
*'''Pistol''': In the cover of [[Futurama (video game)|the game]], Bender is shown using his finger as a pistol. Canon status of the game uncertain.<br />
*'''Cheating Unit''': In "[[A Flight to Remember]]", Bender speaks of his "cheating unit" which predicts (inaccurately) the coming roll of the dice at craps.<br />
*'''Water Boiler''': Boils and produces hot water for [[Calculon]] in "[[That's Lobstertainment!]]".<br />
*'''Safe''': In "[[Put Your Head on My Shoulder]]", Bender stores money in his cavity, the combination lock dial can be seen on his door.<br />
*'''Movie Projector''': In "[[Crimes of the Hot]]" Bender's head projects an educational film.<br />
*'''Pen''': Finger can turn into a pen. Used to write down an address in "[[Xmas Time Is Fear]]" and to write down a joke in "[[Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?]]", and to write a "A Plea For Attention" in "[[The 30% Iron Chef]]".<br />
*'''Cigar Lighter''': His finger also flips up to reveal a cigar lighter. He uses this throughout the series to light his cigars. <br />
*'''Paper Shredder''': Paper is inserted into his mouth, shredded and comes out of his chest. Used to shred the menu in [[Hell Is Other Robots]].<br />
*'''Food Processor''': Bender purées fish and regurgitates it to his surrogate penguin children in "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]".<br />
*'''Answering Machine''': In "[[Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch]]", [[Amy]] apparently uses him as an answering machine. He isn't a very good one, though, as he doesn't alert people to new messages, and then deletes them anyway.<br />
*'''CD Player''': Bender can open his mouth panel to insert and play music CDs, as revealed in "[[Obsoletely Fabulous]]".<br />
*'''Projector''': A deleted scene from the opening of ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'' shows Bender projecting the Futurama logo, and the blue beams displayed behind it, from the top of his head, possibly from his antenna.<br />
*'''Spray Paint''': Bender is capable of spraying paint from his mouth, and does this when writing graffiti as seen in "[[A Pharaoh to Remember]]".<br />
*'''Suction Cup Feet''': Bender can use his feet as suction cups, allowing him to walk on walls. This is seen in "[[Bendless Love]]".<br />
*'''Vacuum''': Bender's arm can also can be used as a vacuum. As seen in the fourth movie; ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'', sucking up slot coins.<br />
*'''Pencil Sharpener''': Bender can sharpen a pencil, as seen in "[[Lethal Inspection]]".<br />
*'''Gyroscope''': Bender is gyroscopically stable, as seen in "[[The Mutants Are Revolting]]".<br />
*'''Roller Skates''': Roller Skates can extend from Bender's feet. Only seen once in "[[A Pharaoh to Remember]]".<br />
*'''Flash Camera''': He uses his eyes to take pictures for the [[Girly Calendars]] in "[[Neutopia]]".<br />
*'''Cannon''': If cannon ball is placed in his chest cabinet, his antenna can be lit to activate his cannon function. Bender didn't know he could do this. Seen in "[[All the Presidents' Heads]]". <br />
*'''Bicycle''': He serves as a bicycle for himself and his son [[Ben]] in "[[The Bots and the Bees]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22454651532/countdown-to-futurama-ben-aging-and-bender-bike|title=Countdown to Futurama: Ben Aging and Bender Bike Sketches|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-05|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-05}}</ref><br />
*'''Tripod''': He grows a third leg so that he can be his own tripod to photograph Leela, Farnsworth, Fry, Amy, Hermes and Zoidberg - in "[[The Thief of Baghead]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/23552096012/countdown-to-futurama-just-take-the-damn-picture|title=Countdown to Futurama: Just Take the Damn Picture|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-22|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-22}}</ref><br />
*'''Defibrillators''': Located inside his chest cabinet as seen in "[[How Much is that Mutant in the Window?]]".<br />
*'''Telephone Device''': This was seen in "How Much is that Mutant in the Window?" on the inside of Bender's chest door, the tip of his antenna lit up red when he used it to call a tow ship to get himself, [[Fry]], [[Leela]] and [[Nibbler]] home.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Dream on, skin tube.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I can't see what's happening. Are we boned?<br />
'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': Yeah, we're boned.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I love stealin'; I love takin' things!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Ah, TV's Elzar. This is the greatest nanosecond of my life. No, this one is. No, this one. Wait, that one was slightly worse. So far so good on this one.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Ah, I'm so excited I wish I could wet my pants.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Oh wait, you're serious, let me laugh even harder.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Bite my shiny, metal ass!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]]''': I was just regaling your former coworkers with a tale of bedroom antics, the likes of which-<br />
'''Bender''': Yeah yeah, big whoop, no one cares; I've got ''Bender'' related news.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Our love isn't any different than yours, except ours is hotter because I'm involved.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Something's happening on television!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I'm Bender baby! Please insert liquor!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hookerbot''': Bender, honey, we love you.<br />
'''Bender''': Shut up baby, I know it!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Look, [[Lrrr|hoss]], [[Ndnd|your wife]] threw you out. That’s your license to be a jerk. Do whatever you want, then walk away and light a cigar!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Aww, [[Thubanian leader|its]] anus looks like an asterisk!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': ''[in [[Emperor Nikolai|Emperor Nikolai's]] body.]'' Ah! I have everything I ever wanted. Money, wealth, riches. Yet something's missing. [[Princess Flavia|A hot princess with whom to get grizzly]].</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Amy Wong|Amy]]''': Remember, [[Robosexuality|love between]] a [[Human]] and a [[Robot]] is taboo. ''[She takes a brush from Bender's cabinet and fixes her hair.]'' We can't tell anyone, not even [[Planet Express crew|our co-workers]].<br />
'''Bender''': ''[To [[Amy Wong|Amy]].]'' Got it. I'll show the utmost discretion as we get nasty in this [[Tube Transport System|glass tube]].</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
While Bender appears in every episode, film or comic, the following categories may be of interest;<br />
*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Bender|A plots focusing on Bender]]<br />
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Bender|B plots focusing on Bender]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Ultimate Robot Fighting]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=A_Farewell_to_Arms&diff=115132A Farewell to Arms2012-07-05T22:55:57Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Goofs */ General cleanup</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=A Farewell to Arms<br />
|season=7<br />
|broadcast season=9<br />
|image=[[File:Countdown to Futurama 2012 (video 2).png|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Leela]], [[Fry]], [[Scruffy]], [[Hermes]], [[Amy]], [[Zoidberg]] and [[Bender]] around the [[Martian calendar]].<br />
|no=116<br />
|written by=Josh Weinstein<br />
|directed by=Raymie Muzquiz<br />
|title reference=The {{w|Ernest Hemingway}} novel ''{{w|A Farewell to Arms}}''<br />
|caption="Ask your doctor if ''Futurama'' is right for you"<br />
|first aired=20 June 2012<br />
|number=7ACV02<br />
|broadcast number=S09E02<br />
|prev ep=The Bots and the Bees<br />
|next ep=Decision 3012<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
}}<br />
"'''A Farewell to Arms'''" is the one hundred and sixteenth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the second of the [[Season 7|seventh production season]] and the [[Broadcast season 9|ninth broadcast season]]. It aired on 20 June 2012 on [[Comedy Central]]. An ancient prophecy from a [[Martian calendar]] predicts [[Earth|the world]] [[3012 phenomenon|will end]] in [[3012]].<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
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=== Act I: "So the world will end in the year 3012...why does that year sound so familiar?" ===<br />
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After a storm, [[Fry]] and [[Leela]] encounter a puddle as they are walking. He takes off his pants and puts them over the puddle, and offers to hold Leela's hand and walk her over the puddle. Though she initially refuses, she eventually agrees, but is sucked into the puddle by a puddle monster as she walks over it. Back at [[Planet Express headquarters]], Leela is covered in tentacle marks as a result of the incident. Fry, meanwhile, hangs his wet pants to a dry on a rope. [[Professor Farnsworth]] announces that he will be launching a weather balloon to investigate the odd weather conditions affecting [[Earth]]. The balloon is released, but takes Fry's pants along with it as Fry had tied his pants to the balloon's string. Not wanting to lose his "lucky pants", Fry gets the crew to track down the balloon so he can reclaim his pants. He eventually shoots the balloon down in space, which causes the pants to fall back to Earth in [[Central Park]]. As he is about to take his pants, which are hanging from a tree branch, he is blocked by a [[Central Park badger]] which promptly steals the pants and escapes into a hole. Fry chases down the badger in the hole covered in varmint grease, and discovers a mysterious set of symbols underground. <br />
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The crew come down as well to investigate the symbols, but [[Leela]] accidentally slips into a hole. Fry attempts to save her, but the grease on his hands causes her to lose her grip and fall down into the hole. The crew follow her down using a rope made of Fry's clothes. After she regains her consciousness, she discovers her leg is broken. In the hole, they find a huge stone pyramid as well as a disk. They take it back to Planet Express headquarters, where they discover the disk is a actually [[Martian calendar]]. Amy translates the Martian symbols on the calendar, which state that [[3012 phenomenon|the world will end in 3012]], shocking the [[Planet Express|crew]].<br />
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=== Act II: "Is it just me, or is the world endin' more often these days?" ===<br />
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Professor Farnsworth reveals that the weather balloon detected the onset of a catastrophic sunspot cycle. It begins its effect on Earth, and mass panic ensues in the streets of [[New New York]]. The crew attempt to escape, but discover that all electric power on Earth has been disabled by the electromagnetic storm. The crew spend what they believe will be their last time on Earth: Fry and Leela are about to have sex, and Professor Farnsworth is embalming himself. Amy, however, finds a possible solution: escape through the stone pyramid, which she learns is actually a [[Martian stone spaceship|spaceship]]. The crew inspect their ship, which Leela estimates can hold around 30,000 people. Though initially intending to save as many lives as they can, they later attempt to make their escape on the ship as the storm worsens. [[Zapp]], however, arrives and reports the ship to [[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]], who decides that the ship's destination will be [[Mars]]. Fry is disheartened due to the probability that he will not be able to board the ship, as he possesses no special skills. The [[Contrabulous Choosematron]] is assigned to choose evacuees. To his surprise, Fry is accepted and given a ticket, due to the fact that the Contrabulous Choosematron liked his pants. Fry holds Leela's hand as she places her hand into the Contrabulous Choosematron's slot, but she is rejected due to the fact that with all spaceships inoperable, only one pilot will be needed: Zapp. Fry, however, is somehow able to manage to get her a ticket, and he hands her a ticket with her picture on it. As the ship takes off, Leela realizes that her ticket is actually Fry's ticket with her picture glued on to it. Fry has sacrificed his seat on the ship and has stayed behind in Earth with [[Bender]], who is eager to loot. <br />
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=== Act III: "It Mars that gonna be destroyed!" ===<br />
On Mars, the evacuated Earthicans establish a new city, [[Dick Francisco]]. During the unveiling of the city, [[Singing Wind]] arrives, asking what they are doing on Mars. As Amy explains the translated symbols on the calendar, he reveals that it is not Earth that will be destroyed, but rather Mars, and points out how his people were so eager to abandon Mars. Soon, lightning strikes and Mars is hit with severe solar flares and dust storms. As subsurface gas pockets begin to erupt on the Martian surface, Mars blasts out of orbit. Back on Earth, however, the weather has returned to normal. Fry and Bender are relaxing on deck chairs, drinking piña skull-adas and preparing for the "apocalypse". Bender notices Mars visible in the sky, and Mars begins to hover dangerously close to Earth, bringing panic in New New York. The Martian evacuees jump from Mars to Earth, with the exception of Leela, who cannot jump due to her broken leg. Fry attempts to rescue her, and lifts out her hand to grab her. He fails, however, and causes both of their hands to sever. Eventually, [[Scruffy]] rescues her with the help of a ladder and Farnsworth creates new arms for Fry and Leela with the help of his [[birthing machine]]. Fry apologizes for his actions. Leela, however, says that despite the fact Fry failed in trying to save her, he is the only person who loves her enough to try. They share a hug as the scene fades into a shot of Fry and Leela's severed arms, hands held together, floating in space.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
In 2012, two revelations concerning the episode were made. On 29 February, [[CGEF]] revealed the episode's title, its writer to be [[Josh Weinstein]] and its director to be [[Raymie Muzquiz]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/7ACV/|title=Episode Guide: 7 ACV|date=2012-02-29|site=[[CGEF]]|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=22731.msg1299002#msg1299002|title="Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)"|site=[[PEEL]]|author="Just Fan"|date=2012-02-29|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> On 25 April, {{w|MSN TV}} revealed the episode's plot and air date.<ref name="msn">{{cite web | url=http://tv.msn.com/tv/series-episodes/futurama/?ipp=40 | title=Futurama - Episode Guide | site={{w|MSN TV}} | accessdate=2012-04-26}}</ref><br />
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In May, ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' began releasing promotional material for the episode. It has so far released five items: a [[promotional picture]] showing Leela - on crutches - and Fry on the [[Planet Express balcony]] on 7 May,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22595209143/countdown-to-futurama-leela-and-fry-watching-the|title=Countdown to Futurama: Leela and Fry Watching the Storm|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-07|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-07}}</ref> a video clip featuring the crew discussing the end of the world as well as scenes of [[New New York]] in chaos on 8 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 2">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22660349317/countdown-to-futurama-the-world-is-ending-again|title=Countdown to Futurama: The World Is Ending Again Clip|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-08|site=Comedy Centrl|accessdate=2012-05-08}}</ref> concept art of Fry and Leela's [[Planet Express]] prom photo on 9 May<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 3">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22723249502/countdown-to-futurama-fry-and-leelas-prom-photo|title=Countdown to Futurama: Fry and Leela’s Prom Photo|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-09|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-09}}</ref> a second promotional picture showing Leela being entangled by a puddle monster while Fry, whose pants are on the road, watches on 10 May,<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 4">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22788712686/countdown-to-futurama-puddle-monster-who-doesnt|title=Countdown to Futurama: Puddle Monster|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-10|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-10}}</ref> concept art of an excavated spaceship inside a cave on 11 May<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 5">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22847680054/countdown-to-futurama-stone-spaceship-as-you|title=Countdown to Futurama: Stone Spaceship|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-11|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-11}}</ref> and part of the storyboard showing Zapp pressing a button on a spaceship, causing snakes to be released onto Kif, on 12 May.<ref name="Countdown to Futurama 6">{{cite web|url=http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/post/22907144433/countdown-to-futurama-snake-button-storyboard|title=Countdown to Futurama: Snake Button Storyboard|author=Matt Tobey|date=2012-05-12|site=[http://comedycentral.tumblr.com/ Comedy Centrl [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]|accessdate=2012-05-12}}</ref><br />
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Comedy Central's website released another promotional picture - showing Leela and Fry near the balcony.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedycentral.com/press/series/futurama.jhtml?gallery=true|title=Comedy Central Press <nowiki>|</nowiki> Futurama|author=Michelle Rosenblatt|site=[[Comedy Central]]|accessdate=2012-06-05}}</ref> By 1 June, Comedy Central had aired an advertisment for the seventh season of ''Futurama'' which featured a new clip from the episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMdKUAIdiec&feature=colike|title=New Futurama Ad 2012|author=punkyacturbo|date=2012-06-01|site={{w|YouTube}}|format=Video|accessdate=2012-06-16}}</ref><br />
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''South Coast Today'' published an article about the ''Futurama'' season premiere on 16 June, revealing certain details about the episode.<ref name="South Coast Today">{{cite web | author=DeArruda, James | url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120616/LIFE/206160306/-1/LIFE | title=Spoiler alert!: Season premiere of 'Futurama' delivers just what the doctor ordered | work=South Coast Today | date=16 June, 2012 | accessdate=19 June, 2012}}</ref> ''{{w|Entertainment Weekly}}'' released another preview clip of the episode on 18 June.<ref name="EW">{{cite web|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/06/18/futurama-bender-wanda-sykes/|title='Futurama': Bender impregnates a soda machine! -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO|first=Dan|last=Snierson|work=Inside TV|publisher=EW.com|date=18 June, 2012|accessdate=18 June, 2012}}</ref><br />
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=== Image gallery ===<br />
<gallery perrow=4><br />
Leela on crutches.jpg|The first promotional picture.<br />
Fry and Leela prom photo.jpg|The first piece of concept art.<br />
Puddle monster.jpg|The second promotional picture.<br />
Stone spaceship.jpg|The second piece of concept art.<br />
A Farewell to Arms storyboard - Scene 189.jpg|The first page of the storyboard to be released.<br />
702 2-withcredit.jpg|The third promotional picture.<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
On 30 January 2012, [[Eric Rogers]] revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either "[[The Bots and the Bees]]", this one or "[[31st Century Fox]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/164107479981105152|author=[[Eric Rogers]]|date=2012-01-30|title=Kitchelfilms|site={{w|Twitter}}|accessdate=2012-01-31}}</ref><br />
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1.645 million viewers.<br />
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== Additional information ==<br />
<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*The title "'''Farewell to Arms'''", which was registered on the US {{w|Copyright Catalog}} on 14 July 2011,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=29&ti=26,29&Search_Arg=futurama&Search_Code=TALL&CNT=25&REC=0&RD=0&RC=0&PID=TsH4SXbiOi0dF3DmNIBqsPmX7xtu&SEQ=20120229184805&SID=1|date=2011-07-14|title=WebVoyage Record View 1|site=US {{w|Copyright Catalog}}|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> was a working title for this episode.<br />
*"[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]", which is also the second episode of [[season 6|its season]], features an end of the world plot as well.<br />
*If the [[Season 5|movies]] are considered non-episodic, then this episode could be considered the 100th episode.<br />
**Alternatively, if each movie is considered one episode, this could be considered the 104th episode.<br />
**This is moot, however, since according to the canon, the movies are considered four episodes each.<br />
*The name of the episode is a reference to Fry and Leela both having lost one arm at the end of the episode. The word 'Arms' is an anagram of Mars which gets destroyed at the end of the episode.<br />
*The second act is interesting because it does not end on a funny punch line, but instead a dramatic fade out.<br />
*Both Leela and Fry should have known they would have survived the Apocalypse since they read Bender's script on their love life in "[[Overclockwise]]".<br />
*If one looks closely at the tickets, it can be known that the ticket Fry gives Leela is actually his own ticket before it is directly revealed when Leela peels off her picture. When Fry receives his ticket from the Contabulous Choosematron, it bears the number combination "023870096 58". When Fry gives Leela the ticket, it bears the same combination.<br />
*The [[Planet Express headquarters]] is located on or near to 72nd Street, according to Farnsworth.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The episode's title is taken from the {{w|Ernest Hemingway}} novel ''{{w|A Farewell to Arms}}''. It is used to refer to Fry and Leela's arms getting torn off in the episode.<br />
*The episode is a parody of the {{w|2012 phenomenon}}.<br />
*In the Planet Express ship, Bender is reading a copy of ''Space Mall'', a parody of ''{{w|Sky Mall}}''.<br />
*Nixon says the best destination for the evacuated Earthicans to be transported to is [[Mars]], which has "no Woodward or Bernstein. That's a plus." He is referring to journalists {{w|Bob Woodward}} and {{w|Carl Bernstein}}, whose news reporting on the {{w|Watergate scandal}} eventually led to Nixon's resignation. <br />
*Additionally, "that's a plus" could also refer to the advertisement slogan of the social network "Google+".<br />
*Fry mentions ''{{w|Redbook}}''.<br />
*Nixon says that the spaceplane "just won't turn over, just like Pat on a Sunday morning." "Pat" was the name of {{w|Pat Nixon|Nixon's wife}} in real life.<br />
*Leela mentions ''{{w|Tron: Legacy}}''.<br />
*Fry says that Bender dumped pig's blood on him at the Planet Express Prom, a reference to ''{{w|Carrie (novel)|Carrie}}''.<br />
*"Sharksplosions" may be a reference to [http://sharksplode.com/ Sharksplode], an online tee-shirt store founded by Wil Wheaton and Joel Watson.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*[[Singing Wind]] appears for the second time.<br />
*The Professor uses the [[birthing machine]] to clone new arms for Fry and Leela.<br />
*Fry gets his arm severed for a second time. The first time was in "[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]".<br />
*The original prophecy said that the Earth would not at all be affected, yet the two planets nearly collided. This may be a reference to the fact that the Earth's orbit was artificially modified in "[[Crimes of the Hot]]".<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]] is seen with the [[Headless clone of Agnew]]. The [[Headless body of Agnew|original Agnew]] was killed in ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]''.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>[repeated line]<br />
'''Fry''': [to Leela] Take my hand.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Fry]]''': No way I'm gonna let God get my pants! Nobody messes with my pants! Not even the Holy One, blessed be He!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Woah, there's writing in here! Also, this grease is flammable.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': [to Fry] Can't you just be a rude unhelpful jerk like Bender?<br />
'''Bender''': When I use up the toilet paper, I don't put on another roll!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Amy]]''': The calendar predicts fires, earthquakes, sharksplosions...then it just ends!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Hermes]]''': Is it just me, or is the world ending more often these days?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': So, you wanna join the Balcony Club?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': The Balcony Club?! I have an individual membership!<br />
'''Fry''': Zoidberg, get lost!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': I ''am'' lost! So long.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': That underground pyramid isn't a pyramid.<br />
''[Cut to the underground area.]''<br />
'''Amy''': It's a rocketship!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': It was worth waiting five hours to hear you finish that sentence.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'll remember you in here. ''[Puts her hand on her heart.]''<br />
'''Fry''': I wish ''I'' could remember with my boobs.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I'm stealin' stuff I don't even need. You wanna Torah?<br />
'''Fry''': Nah, I'm not hungry.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I hope you're not too mad at me, Leela. For tearin' your arm up and all.<br />
'''Leela''': I'm not mad. I'm on way too many painkillers.</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*The storm disables all electronics, yet Nixon's head's robotic arm still functions normally. Additionally, Zapp and the NNYPD's guns should not work either, but it is possible that the laser technology is not affected by the storm. The [[Contrabulous Choosematron]] is also another item that still works.<br />
**All these items could have been powered without electricity, like Bender.<br />
**The crank could give him an extremly long charge.<br />
*In this episode, Amy says she belonged to the sorority Sigma Beta, but in "[[The Series Has Landed]]", she says she belonged to Kappa Kappa Wong.<br />
**She could have changed sororities over the course of twelve years.<br />
*Farnsworth, Fry and Bender should have known the world would not end in 3012, since they witnessed it ending over one billion years later in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]".<br />
**They initially skipped almost 7000 years, during which time society had collapsed several times on unknown dates. It is likely they were trying to avoid whatever had caused this.<br />
*If Mars and Earth really passed that close, then the gravity of the two planets would rip them appart.<br />
**When giving Mars oxygen, it could have altered the gravity.<br />
*There's no way that burning subteranian gasses could move Mars that close to Earth so quickly, as there are millions of miles between them.<br />
*The Contrabulous Choosematron gives Fry two passes, so he should have been able to go with everyone to Mars, regardless of giving one to [[Leela]].<br />
**He got accepted twice, but he didnt get two passes.<br />
*Although [[Singing Wind]] explains why they left the Prophecy on Earth (to warn them not to go to Mars), it doesn't explain why they left the stone ship there.<br />
**It's possible that that was the very ship the original Martians used to come to Earth, and those Martians had died out on Earth, leaving behind their ship and [[Martian calendar|calendar]] there, and the legend of their journey back on Mars.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*The [[21st-century girl]]<br />
*[[Amy]]<br />
*[[Ben Beeler]]<br />
*[[Ben Beeler's wife]]<br />
*[[Bender]]<br />
*[[Billionaire Bot]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*The [[censored couple]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Contrabulous Choosematron]]<br />
*[[Cowardman]]<br />
*The [[Crack Addict]]<br />
*[[Dandy Jim]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]]<br />
*[[Elzar]]<br />
*[[Falafel cart man]]<br />
*[[Fat-bot]]<br />
*[[Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': The [[Great Reveal-o]]<br />
*[[Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Gus]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Headless clone of Agnew]]<br />
*[[Hermes]]<br />
*[[Igner]]<br />
*[[Inez Wong]]<br />
*[[Kif]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Larry]]<br />
*[[Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda van Schoonhoven]]<br />
*[[Leo Wong]]<br />
*The [[male nurse]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Mrs. Astor]]<br />
*[[Nine]]<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Mayor Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Queen of Yonkers]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Singing Wind]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*[[Stephanie]]<br />
*The [[underwater house salesman]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Victor]]<br />
*[[Walt]]<br />
*[[Wash Bucket]]<br />
*[[Judge Whitey]]<br />
*[[Zapp]]<br />
*[[Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:B plots focusing on Bender]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Famous_Original_Ray%27s_Superior_Court&diff=115087Famous Original Ray's Superior Court2012-07-05T15:20:13Z<p>66.32.188.127: </p>
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|name=Famous Original Ray's Superior Court<br />
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|location=[[New New York]]<br />
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'''Famous Original Ray's Superior Court''' is a courthouse in [[New New York]], where its residing judge is [[Judge Whitey]]. The court is subject to the legal affairs of New New York, in contrast to the [[Supreme Court]] that is subject to the legal affairs of [[Earth]].<br />
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Cases such as [[New New York v. Santa Bender]], [[New New York v. Fry and Bender]], [[New New York v. Bender (3001)|New New York v. Bender]] and [[Mom v. Farnsworth]] have been held in this courthouse.<br />
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== Additional info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*It is named for {{w|Famous Original Ray's Pizza}}, or one of its variants.<br />
*The "[[Overclockwise]]" design of the court is in fact the same as [[Superior Gort]]/[[Battery Park Integrated Circuit Court]], but with a different colour scheme and no rivets.<ref name="com-fc3000">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Overclockwise|volume=Six |disc=2}}</ref><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV03}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV11}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV25}}<br />
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[[Category:Courts]]<br />
[[Category:Places]]<br />
[[Category:Trials| ]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Famous_Original_Ray%27s_Superior_Court&diff=115086Famous Original Ray's Superior Court2012-07-05T15:19:35Z<p>66.32.188.127: </p>
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<div>{{place infobox<br />
|name=Famous Original Ray's Superior Court<br />
|image=[[File:Famous Original Ray's Superior Court.png|225px]]<br />
|location=[[New New York]]<br />
|first appear={{e|2ACV07}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Famous Original Ray's Superior Court''' is a courthouse in [[New New York]], where its residing judge is [[Judge Whitey]]. The court is subject to the legal affairs of New New York, in contrast to the [[Supreme Court]] that is subject to the legal affairs of [[Earth]].<br />
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Cases such as [[New New York v. Santa Bender]], [[New New York v. Fry and Bender]] and [[New New York v. Bender (3001)|New New York v. Bender]] have been held in this courthouse.<br />
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== Additional info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*It is named for {{w|Famous Original Ray's Pizza}}, or one of its variants.<br />
*The "[[Overclockwise]]" design of the court is in fact the same as [[Superior Gort]]/[[Battery Park Integrated Circuit Court]], but with a different colour scheme and no rivets.<ref name="com-fc3000">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Overclockwise|volume=Six |disc=2}}</ref><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV03}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV11}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV25}}<br />
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[[Category:Courts]]<br />
[[Category:Places]]<br />
[[Category:Trials| ]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Decision_3012&diff=115078Talk:Decision 30122012-07-05T14:34:08Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Cannon */</p>
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<div>== Cannon ==<br />
Should this episode be considered cannon? Because technically, although it may have actually happened, no one remembers it, and it's extremely unlikely to affect anything after this episode.<br />
<br />
Because it is not a comic, The Game, or an Anthology of Interest-esque episode and is part of the regular season, it must be considered cannon.[[Special:Contributions/98.198.118.224|98.198.118.224]] 05:47, 30 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
:I don't think that necessarily has to be true. Just because we haven't found a situation where there might be an exception doesn't mean that there can't be one. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 16:20, 1 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
::This isn't an exception; just because the events of the episode were erased due to paradox correction does not change the fact that they occurred. Even the Anthology of Interest stories, which are clearly non-canonical, contain events which are canon. -- [[User:DeepSpaceHomer|DeepSpaceHomer]] ([[User talk:DeepSpaceHomer|talk]]) 00:07, 2 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::I think that they really didn't occur; in the reality that the next episode takes on, the events of this episode other than Nixon being reelected never happened, which is the exact definition of a non-cannon episode. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 22:28, 2 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
::::This is the problem with time travel. In Bender's Big Score, a time duplicate Fry led a long life in the 2000s despite the original traveling back to the 3000s. Is the life of the duplicate Fry cannon? Timeline A would follow Fry (A), Fry (B) becomes a whale biologist on Timeline B, Fry (Γ) remains in the Cryogenic Tube and Timeline Γ merges with Timeline A, and the whole thing gets kinda convoluted. Think of the Time Paradox Benders at the end of BBS.<br />
::::I think it can be considered cannon if the timelines could be mapped out as linearly as possible. The Travers B timeline ends abruptly at the end of the election, so it actually happened, but the "time" itself stopped suddenly and rapidly merged with the Travers A timeline (in which he is born but has not come back from the future). My head hurts.[[Special:Contributions/98.198.118.224|98.198.118.224]] 22:45, 3 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
::::This is a pretty big problem with time travel. Everything is very confusing when there is a paradox. And actually, there were a few paradoxes in BBS, like the question of where the tattoo came from. I'm thinking maybe we should have a section called "cannon" in which we discuss the issue as thoroughly as possible. I also think we should put the label "Disputed Cannon" on this episode, because that does mean that there are different opinions on whether or not it's cannon, not that it's non-cannon. Also, on the article on cannon, we could have a section labeled "Decision 3012" similar to the one on this article.[[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 17:35, 4 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::::I'll second a Disputed Cannon tag on the article, or at least a mention as a note. In fact, something exclusive to paradoxes would be ideal. It can be applied then to BBS, Roswell, this episode, and any other that deals with paradoxes within the universe. Also, I have no idea how to do anything like that.[[Special:Contributions/98.198.118.224|98.198.118.224]] 13:23, 5 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::::I don't know either. Someone with an actual account will have to make the label, since neither of us knows how. But for now, the Disputed Canon label should suffice until a label for paradoxes is created. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 16:34, 5 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Robot Uprising ==<br />
Is the future robot uprising in this episode the same future robot uprising shown in The Late Philip J. Fry? Because it would make a lot of sense.<br />
:We could add that, making sure people know it's speculation on our part and not definite. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 03:40, 29 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Terminator? ==<br />
<br />
Is really nobody seeing the Terminator Reference in this Episode?<br />
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== Hoover dam? ==<br />
<br />
In the scene after the protest outside of the Travers presidential headquaters when Leela slams Bender into the wall, Bender's motives are questioned and he says "'cause they won't let me near the Hoover Dam anymore." Anyone have some insight into why? Or, is it another of Bender's lies?[[Special:Contributions/98.198.118.224|98.198.118.224]] 05:55, 30 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
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I would say it has something to do with Las Vegas. It's not difficult to imagine he isn't welcome there.</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Parts_Hilton&diff=115077Parts Hilton2012-07-05T14:32:27Z<p>66.32.188.127: Created page with "{{character infobox |name = Parts Hilton |type = t |gender = Fembot |species = Robot |job = Celebrity |first appear ..."</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name = Parts Hilton<br />
|type = t<br />
|gender = Fembot<br />
|species = Robot<br />
|job = Celebrity<br />
|first appear = {{e|7ACV04}}<br />
}}<br />
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Parts Hilton is a celebrity. In [[3012]], [[Bender]] made a fake picture of her having sexual relationships with him that made it onto the front cover of [[Us People]].<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Her name is a parody of {{w|Paris Hilton}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
{{e|7ACV04}}</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=List_of_title_captions&diff=115013List of title captions2012-07-04T15:39:30Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Season 1 */</p>
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<div>This article lists all the title captions seen in the [[opening sequence]], this is similar to Wikipedia's {{w|List of The Simpsons couch gags}}. This is in production order. See [[list of opening cartoons]] for the cartoons appearing in the opening sequence.<br />
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|- style=" text-align:center;"<br />
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| [[#Season 1|1]]<br />
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|- style="text-align:center;"<br />
| style="background:#ffdfbf;" |<br />
| [[#Season 2|2]]<br />
| 19<br />
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| colspan="5" | <br />
|- style="text-align:center;"<br />
| style="background:#ffffbf;" |<br />
| [[#Season 3|3]]<br />
| 22<br />
|-<br />
| colspan="5" | <br />
|- style="text-align:center;"<br />
| style="background:#BFFFC4;" |<br />
| [[#Season 4|4]]<br />
| 18<br />
|-<br />
| colspan="5" | <br />
|- style="text-align:center;"<br />
| style="background:lightbrown;" |<br />
| [[#Season 5|5]]<br />
| 16<br />
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| colspan="5" | <br />
|- style="text-align:center;"<br />
| style="background:lightblue;" |<br />
| [[#Direct-to-DVD films|Films]]<br />
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|- style="text-align:center;"<br />
| style="background:lightbrown;" |<br />
| [[#Season 6|6]]<br />
| 26<br />
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| [[#Specials|Specials]]<br />
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== Season 1 ==<br />
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{{lotcstart}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Space Pilot 3000]]"|In color|0101.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Series Has Landed]]"|In Hypno-Vision|0102.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[I, Roommate]]"|As seen on TV<ref name="nodvd">These captions do not appear on some releases of the [[DVDs|DVD]] sets.</ref>|0103.jpg}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Love's Labours Lost in Space]]"|Presented in BC [Brain Control] Where Available|0104.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Fear of a Bot Planet]]"|Featuring gratuitous [[alien]] nudity|0105.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Fishful of Dollars]]"|Loading...|0106.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[My Three Suns]]"|Presented in double vision (where drunk)|0107.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Big Piece of Garbage]]"|[[Bender|Mr. Bender's]] Wardrobe By Robotany 500|0108.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Hell Is Other Robots]]"|Condemned by the [[Space Pope]]|0109.jpg}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Flight to Remember]]"|Filmed On Location|0110.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Mars University]]"|Transmitido en Martian en SAP|0111.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[When Aliens Attack]]"|Proudly Made on [[Earth]]|0112.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Fry and the Slurm Factory]]"|Live from [[Omicron Persei 8]]|0113.png}}<br />
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== Season 2 ==<br />
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{{lotcstart}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[I Second that Emotion]]"|Made from meat by-products|0201.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Brannigan, Begin Again]]"|>>Not Y3K Compliant<<|0202.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Head in the Polls]]"|From The Makers Of [[Futurama]]|0203.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Xmas Story]]"|Based On a True Story|0204.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]"|From the network that brought you "[[The Simpsons]]"|0205.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Lesser of Two Evils]]"|The show that watches back|0206.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Put Your Head on My Shoulder]]"|Not Based On The Novel By {{w|James Fenimore Cooper}}|0207.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Raging Bender]]"|Nominated For Three Glemmys|0208.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Bicyclops Built for Two]]"|This episode has been modified to fit your primitive screen|0209.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Clone of My Own]]"|Coming soon to an illegal DVD|0210.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]"|As foretold by Nostradamus|0211.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Deep South]]"|A Stern Warning of Things to Come|0212.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bender Gets Made]]"|Simulcast on Crazy People's Fillings |0213.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Mother's Day]]"|Larva-tested, pupa-approved|0214.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Problem with Popplers]]"|For external use only|0215.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Anthology of Interest I]]"|Painstakingly drawn before a live audience|0216.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[War Is the H-Word]]"|Touch eyeballs to screen for cheap laser surgery|0217.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Honking]]"|Smell-O-Vision Users Insert Nose Tubes Now.|0218.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Cryonic Woman]]"|Not a Substitute for [[Human]] Interaction|0219.png}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Season 3 ==<br />
<br />
{{lotcstart}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Amazon Women in the Mood]]"|Secreted by the Comedy Bee|0301.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Parasites Lost]]"|If not entertaining, write your congressman|0302.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Tale of Two Santas]]"|This episode performed entirely by sock puppets|0303.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]"|Broadcast simultaneously one year in the future|0304.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]"|Now with Chucklelin|0305.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bendless Love]]"|Torn from tomorrow's headlines|0306.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Day the Earth Stood Stupid]]"|80% entertainment by volume|0307.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[That's Lobstertainment!]]"|Deciphered From Crop Circles|0308.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Cyber House Rules]]"|Please rise for the [[Opening Sequence|Futurama theme song]]|0309.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Where the Buggalo Roam]]"|Krafted with luv<br /><small>by monsters</small>|0310.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Insane in the Mainframe]]"|Bender's Humor by Microsoft Joke|0311.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Route of All Evil]]"|Disclaimer: Any resemblance to actual [[robots]] would be really cool|0312.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bendin' in the Wind]]"|Federal law prohibits changing the channel|0313.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Time Keeps on Slippin']]"|For proper viewing, take red pill now|0314.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[I Dated a Robot]]"|No humans were probed in the making of this episode|0315.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Leela of Her Own]]"|Scratch here to reveal prize|0316.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Pharaoh to Remember]]"|Psst... Big party at your house after the show! |0317.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Anthology of Interest II]]"|Hey TiVo! Suggest ''this''!|0318.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Roswell that Ends Well]]"|Fun for the whole family except grandma and grandpa|0319.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Godfellas]]"|Please turn off all cell phones and tricorders|0320.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Future Stock]]"|Love it or shove it|0321.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The 30% Iron Chef]]"|If accidentally watched, induce vomiting.|0322.png}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Season 4 ==<br />
<br />
{{lotcstart}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch]]"|[[Bigfoot|Bigfoot's]] choice|0401.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Leela's Homeworld]]"|It's like "{{w|HEE HAW}}" with lasers|0402.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Love and Rocket]]"|When you see the robot, drink!|0403.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Less than Hero]]"|Soon to be a major religion|0404.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Taste of Freedom]]"|Or is it?|0405.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television]]"|Controlling you through a chip in your butt since [[1999]]|0406.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Jurassic Bark]]"|Not affilliated with Futurama Brass Knuckle Co.|0407.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Crimes of the Hot]]"|Known to cause insanity in laboratory mice|0408.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles]]"|Now interactive! Joystick controls [[Fry|Fry's]] left ear|0409.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Why of Fry]]"|Dancing space potatoes?<br />You bet!|0410.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]"|Where no fan has gone before|0411.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Sting]]"|A by-product of the TV industry|0412.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bend Her]]"|Too hot for radio|0413.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Obsoletely Fabulous]]"|You can't prove it won't happen|0414.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Farnsworth Parabox]]"|Beats a hard kick in the face|0415.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Three Hundred Big Boys]]"|Voted "best"|0416.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Spanish Fry]]"|''[in [[Alien Languages|Alien Alphabet]] 1]'' Thanks for watching, Futurama slave army! |0417.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]"|See you on some other channel|0418.png}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Season 5 ==<br />
{{lotcstart}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bender's Big Score Part 1]]"|It just won't stay dead!|0501.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bender's Big Score Part 2]]"|Watch, Rinse, Repeat|0502.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bender's Big Score Part 3]]"|Apply directly to the foreclaw|0503.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bender's Big Score Part 4]]"|Last known transmission of the Hubble Telescope|0504.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1]]"|The Proud Result of Prison Labor|0505.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 2]]"|It Makes a Nice Sandwich|0506.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3]]"|0100100001101001 ''[which translates to "Hi" in ASCII]''|0507.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4]]"|The Robots are Coming! The Robots are Coming!|}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bender's Game Part 1]]"|The flames in your TV are not part of the show|0509.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bender's Game Part 2]]"|The episode they'll be thinking about by the water cooler, but not mentioning specifically|0510.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bender's Game Part 3]]"|Current eBay bid: $8.51|0511.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Bender's Game Part 4]]"|Collect all fifty billion!|0512.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1]]"|<ESP> Closed-captioned for the ESP-impaired|0513.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 2]]"|If you can read this, thank us!|0514.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 3]]"|Now available without a prescription|0515.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4]]"|''[in [[Alien Languages|Alien Language]] 1]'' The humans shall not defeat us|0516.png}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Direct-to-DVD films ==<br />
{{lotcstart-film}}<br />
{{lotcrow-film|''[[Bender's Big Score]]''|It just won't stay dead!|01.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow-film|''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]''|The Proud Result of Prison Labor|02.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow-film|''[[Bender's Game]]''|The flames in your TV are not part of the show|03.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow-film|''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]''|''[in [[Alien Languages|Alien Language]] 1]'' The humans shall not defeat us|04.png}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Season 6 ==<br />
{{lotcstart}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Rebirth]]"|Rebirth|0601.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]"|Apply directly to the eyes|0602.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Attack of the Killer App]]"|There will be a test|0603.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Proposition Infinity]]"|Dictated but not read|0604.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Duh-Vinci Code]]"|Put on 3-D monocle now|0605.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Lethal Inspection]]"|Made you look!|0606.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]"|If you don't watch it, someone else will|0607.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[That Darn Katz!]]"|(or similar product)|0608.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Clockwork Origin]]"|This time, it's personal|0609.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Prisoner of Benda]]"|What happens in {{w|Cygnus 1-X}} stays in Cygnus 1-X|0610.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences]]"|Two scoops of pixels in every scene|0611.PNG}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Mutants Are Revolting]]"|100|0612.PNG}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Futurama Holiday Spectacular]]"|Time travelers: Only 331 shopping days 'til last [[Xmas]]|0613.PNG}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Silence of the Clamps]]"|No refunds|0614.png}} <br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Möbius Dick]]"|Featuring [[Sparky (Möbius Dick)|Sparky]], the invisible elf|0615.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Law and Oracle]]"|For the sophisticated shut-in|0616.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Benderama]]"|Others ask, "What if?" We ask, "Why if."|0617.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Tip of the Zoidberg]]"|It's Tentacular!|0618.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Ghost in the Machines]]"|#1 most viewed show among viewbots|0619.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Neutopia]]"|Provides a full day's supply of Vitamin F!|0620.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Yo Leela Leela]]"|Penetrates even the thickest foil hat|0621.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Fry Am the Egg Man]]"|The one bright spot in your life!|0622.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[All the Presidents' Heads]]"|Apply viewing oil now|0623.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Cold Warriors]]"|We are following you, but not on {{w|Twitter}}|0624.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Overclockwise]]"|Soon to be a hit television show|0625.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Reincarnation]]"|Reincarnation|0626.png}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Season 7 ==<br />
{{lotcstart}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[The Bots and the Bees]]"|Not sure if new episode or just rerun of episode I watched drunk|0701.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[A Farewell to Arms]]"|Ask your doctor if Futurama is right for you|0702.png}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Decision 3012]]"|Made From 100% Recycled Pixels}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Specials ==<br />
{{lotcstart}}<br />
{{lotcrow|"[[Futurama (video game)#Game to episode edits|The Lost Adventure]]"|The Lost Adventure|Lost Adventure.png}}<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Additional Information ==<br />
<br />
=== See Also ===<br />
*[[Unused Title Captions]]<br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:Lists|Title captions]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Decision_3012&diff=115012Talk:Decision 30122012-07-04T15:35:08Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Cannon */</p>
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<div>== Cannon ==<br />
Should this episode be considered cannon? Because technically, although it may have actually happened, no one remembers it, and it's extremely unlikely to affect anything after this episode.<br />
<br />
Because it is not a comic, The Game, or an Anthology of Interest-esque episode and is part of the regular season, it must be considered cannon.[[Special:Contributions/98.198.118.224|98.198.118.224]] 05:47, 30 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
:I don't think that necessarily has to be true. Just because we haven't found a situation where there might be an exception doesn't mean that there can't be one. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 16:20, 1 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
::This isn't an exception; just because the events of the episode were erased due to paradox correction does not change the fact that they occurred. Even the Anthology of Interest stories, which are clearly non-canonical, contain events which are canon. -- [[User:DeepSpaceHomer|DeepSpaceHomer]] ([[User talk:DeepSpaceHomer|talk]]) 00:07, 2 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::I think that they really didn't occur; in the reality that the next episode takes on, the events of this episode other than Nixon being reelected never happened, which is the exact definition of a non-cannon episode. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 22:28, 2 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
::::This is the problem with time travel. In Bender's Big Score, a time duplicate Fry led a long life in the 2000s despite the original traveling back to the 3000s. Is the life of the duplicate Fry cannon? Timeline A would follow Fry (A), Fry (B) becomes a whale biologist on Timeline B, Fry (Γ) remains in the Cryogenic Tube and Timeline Γ merges with Timeline A, and the whole thing gets kinda convoluted. Think of the Time Paradox Benders at the end of BBS.<br />
::::I think it can be considered cannon if the timelines could be mapped out as linearly as possible. The Travers B timeline ends abruptly at the end of the election, so it actually happened, but the "time" itself stopped suddenly and rapidly merged with the Travers A timeline (in which he is born but has not come back from the future). My head hurts.[[Special:Contributions/98.198.118.224|98.198.118.224]] 22:45, 3 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
::::This is a pretty big problem with time travel. Everything is very confusing when there is a paradox. And actually, there were a few paradoxes in BBS, like the question of where the tattoo came from. I'm thinking maybe we should have a section called "cannon" in which we discuss the issue as thoroughly as possible. I also think we should put the label "Disputed Cannon" on this episode, because that does mean that there are different opinions on whether or not it's cannon, not that it's non-cannon. Also, on the article on cannon, we could have a section labeled "Decision 3012" similar to the one on this article.[[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 17:35, 4 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Robot Uprising ==<br />
Is the future robot uprising in this episode the same future robot uprising shown in The Late Philip J. Fry? Because it would make a lot of sense.<br />
:We could add that, making sure people know it's speculation on our part and not definite. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 03:40, 29 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Terminator? ==<br />
<br />
Is really nobody seeing the Terminator Reference in this Episode?<br />
<br />
== Hoover dam? ==<br />
<br />
In the scene after the protest outside of the Travers presidential headquaters when Leela slams Bender into the wall, Bender's motives are questioned and he says "'cause they won't let me near the Hoover Dam anymore." Anyone have some insight into why? Or, is it another of Bender's lies?[[Special:Contributions/98.198.118.224|98.198.118.224]] 05:55, 30 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
I would say it has something to do with Las Vegas. It's not difficult to imagine he isn't welcome there.</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=April&diff=115002April2012-07-03T19:38:57Z<p>66.32.188.127: </p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=April<br />
|image=[[File:FarnsworthsGirlfriend.png|225px]]<br />
|type=t<br />
|gender=Female<br />
|species=[[Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|first appear={{e|4ACV16}}<br />
|voiced by=Tress MacNeille<br />
}}<br />
'''April''' is an enormous woman who spent her [[Earthican $300 Bill|$300 tax rebate]] on a radical treatment that disguised her as a much thinner person.<br />
<br />
After disguising herself to be thin, she met [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], who too was diguised, but as a young person thanks to the full pound of [[stem cells]] from [[GeneWorks, S.K.G.]]. The two met and spent the evening together, until the Professor tried to run as his stem cells wore off. She caught him, his true identity revealed, and so she revealed her true weight. They agreed it was better to know the truth, and proceeded to passionately make out.<br />
<br />
In [[3011]], she travels with the [[Planet Express]] air plane, and crash lands along with the rest of the passengers on the [[Neutopia (planet)|rock planet homeworld]]. She also served on the jury of the case of [[Mom v. Farnsworth]].<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Her name was not known until it was revealed on the [[Commentary:Neutopia|commentary]] for the episode "[[Neutopia]]".<br />
<br />
[[File:FarnsworthsGirlfriendfat.png|thumb|left|April after disclosing her true girth.]]<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''April''': It's better for us to just be ourselves. You, as wrinkled as a prune.<br />
'''Farnsworth''': You, fat as the queen of sea cows.<br />
'''April''': I love you! ''[Kisses him.]''</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|4ACV16}}<br />
*{{f|4}} ([[Audience scene|cameo]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV20}}<ref>[http://io9.com/5812331/exclusive-clip-from-futuramas-season-opener io9: Exclusive Clip from Futurama's Season Opener!]</ref><br />
*{{e|6ACV25}}<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Humans]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Scoop_Chang&diff=114985Scoop Chang2012-07-03T16:12:08Z<p>66.32.188.127: </p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Scoop Chang<br />
|image=[[File:Scoop Chang.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=<br />
|type=t<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|job=Reporter for [[Fox "News"]]<br>Online Podcast Blog Comments Editor for ''[[New New York Times]]'';<br>Reporter for ''[[Beijing Bugle]]''<br />
|first appear={{e|2ACV03}}<br />
|voice A={{es|2ACV03}}<br>{{es|4ACV05}}<br />
|voice A by=David Herman<br />
|voice B={{es|6ACV03}}<br />
|voice B by=Maurice LaMarche<br />
}}<br />
'''Scoop Chang''' is a reporter for the ''[[Beijing Bugle]]'' newspaper. While his paper is presumably published in Beijing, he is based in [[Washington D.C.]] covering political events, as [[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]]' s press conference before the [[Earth presidential election, 3000|3000 Presidential Election]] {{et|2ACV03}}, or Zoidberg biting the Earthican flag {{et|4ACV05}}. However, in "[[Attack of the Killer App]]" he can be seen on [[New New York]], covering the [[Annual e-Waste Recycling Festival]] and said to work for the ''[[New New York Times]]'' as the Online Podcast Blog Comments Editor. That Newspaper change was pointed in the [[Commentary:Attack of the Killer App|commentary]] for that episode. In [[Decision 3012]], he changed his job again, this time to "Fox Quote Unquotes News".<br />
<br />
== Image Gallery ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Scoop Chang.jpg|Scoop Chang in [[3010]] for the [[New New York Times|Times]].<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Scoop Chang''': [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]], how's about you take a bite of [[Old Freebie|the flag]] for tomorrow's papers?</poem><br />
}}<br />
<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV03}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV05}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV03}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV21}} ([[List of deleted scenes#Volume 6|deleted scene]])<br />
*{{e|7ACV03}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Humans]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=A_Clone_of_My_Own&diff=114970A Clone of My Own2012-07-03T00:27:11Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Goofs */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=A Clone of My Own<br />
|no=23<br />
|image=[[File:A Clone of My Own.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Cubert]] inside the [[Clone-O-Mat]]<br />
|season=2<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=2ACV10<br />
|caption=Coming soon to an illegal DVD<br />
|first aired=9 April, 2000<br />
|written by=Patric M. Verrone<br />
|directed by=Rich Moore<br />
|title reference=<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=''Ko-Ko Needles the Boss'' (1927)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S02E15<br />
|prev ep=A Bicyclops Built for Two<br />
|next ep=How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back<br />
|broad prev=How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back<br />
|broad next=The Deep South<br />
}}<br />
"'''A Clone of My Own'''" is twenty-third episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the tenth of the [[Season 2|second production season]] and the fifteenth of the [[Broadcast season 2|second broadcast season]]. It aired on 9 April, 2000. Having lived for 150 years, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]] is worried about his legacy and his work, and decides to create [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]], his clone. Having failed again, he admits his actual age and is captured to the [[Near Death Star]].<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "Surprise!" ===<br />
[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]] announces good news: the university is bringing him up on disciplinary charges, though this is not good news at all. When he and the [[Planet Express]] crew arrive at [[Mars University (place)|Mars University]], he discovers it's a surprise 150th [[birthday]] party. At the party, they play a video made by [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] showing the Professor's life, examples of inventions like [[Fast Cars]], [[Trendy Night Spots]] and [[Beautiful Women]] he created in his tiny apartment. The video, along with all the comments of his friends make the Professor think he's wasted his life. Leela tries to console him by saying he still has 10 years left. Only 10 years, because when old people turn 160, [[Sunset Squad Robot|Sunset Squad Robots]] take them to the [[Near Death Star]] and they never return. He decides to name a successor. After a few days in his lab, the Professor returns to announce his successor's identity. Neither [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], Leela, [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]], [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]], [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] nor [[Amy Wong|Amy]] (who is trusted the Professor's dentures) turn out to be the successor despite having thought one of them was going to be. The Professor reveals his 12-year-old clone, [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]].<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Is he dumb or just ugly?" ===<br />
Cubert is released from the [[Clone-O-Mat]]. He comes from one of the growths on Farnsworth's back. He is similar to a young Professor Farnsworth, excluding his nose, which is flattened because Farnsworth left Cubert in his first tube too long and it got squished. Cubert is instantly critical of the staff, asking them why they need a [[Bending Units|bending unit]] and why the captain has only one eye. When the Professor begins showing off his inventions like the [[Smell-O-Scope]], the [[Universal Translator]] and the [[Dark Matter Engines]] of the [[Planet Express ship]], he criticises them too, saying "It's all impossible". The Professor takes everyone to [[Elzar]]'s for dinner to celebrate Cubert being named successor, but Cubert doesn't want to be an inventor. The Professor is very sad because his hopes were broken by Cubert so he records a message for his staff, revealing he's been lying about his age. He's actually 160 and he has alerted the sunset squad to take him away. One of the robots of the sunset squad comes for Farnsworth and takes him.<br />
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=== Act III: "Why do I have to be the hump?" ===<br />
The crew and Cubert receive the message and use the Smell-O-Scope to track him down. Leela finds the Professor's odour and they mount the Smell-O-Scope to the ship. As Leela pilots the ship Fry smells to look for the Professor and they arrive at the Near Death Star. Bender and Leela disguise themselves as sunset squad robots while Fry disguises himself as the Professor. They need a sample of Farsnworth's DNA, and when Cubert says it's impossible, they get some Farnsworth's DNA from Cubert with a big syringe. They walk into the [[Barrier Bots]], Cubert is inside Fry's coat as the hump. Though still suspicious because no one can escape from the Near Death Star, the Barrier Bots take the Professor's DNA sample and confirm it's him. They give the sunset squad robots, who are actually Leela and Bender, the Professor's address. The crew fly to the interior of the Near Death star, and discover lots of old people being held by machines that get their clothes off and take them to their buildings. Fry, Bender, Leela and Cubert are in the middle of thousands of tombstones-shaped buildings, all of them with a lot of little drawers with the names of old people written on them. They open Farnsworth's drawer, and see him lying in it with tubes connected to him. They have to disconnect him carefully or the shock could kill him. However they are discovered so they run off pulling Farnsworth out. The [[Sunset Squad Chasers]] chase them in some hover-ships while shooting. Fry, Bender, Leela, Cubert and Farnsworth (still unconscious) manage to escape and enter the Planet Express ship. A Sunset Squad Chaser shoots the engines and they have to fix it quick. But the only who knows how it works is the Professor. Cubert finally wakes up after being hit by a closing door and says "nothing is impossible". He realizes the Dark Matter engines don't move the ship: the ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it. So he fixes the engines and they escape. Back at Planet Express, Farnsworth is alright and tells the crew that the Near Death Star made him think he was in [[Florida]] with the rest of the old people. Cubert decides he does want to be an inventor like his father.<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
This episode was subject to [[censorship]] by {{w|Pick TV}}.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Sep2007Calendar.JPG|thumb|September - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
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*The [[speed of light]] was increased; it is impossible to go faster than this new speed of light. However, old light waves are still at the old speed.<br />
*This is one of several episodes written by [[Patric M. Verrone]] where the title rhymes with his last name.<br />
*The Near Death Star looks ''very'' similar to the [[Infosphere]].<br />
*In the [[French language|French]] dubbing of this episode, [[German language|German]] is the "incomprehensible dead language."<br />
*During "[[A Big Piece of Garbage]]", [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]] swore he would take revenge on Professor Farnsworth, even if it took "another 100 years", but this episode shows people who are over 160 years old reside in the [[Near Death Star]], so he would only be able to do it in case he and the Professor were to be both there.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*Second reference to French being a dead language. Previously evident in the [[Space Pilot 3000|pilot]].<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The Professor's time machine echoes the design from the 1960 film of H. G. Wells' book ''The Time Machine''.<br />
*Hell's Laboratory, cited as the place of Professor Farnsworth's youth, is a joke on the neighborhood known as "Hell's Kitchen" in New York City, with 'laboratory' substituted to make it nerdier.<br />
*During the countdown to Leela's film about the Professor, [[Alien languages|one of the symbols]] looks remarkably like the 'point of origin' glyph (i.e., 'Earth') from {{w|Stargate (film)|the movie}} and {{w|Stargate SG-1|the television show}} ''Stargate''.<br />
*[[Doctor Zoidberg]] references ''{{w|Showtime at the Apollo}}'' while talking about Professor Farnsworth.<br />
*The concept of mandatory retirement based on age is taken from ''{{w|Logan's Run}}'', where 'Sandmen' similar to the Sunset Squad chase people older than 21 years of age. <br />
*''[[Star Wars]]'':<br />
**The [[Sunset Squad Chasers]] look similiar to {{sw|Darth Vader}}.<br />
**The [[Near Death Star]] parodies the {{sw|Death Star}}.<br />
**The Hologram is based on {{sw|Leia Organa Solo|Princess Leia's}} hologram in {{sw|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope}}, including looking to the side and turning off the recorder.<br />
**The high-speed chase draws from each film of the Star Wars saga: The start is based on the chase on the {{sw|Moon}} of {{sw|Endor}} in {{sw|Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi}}. The central part echoes the dramatic sorties on the surface of the Death Star in the original ''Star Wars''. The end parallels the escape from {{sw|Cloud City}} in {{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}. Some of the sequences in these scenes also may be a subtle visual reference to {{w|Star Wars (1983 video game)|the 1983 ''Star Wars'' arcade game}} developed by {{w|Atari}} and designed by Mike Hally (particularly when they quickly move up and down to avoid crashing while speeding through the interior of the Near Death Star). <br />
*Captain Muskie is based on Star Trek's Captain Pike (muskie is short for muskellunge, a member of the pike genus of fish). The distinctive wheelchair returns in [[Where No Fan has Gone Before|a later episode]].<br />
*The hookups of the elderly and their being kept in a fantasy world are reminiscent of the plight of humanity in The Matrix.<br />
**Also, the freeze-frame pan-around used just as the [[Planet Express Ship]] lifts off parodies the signature style of the Matrix.<br />
*The horror movie franchise ''{{w|A Nightmare on Elm Street}}'' and a ''{{w|Twilight Zone}} episode'' ''"{{w|Monsters are Due on Maple Street}}"'' are referenced on a street sign from The Near Death Star.<br />
*Right after Farnsworth mentions Hitler, the portal of Mars University which reads "Knowledge brings fear" is seen. A reference to concentration camp entrances which read "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work brings freedom").<br />
*Saving Hitler's brain might be a reference to the movie ''They Saved Hitler's Brain''.<br />
*In 2851, you can see a Slurm ad. Slurm is described as a medical tonic in a possible reference to the fact that Coca-Cola was initially sold as a nerve tonic.<br />
*Schrödinger's Kit-Kat Club is a reference to [[Erwin Schrödinger]]'s {{w|Schrödinger's cat}} thought experiment in [[list of physics references|quantum physics]], as well as the {{w|Kit-Cat Club}}, an [[18th century]] London literary and political group.<br />
*The scene where Zoidberg is roasting the professor is reminiscent of a scene from the ''{{w|Friends}}'' episode "{{w|The One with Barry and Mindy's Wedding}}". The character {{w|Ross Geller|Ross}} is making a toast where he is believed to be joking during his first statement (whereas the drummer makes a rim-shot), and is actually joking during the second (with no rim-shot).<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooh, suddenly you've gone too far.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Good evening, ladies and germs. ''[Rim Shot.]'' That wasn't a joke. I was talking to Dean Streptococcus.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Sorry, everyone, but need I remind you? Blood is thicker than water.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': [writing] Blood ... ''thicker'' ... water.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': I have a very dramatic announcement. So anyone with a weak heart should leave now. Goodbye.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Wait. If he's your clone, why doesn't his nose look like yours?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': I left him in his first tube too long and he got squished up against the side.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Barrierbot''': Did your hump just say something?<br />
'''Fry''': Uh ... I-I've got talking hump syndrome.<br />
'''Barrierbot''': Oh, T.H.S.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Try shocking him!<br />
'''Bender''': Your social security check is late! Stuff costs more than it used to! Young people use curse words!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sunset Squad Chaser''': ''[Crashing into the wall.]'' Ah, I'm so bad at this.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Cubert''': Dr. Zoidberg, do you even have your medical degree?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': I lost it. In a volcano.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*According to the birth dates of the Near Death Star residents, one of them (Eloise Porter) is only about 145 years old. However they aren't supposed to take anyone under 160.<br />
**It's possible that at the time she was taken, the standards may have been different as to what age people were supposed to be taken, and Farnsworth may have been lying even back then to protect himself from the [[Sunset Squad Robot|Sunset Squad]].<br />
*Cubert is supposed to be the clone of [[Professor Farnsworth]], but he seems to lack the same myopia as the Professor, even though he is 12 years old and the Professor has been shown to have worn glasses since he was 8.<br />
**However, it is possible that the Professor artificially improved Cubert's eyesight during his development stage.<br />
**Another possibility is that the Professor's poor eyesight may have been from an accident during his youth, rather than being a genetic trait.<br />
*Farnsworth said that scientists increased the speed of light. This is impossible.<br />
**This was probably intentional as a joke.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Adolf Hitler]] (mentioned)<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Adolf Hitler Shark]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Barrier Bots]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Captain Musky]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Dean Epsilon]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Dean Streptococcus]]<br />
*[[Dean Vernon]]<br />
*[[Elzar]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[First Robot Capable of Qualifying for a Boat Loan]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Sunset Squad Chasers]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Sunset Squad Robot]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom|Wernstrom]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[Kath Soucie]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]<br />
**[[Scott Vanzo]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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<div>[[File:Farnsworth promo 2.jpg|right|thumb|Professor Farnsworth himself.]]<br />
'''Farnsworth''' may refer to one of the following.<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]], an aged, eccentric inventor, founder and owner of [[Planet Express]].<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]], a clone of the Professor.<br />
*[[Farnsworth's grandmother]].<br />
*[[Farnsworth's laboratory]].<br />
*The [[device that makes anyone sound like Farnsworth]] {{et|3ACV12}}.<br />
*The [[Farnsworth Foundation]], an organisation created by the Professor for the purpose of combating [[Proposition ∞]] {{et|6ACV04}}.<br />
*''[[Homo farnsworth]]'', the "missing link" discovered by the Professor {{et|6ACV09}}.<br />
*[[Robo-Farnsworth]], a [[Robot]] equivalent of the Professor (6ACV09).<br />
*''[[Everyone v. Farnsworth]]'', the trial of the century on the [[Robo-planetoid]] according to ''[[USB Today]]'' (6ACV09).<br />
*The [[Farnsworth novelty disintegrator ray]], nothing more than a common teleporter ray {{et|6ACV11}}.<br />
*[[Farnsworth's parents]].<br />
*The [[Mom-Farnsworth conflict|Mom-Farnsworth]] [[conflict]].<br />
*The [[Mom-Farnsworth relationship|Mom-Farnsworth]] [[relationship]].<br />
*"[[The Farnsworth Parabox]]", the sixty-ninth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fifteenth of [[Season 4|the fourth production season]] and the tenth of [[Broadcast season 5|the fifth broadcast season]], aired 8 June, [[2003]] on [[Fox Network|Fox]].<br />
**[[Transcript:The Farnsworth Parabox|The transcript]] for this episode.<br />
**[[Commentary:The Farnsworth Parabox|The commentary]] for this episode.<br />
*''[[Mom v. Farnsworth]]'', a trial in which [[Mom]] accused Professor Farnsworth and Cubert Farnsworth of violating the license agreement on a [[Bending Unit]]. ([[6ACV25]])<br />
*[[Farnsworth's tennis instructor]], a person who teaches [[Farnsworth]] tennis.<br />
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<div>== Cannon ==<br />
Should this episode be considered cannon? Because technically, although it may have actually happened, no one remembers it, and it's extremely unlikely to affect anything after this episode.<br />
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Because it is not a comic, The Game, or an Anthology of Interest-esque episode and is part of the regular season, it must be considered cannon.[[Special:Contributions/98.198.118.224|98.198.118.224]] 05:47, 30 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
:I don't think that necessarily has to be true. Just because we haven't found a situation where there might be an exception doesn't mean that there can't be one. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 16:20, 1 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
::This isn't an exception; just because the events of the episode were erased due to paradox correction does not change the fact that they occurred. Even the Anthology of Interest stories, which are clearly non-canonical, contain events which are canon. -- [[User:DeepSpaceHomer|DeepSpaceHomer]] ([[User talk:DeepSpaceHomer|talk]]) 00:07, 2 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::I think that they really didn't occur; in the reality that the next episode takes on, the events of this episode other than Nixon being reelected never happened, which is the exact definition of a non-cannon episode. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 22:28, 2 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Robot Uprising ==<br />
Is the future robot uprising in this episode the same future robot uprising shown in The Late Philip J. Fry? Because it would make a lot of sense.<br />
:We could add that, making sure people know it's speculation on our part and not definite. [[Special:Contributions/66.32.188.127|66.32.188.127]] 03:40, 29 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Terminator? ==<br />
<br />
Is really nobody seeing the Terminator Reference in this Episode?<br />
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== Hoover dam? ==<br />
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In the scene after the protest outside of the Travers presidential headquaters when Leela slams Bender into the wall, Bender's motives are questioned and he says "'cause they won't let me near the Hoover Dam anymore." Anyone have some insight into why? Or, is it another of Bender's lies?[[Special:Contributions/98.198.118.224|98.198.118.224]] 05:55, 30 June 2012 (CEST)<br />
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I would say it has something to do with Las Vegas. It's not difficult to imagine he isn't welcome there.</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=A_Taste_of_Freedom&diff=114943A Taste of Freedom2012-07-01T23:47:07Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Act III: "Is it possible that all this slavery and oppression is schmutzing up our freedom lesson?" */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=A Taste of Freedom<br />
|no=59<br />
|image=[[File:A Taste of Freedom.JPG|225px]]<br />
|image text=Zoidberg is allowed to bite the flag for saving [[Earth]] from the [[Decapodians]]<br />
|season=4<br />
|broadcast season=5<br />
|number=4ACV05<br />
|caption=Or is it?<br />
|first aired=22 December, 2002<br />
|written by=Eric Horsted<br />
|directed by=James Purdum<br />
|title reference=The book of the same name by {{w|Peng Ming-min}}, about an objective observer's unwitting participation in political matters, and subsequent troubles<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=The Queen was in the Parlor (1932)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|broadcast number=S05E04<br />
|prev ep=Less than Hero<br />
|next ep=Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television<br />
|broad prev=The Route of All Evil<br />
|broad next=Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch<br />
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"'''A Taste of Freedom'''" is the fifty-ninth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fifth of the [[Season 4|fourth production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 5|fifth broadcast season]]. It aired 12 December, 2002 on FOX. In celebration of [[Freedom Day]], [[Dr. Zoidberg]] eats the [[Old Freebie|Earth flag]], for which he is sentenced to death. In retaliation, the [[Decapodians]] enslave the entire world.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Freedom, freedom, freedom, oy! Freedom, freedom, freedom, oy!" ===<br />
It is [[Freedom Day]] on [[Earth]], an the [[Planet Express crew]] are celebrating with everything that is right and proper for this occasion - like doing whatever you want or taking a hot nude group bath in the traditional [[Freedom tub]]. [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]], however, enjoys it more than everyone else, as on Earth freedom is given, but on his [[Decapod 10|home world]], people have to suffer for it. That's why he loves Earth. They all go to [[Washington DC ]] to watch the great parade, including military vehicles from [[Democratic Order of Planets|DOOP]]. When Earth President [[Richard Nixon's head]] holds the Freedom Day Speech and salutes the beloved symbol of Freedom, [[Old Freebie]], Zoidberg eats the flag in order to express the concepts behind Freedom Day. Unfortunately, the assembled [[Earthicans]] do not agree with Zoidberg's actions and Nixon's head orders Zoidberg's execution.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "I was hating Zoidberg before it was cool!" ===<br />
Zoidberg flees inside the [[Decapodians|Decapodian]] embassy and finds a safe haven there for the time being. The [[Ambassador Mervin|Ambassador]] promises Zoidberg the full support of his government. Nixon's head orders to storm the embassy, but the Planet Express crew intervene on Zoidberg's behalf claiming the freedom of expression guaranteed by the Earth's constitution. Nixon therefore takes the [[Earth v. Zoidberg|case]] to a place where the constitution doesn't mean squat - the Supreme Court. The crew find a lawyer to defend Zoidberg, [[The Waterfalls#Old Man Waterfall|Old Man Waterfall]]. The Supreme Court decides that flag eating is not protected by the constitution and orders Zoidberg to apologize, but he refuses and is thus sentenced to death. [[DOOP Army|Earth forces]], led by [[Zapp Brannigan]], begin attacking the Decapodian Embassy, whereupon the ambassador orders the [[Decapodian Army]] to attack.<br />
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=== Act III: "Is it possible that all this slavery and oppression is schmutzing up our freedom lesson?" ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Decapodian Warships.jpg|thumb|left|The Decapodians conquer Earth]]<br />
<br />
After disabling the defenses by subterfuge, the Decapodians conquer Earth, enslaving every inhabitant and forcing them to build the [[Mobile Oppression Palace]] which provides cheap oppression and begins wrecking up Washington D.C. Fry, Leela, Bender, [[Zapp Brannigan]] and [[Kif Kroker|Kif]] are preparing a counterattack with an ancient heat-seeking missile. Old Man Waterfall tries to stand up to the invaders with his precious Earth flag, but is killed, which causes Zoidberg to change sides. However, the missile cannot acquire the target as all Decapodian technology is cold-blooded. Zoidberg saves the day by setting Old Man Waterfall's Earth flag on fire and hurling it into the Mobile Oppression Palace - the missile homes in on the target and destroys the oppressive device, freeing the Earth. On a celebration to honor Zoidberg, he is allowed to take a bite out of the flag to be hoisted with the approval of Nixon's head.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*[[Harold Zoid]] appears on a Newspaper in this episode.<br />
*The episode originally featured the [[Mobile Oppression Palace]] destroying buildings. This was changed because of the 9/11 attacks.<br />
*The episode is based off the famous flag burning controversy.<br />
*The embassies in Embassy Row include these of the [[The Neutral Planet|Neutral Planet]], the '''Klingons''' (pink, because it was originally supposed to be a '''Barbie Embassy''', but it was scrapped during production, so the only indication that it is the Klingon embassy is the logo), the [[Globetrotter Homeworld]] and of [[Decapod 10]].<br />
*Richard Nixon's Head is carried around by the Secretary of Transportation, instead of the [[Headless body of Agnew]].<br />
*The woman seen talking to the young [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|John Zoidberg]] is not his birth parent, as the events of "[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]" show that they must be dead; not to mention the fact that she herself uses the phrase "if you want your parents to roll over in their graves". She may be his third, non-biological, parental figure - in "[[That's Lobstertainment!]]" he identifies himself as "Norm and Sam and Sadie's boy".<br />
*Dr. Zoidberg's dream of being a comedian was previously mentioned in "[[That's Lobstertainment!]]".<br />
*During the Curiosity Company logo, [[Bender]] can be heard saying, "Freedom!" one last time.<br />
*[[Michelle]] is in the crowd and is thrown out of the way by [[Bender]].<br />
*This episode marks the first appearance of [[Frida Waterfall]] who later becomes the leader of the [[Feministas]] in ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]''.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*When Zoidberg takes the flag from [[Old Man Waterfall]], Old Man Waterfall's fake hand is the wrong one, unless he has two fake hands.<br />
**It is most likely that every part of Old Man Waterfall's body is fake.<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
* {{e|1ACV02}}<br />
** Overweight man from the Moon seen.<br />
* {{e|2ACV02}}<br />
** The [[Neutral Planet]]'s embassy seen.<br />
* {{e|2ACV03}}<br />
** The Clinton Monument seen.<br />
** [[Scoop Chang]] jumps the gun on the rest of the press.<br />
* {{e|2ACV08}}<br />
** Bender feeds the flag to the [[Foreigner]].<br />
* {{e|2ACV17}}<br />
** Several [[Democratic Order of Planets|D.O.O.P.]] soldiers who attack the Decapodian embassy with a long pole made their first appearance in this episode.<br />
** The slogan "Don't Mess With Earth!" is trotted out for use by a jingoistic Earthican.<br />
* {{e|3ACV04}}<br />
** Fry lambastes Communists, taking after [[Yancy Fry, Sr.|his father]].<br />
* {{e|3ACV14}}<br />
** The [[Globetrotter Homeworld]] now has an embassy on Earth.<br />
* {{e|3ACV17}}<br />
** Bender, Leela and Fry used as slaves to help construct a gratuitously large alien edifice (graduating from assisting in the building of [[Osirians|Osirian]] Pharaoh [[Hamenthotep]]'s tomb to the Mobile Oppression Palace).<br />
* {{e|3ACV19}}<br />
** Zoidberg claims in court that "two of my three hearts are having attacks"; if this is the case, he was relieved of one of his four hearts while the scientists at Roswell were studying him and said organ was left in the past when the crew returned to the year 3000.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': They sure hate Dr. Zoidberg.<br />
'''Bender''': Pft. Posers! I was hating Zoidberg before it was cool.<br />
'''Fry''': Where are we ever going to find a lawyer to take his [[Earth v. Zoidberg|case]]?<br />
'''Leela''': I'll ask the head of the ACLU -- once he's done singing.<br />
'''Head of the ACLU''': [singing] Don't mess with Earth. [talking] Kill Zoidberg! Goodnight!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Yes, I'm desecrating a flag, but to preserve the freedom it represents!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Old Man Waterfall''': Do your worst, you sea devils. I'll make my stand with Old Freebie. You can crush me but you can't crush my spirit!<br />
''[The Mobile Oppression Palace crushes him.]''<br />
'''Old Man Waterfall''': Argh, my spirit!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Zoidberg, you set us free! I feel like I could stand to hug you! I can't, but you know what I'm trying to say.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Ambassador Mervin, you killed my lawyer.<br />
'''Ambassador Mervin''': You're welcome!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': He defended my freedom when no one else would. He was a good and honorable man.<br />
''Cut to the Washington DC Street''<br />
'''Old Man Waterfall''': I request a Satanic funeral.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I'm having one of those things. You know, a headache with pictures?<br />
'''Leela''': An idea?<br />
''[Fry nods.]''</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
'''Time''': 07:55<br /><br />
'''Location''': Side of Earthican Flag Company truck<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL2|AL2]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': A Venusian Corporation<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Frida Waterfall]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hugh Man]]<br />
*[[Hyper-Chicken]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Linda]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker|Kif]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Ambassador Mervin]]<br />
*[[Michelle]] ([[cameo]])<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Chief Justice Myrtle Fu]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[The Pain Monster]]<br />
*[[Old Man Waterfall]]<br />
*[[Randy Munchnik]] (cameo)<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scoop Chang]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Snoop Dogg's head]]<br />
*[[Unnamed fat guy]] (cameo)<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
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*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Horsted]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[James Purdum]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Eric Horsted]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[James Purdum]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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[[Category:Media wherein characters run away]]</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Mom_v._Farnsworth&diff=114941Mom v. Farnsworth2012-07-01T23:21:20Z<p>66.32.188.127: </p>
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<div>{{trial infobox<br />
|name = Mom v. Farnsworth and Cubert<br />
|image = [[File:Nine 6ACV25.png|225px]]<br />
|image text = [[Yellow and red lawyer]] standing in front of the jury<br />
|date = [[3011]]<br />
|location = [[Famous Original Ray's Superior Court]]<br />
|judge = [[Judge Whitey]]<br />
|accused of = Breaking the license agreement of a [[Bending Unit]]<br />
|verdict = Charges dropped<br />
|appearance = {{e|6ACV25}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Mom v. Farnsworth and Cubert''' was a case in which [[Mom]], [[Walt]], [[Larry]], and [[Igner]] accused [[Farnsworth]] and [[Cubert]] of breaking the license agreement on their [[Bending Unit]], [[Bender]]. It was held at [[Famous Original Ray's Superior Court]] with the Honourable [[Judge Whitey]] presiding. Mom's prosecution was the [[Yellow and red lawyer]], and [[Hyper-Chicken]] defended Farnsworth and Cubert.<br />
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After Yellow and red lawyer presented his evidence, Judge Whitey asked Farnsworth and Cubert if they could produce the bending unit in question, which they could not. Due to this, Judge Whitey held Farnsworth and Cubert in contempt and fined them ten-thousand dollars per-day until they could produce the robot.<br />
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After Hyper-Chicken failed to presented any mitigating factors to recommend leniency, the jury began its deliberations. However, after the deliberations began, Bender appeared as a witness, testifying on behalf of Farnsworth and Cubert. However, Yellow and red lawyer objected to this surprise witness, because "He's too surprising." Judge Whitey sustained the objection, because testimony had already closed. Afterwards, Bender let Mom overhear that the jury might not want to convict a 12 year-old. Due to this, Mom dropped the charges against Cubert before the verdict was read. Then, right before the verdict was about to be read, Bender called for a mistrial on grounds of double jeopardy, for the reason that Cubert and Farnsworth were clones, and therefor, the same person. Therefore, the case was dismissed.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Jury Members ===<br />
The members of the jury in this case were:<br />
*[[April]]<br />
*[[Jackie Anderson]]<br />
*[[Angleyne]]<br />
*[[Ben Beeler]]<br />
*[[Fishy Joe]]<br />
*[[Hoschel]]<br />
*The [[Falafel cart man]]<br />
*[[Ipji]]<br />
*[[Nine]]<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Sweet Clyde]]<br />
*[[Vyolet]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*Had the charges not been dropped, Farnsworth and Cubert would have both been found guilty and hung.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Yellow and red lawyer''': Your Honour, Mom is a poor, frail industrialist with three special sons who require constant neglect.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Ron Whitey''': Not only have the defendants failed to rebut the charges, they've not even presented any mitigating factors to recommend leniency. It strikes me as an extra-risky strategy.<br />
'''Hyper-Chicken''': Did you say "extra-crispy recipe"?<br />
'''Ron Whitey''': You know I didn't.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Yellow and red lawyer''': Your Honour, I object to this surprise witness. He's too surprising!</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|6ACV25}}</div>66.32.188.127http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Globetrotters&diff=114940Globetrotters2012-07-01T23:20:24Z<p>66.32.188.127: /* Appearances */</p>
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<div>{{group infobox<br />
|name=Globetrotters<br />
|image=[[File:Globetrotters.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=Globetrotters during the [[Battle for Earth, 3007|Battle for Earth]].<br />
|location=[[Globetrotter Homeworld]]<br />
|business=Science and Basketball<br />
|leader=[[Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate|Bubblegum]]<br />
|first appear={{e|3ACV14}}<br />
|status=Active<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Globetrotters''' are a group of tall, black, male [[Humans|Human]] basketball players that left [[Earth]] to live on the [[Globetrotter Homeworld]]. The team includes basketballers [[Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate|Bubblegum]], [["Sweet" Clyde Dixon|Sweet Clyde]], [[Curly Joe]], [[Goose]], and honorary members [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]], [[Amy Wong|Amy]], and [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]. They are also known for their skills as scientists, being among the smartest minds in [[Universe Γ|the universe]], and have [[Globetrotter University|their own university]].<br />
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== History ==<br />
The Globetrotters have done a few important things since they challenged [[Earth]] to a basketball match and helped stop the time skips ([[Time Keeps on Slippin'|3ACV14]]). Individually or not, members of the basketball team judged the [[Television|TV]] show ''[[Iron Cook]]'' ([[The 30% Iron Chef|3ACV22]]), witnessed the robbing of the [[Quantum Gemerald]] from the [[Museum of Natural History]] by the [[New Justice Team]] ([[Less than Hero|4ACV04]]), figured out the [[time travel]] pradoxicality equation, having fought in the [[Battle for Earth, 3007|Battle for Earth]] ([[Bender's Big Score|BBS]]), went out on a [[Date scene|date]] with [[Yivo]], a planet-sized monster, as did most [[Humans]] ([[The Beast with a Billion Backs|TBWABB]]), attended the [[Violet Dwarf Star Implosion]] ceremony and participated in the [[Universal Poker Championship]] ([[Into the Wild Green Yonder|ITWGY]]), helped restart the Earthican rotation after the [[Thubanians]] had stopped it ([[That Darn Katz!|6ACV08]]), solved a math problem that would allow the [[Planet Express crew]] and others to return to their original bodies ([[The Prisoner of Benda|6ACV10]]), were present at the [[100th Delivery Party]] ([[The Mutants Are Revolting|6ACV12]]), and celebrated a non-[[canon]]ical [[Kwanzaa 3010]] with the [[Conrad family]] in [[Conrad apartment|their apartment]] ([[The Futurama Holiday Spectacular|6ACV13]]).<br />
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== Known Globetrotters ==<br />
*[[Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate|Bubblegum]], basketball team member.<br />
*[["Sweet" Clyde Dixon|Sweet Clyde]], basketball team member.<br />
*[[Curly Joe]], basketball team member.<br />
*[[Goose]], basketball team member.<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], honorary member.<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]], honorary member.<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]], honorary member.<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]], honorary member. <br />
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== Image Gallery ==<br />
<gallery perrow><br />
File:GlobetrotterEmbassy.jpg|[[Globetrotter Homeworld Embassy|Their embassy]] in [[Washington D.C.]].<br />
File:GlobetrotterHomeworld.png|The [[Globetrotter Homeworld]].<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*They may be a reference to the {{w|Harlem Globetrotters}}.<br />
*It is currently unknown if there exist female Globetrotters.<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
This list does not include honorary members.<br />
*{{e|3ACV14}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV22}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV04}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV05}} (at the front of the [[Globetrotter Homeworld Embassy|embassy]])<br />
*{{f|1}}<br />
*{{f|2}} ([[Date scene|cameo]])<br />
*{{f|4}} ([[Audience scene|cameo]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV08}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV10}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV12}} (at the [[100th Delivery Party]])<br />
*{{e|6ACV13}} {{disputed canon}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV14}}<br />
*{{clink|US#046|Follow the Reader}}<br />
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[[Category:Globetrotters|*]]<br />
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