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<div>{{Television infobox<br />
|name = ''Futurama''<br />
|image = [[File:Title Screen (clean).jpg|225px]]<br />
|genre = Comedy<br />
|format = Animation<br />
|created by = [[Matt Groening]]<br />
|developed by = [[Matt Groening]] <br> [[David X. Cohen]]<br />
|origin = [[United States of America]]<br />
|first appear = <br />
|producer = [[Matt Groening]] <br> [[David X. Cohen]] <br> [[Ken Keeler]]<br />
|runtime = approx. 22 minutes (films: approx. 88 minutes)<br />
|company = [[The Curiosity Company]] <br> [[20th Century Fox|30th Century Fox]]<br />
|channel = [[20th Century Fox]] (1999–2003) <br><br />
[[Comedy Central]] (2008–present)<br />
}}<br />
{{old content}}<br />
{{update}}<br />
'''''Futurama''''' is an animated television series created by [[Matt Groening]] (creator of [[The Simpsons]]) and [[David X. Cohen]] (also a writer for The Simpsons). Set in New New York City in the 31<sup>st</sup> century, it was introduced on the Fox Network and received airplay between 28 March, 1999 and 10 August, 2003. It is currently in syndication on Comedy Central in the United States, on Teletoon in Canada, on Channel 4, Sky One, Sky Two and Sky Three in the UK, and on Fox8 and Network Ten in Australia.<br />
<br />
The series begins when [[Philip J. Fry]], a New York City slacker and pizza delivery boy, is cryogenically frozen by accident on New Year's Eve, 1999 or New Years Day, 2000 (for the first few seconds). He is defrosted one thousand years later on New Years Eve, 2999 and finds himself in [[New New York|New New York City]]. Fry thinks he has a chance at a new life, only to find himself being permanently assigned a career as a delivery boy. Fry's attempts to escape from his now-mandatory job assignment end at [[Planet Express]], a small intergalactic package delivery company run by his [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|distantly descended nephew]], where he is hired on as a delivery boy. The series covers the adventures of Fry and his colleagues as they travel around the universe making deliveries on behalf of Planet Express.<br />
<br />
== Setting ==<br />
{{main|Setting}}<br />
The setting is first and foremost a backdrop for humor, and the show is not above committing continuity errors if they serve to further the gags. The capabilities of many things (and even [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|characters]]) vary according to what is most appropriate for the situation at hand.<br />
<br />
The visually retro-futuristic world of Futurama is not a utopia but neither is it a dystopia. Unlike past cartoons like The Jetsons, which showed an efficient, clean, happy future, Futurama portrays a less idealistic view, with humans still dealing with many of the same basic problems of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. The show's vision of the future is very similar to the present in many ways: the same political figures and celebrities that we know today survive as [[:Category:Heads in Jars|heads in jars]] (a method invented by [[Ron Popeil's Head]]), television remains the primary means of [[:Category:Television|entertainment]], [[the Internet]] is still slow and filled with ads and pornography, problems such as [[global warming]] (although this was revealed to be canceled out by a nuclear winter), inflexible [[Central Bureaucracy|bureaucracy]], and substance abuse are still pressing issues. This is probably due to human civilization being wiped out and replaced twice while Fry was in stasis, along with many other events including various enslavements of humanity and nuclear wars.<br />
<br />
Race issues in 3000 are now centered around relations among [[humans]], [[Alien Species|aliens]], and [[Robot|robots]]. A common clash between the former two is alien immigration plaguing [[Earth]]. Humans find it hard to treat aliens with respect because of their differences, as is seen with the [[Decapodians]], who probably evolved from something resembling a lobster, and because of various invasions and obliterations of Earth in the past.<br />
<br />
[[File:Futurama Cast.png|thumb|The main cast of ''Futurama''.]]<br />
<br />
A specific issue on Earth is the large population of super-intelligent/super-incompetent robots (homeless robots and orphan children robots, like [[Tinny Tim]]); they are generally lazy, greedy and surly (with the exception of the sycophantic super-efficient [[Robot 1-X]]), and often unwilling to assist their human creators. Almost all robots are fueled by alcohol -based substances, leading to widespread enviromental pollution. Robots are treated as independent beings &ndash; indeed only twice in the series are robots referred to as property (in "[[The Route of All Evil]]", [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]] refers to [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] as "company property," and in "[[The 30% Iron Chef]]" the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] shouts "That's my robot! I ''own'' him!"). In fact, over the years robots have devolped their own culture, with publications, music and religon.<br />
<br />
Despite this, Futurama's world also showcases numerous technological advantages that have been developed by the year 3000. Wheels used in transportation have been made obsolete by hover technology, to the point that 31<sup>st</sup> century characters do not know what a wheel is. Among the robots, spaceships, and floating buildings, Professor Farnsworth introduced many memorable new inventions such as the [[Smell-O-Scope]], the [[What-If Machine]], and the [[Fing-Longer]]. Less inspiring 31st century innovations include coin-operated [[Suicide Booth]]s (said in the show to have been in business since 2008) [[Soylent Products|Soylent Cola]] (the taste "varies from person to person"), and [[Slurm]], the highly addictive green ooze secreted by a termite-esque Queen (revealed in "[[Fry and the Slurm Factory]]"). Slurm is advertised at every opportunity on Futurama, whether in conventional television adverts, or on giant blimps flying past in the background.<br />
<br />
Large companies hold a massive amount of power in the year 3000, in particular [[MomCorp|Mom's Friendly Robot Company]], which builds and controls almost every robot on earth. Advertising is everywhere, and people often buy products not knowing or caring what goes into them or who manufactures them &ndash; for example, the unrestrained human consumption of "[[Popplers]]" which turned out to be [[Omicronians|alien young]].<br />
<br />
Some of the show's humor comes from passing references to historical events of the past thousand years. For example, in the time that has passed, formerly endangered owls and marmosets have emerged as the primary urban [[pests]], at the expense of rats and pigeons. Los Angeles has become a wasteland, Fry mistaking it for New New York in the year 4000 after believing he had been cryogenically frozen for a further 1000 years. [[Atlanta]], after being moved to sea, sinks due to overdevelopment and becomes a "lost city" (a parody of the story of Atlantis); its residents evolve (with the help of Coca-Cola's caffeine) into mermaids. In another episode, [[Pamela Anderson's Head|Pamela Anderson]] mentions that she won an Academy Award for Baywatch: The Movie, the first ever movie to be filmed entirely in slow-motion.<br />
<br />
==Narrative Format==<br />
Futurama follows a typical animated sitcom [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_television series] structure from episode to episode. Meaning that a new viewer can watch any particular episode and know what is happening without prior knowledge of any episodes previous to it. There are certainly examples of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature) limited serialization] throughout the series in the form of character relationships like that of Fry and Leela and Kiff and Amy or continuity aspects involving the [[Nibblonian]] plan for Fry to be frozen but principally, each episode resolves itself without directly influencing the episode after.<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
The main audience of Futurama is comprised mostly of self-described "nerds". This is due in part to the fact that much of the humour on Futurama is derived from the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, and a hefty dose of Star Trek (TOS) and Twilight Zone references. In fact, several members of the [[:Category:Crew|crew]] have PhD's in these fields.<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
*[[Broadcast]]<br />
*[[Dubbing]]<br />
*[[In popular culture]]<br />
**''[[The Simpsons]]''<br />
**''[[Star Wars]]''<br />
**''[[Star Trek]]''<br />
*[[Loose ends]]<br />
*[[Opening sequence]]<br />
*[[Production]]<br />
**[[Future of Futurama]]<br />
*[[Soundtrack]]<br />
*[[Themes]]<br />
*[[Timeline]]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.slurmed.com The Futurama Point] A Futurama hub dedicated to everything Futurama.<br />
* [http://www.futuramaff.com Futurama Fan Forum] A popular Futurama forum.<br />
* [http://www.gotfuturama.com Can't Get Enough Futurama] A Futurama news page.<br />
* [http://www.planetexpressdelivery.com Planet Express Delivery] A dedicated online Futurama store.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Futurama| ]]</div>121.73.130.131http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Futurama&diff=59444Futurama2010-05-25T11:44:02Z<p>121.73.130.131: /* Narrative Format */</p>
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<div>{{Television infobox<br />
|name = ''Futurama''<br />
|image = [[File:Title Screen (clean).jpg|225px]]<br />
|genre = Comedy<br />
|format = Animation<br />
|created by = [[Matt Groening]]<br />
|developed by = [[Matt Groening]] <br> [[David X. Cohen]]<br />
|origin = [[United States of America]]<br />
|first appear = <br />
|producer = [[Matt Groening]] <br> [[David X. Cohen]] <br> [[Ken Keeler]]<br />
|runtime = approx. 22 minutes (films: approx. 88 minutes)<br />
|company = [[The Curiosity Company]] <br> [[20th Century Fox|30th Century Fox]]<br />
|channel = [[20th Century Fox]] (1999–2003) <br><br />
[[Comedy Central]] (2008–present)<br />
}}<br />
{{old content}}<br />
{{update}}<br />
'''''Futurama''''' is an animated television series created by [[Matt Groening]] (creator of [[The Simpsons]]) and [[David X. Cohen]] (also a writer for The Simpsons). Set in New New York City in the 31<sup>st</sup> century, it was introduced on the Fox Network and received airplay between 28 March, 1999 and 10 August, 2003. It is currently in syndication on Comedy Central in the United States, on Teletoon in Canada, on Channel 4, Sky One, Sky Two and Sky Three in the UK, and on Fox8 and Network Ten in Australia.<br />
<br />
The series begins when [[Philip J. Fry]], a New York City slacker and pizza delivery boy, is cryogenically frozen by accident on New Year's Eve, 1999 or New Years Day, 2000 (for the first few seconds). He is defrosted one thousand years later on New Years Eve, 2999 and finds himself in [[New New York|New New York City]]. Fry thinks he has a chance at a new life, only to find himself being permanently assigned a career as a delivery boy. Fry's attempts to escape from his now-mandatory job assignment end at [[Planet Express]], a small intergalactic package delivery company run by his [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|distantly descended nephew]], where he is hired on as a delivery boy. The series covers the adventures of Fry and his colleagues as they travel around the universe making deliveries on behalf of Planet Express.<br />
<br />
== Setting ==<br />
{{main|Setting}}<br />
The setting is first and foremost a backdrop for humor, and the show is not above committing continuity errors if they serve to further the gags. The capabilities of many things (and even [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|characters]]) vary according to what is most appropriate for the situation at hand.<br />
<br />
The visually retro-futuristic world of Futurama is not a utopia but neither is it a dystopia. Unlike past cartoons like The Jetsons, which showed an efficient, clean, happy future, Futurama portrays a less idealistic view, with humans still dealing with many of the same basic problems of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. The show's vision of the future is very similar to the present in many ways: the same political figures and celebrities that we know today survive as [[:Category:Heads in Jars|heads in jars]] (a method invented by [[Ron Popeil's Head]]), television remains the primary means of [[:Category:Television|entertainment]], [[the Internet]] is still slow and filled with ads and pornography, problems such as [[global warming]] (although this was revealed to be canceled out by a nuclear winter), inflexible [[Central Bureaucracy|bureaucracy]], and substance abuse are still pressing issues. This is probably due to human civilization being wiped out and replaced twice while Fry was in stasis, along with many other events including various enslavements of humanity and nuclear wars.<br />
<br />
Race issues in 3000 are now centered around relations among [[humans]], [[Alien Species|aliens]], and [[Robot|robots]]. A common clash between the former two is alien immigration plaguing [[Earth]]. Humans find it hard to treat aliens with respect because of their differences, as is seen with the [[Decapodians]], who probably evolved from something resembling a lobster, and because of various invasions and obliterations of Earth in the past.<br />
<br />
[[File:Futurama Cast.png|thumb|The main cast of ''Futurama''.]]<br />
<br />
A specific issue on Earth is the large population of super-intelligent/super-incompetent robots (homeless robots and orphan children robots, like [[Tinny Tim]]); they are generally lazy, greedy and surly (with the exception of the sycophantic super-efficient [[Robot 1-X]]), and often unwilling to assist their human creators. Almost all robots are fueled by alcohol -based substances, leading to widespread enviromental pollution. Robots are treated as independent beings &ndash; indeed only twice in the series are robots referred to as property (in "[[The Route of All Evil]]", [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]] refers to [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] as "company property," and in "[[The 30% Iron Chef]]" the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] shouts "That's my robot! I ''own'' him!"). In fact, over the years robots have devolped their own culture, with publications, music and religon.<br />
<br />
Despite this, Futurama's world also showcases numerous technological advantages that have been developed by the year 3000. Wheels used in transportation have been made obsolete by hover technology, to the point that 31<sup>st</sup> century characters do not know what a wheel is. Among the robots, spaceships, and floating buildings, Professor Farnsworth introduced many memorable new inventions such as the [[Smell-O-Scope]], the [[What-If Machine]], and the [[Fing-Longer]]. Less inspiring 31st century innovations include coin-operated [[Suicide Booth]]s (said in the show to have been in business since 2008) [[Soylent Products|Soylent Cola]] (the taste "varies from person to person"), and [[Slurm]], the highly addictive green ooze secreted by a termite-esque Queen (revealed in "[[Fry and the Slurm Factory]]"). Slurm is advertised at every opportunity on Futurama, whether in conventional television adverts, or on giant blimps flying past in the background.<br />
<br />
Large companies hold a massive amount of power in the year 3000, in particular [[MomCorp|Mom's Friendly Robot Company]], which builds and controls almost every robot on earth. Advertising is everywhere, and people often buy products not knowing or caring what goes into them or who manufactures them &ndash; for example, the unrestrained human consumption of "[[Popplers]]" which turned out to be [[Omicronians|alien young]].<br />
<br />
Some of the show's humor comes from passing references to historical events of the past thousand years. For example, in the time that has passed, formerly endangered owls and marmosets have emerged as the primary urban [[pests]], at the expense of rats and pigeons. Los Angeles has become a wasteland, Fry mistaking it for New New York in the year 4000 after believing he had been cryogenically frozen for a further 1000 years. [[Atlanta]], after being moved to sea, sinks due to overdevelopment and becomes a "lost city" (a parody of the story of Atlantis); its residents evolve (with the help of Coca-Cola's caffeine) into mermaids. In another episode, [[Pamela Anderson's Head|Pamela Anderson]] mentions that she won an Academy Award for Baywatch: The Movie, the first ever movie to be filmed entirely in slow-motion.<br />
<br />
==Narrative Format==<br />
Futurama follows a typical animated sitcom [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_television series] structure from episode to episode. Meaning that a new viewer can watch any particular episode and know what is happening without prior knowledge of any episodes previous to it. There are certainly examples of [limited serialization] throughout the series in the form of character relationships like that of Fry and Leela and Kiff and Amy or continuity aspects involving the [[Nibblonian]] plan for Fry to be frozen but principally, each episode resolves itself without directly influencing the episode after.<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
The main audience of Futurama is comprised mostly of self-described "nerds". This is due in part to the fact that much of the humour on Futurama is derived from the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, and a hefty dose of Star Trek (TOS) and Twilight Zone references. In fact, several members of the [[:Category:Crew|crew]] have PhD's in these fields.<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
*[[Broadcast]]<br />
*[[Dubbing]]<br />
*[[In popular culture]]<br />
**''[[The Simpsons]]''<br />
**''[[Star Wars]]''<br />
**''[[Star Trek]]''<br />
*[[Loose ends]]<br />
*[[Opening sequence]]<br />
*[[Production]]<br />
**[[Future of Futurama]]<br />
*[[Soundtrack]]<br />
*[[Themes]]<br />
*[[Timeline]]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.slurmed.com The Futurama Point] A Futurama hub dedicated to everything Futurama.<br />
* [http://www.futuramaff.com Futurama Fan Forum] A popular Futurama forum.<br />
* [http://www.gotfuturama.com Can't Get Enough Futurama] A Futurama news page.<br />
* [http://www.planetexpressdelivery.com Planet Express Delivery] A dedicated online Futurama store.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Futurama| ]]</div>121.73.130.131http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Futurama&diff=59441Futurama2010-05-25T11:40:16Z<p>121.73.130.131: </p>
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<div>{{Television infobox<br />
|name = ''Futurama''<br />
|image = [[File:Title Screen (clean).jpg|225px]]<br />
|genre = Comedy<br />
|format = Animation<br />
|created by = [[Matt Groening]]<br />
|developed by = [[Matt Groening]] <br> [[David X. Cohen]]<br />
|origin = [[United States of America]]<br />
|first appear = <br />
|producer = [[Matt Groening]] <br> [[David X. Cohen]] <br> [[Ken Keeler]]<br />
|runtime = approx. 22 minutes (films: approx. 88 minutes)<br />
|company = [[The Curiosity Company]] <br> [[20th Century Fox|30th Century Fox]]<br />
|channel = [[20th Century Fox]] (1999–2003) <br><br />
[[Comedy Central]] (2008–present)<br />
}}<br />
{{old content}}<br />
{{update}}<br />
'''''Futurama''''' is an animated television series created by [[Matt Groening]] (creator of [[The Simpsons]]) and [[David X. Cohen]] (also a writer for The Simpsons). Set in New New York City in the 31<sup>st</sup> century, it was introduced on the Fox Network and received airplay between 28 March, 1999 and 10 August, 2003. It is currently in syndication on Comedy Central in the United States, on Teletoon in Canada, on Channel 4, Sky One, Sky Two and Sky Three in the UK, and on Fox8 and Network Ten in Australia.<br />
<br />
The series begins when [[Philip J. Fry]], a New York City slacker and pizza delivery boy, is cryogenically frozen by accident on New Year's Eve, 1999 or New Years Day, 2000 (for the first few seconds). He is defrosted one thousand years later on New Years Eve, 2999 and finds himself in [[New New York|New New York City]]. Fry thinks he has a chance at a new life, only to find himself being permanently assigned a career as a delivery boy. Fry's attempts to escape from his now-mandatory job assignment end at [[Planet Express]], a small intergalactic package delivery company run by his [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|distantly descended nephew]], where he is hired on as a delivery boy. The series covers the adventures of Fry and his colleagues as they travel around the universe making deliveries on behalf of Planet Express.<br />
<br />
== Setting ==<br />
{{main|Setting}}<br />
The setting is first and foremost a backdrop for humor, and the show is not above committing continuity errors if they serve to further the gags. The capabilities of many things (and even [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|characters]]) vary according to what is most appropriate for the situation at hand.<br />
<br />
The visually retro-futuristic world of Futurama is not a utopia but neither is it a dystopia. Unlike past cartoons like The Jetsons, which showed an efficient, clean, happy future, Futurama portrays a less idealistic view, with humans still dealing with many of the same basic problems of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. The show's vision of the future is very similar to the present in many ways: the same political figures and celebrities that we know today survive as [[:Category:Heads in Jars|heads in jars]] (a method invented by [[Ron Popeil's Head]]), television remains the primary means of [[:Category:Television|entertainment]], [[the Internet]] is still slow and filled with ads and pornography, problems such as [[global warming]] (although this was revealed to be canceled out by a nuclear winter), inflexible [[Central Bureaucracy|bureaucracy]], and substance abuse are still pressing issues. This is probably due to human civilization being wiped out and replaced twice while Fry was in stasis, along with many other events including various enslavements of humanity and nuclear wars.<br />
<br />
Race issues in 3000 are now centered around relations among [[humans]], [[Alien Species|aliens]], and [[Robot|robots]]. A common clash between the former two is alien immigration plaguing [[Earth]]. Humans find it hard to treat aliens with respect because of their differences, as is seen with the [[Decapodians]], who probably evolved from something resembling a lobster, and because of various invasions and obliterations of Earth in the past.<br />
<br />
[[File:Futurama Cast.png|thumb|The main cast of ''Futurama''.]]<br />
<br />
A specific issue on Earth is the large population of super-intelligent/super-incompetent robots (homeless robots and orphan children robots, like [[Tinny Tim]]); they are generally lazy, greedy and surly (with the exception of the sycophantic super-efficient [[Robot 1-X]]), and often unwilling to assist their human creators. Almost all robots are fueled by alcohol -based substances, leading to widespread enviromental pollution. Robots are treated as independent beings &ndash; indeed only twice in the series are robots referred to as property (in "[[The Route of All Evil]]", [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]] refers to [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] as "company property," and in "[[The 30% Iron Chef]]" the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] shouts "That's my robot! I ''own'' him!"). In fact, over the years robots have devolped their own culture, with publications, music and religon.<br />
<br />
Despite this, Futurama's world also showcases numerous technological advantages that have been developed by the year 3000. Wheels used in transportation have been made obsolete by hover technology, to the point that 31<sup>st</sup> century characters do not know what a wheel is. Among the robots, spaceships, and floating buildings, Professor Farnsworth introduced many memorable new inventions such as the [[Smell-O-Scope]], the [[What-If Machine]], and the [[Fing-Longer]]. Less inspiring 31st century innovations include coin-operated [[Suicide Booth]]s (said in the show to have been in business since 2008) [[Soylent Products|Soylent Cola]] (the taste "varies from person to person"), and [[Slurm]], the highly addictive green ooze secreted by a termite-esque Queen (revealed in "[[Fry and the Slurm Factory]]"). Slurm is advertised at every opportunity on Futurama, whether in conventional television adverts, or on giant blimps flying past in the background.<br />
<br />
Large companies hold a massive amount of power in the year 3000, in particular [[MomCorp|Mom's Friendly Robot Company]], which builds and controls almost every robot on earth. Advertising is everywhere, and people often buy products not knowing or caring what goes into them or who manufactures them &ndash; for example, the unrestrained human consumption of "[[Popplers]]" which turned out to be [[Omicronians|alien young]].<br />
<br />
Some of the show's humor comes from passing references to historical events of the past thousand years. For example, in the time that has passed, formerly endangered owls and marmosets have emerged as the primary urban [[pests]], at the expense of rats and pigeons. Los Angeles has become a wasteland, Fry mistaking it for New New York in the year 4000 after believing he had been cryogenically frozen for a further 1000 years. [[Atlanta]], after being moved to sea, sinks due to overdevelopment and becomes a "lost city" (a parody of the story of Atlantis); its residents evolve (with the help of Coca-Cola's caffeine) into mermaids. In another episode, [[Pamela Anderson's Head|Pamela Anderson]] mentions that she won an Academy Award for Baywatch: The Movie, the first ever movie to be filmed entirely in slow-motion.<br />
<br />
==Narrative Format==<br />
Futurama follows a typical animated sitcom [series] structure from episode to episode. Meaning that a new viewer can watch any particular episode and know what is happening without prior knowledge of any episodes previous to it. There are certainly examples of [limited serialization] throughout the series in the form of character relationships like that of Fry and Leela and Kiff and Amy or continuity aspects involving the [[Nibblonian]] plan for Fry to be frozen but principally, each episode resolves itself without directly influencing the episode after.<br />
<br />
== Appeal ==<br />
The main audience of Futurama is comprised mostly of self-described "nerds". This is due in part to the fact that much of the humour on Futurama is derived from the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, and a hefty dose of Star Trek (TOS) and Twilight Zone references. In fact, several members of the [[:Category:Crew|crew]] have PhD's in these fields.<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
*[[Broadcast]]<br />
*[[Dubbing]]<br />
*[[In popular culture]]<br />
**''[[The Simpsons]]''<br />
**''[[Star Wars]]''<br />
**''[[Star Trek]]''<br />
*[[Loose ends]]<br />
*[[Opening sequence]]<br />
*[[Production]]<br />
**[[Future of Futurama]]<br />
*[[Soundtrack]]<br />
*[[Themes]]<br />
*[[Timeline]]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.slurmed.com The Futurama Point] A Futurama hub dedicated to everything Futurama.<br />
* [http://www.futuramaff.com Futurama Fan Forum] A popular Futurama forum.<br />
* [http://www.gotfuturama.com Can't Get Enough Futurama] A Futurama news page.<br />
* [http://www.planetexpressdelivery.com Planet Express Delivery] A dedicated online Futurama store.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Futurama| ]]</div>121.73.130.131http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Why_of_Fry&diff=59438The Why of Fry2010-05-25T11:24:03Z<p>121.73.130.131: /* Goofs */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=The Why of Fry<br />
|no=64<br />
|image=[[File:The Why of Fry.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=4<br />
|broadcast season=5<br />
|number=4ACV10<br />
|caption=Dancing space potatoes? You bet!<br />
|first aired=6 April, 2003<br />
|written by=David X. Cohen<br />
|directed by=Wes Archer<br />
|title reference=<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|special guest=[[Bob Odenkirk]]<br />[[Frank Welker]]<br />
|broadcast number=S05E08<br />
|special guest=[[Bob Odenkirk]]<br />
|prev ep=Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles<br />
|next ep=Where No Fan Has Gone Before<br />
|broad prev=<br />
|broad next=The Sting<br />
}}<br />
"'''The Why of Fry'''" is the sixty-fourth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the tenth of the [[Season 4|fourth production season]] and the eighth of the [[Broadcast season 5|fifth broadcast season]]. It aired 6 April, 2003 on FOX. It guest stars [[Bob Odenkirk]] as [[Chaz]].<br />
<br />
The [[Brain Spawn]] are at it again (destroying the universe), and only [[Philip J. Fry]] can stop them. [[Nibbler]] brings Fry to [[the Infosphere]], where the brains intend to learn every fact in the universe, and then destroy it so there is nothing more to learn. Inside Fry finds out that his trip to the future was not so accidental.<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I: "Without me, there IS no mission!" ===<br />
[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] is disappointed because [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] went on a mission without him (and without his services as Delivery Boy), and because Leela is going out with another man - [[Chaz]], the Mayor's aide. Fry is down in the dumps because he thinks himself unimportant. Meanwhile, Leela and Chaz are going to [[Elzar's Fine Cuisine]], where Chaz manages to get a table without a reservation - Leela is genuinely impressed. Fry has adjourned to [[O'Zorgnax Pub]] to drown his depression in alcohol, however, Leela and Chaz enter and Leela tells him she may not make it back to her appartment tonight, and she needs him to walk [[Nibbler]]. Fry gets fined as Nibbler unloads a pile of [[Dark Matter]] on the sidewalk, just in time for Chaz to make a showy appearance in his car with Leela. Nibbler, however, reveals his intelligence to Fry and takes him to his spaceship, both leave [[Earth]] and head for [[Planet Eternium]] where the [[Nibblonians|Nibblonian]] Council informs Fry that he is the most important person in the universe, for the fate of the universe rests with him.<br />
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=== Act II: "Now it's personal!" ===<br />
Fry is told that due to his lack of the [[Delta Brain Wave]], caused by a genetic anomaly because [[Roswell That Ends Well|he is his own grandfather]], he is immune to the attacks of the [[Brain Spawn]] and therefore the only hope of the universe. The Brains have constructed the [[The Infosphere|Infosphere]], a monstrous memory bank that contains all information in the universe. Once they have acquired all information, they will make sure that there is no new information by destroying the universe. Fry is to infiltrate the Infosphere and plant a [[Quantum Interphase Bomb]] inside that will blast the sphere into an alternate universe from which there is no return, then escape the blast on a [[Scooty-Puff|Scooty-Puff, jr.]] ''(Who's ready for safe fun?)'', a clockwork-powered scooter. As the Infosphere opens itself for a final self-scan, Fry can enter the structure undetected as the Brains cannot perceive him because of his special thought processes. Fry plants the bomb, but hesitates to trigger it as he wants some answers on intriguing questions, like what postal stamp glue is made of (toad mucus) and what really killed the dinosaurs (the giant brain at the center of the sphere). The unauthorized access triggers the alarm, and as Fry tries to make his getaway, the scooter breaks. The brains become aware of his presence, among them the [[The Big Brain|Big Brain]]. Fry now triggers the bomb, leaving sixty seconds to detonation. Fry is pleased that he is helping good triumph over evil, or so he thinks. The brains in turn show him [[Nibbler's shadow|what really happened]] on the night of 31 December, 1999 when Fry got frozen (after some confusion between him and a Phillip J. Fry from Hovering Squid World 97A) - Nibbler gave Fry's chair a push so he fell into the cryogenic tube. Fry is furious with the Nibblonians for wrecking his past life, but before they can elaborate on the subject, the bomb goes off and transfers the Infosphere to the alternate universe.<br />
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=== Act III: "Here I come, future!" ===<br />
The Brains think of a way for Fry to return to 31 December 1999, so he can prevent Nibbler from shoving him into the tube and thus stop the Nibblonians from thwarting the Brain's plan to understand and destroy the universe. Meanwhile, Chaz has taken Leela to the [[New New York#Rocket Skating Rink|Rocket Skating Rink]] that he has reserved just for them - impressing her once more. But the reservation means that the orphans from the [[Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium]] can't take their turn on the rocket skating rink as planned and are missing out. Leela asks Chaz if the orphans can join them, but he refuses as he wants to impress her with his amazing influence. This leaves Leela extremely testy, and she makes him eat his own badge - the romance is over. Fry is transferred by the Brain Spawn to [[Old New York]], to the night he was frozen, where Nibbler is then busy ordering a pizza as [[I. C. Wiener]] at [[Panucci's Pizza]] to the address of [[Applied Cryogenics]]. Fry materializes behind Nibbler under the desk his other self is sitting at and seizes him, telling him what brought him there. Nibbler explains that he did not come back in time, and that Fry is needed in a thousand years time, and that the Nibblonians were afraid he might refuse being frozen. Fry, on the other hand, loves the future and has nothing against being frozen, but is still mad because he does not like being used. Nibbler now tells Fry what happens now is his choice, and asks Fry if there is nothing in the future that he wants, and Fry answers that it is Leela - but that she doesn't think much of him. Nibbler thinks she may be the [[The Other One|Other]], and tells Fry not to give up on her - he offers his help in the matter. Fry is now left to choose between saving himself or the universe - and Leela. He makes his decision and tips the chair his other self is sitting on, sending him into the [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|cryogenic tube]] - the future is saved... unfortunately, it means he's going back to the other Universe and the Infosphere. Fry has just enough time to say that Scooty-Puff, Jr. sucks before he fades - and so, a thousand years later, Fry manages to escape the vanishing Infosphere on the [[Scooty-Puff|Scooty-Puff, Sr.]] ''(The Doom-Bringer)''. Nibbler brings Fry back to Earth and then deletes his memory of the incident to maintain his cover. Before that, he gives Fry a flower that he in turn gives to Leela, and for a moment, she is happy to see him, although he is not the most important person in the universe. As she gives him a kiss, Fry's final utterance is "YES!"<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*This episode is one of two episodes that do not feature [[Professor Farnsworth]], the other being {{e|4ACV11}}.<br />
*The idea of this episode had been planned from before the show started.<br />
**The connection to "Roswell that Ends Well" was not part of the original plan.<br />
*Guest star Bob Odenkirk is the brother of Futurama writer [[Bill Odenkirk]]<br />
*The last three bits of information seen going into the Infosphere are "Beavers mate for life", "11 > 4" and "For Quality Carpets, Visit Kaplan's Carpet Warehouse". <br />
Kaplan is the last name of Eric Kaplan who is a writer for Futurama.<br />
*This episode was named #20 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p1.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #6 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 />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Ken''': Does he not know?<br />
'''Nibbler''': He does not know.<br />
'''Fiona''': He knows not?<br />
'''Nibbler''': Knows not does he.<br />
'''Male Nibblonian 2''': Not he knows?<br />
'''Ken''': Enough!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I did do the nasty in the pasty.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nibbler''': Quite possible. We live long and are celebrated poopers. You will meet me when I'm a thousand years older.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Big Brain''': Detecting trace amounts of mental activity. Possibly a dead weasel or a cartoon viewer.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nibbler''': Yes, incidentally, I need to remain undercover so I'm blanking your memory.<br />
'''Fry''': ''[After his memory is erased by Nibbler.]'' Hmm, did everything just taste purple for a second? All right, c'mon, you dumb poop machine.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Infosphere''': ''[Scanning info.]'' Beavers mate for life. 11 greater than 4. For quality carpets visit Caplan's carpet warehouse!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Is it true that postage stamps are made of&ndash;<br />
'''Infosphere''': Correct, toad mucus!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': What really killed the Dinosours?<br />
'''Infosphere''': MEEEEEE! ''[The Giant Brain is seen blasting dinosaurs to death with its ray blasts.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Infosphere''': Clarification request. Are you the Philip J. Fry of Earth, or the Philip J. Fry of Hovering Squid World 97A?<br />
'''Big Brain''': Earth, you fat idiot! Hurry up!</poem><br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV01}}<br />
**We get a lot of flashbacks from this episode, and [[Nibbler's shadow|the shadow]] from this episode is explained.<br />
*{{e|1ACV04}}<br />
**Nibbler mentions he will be stationed on [[Vergon 6]], where they will meet in the future.<br />
*{{e|2ACV16}}<br />
**"The Why of Fry", along with "Roswell that Ends Well" explains why the universe was destroyed in this episode. Had Fry not been frozen because of his future self, it would create a paradox and destroy the [[Timeline of Futurama|timeline]].<br />
*{{e|2ACV17}}<br />
**Using a wind-up toy to fight enemy forces.<br />
*{{e|3ACV07}}<br />
**Nibbler asks Fry if he can remember when he defeated the Brainspawn.<br />
*{{e|3ACV19}}<br />
**Nibbler mentions that Fry is his own grandfather.<br />
*{{e|4ACV07}}<br />
**In this episode, we see two shadows knocking Fry into the tube during a flashback, we get the explanation for the extra shadow in the current episode.<br />
**A shot of Nibbler's third eye sticking out of a trash can is included as a reference to these events as well, an item which many fans had noticed.<br />
*{{e|4ACV09}}<br />
**The toy in the bag Zoidberg hands Fry looks a lot like the cat on the back of Leela's backpack in this episode.<br />
*{{f|4}}<br />
**When the commune tells Fry that the fate of the universe depends on him he says "Yeah, I get that a lot", there is also mention of how he lacks a delta brain wave.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*Amy reads the book "[[Martians]] are from [[Mars]], [[Venusians]] are from [[Venus]]", an allusion to [[wikipedia:Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus|Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus]].<br />
*The song [[wikipedia:Insane in the Brain|Insane in the Brain]] by [[wikipedia:Cypress Hill|Cypress Hill]] is referenced to by one of the Brain Spawn with "are you insane in the membrane?" <br />
*The flashing light Nibbler uses to erase Fry's memory is a reference to the movie [[wikipedia:Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]. Specifically, it is an allusion to the Neuralyzer.<br />
*After having his memory erased, Fry asks "Did everything just taste purple for a second?" This is a reference to [[wikipedia:Synesthesia|synesthesia]], a neurological condition that is characterized by the mixing of sensory input. Fry does this once before, when he smells the color blue flowing out of the microwave in "Roswell That Ends Well".<br />
*The giant brain within the Infosphere bears a high resemblance to the final boss from [[wikipedia:Gradius|Gradius]].<br />
*In the book [[wikipedia:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] by Douglas Adams, there's an flashback which tells of a very old race. These people built a giant computer called [[wikipedia:List_of_minor_characters_from_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Deep_Thought|"Deep Thought"]] just to finally get an answer to [[wikipedia:Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything#Answer_to_Life.2C_the_Universe.2C_and_Everything_.2842.29|The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything]].<br />
*[[starwars:Star Wars|Star Wars]]:<br />
**The Infosphere resembles the [[starwars:Death Star|Death Star]] from Star Wars.<br />
**The mission to destroy the Infosphere (and destruction of it) is reminiscent of the mission to destroy the Death Star.<br />
**[[Nibbler]] states ''maybe she is the other'' in reference to [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], however nothing more about this statement is explained. It is likely it is a reference to [[starwars:Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi|Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi]] where [[starwars:Yoda|Yoda]] mentions that ''there is another'' which too is never explained. While never explained, it is likely to assume he is referring to [[starwars:Leia Organa Solo|Princess Leia]], however, it is doubtful that the writers of ''Futurama'' are trying to suggest that [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and Leela are siblings.<br />
**Nibbler also says "Knows not does he!" Again, this seems to be a reference to Yoda messing up grammatical structures in Star Wars movies.<br />
*When the Big Brain explains how Fry can return to the past, a [[wikipedia:Light cone|light cone]] diagram is shown on the display, used in [[wikipedia:General relativity|general relativity]] to illustrate the past and future boundaries of an event.<br />
*When the Nibblonians are telling Fry that he is very important, Fry incredulously asks "So the way I feel when I'm drunk is correct?". The Nibblonians reply: "Yes, except that the [[wikipedia:Dave Matthews Band|Dave Matthews Band]] doesn't rock".<br />
*The rocket skates are slightly reminiscient of the ACME rocket skates [[wikipedia:Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner|Wile E. Coyote]] always buys.<br />
*"There are guys in the background of [[wikipedia:Mary Worth (comics)|Mary Worth comics]] that are more important than me." <br />
*After Fry, the Brainspawn and the Infosphere are trapped in the alternate universe, one of the brains mentions that they could spend the rest of eternity singing [[wikipedia:American Pie|American Pie]]; the full version of the song lasts over eight minutes.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Albert is missing from the group of [[Orphans]].<br />
**There are many reasons why Albert could be missing from the [[Orphans]], he could have been adopted or alternatively he could simply not like rocket skating<br />
*The Infosphere apparently scans all knowledge in a sequential way. One knowledge chunk is "11 > 4". There are unlimited pairs like that, so technically the scan could never be completed.<br />
*When Fry and Nibbler were in the past (31 December 1999), and under the table, they were talking at normal volume so the Fry in the past sitting in the desks chair would obviously have heard them.<br />
*When the Nibblonian ship approaches the Infosphere, the female niblonian is on the left hand side (from viewer's perspective) and then when the camera goes into the ship, she and Lord Nibbler have swapped places, she is now on the right.<br />
*The light in Applied Cryogenics change during the scene. When Future-fry emerge and grabs Nibbler all shadows indicate the only light source is directly above the table. When the countdown on the clock begin the light source is between the table and the cryogenics tube, and finally when past-Fry tumbles over there's an incredible powerful light source at the entrance door.<br />
*In "Jurassic Bark", we see a Nibblonian eye-stalk in the trash bin, yet in this episode Nibbler is under the desk all the time.<br />
*When Fry enters the Nibblonian Hall, his jacket is done up, then next shot it is undone again. He would not have had time to undo it.<br />
*When Fry is flying into the Infosphere, there's a shot of him looking down at his wrist communicator and he isn't wearing a glove. Every other shot shows he is.<br />
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*When Fry goes back in time and lets Nibbler freeze him, Nibbler says that he will get a transfer to Earth to help Fry in 1000 years. However, because Nibbler is on Earth the whole series, (we presume that being on Vergon 6 was simply a ploy to get close to Fry), that means that Fry has always been going back in time. Simply because Nibbler is with Fry means that Fry went back in time, so he SHOULD have given Fry the Scooty Puff Sr. in the first place.<br />
*Because Fry tells Nibbler that Scooty Puff Jr.s suck, Fry doesn't end up getting trapped in the Infosphere. Because of this, Fry wouldn't be able to go back in time and tell Nibler that Scooty Puff Jr.s suck, and he WOULD get stuck in the Infosphere. Then, because he got stuck in the Infosphere, he WOULD go back in time... etc. This creates a paradox.<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
'''Time''': 06:49<br /><br />
'''Location''': Great Hall of [[Planet Eternium]] (pillars on either side)<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL2|AL2]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': ''Fuzzy Wuzzy''<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[The Big Brain]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Chaz]]<br />
*[[Elzar]]<br />
*[[Fiona]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Ken]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Narrator]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]]<br />
*[[Smitty and URL]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Trash Can]]<br />
*[[Warden Vogel]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Wes Archer]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Frank Welker]]<br />
**[[Bob Odenkirk]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Wes Archer]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*Special Guest<br />
**[[Frank Welker]]<br />
**[[Bob Odenkirk]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|season=4<br />
|broadcast season=5<br />
|number=4ACV16<br />
|caption=Voted "Best"<br />
|first aired=15 June, 2003<br />
|written by=Eric Kaplan<br />
|directed by=Swinton O. Scott III<br />
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|broadcast number=S05E11<br />
|special guest=[[Roseanne Barr's hologram|Roseanne Barr]]<br />
|prev ep=The Farnsworth Parabox<br />
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"'''Three Hundred Big Boys'''" is the seventieth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the sixteenth of the [[Season 4|fourth production season]] and the eleventh of the [[Broadcast season 5|fifth broadcast season]]. It aired 15 June, 2003 on FOX. It guest stars [[Roseanne Barr's hologram|Roseanne Barr]] as hologram version of herself. [[Richard Nixon's head|Richard Nixon]] is distributing 300 dollars to every citizen after profitable war, the [[Planet Express]] crew, among others, are out to find ways to spend these extra money.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "I've sent you each 300 buckaroos in the form of a Tricky Dick Fun Bill! Knock yourselves out!" ===<br />
Zapp Brannigan has led [[Earth]] forces to victory over the 'weak and woman-like' [[Spiderians]] of [[Tarantulon 6]] and seized plenty of spoils: one trillion dollars in silk and treasure. [[Richard Nixon's head]] decides to refund the surplus to the taxpayers, meaning that every citizen of Earth gets [[Nixon $300 Bill|three hundred dollars]]. The crew have already acquired their shiny new $300 bills and now wonder what to do with them. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] decides to swim with a whale, while [[Scruffy]] gets a $300 haircut as his current one has lost its "pizzazz." [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] wants to live like a rich man, while [[Fry]] decides to blow it all on a hundred cups of coffee. Brannigan calls to invite the crew to a special reception and display of the National Silk Surplus. All of [[New New York]] is celebrating the newly aquired riches, while [[Kif]] and [[Amy]] enjoy a ride on a paddle plane Kif rented with his tax rebate. Amy has spent her money on a [[Talking Tattoo|talking tattoo]] on her upper right arm. Meanwhile, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] visits [[New New York#GeneWorks, S.K.G.|GeneWorks, S.K.G.]] to acquire one pound of stem cells to fight his ageing process, but the effects will be temporary. <br />
At the same time, [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] visits [[New New York#Hacking Jack's Fine Smokables|Hacking Jack's Fine Smokables]] in search of the ultimate smoke and feasts his eyes on the [[Products#Le Grand Cigar|Le Grand Cigar]]. Unfortunately it costs $10.000, and Bender gets a few burglar's tools for $300 instead for later use. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] has bought his son [[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]] a set of ''[[Products#Bamboo Boogie Boots|Bamboo Boogie Boot]]'', a kind of powered stilts, which Dwight is not too happy with. Hermes demonstrates them and loses control, and Dwight tries to save his father but is stuck up the stilts with him, and the two of them roam the city completely out of control. <br />
[[File:$300 bill.jpg|left|thumb|$300 bill]]<br />
The Professor leaves GeneWorks looking somewhat younger and instantly falls for a [[Farnsworth's Girlfriend|young lady dressed in leather]], while Zoidberg is looking into diamonds but can't understand what people like in shiny pebbles. Leela has reached the aquarium and is booking a swim with [[Mushu]], the pygmy sperm whale, while Fry is on his second cup of coffee (whale size) at ''Starfishbucks Coffee ''. Kif presents Amy with a special gift, a watch that has two sets of hands to show the time wherever Kif and Amy are. As she leans to greet Fry and Leela she sees passing underneath, the paddle plane swerves out of control and the watch falls into the pool of Mushu, who swallows it.<br />
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=== Act II: "Come on, Mushu! Barf! Barf like a freshman!" ===<br />
Kif is down in the dumps, but Leela and Scruffy have an idea to recover the watch. Fry, Leela, Kif and Amy visit [[Elzar's Fine Cuisine]] (Fry being at cup #31), and Leela sneaks into the kitchen and pulls the plug of Elzar's fresh fish freezer. At the same time, the Professor and his newly aquired love share a table at the same restaurant (she believes he's 25), and Zoidberg is not happy with Paté de Foie Gras and caviar and refuses to pay. Meanwhile, Bender is breaking into Hacking Jack's to steal the Grand Cigar, but is spotted by a surveilance camera and [[Smitty and URL]] take up the hunt. The next morning, [[Elzar]] disposes of the now rotten fish into the nearest dumpster, where it is eagerly awaited by Leela, Amy and Kif. Bender is now hanging out at [[New New York#Guadalajara Brown Drip Gourmet Coffee|Guadalajara Brown Drip Gourmet Coffee]] with Fry (now at cup #52) and showing strong signs of caffeine intoxication. Leela is having her meeting with Mushu and has stuffed her swimsuit full of rotten fish to make Mushu first eat it and then barf, freeing Amy's watch. Everything goes as planned, but as Mushu turns out to be rather hungry, Leela ends up minus a swimsuit and has to aquire a makeshift dress made from a warning banner. Zoidberg is trying to play golf like rich people do, but finds it unsatisfactory, partly because the golf clubs can't resist his claws and the golf balls are tasteless. Leela's plan works out and Mushu barfs bigtime, releasing both the watch and Leela's swimsuit. Kif dives into the pool and gets covered all in whale vomit, but retrieves the watch. However, the [[Whale Biologist]] sends [[Smitty]] and [[URL]] to arrest him because he has got aquarium property, which works in Bender's favour by allowing him to escape, as Smitty and URL were after him for the cigar heist.<br />
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=== Act III: "The loot! The loot!! The loot is on fire!!!" ===<br />
The reception at the presentation of the National Silk Surplus is going quite well. All of the high society attendees, including Richard Nixon's head, Zapp Brannigan, [[Mom]] and [[Walt, Larry and Igner|her sons]], [[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]] and a lot of other celibrities and important persons.<br />
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Zoidberg tries to aquire one of the tapistries, but finds it overpriced at $1 billion. He realizes that even with $300 he is still desperately poor and that money brought him no happiness. Fry has arrived at cup #99 and is shaking uncontrollably, and Bender deems the time has come for the lighting of the Grand Cigar. Amy is sad because Kif is in jail, and Scruffy is trying to comfort her. Meanwhile, in [[New New York#Commander Riker's Island Jail|Commander Riker's Island Jail]], Kif is told that he is not imprisoned for taking the watch but for being covered in ambergris, a precious substance found in the digestive tract of the sperm whale and used to make perfume. As he is covered in the stuff, Kif sheds his skin and rushes to join the reception. He even brings Amy a flagon full of ambergris, which she embraces at once.<br />
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The Professor's stem cells lose their youthesizing power, and he reverts to an old man. He finds that his love has used her tax rebate to enhance her looks a bit too, as she is "fat as the queen of sea cows" (Farnsworths words). The two of them resume making out, as they now know the other's true looks. Hermes and Dwight, still on the Bamboo Boogie Boots, crash the reception, and in the process the Grand Cigar sets fire to the precious silks.<br />
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Everyone is in mortal danger, but Fry doesn't notice as all he can think about is coffee. He drinks his 100th cup. Suddenly, time freezes for Fry, as he reaches a stage of coffee-fueled enlightenment. He can move so fast that he cannot be seen except as a blur. He manages to save everyone at the reception and extinguish the fire, but no one notices this as they have only seen a kind of mysterious orange blur.<br />
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Outside, Zoidberg has joined a few [[hobos]] and found out how money could make him happy: by buying a meal for his new friends. Everyone joins them, and Hermes gives the penny left from the purchase of the Boogie Boots to Dwight, who decides to invest it in five shares of Amazon.com ("A risk-taker!"). Richard Nixon's head is angry because the surplus has burned away, but everyone else is happy because the tax rebate supplied them with a few mildly-interesting stories at least. At the very end, Bender, a bit disappointed that his story "petered out at the end," is finally seized by Url and Smitty and beaten up; though he's delighted to have gotten closure on his story.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:Nov2007Calendar.JPG|thumb|November - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*See [[Earthican $300 Bill]] to know how each character spent their $300<br />
*The idea for this episode came from George W. Bush announcing that he would give all Americans a $300 tax refund. However, one week later the terrorist attacks of 9/11 happened. The story was forgotten by most, except the Futurama staff who wrote this episode.<br />
*As Fry drinks more and more coffee the effects of the caffeine make him more and more agitated until the 100th, when he relaxes into a calm Zen-like state, albeit moving at several hundred times normal speed. There are several possible science-fiction inspirations for this scene:<br />
**Frank Herbert's novel ''Dune'', where Paul-Muad'Dib consumes ever greater quantities of Spice until he finally takes the water of life and time and space comes together. In the TV series of the same name we even see the same glowing light effects and distortions of time and space.<br />
**The classic sci-fi story ''The New Accelerator'' by H.G.Wells, the accelerator being a formula allowing the user to stretch minutes into hours of personal time perception.<br />
**The original-series ''Star Trek'' episode ''Wink of an Eye''.<br />
**The 2002 film ''Clockstoppers'', which in turn was based on ''The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything''.<br />
**The hummingbird he sees is particularly reminiscent to a time-slowing scene in ''Star Trek: Insurrection''.<br />
*Nixon's line "The Loot, the loot, the loot is on fire!" was a parody of the 1985 dance hit "The Roof is on Fire" by Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three. The song's chorus includes the frequently referenced line, "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire."<br />
*The lab name and the sign reading ''Geneworks S.K.G.'' are a parody of the famous movie company Dreamworks.<br />
*Zapp Brannigan's attack on Tarantulon 6 is taken from Robert Heinlein's ''Starship Troopers'' and the subsequent film.<br />
*Nixon's consultation of Voodoo economists is a reference to Reagan-era fiscal policy derided by critics as Voodoo Economics.<br />
*The scene in which Bender steals the cigar is based on ''Mission Impossible''.<br />
*Roseanne appears/guest stars as a holographic encyclopedia.<br />
*At one point in the episode, Professor Farnsworth takes his leave, saying, "... gotta go, fight club." This references the movie Fight Club. However, it is also contradictory to the first and second rule of the club, which both stipulate not talking about fight club.<br />
*This episode marks one of several times in which Leela does her 'karate cry' while performing a simple task - in this case, pulling the plug on Elzar's freezer.<br />
*Kif offers to make Amy a perfume from the ambergris made of lilac, jasmine and frankenberry. Franken Berry is a cereal General Mill's monster line.<br />
*URL says "grand theft tobacco" when he sees Bender stealing the cigar. This is a reference to the conviction sentence of "grand theft auto" for stealing cars.<br />
*Apparently, Amy had her "Obscene Tattoo" from the episode [[A Fishful of Dollars]] removed because it's no longer on her arm when she gets her new talking one with her tax refund.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Bender''': What to do, what to do? One $300 hookerbot or three hundred $1 hookerbots?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': I'm slightly richer!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Morbo]]''': [as his wife adjusts his tie] Stop it, stop it. It's fine! I will destroy you!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes''': [referring to the Bamboo Boogie Boots] With a warning label this big, you know they gotta be fun!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Dwight''': [while clinging to Hermes' back as they careen around town on the Bamboo Boogie Boots] Waaaah! I wish I had two mommies!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Whale Biologist''': Well, you asked the right guy, I'm the whale biologist. Though, personally, I hate whales, Especially Mushu.<br />
'''Leela''': Then why'd you become a whale biologist?<br />
'''Whale Biologist''': I don't know you well enough to get into that. $300 please.</poem><br />
<poem>'''URL''': [watching Mushu vomit] It just keeps comin' and comin'... ''[Bender sneaks past him and Smitty.]''</poem><br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Ben Beeler]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Coffee Guy]]<br />
*[[Crack Addict]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Crack Mansion Butler]]<br />
*[[Dandy Jim]]<br />
*[[El Chupanibre]]<br />
*[[Elzar]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Farnsworth's Girlfriend]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Fawn]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[GeneWorks Receptionist]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Golf Caddy]]<br />
*[[Gus]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hacking Jack]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal]] (Deleted Scene)<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker|Kif]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Leg Mutant]]<br />
*[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Organ Dealer]] (Deleted Scene)<br />
*[[Orphans]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Randy Munchnik]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Ron Whitey]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Roseanne Barr's hologram]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Smitty and Url]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Talking Tattoo]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Voodoo Economists]]<br />
*[[Walt, Larry and Igner]]<br />
*[[Warden Vogel]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Whale Biologist]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Swinton O. Scott III]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
**[[David Herman]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
**[[Swinton O. Scott III]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
*Special Guest<br />
**[[Roseanne Barr's hologram|Roseanne Barr]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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|name=The Farnsworth Parabox<br />
|no=69<br />
|image=[[File:The Farnsworth Parabox.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=Universe A with Universe 1<br />
|season=4<br />
|broadcast season=5<br />
|number=4ACV15<br />
|caption=Beats a hard kick to the face<br />
|first aired=8 June, 2003<br />
|written by=Bill Odenkirk<br />
|directed by=Ron Hughart<br />
|title reference=The "''<name>'' Paradox" convention, where a paradox is named after the one who discovered it, punned by replacing "-dox" with "-box"<br />
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"'''The Farnsworth Parabox'''" is the sixty-ninth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fifteenth of the [[Season 4|fourth production season]] and the tenth of the [[Broadcast season 5|fifth broadcast season]]. It aired 8 June, 2003 on FOX. [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]] creates a tunnel to a parallel universe, wherein the characters meet some rather alternative figures of themselves.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Satan! You owe me!" ===<br />
While [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] is in the process of almost killing himself with an experiment spectacularly gone bad, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] is once again trying to invite [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] to go out with him, but she refuses and claims that she can't join him because of "sweaty boot-rash".<br />
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Shortly afterwards, the Professor calls on the crew to dispose of a box containing the crazy-ass experiment that almost killed him, by throwing it into the Sun itself. He forbids everyone to look into the box for any reason, fueling the crews curiosity to a critical stage. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] chases off the nosy crew members and sets Leela with a gun to guard the box. Fry and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] mount a serious attempt to seize the box by crawling through the buildings steam tunnels, and indeed manage to acquire it. They find it full of junk (beer and tangled Christmas tree lights), much to their pleasure, because Leela has foreseen the attempt and planted a fake box so she can guard the real box in peace.<br />
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However, she is eventually overcome with curiosity herself, and when she goes to the coffee dispenser, she lets a coin flip decide whether to look into it or not. The coin says to go ahead, and Leela looks inside - the box is deep, much deeper than a box this size should be, and she falls through it and lands on the floor. Fry comes in, and looks rather different - he has black hair and different clothes. He is followed by Bender, who has a shiny golden finish, the Professor, who has a curious scar on his head, and eventually Leela sees herself enter the room - with red hair and a cup of coffee.<br />
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=== Act II: "How did you get by this stylish head-wound?" ===<br />
The other Professor soon realizes what must have happened: the box contains a parallel universe and is a gateway between the two universes. He suspects that the universe where Leela came from is populated by evil twins and sends the different Leela through the gateway with a gun to round up the other inhabitants. She does so, and the two [[Planet Express]] crews end up facing each other in the other universe. The original Leela and her twin end up fighting and beat each other unconscious, and both crews agree to seek a violence-free solution. They decide to name the universe where the original Leela came from ''Universe A'', while the other universe is ''Universe 1'' (Originally Universe B). It seems that a key difference between the two universes is that coin flips have different outcomes, which explains why Leela-1 didn't look into the box and got herself coffee instead while Leela-A did take a look. It also accounts for Bender-1's golden finish and the Professor-1's head scar that he inflicted on himself while experimenting to remove his own brain. Professor-1 has hidden the box with Universe A in it until he is convinced their other selves are not evil, so there is no returning for now. Fry-A and Leela-A are astonished to learn that Fry-1 and Leela-1 are a married couple. <br />
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The opposite selves soon gradually decide that their other incarnations are not evil and make friends (the two Benders make friends very quickly, since they love what is essentially themselves). Meanwhile, the two Frys and Leelas are having dinner at [[Elzar's Fine Cuisine]], and Fry-1 and Leela-1 tell the story how they got together. It turns out that Leela-1 gave Fry-1 a chance for a date after a coin flip, the date was most satisfactory and one thing led to another. The same coin flip had an opposite outcome in Universe A, so Leela-A and Fry-A didn't come together - Fry-A berates an embarassed Leela-A for her constant deception. The two [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]s hang out in a dumpster (Zoidberg-1 has a blue carapace) and work out a plan to get everyone's attention: to steal the box with Universe-A in it. Both Professors then announce that neither crew is evil, and the crew-A is free to go. Just that moment, Hermes-1 (blond hair) enters and wonders why the crew is not out to destroy the Professor's box. It turns out that Professor-A instructed Hermes-A to destroy the box, so there is no time to lose.<br />
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=== Act III: "Hermes, don't press that button!" ===<br />
Professor-1 dives into his personal fishtank to retrieve the box with Universe-A in it, but finds it has been stolen - the Zoidbergs have it. The two Professors decide to take desperate measures and produce further parallel universes in the hope that Universe-A will be among them. Dozens of identical boxes are produced by some strange machine, and the crews try to find the proper universe in them. As they are unsuccesful and about to despair, the Zoidbergs enter with the right box, but flee into one of the boxes as the crews give chase. The other universe boxes fall down around the box, making it impossible to determine which one is the right one.<br />
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The crew members attach themselves to Universe-1 with ropes and explore the boxes that contain weird variations of the Universe, eventually they seize the Zoidbergs and obtain the box with Universe-A in it. They all return to Universe-1 using their ropes, and then rush into Universe-A to stop Hermes from disposing the box into the sun - they arrive just in the moment when Hermes is about to release the box out of the ship, and he can be persuaded not to kill everyone as he has them at his mercy. <br />
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The crews make their farewells, and Leela-A decides to give Fry a chance and lets herself be invited to a big ape fight. The Professors grab the other universes box and pull - and end up with a box containing their own universe. Quite a responsibility, really. The crew adjourn to the TV, and Fry takes a seat on the box, compressing the screen slightly... No one seems to notice anything's changed.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:March2007calendar.jpg|thumb|March - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*If all of the universes are parallel, at least a few of the parallel characters, Robot [[Fry]], Ancient Rome Professor, Bobblehead Bender etc., would also be looking for the other versions of Zoidberg, but they're not. <br />
*One of the planets seen in the zoom-in scene of the Universe-A box to Universe-1 is [[Planet Eternium]].<br />
*Leela is reading a magazine, the ''Nosy Inquirer'', headline: ''Bigfoot turns 80!''<br />
*The [[Planet Express Ship]] has acquired an Ejection Port, large enough for PE crews A and 1 to easily fit into it.<br />
*The [[Planet Express]] building in Universe-1 is blue, and the sky has a strange colour pattern.<br />
*The [[Futurama (video game)|Futurama game]], developed around the same time as this episode was written, depicts [[Bogad]] as being in a corner of the universe. This fits well with the universe-in-a-box concept.<br />
*This episode includes the smallest cast of any ''[[Futurama]]'' [[episode]], with only 5 cast members.<br />
*Shortly after the professor A comes into Universe 1 He declares that he made a Parallel Universe; Professor 1 then states: "Baldercrap, I created your Universe! All you created was my fist parallel to your face." Then Professor 1 punches Professor A, invalidating Professor 1's statement (hitting him makes his fist perpendicular to Professor A's face - parallel lines do not intersect. On the other hand, fists and faces are not lines; they are body parts).<br />
*This episode was named #17 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p1.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*According to the [[Commentary:The Farnsworth Parabox|audio commentary]], Zoidberg-1 is blue because around 1 in 100 lobsters is blue.<br />
*Although credited, neither [[Tress MacNeille]] nor [[Maurice LaMarche]] have any roles in this episode. The role of the [[Transition Announcer]], usually played by LaMarche, is filled by [[Billy West]].<br />
*Even though the most paradoxical element of the episode apparently comes at the episode's end, the fact that Universe A is within a box in Universe 1 means that if Hermes A had succeeded in destroying the box containing Universe 1, he would have also destroyed the box within that universe, thus also destroying Universe A. This would, of course, also destroy all of the other parallel universes the crew explored.<br />
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=== Parallel Universes ===<br />
A description of the universes explored by Crew-A and Crew-1:<br />
*'''Universe A''' - The normal Futurama universe. Boxes in this universe are yellow.<br />
*'''Universe 1''' - The first alternate universe seen, coin tosses have opposite outcomes and almost everything is a different color. Boxes in this universe are blue.<br />
*'''Universe 25''' - Nobody has eyes. Boxes in this universe are white.<br />
*'''Universe 1729''' - Everybody is a bobblehead version of themselves. Boxes in this universe are pink. It is possible that 1729 was intentionally chosen to represent this universe by the Futurama writers, because 1729 is the Hardy-Ramanujan number.<br />
*'''Universe 31''' - Everybody is a robot version of themselves, and robots may possibly be human, although none are ever seen. Boxes in this universe are green.<br />
*'''Universe XVII''' - The overall outfit of this universe matches the Roman Empire. Boxes in this universe are purple.<br />
*'''Universe 420''' - A hippie universe where marijuana smoking is implied both by its smoky haze and its label 420. There appears to be a shortage of boxes in this universe. The only box seen in this universe is orange. 420 is commonly used slang for smoking weed.<br />
*'''Other universes''' - One (explored by Fry) is very cold, another (explored by the Professor) has everyone as women, a third sticks on Hermes-1's head, and another (explored by Leela) has octopus residents. Also, both Benders steal treasure from both a ''leprechaun universe'' and a ''pirate universe''.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Prof. Farnsworth''': Oh Lordy Lou, HELP! ''[Several explosions and the Professor screams loudly.]'' Bhudda! Zeus! God! One of you guys, do something! ''[Several more explosions and screams.]'' HELP! Satan! You owe me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes-A''': Here Leela, take this [laser pistol] and use it to shoot those guys.<br />
'''Leela-A''': Right! If they try to look in the box.<br />
'''Hermes-A''': Whatever.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes-A''': Like Granny said: if you want a box hurled into the sun, you got to do it yourself. God rest her zombie bones...</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela-1''': [referring to Leela-A] We're exactly the same! I know all her moves, therefore I have the upper hand!<br />
'''Professer-A''': ''[After Leela-A and Leela-1 knock each other out.]'' Now, now. Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender-1''': It's like I always say: Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver...<br />
'''Bender-A''': ...and the other's gold! ''[They hug and cry.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela-A''': Uh, have you robot-versions of you guys seen any extra Zoidbergs around here?<br />
'''Robot Fry''': Negative! Will. You. Go. Out. With. Me?<br />
'''Leela-A''': Uh, access denied. ''[Robot Fry's head explodes.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hermes-1''': Sweet Honeybee of Infinity!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender-1''': [gold-plated] Hey! Bite my glorious golden ass!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela-1''': The idiots have the box!<br />
'''Dr. Zoidberg-A''': ''[Referring to Dr. Zoidberg-1.]'' I think she means you.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Prof. Farnsworth-420''': [in a hippie-like universe] Dig it! All you fitting in this box is like seriously freaked up.<br />
'''Prof. Farnsworth-1''': Non-sense, wha, there's a whole universe in there.<br />
'''Prof. Farnsworth-420''': Dude, there's a universe in all of us. ''[Trys to give Prof. Farnsworth-A a flower.]''<br />
'''Prof. Farnsworth-A''': ...Get a job!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Narrator]]''': Meanwhile in Universe-A Hermes-A heads towards the Sun...A.</poem><br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*In the Nosy Inquirer magazine Leela reads, it says [[Bigfoot]] turns 80 even though they removed a Big Foot joke earlier in the series to make the plot in {{e|4ACV17}} make sense.<br />
**Although, it appears to be a tabloid which are notorious for printing false stories. Also it could be anachronistically suggesting that the legend of Bigfoot is 80 years old, after all the people of the year 3000 have a very limited knowledge of the past (at least the 20th/21st centuries anyway)<br />
*In a shot of Leela looking into the box in universe A, the room is blue, the colour of universe 1.<br />
**The same mistake happened in universe 1 as the background color is red.<br />
*Fry mistakenly refers to [[Xmas]] lights as "Christmas lights" in the decoy box.<br />
**Though this may well be Fry's mistake, rather than the mistake of the writers.<br />
*When all of the cast is jumping into the box for universe "A," they exit in a different order than they entered in. Jumping order was: Fry-A, Amy-A, Fry-1, Amy-1, Leela-A, Bender-A, Leela-1, Bender-1, Hermes-1, Zoidberg-A, Zoidberg-1, Professor-1, Professor-a. The exiting order was: Fry-A, Leela-A, Bender-A, Fry-1, Amy-A, Bender-1, Amy-1, Zoidberg-A, Hermes-1, Zoidberg-1, Leela-1, Professor-A, Professor-1.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' Amy-1 (brown hair, yellow sweatsuit, tan boots)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Amy-420 (hippie clothing, afro)<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' Bender-1 (gold-plated)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Bender-1729 (bobblehead)<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' Professor-1 (green turtleneck, off-white lab coat, scar around top of head)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Professor-XVII (17) (dressed in a toga)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Professor-31 (robotic version)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Professor-420 (red hair, hippie clothing, last name "Freaksworth")<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' Fry-1 (black hair, green jacket, dark gray shirt, light tan pants, brown shoes)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Fry-25 (same as normal except with no eyes)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Fry-31 (robotic version)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Fry-1729 (bobblehead)<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' Hermes-1 (blond hair, purple suit)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Hermes-25 (same as normal except with no eyes)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Hermes-31 (robotic version)<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' Leela-1 (red hair, brown pants and boots)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Leela-25 (same as normal except with no eyes)<br />
*'''Debut:''' Leela-1729 (bobblehead)<br />
*[[Narrator]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] <br />
*'''Debut:''' Zoidberg-1 (blue shell)<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Bill Odenkirk]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Ron Hughart]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Bill Odenkirk]]<br />
**[[Ron Hughart]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
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