http://theinfosphere.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=69.227.3.233&feedformat=atomThe Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T10:16:35ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.36.3http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Maxi-Padlock&diff=51679Maxi-Padlock2009-11-21T00:43:40Z<p>69.227.3.233: fixed fluxuation of tenses</p>
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<div>[[Category:Places]]<br />
{{place infobox<br />
|name = Maxi-Padlock<br />
|image = [[Image:MaxiPadlock.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text = <br />
|location =<br />
|planet = [[Earth]]<br />
|first appear = {{flink|Into the Wild Green Yonder}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Maxi-Padlock''' is a high-security woman's prison. It is a privately owned, <br />
full profit prison, though it cuts cost everywhere, especially on punishment, so they rely on the women to make prison unpleasant for themselves. The [[Feministas]] were sent here after the [[Earth v. Feministas]] case for resisting arrest, various protests and sabotages, and protecting the environment. [[Bender]] later helped the Feministas escape the prison, even though he was the one who put them in. [[Dixie and Trixie]] made Bender look like a hooker in order to try to distract the guards, which failed. For Plan C, Bender bended the wall of the Maxi-Padlock, and they escaped. <br />
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==Additional Info==<br />
<!--===Trivia===<br />
*Maxi-Padlock is a play on [[wikipedia:Maxi pad|Maxi pad]]--> <br />
===Appearances===<br />
*{{flink|Into the Wild Green Yonder}}</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Neptune&diff=51573Neptune2009-11-17T14:26:25Z<p>69.227.3.233: grammar</p>
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<div>[[Category:Places]][[Category:Planets]]<br />
{{place infobox<br />
|name=Neptune<br />
|image=[[Image:Neptune.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=<br />
|location=[[The Sol System]]<br />
|member of=[[DOOP]]<br />
|star=[[Sol]]<br />
|first appear={{elink|3ACV03|A Tale of Two Santas}}<br />
|inhabited by=[[Neptunians]]; [[Santa Claus|Robot Santa]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Neptune''' is a planet in the [[The Sol System|Sol system]], in addition to [[Earth]], Neptune supports life, alongside other Solar System planets such as [[Venus]] ([[Venusians]]), [[Mars]] ((formerly) the [[Native Martians]]), as well as jungles and a university, [[Earth]], [[Mercury]] (A gas station attendant) and Pluto (Penguins). It is unknown how Neptune can support life, as it is a gas giant, and anything living on it would fall straight through until crushed by pressure.<br />
<br />
Neptune's main inhabitants are [[Neptunians]], many of which have moved to Earth, where they have formed minority areas in cities like [[New New York]], such as [[Little Neptune]]. Neptune is largely an ally with Earth and a member of the [[Democratic Order of Planets]].<br />
<br />
[[Image:Neptune1.jpg|left|thumb|Jolly Junction.]]<br />
On ''[[Futurama]]'', the planet has only been visited twice, and only near the North Pole of Neptune, where [[Robot Santa]] has his Death Fortress. The North Pole hosts a single village, Jolly Junction, which is in inhabited by the servants of Robot Santa, whom are basically shrimpy Neptunians, because he doesn't feed them. Their main function is to build the toys, but since Robot Santa judges everyone as naughty, his servants basically do nothing. During the two visits by the [[Planet Express]] crew, the toy factory has been reopened, if only for a brief period.<br />
<br />
Neptune also hosts other exotic animals, such as the [[Neptunian Slug]], a key ingredient in Neptunian food, which can even be obtained on Earth, according to [[Elzar]].<br />
<br />
===Locations of Interest===<br />
*North Pole<br />
**[[Death Fortress]]: [[Robot Santa Claus]] lives here<br />
**[[Toy Factory]] (closed): The place where the Toys for Christmas were made<br />
**[[Jolly Junction]]: The little Neptunian Workers live here<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Appearances===<br />
*{{elink|3ACV03|A Tale of Two Santas}}<br />
*{{flink|Bender's Big Score}}</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Global_warming&diff=51519Global warming2009-11-15T05:33:24Z<p>69.227.3.233: /* External links */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Events]]<br />
[[File:Global warming logo.png|right|thumb|Or none like it hot!]]<br />
'''Global warming''' is the world-wide steady heating of the planet [[Earth]] (or perhaps any other planet subject to the same conditions). Even on ''[[Futurama]]'' has this crisis made its appearance.<br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
[[File:Mr Sunbeam on his way to planet Earth.png|thumb|left|Mr Sunbeam on his way to planet Earth.]]<br />
<br />
According to [[Turanga Leela]] in "[[Xmas Story]]", global warming was cancelled out by nuclear winter. Which exact nuclear winter we are talking about is unknown, but it may lead to the assumption that some nuclear war may have had erupted (in "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]" Leela states that "you guys never had a single nuclear war", which implies that while there hadn't been one back then, there had been nuclear wars since).<br />
<br />
However, this sentiment might just be a cover up for the real solution or perhaps a misconception. Global warming was beginning to take a serious toll on the heat of Earth in the late 21st century, so ever since [[2063]], the people of Earth have been dropping a large chunk of ice in the ocean every now and then, to put off the effects of global warming.<br />
<br />
Though, since the greenhouse gasses are building up, it takes more and more ice each time. Despite not actually solving the problem, politicians deemed the solution efficient enough to be called an actual solution to the problem once and for all.<br />
<br />
[[File:Ship dropping ice in ocean.png|thumb|right|A giant clunk of ice in the oceans every now and then.]]<br />
It was not until [[Halley's Comet]], Earth's foremost source of ice, ran dry of ice in [[3003]]. After the unsuccessful attempt to obtain the ice, Earth was hit by "sudden intense global warming", an obvious effect of just having put it off for years.<br />
<br />
At an emergency conference in [[Kyoto]], Japan, hosted by [[Al Gore]], scientists from all around the world was invited to come up with better solutions than the ice cube one to fix global warming. [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]] attempted with a giant mirror reflecting 40% of the sun's rays, thus cooling the planet. Unfortunately, the mirror fell victim to the fact that space is filled with garbage and rocks, and as such a small meteor knocked it out of bounds, and turned it into a giant reflector glass, which destroyed property and people on Earth.<br />
<br />
Given Wernstrom's failure, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]] was also offered with the opportunity. However, he had a much more sinister revelation to present. During his second time at [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]], he designed an early model of the modern robots. Unfortunately, he had to sacrifice fuel efficiency to succeed. And all [[robots]] today on Earth originates from this design.<br />
<br />
[[File:Climate conference in Kyoto, Japan.png|thumb|left|The emergency climate conference in [[Kyoto]], Japan.]]<br />
As a result, Farnsworth blames the robots alone for the sudden intense global warming. One may assume that other problems related to global warming, such as a fuel for cars, factories and so on, had been fixed early on (something such as the fact that [[New New York]] had been garbage free for 800 years may be an indicator of the commitments of the future), and only new problems arose later to keep the fear of global warming very real.<br />
<br />
Wernstrom calls for the immediate destruction of all robots, and he gets the participants at the conference to agree with his plan. [[Richard Nixon]], [[Earth president]], agrees to Wernstrom's plan, and arrange that all robots are gathered on the [[Galápagos Islands]]. For here, Wernstrom and Nixon will be capable of using the modified mirror to send a giant beam towards the robots and destroying them all at once.<br />
<br />
But, at what is being falsely labelled as a party to lure the robots, Farnsworth, along with his crew, arrives to specify a plan to fix global warming permanently, and without destroying all the robots. Using the entire force of the robots' exhaust vents, they are able to move the Earth's orbit further from the sun, thus allowing to be hit by a lesser dose of sun rays, and in the long run cooling the Earth.<br />
<br />
Given Earth's now further orbit, the year was extended by an entire week, which Nixon afterwards declared as official [[robot party week]].<br />
<br />
It remains to be seen if global warming ever arises again in the future. Or if they really fixed it once and for all.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
<br />
=== Appearances and mentions ===<br />
*{{e|Xmas Story}}<br />
*{{e|Crimes of the Hot}}<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* {{w|Global warming}} at Wikipedia<br />
* {{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1O34cqerqs|None Like It Hot}} on YouTube</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Global_warming&diff=51518Global warming2009-11-15T05:32:26Z<p>69.227.3.233: /* External links */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Events]]<br />
[[File:Global warming logo.png|right|thumb|Or none like it hot!]]<br />
'''Global warming''' is the world-wide steady heating of the planet [[Earth]] (or perhaps any other planet subject to the same conditions). Even on ''[[Futurama]]'' has this crisis made its appearance.<br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
[[File:Mr Sunbeam on his way to planet Earth.png|thumb|left|Mr Sunbeam on his way to planet Earth.]]<br />
<br />
According to [[Turanga Leela]] in "[[Xmas Story]]", global warming was cancelled out by nuclear winter. Which exact nuclear winter we are talking about is unknown, but it may lead to the assumption that some nuclear war may have had erupted (in "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]" Leela states that "you guys never had a single nuclear war", which implies that while there hadn't been one back then, there had been nuclear wars since).<br />
<br />
However, this sentiment might just be a cover up for the real solution or perhaps a misconception. Global warming was beginning to take a serious toll on the heat of Earth in the late 21st century, so ever since [[2063]], the people of Earth have been dropping a large chunk of ice in the ocean every now and then, to put off the effects of global warming.<br />
<br />
Though, since the greenhouse gasses are building up, it takes more and more ice each time. Despite not actually solving the problem, politicians deemed the solution efficient enough to be called an actual solution to the problem once and for all.<br />
<br />
[[File:Ship dropping ice in ocean.png|thumb|right|A giant clunk of ice in the oceans every now and then.]]<br />
It was not until [[Halley's Comet]], Earth's foremost source of ice, ran dry of ice in [[3003]]. After the unsuccessful attempt to obtain the ice, Earth was hit by "sudden intense global warming", an obvious effect of just having put it off for years.<br />
<br />
At an emergency conference in [[Kyoto]], Japan, hosted by [[Al Gore]], scientists from all around the world was invited to come up with better solutions than the ice cube one to fix global warming. [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]] attempted with a giant mirror reflecting 40% of the sun's rays, thus cooling the planet. Unfortunately, the mirror fell victim to the fact that space is filled with garbage and rocks, and as such a small meteor knocked it out of bounds, and turned it into a giant reflector glass, which destroyed property and people on Earth.<br />
<br />
Given Wernstrom's failure, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]] was also offered with the opportunity. However, he had a much more sinister revelation to present. During his second time at [[Mom's Friendly Robot Company]], he designed an early model of the modern robots. Unfortunately, he had to sacrifice fuel efficiency to succeed. And all [[robots]] today on Earth originates from this design.<br />
<br />
[[File:Climate conference in Kyoto, Japan.png|thumb|left|The emergency climate conference in [[Kyoto]], Japan.]]<br />
As a result, Farnsworth blames the robots alone for the sudden intense global warming. One may assume that other problems related to global warming, such as a fuel for cars, factories and so on, had been fixed early on (something such as the fact that [[New New York]] had been garbage free for 800 years may be an indicator of the commitments of the future), and only new problems arose later to keep the fear of global warming very real.<br />
<br />
Wernstrom calls for the immediate destruction of all robots, and he gets the participants at the conference to agree with his plan. [[Richard Nixon]], [[Earth president]], agrees to Wernstrom's plan, and arrange that all robots are gathered on the [[Galápagos Islands]]. For here, Wernstrom and Nixon will be capable of using the modified mirror to send a giant beam towards the robots and destroying them all at once.<br />
<br />
But, at what is being falsely labelled as a party to lure the robots, Farnsworth, along with his crew, arrives to specify a plan to fix global warming permanently, and without destroying all the robots. Using the entire force of the robots' exhaust vents, they are able to move the Earth's orbit further from the sun, thus allowing to be hit by a lesser dose of sun rays, and in the long run cooling the Earth.<br />
<br />
Given Earth's now further orbit, the year was extended by an entire week, which Nixon afterwards declared as official [[robot party week]].<br />
<br />
It remains to be seen if global warming ever arises again in the future. Or if they really fixed it once and for all.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
<br />
=== Appearances and mentions ===<br />
*{{e|Xmas Story}}<br />
*{{e|Crimes of the Hot}}<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* {{w|Global warming}} at Wikipedia<br />
* {{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1O34cqerqs | None Like It Hot}} on YouTube</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Project_Satan&diff=51517Project Satan2009-11-15T05:14:17Z<p>69.227.3.233: /* Quotes */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Tertiary Characters]][[Category:Deceased Characters]]<br />
{{character infobox<br />
|name=Project Satan<br />
|type=t<br />
|type2=d<br />
|image=[[Image:Project satan.jpg|225px]]<br />
|species=Car<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
<!--|age=933 (I would prefer |birth date=) --><br />
|birth date=2019<br />
|voiced by=David Herman<br />
|first appear={{elink|2ACV18|The Honking}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Project Satan''' was a military project. He was constructed from the most evil parts of the most evil cars in the world. Some pieces includes:<br />
*Steering wheel from Hitler's staff car<br />
*Left Turn signal from Charles Manson's Volkswagen<br />
*Windshield Wipers from the car that played Knight Rider ([[wikipedia:KITT|KITT]])<br />
*Ed Begley's electric motor, the most evil propulsion system ever conceived<br />
Project Satan is the first thing that transmitted the [[Were-Car]] curse to [[Calculon]], while he was still a robot arm. He lived in the Anti-Chrysler Building, where he was destroyed by the [[Planet Express]] Crew in 3001.<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Trivia===<br />
Since Project Satan was made by cannibalizing the parts of other cars, he is more like Frankenstein's monster than a werewolf.<br />
===Quotes===<br />
*'''Project Satan''' : Misery? What misery? I love killing people! Squishing them till their organs squirt out like chunky mustard!<br />
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===Appearances===<br />
*{{elink|2ACV18|The Honking}}</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Were-car&diff=51516Were-car2009-11-15T05:12:30Z<p>69.227.3.233: grammar</p>
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<div>[[Category:Robots]]<br />
{{item infobox<br />
|name=Were-car<br />
|image=[[Image:Were-Car.jpg|225px]]<br />
|homeworld=[[Earth]]<br />
|first appear={{elink|2ACV18|The Honking}}<br />
}}<br />
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A '''were-car''' is a terrible curse that can befall robots. Most modern day people consider were-cars part of ancient folklore and scoff as it as silly ideas. Some unfortunate robots have, however, realized that this myth has a factual core.<br />
<br />
When a robot is hit by the curse, it won't be aware about it. Every midnight, when the internal chronometer resets, the were-car routine is activated. Powerful algorithms cause the original program to be overridden and the were-car routine takes complete control of the body. Advanced morphology programs, integrated in the were-car routine, cause the body to change into a transportation vehicle. The result looks almost like a normal hover car, but the ancient origin of the were-car curse shines through. Rather than superconducting electromagnets, the propulsion is done through a chemical combustion inside the car, the resulting force is then transferred to a collection of vulcanized rubber discs. Through friction with the ground forward motion is achieved. Ancient texts name these rubber discs "wheels."<br />
<br />
Were-cars prowl the surrounding area at night, looking for innocent victims. When a robot is attacked by a were-car the virus is transferred through an optical link. [[:Category:Human|Humans]] are usually just killed. The next morning, the were-car program will have ran its course, and the robot will have no memory of the events.<br />
<br />
When a robot is hit by the were-car virus, it's only options is to find the origin of the virus and kill it, or [[Suicide Booth|commit suicide]], otherwise the killings will never stop. When the originator of the were-car is killed, it will transmit the uninstall command. With [[Project Satan]] killed, it is believed that anyone who received his infection is cured, however there may have been others like Project Satan.<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Known Were-cars===<br />
{| class="overview" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"<br />
|- class="oCentre"<br />
! Picture<br />
! Name<br />
! Infected by<br />
|- class="oCentre"<br />
| [[Image:BenderHonking.png|80px|center]]<br />
| [[Bender]]<br />
| [[Hungarian Robot Farmer]]<br />
|- class="oCentre"<br />
| [[Image:HungarianWereCar.png|80px|center]]<br />
| [[Hungarian Robot Farmer]]<br />
| [[Abominable Snow Mobile]]<br />
|- class="oCentre"<br />
| [[Image:AbominableSnowMobile.png|80px|center]]<br />
| [[Abominable Snow Mobile]]<br />
| [[Calculon]]<br />
|- class="oCentre"<br />
| [[Image:CalculonHonking.png|80px|center]]<br />
| [[Calculon]] (formerly Acting Unit 0.8, <br/>Thespa-mat, and David Duchovny)<br />
| [[Project Satan]]<br />
|- class="oCentre"<br />
| [[Image:ProjectSatan.png|80px|center]]<br />
| [[Project Satan]]<br />
| ''None''<br />
|}<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
*People in current day believe in were-cars.<br />
*Were-cars are based on [[Wikipedia:werewolf|werewolves]].<br />
**Furthermore, [[Leela]]'s suggestion that they jam the tailpipe with a silver potato is a reference to these things: the idea that killing a werewolf requires shooting it in the heart with a silver bullet, and the urban legend that jamming a potato in a car's tailpipe will cause its engine to explode.<br />
<br />
===Appearances===<br />
*{{elink|2ACV18|The Honking}}</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Smell-O-Scope&diff=51505Smell-O-Scope2009-11-14T07:10:41Z<p>69.227.3.233: "odour" changed to US spelling "odor"</p>
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<div>[[Category:Technology]][[Category:Farnsworth's Creations]]<br />
{{item infobox<br />
|name=Smell-O-Scope<br />
|image=[[Image:Smell-O-Scope.png|225px]]<br />
|use=Smell distant odours<br />
|inventor=Professor Farnsworth<br />
|owner=Professor Farnsworth<br />
|status=Still at [[Planet Express]]<br />
|first appear={{elink|1ACV08|A Big Piece of Garbage}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
The '''Smell-O-Scope''' allows the user to smell odours over astronomically long distances ("If a dog craps anywhere in the universe, you can bet I won't be out of the loop"). It was created by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] in 2999 and won the [[Academy of Inventors]] Academy Prize in 3000 after the prize had been taken away from [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom]] as it became apparent that he was a jackass.<br />
<br />
The degree of odor can be measured on a meter called the "Funkometer". It is unknown how the device functions, but it apparently has a lens and a stench coil.<br />
<br />
As [[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]] points out, it is impossible for odor molecules to travel through the vacuum of space and reach the user's nose. However, it is possible that the Smell-O-Scope actually analyzes various spectrums, determines the chemical makeup, and reproduces the smell within its nostril-tubes.<br />
<br />
It is possible for the Smell-O-Scope to be mounted to [[Planet Express Ship|the ship]] in order to track a smell to its origin. ([[A Clone of My Own|2ACV10]])<br />
==Additional info==<br />
===Appearances===<br />
*'''Debut''': {{elink|1ACV08|A Big Piece of Garbage}}<br />
*{{elink|2ACV10|A Clone of My Own}}<br />
*{{elink|3ACV14|Time Keeps on Slippin'}}<br />
*{{elink|3ACV20|Godfellas}}<br />
*{{flink|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
*{{flink|The Beast with a Billion Backs}}</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Leonard_Nimoy%27s_head&diff=51463Leonard Nimoy's head2009-11-12T01:51:22Z<p>69.227.3.233: grammar</p>
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<div>[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Secondary Characters]][[Category:Human]][[Category:Heads in Jars]][[Category:Celebrity Guests]][[Category:Star Trek]][[Category:Star Trek cast]][[Category:The Simpsons]]<br />
{{character infobox<br />
|name=Leonard Nimoy<br />
|image=[[Image:Leonard Nimoy.jpg|225px]]<br />
|type=s<br />
|type2=g<br />
|species=[[Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|birth date=March 26, 1931<br />
|voiced by=Leonard Nimoy<br />
|job=Former actor<br />
|first appear={{elink|1ACV01|Space Pilot 3000}}<br />
|wikipedia=Leonard Nimoy<br />
}}<br />
'''Leonard Nimoy''' was a member of the original Star Trek cast. When Star Trek was banned the others left whilst Leonard stayed on [[Earth]]. [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] convinced Leonard to go and recover the Star Trek tapes from [[Omega 3]]. They found the rest of the cast and [[Melllvar]] welcomed the one who played Spock. Unfortuantly Melllvar became bored with them and put the Trek cast against the [[Planet Express]] Crew. They all managed to work together and escape to the [[Nimbus]]. He now resides at the [[Head Museum]].<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Quotes===<br />
*'''Leonard:''' Welcome to the [[Head Museum]], I'm Leonard Nimoy.<br>'''Fry:''' Oh my God, Spock! H-hey, do the thing!<br>'''Leonard:''' ''[laughs]'' I don't do that anymore.<br />
<br />
===Appearances===<br />
*{{elink|1ACV01|Space Pilot 3000}}<br />
*{{elink|4ACV11|Where No Fan Has Gone Before}}<br />
*{{flink|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
*{{f|4}} (background cameo)<br />
<br />
===See also===<br />
*The other ''Star Trek'' cast members<br />
**[[William Shatner]]<br />
**[[Walter Koenig]]<br />
**[[George Takei]]<br />
**[[Nichelle Nichols]]<br />
**[[DeForest Kelley]]</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Extreme_Walrus_Juice&diff=51462Extreme Walrus Juice2009-11-12T01:50:04Z<p>69.227.3.233: catchphrase added</p>
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<div>[[Category:Products]][[Category:Food and Drinks]]<br />
{{item infobox<br />
|name=Extreme Walrus Juice<br />
|image=[[File:Extreme Walrus Juice.png|225px]]<br />
|owner=[[Fishy Joe's]]<br />
|type=Drink<br />
|slogan=Ride the Walrus!<br />
|first appear={{e|2ACV15}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Extreme Walrus Juice''' is a drink at the fast food restaurant chain [[Fishy Joe's]], made from "fresh squeezed walrus". It comes, appropriately, right after people found out what [[Popplers]] were, and may have been introduced as a new product to replace the formerly popular one. Their catchphrase is "Ride the Walrus."<br />
<br />
Extreme Walrus Juice sponsored the event wherein [[Leela]] was supposed to be eaten by [[Lrrr]] on network television.<br />
<br />
== Additional info ==<br />
<br />
=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV15}}</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Read_Menace!&diff=50767The Read Menace!2009-10-19T01:32:36Z<p>69.227.3.233: /* Continuity */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Media]][[Category:Comics]][[Category:The Simpsons]][[Category:A plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth]][[Category:A plots focusing on Fry]][[Category:A plots focusing on Leela]][[Category:A plots focusing on Bender]][[Category:B plots focusing on Zapp]][[Category:B plots focusing on Mom]][[Category:Media featuring invasions]][[Category:Media wherein characters run away]]<br />
{{comic-non-canon}}<br />
{{comic infobox<br />
|name=The Read Menace!<br />
|image=[[Image:Futuramasimpsons4.jpg|225px]]<br />
|us no=X04<br />
|uk no=017<br />
|title caption=None<br />
|us publish=March 23, 2005<br />
|title referee=Reference to the 1949 movie, ''The Red Menace''.<br />
|paperback=<br />
|prev=Slaves of New New York!<br />
|next=<br />
}}<br />
==The Story==<br />
===Act I===<br />
The characters from books have taken over [[New New York]] and the [[Planet Express]] delivery crew, along with [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]], [[Amy Wong|Amy]], [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] and the Simpsons attempt to escape in the [[Planet Express ship]]. They are soon attacked by pulp fiction spaceships and so, lacking a good plan, to go faster they paint flames and lightning bolts onto the ship. When they take a break from painting, [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] throws a beer towards Homer but he misses it and the bottle blows up the ships. They are then brought aboard the [[Nimbus]] which has been taken over by Springfielders under the leadership of Smithers who is living out his dream of being a space pirate. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] asks for help to save [[Earth]], but Smithers refuses until he is told that Mr Burns is dating [[Mom]]. Back in Earth's atmosphere, Smithers presses the wrong button and everyone falls out of the Nimbus, renting parachutes on the way, they land in a crowd of fictional characters. The New New Yorkers and the Simpsons are attacked by characters from their favourite books, Bart tells them that his family is also fictional and the Simpsons are allowed to go. <br />
===Act II===<br />
They reach the [[Planet Express headquarters|Planet Express building]] and look through the Professor's inventions for ways to stop the fictional characters. Lisa uses the [[What-If Machine]] to ask what if they knew how to defeat the fictional characters. They go to [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]'s apartment and take a page out of the first Simpsons Comic and put it in the vortex the fictional characters came out of, this causes the giant Homer from that comic to emerge. They offer him a beer if he stops the fictional characters. It works, but then they have the giant Homer to deal with. They hire [[Sal]] to move the vortices and are able to send giant Homer and the rest of Springfield back to their [[mental realm]]s. Later, as [[Larry]] and [[Igner]] reminisce over their brief time with two parents, inside [[MomCorp]] Mom uses a lock of hair to create a clone of Mr. Burns...<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Trivia===<br />
*The What-If machine only allows three questions a year.<br />
*This is the first time the [[Space Pope]] has spoken.<br />
===Quotes===<br />
*'''Zapp:''' Leela what a sexy surprise.<br />'''Smithers:''' Did I give you permission to stop go-go dancing?<br />
*'''Bart:''' Why are you all standing in shadow?<br/>'''Spider Man:''' Copyright protection!<br />
*'''Lisa:''' This must be so odd for Dad. I can't even imagine what he's thinking.<br>'''Homer:''' [thinking] Hmmm...so that's what the inside of my nose looks like.<br />
*'''Lisa:''' That's a great picture! So realistic!<br>'''Fry:''' Yeah, so much so that Leela crashes into it almost every week.<br />
*'''Leela:''' It's working! Now he's hugging the TV. Now he's kissing the TV.<br>'''Bender:''' Now he's...ew! Well, that's one building I'm never going into again!<br />
<br />
===Continuity===<br />
*Bart finds a yogurt filled cap in Fry's drawer, it is unclear if this is the same cap, or yogurt, from "[[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]" but if so it has moved from Planet Express to [[Bender and Fry's Apartment]]<br />
<br />
===Outside References===<br />
*Also appearing on the cover of this issue is the main character from Bongo's ''{{w|Roswell, Little Green Man}}.<br />
*After becoming a space pirate, Smithers dresses up like the anime character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Harlock Captain Harlock].<br />
<br />
===Goofs===<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal|Hattie]]'s clothes are the wrong colour.<br />
*When Bender falls apart, his eyes are balls instead of long bulbs<br />
*Morbo and Linda appear to have once more been placed in [[New New York]] rather than Los Angeles.<br />
*Leela requests twelve parachutes but only eleven are used as Marge is carrying Maggie.<br />
<br />
===Characters===<br />
(In alphabetical order)<br />
*[[Headless body of Agnew|Agnew]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal|Hattie]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Igner]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker|Kif]]<br />
*[[Larry]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*[[Space Pope]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Walt]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
===='''The Simpsons''' Characters====<br />
(In alphabetical order)<br />
*Bart Simpson<br />
*Hans Moleman<br />
*Homer Simpson (issue #87 and issue #1 variants)<br />
*Lisa Simpson<br />
*Maggie Simpson<br />
*Marge Simpson<br />
*Mr. Burns<br />
*Smithers<br />
====Other Fictional Characters====<br />
*{{w|Anne of Green Gables}}<br />
*{{w|Artful Dodger}}<br />
*{{w|Captain Nemo}}<br />
*{{w|Dorothy Gale}}<br />
*Mayor {{w|Count Dracula|Dracula}}<br />
*{{w|Inspector Javert}}<br />
*{{w|Spider-Man}}<br />
*{{w|Superman}}<br />
*{{w|Thor (Marvel Comics)|Thor}}<br />
*{{w|Tweedledum and Tweedledee}}<br />
*{{w|Wolverine (comics)|Wolverine}}<br />
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==Comic Credits==<br />
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*Story<br />
**[[Ian Boothby]]<br />
*Colors<br />
**[[Rick Reese]]<br />
*Pencils<br />
**[[James Lloyd]]<br />
*Letters<br />
**[[Karen Bates]]<br />
*Inks<br />
**[[Steve Steere, Jr.]]<br />
*Editor<br />
**[[Bill Morrison]]<br />
<br />
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|name=The Read Menace!<br />
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|us no=X04<br />
|uk no=017<br />
|title caption=None<br />
|us publish=March 23, 2005<br />
|title referee=Reference to the 1949 movie, ''The Red Menace''.<br />
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==The Story==<br />
===Act I===<br />
The characters from books have taken over [[New New York]] and the [[Planet Express]] delivery crew, along with [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]], [[Amy Wong|Amy]], [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] and the Simpsons attempt to escape in the [[Planet Express ship]]. They are soon attacked by pulp fiction spaceships and so, lacking a good plan, to go faster they paint flames and lightning bolts onto the ship. When they take a break from painting, [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] throws a beer towards Homer but he misses it and the bottle blows up the ships. They are then brought aboard the [[Nimbus]] which has been taken over by Springfielders under the leadership of Smithers who is living out his dream of being a space pirate. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] asks for help to save [[Earth]], but Smithers refuses until he is told that Mr Burns is dating [[Mom]]. Back in Earth's atmosphere, Smithers presses the wrong button and everyone falls out of the Nimbus, renting parachutes on the way, they land in a crowd of fictional characters. The New New Yorkers and the Simpsons are attacked by characters from their favourite books, Bart tells them that his family is also fictional and the Simpsons are allowed to go. <br />
===Act II===<br />
They reach the [[Planet Express headquarters|Planet Express building]] and look through the Professor's inventions for ways to stop the fictional characters. Lisa uses the [[What-If Machine]] to ask what if they knew how to defeat the fictional characters. They go to [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]'s apartment and take a page out of the first Simpsons Comic and put it in the vortex the fictional characters came out of, this causes the giant Homer from that comic to emerge. They offer him a beer if he stops the fictional characters. It works, but then they have the giant Homer to deal with. They hire [[Sal]] to move the vortices and are able to send giant Homer and the rest of Springfield back to their [[mental realm]]s. Later, as [[Larry]] and [[Igner]] reminisce over their brief time with two parents, inside [[MomCorp]] Mom uses a lock of hair to create a clone of Mr. Burns...<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Trivia===<br />
*The What-If machine only allows three questions a year.<br />
*This is the first time the [[Space Pope]] has spoken.<br />
===Quotes===<br />
*'''Zapp:''' Leela what a sexy surprise.<br />'''Smithers:''' Did I give you permission to stop go-go dancing?<br />
*'''Bart:''' Why are you all standing in shadow?<br/>'''Spider Man:''' Copyright protection!<br />
*'''Lisa:''' This must be so odd for Dad. I can't even imagine what he's thinking.<br>'''Homer:''' [thinking] Hmmm...so that's what the inside of my nose looks like.<br />
*'''Lisa:''' That's a great picture! So realistic!<br>'''Fry:''' Yeah, so much so that Leela crashes into it almost every week.<br />
*'''Leela:''' It's working! Now he's hugging the TV. Now he's kissing the TV.<br>'''Bender:''' Now he's...ew! Well, that's one building I'm never going into again!<br />
<br />
===Continuity===<br />
*Bart finds a yogurt filled cap in Fry's drawer, it is unclear if this is the same cap, or yoghurt, from "[[How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]" but if so it has moved from Planet Express to [[Bender and Fry's Apartment]]<br />
<br />
===Outside References===<br />
*Also appearing on the cover of this issue is the main character from Bongo's ''{{w|Roswell, Little Green Man}}.<br />
*After becoming a space pirate, Smithers dresses up like the anime character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Harlock Captain Harlock].<br />
<br />
===Goofs===<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal|Hattie]]'s clothes are the wrong colour.<br />
*When Bender falls apart, his eyes are balls instead of long bulbs<br />
*Morbo and Linda appear to have once more been placed in [[New New York]] rather than Los Angeles.<br />
*Leela requests twelve parachutes but only eleven are used as Marge is carrying Maggie.<br />
<br />
===Characters===<br />
(In alphabetical order)<br />
*[[Headless body of Agnew|Agnew]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Cubert Farnsworth|Cubert]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal|Hattie]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Igner]]<br />
*[[Kif Kroker|Kif]]<br />
*[[Larry]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head|Nixon]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*[[Space Pope]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Walt]]<br />
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
===='''The Simpsons''' Characters====<br />
(In alphabetical order)<br />
*Bart Simpson<br />
*Hans Moleman<br />
*Homer Simpson (issue #87 and issue #1 variants)<br />
*Lisa Simpson<br />
*Maggie Simpson<br />
*Marge Simpson<br />
*Mr. Burns<br />
*Smithers<br />
====Other Fictional Characters====<br />
*{{w|Anne of Green Gables}}<br />
*{{w|Artful Dodger}}<br />
*{{w|Captain Nemo}}<br />
*{{w|Dorothy Gale}}<br />
*Mayor {{w|Count Dracula|Dracula}}<br />
*{{w|Inspector Javert}}<br />
*{{w|Spider-Man}}<br />
*{{w|Superman}}<br />
*{{w|Thor (Marvel Comics)|Thor}}<br />
*{{w|Tweedledum and Tweedledee}}<br />
*{{w|Wolverine (comics)|Wolverine}}<br />
<br />
==Comic Credits==<br />
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*Story<br />
**[[Ian Boothby]]<br />
*Colors<br />
**[[Rick Reese]]<br />
*Pencils<br />
**[[James Lloyd]]<br />
*Letters<br />
**[[Karen Bates]]<br />
*Inks<br />
**[[Steve Steere, Jr.]]<br />
*Editor<br />
**[[Bill Morrison]]<br />
<br />
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|name= Fry and the Slurm Factory<br />
|image= [[Image:Fry and the Slurm Factory.jpg|225px]]<br />
|number=1ACV13<br />
|season= 1<br />
|disc=3<br />
|parti A=Matt Groening<br />
|parti A job=Creator<br />
|parti B=David X. Cohen<br />
|parti B job=Executive producer<br />
|parti C=Rich Moore<br />
|parti C job=Supervising director<br />
|parti D=Lewis Morton<br />
|parti D job=Writer<br />
|parti E=Ron Hughart<br />
|parti E job=Director<br />
|parti F=John DiMaggio<br />
|parti F job=Actor ([[Bender]], etc.)<br />
}}<br />
===Topics of Discussion===<br />
*Identifying actors<br />
**[[Pamela Anderson's Head|Pamela Anderson]] cameos as [[Dixie]] after appearing in a [[A Fishful of Dollars|previous episode]] as her self, the dialogue was recorded at the same time.<br />
*The translation of the [[Alien Languages|Alien Language]] is:<br />
**''The following species are ineligible: space wasps, space beavers, any other animal with the word 'space' in front of it, space chickens, and the elusive '''yak-face'''.''<br />
***Yak face is a rare Star Wars figure of [[starwars:Saelt-Marae|Saelt-Marae]] not released in the USA. Mint figures have sold for thousands of dollars.<br />
*[[Slurm]] is intended to sound disgusting.<br />
**It was one of the earliest ideas, they decided to fill the universe with numerous pop culture items.<br />
*[[Bender]] is slightly different color when sick.<br />
*Bender's 6502 processor is from the Apple 2 home computer<br />
*[[John DiMaggio|John]] was constantly using the "Why you so stoopid, stoopid?" line constantly before it was written in.<br />
*3D scrabble is inspired by the game 3D chess from ''Star Trek''.<br />
*[[Billy West]], while recording for [[Glurmo]], stared at a picture of [[wikipedia:Gene Wilder|Gene Wilder]].<br />
**Glurmo was going to be Slurmy Slonka<br />
*Early on, the [[Grunka Lunkas]] were to be seen shovelling a mountain of cocaine.<br />
**They were to be caracatures of the Oompa Lompas, but [[Matt Groening]] (who'd never seen ''[[wikipedia:Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory|Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]'') redesigned them.<br />
**There was originally a joke about them having a good union.<br />
*After this episode, the writers' room gained a sign reading "Real Writers' Room".<br />
*Some of the Slurm shirts are in Hebrew.<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]'s scream when she falls down is always the same recording, [[Lauren Tom|Lauren]] records a few every time anyway.<br />
*The Slurm extraction process used to be more disgusting.<br />
*Two thirds of the episodes feature a trial and/or running away.<br />
*The [[Slurm Queen]]'s torture scene is similar to situations in old ''Batman'' episodes.<br />
*Time cards are reused wherever possible. The one reading "Run away" is wearing out.<br />
*[[Slurms MacKenzie|Slurms]]' party music was originally a temporary track.<br />
<br />
===Highlights / Quotes===<br />
*'''Censor''': Incidentally, some X-Rays can see through metal.<br />
===Goofs===<br />
*A commentator notes that Fry became sterile in this episode later [[Roswell that Ends Well|impregnated his grandmother]], thinking this to be an error. However the worms from [[Parasites Lost]], between the two episodes, fix the problem.<br />
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|name= Mars University<br />
|image=[[Image:Mars University.jpg|225px]]<br />
|number=1ACV11<br />
|season=1<br />
|disc=3<br />
|parti A=Matt Groening<br />
|parti A job=Creator<br />
|parti B=David X. Cohen<br />
|parti B job=Executive producer<br />
|parti C=Rich Moore<br />
|parti C job=Supervising director<br />
|parti D=J. Stewart Burns<br />
|parti D job=Writer<br />
|parti E=Bret Haaland<br />
|parti E job=Director<br />
|parti F=Gregg Vanzo<br />
|parti F job=Supervising director<br />
|parti G=Billy West<br />
|parti G job=Actor ([[Fry]], [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], etc.)<br />
}}<br />
===Topics of Discussion===<br />
*Hovering technology was supposed to have completely replaced the wheel, but wheels still appear in some episodes.<br />
*Remixed theme music is used, apparently after hearing this they decided never to do it again, but there are a few other cases of different theme music.<br />
*[[Mars]]' sky is yellow instead of red to avoid [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] blending in.<br />
*The library's sign refers to [[wikipedia:Marilyn vos Savant|Marilyn vos Savant]] who had the highest IQ in the world.<br />
*[[J. Stewart Burns]] regularly tries to add chess jokes.<br />
*Ideas were "borrowed" from numerous college movies, such as ''Animal House'', ''The Program'', and ''Revenge of the Nerds''.<br />
**[[Dean Vernon]] was named for [[wikipedia:John Vernon|John Vernon]] who played the Dean in ''Animal House''<br />
*''The Simpsons'' characters are only to appear as objects, as they are a show in ''[[Futurama]]''.<br />
**Interestingly, ''Futurama'' later became a show in some episodes of ''The Simpsons'' but real in other episodes. In the [[Comic_Listing#Simpsons_Crossovers|crossover comics]] however, ''The Simpsons'' retain fictional status and interacted with the crew via [[Mental Realm]]s.<br />
*Early versions of the characters had five fingers to diferentiate from ''The Simpsons'', it looked weird and was changed, though [[Poster Guy]] sometimes retains the extra finger.<br />
*Constant use of Apple Macintosh computers.<br />
*[[Guenter]] was going to be more realistic, but it looked creepy.<br />
*The Professor's eyes had at this point never been [[Downsized!|seen]]. [[Billy West|Billy]] wanted to see them, Matt said that he shouldn't.<br />
*Billy's high quality voice work.<br />
*Very early on, [[Cubert Farnsworth]] was going to be [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]]'s experiment and Fry's room-mate.<br />
*The diagram "Witten's Dog" was drawn by a physicist at Caltech, it parodies a real style of physics diagram.<br />
**If you look closely it's also a faeces joke.<br />
*Pointing out the urine on the floor of Guenter's parent's cage. Most of the commentators hadn't noticed it before.<br />
*[[Frank Welker]]'s animal sounds.<br />
*Guenter was the name of Stewart's college room-mate.<br />
**His other room-mates are listed on the floor plan.<br />
*Earlier versions had more animals fall from the tree.<br />
*Fry's dancing was originally a random one-off character.<br />
*Planning to bring Guenter back.<br />
<br />
===Highlights / Quotes===<br />
*'''Unknown''': There's your phone number, how'd you come up with that<br/>'''Unknown 2''': The Lambda? That was a desperate effort not to have a phone number that went 555-0155.<br />
<br />
===Goofs===<br />
*This is said to be the first appearance of [[Amy Wong|Amy]][[Leo and Inez Wong|'s parents]], but they were in the previous episode.<br />
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{{commentary infobox<br />
|name=Fear of a Bot Planet<br />
|image=[[Image:Fear of a Bot Planet.jpg|225px]]<br />
|number=1ACV05<br />
|season=1<br />
|disc=2<br />
|next ep=A Fishful of Dollars<br />
|prev ep=Love's Labours Lost in Space<br />
|parti A=Matt Groening<br />
|parti A job=Creator<br />
|parti B=David X. Cohen<br />
|parti B job=Executive producer<br />
|parti C=Rich Moore<br />
|parti C job=Supervising director<br />
|parti D=Gregg Vanzo<br />
|parti D job=Supervising director<br />
|parti E=John DiMaggio<br />
|parti E job=Actor ([[Bender]], etc.)<br />
}}<br />
===Topics of Discussion===<br />
*How Blernsball name came from a made up 8th day called Blernsday<br />
*Other suggested names for the show included ''Doomsville'' and ''Aloha [[Mars]]''<br />
*Some of [[Blernsball]] is actually pinball, some baseball and the rest is anything<br />
*Rules have started to be written for [[Blernsball]] as it appears in future episodes<br />
*Chapek 9 was named after the man who invented the word robot<br />
*About the inspiration for [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s disguses<br />
*Reference that the [[Robot]]'s scream is like the one from Bodysnatchers 2<br />
*How the computer is of apple make<br />
*The word silence constantly being repeated<br />
<br />
===Highlights / Quotes===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Matt Groening''': Well I didn't think that was going to work, but anyway hi this is Matt Groening.</poem><br />
<poem>'''David X. Cohen''': Who does these little cartoons??<br />
'''Unknown''': Actually you guys send them to us.</poem><br />
<poem>'''David X. Cohen''': That cleaning robot originally appeared in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", but was taken out as it was too long.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Unknown''': He's doing the robot.</poem><br />
<poem>'''David X. Cohen''': Tetris anyone??</poem><br />
<poem>'''David X. Cohen''': We ought to get money for advertising apple!</poem><br />
}}<br />
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{{commentary infobox<br />
|name=The Series Has Landed<br />
|image=[[Image:The Series Has Landed.jpg|225px]]<br />
|number=1ACV02<br />
|season=1<br />
|disc=1<br />
|next ep=I, Roommate<br />
|prev ep=Space Pilot 3000<br />
|hastranscript=yes<br />
|parti A=Matt Groening<br />
|parti A job=Creator<br />
|parti B=David X. Cohen<br />
|parti B job=Executive producer<br />
|parti C=Rich Moore<br />
|parti C job=Supervising director<br />
|parti D=Ken Keeler<br />
|parti D job=Writer<br />
|parti E=Peter Avanzino<br />
|parti E job=Director<br />
|parti F=John DiMaggio<br />
|parti F job=Actor ([[Bender]], etc.)<br />
}}<br />
===Topics of Discussion===<br />
*The Producers hoped for this episode to air after the Superbowl<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] was originally called Dexter and wasn't Jamaican<br />
*The inspiration for [[Dr. Zoidberg]]<br />
**Zoidberg's name comes from an undeveloped game by David called Zoid<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] and the Professor's voices have changed quite a bit since the earlier episodes<br />
*If [[Sal]] has a bunch of clones or if he just keeps getting different jobs<br />
*The Gophers were meant to have a much longer show<br />
*Scientists wrote in saying the episode was a bit unrealistic<br />
*The joke with the professor being "already in his pajamas" was meant to be in more episodes<br />
*David explains how the lunar pod is still on the Moon after it departed back to Earth and points out a sign that was added late in the development of the episode.<br />
*John's improvised panting sounds inappropriate when used out of context.<br />
**Matt listens to the episodes with his eyes closed.<br />
*About making [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] in 3D for the last shot<br />
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===Quotes===<br />
*'''David X. Cohen''': Well Zoidberg's name comes from a game I was developing in college called Zoid so his name is dedicated to those wasted three years.<br />
*'''Ken Keeler''': [When they watch the crew jumping over the alligators.] And I believe the single least realistic thing in the entire episode is right here. [They laugh.]<br/>'''Peter Avenzino''': What do you mean?<br/>'''Rich Moore''': The way they jump the gorge.<br/>'''David X. Cohen''': Matt Groening, you had objections to that early on. How do you feel in retrospect? The gators with the space helmets on?<br/>'''Matt Groening''': I... I was wrong.<br />
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===Goofs===<br />
*They notice [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]'s nose seems to change size<br />
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'''Species:''' [[Shrimpkins|Shrimpkin]]<br />
==Description==<br />
The '''Malachi family''' was a family who worshipped the [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Metal Lord]] before they were killed in a nuclear war.<br />
===Family Members===<br />
====Malachi Sr.====<br />
[[Image:Malachi.png|left|thumb|Malachi]]<br />
'''Voiced by:''' [[Maurice LaMarche]]<br /><br />
'''Info''': Malachi was chosen by Bender to explain what happened in the village and to send messages of what Bender wanted.<br /><br />
'''Quote''': I am Malachi. It means 'he who really loves the Metal Lord'.<br /><br />
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====Malachi's wife====<br />
[[Image:Mrs Malachi.png|left|thumb|Malachi's wife]]<br />
'''Voiced by:''' [[Tress MacNeille]]<br /><br />
'''Info''': Malachi's wife lived in peace with Malachi until there was organized crime so she bought a machine gun.<br /><br />
'''Quote''': Malachi Jr! Nooooooooo!<br /><br />
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====Malachi Jr.====<br />
[[Image:Malachi jr.png|left|thumb|Malachi Jr.]]<br />
'''Voiced by:''' [[Lauren Tom]]<br /><br />
'''Info''': Malachi Jr. enjoyed hugging and even practiced it.<br /><br />
'''Quote''': ''[Holding onto branch]'' I can't hold on, my arms are too tired from hugging!<br /><br />
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'''Appearances''': [[Godfellas|(3ACV22)]]<br />
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<div>[[File:The Other One.jpg|thumb|right|[[Turanga Leela]], possibly "The Other".]]<br />
"'''The Other'''" is a term used by [[Nibbler]] when [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] argues that [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] would be person worth saving in the future. In [[The Why of Fry]], Nibbler offhanded says, "she must be The Other", much to Fry's confusion.<br />
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The exact nature of "The Other" remains unexplained, even with the events of the [[Films|four DVD films]]. However, speculation remains on the topic if the writers are going to address the nature of "The Other" in the [[Season 6|coming season]] and what it'll mean.<br />
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Other solutions draw similarities to ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}'', where {{sw|Yoda}} mentions "there is another", when {{sw|Luke Skywalker}} takes off against {{sw|Obi Won}}'s and Yoda's wises. While the purpose of this other person was never revealed during the original trilogy of ''[[Star Wars]]'', it was always assumed to be {{sw|Leia Organa Solo}}. Some would argue that the whole purpose of the this "there is another", is a way to hint at the fact that Luke and Leia are siblings.<br />
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The writers may specifically have picked this issue, since it was not finalised in ''Star Wars'' as a topic never to be finished off in ''[[Futurama]]'' [[canon]]. Though, it is naïve to assume the writers are hinting that Fry and Leela are related, which would only make the [[Fry-Leela relationship]] all the more complicated.<br />
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|name = Turanga-Fillmore Wedding<br />
|image = [[Image:LarsLeelaInvite.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text = The wedding card<br />
|type = Wedding. <br />
|celebrated when = <br />
|celebrated where = <br />
|celebrated by = <br />
|held when = <br />
|first held = <br />
|held where = [[Religion#First Amalgamated Church|First Amalgamated Church]], [[New New York]] <br />
|contents = <br />
|occurred = {{year|3007}}<br />
|first appear = {{flink|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
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'''The wedding of [[Turanga Leela]] and [[Lars Fillmore]]''' occured December 27, 3007 at 4 P.M. The wedding occurred just 3 days after Lars' proposal, at the [[Religion#First Amalgamated Church|First Amalgamated Church]]'s [[New New York]] branch. The hors d'oeuvres were provided by [[Elzar]] and included Crud Puffs and a Schlimp Cocktail. [[Fry]] was jealous of Lars marrying Leela and attempted to stop the ceremony by switching the pen used for signing the wedding license with a fake, inkless one. (However, the ceremony was unaffected because Lars had an extra pen.) <br />
Then, [[Hermes]] was hit by chandelier that fell. His body was fatally electrocuted, but his head was saved. [[Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate]] then noted that Hermes' body was doomed because it was a [[time paradox duplicate]]. This inexplicably caused Lars to get scared and call off the wedding.<br />
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==Additional Info==<br />
===Wedding Guests===<br />
*[[Fry]]<br />
*[[Bender]]<br />
*[[Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Amy]], maid of honor<br />
*[[Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[Hermes]], body electrocuted<br />
*[[Father Changstein El-Gamal]], officiator<br />
*[[Francine]]<br />
*[[Cubert]]<br />
*[[Dwight]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Barbados Slim]]<br />
*[[Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*[[Ipgee]] and his horrible wife<br />
*[[Lrrr]] and [[Ndnd]]<br />
*[[Cygnoids]]<br />
*[[Jackie Anderson]]<br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Smitty and Url]]<br />
*[[Hattie McDoogal]]<br />
*[[Tinny Tim]]<br />
*[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Number 9 Man]]<br />
*[[Dr. Cahill]]<br />
*[[Nixon]]<br />
*[[Matt Groening]]<br />
*Jacques Cousteau<br />
*[[Charles de Gaulle's head|Charles de Gaulle]]<br />
*[[Alcazar]]'s five-eyed girlfriend</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Lightspeed_Briefs&diff=50650Lightspeed Briefs2009-10-16T20:29:26Z<p>69.227.3.233: </p>
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{{item infobox<br />
|name = Lightspeed Briefs<br />
|image = [[Image:Lightspeed briefs.jpg|225px]]<br />
|type = Underpants<br />
|origin = [[Earth]]<br />
|first appear = {{elink|1ACV06|A Fishful of Dollars}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Lightspeed Briefs''' are comfortable underwear that cost around $30 for a pack of three. They were advertised in [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]'s dreams which made him want a pair.<br />
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==Additional Info==<br />
===Trivia===<br />
*A pair of Lightspeed Briefs come with the [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] action figure.<br />
===Appearances===<br />
*{{elink|1ACV06|A Fishful of Dollars}}<br />
*{{elink|2ACV09|A Bicyclops Built for Two}}<br />
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===See Also===<br />
*[[List of products]]</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Dr._Mbutu&diff=50649Dr. Mbutu2009-10-16T20:28:13Z<p>69.227.3.233: </p>
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|type3=p<br />
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|origin=<br />
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|voiced by=<br />
|first appear={{elink|1ACV03|I, Roommate}} (mentioned)<br />
|family=Mrs. Mbutu, wife<br />
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'''Dr. Mbutu''' was a colleague of [[Professor Farnsworth]], who explored the universe, where he collected items, which he kept in [[Dr. Mbutu's apartment|his apartment]] in [[New New York]]. Dr. Mbutu met his end in February, [[3000]], when he and his wife were (possibly) ripped "to shreds." After his death, [[Bender]] and [[Fry]] took over his rent controlled apartment.<br />
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==Additional Info==<br />
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===Trivia=== <br />
*His name starts with a leading M, which may suggest an African descent.<br />
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===Appearances===<br />
*{{elink|1ACV03|I, Roommate}} (mentioned)</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Space_Pilot_3000&diff=50647Space Pilot 30002009-10-16T20:17:28Z<p>69.227.3.233: </p>
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{{episode infobox<br />
|name=Space Pilot 3000<br />
|no=1<br />
|image=[[Image:Space Pilot 3000.jpg|225px|]]<br />
|season=1<br />
|number=1ACV01<br />
|caption=In color<br />
|first aired=28 March, 1999<br />
|written by=[[David X. Cohen]]<br />[[Matt Groening]]<br />
|directed by=[[Rich Moore]]<br />[[Gregg Vanzo]]<br />
|title reference=The fact that it is a [[wikipedia:Television pilot|pilot episode]] and [[wikipedia:Mystery Science Theater 3000|Mystery Science Theater 3000]].<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=Little Buck Cheeser by [[wikipedia:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] [[wikipedia:Happy_Harmonies#1937|(1937)]]<br />
|broadcast number=S01E01<br />
|special guest=[[Dick Clark's head|Dick Clark]]<br />[[Leonard Nimoy]]<br />
|hasanimatic=yes<br />
|prev ep=Episode Listing<br />
|next ep=The Series Has Landed<br />
}}<br />
"'''Space Pilot 3000'''" is the first and pilot episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' and of the [[Season 1|first season]]. It aired 28 March, 1999 on FOX. It guest stars [[Leonard Nimoy]] and [[Dick Clark's head|Dick Clark]] as themselves in [[Head Jars|jars]]. [[Philip J. Fry]], a [[Old New York|New York]] pizza delivery boy winds up in a [[Applied Cryogenics|cryogenics lab]] and wakes up a thousand years later, where he meets [[Turanga Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez]], whom all apply for a job at [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]'s [[Planet Express]].<br />
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==The Story==<br />
[[Image:Frozen Fry.jpg|left|thumb|Fry being frozen]]<br />
===Act I: "Here's to another lousy millennium!"===<br />
Pizza delivery boy [[Philip J. Fry]] hates his life; he has to deliver a pizza without pay, [[Michelle|his girlfriend]] dumps him, and his bike is stolen, and it all happens on [[New Year, 3000|New Year's]] Eve of [[Timeline|2000]]. The pizza goes to someone named "[[I. C. Wiener]]" in a [[Applied Cryogenics|cryogenics lab]], where Fry soon realises that it was a prank call. He sits down and drinks one of the beers, toasting to "another lousy millennium." The bell tolls midnight and he unenthusiastically blows a noise maker when it knocks back in his face, causing him to fall backwards into a cryogenics tube. The tube sets itself for a thousand years and Fry is frozen. As he lies in wait for the next thousand years, the city of [[Old New York|New York]] changes&mdash;it is [[The First Destruction of New York City|destroyed]] by a group of [[Bender|mysterious spaceships]]. It is rebuilt into primitive Medieval-era castles, only to be destroyed again by more ships. By the time Fry awakens, he sees that New York has become an [[New New York|extremely futuristic metropolis]] and immediately deduces that he is in the future. He realizes that he will never see his friends, family and girlfriend again...and he couldn't be any happier. The [[Opening Sequence]] rolls.<br />
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===Act II: "Have a nice future!"===<br />
Fry is greeted by two workers at the lab&mdash;[[Terry|one of them]] gives an extremely melodramatic greeting ("Welcome to the world of tomorrow!"). He is escorted to the Fate Assignment Officer's Office where he meets [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], a beautiful woman with a huge eye in the center of her face, who explains that it is December 31, 2999.<br />
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A DNA scan reveals that he has only living relative in this time period: his many times great nephew [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]. Fry begins looking forward to his life in the future until Leela assigns him a permanent career as a delivery boy. Fry refuses to be a delivery boy again, but Leela says that everyone&mdash;even herself&mdash;has do do a job whether they like it or not, coining the phrase, "You gotta do what you gotta do." She tries to implant a [[career chip|chip]] that will label Fry a delivery boy forever, but Fry runs away. Leela ends up falling into one of the cryogenic tubes during the ensuing chase, which sets itself for 1000 years much like Fry's tube. Fry prepares to leave frozen there but, out of the goodness in his heart, decides to reset the tube to defrost her in 5 minutes before he leaves the lab.<br />
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After witnessing the wonders of the city and how it has changed, he decides to call his descendant Farnsworth. He gets in line for what he thinks is a phone booth and meets a robot named [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] waiting in line. It turns out the phone booth is actually a [[Suicide Booth]], and that Bender is eagerly awaiting his death, but they both manage to avoid death. Having failed at suicide again, Bender invites Fry to get drunk with him at a bar. Fry finds out that Bender wants to kill himself because of his programming as a girder-bender for Suicide Booths. Fry convinces Bender to abandon his plans at suicide and the two become friends when Leela finds them.<br />
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===Act III: "Welcome to the head museum."===<br />
[[File:Leonard Nimoy.jpg|right|thumb|[[Leonard Nimoy]] at the [[Head Museum]].]]<br />
Fry and Bender duck into the [[Head Museum]] to hide and are greeted by [[Leonard Nimoy|Leonard Nimoy's head]]. Leela, along with two police officers [[Smitty]] and [[URL]], finds the group in the museum, where Fry accidentally bumps into the shelves, knocking [[Richard Nixon's head]] down and provoking him to attack. Smitty and URL begin to use excessive force on Fry, but Leela tries to convince them to stop. After the officers insult her appearance (she actually took offense to a statement about her nose instead of her eye), and Leela knocks them out, prompting Fry and Bender to run for it. Leela demands to know why the officers would beat Fry like that&mdash;they explain that it's their job, saying "[they] gotta do what [they] gotta do."<br />
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Fry and Bender lock themselves in a room from Leela. Fry notices that there is a barred window and that Bender can bend the bars so they can escape, but Bender is unable to comply, saying he is only programmed to bend for construction. Fry, however, convinces him to break free from his dependency on his programming, and Bender manages to bend the bars apart, reaching the epiphany of bending whatever, whenever, and whoever he pleases. They go deep underground to the ruins of Old New York, where Fry realizes that he has lost everything he left behind in the past. Leela once again catches up with them, but Fry decides to give in to his fate as a delivery boy. But instead of implanting the career chip, Leela sympathizes his loneliness, saying that [[Turanga Morris and Munda|her parents]] abandoned her as a baby, thus giving her an unclear perspective of her heritage. She removes her own chip, thus quitting her job, and thanks Fry for helping her realize the nonsensicality of the quote "You gotta do what you gotta do," much like he did for Bender.<br />
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===Act IV: "We have you partially surrounded!"===<br />
Since all three have quit their jobs, Fry, Bender, and Leela realize that they are now fugitives of the law, so they hide at [[Planet Express]] where Fry's nephew Professor Farnsworth lives. After confirming his connection to Fry for himself, the Professor shows them his [[Planet Express Ship|intergalactic spaceship]]. The building is then (partially) surrounded by the police, so they use the ship to escape. While they take off, the police open fire&mdash;but the bell tolls the year [[Timeline|3000]], and the ship cannot be seen through the fireworks. Fry, Bender and Leela begin to ponder their lives as they are now unemployed until the Professor decides to hire them for an interplanetary delivery service he founded to fund his work. He even kept the career chips of his old crew as they had apparently been devoured by a [[Space Wasp|space wasp]] (in actuality they had been stung to death by [[Space Bee|space bees]]). Fry is assigned to be a delivery boy...and he couldn't be happier.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
[[File:Fry Frozen, time lapse.png|thumb|left|The time lapse effect while Fry is frozen was inspired by ''{{w|The Time Machine (1960 film)|The Time Machine}}''.<ref name="com-mg"/>]]<br />
The script for "Space Pilot 3000" went through several major changes during the writing sessions, and combined they had up to two hours worth of material.<ref name="com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref><br />
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From early on, it was important to established the new major change in Fry's life, that he had come to the future, before the [[opening sequence]] of the show.<ref name="com-mg">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Groening|Matt}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> But Fry's way to the [[Applied Cryogenics]]' tube and afterwards to [[Planet Express]] changed a lot during the script.<ref name="com-dxc"/><ref name="com-mg"/><br />
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In an early script, Fry was supposedly a watchman at Applied Cryogenics, and wasn't a delivery boy at all,<ref name="com-dxc"/> something which obviously became a major plot device in the final episode. After coming out of the tube, an early script had him being sold for organs to the professor at an auction,<ref name="com-dxc"/> or one where he was forced immediately to Ellis Island and the [[Statue of Liberty]] cut him.<ref name="com-dxc"/><br />
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The man entering the [[tube system]] was originally supposed to be saying "JFK, Jr. Airport",<ref name="animatic">{{cite animatic |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref><ref name="com-jd">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|DiMaggio|John}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> but the line was changed to "Radio City Mutant Hall" after {{w|John F. Kennedy, Jr.}}'s death in 1999, and since his death was in a plane crash and the line was about an airport, they felt it was too close to keep,<ref name="com-dxc"/> but it actually made it through one airing.<ref name="com-dxc"/><br />
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The pilot episode was also used to establish the [[Alien Language 1|first alien language]], by introducing a sign saying "Drink [[Slurm]]" in plain English, and one where "Drink" was written using AL1 glyphs.<ref name="com-dxc"/> Unfortunately, for the show's makers, fans had broken the entire language a few hours after its first airing, and also cracked the "Venusians go home" line later in the episode.<ref name="com-dxc"/> This led them to create the [[Alien Language 2|second alien language]], which would first appear in much later episodes, which were intended to be a lot harder than AL1.<ref name="com-dxc"/> But even that was cracked, but only after a few months.<ref name="com-dxc"/><br />
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When establishing a pilot episode, the writers decided to put in little secrets around the episode, that they would be able to pay off later.<ref name="com-mg"/> Though, while they on the [[Commentary:Space Pilot 3000|commentary]] say "secret" a lot, only [[Nibbler's shadow]] has been a thing they have paid off from the pilot episode, and it may be possible to question whether there actually was more.<br />
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[[File:Planet Express ship leaving Earth on New Year's Eve, 3000.png|thumb|right|The final shot where the [[Planet Express ship]] flies out made [[Gregg Vanzo]] fear whether they were capable of maintaining this production level on a weekly basis.<ref name="com-gv"/>]]<br />
The [[probulator]] scene was also supposed to be much longer,<ref name="animatic"/> with certain flashbacks to Fry's past being shown to the viewer before progressing into the story, but this was too long as was scrapped in the final version,<ref name="com-dxc"/> but several of these flashback stories of [[Fry's past]] later turned into a [[story arc]].<br />
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Animation wise, the pilot episode was also hard, as the show required more 3D than the producers, writers and animators had been used to, particularly from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.<ref name="com-gv">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Vanzo|Gregg}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> The opening sequence alone was directed by Mike Smith,<ref name="com-rm">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Moore|Rich}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> and there was original fear about the opening sequence being too fast compared to the other opening sequences of the day.<ref name="com-rm"/> The theme music, as well as the rest of the music on ''Futurama'' was done by [[Christopher Tyng]].<ref name="com-mg"/><br />
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Leela's nose had apparently become a heated argument between the animators and [[Matt Groening]],<ref name="com-mg"/> he wanted her nose to be of a larger than usual size for cartoon heroines, but the animators tried to draw it smaller because they felt it looked hideous.<ref name="com-mg"/><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
"Space Pilot 3000" aired on 28 March, 1999, 20:30 between ''The Simpsons'' and ''X-Files''. In an review by Patric Lee for ''Science Fiction Weekly'', who had only seen the first episode at the time of publication, described ''Futurama'' as a clever upstart, but did not feel it was as funny as its predecessor, though, it was certainly worthy of further viewings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue101/screen.html |title=The future's not what it used to be |author=Lee, Patric |date=1999-03-22 |publisher=Science Fiction Weekly |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> Rob Owen for ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' noted that the episode contained a similar skewed humor as ''The Simpsons'', but felt it was not as funny and smart, however he attributed these issues to the fact that the pilot episode served for a lot of character introduction, and he felt that the show was "off to a good start".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/tv/19990326rob4.asp |title=Simpsons meet the Jetsons; 'The Devil's Arithmetic' |author=Owen, Rob |date=1999-03-26 |publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref><br />
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Andrew Billen of ''New Statesman'' considered the first episode unoriginal, but praised its humorous background jokes such as during the sequence when Fry is frozen, but also criticised its use of in-jokes, such as [[Matt Groening]]'s head at the [[Head Museum]]. He remained somewhat enthusiastic about the show.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/199909270044 |title=Laughing matters |author=Billen, Andrew |date=1999-09-27 |publisher=New Statesman |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> Joyce Millman from ''Salon Entertainment'', on the other hand, praised the pilot's perception of American culture and the show's premise.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.salon.com/ent/tv/mill/1999/03/cov_26mill.html |title=That 31st century show |author=Millman, Joyce |publisher=Salon Entertainment |date=1999-03-26 |accessdate=2009-04-15}}</ref><br />
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Despite airing between ''The Simpsons'' and ''X-Files'' it was Fox's most viewed show that evening, and gained exceptional high numbers according to {{w|Nielsen Ratings}} with 11.2/17 in homes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117492811.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 |title=Fox sees 'Futurama' and it works |author=Bierbaum, Tom |date=1999-03-30 |publisher=Variety |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> And was in fact the most viewed pilot episode on Fox when it aired.<br />
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In 2006, IGN ranked it as the 14th best episode on its 25 best ''Futurama'' episode list.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html |title=Top 25 Futurama Episodes |author=Iverson, Dan |publisher=IGN |date=2006-07-07 |accessdate=2009-04-26}}</ref><br />
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==Additional Info==<br />
===Trivia===<br />
[[Image:Futuramapilot.jpg|right|thumbnail|The poster for this episode]]<br />
*The first shot of New New York was also the first 3D sequence in the show, and an experiment of sorts.<br />
*Leela is officer 1BDI ("one beady eye")<br />
*This episode is one of two episodes that do not feature [[Dr. Zoidberg]], the other being {{elink|1ACV11|Mars University}}.<br />
*It took the cartoonists over 2 years to come up with the look of the characters on the show.<br />
*In the intro, the Statue of Liberty holds a gun in her torch hand, but during the episode, in the future, she is holding part of the [[Tube Transport System|travel tube]]<br />
*The Original Alien Language devised by the writers and hidden throughout the episode was solved completely by fans after only the first and one airing. The Second language took several months<br />
*When Fry is delivering the pizza, he passes by a sign written in Chinese. When translated, the characters say "fire" and "women." This probably being loosely translated to mean 'hot women'.<br />
*Even though the show is supposed to begin in our time (1999), it is still in the future. (It premiered in March, showing December in the show.)<br />
*In the rough draft version of the script, Michelle was named Janet, and Fry was actually named Curtis Fry. It was changed to Philip in honour of Phil Hartman, who was set to have a recurring role as Zapp Brannigan on the series until his unfortunate death.<br />
*John DiMaggio (Bender) had originally auditioned for the voice of the Professor, and co-creator David X. Cohen had actually considered doing the voice of Bender<br />
*This was voted the best episode of [[Futurama]] during the Adult Swim marathon.<br />
*The ship of the game Monkey Fracas Jr., at the start of the show, is the Planet Express ship.<br />
*This episode is the highest rated Pilot episode in the history of the [[wikipedia:Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox Broadcasting Company]].<br />
*URL says he going to "get 24th century on his ass"; "get 24th century" has the same meaning as "get medieval." And partway through Fry's suspension, possibly around the 24th century, there was a medieval-type period, with New York rebuilt as castles before being destroyed again and rebuilt as the futuristic city.<br />
*Bender takes Fry to hide inside the Head Museum saying, "It's Free on Tuesdays." 31 December 2999 will, in fact, be a Tuesday.<br />
*Bender excretes a brick, a reference to a common [[Wikipedia:Shit#Surprise|slang phrase]]. He continually does this throughout the series when scared.<br />
*During the countdown scene at the end of the episode (in the year 2999), France is shown, yet the inhabitants there use the English language instead of [[French]]. It is assumed that French in the future is a dead language; this idea is supported in a later episode where Professor Farnsworth invents a universal translator that can only translate into "an incomprehensible dead language".<br />
*The places in the first countdown scene appear in this order:<br />
**[[Old New York|New York]]; [[wikipedia:United States|USA]]<br />
**[[Paris]], [[wikipedia:France|France]], [[wikipedia:Eiffel Tower|Eiffel Tower]] Backdrop<br />
**[[wikipedia:Rome|Rome]], [[wikipedia:Italy|Italy]], [[wikipedia:Pope|Pope]] on Balcony turning "Calendar" of Roman Numerals<br />
**[[wikipedia:Cairo|Cairo]], [[wikipedia:Egypt|Egypt]], Desert, [[wikipedia:Great Sphinx of Giza|Sphinx]] and the other three Pyramids as backdrop<br />
**[[wikipedia:Athens|Athens]], [[wikipedia:Greece|Greece]], [[wikipedia:Acropolis|Acropolis]] as backdrop, two highlights next on the sides of it<br />
**[[wikipedia:China|China]], [[wikipedia:Great Wall of China|Great Wall]]<br />
**[[wikipedia:India|India]], [[wikipedia:Taj Mahal|Taj Mahal]], some people counting down in Water<br />
**Small tribal village, [[wikipedia:Africa|Africa]]<br />
**[[wikipedia:Tokyo|Tokyo]], [[wikipedia:Japan|Japan]], very similar to New York shot except for the Japanese handwriting font<br />
**The entire Earth, shot from space.<br />
*All the people in line before Fry select the "quick and painless" method of killing themselves.<br />
*If one looks closely at Leela's computer screen, it actually reveals that Fry's full name is "Phillip J. Fry", which becomes an established fact in {{elink|2ACV15|The Problem with Popplers}} (however, his name is spelled with two L's instead of one). His blood type is said to be 'B'.<br />
*The tube Fry falls in is number 40.<br />
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===Quotes===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Space, it seems to go on forever. But then you get to the end and the gorilla starts throwin' barrels at you.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'm sure this must be very upsetting for you.<br />
'''Fry''': Y'know, I guess it should be but, actually, I'm glad. I had nothing to live for in my old life. I was broke, I had a humiliating job and I was beginning to suspect my girlfriend might be cheating on me.<br />
'''Leela''': Well, at least here you'll be treated with dignity. Now strip naked and get on the probulator.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Bite my shiny metal ass!<br />
'''Fry''': It doesn't look so shiny to me.<br />
'''Bender''': Shinier than yours, meatbag.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': ''[Fry has just been unfrozen]'' My god! It's the future! My parents! My coworkers! My girlfriend... I'll never see any of them again. ''[pause]'' YAHOO!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': What if i don't want to be a delivery boy?<br />
'''Leela''': Then you'll be fired...<br />
'''Fry''': Fine.<br />
'''Leela''': ... out of a cannon into the sun.</poem><br />
|2}}<br />
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===Continuity===<br />
*{{elink|2ACV06|The Lesser of Two Evils}}<br />
**Bender believes a phone booth is a Suicide Booth, similar to what Fry did.<br />
*{{elink|2ACV10|A Clone of My Own}}<br />
**Leela's (lacking) depth perception is mentioned again.<br />
**French is proved to be a dead language.<br />
*{{elink|2ACV19|The Cryonic Woman}}<br />
**A couple passes by Fry, when he is walking, wearing mostly transparent clothing, censored with black bars.<br />
**These people have moved to [[Los Angeles]] by the events of [[2ACV19]]<br />
*{{elink|4ACV02|Leela's Homeworld}}<br />
**Leela's single eye is explained.<br />
*{{elink|4ACV10|The Why of Fry}}<br />
**The shadow under the desk Fry sits at is explained.<br />
*{{elink|4ACV12|The Sting}}<br />
**More information about the Professor's old crew is revealed.<br />
*{{flink|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
**It is revealed that Bender is the one who [[The First Destruction of New York City|destroyed New York]] the first time.<br />
*{{flink|The Beast with a Billion Backs}}<br />
**Bender visits a suicide booth again and even does the coin-on-a-string trick again.<br />
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===Allusions===<br />
*The space ships destroying the cities were similar to the ones in [[wikipedia:The War of the Worlds (1953 film)|The War of the Worlds]].<br />
*The first scene (Fry teaching a kid how to play a video game) might be a reference to [[wikipedia:WarGames|WarGames]]. In the movie, the first scene with David Lightman has him playing [[wikipedia:Galaga|Galaga]]. He has to go and gives control of the game to a kid.<br />
*One of the billboards in the future shows [[wikipedia:Angelyne|Angelyne]], a real-life busty female entertainer that has billboards hanging around the Los Angeles area. In the cartoon billboard, she's hooked up to some sort of respirator.<br />
*According to Groening, the inspiration for the suicide booth was the 1937 [[wikipedia:Donald Duck|Donald Duck]] cartoon, [[wikipedia:Modern Inventions|"Modern Inventions"]], in which the Duck is faced with—and nearly killed several times by—various push button gadgets in a Museum of the Future.<br />
*Professor Farnsworth is named after the inventor [[wikipedia:Philo Farnsworth|Philo Farnsworth]], a Utah native and television pioneer whose invention was premiered at the 1939 New York World's Fair, along with the Futurama exhibit.<br />
*The feeding lady at the head museum is wearing a uniform like that at the corn-dog specific restaurant, [[wikipedia:Hot Dog on a Stick|Hot Dog on a Stick]].<br />
*Fry's outfit is based on James Dean in [[wikipedia:Rebel Without a Cause|Rebel Without a Cause]].<br />
*In addition to the setting, part of the original concept for the show was that there would be a lot of advanced technology similar to that seen in Star Trek, but it would be constantly malfunctioning. The automatic doors at Applied Cryogenics resemble those in [[wikipedia:Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek: The Original Series]]; however, they malfunction when Fry remarks on this similarity.<br />
*The introduction is reminiscent of [[wikipedia:Star Trek|Star Trek]] intros in TOS and [[wikipedia:Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]] ("Space: The Final Frontier..." becomes "Space: It seems to go on and on forever...") and has similar music and voice-over.<br />
*Leonard [[wikipedia:Spock|"Spock"]] Nimoy says that he no longer does the [[wikipedia:Vulcan Salute|Vulcan Salute]], 'Live Long and Prosper'.<br />
**It is presumed in this episode it is simply because he has no hands, but the truth behind this statement is seen in the future episode, {{elink|4ACV11|Where No Fan Has Gone Before}}.<br />
*The rows of jars containing heads, with the one jar containing Nimoy's head in front to greet people, is reminiscent of the original series Star Trek episode [[wikipedia:Return to Tomorrow|"Return To Tomorrow"]], where the alien minds were preserved in glowing spheres, with Sargon in the one sphere in front.<br />
*The relationship formed between Fry and Bender in this episode has been compared to the relationship between Will Robinson and the [[wikipedia:Robby the Robot|robot]] in [[wikipedia:Lost in Space|Lost in Space]].<br />
*When Fry walks out of the lab, an ad on a taxi behind him reads "Got [[wikipedia:Protoplasm|Protoplasm]]?", a reference to the series of [[wikipedia:Got Milk?|"Got Milk?"]] advertising slogans. <br />
*Another running gag of the series is Bender's fondness for Olde Fortran malt liquor, named after [[wikipedia:Olde English 800|Olde English 800]] malt liquor and the programming language [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran]]. The drink was first introduced in this episode and became so closely associated with the character that he was featured with a bottle in both the Rocket USA wind-up toy and the action figure released by Moore Action Collectibles.<br />
*In the earliest glimpse of the future while Fry is frozen in the cryonic chamber, time is seen passing outside the window until reaching the year 3000. This scene was inspired by a similar scene in the film [[wikipedia:The Time Machine (1960 film)|The Time Machine]] based on H.G. Wells' [[wikipedia:The Time Machine|novel]].<br />
*When Fry awakens in the year 2999, he is greeted with Terry's catchphrase "Welcome to the world of tomorrow." The scene is a joke at the expense of Futurama's namesake, the [[wikipedia:Futurama (New York World's Fair)|Futurama ride]] at the [[wikipedia:1939 New York World's Fair|1939 World's Fair]] whose tag line was "The World of Tomorrow".<br />
*The heads in jars in order shown: [[wikipedia:Johnny Carson|Johnny Carson]], [[wikipedia:Lucille Ball|Lucille Ball]], [[wikipedia:Ed Begley, Jr.|Ed Begley, Jr.]], [[wikipedia:David Duchovny|David Duchovny]], [[wikipedia:Gillian Anderson|Gillian Anderson]], [[wikipedia:Elizabeth Taylor|Elizabeth Taylor]], [[wikipedia:Dennis Rodman|Dennis Rodman]], [[wikipedia:Billy Corgan|Billy Corgan]], [[wikipedia:Matt Groening|Matt Groening]], [[wikipedia:Barbra Streisand|Barbra Streisand]], [[wikipedia:Rodney Dangerfield|Rodney Dangerfield]], a [[wikipedia:Hinduism|Hindu]] person (possibly [[wikipedia:Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Gandhi]]) and [[wikipedia:Dick Clark|Dick Clark]].<br />
**In the Hall of Presidents: [[wikipedia:Richard Nixon|Richard Nixon]], [[wikipedia:Gerald Ford|Gerald Ford]], [[wikipedia:Jimmy Carter|Jimmy Carter]], [[wikipedia:Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan]], [[wikipedia:George H. W. Bush|George H. W. Bush]], [[wikipedia:Bill Clinton|Bill Clinton]], [[wikipedia:Warren G. Harding|Warren G. Harding]], [[wikipedia:Andrew Jackson|Andrew Jackson]], [[wikipedia:Grover Cleveland|Grover Cleveland]] and [[wikipedia:Benjamin Harrison|Benjamin Harrison]].<br />
*There are numerous Simpsons references:<br />
**Rodney Dangerfield is drawn similar to his appearance in the Simpsons episode [[wikipedia:Burns, Baby Burns|Burns, Baby Burns]] as Larry Burns.<br />
**There's a [[wikipedia:Ralph Wiggum|Ralph Wiggum]]-like character when Fry rides the tube.<br />
**When Fry is going through the transport tubes, he passes by a three-eyed fish - which is [[wikipedia:List_of_animals_in_The_Simpsons#Blinky|Blinky]], from [[Simpsons connections|the Simpsons]].<br />
**Fry's middle initial is J. This seems to be a popular choice for Matt Groening characters, having used it for [[wikipedia:Homer Simpson|Homer]], [[wikipedia:Bart Simpson|Bart]] and [[wikipedia:Abraham Simpson|Grampa]] on The Simpsons. Matt uses the "J." middle name, referring to one of his favorite shows, [[wikipedia:The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show|The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show]].<br />
**The chef on the Panucci's Pizza box is very similar to the chef [[wikipedia:List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Luigi_Risotto|Luigi]] in the Simpsons.<br />
**In the Simpsons two part episode [[wikipedia:Who Shot Mr. Burns?|Who Shot Mr. Burns?]], [[wikipedia:Waylon Smithers|Smithers]] dreamt that [[wikipedia:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]] was in a race on the TV. The intro to the race was an information text saying "In Color". The same font and color like in Space Pilot 3000. It is also interesting to note that Who Shot Mr. Burns? aired four years before Space Pilot 3000 did.<br />
**Fry has 9 spikes in his hair just like Bart Simpson from Groening's hit show The Simpsons.<br />
*The film [[wikipedia:Sleeper (film)|Sleeper]] has much the same premise as this episode. Also, the suicide booths are similar to Sleeper's Orgasmatron.<br />
*The cryogenic chamber may be a reference to [[wikipedia:Red Dwarf|Red Dwarf]]. The main character [[wikipedia:Dave Lister|Lister]] is punished by being put in a cryogenic chamber for 15 years, except something goes wrong and everyone dies on the ship due to a fatal radiation leak. Lister is left for 3 million years until the ships computer decides that the radiation level is safe enough for him to be released.<br />
*When the head of Richard Nixon says "You just made my list!", this is a reference to the [[wikipedia:Watergate scandal|Watergate scandal]]. Nixon kept an "enemies list" of over 200 people whom he believed were part of a conspiracy against him.<br />
*The person who uses the [[Tube System|tube system]] before Fry says "Radio City Mutant Hall", a reference to [[wikipedia:Radio City Music Hall|Radio City Music Hall]] - but his original line was "JFK Junior Airport", a reference to the [[wikipedia:John F. Kennedy International Airport|John F. Kennedy International Airport]]. The line was changed after the death of [[wikipedia:John F. Kennedy, Jr.|John F. Kennedy, Jr.]] (though it can still be heard in the animatic).<br />
**Although the JFK Jr. reference has been dubbed out (even on the DVD) in the Spanish dubbed version of this episode the man can still be heard asking to be taken to JFK Jr. Airport.<br />
*[[wikipedia:Mystery Science Theater 3000|Mystery Science Theater 3000]] is referenced as the number "3000" is written on the moon. It looks like the MST3K logo, a planet with the name on it. It's even in the same font.<br />
*Fry is playing a video game called [[Monkey Fracas Jr.]] at the pizza place, narrating it as he plays. The game starts out as a space shooter similar to [[wikipedia:Asteroids (video game)|Asteroids]], [[wikipedia:Gradius|Gradius]] and/or [[wikipedia:Defender (video game)|Defender]], then approaches a Saturn-like planet at the end of the level. At that point, the planet breaks in half, and an ape resembling [[wikipedia:Donkey Kong (character)|Donkey Kong]] emerges. The ape throws barrels at the spaceship and destroys it. The game's name itself is a parody of [[wikipedia:Donkey Kong Junior|Donkey Kong, Jr]].<br />
*The gag of Fry & Bender hiding with their heads looking through shelves and being disguised by lots of other heads is from [[wikipedia:Young Frankenstein|Young Frankenstein]].'<br />
[[File:AKBAR.jpg|thumb|AKBAR sign.]]<br />
*''[[Star Wars]]'':<br />
**The police use sticks that resemble the [[Lightsaber]] from ''Star Wars''. Unlike their ''Star Wars'' counterparts, they are blunt weapons (like nightsticks/batons), rather than superheated blades.<br />
**When the policemen are beating Fry with their lightsaber clubs Leela says: "There is no need to use force" as a reference to {{sw|The Force}} in ''Star Wars''.<br />
**New New York is set out like {{sw|Coruscant}} (mostly in the [[Opening sequence]]). The Planet Express Ship's entry, in the opening sequence, seems to be a parody of the {{sw|Millennium Falcon}}'s entrance into {{sw|Cloud City}} in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}''.<br />
**A guy on a jet bike is wearing a helmet like {{sw|Leia Organa Solo|Leia}} wore in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi}}'' on the {{sw|Speeder bike}}.<br />
**The part where Fry gets hit in the head by the remote door is a possible reference to the scene in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope}}'', where {{sw|Unidentified head-bumping stormtrooper|one}} of the {{sw|Stormtrooper}}s accidentally bumps his head into a similar gadget.<br />
**A sign on the street says "AKBAR." {{sw|Ackbar|Admiral Ackbar}} is a character in ''Star Wars''. Though, it is more likely to be a reference to Akbar, a character in [[Matt Groening]]'s "{{w|Life in Hell}}" comic strip.<br />
*People have chips implanted in their hands like in [[wikipedia:Babylon 5|Babylon 5]].<br />
*[[wikipedia:Back to the Future (series)|Back to the Future]] references: Fry's character is based on [[wikipedia:Marty McFly|Marty McFly]], Fry shows a little kid how to play a video game, like Marty (in [[wikipedia:Back to the Future Part II|Back to the Future Part II]]), and when Fry runs out of the building to begin with, and looks around at New New York, like in Part II.<br />
*When they go underground to the old New York is like [[wikipedia:Beneath the Planet of the Apes|Beneath the Planet of the Apes]].<br />
*The countdown to the millennium occurred at the same time all over the world is like [[wikipedia:Doctor Who (1996 film)|Doctor Who (1996 film)]].<br />
*The underground old New York City is similar to the slums underneath the city plates in Midgar in [[wikipedia:Final Fantasy VII|Final Fantasy VII]].<br />
*The pneumatic tubes that transport people all over New New York are an allusion to [[wikipedia:Beach Pneumatic Transit|Beach Pneumatic Transit]], which was a failed attempt in 1870 by Alfred Ely Beach to move people around New York by air power.<br />
*The Robot Policeman, URL, says he would go "24th century on their ass." This being a reference to the 1994 film [[wikipedia:Pulp Fiction (film)|Pulp Fiction]] where the character Marsellus Wallace says to Zed and the Gimp "I'm a get medieval on yo' ass."<br />
*[[wikipedia:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] has a similar premise as this episode, the cynical Bender is much like [[wikipedia:Marvin the Paranoid Android|Marvin the Paranoid Android]] and the coffee machine in Professor Farnsworth's ship may be a reference to [[wikipedia:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe|The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]] in which a spaceship's specialty was producing hot drinks. <br />
*The way Bender swallows his empty liquor bottle is reminiscent of a robot in the Isaac Azimov novel, [[wikipedia:The Caves of Steel|The Caves of Steel]]<br />
*Implanting a 'fate chip' in the palm of your right hand is from [[wikipedia:Logan's Run|Logan's Run]].<br />
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===Goofs===<br />
*David Duchovny is seen in the Head Museum, but [[Calculon]] claims to be him in {{elink|2ACV18|The Honking}}.<br />
*Before Fry enters the travel tube it went up and sideways not straight up as we see later in the next scene.<br />
*At the Cryogenic facility, right where Fry shouts "Pizza delivery for..." the desk is positioned almost parallel to the window, but when Fry sits down at the desk, its positioned perpendicular to the window.<br />
*In the 2999 countdown, Bender pulls the arms off the chair he was sitting on. A moment later, an armchair is missing.<br />
*Leela wasn't wearing a ring prior to the handholding scene with Fry.<br />
*After Bender gives Leela her ring back she puts it on, but then a second later it's gone.<br />
*They misspelled "Barbara" Streisand. It's actually Barbra.<br />
*When Leela calls for backup, her [[wristlojackimator]] is on the wrong wrist.<br />
*Bender breaks two bars from the window when they are trapped in the cellar. In the next shot, he holds the bars, but they have re-appeared back in the window.<br />
*The crowds in [[Paris]] at the New Year's countdowns for {{year|2000|1999/2000}} and {{year|3000|2999/3000}} are identical.<br />
*It's dark outside in New York at midnight when Fry is frozen, but a long shot of the planet actually shows the eastern half of the United States as being in sunlight.<br />
*Fry wasn't frozen for exactly 1000 years, as he was frozen at mid-night in 1999 but was un-frozen during the day in 2999. This may be explained by the leap days/seconds/weeks/years (more on [[wikipedia:Leap year|''Wikipedia'']]).<br />
*When Fry and Bender are at the bar, the barman hands Bender a bottle of liquor. He takes a big swig of it, but the level in the bottle remains the same.<br />
*The year 2000 or 3000 are not the start of the new century or millennium contrary to what "Space Pilot 3000" says. In the Gregorian Calendar, this distinction falls to the year 2001/3001, because the first century began with year AD 1 (there was no year zero), and the thousand years spanned to years 1-1001.<br />
**Though, it is only Fry that specifically mentions it is a new millennium, which was commonly accepted among people that 1999/2000 was a change to a new millennium. One can suggest that the first millennium only contained 999 years and be done with it.<br />
*When Fry is queueing for the booth, he opens the piece of paper, showing the picture and writing. Just before he steps in to the booth, it's changed colour and gone blank, then in the next shot it's back as before.<br />
*When Fry falls into the cryogenic chamber his whistle drops right next to the chair. When it cuts, the whistle is gone.<br />
*The [[career chips]] system introduced here contradicts several times throughout the series through job changes, incompetents, examples of a free market economy and references to the Earthican dream. Supposedly, you are required to work the job you have the chip for and the assignment is permanent.<br />
*There is a bad framing error when Bender was carrying Farnsworth onto the ship.<br />
*During the Countdown at '9' when they showed Egypt, the people didn't seem to resemble Egyptians.<br />
*Since New New York was built on top of Old New York, the building the cryogenic lab was in should have been underground as well.<br />
*Prof. Farnsworth's slippers change color and shape from one scene to the next.<br />
*The last set of buildings built before Fry wakes up look different than it does when Fry wakes up and looks out the window.<br />
*Fry mentions Star trek without getting arrested.<br />
**However, when the door hits him, it cuts him off before he finishes the words.<br />
*When Fry falls in the cryogenic tube, he quickly hits the ground, flips upside down, and finally stops once he hits the inside of the tube. If that had really happened, the beer in the can he's holding would have spilled all over him.<br />
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===Alien Language Sightings===<br />
'''Time''':10:27<br /><br />
'''Location''': Slurm advertisement in O'Zorgnax's Pub<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': DRINK<br />
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'''Time''':15:26<br /><br />
'''Location''': Graffiti in alleyway<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': VENUSIANS GO HOME [[:Image:Venusians Go Home.jpg|''(Image)'']]<br />
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'''Time''':19:11<br /><br />
'''Location''': Aliens counting down to 3000<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': "6" and "7"<br />
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==Characters==<br />
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*[[20th Century kid]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Bike thief]]<br />
*[[Dave Borden]] (in script)<br />
*[[Dick Clark's head]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Ipgee]]<br />
*[[Leonard Nimoy]]<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*[[Michelle]]<br />
*[[Mr. Panucci]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]] (unofficial)<br />
*[[Number 9 Man]]<br />
*[[Poster Guy]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Smitty and Url]]<br />
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==Episode Credits==<br />
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*Writers<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
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**[[Kath Soucie]]<br />
*Special Guests<br />
**[[Dick Clark's head|Dick Clark]]<br />
**[[Leonard Nimoy]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Gregg Vanzo]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
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|first aired=28 March, 1999<br />
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|directed by=[[Rich Moore]]<br />[[Gregg Vanzo]]<br />
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"'''Space Pilot 3000'''" is the first and pilot episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' and of the [[Season 1|first season]]. It aired 28 March, 1999 on FOX. It guest stars [[Leonard Nimoy]] and [[Dick Clark's head|Dick Clark]] as themselves in [[Head Jars|jars]]. [[Philip J. Fry]], a [[Old New York|New York]] pizza delivery boy winds up in a [[Applied Cryogenics|cryogenics lab]] and wakes up a thousand years later, where he meets [[Turanga Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez]], whom all apply for a job at [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]'s [[Planet Express]].<br />
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==The Story==<br />
[[Image:Frozen Fry.jpg|left|thumb|Fry being frozen]]<br />
===Act I: "Here's to another lousy millennium!"===<br />
Pizza delivery boy [[Philip J. Fry]] hates his life; he has to deliver a pizza without pay, [[Michelle|his girlfriend]] dumps him, and his bike is stolen, and it all happens on [[New Year, 3000|New Year's]] Eve of [[Timeline|2000]]. The pizza goes to someone named "[[I. C. Wiener]]" in a [[Applied Cryogenics|cryogenics lab]], where Fry soon realises that it was a prank call. He sits down and drinks one of the beers, toasting to "another lousy millennium." The bell tolls midnight and he unenthusiastically blows a noise maker when it knocks back in his face, causing him to fall backwards into a cryogenics tube. The tube sets itself for a thousand years and Fry is frozen. As he lies in wait for the next thousand years, the city of [[Old New York|New York]] changes&mdash;it is [[The First Destruction of New York City|destroyed]] by a group of [[Bender|mysterious spaceships]]. It is rebuilt into primitive Medieval-era castles, only to be destroyed again by more ships. By the time Fry awakens, he sees that New York has become an [[New New York|extremely futuristic metropolis]] and immediately deduces that he is in the future. He realizes that he will never see his friends, family and girlfriend again...and he couldn't be any happier. The [[Opening Sequence]] rolls.<br />
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===Act II: "Have a nice future!"===<br />
Fry is greeted by two workers at the lab&mdash;[[Terry|one of them]] gives an extremely melodramatic greeting ("Welcome to the world of tomorrow!"). He is escorted to the Fate Assignment Officer's Office where he meets [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], a beautiful woman with a huge eye in the center of her face, who explains that it is December 31, 2999.<br />
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A DNA scan reveals that he has only living relative in this time period: his many times great nephew [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]. Fry begins looking forward to his life in the future until Leela assigns him a permanent career as a delivery boy. Fry refuses to be a delivery boy again, but Leela says that everyone&mdash;even herself&mdash;has do do a job whether they like it or not, coining the phrase, "You gotta do what you gotta do." She tries to implant a [[career chip|chip]] that will label Fry a delivery boy forever, but Fry runs away. Leela ends up falling into one of the cryogenic tubes during the ensuing chase, which sets itself for 1000 years much like Fry's tube. Fry prepares to leave frozen there but, out of the goodness in his heart, decides to reset the tube to defrost her in 5 minutes before he leaves the lab.<br />
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After witnessing the wonders of the city and how it has changed, he decides to call his descendant Farnsworth. He gets in line for what he thinks is a phone booth and meets a robot named [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] waiting in line. It turns out the phone booth is actually a [[Suicide Booth]], and that Bender is eagerly awaiting his death, but they both manage to avoid death. Having failed at suicide again, Bender invites Fry to get drunk with him at a bar. Fry finds out that Bender wants to kill himself because of his programming as a girder-bender for Suicide Booths. Fry convinces Bender to abandon his plans at suicide and the two become friends when Leela finds them.<br />
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===Act III: "Welcome to the head museum."===<br />
[[File:Leonard Nimoy.jpg|right|thumb|[[Leonard Nimoy]] at the [[Head Museum]].]]<br />
Fry and Bender duck into the [[Head Museum]] to hide and are greeted by [[Leonard Nimoy|Leonard Nimoy's head]]. Leela, along with two police officers [[Smitty]] and [[URL]], finds the group in the museum, where Fry accidentally bumps into the shelves, knocking [[Richard Nixon's head]] down and provoking him to attack. Smitty and URL begin to use excessive force on Fry, but Leela tries to convince them to stop. After the officers insult her appearance (she actually took offense to a statement about her nose instead of her eye), and Leela knocks them out, prompting Fry and Bender to run for it. Leela demands to know why the officers would beat Fry like that&mdash;they explain that it's their job, saying "[they] gotta do what [they] gotta do."<br />
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Fry and Bender lock themselves in a room from Leela. Fry notices that there is a barred window and that Bender can bend the bars so they can escape, but Bender is unable to comply, saying he is only programmed to bend for construction. Fry, however, convinces him to break free from his dependency on his programming, and Bender manages to bend the bars apart, reaching the epiphany of bending whatever, whenever, and whoever he pleases. They go deep underground to the ruins of Old New York, where Fry realizes that he has lost everything he left behind in the past. Leela once again catches up with them, but Fry decides to give in to his fate as a delivery boy. But instead of implanting the career chip, Leela sympathizes his loneliness, saying that [[Turanga Morris and Munda|her parents]] abandoned her as a baby, thus giving her an unclear perspective of her heritage. She removes her own chip, thus quitting her job, and thanks Fry for helping her realize the nonsensicality of the quote "You gotta do what you gotta do," much like he did for Bender.<br />
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===Act IV: "We have you partially surrounded!"===<br />
Since all three have quit their jobs, Fry, Bender, and Leela realize that they are now fugitives of the law, so they hide at [[Planet Express]] where Fry's nephew Professor Farnsworth lives. After confirming his connection to Fry for himself, the Professor shows them his [[Planet Express Ship|intergalactic spaceship]]. The building is then (partially) surrounded by the police, so they use the ship to escape. While they take off, the police open fire&mdash;but the bell tolls the year [[Timeline|3000]], and the ship cannot be seen through the fireworks. Fry, Bender and Leela begin to ponder their lives as they are now unemployed until the Professor decides to hire them for an interplanetary delivery service he founded to fund his work. He even kept the career chips of his old crew as they had apparently been devoured by a [[Space Wasp|space wasp]] (in actuality they had been stung to death by [[Space Bee|space bees]]). Fry is assigned to be a delivery boy...and he couldn't be happier.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
[[File:Fry Frozen, time lapse.png|thumb|left|The time lapse effect while Fry is frozen was inspired by ''{{w|The Time Machine (1960 film)|The Time Machine}}''.<ref name="com-mg"/>]]<br />
The script for "Space Pilot 3000" went through several major changes during the writing sessions, and combined they had up to two hours worth of material.<ref name="com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref><br />
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From early on, it was important to established the new major change in Fry's life, that he had come to the future, before the [[opening sequence]] of the show.<ref name="com-mg">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Groening|Matt}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> But Fry's way to the [[Applied Cryogenics]]' tube and afterwards to [[Planet Express]] changed a lot during the script.<ref name="com-dxc"/><ref name="com-mg"/><br />
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In an early script, Fry was supposedly a watchman at Applied Cryogenics, and wasn't a delivery boy at all,<ref name="com-dxc"/> something which obviously became a major plot device in the final episode. After coming out of the tube, an early script had him being sold for organs to the professor at an auction,<ref name="com-dxc"/> or one where he was forced immediately to Ellis Island and the [[Statue of Liberty]] cut him.<ref name="com-dxc"/><br />
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The man entering the [[tube system]] was originally supposed to be saying "JFK, Jr. Airport",<ref name="animatic">{{cite animatic |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref><ref name="com-jd">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|DiMaggio|John}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> but the line was changed to "Radio City Mutant Hall" after {{w|John F. Kennedy, Jr.}}'s death in 1999, and since his death was in a plane crash and the line was about an airport, they felt it was too close to keep,<ref name="com-dxc"/> but it actually made it through one airing.<ref name="com-dxc"/><br />
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The pilot episode was also used to establish the [[Alien Language 1|first alien language]], by introducing a sign saying "Drink [[Slurm]]" in plain English, and one where "Drink" was written using AL1 glyphs.<ref name="com-dxc"/> Unfortunately, for the show's makers, fans had broken the entire language a few hours after its first airing, and also cracked the "Venusians go home" line later in the episode.<ref name="com-dxc"/> This led them to create the [[Alien Language 2|second alien language]], which would first appear in much later episodes, which were intended to be a lot harder than AL1.<ref name="com-dxc"/> But even that was cracked, but only after a few months.<ref name="com-dxc"/><br />
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When establishing a pilot episode, the writers decided to put in little secrets around the episode, that they would be able to pay off later.<ref name="com-mg"/> Though, while they on the [[Commentary:Space Pilot 3000|commentary]] say "secret" a lot, only [[Nibbler's shadow]] has been a thing they have paid off from the pilot episode, and it may be possible to question whether there actually was more.<br />
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[[File:Planet Express ship leaving Earth on New Year's Eve, 3000.png|thumb|right|The final shot where the [[Planet Express ship]] flies out made [[Gregg Vanzo]] fear whether they were capable of maintaining this production level on a weekly basis.<ref name="com-gv"/>]]<br />
The [[probulator]] scene was also supposed to be much longer,<ref name="animatic"/> with certain flashbacks to Fry's past being shown to the viewer before progressing into the story, but this was too long as was scrapped in the final version,<ref name="com-dxc"/> but several of these flashback stories of [[Fry's past]] later turned into a [[story arc]].<br />
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Animation wise, the pilot episode was also hard, as the show required more 3D than the producers, writers and animators had been used to, particularly from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.<ref name="com-gv">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Vanzo|Gregg}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> The opening sequence alone was directed by Mike Smith,<ref name="com-rm">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Moore|Rich}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> and there was original fear about the opening sequence being too fast compared to the other opening sequences of the day.<ref name="com-rm"/> The theme music, as well as the rest of the music on ''Futurama'' was done by [[Christopher Tyng]].<ref name="com-mg"/><br />
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Leela's nose had apparently become a heated argument between the animators and [[Matt Groening]],<ref name="com-mg"/> he wanted her nose to be of a larger than usual size for cartoon heroines, but the animators tried to draw it smaller because they felt it looked hideous.<ref name="com-mg"/><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
"Space Pilot 3000" aired on 28 March, 1999, 20:30 between ''The Simpsons'' and ''X-Files''. In an review by Patric Lee for ''Science Fiction Weekly'', who had only seen the first episode at the time of publication, described ''Futurama'' as a clever upstart, but did not feel it was as funny as its predecessor, though, it was certainly worthy of further viewings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue101/screen.html |title=The future's not what it used to be |author=Lee, Patric |date=1999-03-22 |publisher=Science Fiction Weekly |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> Rob Owen for ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' noted that the episode contained a similar skewed humor as ''The Simpsons'', but felt it was not as funny and smart, however he attributed these issues to the fact that the pilot episode served for a lot of character introduction, and he felt that the show was "off to a good start".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/tv/19990326rob4.asp |title=Simpsons meet the Jetsons; 'The Devil's Arithmetic' |author=Owen, Rob |date=1999-03-26 |publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref><br />
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Andrew Billen of ''New Statesman'' considered the first episode unoriginal, but praised its humorous background jokes such as during the sequence when Fry is frozen, but also criticised its use of in-jokes, such as [[Matt Groening]]'s head at the [[Head Museum]]. He remained somewhat enthusiastic about the show.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/199909270044 |title=Laughing matters |author=Billen, Andrew |date=1999-09-27 |publisher=New Statesman |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> Joyce Millman from ''Salon Entertainment'', on the other hand, praised the pilot's perception of American culture and the show's premise.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.salon.com/ent/tv/mill/1999/03/cov_26mill.html |title=That 31st century show |author=Millman, Joyce |publisher=Salon Entertainment |date=1999-03-26 |accessdate=2009-04-15}}</ref><br />
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Despite airing between ''The Simpsons'' and ''X-Files'' it was Fox's most viewed show that evening, and gained exceptional high numbers according to {{w|Nielsen Ratings}} with 11.2/17 in homes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117492811.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 |title=Fox sees 'Futurama' and it works |author=Bierbaum, Tom |date=1999-03-30 |publisher=Variety |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> And was in fact the most viewed pilot episode on Fox when it aired.<br />
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In 2006, IGN ranked it as the 14th best episode on its 25 best ''Futurama'' episode list.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html |title=Top 25 Futurama Episodes |author=Iverson, Dan |publisher=IGN |date=2006-07-07 |accessdate=2009-04-26}}</ref><br />
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==Additional Info==<br />
===Trivia===<br />
[[Image:Futuramapilot.jpg|right|thumbnail|The poster for this episode]]<br />
*The first shot of New New York was also the first 3D sequence in the show, and an experiment of sorts.<br />
*Leela is officer 1BDI ("one beady eye")<br />
*This episode is one of two episodes that do not feature [[Dr. Zoidberg]], the other being {{elink|1ACV11|Mars University}}.<br />
*It took the cartoonists over 2 years to come up with the look of the characters on the show.<br />
*In the intro, the Statue of Liberty holds a gun in her torch hand, but during the episode, in the future, she is holding part of the [[Tube Transport System|travel tube]]<br />
*The Original Alien Language devised by the writers and hidden throughout the episode was solved completely by fans after only the first and one airing. The Second language took several months<br />
*When Fry is delivering the pizza, he passes by a sign written in Chinese. When translated, the characters say "fire" and "women." This probably being loosely translated to mean 'hot women'.<br />
*Even though the show is supposed to begin in our time (1999), it is still in the future. (It premiered in March, showing December in the show.)<br />
*In the rough draft version of the script, Michelle was named Janet, and Fry was actually named Curtis Fry. It was changed to Philip in honour of Phil Hartman, who was set to have a recurring role as Zapp Brannigan on the series until his unfortunate death.<br />
*John DiMaggio (Bender) had originally auditioned for the voice of the Professor, and co-creator David X. Cohen had actually considered doing the voice of Bender<br />
*This was voted the best episode of [[Futurama]] during the Adult Swim marathon.<br />
*The ship of the game Monkey Fracas Jr., at the start of the show, is the Planet Express ship.<br />
*This episode is the highest rated Pilot episode in the history of the [[wikipedia:Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox Broadcasting Company]].<br />
*URL says he going to "get 24th century on his ass"; "get 24th century" has the same meaning as "get medieval." And partway through Fry's suspension, possibly around the 24th century, there was a medieval-type period, with New York rebuilt as castles before being destroyed again and rebuilt as the futuristic city.<br />
*Bender takes Fry to hide inside the Head Museum saying, "It's Free on Tuesdays." 31 December 2999 will, in fact, be a Tuesday.<br />
*Bender excretes a brick, a reference to a common [[Wikipedia:Shit#Surprise|slang phrase]]. He continually does this throughout the series when scared.<br />
*During the countdown scene at the end of the episode (in the year 2999), France is shown, yet the inhabitants there use the English language instead of [[French]]. It is assumed that French in the future is a dead language; this idea is supported in a later episode where Professor Farnsworth invents a universal translator that can only translate into "an incomprehensible dead language".<br />
*The places in the first countdown scene appear in this order:<br />
**[[Old New York|New York]]; [[wikipedia:United States|USA]]<br />
**[[Paris]], [[wikipedia:France|France]], [[wikipedia:Eiffel Tower|Eiffel Tower]] Backdrop<br />
**[[wikipedia:Rome|Rome]], [[wikipedia:Italy|Italy]], [[wikipedia:Pope|Pope]] on Balcony turning "Calendar" of Roman Numerals<br />
**[[wikipedia:Cairo|Cairo]], [[wikipedia:Egypt|Egypt]], Desert, [[wikipedia:Great Sphinx of Giza|Sphinx]] and the other three Pyramids as backdrop<br />
**[[wikipedia:Athens|Athens]], [[wikipedia:Greece|Greece]], [[wikipedia:Acropolis|Acropolis]] as backdrop, two highlights next on the sides of it<br />
**[[wikipedia:China|China]], [[wikipedia:Great Wall of China|Great Wall]]<br />
**[[wikipedia:India|India]], [[wikipedia:Taj Mahal|Taj Mahal]], some people counting down in Water<br />
**Small tribal village, [[wikipedia:Africa|Africa]]<br />
**[[wikipedia:Tokyo|Tokyo]], [[wikipedia:Japan|Japan]], very similar to New York shot except for the Japanese handwriting font<br />
**The entire Earth, shot from space.<br />
*All the people in line before Fry select the "quick and painless" method of killing themselves.<br />
*If one looks closely at Leela's computer screen, it actually reveals that Fry's full name is "Phillip J. Fry", which becomes an established fact in {{elink|2ACV15|The Problem with Popplers}} (however, his name is spelled with two L's instead of one). His blood type is said to be 'B'.<br />
*The tube Fry falls in is number 40.<br />
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===Quotes===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Space, it seems to go on forever. But then you get to the end and the gorilla starts throwin' barrels at you.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'm sure this must be very upsetting for you.<br />
'''Fry''': Y'know, I guess it should be but, actually, I'm glad. I had nothing to live for in my old life. I was broke, I had a humiliating job and I was beginning to suspect my girlfriend might be cheating on me.<br />
'''Leela''': Well, at least here you'll be treated with dignity. Now strip naked and get on the probulator.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Bite my shiny metal ass!<br />
'''Fry''': It doesn't look so shiny to me.<br />
'''Bender''': Shinier than yours, meatbag.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': ''[Fry has just been unfrozen]'' My god! It's the future! My parents! My coworkers! My girlfriend... I'll never see any of them again. ''[pause]'' YAHOO!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': What if i don't want to be a delivery boy?<br />
'''Leela''': Then you'll be fired...<br />
'''Fry''': Fine.<br />
'''Leela''': ... out of a cannon into the sun.</poem><br />
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===Continuity===<br />
*{{elink|2ACV06|The Lesser of Two Evils}}<br />
**Bender believes a phone booth is a Suicide Booth, similar to what Fry did.<br />
*{{elink|2ACV10|A Clone of My Own}}<br />
**Leela's (lacking) depth perception is mentioned again.<br />
**French is proved to be a dead language.<br />
*{{elink|2ACV19|The Cryonic Woman}}<br />
**A couple passes by Fry, when he is walking, wearing mostly transparent clothing, censored with black bars.<br />
**These people have moved to [[Los Angeles]] by the events of [[2ACV19]]<br />
*{{elink|4ACV02|Leela's Homeworld}}<br />
**Leela's single eye is explained.<br />
*{{elink|4ACV10|The Why of Fry}}<br />
**The shadow under the desk Fry sits at is explained.<br />
*{{elink|4ACV12|The Sting}}<br />
**More information about the Professor's old crew is revealed.<br />
*{{flink|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
**It is revealed that Bender is the one who [[The First Destruction of New York City|destroyed New York]] the first time.<br />
*{{flink|The Beast with a Billion Backs}}<br />
**Bender visits a suicide booth again and even does the coin-on-a-string trick again.<br />
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===Allusions===<br />
*The space ships destroying the cities were similar to the ones in [[wikipedia:The War of the Worlds (1953 film)|The War of the Worlds]].<br />
*The first scene (Fry teaching a kid how to play a video game) might be a reference to [[wikipedia:WarGames|WarGames]]. In the movie, the first scene with David Lightman has him playing [[wikipedia:Galaga|Galaga]]. He has to go and gives control of the game to a kid.<br />
*One of the billboards in the future shows [[wikipedia:Angelyne|Angelyne]], a real-life busty female entertainer that has billboards hanging around the Los Angeles area. In the cartoon billboard, she's hooked up to some sort of respirator.<br />
*According to Groening, the inspiration for the suicide booth was the 1937 [[wikipedia:Donald Duck|Donald Duck]] cartoon, [[wikipedia:Modern Inventions|"Modern Inventions"]], in which the Duck is faced with—and nearly killed several times by—various push button gadgets in a Museum of the Future.<br />
*Professor Farnsworth is named after the inventor [[wikipedia:Philo Farnsworth|Philo Farnsworth]], a Utah native and television pioneer whose invention was premiered at the 1939 New York World's Fair, along with the Futurama exhibit.<br />
*The feeding lady at the head museum is wearing a uniform like that at the corn-dog specific restaurant, [[wikipedia:Hot Dog on a Stick|Hot Dog on a Stick]].<br />
*Fry's outfit is based on James Dean in [[wikipedia:Rebel Without a Cause|Rebel Without a Cause]].<br />
*In addition to the setting, part of the original concept for the show was that there would be a lot of advanced technology similar to that seen in Star Trek, but it would be constantly malfunctioning. The automatic doors at Applied Cryogenics resemble those in [[wikipedia:Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek: The Original Series]]; however, they malfunction when Fry remarks on this similarity.<br />
*The introduction is reminiscent of [[wikipedia:Star Trek|Star Trek]] intros in TOS and [[wikipedia:Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]] ("Space: The Final Frontier..." becomes "Space: It seems to go on and on forever...") and has similar music and voice-over.<br />
*Leonard [[wikipedia:Spock|"Spock"]] Nimoy says that he no longer does the [[wikipedia:Vulcan Salute|Vulcan Salute]], 'Live Long and Prosper'.<br />
**It is presumed in this episode it is simply because he has no hands, but the truth behind this statement is seen in the future episode, {{elink|4ACV11|Where No Fan Has Gone Before}}.<br />
*The rows of jars containing heads, with the one jar containing Nimoy's head in front to greet people, is reminiscent of the original series Star Trek episode [[wikipedia:Return to Tomorrow|"Return To Tomorrow"]], where the alien minds were preserved in glowing spheres, with Sargon in the one sphere in front.<br />
*The relationship formed between Fry and Bender in this episode has been compared to the relationship between Will Robinson and the [[wikipedia:Robby the Robot|robot]] in [[wikipedia:Lost in Space|Lost in Space]].<br />
*When Fry walks out of the lab, an ad on a taxi behind him reads "Got [[wikipedia:Protoplasm|Protoplasm]]?", a reference to the series of [[wikipedia:Got Milk?|"Got Milk?"]] advertising slogans. <br />
*Another running gag of the series is Bender's fondness for Olde Fortran malt liquor, named after [[wikipedia:Olde English 800|Olde English 800]] malt liquor and the programming language [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran]]. The drink was first introduced in this episode and became so closely associated with the character that he was featured with a bottle in both the Rocket USA wind-up toy and the action figure released by Moore Action Collectibles.<br />
*In the earliest glimpse of the future while Fry is frozen in the cryonic chamber, time is seen passing outside the window until reaching the year 3000. This scene was inspired by a similar scene in the film [[wikipedia:The Time Machine (1960 film)|The Time Machine]] based on H.G. Wells' [[wikipedia:The Time Machine|novel]].<br />
*When Fry awakens in the year 2999, he is greeted with Terry's catchphrase "Welcome to the world of tomorrow." The scene is a joke at the expense of Futurama's namesake, the [[wikipedia:Futurama (New York World's Fair)|Futurama ride]] at the [[wikipedia:1939 New York World's Fair|1939 World's Fair]] whose tag line was "The World of Tomorrow".<br />
*The heads in jars in order shown: [[wikipedia:Johnny Carson|Johnny Carson]], [[wikipedia:Lucille Ball|Lucille Ball]], [[wikipedia:Ed Begley, Jr.|Ed Begley, Jr.]], [[wikipedia:David Duchovny|David Duchovny]], [[wikipedia:Gillian Anderson|Gillian Anderson]], [[wikipedia:Elizabeth Taylor|Elizabeth Taylor]], [[wikipedia:Dennis Rodman|Dennis Rodman]], [[wikipedia:Billy Corgan|Billy Corgan]], [[wikipedia:Matt Groening|Matt Groening]], [[wikipedia:Barbra Streisand|Barbra Streisand]], [[wikipedia:Rodney Dangerfield|Rodney Dangerfield]], a [[wikipedia:Hinduism|Hindu]] person (possibly [[wikipedia:Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Gandhi]]) and [[wikipedia:Dick Clark|Dick Clark]].<br />
**In the Hall of Presidents: [[wikipedia:Richard Nixon|Richard Nixon]], [[wikipedia:Gerald Ford|Gerald Ford]], [[wikipedia:Jimmy Carter|Jimmy Carter]], [[wikipedia:Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan]], [[wikipedia:George H. W. Bush|George H. W. Bush]], [[wikipedia:Bill Clinton|Bill Clinton]], [[wikipedia:Warren G. Harding|Warren G. Harding]], [[wikipedia:Andrew Jackson|Andrew Jackson]], [[wikipedia:Grover Cleveland|Grover Cleveland]] and [[wikipedia:Benjamin Harrison|Benjamin Harrison]].<br />
*There are numerous Simpsons references:<br />
**Rodney Dangerfield is drawn similar to his appearance in the Simpsons episode [[wikipedia:Burns, Baby Burns|Burns, Baby Burns]] as Larry Burns.<br />
**There's a [[wikipedia:Ralph Wiggum|Ralph Wiggum]]-like character when Fry rides the tube.<br />
**When Fry is going through the transport tubes, he passes by a three-eyed fish - which is [[wikipedia:List_of_animals_in_The_Simpsons#Blinky|Blinky]], from [[Simpsons connections|the Simpsons]].<br />
**Fry's middle initial is J. This seems to be a popular choice for Matt Groening characters, having used it for [[wikipedia:Homer Simpson|Homer]], [[wikipedia:Bart Simpson|Bart]] and [[wikipedia:Abraham Simpson|Grampa]] on The Simpsons. Matt uses the "J." middle name, referring to one of his favorite shows, [[wikipedia:The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show|The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show]].<br />
**The chef on the Panucci's Pizza box is very similar to the chef [[wikipedia:List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Luigi_Risotto|Luigi]] in the Simpsons.<br />
**In the Simpsons two part episode [[wikipedia:Who Shot Mr. Burns?|Who Shot Mr. Burns?]], [[wikipedia:Waylon Smithers|Smithers]] dreamt that [[wikipedia:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]] was in a race on the TV. The intro to the race was an information text saying "In Color". The same font and color like in Space Pilot 3000. It is also interesting to note that Who Shot Mr. Burns? aired four years before Space Pilot 3000 did.<br />
**Fry has 9 spikes in his hair just like Bart Simpson from Groening's hit show The Simpsons.<br />
*The film [[wikipedia:Sleeper (film)|Sleeper]] has much the same premise as this episode. Also, the suicide booths are similar to Sleeper's Orgasmatron.<br />
*The cryogenic chamber may be a reference to [[wikipedia:Red Dwarf|Red Dwarf]]. The main character [[wikipedia:Dave Lister|Lister]] is punished by being put in a cryogenic chamber for 15 years, except something goes wrong and everyone dies on the ship due to a fatal radiation leak. Lister is left for 3 million years until the ships computer decides that the radiation level is safe enough for him to be released.<br />
*When the head of Richard Nixon says "You just made my list!", this is a reference to the [[wikipedia:Watergate scandal|Watergate scandal]]. Nixon kept an "enemies list" of over 200 people whom he believed were part of a conspiracy against him.<br />
*The person who uses the [[Tube System|tube system]] before Fry says "Radio City Mutant Hall", a reference to [[wikipedia:Radio City Music Hall|Radio City Music Hall]] - but his original line was "JFK Junior Airport", a reference to the [[wikipedia:John F. Kennedy International Airport|John F. Kennedy International Airport]]. The line was changed after the death of [[wikipedia:John F. Kennedy, Jr.|John F. Kennedy, Jr.]] (though it can still be heard in the animatic).<br />
**Although the JFK Jr. reference has been dubbed out (even on the DVD) in the Spanish dubbed version of this episode the man can still be heard asking to be taken to JFK Jr. Airport.<br />
*[[wikipedia:Mystery Science Theater 3000|Mystery Science Theater 3000]] is referenced as the number "3000" is written on the moon. It looks like the MST3K logo, a planet with the name on it. It's even in the same font.<br />
*Fry is playing a video game called [[Monkey Fracas Jr.]] at the pizza place, narrating it as he plays. The game starts out as a space shooter similar to [[wikipedia:Asteroids (video game)|Asteroids]], [[wikipedia:Gradius|Gradius]] and/or [[wikipedia:Defender (video game)|Defender]], then approaches a Saturn-like planet at the end of the level. At that point, the planet breaks in half, and an ape resembling [[wikipedia:Donkey Kong (character)|Donkey Kong]] emerges. The ape throws barrels at the spaceship and destroys it. The game's name itself is a parody of [[wikipedia:Donkey Kong Junior|Donkey Kong, Jr]].<br />
*The gag of Fry & Bender hiding with their heads looking through shelves and being disguised by lots of other heads is from [[wikipedia:Young Frankenstein|Young Frankenstein]].'<br />
[[File:AKBAR.jpg|thumb|AKBAR sign.]]<br />
*''[[Star Wars]]'':<br />
**The police use sticks that resemble the [[Lightsaber]] from ''Star Wars''. Unlike their ''Star Wars'' counterparts, they are blunt weapons (like nightsticks/batons), rather than superheated blades.<br />
**When the policemen are beating Fry with their lightsaber clubs Leela says: "There is no need to use force" as a reference to {{sw|The Force}} in ''Star Wars''.<br />
**New New York is set out like {{sw|Coruscant}} (mostly in the [[Opening sequence]]). The Planet Express Ship's entry, in the opening sequence, seems to be a parody of the {{sw|Millennium Falcon}}'s entrance into {{sw|Cloud City}} in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}''.<br />
**A guy on a jet bike is wearing a helmet like {{sw|Leia Organa Solo|Leia}} wore in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi}}'' on the {{sw|Speeder bike}}.<br />
**The part where Fry gets hit in the head by the remote door is a possible reference to the scene in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope}}'', where {{sw|Unidentified head-bumping stormtrooper|one}} of the {{sw|Stormtrooper}}s accidentally bumps his head into a similar gadget.<br />
**A sign on the street says "AKBAR." {{sw|Ackbar|Admiral Ackbar}} is a character in ''Star Wars''. Though, it is more likely to be a reference to Akbar, a character in [[Matt Groening]]'s "{{w|Life in Hell}}" comic strip.<br />
*People have chips implanted in their hands like in [[wikipedia:Babylon 5|Babylon 5]].<br />
*[[wikipedia:Back to the Future (series)|Back to the Future]] references: Fry's character is based on [[wikipedia:Marty McFly|Marty McFly]], Fry shows a little kid how to play a video game, like Marty (in [[wikipedia:Back to the Future Part II|Back to the Future Part II]]), and when Fry runs out of the building to begin with, and looks around at New New York, like in Part II.<br />
*When they go underground to the old New York is like [[wikipedia:Beneath the Planet of the Apes|Beneath the Planet of the Apes]].<br />
*The countdown to the millennium occurred at the same time all over the world is like [[wikipedia:Doctor Who (1996 film)|Doctor Who (1996 film)]].<br />
*The underground old New York City is similar to the slums underneath the city plates in Midgar in [[wikipedia:Final Fantasy VII|Final Fantasy VII]].<br />
*The pneumatic tubes that transport people all over New New York are an allusion to [[wikipedia:Beach Pneumatic Transit|Beach Pneumatic Transit]], which was a failed attempt in 1870 by Alfred Ely Beach to move people around New York by air power.<br />
*The Robot Policeman, URL, says he would go "24th century on their ass." This being a reference to the 1994 film [[wikipedia:Pulp Fiction (film)|Pulp Fiction]] where the character Marsellus Wallace says to Zed and the Gimp "I'm a get medieval on yo' ass."<br />
*[[wikipedia:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] has a similar premise as this episode, the cynical Bender is much like [[wikipedia:Marvin the Paranoid Android|Marvin the Paranoid Android]] and the coffee machine in Professor Farnsworth's ship may be a reference to [[wikipedia:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe|The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]] in which a spaceship's specialty was producing hot drinks. <br />
*The way Bender swallows his empty liquor bottle is reminiscent of a robot in the Isaac Azimov novel, [[wikipedia:The Caves of Steel|The Caves of Steel]]<br />
*Implanting a 'fate chip' in the palm of your right hand is from [[wikipedia:Logan's Run|Logan's Run]].<br />
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===Goofs===<br />
*David Duchovny is seen in the Head Museum, but [[Calculon]] claims to be him in {{elink|2ACV18|The Honking}}.<br />
*Before Fry enters the travel tube it went up and sideways not straight up as we see later in the next scene.<br />
*At the Cryogenic facility, right where Fry shouts "Pizza delivery for..." the desk is positioned almost parallel to the window, but when Fry sits down at the desk, its positioned perpendicular to the window.<br />
*In the 2999 countdown, Bender pulls the arms off the chair he was sitting on. A moment later, an armchair is missing.<br />
*Leela wasn't wearing a ring prior to the handholding scene with Fry.<br />
*After Bender gives Leela her ring back she puts it on, but then a second later it's gone.<br />
*They misspelled "Barbara" Streisand. It's actually Barbra.<br />
*When Leela calls for backup, her [[wristlojackimator]] is on the wrong wrist.<br />
*Bender breaks two bars from the window when they are trapped in the cellar. In the next shot, he holds the bars, but they have re-appeared back in the window.<br />
*The crowds in [[Paris]] at the New Year's countdowns for {{year|2000|1999/2000}} and {{year|3000|2999/3000}} are identical.<br />
*It's dark outside in New York at midnight when Fry is frozen, but a long shot of the planet actually shows the eastern half of the United States as being in sunlight.<br />
*Fry wasn't frozen for exactly 1000 years, as he was frozen at mid-night in 1999 but was un-frozen during the day in 2999. This may be explained by the leap days/seconds/weeks/years (more on [[wikipedia:Leap year|''Wikipedia'']]).<br />
*When Fry and Bender are at the bar, the barman hands Bender a bottle of liquor. He takes a big swig of it, but the level in the bottle remains the same.<br />
*The year 2000 or 3000 are not the start of the new century or millennium contrary to what "Space Pilot 3000" says. In the Gregorian Calendar, this distinction falls to the year 2001/3001, because the first century began with year AD 1 (there was no year zero), and the thousand years spanned to years 1-1001.<br />
**Though, it is only Fry that specifically mentions it is a new millennium, which was commonly accepted among people that 1999/2000 was a change to a new millennium. One can suggest that the first millennium only contained 999 years and be done with it.<br />
*When Fry is queueing for the booth, he opens the piece of paper, showing the picture and writing. Just before he steps in to the booth, it's changed colour and gone blank, then in the next shot it's back as before.<br />
*When Fry falls into the cryogenic chamber his whistle drops right next to the chair. When it cuts, the whistle is gone.<br />
*The [[career chips]] system introduced here contradicts several times throughout the series through job changes, incompetents, examples of a free market economy and references to the Earthican dream. Supposedly, you are required to work the job you have the chip for and the assignment is permanent.<br />
*There is a bad framing error when Bender was carrying Farnsworth onto the ship.<br />
*During the Countdown at '9' when they showed Egypt, the people didn't seem to resemble Egyptians.<br />
*Since New New York was built on top of Old New York, the building the cryogenic lab was in should have been underground as well.<br />
*Prof. Farnsworth's slippers change color and shape from one scene to the next.<br />
*The last set of buildings built before Fry wakes up look different than it does when Fry wakes up and looks out the window.<br />
*Fry mentions Star trek without getting arrested.<br />
*When Fry falls in the cryogenic tube, he quickly hits the ground, flips upside down, and finally stops once he hits the inside of the tube. If that had really happened, the beer in the can he's holding would have spilled all over him.<br />
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===Alien Language Sightings===<br />
'''Time''':10:27<br /><br />
'''Location''': Slurm advertisement in O'Zorgnax's Pub<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': DRINK<br />
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'''Time''':15:26<br /><br />
'''Location''': Graffiti in alleyway<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': VENUSIANS GO HOME [[:Image:Venusians Go Home.jpg|''(Image)'']]<br />
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'''Time''':19:11<br /><br />
'''Location''': Aliens counting down to 3000<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': "6" and "7"<br />
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==Characters==<br />
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*[[20th Century kid]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Bike thief]]<br />
*[[Dave Borden]] (in script)<br />
*[[Dick Clark's head]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Ipgee]]<br />
*[[Leonard Nimoy]]<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*[[Michelle]]<br />
*[[Mr. Panucci]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]] (unofficial)<br />
*[[Number 9 Man]]<br />
*[[Poster Guy]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Smitty and Url]]<br />
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==Episode Credits==<br />
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*Writers<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
*Voices<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
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**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
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**[[Dave Herman]]<br />
**[[Kath Soucie]]<br />
*Special Guests<br />
**[[Dick Clark's head|Dick Clark]]<br />
**[[Leonard Nimoy]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Gregg Vanzo]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
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"'''Space Pilot 3000'''" is the first and pilot episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' and of the [[Season 1|first season]]. It aired 28 March, 1999 on FOX. It guest stars [[Leonard Nimoy]] and [[Dick Clark's head|Dick Clark]] as themselves in [[Head Jars|jars]]. [[Philip J. Fry]], a [[Old New York|New York]] pizza delivery boy winds up in a [[Applied Cryogenics|cryogenics lab]] and wakes up a thousand years later, where he meets [[Turanga Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez]], whom all apply for a job at [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]'s [[Planet Express]].<br />
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==The Story==<br />
[[Image:Frozen Fry.jpg|left|thumb|Fry being frozen]]<br />
===Act I: "Here's to another lousy millennium!"===<br />
Pizza delivery boy [[Philip J. Fry]] hates his life; he has to deliver a pizza without pay, [[Michelle|his girlfriend]] dumps him, and his bike is stolen, and it all happens on [[New Year, 3000|New Year's]] Eve of [[Timeline|2000]]. The pizza goes to someone named "[[I. C. Wiener]]" in a [[Applied Cryogenics|cryogenics lab]], where Fry soon realises that it was a prank call. He sits down and drinks one of the beers, toasting to "another lousy millennium." The bell tolls midnight and he unenthusiastically blows a noise maker when it knocks back in his face, causing him to fall backwards into a cryogenics tube. The tube sets itself for a thousand years and Fry is frozen. As he lies in wait for the next thousand years, the city of [[Old New York|New York]] changes&mdash;it is [[The First Destruction of New York City|destroyed]] by a group of [[Bender|mysterious spaceships]]. It is rebuilt into primitive Medieval-era castles, only to be destroyed again by more ships. By the time Fry awakens, he sees that New York has become an [[New New York|extremely futuristic metropolis]] and immediately deduces that he is in the future. He realizes that he will never see his friends, family and girlfriend again...and he couldn't be any happier. The [[Opening Sequence]] rolls.<br />
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===Act II: "Have a nice future!"===<br />
Fry is greeted by two workers at the lab&mdash;[[Terry|one of them]] gives an extremely melodramatic greeting ("Welcome to the world of tomorrow!"). He is escorted to the Fate Assignment Officer's Office where he meets [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], a beautiful woman with a huge eye in the center of her face, who explains that it is December 31, 2999.<br />
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A DNA scan reveals that he has only living relative in this time period: his many times great nephew [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]. Fry begins looking forward to his life in the future until Leela assigns him a permanent career as a delivery boy. Fry refuses to be a delivery boy again, but Leela says that everyone&mdash;even herself&mdash;has do do a job whether they like it or not, coining the phrase, "You gotta do what you gotta do." She tries to implant a [[career chip|chip]] that will label Fry a delivery boy forever, but Fry runs away. Leela ends up falling into one of the cryogenic tubes during the ensuing chase, which sets itself for 1000 years much like Fry's tube. Fry prepares to leave frozen there but, out of the goodness in his heart, decides to reset the tube to defrost her in 5 minutes before he leaves the lab.<br />
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After witnessing the wonders of the city and how it has changed, he decides to call his descendant Farnsworth. He gets in line for what he thinks is a phone booth and meets a robot named [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] waiting in line. It turns out the phone booth is actually a [[Suicide Booth]], and that Bender is eagerly awaiting his death, but they both manage to avoid death. Having failed at suicide again, Bender invites Fry to get drunk with him at a bar. Fry finds out that Bender wants to kill himself because of his programming as a girder-bender for Suicide Booths. Fry convinces Bender to abandon his plans at suicide and the two become friends when Leela finds them.<br />
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===Act III: "Welcome to the head museum."===<br />
[[File:Leonard Nimoy.jpg|right|thumb|[[Leonard Nimoy]] at the [[Head Museum]].]]<br />
Fry and Bender duck into the [[Head Museum]] to hide and are greeted by [[Leonard Nimoy|Leonard Nimoy's head]]. Leela, along with two police officers [[Smitty]] and [[URL]], finds the group in the museum, where Fry accidentally bumps into the shelves, knocking [[Richard Nixon's head]] down and provoking him to attack. Smitty and URL begin to use excessive force on Fry, but Leela tries to convince them to stop. After the officers insult her appearance (she actually took offense to a statement about her nose instead of her eye), and Leela knocks them out, prompting Fry and Bender to run for it. Leela demands to know why the officers would beat Fry like that&mdash;they explain that it's their job, saying "[they] gotta do what [they] gotta do."<br />
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Fry and Bender lock themselves in a room from Leela. Fry notices that there is a barred window and that Bender can bend the bars so they can escape, but Bender is unable to comply, saying he is only programmed to bend for construction. Fry, however, convinces him to break free from his dependency on his programming, and Bender manages to bend the bars apart, reaching the epiphany of bending whatever, whenever, and whoever he pleases. They go deep underground to the ruins of Old New York, where Fry realizes that he has lost everything he left behind in the past. Leela once again catches up with them, but Fry decides to give in to his fate as a delivery boy. But instead of implanting the career chip, Leela sympathizes his loneliness, saying that [[Turanga Morris and Munda|her parents]] abandoned her as a baby, thus giving her an unclear perspective of her heritage. She removes her own chip, thus quitting her job, and thanks Fry for helping her realize the nonsensicality of the quote "You gotta do what you gotta do," much like he did for Bender.<br />
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===Act IV: "We have you partially surrounded!"===<br />
Since all three have quit their jobs, Fry, Bender, and Leela realize that they are now fugitives of the law, so they hide at [[Planet Express]] where Fry's nephew Professor Farnsworth lives. After confirming his connection to Fry for himself, the Professor shows them his [[Planet Express Ship|intergalactic spaceship]]. The building is then (partially) surrounded by the police, so they use the ship to escape. While they take off, the police open fire&mdash;but the bell tolls the year [[Timeline|3000]], and the ship cannot be seen through the fireworks. Fry, Bender and Leela begin to ponder their lives as they are now unemployed until the Professor decides to hire them for an interplanetary delivery service he founded to fund his work. He even kept the career chips of his old crew as they had apparently been devoured by a [[Space Wasp|space wasp]] (in actuality they had been stung to death by [[Space Bee|space bees]]). Fry is assigned to be a delivery boy...and he couldn't be happier.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
[[File:Fry Frozen, time lapse.png|thumb|left|The time lapse effect while Fry is frozen was inspired by ''{{w|The Time Machine (1960 film)|The Time Machine}}''.<ref name="com-mg"/>]]<br />
The script for "Space Pilot 3000" went through several major changes during the writing sessions, and combined they had up to two hours worth of material.<ref name="com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref><br />
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From early on, it was important to established the new major change in Fry's life, that he had come to the future, before the [[opening sequence]] of the show.<ref name="com-mg">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Groening|Matt}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> But Fry's way to the [[Applied Cryogenics]]' tube and afterwards to [[Planet Express]] changed a lot during the script.<ref name="com-dxc"/><ref name="com-mg"/><br />
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In an early script, Fry was supposedly a watchman at Applied Cryogenics, and wasn't a delivery boy at all,<ref name="com-dxc"/> something which obviously became a major plot device in the final episode. After coming out of the tube, an early script had him being sold for organs to the professor at an auction,<ref name="com-dxc"/> or one where he was forced immediately to Ellis Island and the [[Statue of Liberty]] cut him.<ref name="com-dxc"/><br />
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The man entering the [[tube system]] was originally supposed to be saying "JFK, Jr. Airport",<ref name="animatic">{{cite animatic |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref><ref name="com-jd">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|DiMaggio|John}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> but the line was changed to "Radio City Mutant Hall" after {{w|John F. Kennedy, Jr.}}'s death in 1999, and since his death was in a plane crash and the line was about an airport, they felt it was too close to keep,<ref name="com-dxc"/> but it actually made it through one airing.<ref name="com-dxc"/><br />
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The pilot episode was also used to establish the [[Alien Language 1|first alien language]], by introducing a sign saying "Drink [[Slurm]]" in plain English, and one where "Drink" was written using AL1 glyphs.<ref name="com-dxc"/> Unfortunately, for the show's makers, fans had broken the entire language a few hours after its first airing, and also cracked the "Venusians go home" line later in the episode.<ref name="com-dxc"/> This led them to create the [[Alien Language 2|second alien language]], which would first appear in much later episodes, which were intended to be a lot harder than AL1.<ref name="com-dxc"/> But even that was cracked, but only after a few months.<ref name="com-dxc"/><br />
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When establishing a pilot episode, the writers decided to put in little secrets around the episode, that they would be able to pay off later.<ref name="com-mg"/> Though, while they on the [[Commentary:Space Pilot 3000|commentary]] say "secret" a lot, only [[Nibbler's shadow]] has been a thing they have paid off from the pilot episode, and it may be possible to question whether there actually was more.<br />
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[[File:Planet Express ship leaving Earth on New Year's Eve, 3000.png|thumb|right|The final shot where the [[Planet Express ship]] flies out made [[Gregg Vanzo]] fear whether they were capable of maintaining this production level on a weekly basis.<ref name="com-gv"/>]]<br />
The [[probulator]] scene was also supposed to be much longer,<ref name="animatic"/> with certain flashbacks to Fry's past being shown to the viewer before progressing into the story, but this was too long as was scrapped in the final version,<ref name="com-dxc"/> but several of these flashback stories of [[Fry's past]] later turned into a [[story arc]].<br />
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Animation wise, the pilot episode was also hard, as the show required more 3D than the producers, writers and animators had been used to, particularly from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.<ref name="com-gv">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Vanzo|Gregg}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> The opening sequence alone was directed by Mike Smith,<ref name="com-rm">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Moore|Rich}} |episode=Space Pilot 3000 |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> and there was original fear about the opening sequence being too fast compared to the other opening sequences of the day.<ref name="com-rm"/> The theme music, as well as the rest of the music on ''Futurama'' was done by [[Christopher Tyng]].<ref name="com-mg"/><br />
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Leela's nose had apparently become a heated argument between the animators and [[Matt Groening]],<ref name="com-mg"/> he wanted her nose to be of a larger than usual size for cartoon heroines, but the animators tried to draw it smaller because they felt it looked hideous.<ref name="com-mg"/><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
"Space Pilot 3000" aired on 28 March, 1999, 20:30 between ''The Simpsons'' and ''X-Files''. In an review by Patric Lee for ''Science Fiction Weekly'', who had only seen the first episode at the time of publication, described ''Futurama'' as a clever upstart, but did not feel it was as funny as its predecessor, though, it was certainly worthy of further viewings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue101/screen.html |title=The future's not what it used to be |author=Lee, Patric |date=1999-03-22 |publisher=Science Fiction Weekly |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> Rob Owen for ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' noted that the episode contained a similar skewed humor as ''The Simpsons'', but felt it was not as funny and smart, however he attributed these issues to the fact that the pilot episode served for a lot of character introduction, and he felt that the show was "off to a good start".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/tv/19990326rob4.asp |title=Simpsons meet the Jetsons; 'The Devil's Arithmetic' |author=Owen, Rob |date=1999-03-26 |publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref><br />
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Andrew Billen of ''New Statesman'' considered the first episode unoriginal, but praised its humorous background jokes such as during the sequence when Fry is frozen, but also criticised its use of in-jokes, such as [[Matt Groening]]'s head at the [[Head Museum]]. He remained somewhat enthusiastic about the show.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/199909270044 |title=Laughing matters |author=Billen, Andrew |date=1999-09-27 |publisher=New Statesman |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> Joyce Millman from ''Salon Entertainment'', on the other hand, praised the pilot's perception of American culture and the show's premise.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.salon.com/ent/tv/mill/1999/03/cov_26mill.html |title=That 31st century show |author=Millman, Joyce |publisher=Salon Entertainment |date=1999-03-26 |accessdate=2009-04-15}}</ref><br />
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Despite airing between ''The Simpsons'' and ''X-Files'' it was Fox's most viewed show that evening, and gained exceptional high numbers according to {{w|Nielsen Ratings}} with 11.2/17 in homes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117492811.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 |title=Fox sees 'Futurama' and it works |author=Bierbaum, Tom |date=1999-03-30 |publisher=Variety |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> And was in fact the most viewed pilot episode on Fox when it aired.<br />
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In 2006, IGN ranked it as the 14th best episode on its 25 best ''Futurama'' episode list.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p2.html |title=Top 25 Futurama Episodes |author=Iverson, Dan |publisher=IGN |date=2006-07-07 |accessdate=2009-04-26}}</ref><br />
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==Additional Info==<br />
===Trivia===<br />
[[Image:Futuramapilot.jpg|right|thumbnail|The poster for this episode]]<br />
*The first shot of New New York was also the first 3D sequence in the show, and an experiment of sorts.<br />
*Leela is officer 1BDI ("one beady eye")<br />
*This episode is one of two episodes that do not feature [[Dr. Zoidberg]], the other being {{elink|1ACV11|Mars University}}.<br />
*It took the cartoonists over 2 years to come up with the look of the characters on the show.<br />
*In the intro, the Statue of Liberty holds a gun in her torch hand, but during the episode, in the future, she is holding part of the [[Tube Transport System|travel tube]]<br />
*The Original Alien Language devised by the writers and hidden throughout the episode was solved completely by fans after only the first and one airing. The Second language took several months<br />
*When Fry is delivering the pizza, he passes by a sign written in Chinese. When translated, the characters say "fire" and "women." This probably being loosely translated to mean 'hot women'.<br />
*Even though the show is supposed to begin in our time (1999), it is still in the future. (It premiered in March, showing December in the show.)<br />
*In the rough draft version of the script, Michelle was named Janet, and Fry was actually named Curtis Fry. It was changed to Philip in honour of Phil Hartman, who was set to have a recurring role as Zapp Brannigan on the series until his unfortunate death.<br />
*John DiMaggio (Bender) had originally auditioned for the voice of the Professor, and co-creator David X. Cohen had actually considered doing the voice of Bender<br />
*This was voted the best episode of [[Futurama]] during the Adult Swim marathon.<br />
*The ship of the game Monkey Fracas Jr., at the start of the show, is the Planet Express ship.<br />
*This episode is the highest rated Pilot episode in the history of the [[wikipedia:Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox Broadcasting Company]].<br />
*URL says he going to "get 24th century on his ass"; "get 24th century" has the same meaning as "get medieval." And partway through Fry's suspension, possibly around the 24th century, there was a medieval-type period, with New York rebuilt as castles before being destroyed again and rebuilt as the futuristic city.<br />
*Bender takes Fry to hide inside the Head Museum saying, "It's Free on Tuesdays." 31 December 2999 will, in fact, be a Tuesday.<br />
*Bender excretes a brick, a reference to a common [[Wikipedia:Shit#Surprise|slang phrase]]. He continually does this throughout the series when scared.<br />
*During the countdown scene at the end of the episode (in the year 2999), France is shown, yet the inhabitants there use the English language instead of [[French]]. It is assumed that French in the future is a dead language; this idea is supported in a later episode where Professor Farnsworth invents a universal translator that can only translate into "an incomprehensible dead language".<br />
*The places in the first countdown scene appear in this order:<br />
**[[Old New York|New York]]; [[wikipedia:United States|USA]]<br />
**[[Paris]], [[wikipedia:France|France]], [[wikipedia:Eiffel Tower|Eiffel Tower]] Backdrop<br />
**[[wikipedia:Rome|Rome]], [[wikipedia:Italy|Italy]], [[wikipedia:Pope|Pope]] on Balcony turning "Calendar" of Roman Numerals<br />
**[[wikipedia:Cairo|Cairo]], [[wikipedia:Egypt|Egypt]], Desert, [[wikipedia:Great Sphinx of Giza|Sphinx]] and the other three Pyramids as backdrop<br />
**[[wikipedia:Athens|Athens]], [[wikipedia:Greece|Greece]], [[wikipedia:Acropolis|Acropolis]] as backdrop, two highlights next on the sides of it<br />
**[[wikipedia:China|China]], [[wikipedia:Great Wall of China|Great Wall]]<br />
**[[wikipedia:India|India]], [[wikipedia:Taj Mahal|Taj Mahal]], some people counting down in Water<br />
**Small tribal village, [[wikipedia:Africa|Africa]]<br />
**[[wikipedia:Tokyo|Tokyo]], [[wikipedia:Japan|Japan]], very similar to New York shot except for the Japanese handwriting font<br />
**The entire Earth, shot from space.<br />
*All the people in line before Fry select the "quick and painless" method of killing themselves.<br />
*If one looks closely at Leela's computer screen, it actually reveals that Fry's full name is "Phillip J. Fry", which becomes an established fact in {{elink|2ACV15|The Problem with Popplers}} (however, his name is spelled with two L's instead of one). His blood type is said to be 'B'.<br />
*The tube Fry falls in is number 40.<br />
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===Quotes===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Space, it seems to go on forever. But then you get to the end and the gorilla starts throwin' barrels at you.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I'm sure this must be very upsetting for you.<br />
'''Fry''': Y'know, I guess it should be but, actually, I'm glad. I had nothing to live for in my old life. I was broke, I had a humiliating job and I was beginning to suspect my girlfriend might be cheating on me.<br />
'''Leela''': Well, at least here you'll be treated with dignity. Now strip naked and get on the probulator.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Bite my shiny metal ass!<br />
'''Fry''': It doesn't look so shiny to me.<br />
'''Bender''': Shinier than yours, meatbag.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': ''[Fry has just been unfrozen]'' My god! It's the future! My parents! My coworkers! My girlfriend... I'll never see any of them again. ''[pause]'' YAHOO!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': What if i don't want to be a delivery boy?<br />
'''Leela''': Then you'll be fired...<br />
'''Fry''': Fine.<br />
'''Leela''': ... out of a cannon into the sun.</poem><br />
|2}}<br />
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<br />
===Continuity===<br />
*{{elink|2ACV06|The Lesser of Two Evils}}<br />
**Bender believes a phone booth is a Suicide Booth, similar to what Fry did.<br />
*{{elink|2ACV10|A Clone of My Own}}<br />
**Leela's (lacking) depth perception is mentioned again.<br />
**French is proved to be a dead language.<br />
*{{elink|2ACV19|The Cryonic Woman}}<br />
**A couple passes by Fry, when he is walking, wearing mostly transparent clothing, censored with black bars.<br />
**These people have moved to [[Los Angeles]] by the events of [[2ACV19]]<br />
*{{elink|4ACV02|Leela's Homeworld}}<br />
**Leela's single eye is explained.<br />
*{{elink|4ACV10|The Why of Fry}}<br />
**The shadow under the desk Fry sits at is explained.<br />
*{{elink|4ACV12|The Sting}}<br />
**More information about the Professor's old crew is revealed.<br />
*{{flink|Bender's Big Score}}<br />
**It is revealed that Bender is the one who [[The First Destruction of New York City|destroyed New York]] the first time.<br />
*{{flink|The Beast with a Billion Backs}}<br />
**Bender visits a suicide booth again and even does the coin-on-a-string trick again.<br />
<br />
===Allusions===<br />
*The space ships destroying the cities were similar to the ones in [[wikipedia:The War of the Worlds (1953 film)|The War of the Worlds]].<br />
*The first scene (Fry teaching a kid how to play a video game) might be a reference to [[wikipedia:WarGames|WarGames]]. In the movie, the first scene with David Lightman has him playing [[wikipedia:Galaga|Galaga]]. He has to go and gives control of the game to a kid.<br />
*One of the billboards in the future shows [[wikipedia:Angelyne|Angelyne]], a real-life busty female entertainer that has billboards hanging around the Los Angeles area. In the cartoon billboard, she's hooked up to some sort of respirator.<br />
*According to Groening, the inspiration for the suicide booth was the 1937 [[wikipedia:Donald Duck|Donald Duck]] cartoon, [[wikipedia:Modern Inventions|"Modern Inventions"]], in which the Duck is faced with—and nearly killed several times by—various push button gadgets in a Museum of the Future.<br />
*Professor Farnsworth is named after the inventor [[wikipedia:Philo Farnsworth|Philo Farnsworth]], a Utah native and television pioneer whose invention was premiered at the 1939 New York World's Fair, along with the Futurama exhibit.<br />
*The feeding lady at the head museum is wearing a uniform like that at the corn-dog specific restaurant, [[wikipedia:Hot Dog on a Stick|Hot Dog on a Stick]].<br />
*Fry's outfit is based on James Dean in [[wikipedia:Rebel Without a Cause|Rebel Without a Cause]].<br />
*In addition to the setting, part of the original concept for the show was that there would be a lot of advanced technology similar to that seen in Star Trek, but it would be constantly malfunctioning. The automatic doors at Applied Cryogenics resemble those in [[wikipedia:Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek: The Original Series]]; however, they malfunction when Fry remarks on this similarity.<br />
*The introduction is reminiscent of [[wikipedia:Star Trek|Star Trek]] intros in TOS and [[wikipedia:Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]] ("Space: The Final Frontier..." becomes "Space: It seems to go on and on forever...") and has similar music and voice-over.<br />
*Leonard [[wikipedia:Spock|"Spock"]] Nimoy says that he no longer does the [[wikipedia:Vulcan Salute|Vulcan Salute]], 'Live Long and Prosper'.<br />
**It is presumed in this episode it is simply because he has no hands, but the truth behind this statement is seen in the future episode, {{elink|4ACV11|Where No Fan Has Gone Before}}.<br />
*The rows of jars containing heads, with the one jar containing Nimoy's head in front to greet people, is reminiscent of the original series Star Trek episode [[wikipedia:Return to Tomorrow|"Return To Tomorrow"]], where the alien minds were preserved in glowing spheres, with Sargon in the one sphere in front.<br />
*The relationship formed between Fry and Bender in this episode has been compared to the relationship between Will Robinson and the [[wikipedia:Robby the Robot|robot]] in [[wikipedia:Lost in Space|Lost in Space]].<br />
*When Fry walks out of the lab, an ad on a taxi behind him reads "Got [[wikipedia:Protoplasm|Protoplasm]]?", a reference to the series of [[wikipedia:Got Milk?|"Got Milk?"]] advertising slogans. <br />
*Another running gag of the series is Bender's fondness for Olde Fortran malt liquor, named after [[wikipedia:Olde English 800|Olde English 800]] malt liquor and the programming language [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran]]. The drink was first introduced in this episode and became so closely associated with the character that he was featured with a bottle in both the Rocket USA wind-up toy and the action figure released by Moore Action Collectibles.<br />
*In the earliest glimpse of the future while Fry is frozen in the cryonic chamber, time is seen passing outside the window until reaching the year 3000. This scene was inspired by a similar scene in the film [[wikipedia:The Time Machine (1960 film)|The Time Machine]] based on H.G. Wells' [[wikipedia:The Time Machine|novel]].<br />
*When Fry awakens in the year 2999, he is greeted with Terry's catchphrase "Welcome to the world of tomorrow." The scene is a joke at the expense of Futurama's namesake, the [[wikipedia:Futurama (New York World's Fair)|Futurama ride]] at the [[wikipedia:1939 New York World's Fair|1939 World's Fair]] whose tag line was "The World of Tomorrow".<br />
*The heads in jars in order shown: [[wikipedia:Johnny Carson|Johnny Carson]], [[wikipedia:Lucille Ball|Lucille Ball]], [[wikipedia:Ed Begley, Jr.|Ed Begley, Jr.]], [[wikipedia:David Duchovny|David Duchovny]], [[wikipedia:Gillian Anderson|Gillian Anderson]], [[wikipedia:Elizabeth Taylor|Elizabeth Taylor]], [[wikipedia:Dennis Rodman|Dennis Rodman]], [[wikipedia:Billy Corgan|Billy Corgan]], [[wikipedia:Matt Groening|Matt Groening]], [[wikipedia:Barbra Streisand|Barbra Streisand]], [[wikipedia:Rodney Dangerfield|Rodney Dangerfield]], a [[wikipedia:Hinduism|Hindu]] person (possibly [[wikipedia:Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Gandhi]]) and [[wikipedia:Dick Clark|Dick Clark]].<br />
**In the Hall of Presidents: [[wikipedia:Richard Nixon|Richard Nixon]], [[wikipedia:Gerald Ford|Gerald Ford]], [[wikipedia:Jimmy Carter|Jimmy Carter]], [[wikipedia:Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan]], [[wikipedia:George H. W. Bush|George H. W. Bush]], [[wikipedia:Bill Clinton|Bill Clinton]], [[wikipedia:Warren G. Harding|Warren G. Harding]], [[wikipedia:Andrew Jackson|Andrew Jackson]], [[wikipedia:Grover Cleveland|Grover Cleveland]] and [[wikipedia:Benjamin Harrison|Benjamin Harrison]].<br />
*There are numerous Simpsons references:<br />
**Rodney Dangerfield is drawn similar to his appearance in the Simpsons episode [[wikipedia:Burns, Baby Burns|Burns, Baby Burns]] as Larry Burns.<br />
**There's a [[wikipedia:Ralph Wiggum|Ralph Wiggum]]-like character when Fry rides the tube.<br />
**When Fry is going through the transport tubes, he passes by a three-eyed fish - which is [[wikipedia:List_of_animals_in_The_Simpsons#Blinky|Blinky]], from [[Simpsons connections|the Simpsons]].<br />
**Fry's middle initial is J. This seems to be a popular choice for Matt Groening characters, having used it for [[wikipedia:Homer Simpson|Homer]], [[wikipedia:Bart Simpson|Bart]] and [[wikipedia:Abraham Simpson|Grampa]] on The Simpsons. Matt uses the "J." middle name, referring to one of his favorite shows, [[wikipedia:The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show|The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show]].<br />
**The chef on the Panucci's Pizza box is very similar to the chef [[wikipedia:List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Luigi_Risotto|Luigi]] in the Simpsons.<br />
**In the Simpsons two part episode [[wikipedia:Who Shot Mr. Burns?|Who Shot Mr. Burns?]], [[wikipedia:Waylon Smithers|Smithers]] dreamt that [[wikipedia:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]] was in a race on the TV. The intro to the race was an information text saying "In Color". The same font and color like in Space Pilot 3000. It is also interesting to note that Who Shot Mr. Burns? aired four years before Space Pilot 3000 did.<br />
**Fry has 9 spikes in his hair just like Bart Simpson from Groening's hit show The Simpsons.<br />
*The film [[wikipedia:Sleeper (film)|Sleeper]] has much the same premise as this episode. Also, the suicide booths are similar to Sleeper's Orgasmatron.<br />
*The cryogenic chamber may be a reference to [[wikipedia:Red Dwarf|Red Dwarf]]. The main character [[wikipedia:Dave Lister|Lister]] is punished by being put in a cryogenic chamber for 15 years, except something goes wrong and everyone dies on the ship due to a fatal radiation leak. Lister is left for 3 million years until the ships computer decides that the radiation level is safe enough for him to be released.<br />
*When the head of Richard Nixon says "You just made my list!", this is a reference to the [[wikipedia:Watergate scandal|Watergate scandal]]. Nixon kept an "enemies list" of over 200 people whom he believed were part of a conspiracy against him.<br />
*The person who uses the [[Tube System|tube system]] before Fry says "Radio City Mutant Hall", a reference to [[wikipedia:Radio City Music Hall|Radio City Music Hall]] - but his original line was "JFK Junior Airport", a reference to the [[wikipedia:John F. Kennedy International Airport|John F. Kennedy International Airport]]. The line was changed after the death of [[wikipedia:John F. Kennedy, Jr.|John F. Kennedy, Jr.]] (though it can still be heard in the animatic).<br />
**Although the JFK Jr. reference has been dubbed out (even on the DVD) in the Spanish dubbed version of this episode the man can still be heard asking to be taken to JFK Jr. Airport.<br />
*[[wikipedia:Mystery Science Theater 3000|Mystery Science Theater 3000]] is referenced as the number "3000" is written on the moon. It looks like the MST3K logo, a planet with the name on it. It's even in the same font.<br />
*Fry is playing a video game called [[Monkey Fracas Jr.]] at the pizza place, narrating it as he plays. The game starts out as a space shooter similar to [[wikipedia:Asteroids (video game)|Asteroids]], [[wikipedia:Gradius|Gradius]] and/or [[wikipedia:Defender (video game)|Defender]], then approaches a Saturn-like planet at the end of the level. At that point, the planet breaks in half, and an ape resembling [[wikipedia:Donkey Kong (character)|Donkey Kong]] emerges. The ape throws barrels at the spaceship and destroys it. The game's name itself is a parody of [[wikipedia:Donkey Kong Junior|Donkey Kong, Jr]].<br />
*The gag of Fry & Bender hiding with their heads looking through shelves and being disguised by lots of other heads is from [[wikipedia:Young Frankenstein|Young Frankenstein]].'<br />
[[File:AKBAR.jpg|thumb|AKBAR sign.]]<br />
*''[[Star Wars]]'':<br />
**The police use sticks that resemble the [[Lightsaber]] from ''Star Wars''. Unlike their ''Star Wars'' counterparts, they are blunt weapons (like nightsticks/batons), rather than superheated blades.<br />
**When the policemen are beating Fry with their lightsaber clubs Leela says: "There is no need to use force" as a reference to {{sw|The Force}} in ''Star Wars''.<br />
**New New York is set out like {{sw|Coruscant}} (mostly in the [[Opening sequence]]). The Planet Express Ship's entry, in the opening sequence, seems to be a parody of the {{sw|Millennium Falcon}}'s entrance into {{sw|Cloud City}} in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}''.<br />
**A guy on a jet bike is wearing a helmet like {{sw|Leia Organa Solo|Leia}} wore in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi}}'' on the {{sw|Speeder bike}}.<br />
**The part where Fry gets hit in the head by the remote door is a possible reference to the scene in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope}}'', where {{sw|Unidentified head-bumping stormtrooper|one}} of the {{sw|Stormtrooper}}s accidentally bumps his head into a similar gadget.<br />
**A sign on the street says "AKBAR." {{sw|Ackbar|Admiral Ackbar}} is a character in ''Star Wars''. Though, it is more likely to be a reference to Akbar, a character in [[Matt Groening]]'s "{{w|Life in Hell}}" comic strip.<br />
*People have chips implanted in their hands like in [[wikipedia:Babylon 5|Babylon 5]].<br />
*[[wikipedia:Back to the Future (series)|Back to the Future]] references: Fry's character is based on [[wikipedia:Marty McFly|Marty McFly]], Fry shows a little kid how to play a video game, like Marty (in [[wikipedia:Back to the Future Part II|Back to the Future Part II]]), and when Fry runs out of the building to begin with, and looks around at New New York, like in Part II.<br />
*When they go underground to the old New York is like [[wikipedia:Beneath the Planet of the Apes|Beneath the Planet of the Apes]].<br />
*The countdown to the millennium occurred at the same time all over the world is like [[wikipedia:Doctor Who (1996 film)|Doctor Who (1996 film)]].<br />
*The underground old New York City is similar to the slums underneath the city plates in Midgar in [[wikipedia:Final Fantasy VII|Final Fantasy VII]].<br />
*The pneumatic tubes that transport people all over New New York are an allusion to [[wikipedia:Beach Pneumatic Transit|Beach Pneumatic Transit]], which was a failed attempt in 1870 by Alfred Ely Beach to move people around New York by air power.<br />
*The Robot Policeman, URL, says he would go "24th century on their ass." This being a reference to the 1994 film [[wikipedia:Pulp Fiction (film)|Pulp Fiction]] where the character Marsellus Wallace says to Zed and the Gimp "I'm a get medieval on yo' ass."<br />
*[[wikipedia:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] has a similar premise as this episode, the cynical Bender is much like [[wikipedia:Marvin the Paranoid Android|Marvin the Paranoid Android]] and the coffee machine in Professor Farnsworth's ship may be a reference to [[wikipedia:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe|The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]] in which a spaceship's specialty was producing hot drinks. <br />
*The way Bender swallows his empty liquor bottle is reminiscent of a robot in the Isaac Azimov novel, [[wikipedia:The Caves of Steel|The Caves of Steel]]<br />
*Implanting a 'fate chip' in the palm of your right hand is from [[wikipedia:Logan's Run|Logan's Run]].<br />
<br />
===Goofs===<br />
*David Duchovny is seen in the Head Museum, but [[Calculon]] claims to be him in {{elink|2ACV18|The Honking}}.<br />
*Before Fry enters the travel tube it went up and sideways not straight up as we see later in the next scene.<br />
*At the Cryogenic facility, right where Fry shouts "Pizza delivery for..." the desk is positioned almost parallel to the window, but when Fry sits down at the desk, its positioned perpendicular to the window.<br />
*In the 2999 countdown, Bender pulls the arms off the chair he was sitting on. A moment later, an armchair is missing.<br />
*Leela wasn't wearing a ring prior to the handholding scene with Fry.<br />
*After Bender gives Leela her ring back she puts it on, but then a second later it's gone.<br />
*They misspelled "Barbara" Streisand. It's actually Barbra.<br />
*When Leela calls for backup, her [[wristlojackimator]] is on the wrong wrist.<br />
*Bender breaks two bars from the window when they are trapped in the cellar. In the next shot, he holds the bars, but they have re-appeared back in the window.<br />
*The crowds in [[Paris]] at the New Year's countdowns for {{year|2000|1999/2000}} and {{year|3000|2999/3000}} are identical.<br />
*It's dark outside in New York at midnight when Fry is frozen, but a long shot of the planet actually shows the eastern half of the United States as being in sunlight.<br />
*Fry wasn't frozen for exactly 1000 years, as he was frozen at mid-night in 1999 but was un-frozen during the day in 2999. This may be explained by the leap days/seconds/weeks/years (more on [[wikipedia:Leap year|''Wikipedia'']]).<br />
*When Fry and Bender are at the bar, the barman hands Bender a bottle of liquor. He takes a big swig of it, but the level in the bottle remains the same.<br />
*The year 2000 or 3000 are not the start of the new century or millennium contrary to what "Space Pilot 3000" says. In the Gregorian Calendar, this distinction falls to the year 2001/3001, because the first century began with year AD 1 (there was no year zero), and the thousand years spanned to years 1-1001.<br />
**Though, it is only Fry that specifically mentions it is a new millennium, which was commonly accepted among people that 1999/2000 was a change to a new millennium. One can suggest that the first millennium only contained 999 years and be done with it.<br />
*When Fry is queueing for the booth, he opens the piece of paper, showing the picture and writing. Just before he steps in to the booth, it's changed colour and gone blank, then in the next shot it's back as before.<br />
*When Fry falls into the cryogenic chamber his whistle drops right next to the chair. When it cuts, the whistle is gone.<br />
*The [[career chips]] system introduced here contradicts several times throughout the series through job changes, incompetents, examples of a free market economy and references to the Earthican dream. Supposedly, you are required to work the job you have the chip for and the assignment is permanent.<br />
*There is a bad framing error when Bender was carrying Farnsworth onto the ship.<br />
*During the Countdown at '9' when they showed Egypt, the people didn't seem to resemble Egyptians.<br />
*Since New New York was built on top of Old New York, the building the cryogenic lab was in should have been underground as well.<br />
*Prof. Farnsworth's slippers change color and shape from one scene to the next.<br />
*The last set of buildings built before Fry wakes up look different than it does when Fry wakes up and looks out the window.<br />
*Fry mentions Star trek without getting arrested.<br />
*When Fry falls in the cryogenic tube, he quickly falls, flips upside down, and finally stops once hits the inside of the tube. If that had really happened, the beer in the can he's holding would have spilled all over him.<br />
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===Alien Language Sightings===<br />
'''Time''':10:27<br /><br />
'''Location''': Slurm advertisement in O'Zorgnax's Pub<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': DRINK<br />
<br />
'''Time''':15:26<br /><br />
'''Location''': Graffiti in alleyway<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': VENUSIANS GO HOME [[:Image:Venusians Go Home.jpg|''(Image)'']]<br />
<br />
'''Time''':19:11<br /><br />
'''Location''': Aliens counting down to 3000<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': "6" and "7"<br />
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==Characters==<br />
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*[[20th Century kid]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Bike thief]]<br />
*[[Dave Borden]] (in script)<br />
*[[Dick Clark's head]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Ipgee]]<br />
*[[Leonard Nimoy]]<br />
*[[Lou]]<br />
*[[Michelle]]<br />
*[[Mr. Panucci]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]] (unofficial)<br />
*[[Number 9 Man]]<br />
*[[Poster Guy]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head]]<br />
*[[Terry]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Smitty and Url]]<br />
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==Episode Credits==<br />
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**[[Dick Clark's head|Dick Clark]]<br />
**[[Leonard Nimoy]]<br />
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**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Gregg Vanzo]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
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**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
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[[zh:公元三千年的宇航员]]</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=New_Justice_Team&diff=50519New Justice Team2009-10-09T21:23:31Z<p>69.227.3.233: /* Superking */</p>
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|name=New Justice Team<br />
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|location=[[New New York]]<br />
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The '''New Justice Team''' was a short-lived team of crime-fighting super-heros. The source of the human members super-powers was [[Dr. FlimFlam's Miracle Cream]]. They worked the New New York area, and were on call for [[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]] when the city was in need. The team had three members, Clobberella, Captain Yesterday, and Superking. The group thwarted many crimes, and even found a nemesis in the [[The Zookeeper|Zookeeper]]. Their careers ended after the Zookeeper kidnapped Clobberella's parents and forced the team to steal the [[Quantum Gemerald]] in exchange for their release. The fact that they ran out of cream was probably a factor as well.<br />
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==The Team==<br />
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===Clobberella===<br />
[[Image:Clobberella.jpg|left|250px]]<br />
'''Secret Identity''': [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br \><br />
'''Super Powers''': Super-strength, lickity-speed, and invulnerability<br \><br />
'''Description''': Quick-tempered and with a very head-first approach to crime-fighting, Clobberella defeats many foes with a roundhouse kick to the head.<br \><br />
'''Name reference''': The name is a spoof of the 1960es science fiction heroine ''Barbarella'', played by Jane Fonda. <br />
'''Costume''': A red jumpsuit with an image of a hand holding a rolling pin. Also includes a black mask, orange boots and gloves and a hairdo like the one in [[2ACV09]].<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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===Captain Yesterday===<br />
[[Image:Captain_Yesterday.jpg|left|250px]]<br />
'''Secret Identity''':[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br \><br />
'''Super Powers''': Super-strength, lickity-speed, and invulnerability<br \><br />
'''Description''': More calm and cool than Clobberella, Captain Yesterday relies heavily on his super-speed to make up for his slow mind.<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': His name refers to nobody, except possibly ''Captain America''. He is a Parody of Elvis Presley or Fonzie.<br/><br />
'''Costume''': A white and blue zoot suit ending in highwater pants, a 1970's style haircut, a golden cape, a necklace with a subway token saying 'Y.C.' and a black mask.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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===Superking===<br />
[[Image:Super_King.jpg|left|250px]]<br />
'''Secret Identity''':[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br \><br />
'''Super Powers''': Super-strength, extendable arms and legs, and door on his chest<br \><br />
'''Description''': Superking is a bit of a rogue (or an anti-hero), and while he fights crime with the team, he has been known to abuse his powers for his own gain.<br \><br />
'''Name Reference''': Most Likely ''Superman'' or ''Burger King'', but it could also be a simple figment of bender's Egocentricity, since mid-way through the team's existance, he wants to change his name to "El Zilcho"<br />
'''Costume''': A purple fringed cape, a purple mask and a jewel-encrusted crown.<br />
{{clear}}<br />
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==Theme Song==<br />
:Go, Go, Go New Justice Team<br />
:Go, team,<br />
:Go, team,<br />
:Team, team, team<br />
:Who's the newest Justice Team?<br />
:The New Justice Team!<br />
:<br />
:Captain Yesterday is fast,<br />
:Also he is from the past,<br />
:Not just fast but from the past<br />
:Captain Yesterday!<br />
:<br />
:Superking has all the powers of a king<br />
:Plus all the powers of superman<br />
:also he's a robot<br />
:Aint he cool?<br />
:Superking, you rule!<br />
:<br />
:Clobberella beats you up,<br />
:Clobberella beats you up,<br />
:Who does she beat up? <br />
:You!<br />
:Clobberella!<br />
:<br />
:Citizens, never fear<br />
:Crazy do-good freaks are here,<br />
:Until they run out of steam<br />
:Miracle cream,<br />
:Miracle cream,<br />
:Gives the power to the team,<br />
:It's effects wear off for sure,<br />
:So they just slop on some more,<br />
:The New Justice Team!<br />
<br />
:Go, go, go, New Justice Team<br />
:Fighting justice is their quest<br />
:Superking, Clobberella, and all the rest<br />
:Here's to you New Justice Team<br />
:Do the things that make your team,<br />
:Help each other do some things,<br />
:Winners don't use drugs!<br />
:The New Justice Team!<br />
==Appearances==<br />
*{{elink|4ACV04|Less than Hero}}<br />
*{{clink|US#035|Son of the Sun}}</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Monument_Beach&diff=50484Monument Beach2009-10-07T00:15:18Z<p>69.227.3.233: </p>
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<div>[[Category:Places]]<br />
{{place infobox<br />
|name=Monument Beach<br />
|image=[[Image:Monument Beach 1.jpg|225px]]<br />
|location=Iowa<br />
|first appear={{elink|1ACV12|When Aliens Attack}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Description==<br />
A man-made beachside park in Iowa that boasts a collection of many of the world's greatest monuments. The collection was stolen by an [[Supervillian Governor of New York|evil supervillan who was elected Governor of New New York]] who also added his own face to the end of Mount Rushmore. The [[Professional Beach Bully]] works on this beach. The monuments on the beach were destroyed when the [[Omicronians]] attacked.<br />
<br />
According to a deleted scene from DVD [[Volume One]], Monument Beach is a man-made beach because no one could swim in the real ocean because it had too many whales. [[Farnsworth]] explained that, after humans had stopped hunting them, their numbers swelled, as did their appetite for human flesh.<br />
<br />
===Monuments===<br />
[[Image:Monument Beach 2.jpg|left|thumb]]<br />
*The White House<br />
*Easter Island Heads<br />
*Big Ben<br />
*The Leaning Tower of Pisa<br />
*Mount Rushmore<br />
*The Sphynx<br />
*Randy's Donuts<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Appearances===<br />
*[[When Aliens Attack|"When Aliens Attack" (1ACV12)]]</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Monument_Beach&diff=50483Monument Beach2009-10-07T00:15:00Z<p>69.227.3.233: </p>
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<div>[[Category:Places]]<br />
{{place infobox<br />
|name=Monument Beach<br />
|image=[[Image:Monument Beach 1.jpg|225px]]<br />
|location=[[Iowa]]<br />
|first appear={{elink|1ACV12|When Aliens Attack}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Description==<br />
A man-made beachside park in Iowa that boasts a collection of many of the world's greatest monuments. The collection was stolen by an [[Supervillian Governor of New York|evil supervillan who was elected Governor of New New York]] who also added his own face to the end of Mount Rushmore. The [[Professional Beach Bully]] works on this beach. The monuments on the beach were destroyed when the [[Omicronians]] attacked.<br />
<br />
According to a deleted scene from DVD [[Volume One]], Monument Beach is a man-made beach because no one could swim in the real ocean because it had too many whales. [[Farnsworth]] explained that, after humans had stopped hunting them, their numbers swelled, as did their appetite for human flesh.<br />
<br />
===Monuments===<br />
[[Image:Monument Beach 2.jpg|left|thumb]]<br />
*The White House<br />
*Easter Island Heads<br />
*Big Ben<br />
*The Leaning Tower of Pisa<br />
*Mount Rushmore<br />
*The Sphynx<br />
*Randy's Donuts<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Appearances===<br />
*[[When Aliens Attack|"When Aliens Attack" (1ACV12)]]</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Monument_Beach&diff=50482Monument Beach2009-10-07T00:14:20Z<p>69.227.3.233: /* Description */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Places]]<br />
{{place infobox<br />
|name=Monument Beach<br />
|image=[[Image:Monument Beach 1.jpg|225px]]<br />
|location=[[New New York]]<br />
|first appear={{elink|1ACV12|When Aliens Attack}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Description==<br />
A man-made beachside park in Iowa that boasts a collection of many of the world's greatest monuments. The collection was stolen by an [[Supervillian Governor of New York|evil supervillan who was elected Governor of New New York]] who also added his own face to the end of Mount Rushmore. The [[Professional Beach Bully]] works on this beach. The monuments on the beach were destroyed when the [[Omicronians]] attacked.<br />
<br />
According to a deleted scene from DVD [[Volume One]], Monument Beach is a man-made beach because no one could swim in the real ocean because it had too many whales. [[Farnsworth]] explained that, after humans had stopped hunting them, their numbers swelled, as did their appetite for human flesh.<br />
<br />
===Monuments===<br />
[[Image:Monument Beach 2.jpg|left|thumb]]<br />
*The White House<br />
*Easter Island Heads<br />
*Big Ben<br />
*The Leaning Tower of Pisa<br />
*Mount Rushmore<br />
*The Sphynx<br />
*Randy's Donuts<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Appearances===<br />
*[[When Aliens Attack|"When Aliens Attack" (1ACV12)]]</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Monument_Beach&diff=50481Monument Beach2009-10-07T00:11:42Z<p>69.227.3.233: /* Description */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Places]]<br />
{{place infobox<br />
|name=Monument Beach<br />
|image=[[Image:Monument Beach 1.jpg|225px]]<br />
|location=[[New New York]]<br />
|first appear={{elink|1ACV12|When Aliens Attack}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Description==<br />
A beachside park in [[New New York]] that boasts a collection of many of the world's greatest monuments. The collection was stolen by an [[Supervillian Governor of New York|evil supervillan who was elected Governor of New New York]] who also added his own face to the end of Mount Rushmore. The [[Professional Beach Bully]] works on this beach. The monuments on the beach were destroyed when the [[Omicronians]] attacked.<br />
<br />
According to a deleted scene from DVD [[Volume One]], Monument beach may actually a man-made beach in Iowa. [[Amy]] explained that no one could swim in the real ocean because it had too many whales. [[Farnsworth]] continued that, after humans had stopped hunting them, their numbers swelled, as did their appetite for human flesh. Since this information is from a deleted scene, it may not be considered canon.<br />
<br />
===Monuments===<br />
[[Image:Monument Beach 2.jpg|left|thumb]]<br />
*The White House<br />
*Easter Island Heads<br />
*Big Ben<br />
*The Leaning Tower of Pisa<br />
*Mount Rushmore<br />
*The Sphynx<br />
*Randy's Donuts<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Appearances===<br />
*[[When Aliens Attack|"When Aliens Attack" (1ACV12)]]</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Monument_Beach&diff=50480Monument Beach2009-10-07T00:09:18Z<p>69.227.3.233: /* Description */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Places]]<br />
{{place infobox<br />
|name=Monument Beach<br />
|image=[[Image:Monument Beach 1.jpg|225px]]<br />
|location=[[New New York]]<br />
|first appear={{elink|1ACV12|When Aliens Attack}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Description==<br />
A beachside park in [[New New York]] that boasts a collection of many of the world's greatest monuments. The collection was stolen by an [[Supervillian Governor of New York|evil supervillan who was elected Governor of New New York]] who also added his own face to the end of Mount Rushmore. The [[Professional Beach Bully]] works on this beach. The monuments on the beach were destroyed when the [[Omicronians]] attacked.<br />
<br />
According to a deleted scene from the season one DVD, Monument beach may actually a man-made beach in Iowa. [[Amy]] explained that no one could swim in the real ocean because it had too many whales. [[Farnsworth]] continued that, after humans had stopped hunting them, their numbers swelled, as did their appetite for human flesh. Since this information is from a deleted scene, it may not be considered canon.<br />
<br />
===Monuments===<br />
[[Image:Monument Beach 2.jpg|left|thumb]]<br />
*The White House<br />
*Easter Island Heads<br />
*Big Ben<br />
*The Leaning Tower of Pisa<br />
*Mount Rushmore<br />
*The Sphynx<br />
*Randy's Donuts<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Appearances===<br />
*[[When Aliens Attack|"When Aliens Attack" (1ACV12)]]</div>69.227.3.233http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Monument_Beach&diff=50479Monument Beach2009-10-07T00:04:13Z<p>69.227.3.233: /* Description */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Places]]<br />
{{place infobox<br />
|name=Monument Beach<br />
|image=[[Image:Monument Beach 1.jpg|225px]]<br />
|location=[[New New York]]<br />
|first appear={{elink|1ACV12|When Aliens Attack}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Description==<br />
A beachside park in [[New New York]] that boasts a collection of many of the world's greatest monuments. The collection was stolen by an [[Supervillian Governor of New York|evil supervillan who was elected Governor of New New York]] who also added his own face to the end of Mount Rushmore. The [[Professional Beach Bully]] works on this beach. The monuments on the beach were destroyed when the [[Omicronians]] attacked.<br />
<br />
According to a deleted scene from the season one DVD, Monument beach is actually a man-made beach in Ohio. The purpose for this was that the real oceans had too many whales. Humans had stopped hunting them and they developed a taste for human flesh. Since this information is from a deleted scene, it may not be considered canon.<br />
<br />
===Monuments===<br />
[[Image:Monument Beach 2.jpg|left|thumb]]<br />
*The White House<br />
*Easter Island Heads<br />
*Big Ben<br />
*The Leaning Tower of Pisa<br />
*Mount Rushmore<br />
*The Sphynx<br />
*Randy's Donuts<br />
<br />
==Additional Info==<br />
===Appearances===<br />
*[[When Aliens Attack|"When Aliens Attack" (1ACV12)]]</div>69.227.3.233