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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Butch<br />
|type=t<br />
|image=[[File:Butch.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=Butch on his throne.<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Los Angeles]], [[Earth]]<br />
|voiced by=Tress MacNeille<br />
|first appear={{e|2ACV19}}<br />
|family=<br />
}}<br />
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'''Butch''' is a boy living in [[Los Angeles]], and leading [[Butch's gang|a gang of armed kids]]. He encountered [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Michelle]], who believed they were in a post-apocalyptic waste land, in [[3002]].<br />
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== Character Description ==<br />
=== Family ===<br />
*[[Butch's girlfriend]], girlfriend<br />
*[[Butch's mom]], mom<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*Is Jewish, as is the rest of [[Butch's gang|his gang]].<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Butch''': I'm Butch, leader of this place. I took your hole and you can't do nothing about it.<br />
'''[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]''': Okay.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|2ACV19}}<br />
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[[Category:Children]]<br />
[[Category:Humans]]</div>70.68.33.26http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Parasites_Lost&diff=144220Parasites Lost2014-05-07T05:14:43Z<p>70.68.33.26: /* Goofs */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=Parasites Lost<br />
|no=34<br />
|image=[[File:Parasites Lost.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=3<br />
|broadcast season=<br />
|number=3ACV02<br />
|caption=If not entertaining, write your congressman<br />
|first aired=21 January, [[2001]]<br />
|written by=Eric Kaplan<br />
|directed by=Peter Avanzino<br />
|title reference=''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon={{w|Ub Iwerks}} "''Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp''" (1934)<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
|broadcast number=S03E04<br />
|nomination='''Emmy Awards'''<br />Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, 2001, [[Rodney Clouden]] (storyboard artist) '''(won)'''<br />
|prev ep=Amazon Women in the Mood<br />
|next ep=A Tale of Two Santas<br />
|broad prev=The Cryonic Woman<br />
|broad next=Amazon Women in the Mood<br />
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After obtaining [[worms of Colón|worms]] from a truck-stop sandwich, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] finally obtains the affection of [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], but he is concerned whether she loves him or what the worms have made of him.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "She's got more meat than a cow!" ===<br />
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[[File:Deleted Scene (030204).png|thumb|left|Leela and Sal at the gas station]]<br />
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The [[Planet Express Ship]] pulls over for a fuel stop. In the men's room, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] buys an egg-salad sandwich. [[Leela]] warns Fry not to eat a sandwich from a men's room, but Fry eats it anyway. While eating the sandwich, Fry makes several comments about how terrible it tastes, ("It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up"), but also says that he has had worse. While Fry finishes his sandwich, Leela starts to clean the windshield of the Planet Express Ship, removing, among other things, the Voyager Probe. Several truckers (including [[Sal]] and [[Hoschel]]) make derogatory, sexist comments toward Leela as she cleans the ship. Fry attempts to defend her, but he unintentionally insults her further.<br />
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Back at the [[Planet Express|Planet Express building]] Fry despairs over being unable to please Leela. This despair is interrupted when he and [[Bender]] go to fix the [[plasma-fusion boiler]], which [[Scruffy]] is unable to fix due to a "schedule conflict". However, since they are unqualified to make such repairs, the boiler explodes, lodging a lead pipe in Fry's abdomen. During an examination from [[Dr. Zoidberg]], the pipe is mysteriously cut in half, and the holes in Fry's abdomen seal themselves.<br />
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Dr. Zoidberg gives Fry a more thorough examination, which the rest of the crew watches behind a 2-way mirror and on a video screen while eating popcorn. [[Hermes]] eats his popcorn using a Jai Alai scoop, because Fry has been eating all the silverware. During Fry's colonoscopy, it is revealed that there is a [[Worms of Colón|colony of parasitic worms]] living in Fry's bowels, within a city made of the silverware Fry ate. The [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] says that the only way to get rid of the parasites is to enter Fry using a microscopic version of the Planet Express Ship.<br />
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=== Act II: "Nobody make a smell!" ===<br />
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[[File:Microdroidmachine.png|thumb|left|Zoidberg being scanned to create a micro-droid of himself.]]<br />
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The Professor creates [[Micro-Droid Machine|micro-droids]] for each crew member, which, apparently, is cheaper than shrinking them. The micro-droids are controlled via [[Net Suit|net suits]].<br />
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The Professor lays out the plan, which involves entering through Fry's ear, and travelling through his systems until they reach the pelvic splanchnic ganglion. Irritation of the ganglion will expel the parasites (among other things) from Fry. The force of the expulsion, according to the Professor, will make Fry lucky to still have his bones afterwards. Fry cannot be warned of the plan, however, as the worms know everything he knows. Leela distracts Fry long enough to launch the miniature Planet Express ship into his ear. In order to keep him distracted, Leela proposes taking a walk.<br />
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The [[Planet Express Crew]] discovers that the worms are actually giving Fry a mental and physical upgrade making him smarter, stronger, and more coordinated. As they navigate through the nasal passage, Fry sniffs a rose, which he gives to Leela. This bombards the Planet Express Ship with pollen, prompting Zoidberg to suggest they escape through a nasal capillary. The nasal capillary takes the crew into the heart. The crew will be safe as long as nothing causes Fry's heart to beat faster, according to the Professor. Unbeknown to the crew, Fry is stepping into a puddle to help Leela avoid getting her feet wet. Upon taking his hand, his heart starts to beat faster, causing Bender to panic. Professor Farnsworth sets a course for a cholesterol-encrusted valve, in an attempt to avoid certain doom.<br />
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After leaving the heart, the ship passes a group of worms jazzercising Fry's muscles, making him as strong and flexible as Gumbercules. Outside of Fry's body, while on their walk, Leela sees Sal, and suggests they cross the street and blend in with a group of pimps. Despite this, Fry confronts Sal, demanding an apology. Leela protests, saying that he is "bulging with what could be muscles." Fry tears off his shirt, revealing his newfound strength, which interests Leela. After a short confrontation, being disarmed and defeated, Sal apologizes to Leela.<br />
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=== Act III: "Worms to battle stations!" ===<br />
The Planet Express Ship sets off a proximity alarm as they neared the stomach, and several worm sentry ships converge and open fire on the Planet Express Ship. Ahead, the entrance to the stomach is starting to close, but they manage make it through, thanks to the help of the worm fighters. They arrive in the bowel and begin an assault on the worm city.<br />
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At a coffee-shop across the street from Planet Express, Fry finally shares his feelings with Leela, which he was previously not able to articulate. Leela realizes that the worms may have something to do with the new Fry, and runs off to the Planet Express building without explaining her intentions to Fry. At the Planet Express Building, Leela scans herself to create a micro-droid for herself, and enters Fry by shooting herself into his cup of coffee. Before the others can stimulate the ganglion, Leela arrives and destroys her micro-droid co-workers with a fire axe.<br />
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=== Act IV: "Obviously, you've never been in love!" ===<br />
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[[File:Holophonor.jpg|thumb|left|Fry playing the holophonor]]<br />
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After destroying the microscopic versions of the crew, Leela takes off her net-suit and tells the Professor that Fry might be better off with the worms. Fry enters the room and demands an explanation. After receiving his explanation, Fry says that the worms are the best parasites he's ever had. Later, Leela takes Fry to her apartment, where pulls out a [[holophonor]], one of the most difficult instruments in [[Universe 1|the universe]]. Despite this, he plays incredibly well, and the hologram shows Fry and Leela in a variety of forms dancing across the universe. Without saying a word, Leela takes Fry into the bedroom, where says she loves what Fry has become. Fry realizes she may not love him for who he truly is, but instead, for what the worms have made him into. He returns to the Planet Express building and makes a micro-droid of himself, which he drops into the back of his pants.<br />
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Inside his own bowel, Fry confronts the [[Lord Mayor of Cologne]]. Fry explains his situation and asks the worms to leave, but the Lord Mayor refuses, citing that he came in on the sandwich and raised a cloud of spores in Fry's bowel. Fry and the Lord Mayor engage in a sword fight, which takes them to Fry's brain. Fry threatens to injure himself to evict the worms. They call his bluff, but he cuts several connections within his brain, including the hand-eye coordination lobe. Despite this, The Lord Mayor remains unworried, and explains that he has only damaged his brain to the extent of a week of binge drinking or 5 minutes of cell phone use. He reaches the medulla oblongata, and threatens to kill himself if they do not leave. After a brief standoff, the worms agree to leave, but give him a promise that they will find their way back--"Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special? Yo."<br />
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=== Act V: "I'm still seduced from before." ===<br />
Fry returns to Leela's apartment. He asks to play the holophonor, but Leela protests, saying that she was still seduced from earlier. He insists and starts playing, creating a Frankenstein-like monster. Leela asks what it was supposed to mean, to which Fry responds 'I don't know. I got nervous and started thinking about neck bolts." Leela realizes he's become an idiot again. Fry asks for a chance to prove that it was him, not the worms that made her love him. Fry pulls out a baggie of massage oil and offers to give her the massage he used to give [[Amy]]. Leela, covering herself, shoves the holophonor in his face and tells him to leave.<br />
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Later that night, Fry begins his first lesson on the holophonor, creating a rudimentary hologram of Leela.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
[[File:September2002calendar.JPG|thumb|September - 2002 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
[[File:April2007calendar.JPG|thumb|April - 2007 [[Calendar]]]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The episode's title is a play on words from the epic poem ''{{w|Paradise Lost}}'' by {{w|John Milton}}.<br />
*Opening scene is shown to be on Historic Route 66 (expressed mathematically as root of 66).<br />
*Fuel available at Greasy Sue's Greasy Truck Stop is Light Matter, Dark Matter, Wassa Matter, Ethanol and Ethanol & Tonic.<br />
*Sign in men's room reads "All Employees Must Wipe Hands on Pants".<br />
*Leela's apartment is a spoof of the old {{w|Hitachi Maxell|Maxell}} commercials, which featured a similar setting.<br />
*These areas of Fry's body are listed on the elevator:<br />
**Brain.<br />
**Lungs.<br />
**Liver.<br />
**Ball Room.<br />
*Directly after Fry defeats the [[Worms of Colón|worms]] and they are leaving his brain, he can be seen performing a fairly common fencing salute.<br />
*This episode is named #4 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p3.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #5 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode is tied with "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]" for the smallest cast list, with only 12 characters.<br />
* This episode's premise of shrinking a vehicle to navigate through a Human body closely resembles the 1966 motion picture ''Fantastic Voyage''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Voyage].<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*When Fry first walks into Leela's apartment, its walls are white, though when Fry walks out the walls are yellow.<br />
*When Fry and Leela are dancing at the beginning of the first holophonor visualisation, the rotating planet behind them clearly loops through its animation.<br />
*Fry mentions that Leela has "more meat than a [[cow]]." Sal laughs and says "more meat than a cow" as well. However, according to "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]", cows are extinct.<br />
**Just because an animal is extinct, it doesn't mean that nobody knows about it anymore.<br />
*The Planet Express ship seems to be able to work in the fluids of Fry's body. But in "[[The Deep South]]", the ship doesn't work under water.<br />
**It's not actually the Planet Express ship, but rather a microscopic version of it, just as the characters are all microscopic robot versions of themselves.<br />
*The Professor said the worms know everything Fry knows. However they do not know who he was when he entered his body nor did they know he was going to damage his own brain.<br />
**It's possible that he didn't mean that all the worms would immediately know everything Fry did. Rather, it may just be that the worm community would have access to all of Fry's knowledge, but that doesn't imply that they'd all know what he looked like or what he was thinking (just like having access to medical textbooks doesn't mean that we're all doctors).<br />
*When Fry and Leela are sitting at the small cafe across the street from Planet Express, Fry has a muffin in front of him. When the shot cuts away as Leela goes to stop the crew from destroying the worms, the muffin vanishes.<br />
*If all the damage Fry ended up doing to himself was no worse than some binge drinking, he should still be pretty smart and able even after the worms left, but he immediately reverts back to being the old Fry.<br />
**Perhaps due to Fry's lack of a Delta brainwave his brain requires constant supervision to be kept smart.<br />
<!--*Sal seems very out of character at one point during this episode, as he pulls out a knife and goes to attack Fry just because he was asked to apologise to Leela.<br />
**This isn't a goof, Sal just went crazy out of pride.--><br />
*There are several errors regarding the size of the mini-Planet Express Ship and the micro-droids in comparison to cells in Fry's body.<br />
**In the shot of the Planet Express Ship going through a capillary, the Planet Express Ship was shown to be the size of a red blood cell. If this were true, they would be microscopic. Therefore, Leela would not be able to see them, let alone pick them up to shoot them into Fry's ear.<br />
**The Planet Express Crew is only shown to be the size of a cell during that one scene; in all others, they are large enough that individual cells aren't shown.<br />
**When Dr. Zoidberg rides on a sperm, none of the other cells are shown, even though sperm cells are much smaller than most other cells.<br />
**Leela is seen chopping miniature Zoidberg's head off twice.<br />
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=== Quotes === <br />
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<poem>'''Leela''': You're not gonna eat a sandwich from a truck stop men's room are you?<br />
'''Fry''': What's the worst thing that can happen... ewww, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Sal''': Stands back. I’m gonna puts my moves on her. ''[He hoots at Leela.]''<br />
'''Fry''': That jerk. No one hoots at my captain unless they’re prepared to take it to the next level.<br />
'''Leela''': Fry, please. That’s sweet, but I'd rather not even dignify them with an ass-whupping.<br />
'''Sal''': Yo, sexy mama! Let’s get busy and freaky, in that order.<br />
'''Fry''': Hey, jumbo! How would you like it if Leela said ''you'' were sexy and she wanted to make love with ''you''?<br />
'''Sal''': Eh, I’ve gots five minutes. She looks pretty good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Fry''': You take that back! She does ''not'' look good for a truck-stop chick.<br />
'''Sal''': Yeah, you’re right. She don’t gots enough meat for a guy like me.<br />
'''Fry''': She does too! She’s loaded with meat! She’s got more meat than a cow!</poem><br />
<poem>''[Part of the boiler flies off. Fry and Bender gasp. Steam starts filling the room.]''<br />
'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived. ''[He continues looking at the magazine.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Ahh, the hypochondriac's back, so what is it this time?<br />
'''Fry''': Well, my lead pipe hurts a little.<br />
'''Zoidberg''': That's normal, next patient!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Hmm. We'll need to have a look inside you with this camera. ''[He holds up an endoscope. Fry opens his mouth.]'' Guess again.<br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Yo old guy, why do we have to use those tiny micro droids? Can't you just shrink us?<br />
'''Professor''': Oh my no, that would require extremely tiny atoms, have you priced those lately? I'm not made of money! Leave me alone</poem><br />
<poem>'''Farnsworth''': Let's just pray nothing stimulates the delicate smell receptors. ''[whispering]'' Nobody make a smell.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Yippeekayaye! You'll never guess where I've been! ''[Comes in riding one of Fry's sperm.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Apartment 1I. The old me would have made a joke about that!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Who controls this bowel?<br />
'''Worm Guard #1''': Who wants to know?<br />
''[Fry points at a gold statue of himself. Underneath the statue is the inscription "The Known Universe". The statue is in the same pointing pose as Fry is. The worms gasp and bow.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Lord Mayor of Cologne''': You've damaged your brain, Universe, but no more than a week of binge drinking or five minutes on a cell phone.</poem><br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*{{e|1ACV13}}<br />
**Fry was sterilized by the [[F-Ray]], but the worms apparently fixed his sperm problems, as Zoidberg was able to find and ride one.<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
**Fry mentions his massage he gave to Amy when he was going out with her.<br />
*{{e|4ACV18}}<br />
**Fry plays the [[holophonor]] again with the help of another [[Robot Devil|outside force]].<br />
**The rudimentary version of Leela that we see in this episode is the same as the one that we see in the very end when Fry plays without the [[Robot Devil|Robot Devil's]] hands.<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
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[[File:ALS-03-02-01.jpg|thumb|right|"HUMAN MILK"]]<br />
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<poem>'''Time''': 00:32<br />
'''Location''': Truck<br />
'''Language''': [[AL1]]<br />
'''Translation''': HUMAN MILK</poem><br />
<poem>'''Time''': 09:48<br />
'''Location''': Construction site<br />
'''Language''': AL1<br />
'''Translation''': WATCH FOR FALLING HUMANS</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Hydroponic farmer]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Lord Mayor of Cologne]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Satan]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': Waitress<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Peter Avanzino]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Eric Kaplan]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Scott Vanzo]]<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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[[Category:A plots focusing on Leela]]</div>70.68.33.26http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Futurama_Holiday_Spectacular&diff=143719The Futurama Holiday Spectacular2014-04-11T18:04:37Z<p>70.68.33.26: /* Goofs */</p>
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{{episode infobox<br />
|name=The Futurama Holiday Spectacular<br />
|season=6<br />
|broadcast season=7<br />
|no=101<br />
|written by=Michael Rowe<br />
|directed by=Ray Claffey<br />
|image=[[File:The Futurama Holiday Spectacular.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=<br />
|caption=[[Time Travel]]ers: Only 331 shopping days 'til last [[Xmas]]<br />
|first aired={{date|21 November}} [[2010]]<br />
|number=6ACV13<br />
|special guest=[[Al Gore]]<br>[[Coolio]]<br />
|broadcast number=S07E13<br />
|prev ep=The Mutants Are Revolting<br />
|next ep=The Silence of the Clamps <br />
|broad next=Neutopia<br />
|nomination={{w|Environmental Media Award|'''Environmental Media Awards'''}}<br>Episodic Comedy, 2011 ('''Won''')<ref name="EMA"/><br />
|title reference=Possibly, ''{{w|The Star Wars Holiday Special}}''<br />
|sponsor=Gunderson's Unshelled Nuts<br />
}}<br />
"'''The Futurama Holiday Spectacular'''" is the one hundred and first episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the thirteenth of the [[season 6|sixth production season]] and the thirteenth and last of the [[broadcast season 7|seventh broadcast season]]. It is the third [[segmented episodes|segmented episode]], as well as the third [[seasonal episodes|seasonal episode]], though parts of ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'' also exhibit seasonal themes. It aired on {{date|21 November}} [[2010]], on [[Comedy Central]]. It guest-stars [[Al Gore]] as [[Al Gore's head|himself]] and [[Coolio]] as [[Kwanzaa-bot]].<br />
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The episode [[Nominations and awards|won]] the [[2011]] {{w|Environmental Media Award}} for greenest Episodic Comedy.<ref name="EMA">[http://www.ecorazzi.com/2011/10/18/ema-awards-recap-honorees-winners-and-video/ EMA Awards Recap: Honorees, Winners, and Video]</ref><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
=== Openings ===<br />
Everyone of the three segments begins with a message from the episode's sponsor, ''[[Gunderson's Unshelled Nuts]]''.<br />
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=== Act I: [[Xmas]] ===<br />
It's [[Xmas]] Day again, and the [[Planet Express crew]] are preparing for the imminent attack from [[Robot Santa Claus]]. [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] begins to feel depressed that Xmas just isn't like the way he used to celebrate Christmas, but he can't quite understand what is missing. Suddenly, Santa bursts in through the fireplace and answers his question, [[The Xmas Song|in song]]: what they are missing is an old-fashioned [[pine tree]]. He then kills [[Scruffy]] and leaves. The crew realize that Santa was right, and they need to bring pine trees back from extinction, just like they did with the [[barking snakes]]. They go to the [[Svalbard Global Seed Vault]] to find some pine seeds. The crew are taken in by the [[Norwegian seed guard]], who gives them a handful of seeds, and tells them about the [[Fifty-Year Squirts]]. However, the pine seeds that they take were contaminated with germs from the nearby [[Germ Warfare Repository]], but they do not take this into consideration.<br />
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Fry plants the seeds in the dirt near the [[Planet Express headquarters]]. By Xmas [[3011|next year]], it has grown into a small tree. [[Dick Cheney's head]] sees it, and, as the [[Vice-President of Earth]], commands [[Richard Nixon's head]], the [[President of Earth]], to steal the tree. Nixon replants the tree at the [[White House]] and they have an annual tree lighting. However, as soon as the tree is lit, it grows immensely. The Norwegian seed guard admits that it may have been the germs, and the tree begins to fire its pine cones off of itself and into the soil with an explosion. A tree grows from everyone of those cones, and eventually, the entire planet [[Earth]] is covered in coniferous forests. The crew are optimistic about the positive environmental impact at first, but then [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] and [[Al Gore's head]] discover that the oxygen level in the atmosphere is dangerously high at eighty percent. [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] lights a cigar and the entire atmosphere of Earth burns up, killing billions. In space, Santa flies by in his sleigh, as if he orchestrated the entire event in order to kill [[Earthican people|everyone on Earth]]. He then pleasantly tells us to stay tuned for the next segment.<br />
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=== Act II: [[Robanukah]] ===<br />
It's the end of the Xmas break, and the Planet Express crew is about to destroy the gifts that they forgot to deliver. Bender begins to complain that only the [[Humans|Human]] holidays are celebrated by them, but a [[Robots|Robot]] holiday, like [[Robanukah]], a day Bender made up so he could get out of work ([[Fear of a Bot Planet|1ACV05]]), isn't. He manages to convince them, [[The Robanukah Song|in song]], to let him celebrate Robanukah by not working, and watching two [[Fembot]]s named [[Ruth and Esther]] wrestle in [[petroleum oil]]. However, Bender discovers that the referee, a monkey named [[Abraham]], only has enough oil for Ruth and Esther to wrestle for four and a half weeks, when Robanukah is supposed to last for six and a half weeks. When he goes to buy more at a [[Mombil]] gas station, [[Sal's friend]] informs them that the Earth has ran dry of petroleum oil. Since Ruth and Esther won't wrestle without oil, Bender makes the Professor install a huge drill to the front of the [[Planet Express ship]] and drill a tunnel deep into Earth to find a small amount.<br />
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Along the way, they are attacked by an [[albino humping worm]], which humps the ship. They manage to escape it and drill even deeper. As the ship continues to fall apart, and the heat rises, the crew gets more and more annoyed at being forced to risk their lives just for Bender. Bender gets mad at their disrespect for the robot tradition, but then part of the ship caves in and crushes all of the crew except for Bender. The ship ends up destroyed, and jammed in the tunnel, more than two hundred kilometers underground. [[Time Travel#Chronological|Five hundred million years later]], Bender is still in the ship. He has been relaxing in the side of it that wasn't destroyed. Bender begins to miss the others, but then realizes that over the millions of years, the crew turned into petroleum oil. He collects some and drills back to the surface with his head, where all of [[New New York]] has turned into desert, except for the Planet Express building. He walks in to give the Fembots his oil, but is surprised to find out that the oil that was supposed to last for four and a half weeks had lasted five hundred million years, and that Ruth and Esther were wrestling all this time. Bender proclaims it a Robanukah miracle.<br />
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=== Act III: [[Kwanzaa]] ===<br />
The crew all visit the [[Conrad family]] in [[Conrad apartment|their apartment]] for a [[Kwanzaa]] party, with many of the African-American supporting characters, including [[Barbados Slim]] and [[Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate|Bubblegum]], who gives [[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]] a book called ''[[The Mathketball Diaries]]''. At the dinner table, [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]] wishes that someone could tell them more about Kwanzaa's ancient traditions. To answer him, [[Kwanzaa-bot]] bursts in through the wall like the {{w|Kool-Aid Man}} and explains, [[The Kwanzaa Rap|in rap]], the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Before he leaves, he reminds [[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]] that the seven candles of Kwanzaa needs to be made of [[beeswax]]. LaBarbara makes [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] and his co-workers to go out in the middle of the night to find some. At ''[[Petunia's Self-Serve Bee Farm]]'', one of the few bee farms open on Kwanzaa, [[Petunia]]'s bee's have been suffering from {{w|colony collapse disorder|CCD}}, due to the [[bee parasites]] that have attached themselves to the bees. Since they have no beeswax, they resort to another option: finding wax from the [[Space Bees]] that almost killed Fry and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] last time ([[The Sting|4ACV12]]).<br />
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They fly to the bees' [[Space Hive]], equip Bender with a [[trans-bumblator]] and cautiously enter. Inside, they discover that the bees there are also suffering from the same parasites. The [[Space Bee Queen]] explains to them that the parasites have been making her children fight with each other, and create chaos in the hive. Although they got enough wax, Hermes thinks that the right thing to do would be to help the Queen restore order by explaining the principles of Kwanzaa. They are successful, and the parasites die. However, now that the bees are back to normal, they go back to attacking the Planet Express crew. Kwanzaa-bot reappears to help them, but is then killed by the bees. The crew end up covered in wax and slowly burning to death as the bees use them as candles.<br />
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=== Closing ===<br />
A curtain comes down and Al Gore's head informs the audience that the crew will be back with new episodes next year, with him as [[Captain Lance Starman]]. [[Amy Wong|Amy]] comes in wearing a ''Gunderson's Nuts'' costume, for one last piece of advertisement.<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
In its original American broadcast, the episode was viewed by an estimated 1.302 million households.<ref>[http://www.peelified.com/Futurama-Forum-1/Topic-18960-120-Futurama_delivers_strong.html PEEL: Futurama delivers strong ratings!]</ref> The rest of the broadcast season had about 1.9 million viewers, but it should also be noted that ''The Futurama Holiday Spectacular'' was aired between seasons.<br />
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The episode was generally not well received among fans, and many called it both [[Season 6|the season's]] and [[Futurama|the series']] worst episode.<ref>[http://www.peelified.com/Futurama-Forum-1/Topic-20067-0-Thoughts_on_ACV_Futurama.html PEEL: Thoughts on 6ACV13 - Futurama Holiday Spectacular - SPOILERS]</ref><br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Lyrics ===<br />
*"[[The Xmas Song]]"<br />
*"[[The Robanukah Song]]"<br />
*"[[The Kwanzaa Rap]]"<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*This is the first episode to feature the name of [[Futurama|the series]] in its title.<br />
*This is the first non-canon episode to not feature the [[What-If Machine]] and therefore, unlike the ones that did feature it, has no [[canon]] story components. Basically, it is the only ''Futurama'' episode that is entirely non-canon.<br />
*This episode aired the same day as ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[simpsons:The Fool Monty|The Fool Monty]]", which also had a [[Dick Cheney]] appearance.<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]] doesn't have any lines until the [[Robanukah]] segment.<br />
*The entire crew dies in every segment except for the Robanukah one, in which [[Bender]] survives.<br />
*This episode was subject to censorship by local syndication.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The title is possibly a reference to ''{{w|The Star Wars Holiday Special}}''.<br />
*The episode being "brought to you by [[Gunderson's Unshelled Nuts]]" parodies many Christmas specials from the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]], such as ''{{w|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer}}'' and ''{{w|A Charlie Brown Christmas}}'', where the advertisers would prominently announce their sponsorship within the special itself.<br />
*[[Robot Santa Claus]] says "God rest ye, merry gentlemen...in peace!" right before attacking [[Planet Express]], referring to "{{w|God rest you, merry gentlemen}}", a traditional English Christmas carol.<br />
*Robot Santa says "sugar-plummy visions will be dancing in your head" referring to a line from ''{{w|A Visit from St. Nicholas}}'' ("While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads").<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] sings "don our gay apparel", a line from "{{w|Deck the Halls}}".<br />
*Farnsworth tells Fry to "Cram it, Virginia!". This is a reference to the world famous letter to the editor "{{w|Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus}}".<br />
*The way the cake house is destroyed during the [[List of song performances#Xmas Song|Xmas Song]] references famous atomic bomb test footage, most likely part of the {{w|Project Cue}} tests in {{May}} [[1955]].<br />
*[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]] drinks a cup of Roboschewitz wine, referring to the famous kosher {{w|Manischewitz}} wine.<br />
*Leela sets the "Bachman Turners" to "Overdrive". This is a reference to the band {{w|Bachman Turner Overdrive}}.<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]] calls [[Kwanzaa-bot]] "Kool-Aid" after he bursts through the wall of the [[Conrad apartment]]. This refers to the {{w|Kool-Aid Man}}, the mascot of the brand who frequently enters a room by bursting through a wall.<br />
*Kwanzaa-bot calls Dwight "Boondocks", likely referring to the {{w|The Boondocks (comic strip)|comic strip}} by {{w|Aaron McGruder}}.<br />
**Dwight is reading "Captain Yesterday" during the rap, referring to [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]'s alter-ego in the [[New Justice Team]].<br />
*Bender refers to the Norwegian seed guard as {{w|ABBA}}, which was a pop group from [[Sweden]] (not [[Norway]]).<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*The [[Conrad apartment]] is revisited ([[The Route of All Evil|3ACV12]]/[[Bender's Big Score|BBS]]).<br />
*The giant [[Space Bees]] are seen again {{et|4ACV12}}.<br />
*Dwight can be seen reading a [[Captain Yesterday]] comic {{et|4ACV04}}.<br />
*The way the cake house is destroyed during the [[List of song performances#Xmas Song|Xmas Song]] is reminiscent to the way the house where [[Enos Fry]] dies is destroyed {{et|3ACV19}}. As mentioned [[#Allusions|above]], this references famous atomic bomb test footage.<br />
*In the shot where pine trees are springing all around Earth, we can see our planet is turning in the wrong direction. {{et|6ACV08}}<br />
*Even though it is clear from the first [[Seasonal episodes|seasonal episode]] {{et|2ACV04}} that Zoidberg is on Santa's good list, he still gets attacked.<br />
**Probably because of Zoidberg snipping the Xmas lights that incapacitate Robot Santa in that episode.<br />
*The [[Holophonor]] is seen again ([[Parasites Lost|3ACV02]]/[[A Taste of Freedom|4ACV05]]/[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings|4ACV18]]/[[The Beast with a Billion Backs|TBWABB]]/[[Recaps#5ACV16|5ACV16]]/[[Liquid Diamond Is Forever!|US#X02]]).<br />
*[[Mombil]] is seen again ([[Bender's Game|BG]]).<br />
*[[Bender's watch]] is seen again {{et|6ACV10}}.<br />
*A Space Bee asks another if he's black with yellow stripes or yellow with black stripes. This echoes a question [[Smitty]] asked [[URL]], if the [[penguin]]s on [[Pluto]] were black with white feathers or white with black feathers {{et|3ACV05}}.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Robot Santa calls this episode "hilarity". This episode is not hilarious in any way.<br />
*When [[Kwanzaa-bot]] was rapping, the beat played throughout the whole song, even when they stopped playing the instruments.<br />
*Also, During [[Kwanzaa-bot]]'s rap, he mentions Xmas and Robanukah. Robanukah was apparently a made-up Holiday by Bender.<br />
**He could have convinced [[Kwanzaa-bot]] that Robanukah was a real Holiday.<br />
*Last time we heard of Robanukah {{et|1ACV05}}, it had been only two weeks long and had different traditions when celebrated in the [[Planet Express ship|ship]].<br />
**Given that Bender made up Robanukah to skip work, the different traditions can be explained as being whatever Bender felt was good at the time. The addition of four and a half weeks can be explained in this manner. Bender added several weeks to Robanukah because he wanted more time to drink and party.<br />
*When the [[droidel]] landed on {{w|Shin (letter)|Shin}} (ש), Bender took all the coins, but, in the actual game, this letter either means to give in two coins or half your coins, and in neither version of it do you give them to another player.<br />
**Given that Bender is making this holiday up out of pure self-interest, we have no reason to believe that he would play with any regard for the actual rules of the game.<br />
*Bender's Robanukah has nothing to do with the actual Hanukkah miracles, but the droidel still has a {{w|Nun (letter)|Nun}} (נ), {{w|Gimel}} (ג), {{w|He (letter)|He}} (ה), and Shin (ש) on it, which stands for ''Nes Gadol Hayah Sham''. "A big miracle happened there".<br />
**Bender barely had time to make the traditions of the holiday up. He probably just chose the signs of a normal dreidel.<br />
*Fry probably shouldn't have knowledge of the deadly silent Prius, seeing as he was frozen in 2000.<br />
**Priuses in the time interim may have become something else. Or he does actual research.<br />
*Bender has been on for 500 million years without beer, but he has no rust.<br />
**He may of been offline for some of the time.<br />
**Bender may have stored beer in the ship.<br />
*In the year 500,003,010, the [[Planet Express headquarters]] is still there, but, in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]", we learn that it has been destroyed sometime in between 3010 and 10,000.<br />
**This is a universe in which the crew died. Maybe, if they hadn't died, it would have led to the building being destroyed, but since they did die, nobody destroyed it.<br />
**Maybe it was because Bender hired [[Ruth and Esther]], who kept it there. In "The Late Philip J. Fry", Bender didn't, because he went to the year 10,000 before he had a chance to hire them.<br />
**This episode is non-[[canon]].<br />
*Fry's hair would not be intact after 500 million years, especially not under pressure.<br />
*Right after the [[Professor Farnsworth|Professor]] throws the fruitcake at [[Santa]], his right arm doubles.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': What's wrong, Fry? Are you regretting another wasted year?<br />
'''[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]''': I don't know. Something about Xmas just doesn't feel like Christmas.<br />
'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]]''': ''[The alarm sounds and the red light flashes.]'' Santa's coming! Initiate defenses! ''[The grey armour ([[A Tale of Two Santas|3ACV03]]) covers the [[Planet Express headquarters]], and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]], [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]], and [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] block Santa's fireplace entrance.]<br />
'''[[Robot Santa Claus|Santa]]''': ''[Flying in his sleigh.]'' God rest ye, merry gentlemen... in peace. ''[He starts firing at the building.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]]''': Good news! All these pine trees are fighting [[global warming]] by producing oxygen. Happy now, Gore?<br />
'''[[Al Gore's head|Al Gore]]''': Yeah. But I'd be happier if I had a set of lungs.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': ''[Repeated line.]'' This could be a good thing.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Zoidberg]]''': What's that loud, boring sound you'll hear when I stop talking?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': ''[He gasps.]'' It's an [[albino humping worm]]!<br />
'''Fry''': Why do they call it that?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': ''[The [[Planet Express ship|ship]] begins to rock back and forth.]'' Because it doesn't have any pigment.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Amy Wong|Amy]]''': Who wants [[Gunderson's Unshelled Nuts|a delicious unshelled nut]]?<br />
'''Bender''': Ooh! I'll have one.<br />
'''Amy''': Mmm. "It's Nutso Good!"</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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==== Characters ====<br />
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*'''Debut''': [[Abraham]]<br />
*[[Al Gore's head|Al Gore]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Albino humping worm]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Barbados Slim]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Barking snakes]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Captain Lance Starman]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Captain Yesterday]]<br />
*[[Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate|Bubblegum]]<br />
* '''Debut''': [[Dick Cheney's head|Dick Cheney]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]]<br />
*[[Henry Kissinger's head]] <small>([[List of deleted scenes#Volume 5|deleted scene]])</small><br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Horrible Gelatinous Blob|H. G. Blob]]<br />
*[[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Hyper-Chicken]]<br />
*[[Kwanzaa-bot]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Norwegian seed guard]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head|Richard Nixon]]<br />
*[[Robot Santa Claus]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Ruth and Esther]]<br />
*[[Santa Claus' aides]]<br />
*[[Santa Claus' reindeers]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Tinny Tim]]<br />
*[[Space Bee Queen]]<br />
*[[Transition Announcer]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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==== Places ====<br />
{{chars-begin|note=no}}<br />
*[[Conrad family home]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Germ Warfare Repository]]<br />
*Jamba Juice {{miso}}<br />
*La Habra {{miso}}<br />
*[[Mombil]]<br />
*[[Moon]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Norway]]<br />
*Olive Garden {{miso}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Petunia's Self-Serve Bee Farm]]<br />
*[[Planet Express attic]]<br />
*[[Planet Express conference room]]<br />
*[[Planet Express hangar]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Planet Express headquarters]]<br />
*Space hive<br />
*'''Debut''': Svalbard<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Svalbard Global Seed Vault]]<br />
*Vassar {{miso}}<br />
*Virginia {{miso}}<br />
*[[Washington, D.C.]]<br />
*[[White House]]<br />
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==== Miscellaneous ====<br />
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*"[[Let's go already!]]"<br />
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{{episode infobox<br />
|name=The Futurama Holiday Spectacular<br />
|season=6<br />
|broadcast season=7<br />
|no=101<br />
|written by=Michael Rowe<br />
|directed by=Ray Claffey<br />
|image=[[File:The Futurama Holiday Spectacular.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=<br />
|caption=[[Time Travel]]ers: Only 331 shopping days 'til last [[Xmas]]<br />
|first aired={{date|21 November}} [[2010]]<br />
|number=6ACV13<br />
|special guest=[[Al Gore]]<br>[[Coolio]]<br />
|broadcast number=S07E13<br />
|prev ep=The Mutants Are Revolting<br />
|next ep=The Silence of the Clamps <br />
|broad next=Neutopia<br />
|nomination={{w|Environmental Media Award|'''Environmental Media Awards'''}}<br>Episodic Comedy, 2011 ('''Won''')<ref name="EMA"/><br />
|title reference=Possibly, ''{{w|The Star Wars Holiday Special}}''<br />
|sponsor=Gunderson's Unshelled Nuts<br />
}}<br />
"'''The Futurama Holiday Spectacular'''" is the one hundred and first episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the thirteenth of the [[season 6|sixth production season]] and the thirteenth and last of the [[broadcast season 7|seventh broadcast season]]. It is the third [[segmented episodes|segmented episode]], as well as the third [[seasonal episodes|seasonal episode]], though parts of ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'' also exhibit seasonal themes. It aired on {{date|21 November}} [[2010]], on [[Comedy Central]]. It guest-stars [[Al Gore]] as [[Al Gore's head|himself]] and [[Coolio]] as [[Kwanzaa-bot]].<br />
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The episode [[Nominations and awards|won]] the [[2011]] {{w|Environmental Media Award}} for greenest Episodic Comedy.<ref name="EMA">[http://www.ecorazzi.com/2011/10/18/ema-awards-recap-honorees-winners-and-video/ EMA Awards Recap: Honorees, Winners, and Video]</ref><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
=== Openings ===<br />
Everyone of the three segments begins with a message from the episode's sponsor, ''[[Gunderson's Unshelled Nuts]]''.<br />
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=== Act I: [[Xmas]] ===<br />
It's [[Xmas]] Day again, and the [[Planet Express crew]] are preparing for the imminent attack from [[Robot Santa Claus]]. [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] begins to feel depressed that Xmas just isn't like the way he used to celebrate Christmas, but he can't quite understand what is missing. Suddenly, Santa bursts in through the fireplace and answers his question, [[The Xmas Song|in song]]: what they are missing is an old-fashioned [[pine tree]]. He then kills [[Scruffy]] and leaves. The crew realize that Santa was right, and they need to bring pine trees back from extinction, just like they did with the [[barking snakes]]. They go to the [[Svalbard Global Seed Vault]] to find some pine seeds. The crew are taken in by the [[Norwegian seed guard]], who gives them a handful of seeds, and tells them about the [[Fifty-Year Squirts]]. However, the pine seeds that they take were contaminated with germs from the nearby [[Germ Warfare Repository]], but they do not take this into consideration.<br />
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Fry plants the seeds in the dirt near the [[Planet Express headquarters]]. By Xmas [[3011|next year]], it has grown into a small tree. [[Dick Cheney's head]] sees it, and, as the [[Vice-President of Earth]], commands [[Richard Nixon's head]], the [[President of Earth]], to steal the tree. Nixon replants the tree at the [[White House]] and they have an annual tree lighting. However, as soon as the tree is lit, it grows immensely. The Norwegian seed guard admits that it may have been the germs, and the tree begins to fire its pine cones off of itself and into the soil with an explosion. A tree grows from everyone of those cones, and eventually, the entire planet [[Earth]] is covered in coniferous forests. The crew are optimistic about the positive environmental impact at first, but then [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] and [[Al Gore's head]] discover that the oxygen level in the atmosphere is dangerously high at eighty percent. [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] lights a cigar and the entire atmosphere of Earth burns up, killing billions. In space, Santa flies by in his sleigh, as if he orchestrated the entire event in order to kill [[Earthican people|everyone on Earth]]. He then pleasantly tells us to stay tuned for the next segment.<br />
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=== Act II: [[Robanukah]] ===<br />
It's the end of the Xmas break, and the Planet Express crew is about to destroy the gifts that they forgot to deliver. Bender begins to complain that only the [[Humans|Human]] holidays are celebrated by them, but a [[Robots|Robot]] holiday, like [[Robanukah]], a day Bender made up so he could get out of work ([[Fear of a Bot Planet|1ACV05]]), isn't. He manages to convince them, [[The Robanukah Song|in song]], to let him celebrate Robanukah by not working, and watching two [[Fembot]]s named [[Ruth and Esther]] wrestle in [[petroleum oil]]. However, Bender discovers that the referee, a monkey named [[Abraham]], only has enough oil for Ruth and Esther to wrestle for four and a half weeks, when Robanukah is supposed to last for six and a half weeks. When he goes to buy more at a [[Mombil]] gas station, [[Sal's friend]] informs them that the Earth has ran dry of petroleum oil. Since Ruth and Esther won't wrestle without oil, Bender makes the Professor install a huge drill to the front of the [[Planet Express ship]] and drill a tunnel deep into Earth to find a small amount.<br />
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Along the way, they are attacked by an [[albino humping worm]], which humps the ship. They manage to escape it and drill even deeper. As the ship continues to fall apart, and the heat rises, the crew gets more and more annoyed at being forced to risk their lives just for Bender. Bender gets mad at their disrespect for the robot tradition, but then part of the ship caves in and crushes all of the crew except for Bender. The ship ends up destroyed, and jammed in the tunnel, more than two hundred kilometers underground. [[Time Travel#Chronological|Five hundred million years later]], Bender is still in the ship. He has been relaxing in the side of it that wasn't destroyed. Bender begins to miss the others, but then realizes that over the millions of years, the crew turned into petroleum oil. He collects some and drills back to the surface with his head, where all of [[New New York]] has turned into desert, except for the Planet Express building. He walks in to give the Fembots his oil, but is surprised to find out that the oil that was supposed to last for four and a half weeks had lasted five hundred million years, and that Ruth and Esther were wrestling all this time. Bender proclaims it a Robanukah miracle.<br />
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=== Act III: [[Kwanzaa]] ===<br />
The crew all visit the [[Conrad family]] in [[Conrad apartment|their apartment]] for a [[Kwanzaa]] party, with many of the African-American supporting characters, including [[Barbados Slim]] and [[Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate|Bubblegum]], who gives [[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]] a book called ''[[The Mathketball Diaries]]''. At the dinner table, [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]] wishes that someone could tell them more about Kwanzaa's ancient traditions. To answer him, [[Kwanzaa-bot]] bursts in through the wall like the {{w|Kool-Aid Man}} and explains, [[The Kwanzaa Rap|in rap]], the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Before he leaves, he reminds [[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]] that the seven candles of Kwanzaa needs to be made of [[beeswax]]. LaBarbara makes [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] and his co-workers to go out in the middle of the night to find some. At ''[[Petunia's Self-Serve Bee Farm]]'', one of the few bee farms open on Kwanzaa, [[Petunia]]'s bee's have been suffering from {{w|colony collapse disorder|CCD}}, due to the [[bee parasites]] that have attached themselves to the bees. Since they have no beeswax, they resort to another option: finding wax from the [[Space Bees]] that almost killed Fry and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] last time ([[The Sting|4ACV12]]).<br />
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They fly to the bees' [[Space Hive]], equip Bender with a [[trans-bumblator]] and cautiously enter. Inside, they discover that the bees there are also suffering from the same parasites. The [[Space Bee Queen]] explains to them that the parasites have been making her children fight with each other, and create chaos in the hive. Although they got enough wax, Hermes thinks that the right thing to do would be to help the Queen restore order by explaining the principles of Kwanzaa. They are successful, and the parasites die. However, now that the bees are back to normal, they go back to attacking the Planet Express crew. Kwanzaa-bot reappears to help them, but is then killed by the bees. The crew end up covered in wax and slowly burning to death as the bees use them as candles.<br />
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=== Closing ===<br />
A curtain comes down and Al Gore's head informs the audience that the crew will be back with new episodes next year, with him as [[Captain Lance Starman]]. [[Amy Wong|Amy]] comes in wearing a ''Gunderson's Nuts'' costume, for one last piece of advertisement.<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
In its original American broadcast, the episode was viewed by an estimated 1.302 million households.<ref>[http://www.peelified.com/Futurama-Forum-1/Topic-18960-120-Futurama_delivers_strong.html PEEL: Futurama delivers strong ratings!]</ref> The rest of the broadcast season had about 1.9 million viewers, but it should also be noted that ''The Futurama Holiday Spectacular'' was aired between seasons.<br />
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The episode was generally not well received among fans, and many called it both [[Season 6|the season's]] and [[Futurama|the series']] worst episode.<ref>[http://www.peelified.com/Futurama-Forum-1/Topic-20067-0-Thoughts_on_ACV_Futurama.html PEEL: Thoughts on 6ACV13 - Futurama Holiday Spectacular - SPOILERS]</ref><br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Lyrics ===<br />
*"[[The Xmas Song]]"<br />
*"[[The Robanukah Song]]"<br />
*"[[The Kwanzaa Rap]]"<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*This is the first episode to feature the name of [[Futurama|the series]] in its title.<br />
*This is the first non-canon episode to not feature the [[What-If Machine]] and therefore, unlike the ones that did feature it, has no [[canon]] story components. Basically, it is the only ''Futurama'' episode that is entirely non-canon.<br />
*This episode aired the same day as ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[simpsons:The Fool Monty|The Fool Monty]]", which also had a [[Dick Cheney]] appearance.<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]] doesn't have any lines until the [[Robanukah]] segment.<br />
*The entire crew dies in every segment except for the Robanukah one, in which [[Bender]] survives.<br />
*This episode was subject to censorship by local syndication.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The title is possibly a reference to ''{{w|The Star Wars Holiday Special}}''.<br />
*The episode being "brought to you by [[Gunderson's Unshelled Nuts]]" parodies many Christmas specials from the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]], such as ''{{w|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer}}'' and ''{{w|A Charlie Brown Christmas}}'', where the advertisers would prominently announce their sponsorship within the special itself.<br />
*[[Robot Santa Claus]] says "God rest ye, merry gentlemen...in peace!" right before attacking [[Planet Express]], referring to "{{w|God rest you, merry gentlemen}}", a traditional English Christmas carol.<br />
*Robot Santa says "sugar-plummy visions will be dancing in your head" referring to a line from ''{{w|A Visit from St. Nicholas}}'' ("While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads").<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] sings "don our gay apparel", a line from "{{w|Deck the Halls}}".<br />
*Farnsworth tells Fry to "Cram it, Virginia!". This is a reference to the world famous letter to the editor "{{w|Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus}}".<br />
*The way the cake house is destroyed during the [[List of song performances#Xmas Song|Xmas Song]] references famous atomic bomb test footage, most likely part of the {{w|Project Cue}} tests in {{May}} [[1955]].<br />
*[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]] drinks a cup of Roboschewitz wine, referring to the famous kosher {{w|Manischewitz}} wine.<br />
*Leela sets the "Bachman Turners" to "Overdrive". This is a reference to the band {{w|Bachman Turner Overdrive}}.<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]] calls [[Kwanzaa-bot]] "Kool-Aid" after he bursts through the wall of the [[Conrad apartment]]. This refers to the {{w|Kool-Aid Man}}, the mascot of the brand who frequently enters a room by bursting through a wall.<br />
*Kwanzaa-bot calls Dwight "Boondocks", likely referring to the {{w|The Boondocks (comic strip)|comic strip}} by {{w|Aaron McGruder}}.<br />
**Dwight is reading "Captain Yesterday" during the rap, referring to [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]'s alter-ego in the [[New Justice Team]].<br />
*Bender refers to the Norwegian seed guard as {{w|ABBA}}, which was a pop group from [[Sweden]] (not [[Norway]]).<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*The [[Conrad apartment]] is revisited ([[The Route of All Evil|3ACV12]]/[[Bender's Big Score|BBS]]).<br />
*The giant [[Space Bees]] are seen again {{et|4ACV12}}.<br />
*Dwight can be seen reading a [[Captain Yesterday]] comic {{et|4ACV04}}.<br />
*The way the cake house is destroyed during the [[List of song performances#Xmas Song|Xmas Song]] is reminiscent to the way the house where [[Enos Fry]] dies is destroyed {{et|3ACV19}}. As mentioned [[#Allusions|above]], this references famous atomic bomb test footage.<br />
*In the shot where pine trees are springing all around Earth, we can see our planet is turning in the wrong direction. {{et|6ACV08}}<br />
*Even though it is clear from the first [[Seasonal episodes|seasonal episode]] {{et|2ACV04}} that Zoidberg is on Santa's good list, he still gets attacked.<br />
**Probably because of Zoidberg snipping the Xmas lights that incapacitate Robot Santa in that episode.<br />
*The [[Holophonor]] is seen again ([[Parasites Lost|3ACV02]]/[[A Taste of Freedom|4ACV05]]/[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings|4ACV18]]/[[The Beast with a Billion Backs|TBWABB]]/[[Recaps#5ACV16|5ACV16]]/[[Liquid Diamond Is Forever!|US#X02]]).<br />
*[[Mombil]] is seen again ([[Bender's Game|BG]]).<br />
*[[Bender's watch]] is seen again {{et|6ACV10}}.<br />
*A Space Bee asks another if he's black with yellow stripes or yellow with black stripes. This echoes a question [[Smitty]] asked [[URL]], if the [[penguin]]s on [[Pluto]] were black with white feathers or white with black feathers {{et|3ACV05}}.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Santa calls this episode "hilarity". This episode is not hilarious in any way.<br />
*When [[Kwanzaa-bot]] was rapping, the beat played throughout the whole song, even when they stopped playing the instruments.<br />
*Also, During [[Kwanzaa-bot]]'s rap, he mentions Xmas and Robanukah. Robanukah was apparently a made-up Holiday by Bender.<br />
**He could have convinced [[Kwanzaa-bot]] that Robanukah was a real Holiday.<br />
*Last time we heard of Robanukah {{et|1ACV05}}, it had been only two weeks long and had different traditions when celebrated in the [[Planet Express ship|ship]].<br />
**Given that Bender made up Robanukah to skip work, the different traditions can be explained as being whatever Bender felt was good at the time. The addition of four and a half weeks can be explained in this manner. Bender added several weeks to Robanukah because he wanted more time to drink and party.<br />
*When the [[droidel]] landed on {{w|Shin (letter)|Shin}} (ש), Bender took all the coins, but, in the actual game, this letter either means to give in two coins or half your coins, and in neither version of it do you give them to another player.<br />
**Given that Bender is making this holiday up out of pure self-interest, we have no reason to believe that he would play with any regard for the actual rules of the game.<br />
*Bender's Robanukah has nothing to do with the actual Hanukkah miracles, but the droidel still has a {{w|Nun (letter)|Nun}} (נ), {{w|Gimel}} (ג), {{w|He (letter)|He}} (ה), and Shin (ש) on it, which stands for ''Nes Gadol Hayah Sham''. "A big miracle happened there".<br />
**Bender barely had time to make the traditions of the holiday up. He probably just chose the signs of a normal dreidel.<br />
*Fry probably shouldn't have knowledge of the deadly silent Prius, seeing as he was frozen in 2000.<br />
**Priuses in the time interim may have become something else. Or he does actual research.<br />
*Bender has been on for 500 million years without beer, but he has no rust.<br />
**He may of been offline for some of the time.<br />
**Bender may have stored beer in the ship.<br />
*In the year 500,003,010, the [[Planet Express headquarters]] is still there, but, in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]", we learn that it has been destroyed sometime in between 3010 and 10,000.<br />
**This is a universe in which the crew died. Maybe, if they hadn't died, it would have led to the building being destroyed, but since they did die, nobody destroyed it.<br />
**Maybe it was because Bender hired [[Ruth and Esther]], who kept it there. In "The Late Philip J. Fry", Bender didn't, because he went to the year 10,000 before he had a chance to hire them.<br />
**This episode is non-[[canon]].<br />
*Fry's hair would not be intact after 500 million years, especially not under pressure.<br />
*Right after the [[Professor Farnsworth|Professor]] throws the fruitcake at [[Santa]], his right arm doubles.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': What's wrong, Fry? Are you regretting another wasted year?<br />
'''[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]''': I don't know. Something about Xmas just doesn't feel like Christmas.<br />
'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]]''': ''[The alarm sounds and the red light flashes.]'' Santa's coming! Initiate defenses! ''[The grey armour ([[A Tale of Two Santas|3ACV03]]) covers the [[Planet Express headquarters]], and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]], [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]], and [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] block Santa's fireplace entrance.]<br />
'''[[Robot Santa Claus|Santa]]''': ''[Flying in his sleigh.]'' God rest ye, merry gentlemen... in peace. ''[He starts firing at the building.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]]''': Good news! All these pine trees are fighting [[global warming]] by producing oxygen. Happy now, Gore?<br />
'''[[Al Gore's head|Al Gore]]''': Yeah. But I'd be happier if I had a set of lungs.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': ''[Repeated line.]'' This could be a good thing.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Zoidberg]]''': What's that loud, boring sound you'll hear when I stop talking?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': ''[He gasps.]'' It's an [[albino humping worm]]!<br />
'''Fry''': Why do they call it that?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': ''[The [[Planet Express ship|ship]] begins to rock back and forth.]'' Because it doesn't have any pigment.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Amy Wong|Amy]]''': Who wants [[Gunderson's Unshelled Nuts|a delicious unshelled nut]]?<br />
'''Bender''': Ooh! I'll have one.<br />
'''Amy''': Mmm. "It's Nutso Good!"</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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==== Characters ====<br />
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*'''Debut''': [[Abraham]]<br />
*[[Al Gore's head|Al Gore]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Albino humping worm]]<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Barbados Slim]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Barking snakes]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Captain Lance Starman]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Captain Yesterday]]<br />
*[[Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate|Bubblegum]]<br />
* '''Debut''': [[Dick Cheney's head|Dick Cheney]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad|Dwight]]<br />
*[[Henry Kissinger's head]] <small>([[List of deleted scenes#Volume 5|deleted scene]])</small><br />
*[[Petunia]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Horrible Gelatinous Blob|H. G. Blob]]<br />
*[[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Hyper-Chicken]]<br />
*[[Kwanzaa-bot]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad|LaBarbara]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Norwegian seed guard]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Richard Nixon's head|Richard Nixon]]<br />
*[[Robot Santa Claus]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Ruth and Esther]]<br />
*[[Santa Claus' aides]]<br />
*[[Santa Claus' reindeers]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Tinny Tim]]<br />
*[[Space Bee Queen]]<br />
*[[Transition Announcer]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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==== Places ====<br />
{{chars-begin|note=no}}<br />
*[[Conrad family home]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Germ Warfare Repository]]<br />
*Jamba Juice {{miso}}<br />
*La Habra {{miso}}<br />
*[[Mombil]]<br />
*[[Moon]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Norway]]<br />
*Olive Garden {{miso}}<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Petunia's Self-Serve Bee Farm]]<br />
*[[Planet Express attic]]<br />
*[[Planet Express conference room]]<br />
*[[Planet Express hangar]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Planet Express headquarters]]<br />
*Space hive<br />
*'''Debut''': Svalbard<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Svalbard Global Seed Vault]]<br />
*Vassar {{miso}}<br />
*Virginia {{miso}}<br />
*[[Washington, D.C.]]<br />
*[[White House]]<br />
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==== Miscellaneous ====<br />
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*"[[Let's go already!]]"<br />
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== References ==<br />
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|image=[[File:BWABBp4.jpg|225px]]<br />
|no=80<br />
|broadcast season=6<br />
|season=5<br />
|from film=The Beast with a Billion Backs<br />
|name=The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4<br />
|number=5ACV08<br />
|caption=The [[Robots]] are Coming! The Robots are Coming!<br />
|first aired={{date|19 October}}, [[2008]]<br />
|written by=Eric Kaplan<br />
|directed by=Peter Avanzino<br />
|broadcast number=S06E08<br />
|hascommentary=no<br />
|prev ep=The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3<br />
|next ep=5ACV09<br />
|next film=Bender's Game<br />
|special guest=[[Dan Castellaneta]]<br />
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All the organisms are having fun with [[Yivo]], but [[Bender]] wants them back.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Miscellany ===<br />
{{see|Miscellany of The Beast with a Billion Backs}} ''for trivia, goofs, etc.''<br />
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=== Film to Episode Edits ===<br />
*The bulk of the introduction sequence is replaced by a summary of the previous parts of the movie, this section is introduced by the Professor, who coughs out his teeth at the screen after saying "Previously on ''[[Futurama]]''".<br />
* [[Hermes]]' line of "You mean 'get shklim!'" was edited out.<br />
* Yivo doesn't note that he was lonely and didn't know there was anyone else.<br />
*Bender isn't given choice of weapon.<br />
*Bender shooting Calculon was cut to remove the beam hitting several buildings and a man getting the wart on his nose checked before getting vaporized.<br />
* The brief shot of [[Adlai Atkins]] and the final lines of the duel, were deleted.<br />
* [[M5438]]'s line was cut out.<br />
*Fry doesn't talk about putting his heart on the line.<br />
* Bender doesn't say the reason why he's in a good mood.<br />
* After Yivo says shkle made "homemade Twizzlers", shkle doesn't talk about saving a whole lot of money at the concession stand.<br />
* Leela isn't seen being forced onto the escalator saying "Wait I didn't agree to..."<br />
*Yivo doesn't mention shklis/skler harps.<br />
*Fry's letter doesn't note the giant rubies that taste like root beer.<br />
* After Bender says, "Stupid electromatter! THAT WAS MY BEST TRASH CAN!", [[Robot 1-X]] does not say, "Pain sensor overload."<br />
* [[Professor Farnsworth]] and [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom|Dr. Wernstrom]]'s final dialogue was cut out.<br />
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|name=Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles<br />
|no=63<br />
|image=[[File:Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=Teenage [[Leela]] reads a story to the young {{Planet Express|crew}}<br />
|season=4<br />
|broadcast season=5<br />
|number=4ACV09<br />
|caption=Now interactive! Joystick controls [[Fry]]'s left ear<br />
|first aired=30 March, [[2003]]<br />
|written by=Jeff Westbrook<br />
|directed by=Bret Haaland<br />
|title reference=The ''{{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles}}'' franchise<br />
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The {{Planet Express|crew}} is exposed to a substance that causes everyone to revert to teenagers... and the [[Professor Farnsworth|Professor]]'s attempt to correct the problem only makes thing worse.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "We've talked it over and everybody thinks you're too old" ===<br />
[[File:Heather.png|left|thumb|Heather, Professor Farnsworth's personal youthasizer]]<br />
When his pet gargoyle [[Pazuzu]] escapes from the Planet Express lab, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] sets off to hunt down the errant monster with {{Fry}}, {{Leela}} and {{Bender}} in tow. The Professor exhibits the typical behaviour of the elderly, including driving extremely slowly, and being very forgetful - forgetting, even, the purpose of their journey. He visits a [[Florida]] diner to catch the early bird dinner special, where the waitress, [[Wanda]], tells him his "angry crotchety grandpa" discount card has expired, despite it being good for a lifetime. After the Professor's nuclear-powered teeth cause mayhem in the diner, the crew decide that he is too old and needs to be youthasized. They take him to the [[The Bubbling Geezer]] spa where [[Heather]], a Neptunian, is assigned as his personal youthasizer. When Heather's initial treatments bringing about no change, the Professor is directed to bathe in age-reducing tar. Bender overdoes the pumping of the whirlpool function of the tar pit and everyone gets covered in tar. The Professor, previously at a biological age of 161, is now aged 53 again, and the crew members have reverted to their teenage years (Fry is 14). [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] even reverts to a larval, codfish-like form.<br />
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=== Act II: "Shut up and go live with your parents!" ===<br />
While the Professor tries to restore their normal ages, the crew have to adjust to their teenage selves - mostly by acting very childishly. Leela chooses to live with her parents to experience the childhood she never had. Her parents agree to this, though Leela has to ask them to be strict, to give her the full teen experience. [[Amy Wong|Amy]]'s parents are less pleased, however, as they fear they will have to wait longer for a grandchild. Fry and Leela go out on a date and win a race through the sewers against [[Moose and Mandy]], but end up damaging the [[NNY Sewers#Martin Luther Thing, Jr. High School|Martin Luther Thing Jr. High School]].<br />
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Meanwhile, the Professor thinks he has thought of a way to restore their correct ages - a genetically engeneered oil-eating bacterium that should destroy the tar still stuck to their DNA (in Bender's case, his RNA, "''robo''nucleic acid"). Leela refuses the treatment, as she wants to continue living out her teenage years with her parents. The rest of the crew enter the [[Bacterial Spew Chamber]] for controlled infection with the bacteria. The plan, however, backfires: though the tar is broken down, the [[chroniton]]s within it are now roaming free inside the crew's bodies, making them younger by the minute. The Professor is now 35 years old, and Amy is only eight. They all now face a fate worse than death: pre-life... and ''then'' death.<br />
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=== Act III: "He always had to be the center of attention!" ===<br />
[[File:The Fountain of Aging.jpg|left|thumb|The Planet Express crew reach the Fountain of Aging]]<br />
While the Professor is desperately thinking of a way to stop the youthing process, Leela (who is still a teen as she didn't take the treatment) takes care of the crew members - all around four or five years old - at her parents' home. While reading them a story, she stumbles on the tale of the [[The Fountain of Aging|Fountain of Aging]]. She informs the Professor, who agrees that it may really exist. The whole crew flies to an extremely old solar system, where they locate the Fountain. The youthasized crew, except the Professor, have now reverted to their embryonic stage, except for Bender, of whom all that is left is a CD with Bending Robot Blueprints. One of Zoidberg's [[Norman Zoidberg|brothers]] falls into the Fountain and gets caught in its eddy, and the crew watches as he ages rapidly and crumbles to dust. The Professor, now around three years old, enters the Fountain holding the others. The current is too strong, however, and the Professor loses his grip, releasing everyone into the whirlpool's current. As the crew are pulled towards the center of the fountain, Leela jumps in to rescue them, tied to a safety rope. Leela manages to retrieve everyone - now all roughly their correct ages again - except the Professor, who is still caught in the vortex. At the last minute the Professor is saved, however, by Pazuzu: an act for which Farnsworth grants him his freedom, and he is shown in Notre Dame in [[Paris]] afterwards recounting the story to his son.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
* The episode name is based off of [[wikipedia:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.]]<br />
* The Professor implicitly refers to Bender's "robonucleic acid" ("RNA"). In reality, "RNA" means "{{w|RNA|ribonucleic acid}}".<br />
* The book Leela reads the stories from is "[[A Child's Garden of Space Legends]]", featuring a child screaming as he's being eaten (headfirst) by a lizard-like alien.<br />
** The stories from the book include "Snow-White Dwarf and the Seven Red Dwarfs", "Charlotte's Tholian Web" and "The Fountain of Aging".<br />
* The poster behind Leela in her bedroom is from the "[[Mu-Teen Magazine]]", it shows "Tentacle Chachi" and "Four-Legged Chachi".<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Randy''': Hey Grandpa, move your wrinkly old keister!<br />
'''Professor''': ''[3 seconds later.]'' Shut up!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor''': But I like being old. I don't have to talk to my parents, no one asks me to help move their stuff, I don't need to understand today's "edgy" TV sitcoms.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor''': Pazuzu, you ungrateful gargoyle! I put you through college, and ''this'' is how you repay me?!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor''': ''[Gasping.]'' Fifty-three years old? Oh, now I'll need a fake ID to rent ultra-porn!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Amy''': [sobs] I'm gonna stay in my room!<br />
'''Leo Wong''': Stay in room? You so fat, you gonna stay all around room!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': I know, everyone pretend a goblin ate your tongues, and I'll read you a story.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor''': Still, they called the tooth fairy a legend, and now he's head of the FBI!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': When I grow up, I wanna be a steam shovel!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor''': With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor''': [muffled] Give me back my floppy face!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Professor''': Hello, Mavis! Surprised to see me back again so soon?<br />
'''Wanda''': Mavis is dead.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Morris''': Let's all have some tequila to celebrate!<br />
'''Leela''': Dad, I'm underage!<br />
'''Morris''': Oh, right. Here's a silly straw!</poem><br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*The title of the episode is a spoof of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", a series of comic books made most famous by its animated adaptations from 1987 and 2003.<br />
*The Professor destroys {{st|Deep Space 9}} with the 'high beams' of the Planet Express Ship.<br />
*The oil eating bacteria is based on Namco's ''Pac-Man'', which was previously [[General Colin Pac-Man|referenced]] in "[[Anthology of Interest II]]".<br />
*The race was inspired by {{sw|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace|''The Phantom Menace''{{'}}s}} {{sw|Podracer|Podracers}}.<br />
*[[Pazuzu]] could be named after a god in Assyrian and Babylonian mythology, the king of the demons of the wind.<br />
**Pazuzu is also the name of the demon in ''The Exorcist,'' who was (supposedly) the same demon.<br />
**Pazuzu also appears in Jacques Tardi's graphic novel "Le démon de la Tour Eiffel" (The Eiffel Tower demon). Which would explain why Pazuzu speaks to his son with a French accent in front of the Eiffel Tower in this episode final scene.<br />
*[[Moose and Mandy]] could be based on a couple from the classic Archie comics. Archie's Moose goes by the same name and has a similar appearance and manner. Mandy could be a reference to his girlfriend, Midge. This might also mean that Fry corresponds to Archie, due to his red hair, and Leela to Betty (or Veronica).<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*While en route to the Fountain of Aging, Professor Farthsworth's custard-bowl haircut changes between shots from being all orange, to orange with dark brown sides, to all orange again.<br />
*Professor Farnsworth was wrong. Leela could simply relive her childhood by going back to the spa and perform the accident on purpose.<br />
**He could have been exaggerating.<br />
*Although Fry, Amy and Hermes are different ages as adults, they all de-age at the same pace.<br />
**They may have been exposed to different amounts of tar.<br />
*When Farnsworth steps in the fountain, Fry and Amy's skin colors are switched.<br />
*In this episode, Zoidberg has different life phases that change with age. However, in "[[A Taste of Freedom]]", Zoidberg simply gets smaller as he gets younger.<br />
**The younger Zoidberg shown then must have been done with the multiple stages.<br />
*[[Inez Wong]] laments that, with [[Amy|her daughter's]] age reversed, she, "will never have a grandchild now!", even though she already ''has'' [[Kif's offspring|grandchildren]] from the episode, [[4ACV01|"Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch"]]. It is possible they still simply do not accept him.<br />
**She could have simply forgotten them, the same way she forgot that she and Leo were the one's who introduced [[Kif]] to Amy in the first place. Or, she may have not considered them to be her true grandchildren, either because she disapproved of Kif, or because Amy didn't give birth to them, or because Amy isn't the genetic mother (only the [[Smizmar]]), or because they aren't [[Humans|human]]. Or because they are tadpoles.<br />
*In the episode, Leela says that the Ship can reach 99% [[speed of light|light speed]]. However, in "[[A Clone of My Own]]", it is said that it can go faster than the speed of light by moving {{the universe}} itself.<br />
**Maybe she didn't remember.<br />
**It is actually said that {{cat|scientist}}s increased the speed of light. The Ship can't go faster than the current speed of light, only the original.<br />
*If the Professor has a machine that analyzes people's true ages, then why did he lie about being 150 on "A Clone of My Own"?<br />
**Either (a) he's vain enough to lie about his true age, or (b) the machine wasn't introduced until this episode premiered.<br />
***Actually the machine seems to belong to [[Heather]], as she is the person seen first using it in the episode.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*Wanda's comment that Professor Farnsworth's discount card is expired, despite the fact that it should be good for a lifetime, may be an allusion to the law put forward in "A Clone of My Own". Farnsworth is 161, meaning he should have died (his lifetime expired) one year ago.<br />
*In this episode, Zoidberg goes through larval stages, but in "[[A Taste of Freedom]]" he is seen as a Humanoid child.<br />
**It is possible that after the slug stage, [[Decapodians]] become a Humanoid child that will eventually grow into adult size.<br />
*In this episode, Bender has a growing factor (being built small and advance in height & appearance as he ages) unlike "[[Bendless Love]]", where he was built the same way he is now.<br />
**It is possible that Bender's RNA is affected in this way by the tar but that naturally he does not age. Other Robot children have been shown before thus it is conceivable that while Bender was built as he is now his RNA allows him to have a childhood form (imagine cloning a Human adult, the clone is in adult form but its DNA is able to exist in a childhood state even if it never has done).<br />
**Another likely explanation would be that the younger versions of him were previous models of [[Bending Units]] that his personality inhabited, but it kept on getting rebuilt and upgraded. The newest version of him could have been built four years prior to "Bendless Love".<br />
**In the commentary for the episode, it is remarked that no one can see what is going on while Bender is being assembled. A child form for Bender also fits in with the revelations from "[[Lethal Inspection]]".<br />
*The [[chroniton]]s that affect the [[Planet Express crew]] are the same ones used to grow the [[Mutant Atomic Supermen]] as seen in "[[Time Keeps on Slippin']]".<br />
* After saving everyone from the fountain of aging Leela responds "I think i'm a couple years younger" then Amy responds that she is too, indicating that Leela and Amy are actually 2 years younger then they should be. Meaning Now, Leela is 36 instead of 38, and Amy would be 30 instead of 32.<br />
**Amy's response could have been a lie to get away with now saying she's younger than she really is.<br />
*[[Curious Pussycat]] makes its second appearance. <br />
*Pazuzu speaks French, even though in "A Clone of My Own" Professor Farnsworth referred to French as an "incomprehensible, dead language" and the French people in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]" spoke [[English language|English]].<br />
**A dead language just means no more words can be added to it, like Latin (though according to ''Futurama''{{'}}s internal logic, it also means a language that no one speaks anymore). And the gargoyle and his son look as if they've been around since the days when French was a living tongue, so that also would explain why they know French, despite that it's not a commonly spoken language in the 31st century.<br />
**Even if French is a largely unspoken language, certain small phrases (such as "''bonne nuit''") may persist, just as Latin phrases (such as "''et cetera''") persist in modern English.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Dwayne]]<br />
*[[Dwight Conrad]]<br />
*[[El Chupanibre]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Farnsworth's tennis instructor]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Heather]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Inez]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Leo]]<br />
*[[Morris]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Moose and Mandy]]<br />
*[[Munda]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Pazuzu]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Pazuzu's son]]<br />
*[[Randy Munchnik]]<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Wanda]]<br />
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[Jeff Westbrook]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Bret Haaland]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Phil LaMarr]]<br />
**[[Lauren Tom]]<br />
**[[Dave Herman]]<br />
**[[Tress MacNeille]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Rich Moore]]<br />
**[[Jeff Westbrook]]<br />
**[[Bret Haaland]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
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