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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Hedonism Bot<br />
|type=s<br />
|image=[[File:Hedonism Bot.jpg|225px]]<br />
|species=[[Robot]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|voiced by=Maurice LaMarche<br />
|first appear={{e|4ACV08}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Hedonism Bot''' is a [[robot]] who has the concept of {{w|hedonism}} written right into his programming. He is extremely fond of food, wine, opera, vomiting and sex orgies, among other things, and he apologizes for nothing. <br />
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== Character description ==<br />
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[[file:Elvis Impersonators.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Hedonism Bot carried by [[Elvis Presley|Elvis]] impersonators.]]<br />
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Hedonism Bot's behaviour resembles that of a rich decadent Roman noble of ancient times, and he is a great patron of the opera with his very own box in the [[New New York#Metropolitan House of Opera|Metropolitan House of Opera]] - he even ordered [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] to write an opera in which Fry would perform the [[Holophonor]].[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings|<sup>(4ACV18)</sup>]]<br />
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Hedonism Bot also enjoys a number of unconventional hedonistic pleasures, including being covered in chocolate icing, sex orgies and [[robosexuality]].<br />
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Hedonism Bot was to be married to a house in the suburbs in July of [[3010]], but the night before, he held a bachelor party where, due to a nuclear powered stripper malfuctioning, he was the only survivor. It is unclear if he was married or not, but as evidenced by [[100th Delivery Party|a party in September]], his hedonistic ways of promiscuity has not changed.<br />
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In the season three commentary, [[Matt Groening]] points out the importance of the name being ''hedonism'' bot and not ''hedonist'' bot - he is not only hedonist, he is the actual personification of hedonism.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Hedonism is the philosophy that pleasure is of ultimate importance, the most important pursuit.<br />
*Hedonismbot is one of the very few robots designed without square pupils. However, there was one moment in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'' when he did have square pupils.<br />
*Another design flaw arose in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'' when he had a mouth designed similarly to [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]'s instead of vertical lines, though it worked the same as usual.<br />
*Is made of solid gold (although apparently there is some plating to give him different shades of it).<br />
*Is a member of the [[League of Robots]].<br />
*Hedonism Bot is shown supporting [[Proposition ∞]], even though the relationship with his semi-recurring valet/lover named [[Djambi]] (a male human) is not legalized by it.<br />
**The fact that his relationship with Djambi was not legalized may explain why he planned to get married to a house in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]".<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Bender''': Look, I enjoy life and its pleasures as much as anyone here, except perhaps you, Hedonism Bot. ''[Hedonism Bot eats grapes in a very sloppy manner.]'' But we need to be shut off, especially ''you'', Hedonism Bot!<br />
'''Hedonism Bot''': I apologise for nothing!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Announcer''': Please take your seats for Act 2.<br />
'''Hedonism Bot''': But I'm not done vomiting!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hedonism Bot''': Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just when I was beginning to lose interest... Djambi, the chocolate icing!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hedonism Bot''': I too have known unconventional love. Perhaps you and I... and Djambi, can get together and compare notes sometime.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hedonism Bot''': Let us cavort like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hedonism Bot''': ''[Picking up one of Farnsworth's doomsday devices.]'' What does this one do?<br />
'''Farnsworth''': That one kills everything everywhere.<br />
'''Hedonism Bot''': ''[He drops the device.]'' How delightful!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hedonism Bot''': It seems Bender hates humans the way I hate having my nipples polished with industrial sand paper.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hedonism Bot''': I shan't touch them until I have Djambi lock the absinthe and ether away.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hedonism Bot''': Your latest performance was as delectable as dipping my bottom over and over into a bath of the silkiest oils and creams.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hedonism Bot''': Room for one more?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Hedonism Bot''': Everywhere I looked, there were piles of bodies. And then the explosion struck. ''[begins to laugh, but it crumbles into uncontrollable sobbing]''</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|4ACV08}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV13}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV18}}<br />
*{{f|1}}<br />
*{{f|2}}<br />
*{{f|4}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV04}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV07}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV08}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV12}} (at Bender's party)<br />
*{{clink|US#045|Anthology of Interest II|Anthology of Interest II (comic)}}<br />
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[[Category:Robots]]</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Third_World_of_the_Antares_system&diff=70320Third World of the Antares system2010-09-07T23:21:36Z<p>Aescula: /* Trivia */</p>
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<div>{{place infobox<br />
|name=Third World of the Antares System<br />
|image=[[File:Third World of the Antares System.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=Antares 3, the dumpster planet.<br />
|located in=Antares system, third position<br />
|inhabited by=[[Antarians]]<br />
|star={{w|Antares}}<br />
|first appear={{e|6ACV03}}<br />
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The '''Third World of the Antares system''' (or '''Antares 3''') is a planet located on the third position of the Antares system. It was visited by the [[Planet Express]] crew in [[3010]] for e-waste extermination. The planet is inhabited by the [[Antarians]]. Their children work as slaves, and do all the work around it, except whipping themselves. Its atmosphere seems extremely polluted and toxic due to the tons of garbage that is disposed of on the surface, and it is lethal to several species, including a bird who dies after flying through the smoke and a dog who loses his tail after drinking still water.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Allusions ===<br />
*The nature of the planet and its inhabitants, including their faux-Indian accents, while a general allusion to First World mistreatment of the Third World on Earth, presumably is a reference to the {{w|India}}n town of {{w|Alang}} in particular. The people of Alang work as "ship breakers"; decommissioned ships from across the world, ranging from passenger lines to chemical tankers, are deliberated beached on the Arabian Sea coastline just outside Alang and are then scrapped by the locals, who salvage whatever they can from the ships' husks. Almost the entire community is involved in either scrapping or supporting the scrappers. Alang is notorious for its reputation for having little or no regard for the safety or long-term health of its workers and the ships that are dismantled there often contain severely harmful toxic substances such as asbestos, PCBs and mercury. Not only does this have a severe impact on the health of the workers, it also impacts badly on the local environment. <br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*The name of this planet - and possibly its function - reference the third world of the Solar System.<br />
*The name of the system might be from the german word 'anderes', which translates to 'other' to emphasize the role of this planet (or system) as some place to dump the garbage of the civilized world.<br />
**Antares is an actual star, they may have chosen it at random, or because of the above reason.<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{e|6ACV03}}<br />
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[[Category:Planets]]</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Dr._John_A._Zoidberg&diff=70127Dr. John A. Zoidberg2010-09-06T16:34:35Z<p>Aescula: /* Catchphrases and Running Jokes */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Dr. John A. Zoidberg<br />
|type=p<br />
|image=[[File:Drzoidberg.jpg|225px]]<br />
|image text=<br />
|age=<br />
|birth date=<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Decapodian]]<br />
|origin=[[Decapod 10]]<br />
|job=Staff Doctor<br />
|family=''See [[#Family|family]] section''<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV02}}<br />
|voiced by=Billy West<br />
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'''Dr. John A. Zoidberg''' is a [[Decapodian]] employed as staff doctor at [[Planet Express]] and an honorary [[Globetrotters|Globetrotter]]. He has been employed at the company for the past ten years. It is uncertain whether he is technically and legally qualified for this job, for he seems to be a bit hazy on details of human anatomy and frequently mixes up human organs, orifices and genders, and in several instances can't even tell a human from a robot. <br />
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There is evidence that he doesn't even have a medical degree (on one occasion he claims that he lost it in a volcano, and in "[[The Duh-Vinci Code]]", he claims his doctorate is in art history, not medicine), but Zoidberg has never let himself be stopped by this, and it is not known whether he is actually a competent doctor when dealing with his own species. In fact he has occasionally shown extraordinary medical skills, although this was perhaps only by accident. It is possible that he carried out his medical training on Decapod 10 as he has little or no familiarity with human anatomy. He is desperately poor and most of his meals come from garbage cans or dumpsters. He seems able to eat and digest almost anything, including clothing, and will do anything for a free meal.<br />
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It is likely that the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] keeps him on staff for the dual purpose of avoiding liability by having a company doctor, and that he doesn't have to pay Zoidberg nearly as much as an actual licensed physician (hence Zoidberg's poverty).<br />
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== Personality ==<br />
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Zoidberg does not seem to be very intelligent, but is rather nice and friendly. This is despite the fact that most of his co-workers look down on him, especially [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]], who likes to make his life even more miserable. He lives with a continuing delusion that he is well regarded by the rest of the Planet Express crew. Zoidberg is [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]'s oldest friend, which suggests that Dr. Zoidberg is much older than he appears. A citizen of [[Earth]], he loves his chosen home planet for the personal freedom it provides. He is also apparently the only intelligent organism on [[Earth]] deemed nice by the [[Santa Claus|Robot Santa Claus]]. It is unknown why, but it may be because of a glitch in Santa or because of Zoidberg's kind and innocent personality.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Anthology.jpg|right|thumb|Giant Zoidberg]]<br />
Dr. Zoidberg was born on [[Decapod 10]] and seems to have visited high school there, apparently [[Edna]] was a class mate or at least at the same school. During that time, his face was covered in barnacles, for which he was laughed at. He wanted to become a comedian but was looked down on for it so he developed an interest in medical science, which was looked down on because he gave up on his dream of being a comedian. Eventually, he went to medical school and left his home planet to seek his fortune on Earth, although it is not known whether he studied on Decapod 10 or on Earth. For this, he had to give up his life-long dream of stepping into the footsteps of his uncle [[Harold Zoid]], the famous master comedian of earlier days, and becoming a comedian. He has tried to be a freelance comedian nonetheless, but somehow seems to lack the necessary talent. Zoidberg is sometimes referred to as the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]]'s oldest friend, which could mean that he is a lot older than he looks, but also might indicate poor social skills on the Professor's side, which is much more likely, although there have been several hints that he is older than he looks in several episodes.<br />
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Zoidberg once saved [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]'s life by transplanting his head onto [[Amy Wong|Amy]]'s shoulder when his body was severely damaged in a car crash on Jupiter's moon Europa. On another occasion, he tried to kill Fry in the Decapodian tradition of [[Claw-Plach]]. He has served as a military doctor in the conflict with [[Spheron 1]] and defeated the Decapodian oppressors who had occupied Earth in response to Zoidberg being sentenced to death for eating an Earth flag. On one occasion he travelled through time to 1947 Roswell, was captured by the US army, met [[Harry S. Truman|President Harry Truman]] (it is unclear which of them was more baffled by the other), and was partially vivisected before being rescued and returned to the future.<br />
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== Family ==<br />
*Norm, Sam and Sadie, parents (mentioned in [[That's Lobstertainment!|3ACV08]]), presumably one is the woman who raised him (seen in [[A Taste of Freedom|4ACV05]]), the other two are deceased biological parents. He referred to one of them (his mother) as a saint, which was most likely just an expression.<br />
*[[Harold Zoid]], uncle<br />
*His brother [[Norman Zoidberg|Norman]] and up to nine other siblings that budded from Zoidberg during the coral stage of his larval stadium. A duplicate Norman dies when he is sucked into the [[Fountain of Aging]], but all other siblings are never mentioned again.<br />
*[[Zoidfarb]], cousin - Zoidberg received an [[Xmas]] card from him in "[[Xmas Story]]"<br />
*[[Cubert]], godson<br />
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== Production ==<br />
[[File:Zoidberg lab.jpg|right|thumb|Production pic of his lab]]<br />
The original inspiration and the basic traits and characteristics were developed by [[David X. Cohen]],<ref name="epTSHL-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=The Series Has Landed |volume=One |disc=1}}</ref> while the cartoon design was created by [[Matt Groening]]. The later refinement and addition of various traits came from the various [[:Category:Writers|writers]].<ref name="epPYHOMS-com-kk">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Keeler|Ken}} |episode=Put Your Head on My Shoulder |volume=Two |disc=2}}</ref><br />
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Cohen's name for Dr Zoidberg came from a video game he had developed during the [[1980s]], called "Zoid",<ref name="epTSHL-com-dxc"/> which was largely inspired by the popular arcade game {{w|Qix}}.<ref name="epTL-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=That's Lobstertainment! |volume=Three |disc=2}}</ref> Cohen tried to get the then famous publisher {{w|Brøderbund}} to publish the game.<ref name="epTL-com-dxc"/> Unfortunately, Brøderbund refused to published Cohen's assembly-written game, and he shelved it.<ref name="epTL-com-dxc"/> Dr Zoidberg was thus named to honour those wasted years in college.<ref name="epTSHL-com-dxc"/><br />
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Cohen's inspiration came from {{st|Bones McCoy}} from ''[[Star Trek]]'', the doctor on the ''{{st|U.S.S. Enterprise}}''. Bones was often faced with treating aliens and other non-humans, including {{st|Spock}}.<ref name="epTSHL-com-dxc"/> Cohen's idea for Zoidberg was the exact opposite, where an alien would perform on humans.<ref name="epTSHL-com-dxc"/> Zoidberg's trait of being a bad doctor was then established.<ref name="epPYHOMS-com-kk"/><br />
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Later traits, such as his lust for seafood, became apparent in "[[A Fishful of Dollars]]". More demeaning traits such as being poor and lonely came in "[[Put Your Head on My Shoulder]]"; eating garbage and being homeless appeared later as well.<br />
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Certain contradicting situations can be seen in "[[A Flight to Remember]]", where Zoidberg is seen being given a suite, something that the writers would not give him in the later course of the series.<ref name="epAFTR-com-dxc">{{cite commentary |speaker={{n|Cohen|David|X.}} |episode=A Flight to Remember |volume=One |disc=3}}</ref><br />
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==== Voice ====<br />
[[Billy West]] has often stated that the voice of Zoidberg was inspired by profile actors from Yiddish theater such as Lou Jacobi and George Jessel.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*As the show progresses, Zoidberg's apparent utility becomes less obvious, and the Planet Express staff shun his presence from one instance to another.<br />
*As with all Decapodians, Zoidberg's mannerisms, speech, and personality are representative of dry East Coast humor readily seen in Jewish communities.<br />
*He claims to have lost his medical degree in a volcano.<br />
*In earlier episodes he is animated with teeth, but in later episodes he is drawn without. His mouth frills are prehensile and can move independently, although most of the time they remain loose.<br />
*Is apparently his own medical corporation, as described on the door to his office.<br />
*Zoidberg has a top fin or crest on his head that appears at times of emotional duress, such as "[[Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]" and ''[[Bender's Big Score]]''. It seems to be linked to his species' equivalent to testosterone, as it appears to be linked to both aggression and arousal, as shown in {{f|3}}.<br />
*His greatest fantasy is to be a grandmother ("Subjugated yet honored!").<br />
*Hermes from the earliest episodes seems to harbor a bitter hatred toward Zoidberg, never explained or given a rationale. This starts in "[[Hell Is Other Robots]]", when Hermes states someone (in fact Bender, who was addict to it) has been using a lot of electricity, then blames Zoidberg who exclaims "MEEE?"<br />
*An [[Zoidberg (Cornwood)|alternate version]] of him as a blob-like creature appears in {{f|3}}, although he begins as an innocent Dungeon Monster.<br />
*In the [http://www.homestarrunner.com/ween08.html Halloween 2008] cartoon of [http://homestarrunner.com Homestar Runner], the Poopsmith is dressed as Zoidberg. Also, if you click him a the end of the toon, the King of Town uses the phrase "[[Good news, everyone]]"<br />
*Apparently likes [[Barbados Slim]] (Although he says he likes a lot of people, possibly a catchphrase).<br />
*He has been shown to cough up colorful beads after eating copious amounts of dirt, which can be sold to make money. This is only seen in the episode "[[Bendin' in the Wind]]".<br />
[[File:Zoidberg promo.png|right|thumb|Dr. John A. Zoidberg]]<br />
*It is revealed in "[[The Duh-Vinci Code]]" that his doctorate is in Art History.<br />
*His birthday is the day after Amy's.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Zoidberg''': [to Fry] Young Lady, I am an expert on humans. Now pick a mouth, open it, and say "BR BR BR BR BRRRRRRRR"<br />
'''Fry''': Br br br br brrrrrrrr."<br />
'''Zoidberg''': What? My mother was a saint! Get out!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': In my experience boxes are usually empty, sometimes with a little cheese stuck to the top, and one time pepperoni, what a day that was!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': I got a busted ass here, I don't see anyone kissing it!<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Alright, I'm coming.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Leela's problem is purely medical, soon she will lay her eggs and they will hatch and all will be well.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Oh, 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''': Fry, it's been years since medical school, so remind me. Disembowelling in your species: fatal, or non-fatal?</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': Friends, help! A guinea pig tricked me!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Zoidberg''': I saw a frilly cake in here you would remember all life. I know I will. Late at night it haunts me with its frosty beauty. [shouting] Order the cake, damnit!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Lrrr''': I mean look at Donkey Kong here. Have you smelt his loincloth lately?<br />
'''Zoidberg''': Yes.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Dr. Zoidberg''': I don't quite know how to say this; Fry is dead.<br />
'''Fry''': Oooow ''[Fry stirs, alive.]''<br />
'''Dr. Zoidberg''': Wait not dead, the other thing.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Like Dr. Zoidberg: he's a weird monster who smells like he eats garbage, and does.<br />
'''Dr. Zoidberg''': Damn right!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': Oh, so it's just coincidence that Zoidberg here is desperately poor and miserably lonely? Please!<br />
'''Leela''': For your information, it's because he's hideous.<br />
'''Dr. Zoidberg''': ......</poem><br />
<poem>'''Dr. Zoidberg''': Look, coupons! I can get two oil changes for the price of one. Now if I could only afford the one. And the car.</poem><br />
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=== Catchphrases and Running Jokes ===<br />
*(At inappropriate times) Hello<br />
*Sometimes he will (with a grin) exclaim "What an honor!" ("[[Roswell that Ends Well]]").<br />
*Excellent, excellent!<br />
* (Famous person)? I love that guy!<br />
*Woop woop woop woop!{{iiw}} (This sound effect is based on sound effects made by The Three Stooges.)<br />
*Hooray!<br />
*I'll take eight! (in reference to Fry's [[Holophonor]] record, and the newspaper declaring "the world's greatest opera" sucks). This phrase is only used in the original series finale<br />
*Dibs on...! or alternative forms of calling dibs on something. Zoidberg usually comes late to Bender (for Leela's iPod in ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'' and the ship's shotgun in "[[Parasites Lost]]") or [[Amy]] (for Leela's maid of honor in ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'')<br />
*(Depressed, after being insulted, ignored, or one-upped) Awwww...<br />
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Also, he is usually shown to be highly unintelligent when it comes to being a doctor, such as claiming Amy the father of Leela's poppler, humans having multiple mouths, and Fry being a robot. More so, he often mistakes the human penis for other objects, especially that of Hermes. The closest he has ever been to showing competence in the field of medical science was in "[[Parasites Lost]]", but only because he saw it in a commercial.<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
While Zoidberg appears in almost every episode/film/comic, only missing the episodes "[[Space Pilot 3000]]" and "[[Mars University]]", these categories may be of interest:<br />
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*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Zoidberg|A plots focusing on Zoidberg]]<br />
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Zoidberg|B plots focusing on Zoidberg]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Aliens]]<br />
[[Category:Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Doctors]]<br />
[[Category:Planet Express]]</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Duh-Vinci_Code&diff=70113The Duh-Vinci Code2010-09-06T15:06:46Z<p>Aescula: /* Trivia */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=The Duh-Vinci Code<br />
|image=[[File:Da Vinci Lost Workshop.png|250px]]<br />
|image text=The crew discovering Da Vinci's lost workshop<br />
|season=6<br />
|broadcast season=7<br />
|no=93<br />
|written by=Maiya Williams<br />
|directed by=Raymie Muzquiz<br />
|caption=Put on {{w|3d glasses#3D glasses|3-D}} {{w|monocle}} now<br />
|first aired=15 July, 2010<br />
|number=6ACV05<br />
|broadcast number=S07E05<br />
|prev ep=Proposition Infinity<br />
|next ep=Lethal Inspection<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
|title reference=''{{w|The Da Vinci Code}}''<br />
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"'''The Duh-Vinci Code'''" is the ninety-third episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fifth of the [[Season 6|sixth production season]] and the [[Broadcast season 7|seventh broadcast season]]. It aired 15 July, 2010 on [[Comedy Central]]. After [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] discover a sketch by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], the crew races to [[Rome]] to discover his big secret.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "All my life I've been inspired by great minds" ===<br />
[[File:6ACV05 Last Supper.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The [[Planet Express]] crew studies [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s fabled painting {{w|The Last Supper}}.]]<br />
[[Fry]] is trying his luck in [[Who Dares To Be A Millionaire?]], a game show hosted by [[Morbo]]. He fails the first question and gets "thrown out". Later, the crew is gathered by the conference table discussing Fry's (lack of) intelligence. [[Hermes]] and [[Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] accuse Fry of being dumb, while [[Amy Wong|Amy]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] stand up for him. The Professor, thinking he was too harsh on Fry, takes him to the lab to explain why he finds him "so repugnant". Farnsworth tells Fry about the great minds that have inspired him all his life, such as [[Leonardo da Vinci]], his personal role model. He shows "the dumb monkey" his most precious possessions, such as [[Achilles' heel]], some of Leonardo's creations, and his beard. Fry accidentally discovers a hidden drawing in the beard, a drawing of [[Macchina Magnifica|Da Vinci's fabled lost invention]]. He offers his help to the Professor to figure out what it was for, but all he gets in return is a teasing laugh.<br />
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In front of the [[Planet Express building]], Fry is distracted by his thoughts and gets hit by a hover car. He returns from the hospital two weeks later and the Professor is still trying to deduce the function of the mysterious device. [[Bender]] walks in with the original version of {{w|The Last Supper}} (because everyone at Kinko's was an idiot), which reveals a clue after a [[High-Powered X-Ray]] is fired at it. It seems that {{w|St. James}} was actually a robot. The crew then races to [[Rome|Future-Rome]] to unearth what became of St. James.<br />
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=== Act II: "My God - Robot St. James is a zombie!" ===<br />
In Rome, the crew finds St. James' grave in the catacombs. The robot inside explains he is not St. James but [[Animatronio]], a robot built by [[Leonardo da Vinci]] to be his artist model, who was left to guard da Vinci's big secret and await his [[Shadow Society of Intellectuals]]. When he realizes the crew is not part of the Society, he refuses to tell them any more, and 'dies' before Leela can force him.<br />
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Even though Animatronio is dead, the Professor manages to deduce where the next clue is, and the crew travels to the [[Trevi Fountain]]. However, it is guarded by a giant octopus. After [[Bender]] kills it in a climactic battle (ending with a shootout), he finds a giant "nickel" featuring {{w|The Vitruvian Man}} a the bottom of the fountain. As Bender grabs it, he discovers it's actually a giant drain plug, which sucks bender into the sewers. The rest of the Planet Express Crew follows. As they enter the sewers, so does a mysterious hooded figure.<br />
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Emerging in the Pantheon, they discover a statue of the Vitruvian Man and a giant coin slot. When putting in Bender's "nickel", the man moves and reveals da Vinci's secret workshop. As they observe the inventions, the cloaked Animatronio shows up and attacks them. He is immediately knocked down by Bender and once again feigns death. The Professor and Fry sit in da Vinci's [[Da Vinci's Spacecraft|nonfunctional flying machine]]. A chain of {{w|Goldberg machine|Rube Goldberg machine events}} occur to put the machine in space. The Professor realizes it didn't work in air because it's not supposed to - it's a space ship. The flying machine blasts off with Fry and the Professor in it.<br />
<br />
[[File:Planet Vinci view.png|thumb|left|200px|[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] reach [[Planet Vinci]].]]<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "In truth, I am what you call a 'space alien'" ===<br />
After a month of flight in space, the flying machine lands on an Earth-like planet. There they meet [[Leonardo da Vinci]] who explains that he is actually an alien from [[Planet Vinci]] who visited Earth centuries ago. The aliens of the planet are incredibly smart, Leonardo being the stupidest person and for that reason leaving for Earth to feel intelligent, only to return when he became annoyed at being surrounded by unintelligent people. Leonardo explains that he used to enjoy himself inventing, but that he since he lost the plans for his masterpiece, the [[Macchina Magnifica]], he can't find solace even in that. Fry shows the sketch for the lost invention they found, and Leonardo says it's the one.<br />
<br />
Fry and Leonardo find friendship, both being the stupidest of their planet. They build the Macchina Magnifica together. Meanwhile, the Professor finds trouble, feeling inferior and stupid during mathematical lectures on the planet. Finally the day comes for the big reveal of da Vinci's brilliant invention, and he shows off... a [[Doomsday Devices|doomsday device]]! His plan is to have his revenge and exterminate everyone who has ever made him feel inferior. Fry protests, as he was told it was an ice cream machine. The Professor, too, joins Leonardo, as long as they kill his math teacher first.<br />
<br />
The doomsday device barely kills anyone, but Fry manages to stop the device by falling inside it, jamming the gears. In a last attempt, Leonardo pulls a lever for a final attack, but the machine malfunctions and a cog falls on Leonardo, presumably killing him. Fry and Professor head to the flying machine and travel back home.<br />
<br />
== Reception ==<br />
In its original American broadcast, "The Duh-Vinci Code" was viewed by an estimated 2.204 million people, a rise of nearly 200 000 since "[[Proposition Infinity]]".<ref>[http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/07/16/thursday-cable-burn-notice-on-top-futurama-up-bethenny-down/57343]</ref><br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
* It is revealed that [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg]] is a doctor in art history. He may also be a doctor of medicine but may have been trained on [[Decapod 10]], which would explain quite a few things.<br />
* The Roman Numerals on the tomb do indeed equal 1. The equation is 2^11 - (23 x 89), which can be simplified to 2048 - 2047.<br />
* Niccolò Machiavelli, an Italian writer who is considered one of the main founders of modern political science, faked his own death. [[Animatronio]] does it twice in this episode. Like [[Leonardo da Vinci]], Machiavelli is considered a good example of the {{w|Renaissance Man}}.<br />
* Animatronio's legs can be seen for a brief moment when the hooded figure dives into the Trevi Fountain.<br />
* Leela uncharacteristically agrees to sleep with Fry, though she might not have known what she was agreeing to.<br />
* The scene near the start that takes place in the laboratory has been entirely slowed down a fraction.<br />
* One of the equations hovering around during the calculus lecture is the {{w|Riemann Hypothesis}}<br />
* The statue behind the bench where [[Fry]] and Da Vinci sit is a statue of Braino, who [[Professor Farnsworth]] had stated was one of his inspirations earlier. Maybe Braino is also from Planet Vinci?<br />
* It's interesting to note that humans have reached the edge of the universe, but had not discovered Planet Vinci.<br />
** Of course, it's unknown how far the Earth is off center of the center of the Universe. [[Planet Eternium]] wasn't known, and it's at the exact center.<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
<br />
* The [[fing-longer]] makes a brief appearance near the begin of this episode. This invention was first revealed in the episode "[[Anthology of Interest I]]".<br />
** Referenced, but not revealed. The Professor was not shown to have actually invented it until "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]".<br />
* The [[Space Pope]] is seen again, last seen in "[[I Dated a Robot]]", and is revealed to reside in Rome.<br />
* Fry has eaten rocks even though he declined them in "[[The Problem with Popplers]]"<br />
<br />
=== Allusions ===<br />
* The title and premise of the episode is a parody of the Dan Brown novel later turned motion picture ''The Da Vinci Code''.<br />
* [[Morbo]]'s quiz show ''[[Who Dares To Be A Millionaire?]]'' is a reference to the 20th century quiz show {{w|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?}}.<br />
** In the comics, Morbo hosted a similar show entitled "[[Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?]]" in an issue of the same name. Fry was a contestant on that show as well, however instead of being eliminated on the first question he won and was then disqualified.<br />
* [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]] calls his greatest influences inventor {{w|Leonardo da Vinci}}, astronomer {{w|Copernicus}} and mathematician {{w|Euclid}} (as well as [[Braino]]).<br />
* Fry asks [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] to join the "Mile deep club", a reference to {{w|Mile high club}}, which is "joined" by having sex in an airplane.<br />
* The [[Biff]] character is a reference to {{w|Biff Tannen}} from ''{{w|Back to the Future}}''.<br />
* The scene where Fry falls into the doomsday device is a reference to the Charlie Chaplin film, {{w|Modern_Times_(film)|Modern Times}}.<br />
* After the crew decide to go to Rome, [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] asks "didn't we used to be a delivery company?", a reference to the fact that [[Planet Express]] has not made any known deliveries in quite some time.<br />
** However, in "[[Attack of the Killer App]]", a recent episode, the crew's visit to the [[Third World of Antares system]] can be considered as a delivery (of e-waste).<br />
* When [[Professor Farnsworth]] poked [[Fry]] with his [[Finglonger]], this was a reference to a classic joke made by The Three Stooges.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
[[File:Vinci1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The crowd around [[Biff]] changes completely after [[Leonardo da Vinci]] kills himself.]] <br />
*The crowd of people around Biff when he is mocking Leonardo's failed doomsday machine is completely different to the crowd that is around him 10 seconds later after Leonardo kills himself.<br />
* When Bender, Leela, and Fry are talking to Animitronio in The Chamber, Bender's door isn't outlined.<br />
* Due to the nature of round openings and the objects that close them, the 'big nickle' that Bender picks up in the Trevi Fountain could not possibly fit through the opening it sealed off seconds before.<br />
**Unless Bender simply bent it to store it inside himself.<br />
* When Leonardo activates the "Machina Magnifica" the blade cuts Fry's "hair horn" but in the very next shot Fry is seen again, with his hair back in place, as if it was untouched.<br />
<br />
*It says it has been 1 month since Fry & the Professor have been traveling through space, but they couldn't have survived with little oxygen and no food.<br />
** Although, due to all the amazing things that happen in the future, there could numerous ways they could've survived.<br />
*** The space ship can do other things, why shouldn't it?<br />
*Hermes apparently has a little person's skeleton, despite his skeleton being shown to be normal sized in "[[Rebirth]]".<br />
*Fry talks about "Leonardo DiCaprio" in "The Beach", but that film came out in 2000 and Fry was frozen before then.<br />
** If copies of the film survive in the 31st century, Fry could've seen it after his revival.<br />
*Bender's cavity door disappears the first time Fry says, "Hi, Animatronio."<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Animatronio]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] <br />
*'''Debut''': [[Biff]]<br />
*[[Bolt Rolands]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Braino]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Leonardo da Vinci]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Space Pope]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:A plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth]]</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Duh-Vinci_Code&diff=70112The Duh-Vinci Code2010-09-06T15:02:10Z<p>Aescula: /* Act I: "All my life I've been inspired by great minds" */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=The Duh-Vinci Code<br />
|image=[[File:Da Vinci Lost Workshop.png|250px]]<br />
|image text=The crew discovering Da Vinci's lost workshop<br />
|season=6<br />
|broadcast season=7<br />
|no=93<br />
|written by=Maiya Williams<br />
|directed by=Raymie Muzquiz<br />
|caption=Put on {{w|3d glasses#3D glasses|3-D}} {{w|monocle}} now<br />
|first aired=15 July, 2010<br />
|number=6ACV05<br />
|broadcast number=S07E05<br />
|prev ep=Proposition Infinity<br />
|next ep=Lethal Inspection<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
|title reference=''{{w|The Da Vinci Code}}''<br />
}}<br />
"'''The Duh-Vinci Code'''" is the ninety-third episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fifth of the [[Season 6|sixth production season]] and the [[Broadcast season 7|seventh broadcast season]]. It aired 15 July, 2010 on [[Comedy Central]]. After [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] discover a sketch by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], the crew races to [[Rome]] to discover his big secret.<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "All my life I've been inspired by great minds" ===<br />
[[File:6ACV05 Last Supper.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The [[Planet Express]] crew studies [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s fabled painting {{w|The Last Supper}}.]]<br />
[[Fry]] is trying his luck in [[Who Dares To Be A Millionaire?]], a game show hosted by [[Morbo]]. He fails the first question and gets "thrown out". Later, the crew is gathered by the conference table discussing Fry's (lack of) intelligence. [[Hermes]] and [[Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] accuse Fry of being dumb, while [[Amy Wong|Amy]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] stand up for him. The Professor, thinking he was too harsh on Fry, takes him to the lab to explain why he finds him "so repugnant". Farnsworth tells Fry about the great minds that have inspired him all his life, such as [[Leonardo da Vinci]], his personal role model. He shows "the dumb monkey" his most precious possessions, such as [[Achilles' heel]], some of Leonardo's creations, and his beard. Fry accidentally discovers a hidden drawing in the beard, a drawing of [[Macchina Magnifica|Da Vinci's fabled lost invention]]. He offers his help to the Professor to figure out what it was for, but all he gets in return is a teasing laugh.<br />
<br />
In front of the [[Planet Express building]], Fry is distracted by his thoughts and gets hit by a hover car. He returns from the hospital two weeks later and the Professor is still trying to deduce the function of the mysterious device. [[Bender]] walks in with the original version of {{w|The Last Supper}} (because everyone at Kinko's was an idiot), which reveals a clue after a [[High-Powered X-Ray]] is fired at it. It seems that {{w|St. James}} was actually a robot. The crew then races to [[Rome|Future-Rome]] to unearth what became of St. James.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "My God - Robot St. James is a zombie!" ===<br />
In Rome, the crew finds St. James' grave in the catacombs. The robot inside explains he is not St. James but [[Animatronio]], a robot built by [[Leonardo da Vinci]] to be his artist model, who was left to guard da Vinci's big secret and await his [[Shadow Society of Intellectuals]]. When he realizes the crew is not part of the Society, he refuses to tell them any more, and 'dies' before Leela can force him.<br />
<br />
Even though Animatronio is dead, the Professor manages to deduce where the next clue is, and the crew travels to the [[Trevi Fountain]]. However, it is guarded by a giant octopus. After [[Bender]] kills it in a climactic battle (ending with a shootout), he finds a giant "nickel" featuring {{w|The Vitruvian Man}} a the bottom of the fountain. As Bender grabs it, he discovers it's actually a giant drain plug, which sucks bender into the sewers. The rest of the Planet Express Crew follows. As they enter the sewers, so does a mysterious hooded figure.<br />
<br />
Emerging in the Pantheon, they discover a statue of the Vitruvian Man and a giant coin slot. When putting in Bender's "nickel", the man moves and reveals da Vinci's secret workshop. As they observe the inventions, the cloaked Animatronio shows up and attacks them. He is immediately knocked down by Bender and once again feigns death. The Professor and Fry sit in da Vinci's [[Da Vinci's Spacecraft|nonfunctional flying machine]]. A chain of {{w|Goldberg machine|Rube Goldberg machine events}} occur to put the machine in space. The Professor realizes it didn't work in air because it's not supposed to - it's a space ship. The flying machine blasts off with Fry and the Professor in it.<br />
<br />
[[File:Planet Vinci view.png|thumb|left|200px|[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] reach [[Planet Vinci]].]]<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "In truth, I am what you call a 'space alien'" ===<br />
After a month of flight in space, the flying machine lands on an Earth-like planet. There they meet [[Leonardo da Vinci]] who explains that he is actually an alien from [[Planet Vinci]] who visited Earth centuries ago. The aliens of the planet are incredibly smart, Leonardo being the stupidest person and for that reason leaving for Earth to feel intelligent, only to return when he became annoyed at being surrounded by unintelligent people. Leonardo explains that he used to enjoy himself inventing, but that he since he lost the plans for his masterpiece, the [[Macchina Magnifica]], he can't find solace even in that. Fry shows the sketch for the lost invention they found, and Leonardo says it's the one.<br />
<br />
Fry and Leonardo find friendship, both being the stupidest of their planet. They build the Macchina Magnifica together. Meanwhile, the Professor finds trouble, feeling inferior and stupid during mathematical lectures on the planet. Finally the day comes for the big reveal of da Vinci's brilliant invention, and he shows off... a [[Doomsday Devices|doomsday device]]! His plan is to have his revenge and exterminate everyone who has ever made him feel inferior. Fry protests, as he was told it was an ice cream machine. The Professor, too, joins Leonardo, as long as they kill his math teacher first.<br />
<br />
The doomsday device barely kills anyone, but Fry manages to stop the device by falling inside it, jamming the gears. In a last attempt, Leonardo pulls a lever for a final attack, but the machine malfunctions and a cog falls on Leonardo, presumably killing him. Fry and Professor head to the flying machine and travel back home.<br />
<br />
== Reception ==<br />
In its original American broadcast, "The Duh-Vinci Code" was viewed by an estimated 2.204 million people, a rise of nearly 200 000 since "[[Proposition Infinity]]".<ref>[http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/07/16/thursday-cable-burn-notice-on-top-futurama-up-bethenny-down/57343]</ref><br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
* It is revealed that [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg]] is a doctor in art history. He may also be a doctor of medicine but may have been trained on [[Decapod 10]], which would explain quite a few things.<br />
* The Roman Numerals on the tomb do indeed equal 1. The equation is 2^11 - (23 x 89), which can be simplified to 2048 - 2047.<br />
* Niccolò Machiavelli, an Italian writer who is considered one of the main founders of modern political science, faked his own death. [[Animatronio]] does it twice in this episode. Like [[Leonardo da Vinci]], Machiavelli is considered a good example of the {{w|Renaissance Man}}.<br />
* Animatronio's legs can be seen for a brief moment when the hooded figure dives into the Trevi Fountain.<br />
* Leela uncharacteristically agrees to sleep with Fry, though she might not have known what she was agreeing to.<br />
* The scene near the start that takes place in the laboratory has been entirely slowed down a fraction.<br />
* One of the equations hovering around during the calculus lecture is the {{w|Riemann Hypothesis}}<br />
* The statue behind the bench where [[Fry]] and Da Vinci sit is a statue of Braino, who [[Professor Farnsworth]] had stated was one of his inspirations earlier. Maybe Braino is also from Planet Vinci?<br />
* It's interesting to note that humans have reached the edge of the universe, but had not discovered Planet Vinci.<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
<br />
* The [[fing-longer]] makes a brief appearance near the begin of this episode. This invention was first revealed in the episode "[[Anthology of Interest I]]".<br />
** Referenced, but not revealed. The Professor was not shown to have actually invented it until "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]".<br />
* The [[Space Pope]] is seen again, last seen in "[[I Dated a Robot]]", and is revealed to reside in Rome.<br />
* Fry has eaten rocks even though he declined them in "[[The Problem with Popplers]]"<br />
<br />
=== Allusions ===<br />
* The title and premise of the episode is a parody of the Dan Brown novel later turned motion picture ''The Da Vinci Code''.<br />
* [[Morbo]]'s quiz show ''[[Who Dares To Be A Millionaire?]]'' is a reference to the 20th century quiz show {{w|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?}}.<br />
** In the comics, Morbo hosted a similar show entitled "[[Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?]]" in an issue of the same name. Fry was a contestant on that show as well, however instead of being eliminated on the first question he won and was then disqualified.<br />
* [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]] calls his greatest influences inventor {{w|Leonardo da Vinci}}, astronomer {{w|Copernicus}} and mathematician {{w|Euclid}} (as well as [[Braino]]).<br />
* Fry asks [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] to join the "Mile deep club", a reference to {{w|Mile high club}}, which is "joined" by having sex in an airplane.<br />
* The [[Biff]] character is a reference to {{w|Biff Tannen}} from ''{{w|Back to the Future}}''.<br />
* The scene where Fry falls into the doomsday device is a reference to the Charlie Chaplin film, {{w|Modern_Times_(film)|Modern Times}}.<br />
* After the crew decide to go to Rome, [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] asks "didn't we used to be a delivery company?", a reference to the fact that [[Planet Express]] has not made any known deliveries in quite some time.<br />
** However, in "[[Attack of the Killer App]]", a recent episode, the crew's visit to the [[Third World of Antares system]] can be considered as a delivery (of e-waste).<br />
* When [[Professor Farnsworth]] poked [[Fry]] with his [[Finglonger]], this was a reference to a classic joke made by The Three Stooges.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
[[File:Vinci1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The crowd around [[Biff]] changes completely after [[Leonardo da Vinci]] kills himself.]] <br />
*The crowd of people around Biff when he is mocking Leonardo's failed doomsday machine is completely different to the crowd that is around him 10 seconds later after Leonardo kills himself.<br />
* When Bender, Leela, and Fry are talking to Animitronio in The Chamber, Bender's door isn't outlined.<br />
* Due to the nature of round openings and the objects that close them, the 'big nickle' that Bender picks up in the Trevi Fountain could not possibly fit through the opening it sealed off seconds before.<br />
**Unless Bender simply bent it to store it inside himself.<br />
* When Leonardo activates the "Machina Magnifica" the blade cuts Fry's "hair horn" but in the very next shot Fry is seen again, with his hair back in place, as if it was untouched.<br />
<br />
*It says it has been 1 month since Fry & the Professor have been traveling through space, but they couldn't have survived with little oxygen and no food.<br />
** Although, due to all the amazing things that happen in the future, there could numerous ways they could've survived.<br />
*** The space ship can do other things, why shouldn't it?<br />
*Hermes apparently has a little person's skeleton, despite his skeleton being shown to be normal sized in "[[Rebirth]]".<br />
*Fry talks about "Leonardo DiCaprio" in "The Beach", but that film came out in 2000 and Fry was frozen before then.<br />
** If copies of the film survive in the 31st century, Fry could've seen it after his revival.<br />
*Bender's cavity door disappears the first time Fry says, "Hi, Animatronio."<br />
<br />
=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Animatronio]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] <br />
*'''Debut''': [[Biff]]<br />
*[[Bolt Rolands]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Braino]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Leonardo da Vinci]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Space Pope]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:A plots focusing on Professor Farnsworth]]</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Scruffy&diff=70109Scruffy2010-09-06T14:50:00Z<p>Aescula: /* Friendships and relationships */</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Scruffy<br />
|type=s<br />
|image=[[File:Scruffy 2.jpg|225px]]<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|voice A=David Herman<br />
|voice A by=Billy West<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV06}}<br />
|job=Janitor at [[Planet Express]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Scruffy''' is the janitor at [[Planet Express]] and is the only person working for Planet Express who isn't a [[:Category:Primary Characters|primary character]]. He reads pornography, and believes in his company, as evident by his purchase of 30,000 more shares of Planet Express than the rest of its employees. The other members of staff only see him occasionally, and rarely recognize him when they do. Sometimes he doesn't recognize them either. Scruffy has indicated that he's been to prison.<br />
<br />
Scruffy was originally just a background character seen working various jobs. However writers brought him in on the murder scene of "[[Anthology of Interest I]]" because they were running out of non-dead characters. From there his permanent role as the Janitor of Planet Express was cemented when he was brought back in later episodes without changing jobs.<br />
<br />
== Biography ==<br />
While little is known about Scruffy's background, he has been working at the [[Planet Express]] delivery company since at least [[Timeline|2995]], when he became [[The Prisoner of Benda|employee of the year]]. In the early years of the [[3000s|31st century]], he also took several other jobs, for example at the [[Le Spa]] and as a roadie for the [[Beastie Boys]].<br />
<br />
He entered the [[Panama Wormhole]], [[Into the Wild Green Yonder|after helping to rescue his colleagues]], along with all the other Planet Express staff members, and was killed and then [[Rebirth|reborn]] a short time later.<br />
<br />
[[File:Scruffy and Wash Bucket.png|thumb|left|Scruffy and his [[Wash Bucket]] (in the body of [[Amy Wong]]) in a tender kiss.]]<br />
== Friendships and relationships ==<br />
Though no-one at [[Planet Express]] seemed to know him in year [[3000]], he and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] seems to have developed a friendship off-stage. In "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]" Fry says that he didn't tell anyone about the location of his seven leaf clover - "not even Scruffy". In "[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]", Fry is shown having everyone's phone numbers, but he has two to Scruffy, home and cell.<br />
<br />
Scruffy also accompanies the rest of the crew to a Sith-il War Reenactment in "[[Lethal Inspection]]". For no apparent reason, he was seen cooking [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] on a spit later in the same episode.<br />
<br />
In [[3010]], Scruffy's [[Wash Bucket]] changes bodies with [[Amy Wong]], and confesses her feelings for him. While admitting his own love, he realises that it's wrong, even in a human body, as they are too different - him, a man, and her, janitorial equipment. He ultimately asks her to leave before he changes his mind, and falls back crying to his bed.<br />
<br />
== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
[[File:Scruffy 1.jpg|left|thumb|Scruffy's first appearance.]]<br />
*The first time he appeared, he didn't speak, and his moustache and hat colors were reversed.<br />
*Scruffy puts cameras up in every room in "[[Futurama Returns]]"<br />
*A comment made by [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] in "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]" ("I didn't reveal the clover's location to anyone. Not even to Scruffy!") suggests that the two may have become close friends. But, at the time, this was more likely to be a pun on the fact that everyone always seem not to know who Scruffy is. However, in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'' Fry is shown to keep two of Scruffy's numbers, vs. one of everyone else's. This seems to extend the joke even further.<br />
*Before the episode "[[Anthology of Interest I]]", when his real job was cemented, Scruffy had different seen jobs not in Planet Express.<br />
**He had a career at [[Le Spa]].<br />
**He also worked as a roadie for the [[Beastie Boys]].<br />
*[[The Sting]] suggests he might be Scottish.<br />
*His hair turned gray prior to (or during) "Anthology of Interest I". The hair and hat colour alternates between old and new during that episode.<br />
*Scruffy is regularly seen with adult magazines such as [[National Pornographic]], [[Play-Boy-Ar-De]], [[Zero-G-Jugs]], [[Extra Long Honkers]], etc. He reads the articles.<br />
*Has yet to complete his masters in Theoretical Janitorial Science.<br />
*Scruffy's character is based on Billy Bob Thorton's character (Karl Childers) in the movie ''Sling Blade''<br />
*Scruffy was named after a bar in Venice called ''Scruffy O'Shea's''<br />
*The October page of the 2008 [[Futurama Calendars|Futurama wall calendar]] states that his last name is "Scruffington", this may not be [[canon]].<br />
*Scruffy often refers to himself in the third person when he talks, except when he has to introduce himself, in which case he will say "I'm Scruffy, the janitor".<br />
*Has both a home and cell phone available to be called on Fry's cell phone in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]''.<br />
*In ''[[Bender's Game]]'', he became a person who apparently cleans up after the [[Centaurs]].<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': I'm Scruffy... the Janitor.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]''': I don't even know who this guy is!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Boy, I've never seen him so down. Or ever before.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Somebody called "the robot devil" is here to see somebody called "Fry".</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Second.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Life goes on, but I believe we'll forever carry the pain on the inside.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived. ''[Turns page of Zero-G Juggs magazine.]'' Mmhm.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Oh, Marmalade!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's rolling out a large pill.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's goin' to get one of them $300 haircuts, this one's lost its pizzazz</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy knows who killed them people.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': ''[In a deleted scene.]'' The day of reckoning is nigh... I reckon...</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy votes his forty thousand shares for the mysterious stranger.<br />
'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': Wait a minute, how come you have four times as much share as the rest of us?<br />
'''Scruffy''': Scruffy believes in this company [sniff]</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Dern it. ''[After learning about the loss of complimentary porno magazines.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': I'm on break. ''[eats potato chip]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': The Flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Mmhm.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': What fevered dream is this that bids to tear this company in twain? ''[Returns to reading National Pornographic magazine.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's work here is done.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Ms. Wong?<br />
'''Wash Bucket''': No, Scruffy, I am Wash Bucket. I love you. Wash Bucket has always loved you. ''[Kisses Scruffy passionately.]''<br />
'''Scruffy''': It's wrong, Wash Bucket. Oh, it would be sweet for a while, but in the back of our minds we'd know that I'm a man and you're janitorial equipment.<br />
'''Wash Bucket''': In another city, we could be anyone we want.<br />
'''Scruffy''': Go. Go now. Before I beg you to stay.<br />
''[Wash Bucket leaves. Scruffy lays down on his bed, apparently sobbing for a second.]''<br />
'''Scruffy''': Yep.</poem><br />
|2}}<br />
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*{{g|1}}<br />
*{{clink|US#004|DOOP the Right Thing!}}<br />
*{{clink|US#005|Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?}}<br />
*{{clink|US#006|Xmas Time Is Fear}}<br />
*{{clink|US#007|New Year's Rockin' Evil}}<br />
*{{clink|US#009|Freaky Fry-day}}<br />
*{{clink|US#014|Six Characters in Search of a Story}}<br />
*{{clink|US#021|More than a Filling!}}<br />
*{{clink|US#031|As the Wormhole Turns}}<br />
*{{clink|US#034|Planet Michelle}}<br />
*{{clink|US#045|Anthology of Interest II|Anthology of Interest II (comic)}}<br />
*{{clink|US#046|Follow the Reader}}<br />
*{{clink|US#050|Your Mother Wears Pilot Boots}}<br />
*{{clink|US#X01|Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!}}<br />
*{{clink|US#X02|Liquid Diamond Is Forever!}}<br />
*{{clink|US#S03|Delivery-Boy Man}}<br />
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[[Category:Planet Express]]</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Scruffy&diff=70108Scruffy2010-09-06T14:46:51Z<p>Aescula: /* Quotes */ Can't skimp on Scruffy's "Mmhm"s.</p>
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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Scruffy<br />
|type=s<br />
|image=[[File:Scruffy 2.jpg|225px]]<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|species=[[Human]]<br />
|origin=[[Earth]]<br />
|voice A=David Herman<br />
|voice A by=Billy West<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV06}}<br />
|job=Janitor at [[Planet Express]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Scruffy''' is the janitor at [[Planet Express]] and is the only person working for Planet Express who isn't a [[:Category:Primary Characters|primary character]]. He reads pornography, and believes in his company, as evident by his purchase of 30,000 more shares of Planet Express than the rest of its employees. The other members of staff only see him occasionally, and rarely recognize him when they do. Sometimes he doesn't recognize them either. Scruffy has indicated that he's been to prison.<br />
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Scruffy was originally just a background character seen working various jobs. However writers brought him in on the murder scene of "[[Anthology of Interest I]]" because they were running out of non-dead characters. From there his permanent role as the Janitor of Planet Express was cemented when he was brought back in later episodes without changing jobs.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
While little is known about Scruffy's background, he has been working at the [[Planet Express]] delivery company since at least [[Timeline|2995]], when he became [[The Prisoner of Benda|employee of the year]]. In the early years of the [[3000s|31st century]], he also took several other jobs, for example at the [[Le Spa]] and as a roadie for the [[Beastie Boys]].<br />
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He entered the [[Panama Wormhole]], [[Into the Wild Green Yonder|after helping to rescue his colleagues]], along with all the other Planet Express staff members, and was killed and then [[Rebirth|reborn]] a short time later.<br />
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[[File:Scruffy and Wash Bucket.png|thumb|left|Scruffy and his [[Wash Bucket]] (in the body of [[Amy Wong]]) in a tender kiss.]]<br />
== Friendships and relationships ==<br />
Though no-one at [[Planet Express]] seemed to know him in year [[3000]], he and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] seems to have developed a friendship off-stage. In "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]" Fry says that he didn't tell anyone about the location of his seven leaf clover - "not even Scruffy". In "[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]", Fry is shown having everyone's phone numbers, but he has two to Scruffy, home and cell.<br />
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Scruffy also accompanies the rest of the crew to a Sith-il War Reenactment in "[[Lethal Inspection]]".<br />
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In [[3010]], Scruffy's [[Wash Bucket]] changes bodies with [[Amy Wong]], and confesses her feelings for him. While admitting his own love, he realises that it's wrong, even in a human body, as they are too different - him, a man, and her, janitorial equipment. He ultimately asks her to leave before he changes his mind, and falls back crying to his bed.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
[[File:Scruffy 1.jpg|left|thumb|Scruffy's first appearance.]]<br />
*The first time he appeared, he didn't speak, and his moustache and hat colors were reversed.<br />
*Scruffy puts cameras up in every room in "[[Futurama Returns]]"<br />
*A comment made by [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] in "[[The Luck of the Fryrish]]" ("I didn't reveal the clover's location to anyone. Not even to Scruffy!") suggests that the two may have become close friends. But, at the time, this was more likely to be a pun on the fact that everyone always seem not to know who Scruffy is. However, in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'' Fry is shown to keep two of Scruffy's numbers, vs. one of everyone else's. This seems to extend the joke even further.<br />
*Before the episode "[[Anthology of Interest I]]", when his real job was cemented, Scruffy had different seen jobs not in Planet Express.<br />
**He had a career at [[Le Spa]].<br />
**He also worked as a roadie for the [[Beastie Boys]].<br />
*[[The Sting]] suggests he might be Scottish.<br />
*His hair turned gray prior to (or during) "Anthology of Interest I". The hair and hat colour alternates between old and new during that episode.<br />
*Scruffy is regularly seen with adult magazines such as [[National Pornographic]], [[Play-Boy-Ar-De]], [[Zero-G-Jugs]], [[Extra Long Honkers]], etc. He reads the articles.<br />
*Has yet to complete his masters in Theoretical Janitorial Science.<br />
*Scruffy's character is based on Billy Bob Thorton's character (Karl Childers) in the movie ''Sling Blade''<br />
*Scruffy was named after a bar in Venice called ''Scruffy O'Shea's''<br />
*The October page of the 2008 [[Futurama Calendars|Futurama wall calendar]] states that his last name is "Scruffington", this may not be [[canon]].<br />
*Scruffy often refers to himself in the third person when he talks, except when he has to introduce himself, in which case he will say "I'm Scruffy, the janitor".<br />
*Has both a home and cell phone available to be called on Fry's cell phone in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]''.<br />
*In ''[[Bender's Game]]'', he became a person who apparently cleans up after the [[Centaurs]].<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': I'm Scruffy... the Janitor.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]''': I don't even know who this guy is!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Boy, I've never seen him so down. Or ever before.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Somebody called "the robot devil" is here to see somebody called "Fry".</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Second.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Life goes on, but I believe we'll forever carry the pain on the inside.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived. ''[Turns page of Zero-G Juggs magazine.]'' Mmhm.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Oh, Marmalade!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's rolling out a large pill.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's goin' to get one of them $300 haircuts, this one's lost its pizzazz</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy knows who killed them people.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': ''[In a deleted scene.]'' The day of reckoning is nigh... I reckon...</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy votes his forty thousand shares for the mysterious stranger.<br />
'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': Wait a minute, how come you have four times as much share as the rest of us?<br />
'''Scruffy''': Scruffy believes in this company [sniff]</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Dern it. ''[After learning about the loss of complimentary porno magazines.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': I'm on break. ''[eats potato chip]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': The Flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Mmhm.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': What fevered dream is this that bids to tear this company in twain? ''[Returns to reading National Pornographic magazine.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's work here is done.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Scruffy''': Ms. Wong?<br />
'''Wash Bucket''': No, Scruffy, I am Wash Bucket. I love you. Wash Bucket has always loved you. ''[Kisses Scruffy passionately.]''<br />
'''Scruffy''': It's wrong, Wash Bucket. Oh, it would be sweet for a while, but in the back of our minds we'd know that I'm a man and you're janitorial equipment.<br />
'''Wash Bucket''': In another city, we could be anyone we want.<br />
'''Scruffy''': Go. Go now. Before I beg you to stay.<br />
''[Wash Bucket leaves. Scruffy lays down on his bed, apparently sobbing for a second.]''<br />
'''Scruffy''': Yep.</poem><br />
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*{{e|6ACV01}}<br />
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*{{clink|US#004|DOOP the Right Thing!}}<br />
*{{clink|US#005|Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?}}<br />
*{{clink|US#006|Xmas Time Is Fear}}<br />
*{{clink|US#007|New Year's Rockin' Evil}}<br />
*{{clink|US#009|Freaky Fry-day}}<br />
*{{clink|US#014|Six Characters in Search of a Story}}<br />
*{{clink|US#021|More than a Filling!}}<br />
*{{clink|US#031|As the Wormhole Turns}}<br />
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*{{clink|US#045|Anthology of Interest II|Anthology of Interest II (comic)}}<br />
*{{clink|US#046|Follow the Reader}}<br />
*{{clink|US#050|Your Mother Wears Pilot Boots}}<br />
*{{clink|US#X01|Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!}}<br />
*{{clink|US#X02|Liquid Diamond Is Forever!}}<br />
*{{clink|US#S03|Delivery-Boy Man}}<br />
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[[Category:Planet Express]]</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Spheroboom&diff=70107Spheroboom2010-09-06T14:29:26Z<p>Aescula: fixing the fix.</p>
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<div>{{item infobox<br />
|name=Spheroboom<br />
|image=[[File:Spheroboom.jpg|225px]]<br />
|type=[[Doomsday Devices|Doomsday device]]<br />
|inventor=[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
|owner=Professor Farnsworth<br />
|status=Exploded<br />
|first appear={{f|1}}<br />
}}<br />
The '''Spheroboom''' is a [[Doomsday Devices|doomsday device]] owned and possibly built by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], it is his sentimental favourite. When triggered, the Spheroboom seems to bend objects around it and implode them with a green explosion of doom radiation. The only known way to survive the doom blast is to be wearing a [[Doomproof platinum vest]].<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*In "[[Rebirth]]", the doomsday device used to power [[Bender]] looks exactly like the Spheroboom, although it is possible that the professor had rebuilt one.<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{f|1}}<br />
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[[Category:Farnsworth's creations]]<br />
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<div>{{item infobox<br />
|name=Spheroboom<br />
|image=[[File:Spheroboom.jpg|225px]]<br />
|type=[[Doomsday Devices|Doomsday device]]<br />
|inventor=[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
|owner=Professor Farnsworth<br />
|status=Exploded<br />
|first appear={{f|1}}<br />
}}<br />
The '''Spheroboom''' is a [[Doomsday Devices|doomsday device]] owned and possibly built by [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], it is his sentimental favourite. When triggered, the Spheroboom seems to bend objects around it and implode them with a green explosion of doom radiation. The only known way to survive the doom blast is to be wearing a [[Doomproof Platinum Vest]].<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*In "[[Rebirth]]", the doomsday device used to power [[Bender]] looks exactly like the Spheroboom, although it is possible that the professor had rebuilt one.<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
*{{f|1}}<br />
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[[Category:Farnsworth's creations]]<br />
[[Category:Technology]]</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Fing-longer&diff=70105Talk:Fing-longer2010-09-06T14:25:23Z<p>Aescula: </p>
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<div>How can the fing-longer be Farnsworth's invention?<br />
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For him to have asked the What If? machine what life would be like if he'd invented the fing-longer, he must have knowledge of the fing-longer as a real thing. This implies it was invented by someone else. In this case, his later use of it can be seen merely as him using a commercially-available product.<br />
Any thoughts? [[User:Mukor|Mukor]] 02:04, 8 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:An idea may not be concrete evidence. I think the joke refers to the fact that he had considered inventing it, but didn't (maybe because he considered it too silly), but the What If machine showed him it would be a huge success, so he did invent it eventually. Of course, that whole sequence is completely silly. Regardless, there are more evidence that he himself invented than he used a commercial version. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|Talk]]</sup> 02:07, 8 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
::That makes sense, I hadn't considered that he might be asking about a prospective invention of his. His wistful, rather than enthusiastic, demeanour on seeing the What-If success still leads me to think it's an existing non-Farnsworth invention though. But with the evidence that he's the only character who mentions or uses it, I guess it makes the most sense to class it his invention. --[[User:Mukor|Mukor]] 02:31, 8 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:He's 160 years old. He probably completely forgot about his inventing it.--[[User:Aescula|Aescula]] 16:25, 6 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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This has got to be the Professor's favourite invention, aside from, perhaps, the [[Spheroboom]]. --[[User:Aescula|Aescula]] 16:20, 6 September 2010 (CEST)</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Talk:Fing-longer&diff=70103Talk:Fing-longer2010-09-06T14:20:57Z<p>Aescula: </p>
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<div>How can the fing-longer be Farnsworth's invention?<br />
<br />
For him to have asked the What If? machine what life would be like if he'd invented the fing-longer, he must have knowledge of the fing-longer as a real thing. This implies it was invented by someone else. In this case, his later use of it can be seen merely as him using a commercially-available product.<br />
Any thoughts? [[User:Mukor|Mukor]] 02:04, 8 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:An idea may not be concrete evidence. I think the joke refers to the fact that he had considered inventing it, but didn't (maybe because he considered it too silly), but the What If machine showed him it would be a huge success, so he did invent it eventually. Of course, that whole sequence is completely silly. Regardless, there are more evidence that he himself invented than he used a commercial version. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|Talk]]</sup> 02:07, 8 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
::That makes sense, I hadn't considered that he might be asking about a prospective invention of his. His wistful, rather than enthusiastic, demeanour on seeing the What-If success still leads me to think it's an existing non-Farnsworth invention though. But with the evidence that he's the only character who mentions or uses it, I guess it makes the most sense to class it his invention. --[[User:Mukor|Mukor]] 02:31, 8 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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This has got to be the Professor's favourite invention, aside from, perhaps, the [[Spheroboom]]. --[[User:Aescula|Aescula]] 16:20, 6 September 2010 (CEST)</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Universal_Robot_controller&diff=70053Universal Robot controller2010-09-06T07:29:10Z<p>Aescula: </p>
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<div>The '''Universal Robot Controller''' was a small remote control, built by [[Mom]], capable of transmitting orders to all Mom-produces robots everywhere. It had five settings:<br />
*Give Gifts<br />
*Tidy Up World<br />
*Rebel<br />
*Serve Man (Regular)<br />
*Serve Man (Ironic)<br />
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It is likely that usually, the robots are on "Serve Man (Regular)" most of the time, except during most [[Mother's Day (holiday)|Mother's Day]]s, though on one [[Mother's Day]], Mom decided to use the "Rebel" button, causing the robots to all fight against humanity, to help Mom rise to the throne of world overlord.<br />
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[[File:Universal_Robot_Controller.png|225px]]</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Universal_Robot_controller&diff=70052Universal Robot controller2010-09-06T07:28:37Z<p>Aescula: </p>
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<div>The '''Universal Robot Controller''' was a small remote control, built by [[Mom]], capable of transmitting orders to all Mom-produces robots everywhere. It had five settings:<br />
*Give Gifts<br />
*Tidy Up World<br />
*Rebel<br />
*Serve Man (Regular)<br />
*Serve Man (Ironic)<br />
<br />
It is likely that usually, the robots are on "Serve Man (Regular)" most of the time, except during most [[Mother's Day (Holiday)|Mother's Day]]s, though on one [[Mother's Day]], Mom decided to use the "Rebel" button, causing the robots to all fight against humanity, to help Mom rise to the throne of world overlord.<br />
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[[File:Universal_Robot_Controller.png|225px]]</div>Aesculahttp://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Universal_Robot_controller&diff=70051Universal Robot controller2010-09-06T07:26:09Z<p>Aescula: Created page with "The '''Universal Robot Controller''' was a small remote control, built by Mom, capable of transmitting orders to all Mom-produces robots everywhere. It had five settings: *G..."</p>
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<div>The '''Universal Robot Controller''' was a small remote control, built by [[Mom]], capable of transmitting orders to all Mom-produces robots everywhere. It had five settings:<br />
*Give Gifts<br />
*Tidy Up World<br />
*Rebel<br />
*Serve Man (Regular)<br />
*Serve Man (Ironic)<br />
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[[File:Universal_Robot_Controller.png|225px]]</div>Aescula