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=== Act I === | === Act I: "This gives me a desperate idea!" === | ||
=== Act II === | The [[Professor]] announces to the crew that they are bankrupt, because he borrowed money from the [[Robot Mafia]] to invest in Bitcoin but can't repay them after the price of Bitcoin crashed. | ||
However, [[Channel √2 News]] reports that the price of Bitcoin is soaring again. This gives the Professor the idea to go mining the element 81 {{w|thallium}} found out west and sell it to the Bitcoin "miners", because the new mining chips are made from it. | |||
The crew takes the [[Planet Express ship]] to go west, before having to land and drive the rest of the way along the {{w|Donner Pass|Donner trail}}, due to the atmosphere being ionized by the intensive Bitcoin mining. [[Fry]] is enjoying the reading of a series of action books written by [[Borax Kid]], while [[Hermes]] struggles to build a father-son connection with [[Dwight]]. | |||
=== Act II: "We'll all need to do Old West stuff to get by" === | |||
The crew arrives at the crypto town, Doge City. The Professor explains that all electricity goes to the Bitcoin mining computers, hence the town appears to be an old-fashioned western town. | |||
=== Act III === | === Act III === |
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No. | 143 | ||||
Production number | 8ACV03 | ||||
Written by | Nona di Spargement | ||||
Directed by | James Kim | ||||
Title caption | Based On An Actual UFO Sighting | ||||
First air date | 7 August, 2023 [1] | ||||
Broadcast number | S11E03 | ||||
Title reference | The 1962 film How the West Was Won, and the atomic number of thallium, 81, in binary. | ||||
Opening cartoon | A Is for Atom by John Sutherland Productions (1953) | ||||
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"How The West Was 1010001" is the one hundred and forty-third episode of Futurama, the third of the eighth production season and the third of the eleventh broadcast season. It aired on 7 August, 2023 [1], on Hulu.
Plot
Act I: "This gives me a desperate idea!"
The Professor announces to the crew that they are bankrupt, because he borrowed money from the Robot Mafia to invest in Bitcoin but can't repay them after the price of Bitcoin crashed. However, Channel √2 News reports that the price of Bitcoin is soaring again. This gives the Professor the idea to go mining the element 81 thallium found out west and sell it to the Bitcoin "miners", because the new mining chips are made from it.
The crew takes the Planet Express ship to go west, before having to land and drive the rest of the way along the Donner trail, due to the atmosphere being ionized by the intensive Bitcoin mining. Fry is enjoying the reading of a series of action books written by Borax Kid, while Hermes struggles to build a father-son connection with Dwight.
Act II: "We'll all need to do Old West stuff to get by"
The crew arrives at the crypto town, Doge City. The Professor explains that all electricity goes to the Bitcoin mining computers, hence the town appears to be an old-fashioned western town.
Act III
Production
The writer of record for this episode is Nona di Spargement.[2]. During the Futurama Fan Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2022, Patric Verrone revealed that the script was actually written by Ken Keeler.[3]
Reception
Additional information
Trivia
Allusions
- 1010001 in binary is 51 in hexadecimal, 81 in decimal, and maps to the letter 'Q' in the ASCII standard.
- During the Futurama Fan Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2022, Patric Verrone revealed that the number 81 itself also has a meaning.[4] This would turn-out to be the atomic number of thallium, the metal that the crew seeks out in this episode.
- The title of this episode is also a reference to the 1962 film How the West Was Won.
- When the Professor was showing the periodic table to the crew, the element indium can be seen to be renamed to "Native Americium", alluding to the Native American name controversy.
- Fry was reading a Borax Kid action book titled The Borax Kid vs the Outlaws of Thermodynamics. A demonic figure named "Maxwell's demon" was seen stealing gold molecules from a bank vault and shooting lead atoms out of a revolver, alluding to the famous thought experiment of the same name, where a molecule-manipulating demon could hypothetically violate the second law of thermodynamics.
- The crypto town "Doge City" is named after a cryptocurrency. The following commerces can be seen in town:
- BTC ETC
- WALL•ET
- Doc Fiesta - Only Health Care West of the Pecos
- Lazy ₿ Bitcoin Holding Co. - Assayer - We Buy Thallium
- Mild Bill's False-Alarm Chili
- Sweatwater Saloon
- The stagecoach that Roberto tried to rob bears the marking "Wells Crypto", alluding to the banking company Wells Fargo.
Continuity
- Bender played his guitar, Salmonella, during the folk song.
- Bender's ass plate is seen to have two circular holes and a rectangular hole with a hatch. But in the episode "Assie Come Home" where the plate was used for a lighthouse mirror, it only has two circular holes (the rectangular slot inside of him however, is retained from that episode).
Quotes
Alien Language Sightings
Goofs
Characters
References