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*Although [[Singing Wind]] explains why they left the Prophecy on Earth (to warn them not to go to Mars), it doesn't explain why they left the stone ship there.
*Although [[Singing Wind]] explains why they left the Prophecy on Earth (to warn them not to go to Mars), it doesn't explain why they left the stone ship there.
**Who knows why they left the ship there, maybe for some other reason.
**Who knows why they left the ship there, maybe for some other reason.
***It's possible that that was the very ship the original Martians used to come to Earth, and those Martians had died out on Earth, leaving behind their ship and [[Martian calendar|calendar]] on there, and the legend of their journey back on Mars.


=== Characters ===
=== Characters ===

Revision as of 00:37, 27 June 2012

Season 7 episode
Broadcast season 9 episode
A Farewell to Arms
No.116
Production number7ACV02
Written byJosh Weinstein
Directed byRaymie Muzquiz
Title caption"Ask your doctor if Futurama is right for you."[2]
First air date20 June 2012[3]
Broadcast numberS09E02
Title referenceThe Ernest Hemingway novel A Farewell to Arms
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript
Storyboard

Pictures

Season 7
  1. The Bots and the Bees
  2. A Farewell to Arms
  3. Decision 3012
  4. The Thief of Baghead
  5. Zapp Dingbat
  6. The Butterjunk Effect
  7. The Six Million Dollar Mon
  8. Fun on a Bun
  9. Free Will Hunting
  10. Near-Death Wish
  11. 31st Century Fox
  12. Viva Mars Vegas
  13. Naturama
  14. Forty Percent Leadbelly
  15. 2-D Blacktop
  16. T.: The Terrestrial
  17. Fry and Leela's Big Fling
  18. The Inhuman Torch
  19. Saturday Morning Fun Pit
  20. Calculon 2.0
  21. Assie Come Home
  22. Leela and the Genestalk
  23. Game of Tones
  24. Murder on the Planet Express
  25. Stench and Stenchibility
  26. Meanwhile
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"A Farewell to Arms" is the one hundred and sixteenth episode of Futurama, the second of the seventh production season and the ninth broadcast season. It aired on 20 June 2012[3] on Comedy Central. An ancient prophecy from a Martian calendar[4] predicts the world will end in 3012.[3]

Plot

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The crew discover a Martian calendar, during a search for Fry pants, predicting that the world is going to end in 3012. Indeed, typical end-of-the-world things begin happening. Because electrical power has ceased to exist on Earth, Zapp and Kif have to use a pyramid spaceship left on the planet by the ancient Martians that runs on snakes. Earth is evacuated, but only a limited number of Earthicans can be evacuated to Mars due to the limited capacity of the Martian stone spaceship. President Nixon and Vice President Agnew are faced with the task of deciding which Earthicans can board the ship to flee the planet.[2] In the evacuation process, Fry and Leela are separated.[5]

Production

In 2012, two revelations concerning the episode were made. On 29 February, CGEF revealed the episode's title, its writer to be Josh Weinstein and its director to be Raymie Muzquiz.[6][7] On 25 April, MSN TV revealed the episode's plot and air date.[3]

In May, Countdown to Futurama began releasing promotional material for the episode. It has so far released five items: a promotional picture showing Leela - on crutches - and Fry on the Planet Express balcony on 7 May,[8] a video clip featuring the crew discussing the end of the world as well as scenes of New New York in chaos on 8 May,[1] concept art of Fry and Leela's Planet Express prom photo on 9 May[9] a second promotional picture showing Leela being entangled by a puddle monster while Fry, whose pants are on the road, watches on 10 May,[10] concept art of an excavated spaceship inside a cave on 11 May[11] and part of the storyboard showing Zapp pressing a button on a spaceship, causing snakes to be released onto Kif, on 12 May.[12]

Comedy Central's website released another promotional picture - showing Leela and Fry near the balcony.[13] By 1 June, Comedy Central had aired an advertisment for the seventh season of Futurama which featured a new clip from the episode.[14]

South Coast Today published an article about the Futurama season premiere on 16 June, revealing certain details about the episode.[2] Entertainment Weekly released another preview clip of the episode on 18 June.[5]

Image gallery

Reception

On 30 January 2012, Eric Rogers revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either "The Bots and the Bees", this one or "31st Century Fox".[15]

Additional information

Trivia

  • The title "Farewell to Arms", which was registered on the US Copyright Catalog on 14 July 2011,[16] was a working title for this episode.
  • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela", which is also the second episode of its season, features an end of the world plot as well.
  • If the movies are considered non-episodic, then this episode could be considered the 100th episode.
    • Alternatively, if each movie is considered one episode, this could be considered the 104th episode.
    • This is moot, however, since according to the canon, the movies are considered four episodes each.
  • The name of the episode is a reference to Fry and Leela both having lost one arm at the end of the episode. The word 'Arms' is an anagram of Mars which gets destroyed at the end of the episode.
  • The second act is interesting because it does not end on a funny punch line, but instead a dramatic fade out.
  • Both Leela and Fry should have known they would have survived the Apocalypse since they read Bender's script on their love life in "Overclockwise".
  • If one looks closely at the tickets, it can be known that the ticket Fry gives Leela is actually his own ticket before it is directly revealed when Leela peels off her picture. When Fry receives his ticket from the Contabulous Choosematron, it bears the number combination "023870096 58". When Fry gives Leela the ticket, it bears the same combination.

Allusions

  • The episode's title is taken from the Ernest Hemingway novel A Farewell to Arms. It is used to refer to Fry and Leela's arms getting torn off in the episode.
  • The episode is a parody of the 2012 phenomenon.
  • In the Planet Express ship, Bender is reading a copy of Space Mall, a parody of Sky Mall.
  • Nixon says the best destination for the evacuated Earthicans to be transported to is Mars, which has "no Woodward or Bernstein. That's a plus." He is referring to journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose news reporting on the Watergate scandal eventually led to Nixon's resignation.
  • Additionally, "that's a plus" could also refer to the advertisement slogan of the social network "Google+".
  • Fry mentions Redbook.
  • Nixon says that the spaceplane "just won't turn over, just like Pat on a Sunday morning." "Pat" was the name of Nixon's wife in real life.
  • Leela mentions Tron: Legacy.
  • Fry says that Bender dumped pig's blood on him at the Planet Express Prom, a reference to Carrie.
  • "Sharksplosions" may be a reference to Sharksplode, an online tee-shirt store founded by Wil Wheaton and Joel Watson.

Continuity

Quotes

    [repeated line]
    Fry: [to Leela] Take my hand.

    Fry: No way I'm gonna let God get my pants! Nobody messes with my pants! Not even the Holy One, blessed be He!

    Fry: Woah, there's writing in here! Also, this grease is flammable.

    Leela: [to Fry] Can't you just be a rude unhelpful jerk like Bender?
    Bender: When I use up the toilet paper, I don't put on another roll!

    Amy: The calendar predicts fires, earthquakes, sharksplosions...then it just ends!

    Hermes: Is it just me, or is the world ending more often these days?

    Leela: So, you wanna join the Balcony Club?
    Zoidberg: The Balcony Club?! I have an individual membership!
    Fry: Zoidberg, get lost!
    Zoidberg: I am lost! So long.

    Amy: That underground pyramid isn't a pyramid.
    [Cut to the underground area.]
    Amy: It's a rocketship!
    Zoidberg: It was worth waiting five hours to hear you finish that sentence.

    Leela: I'll remember you in here. [Puts her hand on her heart.]
    Fry: I wish I could remember with my boobs.

    Bender: I'm stealin' stuff I don't even need. You wanna Torah?
    Fry: Nah, I'm not hungry.

    Fry: I hope you're not too mad at me, Leela. For tearin' your arm up and all.
    Leela: I'm not mad. I'm on way too many painkillers.

Goofs

  • The storm disables all electronics, yet Nixon's head's robotic arm still functions normally. Additionally, Zapp and the NNYPD's guns should not work either, but it is possible that the laser technology is not affected by the storm. The Contrabulous Choosematron is also another item that still works.
    • All these items could have been powered without electricity, like Bender.
  • In this episode, Amy says she belonged to the sorority Sigma Beta, but in "The Series Has Landed", she says she belonged to Kappa Kappa Wong.
    • She could have changed sororities over the course of twelve years.
    • The crank could give him an extremly long charge.
  • Farnsworth, Fry and Bender should have known the world would not end in 3012, since they witnessed it ending over one billion years later in the Emmy-winning "The Late Philip J. Fry".
    • They initially skipped almost 7000 years, during which time society had collapsed several times on unknown dates. It is likely they were trying to avoid whatever had caused this.
  • If Mars and Earth really passed that close, then the gravity of the two planets would rip them appart.
    • When giving Mars oxygen, it could have altered the gravity.
  • There's no way that burning subteranian gasses could move Mars that close to Earth so quickly, as there are millions of miles between them.
    • It's the future, plus this is the sun we're talking about.
  • The Contrabulous Choosematron gives Fry two passes, so he should have been able to go with everyone to Mars, regardless of giving one to Leela.
    • Fry could've gotten rid of his second pass, as he didn't want two.
  • Although Singing Wind explains why they left the Prophecy on Earth (to warn them not to go to Mars), it doesn't explain why they left the stone ship there.
    • Who knows why they left the ship there, maybe for some other reason.
      • It's possible that that was the very ship the original Martians used to come to Earth, and those Martians had died out on Earth, leaving behind their ship and calendar on there, and the legend of their journey back on Mars.

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References

  1. ^ a b Matt Tobey (08 May 2012). Countdown to Futurama: The World Is Ending Again Clip. (Comedy Centrl.) Retrieved on 08 May 2012.
  2. ^ a b c DeArruda, James (16 June 2024). Spoiler alert!: Season premiere of 'Futurama' delivers just what the doctor ordered. Retrieved on 19 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d Futurama - Episode Guide. (MSN TV.) Retrieved on 26 April 2012.
  4. ^ Comedy Central (08 May 2011). iTunes - Podcasts - Futurama: Countdown to Futurama by Comedy Central. (iTunes Store.) Retrieved on 10 May 2011.
  5. ^ a b Snierson, Dan (18 June 2024). "'Futurama': Bender impregnates a soda machine! -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO". EW.com. Retrieved on 18 June 2024.
  6. ^ Episode Guide: 7 ACV. (CGEF.) 29 February 2012. Retrieved on 29 February 2012.
  7. ^ "Just Fan" (29 February 2012). "Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)". (PEEL.) Retrieved on 29 February 2012.
  8. ^ Matt Tobey (07 May 2012). Countdown to Futurama: Leela and Fry Watching the Storm. (Comedy Centrl.) Retrieved on 07 May 2012.
  9. ^ Matt Tobey (09 May 2012). Countdown to Futurama: Fry and Leela’s Prom Photo. (Comedy Centrl [sic].) Retrieved on 09 May 2012.
  10. ^ Matt Tobey (10 May 2012). Countdown to Futurama: Puddle Monster. (Comedy Centrl [sic].) Retrieved on 10 May 2012.
  11. ^ Matt Tobey (11 May 2012). Countdown to Futurama: Stone Spaceship. (Comedy Centrl [sic].) Retrieved on 11 May 2012.
  12. ^ Matt Tobey (12 May 2012). Countdown to Futurama: Snake Button Storyboard. (Comedy Centrl [sic].) Retrieved on 12 May 2012.
  13. ^ Michelle Rosenblatt. Comedy Central Press | Futurama. (Comedy Central.) Retrieved on 05 June 2012.
  14. ^ punkyacturbo (01 June 2012). New Futurama Ad 2012 (Video). (YouTube.) Retrieved on 16 June 2012.
  15. ^ Eric Rogers (30 January 2012). Kitchelfilms. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 31 January 2012.
  16. ^ WebVoyage Record View 1. (US Copyright Catalog.) 14 July 2011. Retrieved on 29 February 2012.