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"'''A Head in the Polls'''" | "'''A Head in the Polls'''" is the sixteenth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the third of the [[Season 2|second production season]] and the seventh of the [[Broadcast season 2|second broadcast season]]. It aired 12 December, 1999 on FOX. [[Richard Nixon]] announces his entry into the 3000 [[Earth presidency|presidential]] election after obtaining [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]'s body. Despite the attempt to get Nixon out of the race, Nixon wins the election. | ||
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*[[Amy Wong|Amy]] | |||
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] | |||
*[[Brain Slugs]] | |||
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] | |||
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] | |||
*'''Debut:''' [[Jack Johnson]] | |||
*'''Debut:''' [[John Jackson]] | |||
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]] | |||
*[[Linda]] | |||
*[[Morbo]] | |||
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*[[Pawnshop Worker]] | |||
*[[Poster Guy]] | |||
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]] | |||
*'''Debut''': [[Scoop Chang]] | |||
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] | |||
*[[Richard Nixon's head]] | |||
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**[[J. Stewart Burns]] | **[[J. Stewart Burns]] | ||
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*'''Special Guests''' | |||
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**[[Claudia Schiffer's head|Claudia Schiffer]] | **[[Claudia Schiffer's head|Claudia Schiffer]] | ||
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| No. | 16 | ||||
| Production number | 2ACV03 | ||||
| Written by | [[J. Stewart Burns]][[Category:Episodes written by J. Stewart Burns|A Head in the Polls]] | ||||
| Directed by | [[Bret Haaland]][[Category:Episodes directed by Bret Haaland|A Head in the Polls]] | ||||
| Title caption | From the Makers of Futurama | ||||
| First air date | December 12, 1999 | ||||
| Broadcast number | S02E07 | ||||
| Opening cartoon | "Koko's Earth Control" | ||||
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"A Head in the Polls" is the sixteenth episode of Futurama, the third of the second production season and the seventh of the second broadcast season. It aired 12 December, 1999 on FOX. Richard Nixon announces his entry into the 3000 presidential election after obtaining Bender's body. Despite the attempt to get Nixon out of the race, Nixon wins the election.
The Story
Act I: "How are you going to live without a body?"
Bender and Fry are on the couch at Planet Express watching "The Scary Door" when Leela runs in and changes the TV to the Presidential Debates. The candidates, Jack Johnson and John Jackson, are clones, with identical views on nearly every subject. Fry says he's not even registered to vote, so Leela makes him go register immediately. Fry meets representatives from all the political parties, and begins to become interested in politics. Back at Planet Express, they see a news report about a mining accident on Titan traps over 1000 robots and sends Titanium prices through the roof. Bender, whose body is 40% titanium, sells his body to a pawn shop.
Act II: "I spent most of my teen years loving my body."
Bender begins living it up with his new wealth. After speaking with the presidents' heads at the Head Museum, Bender realises he has made a mistake and tries to buy back his body. But when he gets to the pawn shop, his body has already been sold - to Richard Nixon's head. It unfolds that Nixon is using Bender's body to run for President of Earth on a technicality ("nobody can be elected more than twice").
Act III: "You've got real charisma from the neck down."
Nixon’s Head, thanks to his shiny new robot body, sweeps the robot voters in early polls in spite of his miserable performance in the debates. Bender and friends try to get Bender's body back from Nixon. When Nixon refuses to return it, they break into his hotel room at the Watergate Hotel to steal it back. They are successful, but Nixon just buys a new body, a bigger one, with heavy weapons, and slides into office on the robot vote anyway.
Additional Info
Trivia
- Among those on the shelf of the TV Stars section of the Head Museum is Katey Sagal, the voice of Leela.
- Books in the library in The Scary Door episode include:
- Antigravity's Rainbow
- Quantum Relativity for Dummies
- The Preppy Handbook
- The Newer Testament
- The Red Dwarf of Courage
- Robot Run
- President Nixon sings a line of White Rabbit with his pawned electric guitar while on TV.
Alien Language Sightings
Time:08:36
Location: Sign next to Planet Express
Language: AL1
Translation: drink
Quotes
- Bender: Bodies are for hookers and fat people.
- Nixon's head: Listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only thing that's different is me; I've become bitter, and let's face it, crazy over the years. And once I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place. Muahahaha!
- Nixon's head: Hello Morbo, how's the family?
Morbo: Belligerent and numerous. - Morbo: All hail our gargantuan, cyborg president. May death come swiftly to his enemies.
- Nixon's head: (Playing Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit") I'm meeting you half way, you stupid hippies!
Mistakes
- Leela and Bender's Arms are overlapped incorrectly in one scene (image)
- Truman's Head's jar should read "Harry S Truman," without the '.' after the 'S' (image)
- The White House is in Washington DC now but in 1ACV12 it was destroyed on Monument Beach. However they could have built a new one.
Political Parties
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Characters
- Amy
- Bender
- Brain Slugs
- Fry
- Hermes
- Debut: Jack Johnson
- Debut: John Jackson
- Leela
- Linda
- Morbo
- Pawnshop Worker
- Poster Guy
- Farnsworth
- Debut: Scoop Chang
- Zoidberg
- Richard Nixon's head
Episode Credits
- Writer
- Director
- Voice Actors
- Special Guests
- DVD Commentary