A Head in the Polls

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Season 2 episode
A Head in the Polls
A Head in the Polls.jpg
No.16
Production number2ACV03
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 captionFrom the Makers of Futurama
First air dateDecember 12, 1999
Broadcast numberS02E07
Opening cartoon"Koko's Earth Control"
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript

Pictures

Season 2
  1. I Second that Emotion
  2. Brannigan, Begin Again
  3. A Head in the Polls
  4. Xmas Story
  5. Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?
  6. The Lesser of Two Evils
  7. Put Your Head on My Shoulders
  8. Raging Bender
  9. A Bicyclops Built for Two
  10. A Clone of My Own
  11. How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
  12. The Deep South
  13. Bender Gets Made
  14. Mother's Day
  15. The Problem with Popplers
  16. Anthology of Interest I
  17. War Is the H-Word
  18. The Honking
  19. The Cryonic Woman
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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

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!

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

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.

Political Parties

  • Antisocialists
  • Brain Slug Party
  • Bull Space Moose Party
  • Dudes for the Legalation of Hemp
  • Fingerlickans
  • Green Party
  • National Ray-Gun Association
  • One Cell, One Vote
  • People for the Ethical Treatment of Humans
  • Rainbow Whigs
  • Tastycrats
  • Voter Apathy Party

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