Fry Am the Egg Man

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Season 6 episode
Broadcast season 8 episode
Fry Am the Egg Man
No.110
Production number6ACV22
Written byMichael Rowe
Directed byDwayne Carey-Hill
Title captionTHE ONE BRIGHT SPOT IN YOUR LIFE!
First air date11 August, 2011
Broadcast numberS08E09
Title referenceThe line "I am the egg man" from the song "I Am the Walrus"
Additional
Commentary
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Transcript
Storyboard

Pictures

Season 6
  1. Rebirth
  2. In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
  3. Attack of the Killer App
  4. Proposition Infinity
  5. The Duh-Vinci Code
  6. Lethal Inspection
  7. The Late Philip J. Fry
  8. That Darn Katz!
  9. A Clockwork Origin
  10. The Prisoner of Benda
  11. Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
  12. The Mutants Are Revolting
  13. The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
  14. The Silence of the Clamps
  15. Möbius Dick
  16. Law and Oracle
  17. Benderama
  18. The Tip of the Zoidberg
  19. Ghost in the Machines
  20. Neutopia
  21. Yo Leela Leela
  22. Fry Am the Egg Man
  23. All the Presidents' Heads
  24. Cold Warriors
  25. Overclockwise
  26. Reincarnation
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"Fry Am the Egg Man" is the one hundred tenth episode of Futurama, the twenty-second of the sixth production season and the ninth of the eighth broadcast season. It aired 11 August, 2011 on Comedy Central. Fry nurtures an alien egg that hatches into a horrific monster.

Plot

Act I: "I'll use that free app that tells you what restaurants you're near."

After a dangerous delivery, the crew eats at Fishy Joe's, and Leela becomes upset because of the vague sources of fast food. They goes to the local farmer's market to buy known foods (and some Zuban cigars for Bender). She blackmails the crew to eat them, but Fry decides to hatch an egg after learning that the ones bought are fertile.

Act II: "Dios mío."

Fry raises the egg for a week, and it hatches into a horrific monster that he names Mr. Peppy. Mr. Peppy grows to full size in a few days, and Farnsworth discovers that Mr. Peppy is a ravenous Bone Vampire. Realizing they can't keep it on Earth, they send it back to its homeworld, Doohan 6, to repopulate the species.

Act III: "I left a trail of bread crumbs."

After setting Mr. Peppy free, the crew goes to a nearby barn where they tell the villagers that they set the creature loose, thus threatening the populace. Leela's friend Angus McZongo spearheads the hunt as Fry assures them that Mr. Peppy is harmless. After Leela is attacked by Mr. Peppy, Fry decides to kill his pet himself. When he shoots, however, it is revealed to by McZongo dressed in a bone vampire costume, and admits that he was responsible for the attacks. Suddenly, they notice Mr. Peppy sucking the skeleton from some sheep, and Fry decides to kill him until the villagers spare the beast because they can use it as a way to slaughter their excessive livestock.

Production

During May and June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released three items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of a new character, Mr. Peppy, on 30 May, part of the storyboard showing Bender and Fry at the drive-thru on 31 May, and a video clip featuring Bender and Mr. Peppy playing fetch on 19 June.

Image gallery

Reception

In the original U.S. broadcast on 11 August, 2011, the episode scored a 0.7 share among adults aged 18-49, down a tenth from the previous week, and 1.462 million viewers, up about 3,000 views from the previous week.[1]

Additional Info

Trivia

  • This is one of four episodes of broadcast season 8 to be broadcast in production order. The other three are "Cold Warriors", "Overclockwise" and "Reincarnation".
  • The song heard during the montage of Fry keeping the egg safe is "Eggman" by Eli Wolfe.
  • If Leela is correct about her having 205 bones, she would have one less than normal humans.
    • It is unclear what bone she is missing. It may be that she has one lacrimal or nasal bone instead of two due to her strange head shape (i.e., her one eye).

Allusions

  • The title is a play on the lyric "I am the egg man" from The Beatles' song "I Am the Walrus".
  • The plot bears some resemblance to The Simpsons episode "Bart the Mother". Bart Simpson nurtures two orphaned "bird" eggs until they hatch, but they turn out to be two Bolivian Tree Lizards that wreak havoc on Springfield.
    • Incidentally, that episode was the last full one written by David X. Cohen before he began working on Futurama.
  • The "Local Group Farmers Market" refers to the Local Group, which is the group of galaxies that includes the Milky Way.
  • When Fry says to Dr. Zoidberg "Leggo my egg-o, crab-o," this is a parody of the famous Eggo Waffles commercial slogan.
  • The Medieval Monster Manual that Professor Farnsworth shows the crew is titled "Gygaxicon" with a picture of a dodecahedron above the title. This is a reference to Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons.
  • The planet Doohan 6 and its Scottish-like inhabitants are a reference to James Doohan, "Scotty" of Star Trek fame. Incidentally, he was the only living Star Trek: The Original Series cast member at the time of production (he died in 2005) to refuse to appear in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".
  • The name of the character Angus McZongo is a reference to Zongo Comics, a comic book company founded by Matt Groening.
  • Zuban cigars are an obvious reference to the coveted Cuban cigars.
  • Fry's "would not, could not" speech mimics the style of Dr. Seuss, specifically the children's book Green Eggs and Ham.
  • When Amy says "Jinkies, he Scooby-Dooed us," this is an obvious reference to Scooby-Doo and its character Velma's catchphrase "Jinkies".
  • When Fry says, "He's not a fighter, he's a lover, like Dwayne 'The Rock' 'Tooth Fairy' Johnson," This is a reference to former wrestler, now-actor Dwayne Johnson and the movie Tooth Fairy which he starred in.
  • When the sheep farmer woke up to find his sheep deboned he let out a string of words including "Gryffindor, Slytherin and Hufflepuff"; Famous houses of Hogwarts in Harry Potter. He also says the names of three Akira Kurosawa movies (Dersu Uzala, Yojimbo, Rashomon) before announcing that Mr. Peppy should live.
  • When Fry tries to lure Mr. Peppy out of the woods, holding up a human skeleton, he states "Here Mr. Peppy! Mmm, lovely bones!" - a reference to the novel "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold.
  • The overall plot of the episode resembles the Lambton Worm legend.

Continuity

Quotes

    Fry: You can't sit on something for a week without falling in love with it.

    Zoidberg: [Walking into Doohan 6 pub.] We're not from around here!

    Hermes: {Inside Doohan 6 pub] We're guests on your planet; speak English!

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References