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*Bender addresses Cubert as a twelve-year-old, but he turned 13 in "[[Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television]]", which is set years earlier. | *Bender addresses Cubert as a twelve-year-old, but he turned 13 in "[[Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television]]", which is set years earlier. | ||
=== Continuity === | === Continuity === | ||
*When Mom looks at Bender's data, we see his serial number is 2716057 {{et|2ACV06}}, his unit is 22 {{et|2ACV08}} and he was inspected by Inspector #5 {{et|6ACV06}}. | |||
*The bridge where Fry falls over is the same one where he and Leela celebrated Leela's birthday in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]". | *The bridge where Fry falls over is the same one where he and Leela celebrated Leela's birthday in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]". | ||
*This is the first cameo appearance of Nine since Into the Wild Green Yonder, he can be seen wearing his tinfoil hat. | |||
*Vyolet can be seen in the jury since mutants were granted citizenship in The Mutants Are Revolting. | |||
=== Characters === | === Characters === | ||
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| No. | 113 | ||||
| Production number | 6ACV25 | ||||
| Written by | Ken Keeler | ||||
| Directed by | Raymie Muzquiz | ||||
| Title caption | SOON TO BE A HIT TELEVISION SHOW | ||||
| First air date | 1 September, 2011 | ||||
| Broadcast number | S08E12 | ||||
| Title reference | "Overclocking" and "clockwise" | ||||
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"Overclockwise" is the one-hundred-and-thirteenth episode of Futurama, the twenty-fifth of the sixth production season and the twelfth of the eighth broadcast season. It aired 1 September, 2011 on Comedy Central. Bender evolves into a godlike being after vastly increasing his processing power.
Plot
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Production
"Overclockwise" was originally planned to be the series finale of season 6, but it was later moved to the penultimate episode to make "Reincarnation" the finale. As "Reincarnation" is a non-canon segmented episode, however, "Overclockwise" is seen as the "proper" season finale. The episode was written in 2010, before the series had been renewed for another season, and much like "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and Into the Wild Green Yonder, "Overclockwise" was written as if it was the last episode ever of Futurama. As such, Ken Keeler was once again in charge of the writing, making this his third "last episode ever" for the series.[1] as with "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and Into the Wild Green Yonder.[1]
During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released four items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of the interior of transfigured Bender's head on 7 June, concept art of Fry's character in a World War II video game on 8 June, part of the storyboard showing Mom's sons release hoverfish on 9 June, and a video clip featuring Fry talking to the transfigured Bender on 20 June.
Two promotional pictures for the episode were released by Comedy Central Press.[2]
Image gallery
Concept art of the interior of transfigured Bender's head.
Concept art of Fry's character in a World War 2 video game.
Page 70 of the storyboard.
A screenshot from the video clip.
The first promotional picture.
The second promotional picture.
Additional information
Trivia
- It is among the few one-word titled media.
- It was written as the last episode because the show hadn't been renewed at the time of the writing.
- This is one of four episodes of broadcast season 8 to be broadcast in production order. The other three are "Fry Am the Egg Man", "Cold Warriors" and "Reincarnation".
- This is the first time that Randy is referred to by name.
Allusions
- The X-Cube 360 is a parody of Xbox 360.
- World of World War II 3 is a parody of World of Warcraft.
- It could also be a reference to Call of Duty: World at War. This makes more sense because it's a FPS (First Person Shooter).
- The German commander character in World of World War II 3 resembles Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes.
- Walt slaps himself and says, "Ach! I could haf fired a V-8!" This is a parody of the famous advertising campaign "I could've had a V8!"
- Nibbler suggests putting on a show called "Nibbler on the Roof", a parody of Fiddler on the Roof.
- The hoverfish resemble the Sentinels from the The Matrix films.
- Judge Whitey says to Cubert, "That'll do, pig," a famous line from the movie Babe.
Goofs
- Smitty says that the Planet Express building does not have a doorbell, however a doorbell has been heard in previous episodes.
- Bender addresses Cubert as a twelve-year-old, but he turned 13 in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television", which is set years earlier.
Continuity
- When Mom looks at Bender's data, we see his serial number is 2716057 (2ACV06), his unit is 22 (2ACV08) and he was inspected by Inspector #5 (6ACV06).
- The bridge where Fry falls over is the same one where he and Leela celebrated Leela's birthday in "The Late Philip J. Fry".
- This is the first cameo appearance of Nine since Into the Wild Green Yonder, he can be seen wearing his tinfoil hat.
- Vyolet can be seen in the jury since mutants were granted citizenship in The Mutants Are Revolting.
Characters
- Amy
- Jackie Anderson
- Angleyne
- Bailiff
- Dr. Ben Beeler
- Bender
- The blue and orange salesman
- Cubert
- Curly Joe
- Falafel Stand Guy
- Farnsworth's Girlfriend
- Fishy Joe
- Fry
- Hermes
- Hoschel
- Debut: Hoverfish
- The Hyper-Chicken
- Hypnotoad
- Igner
- Ipji
- Larry
- Leela
- Mom
- Nibbler
- Nine
- Petunia
- Professor Farnsworth
- Randy
- Ron Whitey
- Scruffy
- Smitty
- URL
- Vyolet
- Walt
- The yellow and red lawyer
- Zoidberg
References
- ^ a b "Now I will say at this point, having written the last episode for FOX, and the last DVD for the DVD releases, and now being back again, and being pretty far along in production, we’re the show with the most experience in writing our last episode ever. We’re getting good at it – we’re doing our third one that we’re actually working on here at the moment – they’ve all been written by Ken Keeler, I should mention, who is writing his third last episode ever." — Cohen, David
Zalben, Alex (22 June 2010). "Exclusive: Futurama Creator Spills on Special Last, Last Episode!". UGO. Retrieved on 22 June 2010. - ^ Comedy Central Press | Futurama