Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!

Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!
US Publish Number	X01
UK Publish Number(s)	003
Written by	N/A
Art by	N/A
Title caption	None
Published (US)	August 21, 2002
Title reference	The song Somewhere Over the Rainbow from the movie, The Wizard of Oz.

Non-canon

The Story

Act I

Fry has been reading a reprint of an old Simpsons comic during the crew's journey to the Geek-e Galaxy. Their mission is to take the biggest comic collection in the universe back to Earth to be sealed in liquid diamond forever. However, they are soon interrupted by a zap from the Brain Spawn's stupefaction field. Fry, remembering his previous encounter with the brains, vows to stop them from destroying the Earth. Lacking any books, the pair of brains are soon forced to send the trio's minds into a nearby comic, which they quickly escape. Having found a spoiler ray, Bender forces them to reveal they are planning to collect comics so no-one can read them again and will move on to other literature which will reduce the I.Q. of Earth so they can invade. After Fry informs the Brain Spawn that the rest of Planet Express' staff will avenge them, the brains retrieve the others. The brains then send everyone into an original printing of a Simpsons comic, but thanks to another unintentional suggestion by Fry, the brains don't enter the comic themselves. While they aren't stupid, the group suffers some memory loss. Nibbler is able to help with this, until he looses focus when Quimby falls on him, as a result everyone except Fry and Nibbler has amnesia and wanders off.

Act II

Bender heads into Moes where he gets in a fight with Homer Simpson and later make friends. Fry poses as the substitute teacher for Bart Simpson’s class and tries to explain everything to him but Bart doesn’t believe Fry and has him locked in the school at the end of the day. Lisa Simpson is bullied at school but Leela beats up the bullies for her. Zoidberg and Hermes are in the Nuclear power plant and Mr. Burns mistakes Zoidberg for a mutant and offers him dinner so he isn’t sued. Professor Farnsworth makes an image of a woman in the traffic lights which causes several crashes and he is sent to the Springfield Retirement home. Marge Simpson spots nibbler who disguises himself as a baby but Marge gives him milk which makes him lose his memory...

Additional Info

Trivia

This comic is set after (3ACV07) and before (4ACV10). Additionally, Fry states he is from the year 3002.
Simpsons comic #87 (Hail to the Cat), the Mental Realm visited in this comic, was not released until over a year after this crossover. The actual comic was based on the events of this comic.
Writers incorrectly predicted in this issue that The Simpsons would first be broadcast in HDTV in 2005. In reality, this occurred in 2009.

Quotes

Leela: You'll wake up Nibbler! He looks so cute sleeping.
Bender: Yeah, not like Fry, drooling all that blood and all.
Professor: Let ME say it this time.
Hermes: Go ahead.
Professor: Fry, you're an idiot.
Narrator: Is all lost for the Planet Express crew? Are they finally, truly, totally boned?
Brain Spawn #1: Yes, they are!
Brain Spawn #2: Who are you talking to?

Outside References

Nerdanus 12 is a parody of the Marvel Comics character Ego the Living Planet.
When Comic Book Guy gets into a car crash, he says "You are as blind as Matt Murdoch!", referencing the alter ego of the Marvel superhero Daredevil.

Goofs

Bart's shirt changes from blue to orange.

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

The Simpsons characters

Bart Simpson
Carl Carlson
Clancy Wiggum
Groundskeeper Willie
Homer Simpson
Kent Brockman
Lenny Leonard
Lisa Simpson
Mayor Joe Quimby
Maggie Simpson
Marge Simpson
Moe Szyslak
Mr. Burns
Seymour Skinner
Smithers
Snowball II

Comic Credits

Futurama comics
Issues	1 — 20	"Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!" • "...But Deliver Us to Evil!" • "The Owner of Mars Attacks!" • "DOOP the Right Thing!" • "Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?" • "Xmas Time Is Fear" • "New Year's Rockin' Evil" • "Planet X-Press Men" • "Freaky Fry-day" • "The Big Sweep" • "The Cure for the Common Clod" • "Sideshow Fry" • "The Bender You Say" • "Six Characters in Search of a Story" • "Fry Me to the Moon" • "Kickin' It Old School" • "The Time Bender Trilogy:" (Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3) • "Bender Breaks Out"
	21 — 40	"More than a Filling!" • "A Fit Worse than Death" • "The A-Team" • "Twice Told Tales of Interest" • "Robot Robin Hood" • "A Whole Lotta Leela" • "Rotten to the Core" • "Let's Twist Again" • "Downsized!" • "Fry and the Double-Bag Must-Have Item" • "As the Wormhole Turns" • "Doctor What" • "Attack of the 50-ft Amy" • "Planet Michelle" • "Son of the Sun" • "You Don't Wanna Know Jak!" • "Full Metal Racket" • "Rumble in the Jungle" • "Rust in Peace" • "Robot Santa's Little Helpers"
	41 — 60	"Soldier Boys" • "Homeward Boned" • "Welcome to my Nightmall" • "The Fry and the Furious!" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Follow the Reader" • "Chitty Chitty Bend Bend" • "Claw and Order" • "Dummy Up!" • "Your Mother Wears Pilot Boots" • "Fry Cook!" • "Ro-Botox!" • "A Bump in the Flight" • "How Much is that Mutant in the Window?" • "The Trouble With Trilogies" • "Do You Want Fry with That?" • "Steampunk'd" • "Boomsday!" • "How to Secede Without Really Trying" • "The Bot Who Cried Wolf"
	61 — 80	"Troop Grit" • "Lost Our Leela" • "Igner-Ance is Bliss!" • "Secret Santa" • "The Sun Also Raises!" • "The Board Game Games" • "Tartar House Five" • "Futuramarutuf" • "Don't Go Taking my Heart!" • "The Devil and Professor F." • "Pizza Wars" • "Trading Spaces" • "Night of the Automated Dead" • "What the What if?" • "Bendership Galactica" • "Captain Brannigan: The Windbag Soldier" • "New New New York" • "Little Orphan Android" • "Kif of Death!" • "Dumbsday!"
	81 — 100	"A Touch of Medieval" • Futurama Comics #82
Simpsons Crossovers		"Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!" • "Liquid Diamond Is Forever!" • "Slaves of New New York!" • "The Read Menace!"
Mini-comics		"H.G. Blob in Revenge of the Blob" • "The Continuum Less Travelled" • "Leela & Amy in Hostile Makeover" • "Captain Zapp Brannigan in The Seven Day Itch" • "Captain Zapp Brannigan in Purple Tentacle Tour" • "Captain Zapp Brannigan in Rank Call!" • "Zoidberg Makes a House Call" • "H.G. Blob in A Funny Feeling in my Tummy" • "Breaking News"
Collections		Futurama-O-Rama • Futurama Adventures • Futurama: The Time Bender Trilogy • Futurama Conquers The Universe • The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis • Futurama Comics: To Infinity!
Special issues		"Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!" • "Futurama Returns" • "Delivery-Boy Man"
Comics related		Bongo Comics Group • Futuramaland