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'''Amy''': They're nuts-o-good! ''[Sounds like 'not so good']''
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Revision as of 22:51, 28 November 2010

Season 6 episode
Broadcast season 7 episode
The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
The Futurama Holiday Spectacular.png
No.101
Production number6ACV13
Written byMichael Rowe
Directed byRay Claffey
Title captionTime Travelers: Only 331 shopping days 'til last Xmas
First air date21 November 2010
Broadcast numberS07E13
Special guest(s)Al Gore
Coolio
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript

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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"The Futurama Holiday Spectacular", originally titled "Holiday Val-U-Pak", is the one hundred and first episode of Futurama, the thirteenth of the sixth production season and the seventh broadcast season. It is the third seasonal episode in the series, though parts of Bender's Big Score exhibit seasonal themes. It aired 21 November 2010 on Comedy Central, and guest starred Al Gore as himself and Coolio as Kwanzaa-bot.

Plot

Openings

Everyone of the three segments begins with a message from the episode's sponsor, Gunderson's Unshelled Nuts.

Act I: Xmas

It's Xmas Day again, and the Planet Express crew are preparing for the imminent attack from Robot Santa Claus. Fry begins to feel depressed that Xmas just isn't like the way he used to celebrate Christmas, but he can't quite understand what is missing. Suddenly, Santa bursts in through the fireplace and answers his question, in song: what they are missing is an old-fashioned pine tree. He then kills Scruffy and leaves. The crew realize that Santa was right, and they need to bring pine trees back from extinction, just like they did with the barking snakes. They go to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to find some pine seeds. The crew are taken in by the Norwegian seed guard, who gives them a handful of seeds. However, the pine seeds that they take were contaminated with germs from the nearby Germ Warfare Repository, but they do not take this into consideration.

Fry plants the seeds in the dirt near the Planet Express headquarters. By Xmas next year, it has grown into a small tree. Dick Cheney's head sees it, and, as the Vice-President of Earth, commands Richard Nixon's head, the President of Earth, to steal the tree. Nixon replants the tree at the White House and they have an annual tree lighting. However, as soon as the tree is lit, it grows immensely. The Norwegian seed guard admits that it may have been the germs, and the tree begins to fire its pine cones off of itself and into the soil with an explosion. A tree grows from everyone of those cones, and eventually, the entire planet Earth is covered in coniferous forests. The crew are optimistic about the positive environmental impact at first, but then the Professor and Al Gore's head discover that the oxygen level in the atmosphere is dangerously high at eighty percent. Bender lights a cigar and the entire atmosphere of Earth burns up, killing billions. In space, Santa flies by in his sleigh, as if he orchestrated the entire event in order to kill everyone on Earth. He then pleasantly tells us to stay tuned for the next segment.

Act II: Robanukah

It's the end of the Xmas break, and the Planet Express crew is about to destroy the gifts that they forgot to deliver. Bender begins to complain that only the Human holidays are celebrated by them, but a Robot holiday, like Robanukah, a day Bender made up so he could get out of work (1ACV05), isn't. He manages to convince them, in song, to let him celebrate Robanukah by not working, and watching two Fembots named Ruth and Esther wrestle in petroleum oil. However, Bender discovers that the referee, a monkey named Abraham, only has enough oil for Ruth and Esther to wrestle for four and a half weeks, when Robanukah is supposed to last for six and a half weeks. When he goes to buy more at a Mombil gas station, Sal's friend informs them that the Earth has ran dry of petroleum oil. Since Ruth and Esther won't wrestle without oil, Bender makes the Professor install a huge drill to the front of the Planet Express ship and drill a tunnel deep into Earth to find a small amount.

Along the way, they are attacked by an albino humping worm, which humps the ship. They manage to escape it and drill even deeper. As the ship continues to fall apart, and the heat rises, the crew gets more and more annoyed at being forced to risk their lives just for Bender. Bender gets mad at their disrespect for the robot tradition, but then part of the ship caves in and crushes all of the crew except for Bender. The ship ends up destroyed, and jammed in the tunnel, more than two hundred kilometers underground. Five hundred million years later, Bender is still in the ship. He has been relaxing in the side of it that wasn't destroyed. Bender begins to miss the others, but then realizes that over the millions of years, the crew turned into petroleum oil. He collects some and drills back to the surface with his head, where all of New New York has turned into desert, except for the Planet Express building. He walks in to give the Fembots his oil, but is surprised to find out that the oil that was supposed to last for four and a half weeks had lasted five hundred million years, and that Ruth and Esther were wrestling all this time. Bender proclaims it a Robanukah miracle.

Act III: Kwanzaa

The crew all visit the Conrad family in their apartment for a Kwanzaa party, with many of the African-American supporting characters, including Barbados Slim and Bubblegum, who gives Dwight a book called The Mathketball Diaries. At the dinner table, Dr. Zoidberg wishes that someone could tell them more about Kwanzaa's ancient traditions. To answer him, Kwanzaa-bot bursts in through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man and explains, in rap, the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Before he leaves, he reminds LaBarbara that the seven candles of Kwanzaa needs to be made of beeswax. LaBarbara makes Hermes and his co-workers to go out in the middle of the night to find some. At Petunia's Self-Serve Bee Farm, one of the few bee farms open on Kwanzaa, Petunia's bee's have been suffering from CCD, due to the bee parasites that have attached themselves to the bees. Since they have no beeswax, they resort to another option: finding wax from the Space Bees that almost killed Fry and Leela last time (4ACV12).

They fly to the bees' Space Hive, equip Bender with a trans-bumblator and cautiously enter. Inside, they discover that the bees there are also suffering from the same parasites. The Queen Bee explains to them that the parasites have been making her children fight with each other, and create chaos in the hive. Although they got enough wax, Hermes thinks that the right thing to do would be to help the Queen restore order by explaining the principles of Kwanzaa. They are successful, and the parasites die. However, now that the bees are back to normal, they go back to attacking the Planet Express crew. Kwanzaa-bot reappears to help them, but is then killed by the bees. The crew end up covered in wax and slowly burning to death as the bees use them as candles.

Closing

A curtain comes down and Al Gore's head informs the audience that the crew will be back with new episodes next year, with him as Captain Lance Starman. Amy comes in wearing a Gunderson's Nuts costume, for one last piece of advertisement.

Additional Info

Lyrics

Trivia

  • This is the first episode to feature the name of the series in its title.
  • This is the first non-canon episode to not feature the What-If Machine and therefore, unlike the ones that did feature it, has no canon story components.
  • This episode aired the same day as The Simpsons episode "The Fool Monty", which also had a Dick Cheney appearance.
  • Dr. Zoidberg doesn't have any lines until the Robanukah segment.

Cultural References

Continuity

Goofs

  • When Kwanzaa-bot was rapping, the beat played throughout the whole song, even when they stopped playing the instruments.

Quotes

    Leela: What's wrong, Fry? Are you regretting another wasted year?
    Fry: I don't know. Something about Xmas just doesn't feel like Christmas.
    Farnsworth: [The alarm sounds and the red light flashes.] Santa's coming! Initiate defenses! [The grey armour (3ACV03) covers the Planet Express headquarters, and Bender, Hermes, and Zoidberg block Santa's fireplace entrance.]
    Santa: [Flying in his sleigh.] God rest ye, merry gentlemen... in peace. [He starts firing at the building.]

    Farnsworth: Good news! All these pine trees are fighting global warming by producing oxygen. Happy now, Gore?
    Al Gore: Yeah. But I'd be happier if I had a set of lungs.

    Leela: [Repeated line.] This could be a good thing.

    Zoidberg: What's that loud, boring sound you'll hear when I stop talking?
    Farnsworth: [He gasps.] It's an albino humping worm!
    Fry: Why do they call it that?
    Farnsworth: [The ship begins to rock back and forth.] Because it doesn't have any pigment.

    [Not exact wording]
    Amy: Who wants a delicious unshelled nut?
    Bender: Ooh, ooh! I'll have one.
    Amy: They're nuts-o-good! [Sounds like 'not so good']

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References