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|name=Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?
|name=Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?
|image=[[Image:Futurama_Comic_5.jpg|225px]]
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|art by = James Lloyd
|art by = James Lloyd
|title caption=Presented in 2-D! No glasses needed! (unless you need glasses)
|title caption=Presented in 2-D! No glasses needed! (unless you need glasses)
|us publish=July 25th 2001
|us publish=25 Julyth 2001
|title referee=Name of [[Morbo]]'s game show, based on ''[[Wikipedia:Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?|Millionaire]]''.
|title referee=Name of [[Morbo]]'s game show, based on ''[[Wikipedia:Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?|Millionaire]]''.
|paperback=[[Futurama Adventures]]
|paperback=[[Futurama Adventures]]
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==The Story==
 
== The Story ==
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===Act I===
 
=== Act I ===
[[Free Waterfall III]] is killed for getting the million dollar question on [[Morbo]]'s game show wrong. [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]] needs to pay one million dollars in back-taxes to the IRS or he'll have to sell [[Planet Express]]. Everyone but [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] gives up on the company, however they all do their best to help. Fry signs up for Morbo's game show. To prevent Fry's death the Professor decides to get a loan from [[Mom]].
[[Free Waterfall III]] is killed for getting the million dollar question on [[Morbo]]'s game show wrong. [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]] needs to pay one million dollars in back-taxes to the IRS or he'll have to sell [[Planet Express]]. Everyone but [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] gives up on the company, however they all do their best to help. Fry signs up for Morbo's game show. To prevent Fry's death the Professor decides to get a loan from [[Mom]].


===Act II===
=== Act II ===
Mom offers instead to buy Planet Express, the Professor rejects the offer. Fry heads to the set of the show and is joined by "answer buddy" [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]. Fry wins the million and avoids his and Leela's deaths by remembering something [[Scruffy]] told him. However, the Professor sold the company to Mom already, making Fry no longer qualified for the show. The Professor works out how to get the company back.
Mom offers instead to buy Planet Express, the Professor rejects the offer. Fry heads to the set of the show and is joined by "answer buddy" [[Turanga Leela|Leela]]. Fry wins the million and avoids his and Leela's deaths by remembering something [[Scruffy]] told him. However, the Professor sold the company to Mom already, making Fry no longer qualified for the show. The Professor works out how to get the company back.


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==Additional Info==
== Additional Info ==
===Trivia===
=== Trivia ===
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*Zoidberg's name apparently means "smarty pants" in Squiddish.
*Zoidberg's name apparently means "smarty pants" in Squiddish.
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*We see more evidence of Fry and Scruffy's friendship.
*We see more evidence of Fry and Scruffy's friendship.


===Quotes===
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*'''Scruffy''': Scruffy's goin' back to graduate school to finish his masters in Theoretical Janitorial Science!
*'''Hermes''': ...and based on what the man at the seafood market said, we can get a good two-fifty a pound for Zoidberg's carcass.
*'''Professor''': Good news, everyone! Another random sobriety test!
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===Questions===
=== Questions ===
*Who did that?
*Who did that?
**Fry did.
**Fry did.


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===Alien Language Sightings===
=== Alien Language Sightings ===
'''Time''': Right after Fry figures out the answer to the final question<br />
'''Time''': Right after Fry figures out the answer to the final question<br />
'''Location''': person from the audience<br />
'''Location''': person from the audience<br />
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'''Translation''': He pulled that one out of his ass
'''Translation''': He pulled that one out of his ass


===Continuity===
=== Continuity ===
*The [[Planet Express Ship]] crashes through a billboard.
*The [[Planet Express Ship]] crashes through a billboard.


===Allusions===
=== Allusions ===
*Morbo's show is based on ''Who Want's to be a Millionaire''.
*Morbo's show is based on ''Who Want's to be a Millionaire''.
*Four comic series are listed as having just celebrated their thousandth issue, with Free Waterfall III failling to identify the one that had not. They were:
*Four comic series are listed as having just celebrated their thousandth issue, with Free Waterfall III failling to identify the one that had not. They were:
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===Special Features===
 
=== Special Features ===
*Cubert's Guide to Sci-Fi - Pt.1: How to plan your convention weekend.
*Cubert's Guide to Sci-Fi - Pt.1: How to plan your convention weekend.


===Characters===
=== Characters ===
(In alphabetical order)
(In alphabetical order)
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*[[Zapp Brannigan]]
*[[Zapp Brannigan]]


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*Story
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Revision as of 11:01, 17 April 2010

Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?
Futurama Comic 5.jpg
US Publish Number005
UK Publish Number(s)007
Written byEric Rogers
Art byJames Lloyd
Title captionPresented in 2-D! No glasses needed! (unless you need glasses)
Published (US)25 Julyth 2001
Title referenceName of Morbo's game show, based on Millionaire.
In trade paperbackFuturama Adventures

The Story

Act I

Free Waterfall III is killed for getting the million dollar question on Morbo's game show wrong. The Professor needs to pay one million dollars in back-taxes to the IRS or he'll have to sell Planet Express. Everyone but Fry gives up on the company, however they all do their best to help. Fry signs up for Morbo's game show. To prevent Fry's death the Professor decides to get a loan from Mom.

Act II

Mom offers instead to buy Planet Express, the Professor rejects the offer. Fry heads to the set of the show and is joined by "answer buddy" Leela. Fry wins the million and avoids his and Leela's deaths by remembering something Scruffy told him. However, the Professor sold the company to Mom already, making Fry no longer qualified for the show. The Professor works out how to get the company back.


Additional Info

Trivia

  • Zoidberg's name apparently means "smarty pants" in Squiddish.
  • In the time challenge on the game show, contestants were to put four planets in order of distance from the Earth, Wernstrom is beaten by Gorgak, Raoul and Fry, however he successfully beat Hattie and Randy.
  • Scruffy now seems much more social.
  • We see more evidence of Fry and Scruffy's friendship.

Quotes

Questions

  • Who did that?
    • Fry did.

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Alien Language Sightings

Time: Right after Fry figures out the answer to the final question
Location: person from the audience
Language: AL2
Translation: He pulled that one out of his ass

Continuity

Allusions

  • Morbo's show is based on Who Want's to be a Millionaire.
  • Four comic series are listed as having just celebrated their thousandth issue, with Free Waterfall III failling to identify the one that had not. They were:


Special Features

  • Cubert's Guide to Sci-Fi - Pt.1: How to plan your convention weekend.

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

Comic Credits