A Clockwork Origin
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 Professor Farnsworth and Doctor Bamjo arguing about the human evolution. | |||||
| No. | 97 | ||||
| Production number | 6ACV09 | ||||
| Written by | Dan Vebber | ||||
| Directed by | Dwayne Carey-Hill | ||||
| Title caption | This time, it's personal | ||||
| First air date | 12 August, 2010[1] | ||||
| Broadcast number | S07E09 | ||||
| Title reference | A Clockwork Orange | ||||
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"A Clockwork Origin"[1] is the ninety-seventh episode of Futurama, the ninth of the sixth production season and the seventh broadcast season.
The Story
Professor Farnsworth, fed up with Creationists on Earth, moves to a Planetoid to escape the ignorance of humanity. Only to inadvertently create mechanical life which evolved from small cleaner robots designed to clean tainted water on the rock.
Additional Info
Allusions
- Fry says the Professor's water supply looks like diet Doctor Pepper, a 21st century soft drink.
- Scenes in which the crew fights and tries to escape from robot dinosaurs are in reference to the novel turned movie Jurassic Park.
- The "NANDerthal Cave Painting" exhibit at the robot museum is a pun on the Neanderthal, an extinct hominid, and NAND flash, a data storage medium.
- The "Ascent of Bot" displayed in the robot museum includes R2-D2, a robot from the Star Wars movies.
- The iFad is a reference to Apple's iPad.
- USB Today is a reference to USA Today. USB is presumably a shortening for the United States of Bot or similar.
- The Superior Gort is a play on words, being a reference to both the Supreme Court and Gort, a robot in the science-fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Gort was designed as part of an interstellar police force created to maintain peace in the universe.
Continuity
- Cubert uses a hoverboard, previously only seen used by Amy.
- Hermes finds a fossilised dog and says "uh-oh, another one of Fry's dogs", a reference to "Jurassic Bark" in which the crew finds Fry's old dog Seymour Asses fossilised.
- Amy accidentally cuts of her finger without making a big fuss about it, much like Fry gets his hands eaten off in "I Dated a Robot".
- Zoidberg tries to do comedy in front of Cubert. His life-long dream to be a comedian was the main plot to "That's Lobstertainment!".
- This is the second time the crew is under trial on a planet ruled by robots, the first being in "Fear of a Bot Planet".
- Bender suggests that a robotic entity could have started life on earth. This might be because he knows of the Galactic Entity ("Godfellas"), which seemed capable of such acts.
Characters
References
- ^ a b "Futurama: Episode Guide". MSN. Retrieved on 23 June 2010.