How The West Was 1010001

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Season 8 episode
Broadcast season 11 episode
How The West Was 1010001
N/A
No.143
Production number8ACV03
Written byNona di Spargement
Directed byJames Kim
Title captionBased On An Actual UFO Sighting
First air date7 August, 2023 [1]
Broadcast numberS11E03
Title referenceThe 1962 film How the West Was Won, and the atomic number of thallium, 81, in binary.
Opening cartoonA Is for Atom by John Sutherland Productions (1953)
Additional
Commentary
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Transcript

Pictures

Season 8
  1. The Impossible Stream
  2. Children of a Lesser Bog
  3. How the West Was 1010001
  4. Parasites Regained
  5. Related to Items You've Viewed
  6. I Know What You Did Next Xmas
  7. Rage Against the Vaccine
  8. Zapp Gets Cancelled
  9. The Prince and the Product
  10. All the Way Down
← Season 7

"How The West Was 1010001" is the one hundred and forty-third episode of Futurama, the third of the eighth production season and the third of the eleventh broadcast season. It aired on 7 August, 2023 [1], on Hulu.


Plot

Act I

Act II

Act III

Production

The writer of record for this episode is Nona di Spargement.[2]. During the Futurama Fan Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2022, Patric Verrone revealed that the script was actually written by Ken Keeler.[3]

Reception

Additional information

Trivia

Allusions

  • 1010001 in binary is 51 in hexadecimal, 81 in decimal, and maps to the letter 'Q' in the ASCII standard.
  • During the Futurama Fan Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2022, Patric Verrone revealed that the number 81 itself also has a meaning.[4] This would turn-out to be the atomic number of thallium, the metal that the crew seeks out in this episode.
  • The title of this episode is also a reference to the 1962 film How the West Was Won.
  • When the Professor was showing the periodic table to the crew, the element indium can be seen to be renamed to "Native Americium", alluding to the Native American name controversy.
  • Fry was reading a Borax Kid action book titled The Borax Kid vs the Outlaws of Thermodynamics. A demonic figure named "Maxwell's demon" was seen stealing gold molecules from a bank vault and shooting lead atoms out of a revolver, alluding to the famous thought experiment of the same name, where a molecule-manipulating demon could hypothetically violate the second law of thermodynamics.
  • The crypto town "Doge City" is named after a cryptocurrency. The following commerces can be seen in town:
    • BTC ETC
    • eMail
    • WALL•ET
    • Doc Fiesta - Only Health Care West of the Pecos
    • Lazy ₿ Bitcoin Holding Co. - Assayer - We Buy Thallium
    • Mild Bill's False-Alarm Chili
    • Sweatwater Saloon
  • The stagecoach that Roberto tried to rob bears the marking "Wells Crypto", alluding to the banking company Wells Fargo.

Continuity

  • Bender played his guitar, Salmonella, during the folk song.
  • Bender's ass plate is seen to have two circular holes and a rectangular hole with a hatch. But in the episode "Assie Come Home" where the plate was used for a lighthouse mirror, it only has two circular holes (the rectangular slot inside of him however, is retained from that episode).

Quotes

Alien Language Sightings

Goofs

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References