Episode Capsule - 4ACV08 - Crimes of the Hot

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                            FUTURAMA CAPSULE
                      [4ACV08] - Crimes of the Hot
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Written by Aaron Ehasz

Directed by Peter Avanzino

Originally aired 11/10/02 as episode number 01 in season 05

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As Earth is unable to counter its rising temperature through the usual method (the dropping of a giant ice cube into the ocean), Gore leads an emergency conference in Kyoto, Japan, where Professor Farnsworth claims responsibility for the crisis. It seems love detoured him from observing proper emission standards on his prototype robot, and that could necessitate the destruction of all its "descendants." That includes Bender, who resigns himself to having a farewell blowout before being blown up.

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Opening theme promotion: KNOWN TO CAUSE INSANITY IN LABORATORY MICE

Opening theme cartoon: unknown

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 + Starring
   - Billy West (Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Prof. Farnsworth)
   - Katey Sagal (Leela)
   - John DiMaggio (Bender)
   - Tress MacNeille (Linda)
 + Guest Starring
   - Al Gore (himself)
   - Phil LaMarr
   - Lauren Tom (Amy)
   - David Herman
   - Frank Welker
 + Also Starring
   - Maurice LaMarche (Morbo)

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... Nibbler has a small hut on the veranda? {MW}

... The old film starts after a countdown in Alien Language 1 which only goes from 6 down to 4? {MW}

... Morbo's species has no skulls? {MW}

... Planet Express doesn't have (well working) air conditioning? {MW}

... Zoidberg has perspiratory glands under his arms? {MW}

... One of the Hookerbots does stuff for only 25c? {MW}

... The shape of the Galapagos Islands are pretty accurate? {MW}

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 + Baloney
   - Originally a sausage ("bologna") made from various unattractive yet
     nutritious and collagen heavy pieces of calves, cows, and pigs
     which are ground into a fine smooth texture and enclosed in a skin,
     usually an intestine.  {MW}

 + Evergreen State College
   - The scientist with the baloney homeopathic medicine degree
     graduated from this Washington college.  {MW}

 + Get Down Tonight (song)
   - The song when the robots go to the Galapagos Islands is this song
     by KC and The Sunshine Band  {MW}

 + Harry Potter (book)
   - Al Gore mingled this best selling fantasy book title into his own
     book title, riding on the "anything with Harry Potter on it
     sells"-wave lasting from 1997 till well into the 30th century.
     {MW}

 + Holland
   - Windmills, clogs (the wooden shoes Bender wears) and tulips are the
     traditional stereotypes for the Netherlands. Also, the flat land
     behind dykes.  {MW}

 + Hot Hot Hot (song)
   - The song at the very end by Buster Poindexter and his Banshees Of
     Blue  {MW}

 + Joan Rivers
   - Comedian with real name Joan Molinsky. Also a show host of "The
     Tonight Show" (1983-1986). Three years later she started her own
     "The Joan Rivers Show" for which she won an Emmy.  {MW}

+ Johnny Carson - Fry blames a bad joke on "The Tonight Show" host Carson. {MW}

 + Kyoto Treaty
   - A 1997 protocol designed to cut emission rates for the big
     developed polluters. In 2001 Al Gore's political adversary George
     W. Bush invented the new action of "unsigning" to get rid of duties
     that come as part of the protocol (namely, cutting green house gas
     emissions).  {MW}

 + Some Like it Hot (movie)
   - The subtitle "None Like it Hot" to the global warmin information
     film is a reference to this 1959 Billy Wilder movie with Marilyn
     Monroe, Tony Curtis, George Raft and Jack Lemmon.  {MW}

 + Spiro Theodore Agnew
   - While Nixon's head was preserved for the future, his 1969-73 vice
     president - who was forced to resign even before Nixon - only
     appears as a body.  {MW}

+ Star Wars (movies) - Farnsworth's failed robot is reminiscent of C3PO. {MW}

 + Yakov Smirnov
   - Fry blames his second bad joke on this mid 80s comedian ("In
     America, you can always find a party. In russia, the party can
     always find YOU!")  {MW}

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+ [1ACV01] Space Pilot 3000 - Johnny Carson's head is in the Head Museum. {MW}

 + [2ACV03] A Head in the Polls
   - Nixon's head becomes president of the Earth using a new body to
     claim a third presidency.  {MW}

 + [2ACV10] A Clone of My Own
   - A film tells how Hubert Farnsworth was working for Mom's company as
     a robot designer.  {MW}

+ [2ACV14] Mother's Day - The love between professor Farnsworth and Mom is detailed. {MW}

 + [2ACV16] Anthology of Interest I
   - Al Gore's first guest appearance as the head of the
     vice-presidential action rangers in "What if Fry never got frozen".
     {MW}

+ [3ACV08] That's Lobstertainment! - Joan Rivers commenting the arrivals at the Academy Awards. {MW}

+ [3ACV17] A Pharaoh To Remember - Bender in speedos. {MW}

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   INSTANT
    POOL
    WATER
 (dead leaves
   included)

      GLOBAL
     WARMING
          or:
 none like it hot!

BAD - ASS GRAVITY PUMP PROPOSAL

Welcome to KYOTO the anagram lover's Tokyo

Happy Meeting For Warming Globe

IT'S A PARTY!

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS

Name of the robot boat:

Galapagos Princess

        Tonight:
    BIG ROBOT PARTY

Tomorrow: BIG SCRAP-METAL GIVEAWAY

Wet Chassis Contest

Polluting Medal of Pollution

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... If Zoidberg is steaming inside his own shell, why doesn't he just take it off for a while? He did use to mind before. {MW}

... The paper sheets taped to the wall in the old classroom magically switch positions from shot to shot. {MW}

... The mirror hot spot was going northwards from the Caribbean to the east coast of the US and Canada. Kyoto was not endangered. {MW}

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{MW} Marc Wichterich

Original Capsule Author: Can't Get Enough Futurama www.gotfuturama.com

A couple more that I remember. I'm going to rewatch the episode later tonight start combing for details.

+ Noah's Ark

After the polar ice caps melted, an ark was floating on the water with two of every animal on board, exactly like the biblical story of Noah except with two gay men navigating the boat.

+ AOL "You've got mail."

Bender's antenna raised a small red flag when he received an invitation by Richard Nixon to attend a robot party on the Galapagos Islands.

<rant> I thought this was a great episode to start the season with. I laughed myself silly through the whole thing, then remembered how mad I still am at Fox for treating the show the way they have. They even had the nerve to run a commercial congratulating Futurama for winning an emmy... </rant>

Tom

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 20:25:36 +0000, Tom Georgoulias wrote:

It appears I was laughing too loud during that scene, because all of the animals were same sex as well!

Tom

On or about Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:06:53 -0600, Tom Georgoulias made the sensational claim that:

"There are parts of the bible I like, and there are parts I don't!"

Is this a cliche among gay Christians?

DGH

Actually I think it's a clich� among 99% of the population....

And all the animals were the same gender, defeating the propose of the Ark.

DGH

"[-mArc-]" writes:

As did Matt Groening.

You know the "curious cat" billboard thingy? What was the Japanese writing on it?

Shiborugu

watashi wa anata no koto o, anata no okaasan yori ai shiteimasu.

"I am your things, with love from your mom"

Daniel Burdie wrote in message news:3dcff977$0$12761$[email]...

So another MOM reference?

Shiborugu

Daniel Burdie wrote:

It's more like "i love you more than your mom does"

"[-mArc-]" wrote in message news:aqmttj$br5$00$[email]...

<snip>

Also, Farnsworth laments that (paraphrase) when the robots are deactivated, millions of voices will cry out in pain and then fall silent. It's going to be really hard on the Jedi.

Does anyone have the actual quote?

In another Gore reference, the story of Farnsworth making out causes Gore to roll his eyes and complain that he didn't need to hear that--reminiscent of the reaction of some to his campaign Tipper kissing.

--Punkass Crab

On or about Sun, 10 Nov 2002 20:23:29 -0800, Punkass Crab made the sensational claim that:

I thought it went more like "A billion robots are gonna be destroyed...Oh! the Jedi are gonna feel that!"

"A billion robot lives are about to be extinguished ... oh, the Jedis are going to feel this one".

"Punkass Crab" wrote in message news:...

And of course, hyping Gore as "the inventor of the environment" spoofs his infamous quote on Wolf Blitzer about "taking the initiative in creating the Internet." The mock title "inventor of the Internet" has haunted Gore ever since.

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:13:10 +0000, Craig wrote:

In other Gore related trivia, a Washington Post article said that his daughter Kristen had written this episode.

Tom

=v= Silly newspaper. She is a staff writer, and no doubt contributed to the episode, but Aaron Ehasz is the author. <_Jym_>

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:13:30 +0000, Jym Dyer wrote:

Yup. Just thought I'd mention it since the only news coverage Futurama gets anymore is about the show's emminent doom. Or Flemmy awards from viewers who didn't see the episode. :)

Tom

External References

    ?2010 (Book)
    Landing on comets.

On or about Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:33:44 GMT, Yama made the sensational claim that:

2063.

Don't you think that's a little thin for a reference? How about the fact that they used a space ship is a reference to Battlestar Galactica, or that the ocean was shown, an obvious reference to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Aw... maybe I'm just cranky because it's been a crappy day.

-- L.Y.

Luxury Yacht wrote:

-Star Wars Spaceships used.

Close. 2061. There's also a 3001, which is even more wacked-out.

Book was 2061, the characters landed on Halley's Comet

Nibbler drank all the water, but the leaves remained..

Shiborugu

"Shiborugu" wrote in message news:a_Tz9.40526$[email]...

He also drank all the water down to the bottom of the pool while ending up on top of the wall. (That's some mad suction.)

<skiped>

I'm not sure if it was pointed out but in episode "Put your head on my shoulder" Bender seems to have no problem with lifting from his back. Exactly it is when he is getting up after having butt bumper installed.

in article aqs1vv$jf$[email], mrtn at [email] wrote on 11/12/02 3:17 PM:

I think you're referring to Bender's non-ability to get up off his back.

If you look really close, in "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" he was ever so slightly on one side. ;-)

Here's another observation:

If they had a hose to spray in the pool, why don't they spray each other down?

Shiborugu

=v= We've seen this before, when Leela opens a giant can of snouts for him (in [2ACV01], "I Second That Emotion").

=v= These are either adjacent to or are his stink glands (as seen in [2ACV05], "Why Must I be a Crustacean in Love?").

=v= Dunno whether this is an external reference or another DYN, but that's where Matt Groening graduated from. :^)

=v= The song was composed and originally performed by Arrow.

=v= Also, I think the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit settlement happened after Carson had retired from "The Tonight Show." <_Jym_>

Not really. In that episode, Nibbler got a blue basket on the veranda.

I think the version used is the Poindexter one. Can someone with the arrow version check? I'll add the information for now.

Not sure about this one. That woman spilled her coffee in February 1992 with Carson having his last show on May 1992. Does anyone rememeber if Carson actually did have that joke in his show?

Marc

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:07:33 +0100, "[-mArc-]" spewed forth:

And more importantly, anyone think that ref was thrown in as a nod to an earlier interminable thread in this group ? heh.

Me either, but that would be neat.

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 22:09:10 GMT, Rev. Bleech_ wrote:

I think that the episode was finished before the thread on this newsgroup.

--Larry

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 01:36:57 +0100, "[-mArc-]" spewed forth:

That apparently the Crushinator still has a thing for Bender ?

That apparently Roberto's stabbing practice has paid off ?

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                            FUTURAMA CAPSULE
                      [4ACV08] - Crimes of the Hot
========================================================================

Written by Aaron Ehasz

Directed by Peter Avanzino

Originally aired 11/10/02 as episode number 01 in season 05

========================================================================

========================================================================

As Earth is unable to counter its rising temperature through the usual method (the dropping of a giant ice cube into the ocean), Gore leads an emergency conference in Kyoto, Japan, where Professor Farnsworth claims responsibility for the crisis. It seems love detoured him from observing proper emission standards on his prototype robot, and that could necessitate the destruction of all its "descendants." That includes Bender, who resigns himself to having a farewell blowout before being blown up.

========================================================================

========================================================================

Opening theme promotion: KNOWN TO CAUSE INSANITY IN LABORATORY MICE

Opening theme cartoon: unknown

========================================================================

========================================================================

 + Starring
   - Billy West (Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Prof. Farnsworth)
   - Katey Sagal (Leela)
   - John DiMaggio (Bender)
   - Tress MacNeille (Linda)
 + Guest Starring
   - Al Gore (himself)
   - Phil LaMarr
   - Lauren Tom (Amy)
   - David Herman
   - Frank Welker
 + Also Starring
   - Maurice LaMarche (Morbo)

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... Nibbler has a small hut on the veranda? {MW}

... The old film starts after a countdown in Alien Language 1 which only goes from 6 down to 4? {MW}

... Morbo's species has no skulls? {MW}

... Planet Express doesn't have (well working) air conditioning? {MW}

... Zoidberg has perspiratory glands under his arms? {MW}

... One of the Hookerbots does stuff for only 25c? {MW}

... The shape of the Galapagos Islands are pretty accurate? {MW}

... When the crew is tricking Bender to come out of his torso Farnsworth and Hermes are sitting at the table nakedly? {M}

... the Crushinator is wearing a bikini bottom? {b}

 ... Fry comments about how hot it is and he has all his normal clothes
     on plus a winter cap?  Everyone else has a bathing suit of some
     sort on.  {b}

 ... In the scene when Nibbler is drinking the pool, in the background
     Zoidberg is drinking the drink Hermes is holding and Fry is messing
     with his lightspeed brand briefs for one frame.  {MG}

... The voice of the greenhouse gases was Sal's. Considering Sal's job record, maybe he also does cartoon voices...? {L}

... Nibbler drank all the water in the pool but the 7 dead leaves inlcuded in the instant pool pack remained? {S}

... Nibbler also drank all the water down to the bottom of the pool while ending up on top of the wall? That's some mad suction. {P}

... The Crushinator still has a thing for Bender? {RB}

... Apparently Roberto's stabbing practice has paid off? Every stab a hit! {RB}

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 + 2061: Odyssey Three (book)
   - In 2061, Heywood Floyd must once again confront Dave Bowman, a
     newly independent HAL, and the limitless power of an unseen alien
     race that has decided that Mankind is to play a role in the
     evolution of the galaxy--whether it wants to or not. In the
     beginning Floyd is on a ship that lands on Halley's Comet.  {K}

 + AOL
   - "You've Got Mail": A small red flag was raised on Bender's antenna
     when he received an animated greeting card from Richard Nixon,
     inviting him to a robots only party on the Galapagos Islands.  {TG}

 + Baloney
   - Originally a sausage ("bologna") made from various unattractive yet
     nutritious and collagen heavy pieces of calves, cows, and pigs
     which are ground into a fine smooth texture and enclosed in a skin,
     usually an intestine.  {MW}

+ Earth in the Balance - An actual book written by Al Gore {b}

 + Evergreen State College
   - The scientist with the baloney homeopathic medicine degree
     graduated from this Washington college. (See comments)  {MW}

+ Frank Herbert's Dune - Al Gore says "I have ridden the mighty moon worm". {E}

 + Get Down Tonight (song)
   - The song when the robots go to the Galapagos Islands is this song
     by KC and The Sunshine Band  {MW}

 + Harry Potter (book)
   - Al Gore mingled this best selling fantasy book title into his own
     book title, riding on the "anything with Harry Potter on it
     sells"-wave lasting from 1997 till well into the 30th century.
     {MW}

 + Holland
   - Windmills, clogs (the wooden shoes Bender wears) and tulips are the
     traditional stereotypes for the Netherlands. Also, the flat land
     behind dykes.  {MW}

 + Hot Hot Hot (song)
   - The song at the very end by Buster Poindexter and his Banshees Of
     Blue. Originally it was composed and performed by Arrow.  {MW}

 + Joan Rivers
   - Comedian with real name Joan Molinsky. Also a show host of "The
     Tonight Show" (1983-1986). Three years later she started her own
     "The Joan Rivers Show" for which she won an Emmy.  {MW}

+ Johnny Carson - Fry blames a bad joke on "The Tonight Show" host Carson. {MW}

 + Kyoto Treaty
   - A 1997 protocol designed to cut emission rates for the big
     developed polluters. In 2001 Al Gore's political adversary George
     W. Bush invented the new action of "unsigning" to get rid of duties
     that come as part of the protocol (namely, cutting green house gas
     emissions).  {MW}

 + Noah's Ark
   - After the polar ice caps melted, an ark was floating on the water
     with two of every animal on board, exactly like the biblical story
     of Noah except with two gay men navigating the boat and with
     same-sex couple animals.  {TG}

 + Some Like it Hot (movie)
   - The subtitle "None Like it Hot" to the global warming information
     film is a reference to this 1959 Billy Wilder movie with Marilyn
     Monroe, Tony Curtis, George Raft and Jack Lemmon.  {MW}

 + Spiro Theodore Agnew
   - While Nixon's head was preserved for the future, his 1969-73 vice
     president - who was forced to resign even before Nixon - only
     appears as a body.  {MW}

 + Star Wars (movies)
   - Farnsworth's failed robot is reminiscent of C3PO.  {MW}
   - Professor Farnsworth says 'A billion robot lives are about to be
     extinguished, oh the Jedis' are going to feel this one'  {a}
   - When Wernstrom is shooting at Earth the graphic on the computer
     screen is right out of Star Wars  {b}

 + Yakov Smirnov
   - Fry blames his second bad joke on this mid 80s comedian ("In
     America, you can always find a party. In Russia, the party can
     always find YOU!")  {MW}

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+ [1ACV01] Space Pilot 3000 - Johnny Carson's head is in the Head Museum. {MW}

 + [2ACV03] A Head in the Polls
   - Nixon's head becomes president of the Earth using a new body to
     claim a third presidency.  {MW}

 + [2ACV10] A Clone of My Own
   - A film tells how Hubert Farnsworth was working for Mom's company as
     a robot designer.  {MW}

+ [2ACV14] Mother's Day - The love between professor Farnsworth and Mom is detailed. {MW}

 + [2ACV16] Anthology of Interest I
   - Al Gore's first guest appearance as the head of the
     vice-presidential action rangers in "What if Fry never got frozen".
     {MW}

+ [3ACV08] That's Lobstertainment! - Joan Rivers commenting the arrivals at the Academy Awards. {MW}

+ [3ACV17] A Pharaoh To Remember - Bender in speedos. {MW}

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   INSTANT
    POOL
    WATER
 (dead leaves
   included)

      GLOBAL
     WARMING
          or:
 none like it hot!

Curious (see comments) {DB} Pussycat

watashi wa anata no koto o, anata no okaasan yori ai shiteimasu

Welcome to KYOTO the anagram lover's Tokyo

Happy Meeting For Warming Globe

IT'S A PARTY!

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS

Name of the robot boat:

Galapagos Princess

        Tonight:
    BIG ROBOT PARTY

Tomorrow: BIG SCRAP-METAL GIVEAWAY

Wet Chassis Contest

Polluting Medal of Pollution

A list of robots appearing: {L} (see comments for the ones marked with asterisks)

iZac Monique FatBot The "girlfriend" of The Masked Unit Billionaire Bot Malfunctioning Eddie Destructor Chain Smoker Robot Devil Several of his Robot Devil minions Clamps 128K* Oily A Grim Reaper bot from the Near-Death Star* Jimmy Mousepad Don Bot URL A bunch of Hooker bots A Killbot** The teenage bot who sold popcorn in the theater from "Raging Bender" The Masked Unit The Crushinator* Gearshift The chef robot from the pizzeria in "Fishfull of Dollars" The Robo-Rooter robot from the ad at the start of "Crustacean in Love" The "jacking-on" robots from "Hell is Other Robots" Fender the Robot Preacher One of Robot Santa's robot dogs*** Calculon's evil half brother The Clear Cutter Roberto That robot that the Robot Mafia shot 'cos he couldn't pay the loan Calculon A "Barrier Bot" from the Near Death Star* The Robot Preacher The Postman bot from "Bicyclops Built For Two" The Slurm Vending Machine bot from "Mother's Day"

Note the PreacherBot is holding up after Nixon's plan is revealed: {b}

THE END IS NEAR

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... If Zoidberg is steaming inside his own shell, why doesn't he just take it off for a while? He did use to mind before. {MW}

... The paper sheets taped to the wall in the old classroom magically switch positions from shot to shot. {MW}

... The mirror hot spot was going northwards from the Caribbean to the east coast of the US and Canada. Kyoto was not endangered. {MW}

 ... It is quite unlikely that Bender falls all the way over doing a
     sommersault when hit with a chair on the back head. Bender's center
     of gravity probably isn't his head, but most likely his torso.
     {MN}

... Bender's wooden clogs disappear when he is knocked on his back. {K*}

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... The Evergreen State College mentioned is also the one Matt Groening graduated from. {SV}

 ... Remarks on the robot list: Marked with [*] are robots which don't
     live on Earth, so it doesn't make sense that they are to be
     destroyed because of Earth's global warming. The [**] Killbots, I
     recognized because of the deleted scene from "Love's Labors Lost in
     Space", but I don't remember seeing them in any episode before
     this. [***] robots also don't live on Earth and belong to Santabot,
     but in addition, I don't see Robot Santa anywhere!  {L}

... The Japanase sentence on the Pussycat sign roughly means "I am your things, with love from your mom". {DB}

 ... Hyping Gore as "the inventor of the environment" spoofs his
     infamous quote on Wolf Blitzer about "taking the initiative in
     creating the Internet." The mock title "inventor of the Internet"
     has haunted Gore ever since.  {C}

 ... Al Gore's daughter Kristin is part of the Futurama staff writers
     and contributed to this episode. The Washington Post wrongly
     credited her for the whole episode.  {TG}

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 {C}        Craig                    {DB}       Daniel Burdie
 {E}        ElDragon                 {K}        Ken
 {K*}       Kitty                    {L}        Leandro
 {M}        M5438                    {MG}       Mc Grady
 {MN}       Magnus Nordlander        {MW}       Marc Wichterich
 {P}        Phen                     {RB}       Rev Bleech
 {S}        Shiborugu                {SV}       Steve VanDevender
 {TG}       Tom Georgoulias          {a}        aslate
 {b}        blahness

Original Capsule Author: Can't Get Enough Futurama <www.gotfuturama.com>

Hedonism Bot?

The list is supposed to include only robots that have been seen in previous episodes. By the way: the line "Fender the Robot Preacher" should be only "Fender" (forgot to hit enter); and also, when the Robot Preacher appears below in the list, it should appear by his name: Reverend Lionel Preacherbot.

"[-mArc-]" wrote in message news:aqt1ij$uvf$06$[email]...

"I gotta be sure this isn't another scientific fraud like global warming or second-hand smoke." --Mayor Poopenmeyer, "A Big Piece of Garbage"

=v= Which just goes to show you can't trust a politician on this issue. Note that Leela in [2ACV04] said that global warming was corrected by nuclear winter. :^) <_Jym_>

=v= The more I think about this, the more I figure there has to have been more than one wave of global warming. Perhaps the current wave was cured by nuclear winter sometime this century (when cyborgs enslaved humanity) or during one of at least two alien invasions, and/or with the giant blocks of ice that were dropped into the ocean ever since 2063.

=v= The wave they're feeling in [4ACV08] comes from all those
Sport Utility Robots that started going into production starting
at about 2927, when those ever-larger blocks of ice must've
gotten *really* big.
    Geekfully,
    <_Jym_>

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                            FUTURAMA CAPSULE
                      [4ACV08] - Crimes of the Hot
========================================================================

Written by Aaron Ehasz

Directed by Peter Avanzino

Originally aired 11/10/02 as episode number 01 in season 05

========================================================================

========================================================================

As Earth is unable to counter its rising temperature through the usual method (the dropping of a giant ice cube into the ocean), Gore leads an emergency conference in Kyoto, Japan, where Professor Farnsworth claims responsibility for the crisis. It seems love detoured him from observing proper emission standards on his prototype robot, and that could necessitate the destruction of all its "descendants." That includes Bender, who resigns himself to having a farewell blowout before being blown up.

========================================================================

========================================================================

Opening theme promotion: KNOWN TO CAUSE INSANITY IN LABORATORY MICE

Opening theme cartoon: unknown

========================================================================

========================================================================

 + Starring
   - Billy West (Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Prof. Farnsworth)
   - Katey Sagal (Leela)
   - John DiMaggio (Bender)
   - Tress MacNeille (Linda)
 + Guest Starring
   - Al Gore (himself)
   - Phil LaMarr
   - Lauren Tom (Amy)
   - David Herman
   - Frank Welker
 + Also Starring
   - Maurice LaMarche (Morbo)

========================================================================

========================================================================

... Nibbler has a small hut on the veranda? {MW}

... The old film starts after a countdown in Alien Language 1 which only goes from 6 down to 4? {MW}

... Morbo's species has no skulls? {MW}

... Planet Express doesn't have (well working) air conditioning? {MW}

... Zoidberg has perspiratory glands under his arms? {MW}

... One of the Hookerbots does stuff for only 25c? {MW}

... The shape of the Galapagos Islands are pretty accurate? {MW}

... When the crew is tricking Bender to come out of his torso Farnsworth and Hermes are sitting at the table nakedly? {M}

... the Crushinator is wearing a bikini bottom? {b}

 ... Fry comments about how hot it is and he has all his normal clothes
     on plus a winter cap?  Everyone else has a bathing suit of some
     sort on.  {b}

 ... In the scene when Nibbler is drinking the pool, in the background
     Zoidberg is drinking the drink Hermes is holding and Fry is messing
     with his lightspeed brand briefs for one frame.  {MG}

... The voice of the greenhouse gases was Sal's. Considering Sal's job record, maybe he also does cartoon voices...? {L}

... Nibbler drank all the water in the pool but the 7 dead leaves inlcuded in the instant pool pack remained? {S}

... Nibbler also drank all the water down to the bottom of the pool while ending up on top of the wall? That's some mad suction. {P}

... The Crushinator still has a thing for Bender? {RB}

... Apparently Roberto's stabbing practice has paid off? Every stab a hit! {RB}

... That when Bender gets mail his antenna gets a red flag? {MN}

... Some of the scientists sigh in relief before the shadow hits them? {MN*}

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 + 2061: Odyssey Three (book)
   - In 2061, Heywood Floyd must once again confront Dave Bowman, a
     newly independent HAL, and the limitless power of an unseen alien
     race that has decided that Mankind is to play a role in the
     evolution of the galaxy--whether it wants to or not. In the
     beginning Floyd is on a ship that lands on Halley's Comet.  {K}

 + AOL
   - "You've Got Mail": A small red flag was raised on Bender's antenna
     when he received an animated greeting card from Richard Nixon,
     inviting him to a robots only party on the Galapagos Islands.  {TG}

 + Armageddon (movie)
   - Spaceship crew land on a celestial body, with lots of pointy rocks,
     to drill a hole, and thus save Earth.  {MN*}

 + Baloney
   - Originally a sausage ("bologna") made from various unattractive yet
     nutritious and collagen heavy pieces of calves, cows, and pigs
     which are ground into a fine smooth texture and enclosed in a skin,
     usually an intestine.  {MW}

+ Earth in the Balance - An actual book written by Al Gore {b}

 + Evergreen State College
   - The scientist with the baloney homeopathic medicine degree
     graduated from this Washington college. (See comments)  {MW}

+ Frank Herbert's Dune - Al Gore says "I have ridden the mighty moon worm". {E}

 + Get Down Tonight (song)
   - The song when the robots go to the Galapagos Islands is this song
     by KC and The Sunshine Band  {MW}

 + Harry Potter (book)
   - Al Gore mingled this best selling fantasy book title into his own
     book title, riding on the "anything with Harry Potter on it
     sells"-wave lasting from 1997 till well into the 30th century.
     {MW}

 + Holland
   - Windmills, clogs (the wooden shoes Bender wears) and tulips are the
     traditional stereotypes for the Netherlands. Also, the flat land
     behind dykes.  {MW}

 + Hot Hot Hot (song)
   - The song at the very end by Buster Poindexter and his Banshees Of
     Blue. Originally it was composed and performed by Arrow.  {MW}

 + Joan Rivers
   - Comedian with real name Joan Molinsky. Also a show host of "The
     Tonight Show" (1983-1986). Three years later she started her own
     "The Joan Rivers Show" for which she won an Emmy.  {MW}

+ Johnny Carson - Fry blames a bad joke on "The Tonight Show" host Carson. {MW}

 + Kyoto Treaty
   - A 1997 protocol designed to cut emission rates for the big
     developed polluters. In 2001 Al Gore's political adversary George
     W. Bush invented the new action of "unsigning" to get rid of duties
     that come as part of the protocol (namely, cutting green house gas
     emissions).  {MW}

 + McDonalds
   - Fry talks about spilling McDonalds coffee in his lab to cool off.
     It's a reference to an (in)famous incident where a costumer sued
     McDonalds, after spilling coffee in her lap. Apparently McDonalds
     failed to to live up to their responsibility, when they didn't make
     the costumer aware that spilling steaming, hot coffee in your lap
     could be painfull, and thus not recomendable.  {MN*}
   - On the other hand, McDonalds was serving coffee that was much
     hotter than normal.  Stella Liebeck didn't merely get a scald --
     she suffered third degree burns, was hospitalized for a week, and
     required skin grafts  This is not what you would ordinarily expect
     from something served in a foam cup.  McDonalds refused to settle
     for her medical costs ($20,000), hence the trial.  Although the
     jury awarded $2.7 million punative damages, the judge reduced that
     to $480,000. McDonalds later entered into a confidential
     settlement.  {AH}

 + Noah's Ark
   - After the polar ice caps melted, an ark was floating on the water
     with two of every animal on board, exactly like the biblical story
     of Noah except with two gay men navigating the boat and with
     same-sex couple animals.  {TG}

+ Scooby Doo - The Bender Snack sounds like a joke about the Scooby Snack {MN}

 + Some Like it Hot (movie)
   - The subtitle "None Like it Hot" to the global warming information
     film is a reference to this 1959 Billy Wilder movie with Marilyn
     Monroe, Tony Curtis, George Raft and Jack Lemmon.  {MW}

 + Spiro Theodore Agnew
   - While Nixon's head was preserved for the future, his 1969-73 vice
     president - who was forced to resign even before Nixon - only
     appears as a body.  {MW}

 + Star Wars (movies)
   - When Wernstrom is shooting at Earth the graphic on the computer
     screen is right out of Star Wars  {b}
   - Professor Farnsworth says 'A billion robot lives are about to be
     extinguished, oh the Jedis' are going to feel this one'  {a}
   - Farnsworth's failed robot is reminiscent of C3PO.  {MW}

 + Terminator (movie)
   - Farnsworths failed robot is crushed just like the robot in the
     first Terminator movie.  {MN*}

 + The Quest for the Holy Grail (movie)
   - The Dark wizard with his beard and cap looks very much like Tim the
     Enchanter in this movie by the Monty Python  {MW}

 + Yakov Smirnov
   - Fry blames his second bad joke on this mid 80s comedian ("In
     America, you can always find a party. In Russia, the party can
     always find YOU!")  {MW}

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+ [1ACV01] Space Pilot 3000 - Johnny Carson's head is in the Head Museum. {MW}

 + [1ACV08] A Big Piece of Garbage
   - Professor Ogden Wernstrom and the dislike between him and
     Farnsworth is introduced.  {MN*}

 + [2ACV03] A Head in the Polls
   - Nixon's head becomes president of the Earth using a new body to
     claim a third presidency.  {MW}

 + [2ACV04] Xmas Story
   - Leela tell Fry how the first global warming was cancelled out by
     nuclear winter.  {MN*}

 + [2ACV10] A Clone of My Own
   - A film tells how Hubert Farnsworth was working for Mom's company as
     a robot designer.  {MW}

+ [2ACV14] Mother's Day - The love between professor Farnsworth and Mom is detailed. {MW}

 + [2ACV16] Anthology of Interest I
   - Al Gore's first guest appearance as the head of the
     vice-presidential action rangers in "What if Fry never got frozen".
     {MW}

+ [3ACV08] That's Lobstertainment! - Joan Rivers commenting the arrivals at the Academy Awards. {MW}

+ [3ACV17] A Pharaoh To Remember - Bender in speedos. {MW}

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   INSTANT
    POOL
    WATER
 (dead leaves
   included)

      GLOBAL
     WARMING
          or:
 none like it hot!

Curious (see comments) {DB} Pussycat

watashi wa anata no koto o, anata no okaasan yori ai shiteimasu

Welcome to KYOTO the anagram lover's Tokyo

Happy Meeting For Warming Globe

IT'S A PARTY!

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS

Name of the robot boat:

Galapagos Princess

        Tonight:
    BIG ROBOT PARTY

Tomorrow: BIG SCRAP-METAL GIVEAWAY

Wet Chassis Contest

Polluting Medal of Pollution

A list of recurring robots: {L} (see comments for the ones marked with asterisks)

iZac Monique FatBot The "girlfriend" of The Masked Unit Billionaire Bot Malfunctioning Eddie Destructor Chain Smoker Robot Devil Several of his Robot Devil minions Clamps 128K* Oily A Grim Reaper bot from the Near-Death Star* Jimmy Mousepad Don Bot URL A bunch of Hooker bots A Killbot** The teenage bot who sold popcorn in the theater from "Raging Bender" The Masked Unit The Crushinator* Gearshift The chef robot from the pizzeria in "Fishfull of Dollars" The Robo-Rooter robot from the ad at the start of "Crustacean in Love" The "jacking-on" robots from "Hell is Other Robots" Fender Reverend Lionel Preacherbot One of Robot Santa's robot dogs*** Calculon's evil half brother The Clear Cutter Roberto That robot that the Robot Mafia shot 'cos he couldn't pay the loan Calculon A "Barrier Bot" from the Near Death Star* The Postman bot from "Bicyclops Built For Two" The Slurm Vending Machine bot from "Mother's Day"

Note the PreacherBot is holding up after Nixon's plan is revealed: {b}

THE END IS NEAR

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... If Zoidberg is steaming inside his own shell, why doesn't he just take it off for a while? He didn't use to mind before. {MW}

... The paper sheets taped to the wall in the old classroom magically switch positions from shot to shot. {MW}

... The mirror hot spot was going northwards from the Caribbean to the east coast of the US and Canada. Kyoto was not endangered. {MW}

 ... It is quite unlikely that Bender falls all the way over doing a
     sommersault when hit with a chair on the back head. Bender's center
     of gravity probably isn't his head, but most likely his torso.
     {MN}

... Bender's wooden clogs disappear when he is knocked on his back. {K*}

 ... Bender says that he can get up from his back if he is slightly on
     his side, yet when he mimicked the turtle in getting up, he rolled
     over entirely to get on his stomach and first then he could get up.
     Seeing as Bender complained about having to carry pillows, he would
     hardly do the extra effort here.  {V}

 ... Nixon did not show any sweat until the "close up" shot of him, even
     though the closeup was not significantly closer than the other
     ones.  {V}

... When they knock over Bender, Zoidberg's sweat is magically gone. {V}

... Nixon and Wernstrom are flying a helicopter in space? {V}

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... The Evergreen State College mentioned is also the one Matt Groening graduated from. {SV}

 ... Remarks on the robot list: Marked with [*] are robots which don't
     live on Earth, so it doesn't make sense that they are to be
     destroyed because of Earth's global warming. The [**] Killbots, I
     recognized because of the deleted scene from "Love's Labors Lost in
     Space", but I don't remember seeing them in any episode before
     this. [***] robots also don't live on Earth and belong to Santabot,
     but in addition, I don't see Robot Santa anywhere!  {L}

... The Japanase sentence on the Pussycat sign roughly means "I am your things, with love from your mom". {DB}

 ... Hyping Gore as "the inventor of the environment" spoofs his
     infamous quote on Wolf Blitzer about "taking the initiative in
     creating the Internet." The mock title "inventor of the Internet"
     has haunted Gore ever since.  {C}

 ... Al Gore's daughter Kristin is part of the Futurama staff writers
     and contributed to this episode. The Washington Post wrongly
     credited her for the whole episode.  {TG}

 ... In Xmas Story, Fry comments that the "snow is great. I'm glad
     Global Warming never happened". Leela answers that "actually, it
     did. But thank god Nuclear Winter cancelled it out". This entirely
     contradicts the statement made in this episode that global warming
     did and still happens and Leela makes no reaction to this new
     information. One solution would be that the current (2002) global
     warming was the one cancelled out but later on a second global
     warming came up.  {V}

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 {AH}       Alan Hamilton            {C}        Craig
 {DB}       Daniel Burdie            {E}        ElDragon
 {K}        Ken                      {K*}       Kitty
 {L}        Leandro                  {M}        M5438
 {MG}       Mc Grady                 {MN}       Magnus Nordlander
 {MN*}      Michael Nissen           {MW}       Marc Wichterich
 {P}        Phen                     {RB}       Rev Bleech
 {S}        Shiborugu                {SV}       Steve VanDevender
 {TG}       Tom Georgoulias          {V}        Vladimir
 {a}        aslate                   {b}        blahness

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