1ACV07: Honey, I Drank The Emperor

1ACV07: Honey, I Drank The Emperor

Review by Haynes Lee {hl}, [email]

TV GUIDE SYPNOSIS (Canadian TV Guide): Fry's thirst gets him into hot water when he delivers a package inhabited by liquid aliens and accidently drinks their ruler, making himself the planet's new leader.

REVIEW: the first half was good but the second half was hit and miss.

GRADEE: B-

DYN: - Robowash still takes quarters? - Bender has a shiny metal butt after Robowash? - Bender getting his jollies from the buffers? - a head shop in the 20th century sells drug paraphenelia? - emperor's bottle shaped like a Coke bottle? - liquid planet has British parliamentary system? - political satirist is more like 1970s Improv? (not at all like Mark Russell)

CULTURAL REFERENCES:

"My Three Sons": sounds like "My Three Suns"

"Carwash": 1970s movie taking place in a carwash. Theme song similar.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Odo and the Founders live in a liquid state and refer humanoids as "solids".

James Cameron's "The Abyss (1989)": the first movie to using "morphing" for liquid entities. It won an Oscar for Visual Effects. James Cameron used the same effects later for "Terminator 2".

Grasshopper and the ant: parable about carefree grasshopper and working ant.

Star Trek: Neutral Zone.

20th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY: - robowash similar to carwash - cast iron cookware to fight off meal ingredients - vending machine used to dispense crack cocaine - liquid aliens have juice-inator

WHEN ALIENS ATTACK(tm): - Meptunian slug attacks cook - butcher shop selling human meat - liquid beings have a resurrection against Fry

FOLKLORE:

Dutch folklore has a little boy preventing a flood by sticking his finger in the leaking dike.

Classic false urban legend about newbie in the Big City waking up finding that various orgrans have been removed from his body.

There is a Neutral Zone today. It's near Saudi Arabia. See http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_304.html

PREVIOUS EPISODES: [1ACV01] quarters used in dispensing machine

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Haynes Lee wrote:

You forgot that one of the aliens had the same voice as Droopy the dog (of Hanna Barbera fame).

John DiFool

On Tue, 04 May 1999 22:08:13 -0400, John DiFool wrote:

Dang! I was trying to place it but couldn't. Was it a voice actor who player Dropy at anytime? (I imagine there have been several)

Well, actually, though the rights to Droopy may currently belong to Hanna Barbera, Droopy first appeared in MGM shorts, which I do not beleive where associated with Hanna Barbera in any way. MGM did employ Hanna Barbera to make their Tom & Jerry shorts, however. Btw, for the books, Droopy's first appearence was in "Dumb Hounded" tracking down the famous wolf in a prison outfit and popping up wherever the wolf went.

In article , John DiFool wrote:

Not to mention that I've heard the phrase "Quiet, You!", at least twice; perhaps a reference to Mr. Peabody, the professor dog from Rocky and Bullwinkle. (The last time was one of Mom's sons in "Fishfull")

And also that one watery being guy has the same voice as The Brain.

John DiFool wrote in message news:[email]...

Yes, same voice artist, Maurice LaMarche. He also did one of Mom's sons on last week's episode.

"Andrew" wrote:

That's because they're both referencing Vincent Price (and didn't Zap Brannigan's second-in-command do that too?).

CountV

I read in a TV Guide that that second-in-command's name was Kroker, anyone wanna back me up on that one?

I'm pretty sure his name is Kif...

On Fri, 07 May 1999 22:41:46 -0500, OmegaRobot wrote:

An article in Spin magazine gives his full name as Kif Kroker.

It reminds me of a recycled Simpsons joke, where the black comic on TV is expounding on the differences between white and black guys, and Homer laughs, concurring "It's true! We're so lame!"

Brett-D wrote in message ...

Yes, I caught that one dead-on as well.

"Now a black man... drives a car like this..."

-Todd

On Wed, 05 May 1999 01:39:03 GMT, [email] (Haynes Lee) wrote:

DYN: the Oath scene was a lot like the scene at the end of Enemy Mine where the human had to site the names of the alien's parent, and their parent, and so on.

I too noticed that similarities and thought it was hilarious..... also wasn't "galaxy of terror" also one of James Cameron's first films? (he was second unit director or something)

I really liked this episode : rating A- _______________ "part of the fun of being alive is knowing that you're annoying the hell out of someone else"-- matt groening

matt o'connell [email]

Rob Merritt wrote in message news:[email]...

Anudder DYN:

The TV chef was a parody of the very obnoxious Emeril Lagasse, complete with "Pow!"s.

Good catch, Rob! I thought I was the only one...

Of course, that's really an ancient Norse tradition (and probably other groups, too).

-A

Haynes Lee wrote in message ...

I believe the word you were looking for is "insurrection" (or uprising).

[email] (Haynes Lee) writes:

Actually, I thought of Larry Niven's "organleggers" (black market organ dealers, by analogy to bootleggers) when Fry was talking to the guy with a selection of black market organs.

On 04 May 1999 22:13:38 -0700, Steve VanDevender wrote:

Also, the Little Neptune Market selling human meat is a false urban legend about ethnic eateries (Chinese/E. Indian/Italian) using cat/dog/human meat instead of expected meat. See <http://snopes.simplenet.com/horrors/food/chinese.htm>

In alt.tv.futurama, on the "1ACV07: Honey, I Drank The Emperor" thread, Haynes Lee wrote:

I think they revalued the money so that, say, $100,000 Year1999 dollars equals $1 Year3000 dollar. Germany did something similar in switching from the Mark to the ReichMark.

Other DYNs: ... Bender didn't try reclaiming his quarter? (Or did he? I forget.) ... Amy lost her shoes running up the stairs to the throne room? (She was barefoot when she came in) ... nevertheless, she had her shoes back later in the scene? ... if you listen to Amy closely after Bender puts his hand over her mouth, you can hear a muffled "Oh!" when she finally gets his plan? [Heh, maybe I should borrow a page from Don Del Grande and start an "Amy Alert" section]

This also reminded me of the Levis commercial where the guy drives through the carwash in his AMC Levis-edition Gremlin, with the windows down. They used the same music, and there was a scene where the driver selected the type of wash he wanted from a button board, as Bender did.

Perhaps most importantly, I think we saw our first glimpse of the "hard" alphabet. When Fry delivers the package to the throne room, he spots the bottle and looks at it for a second or two. On the pillar in the background, we see signs in various "foreign" languages. One of these signs had red glyphs on it that were (a) clearer than the lettering on the other signs, as if we were intended to notice it, and (b) not a part of the alphabet we see in the "TV Guide" ciphers.

This was not the absolute first glimpse. The "hard" alphabet was seen on the sarcophagus of the Teryaki-style alien mummy, but there was no way to decode it until now. Assuming that the signs say the same thing in each language, we have they key for the letters D, E, H, I, K, M, N, O, P, R, and T.

Benjamin Robinson wrote in message news:[email]...

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Yes, nice of them to throw in a Rosetta Stone like that...

-Amanda

I went back to look at the tape and either it says something different or it's just gibberish. It vaguely reminds me of hieratic Egyptian, though.

<snop>

A false Rosetta Stone? Wouldn't surprise me either...

-A

In alt.tv.futurama, on the "Re: 1ACV07: Honey, I Drank The Emperor" thread, I wrote:

Sorry to follow up my own post, but I forgot a DYN: .... almost everyone in the crew had a change of clothes for the coronation? I guess the motto of interplanetary delivery crews is, "Be Prepared!"

Leela seems to have a rather large wardrobe. She's got the green tank top, and then she's got the white tank top, and maybe some evening wear stashed away somewhere for when she actually gets a date.

Love that jacket she has, even if it does tend to spontaneously come unbuckled while holding certain books.

Benjamin Robinson wrote in message news:[email]...

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coronation?

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Could someone help me out my friends and I can't place the voice for the high priest. We think it was the guy who did Orson Wells for The Critic, but we also think it could be the voice of Brain. Which is it? Or are they one in the same? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- "I am so smart, I am so smart. SMRT, I mean SMART." Homer Simpson

Craig Winckler Icq #21456614 Web page http://fly.to/winc0019

Proud to attend The University of Minnesota, home of the Spankalogical Protocol

Craig Winckler wrote:

I am Almost positive it was the Voice of Brain from Animaniacs (But I dono his name) I think he was also the voice of one of the Sons in "A fishfull of dollars" Last week.

A HA!!! Got it. Maurice LeMarche. was on bolth shows and more. http://us.imdb.com/Name?LaMarche,+Maurice

Brain is voiced by Maurice LaMarche, who also does Orson Welles, as well as many other animated characters. He's rather ubiquitous, really.

Rev. Matt Keeley wrote in message ...

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I know that he also does the "World's Smartest Garbageman" on "Dilbert"

Turtle25 wrote in message ...

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Aren't all of LaMarche's characters eerie geniuses, like Brain and the Garbageman?

I wouldn't consider Egon Spengler to be eerie.

Raul

Are you kidding? Egon's the eeriest!

And that's why I love him.

Even if they did make him a blonde...

-Amanda

"[email] (Darrel Jones)" asked: << Aren't all of LaMarche's characters eerie geniuses, like Brain and the Garbageman? >>

I wouldn't refer to Jeremy Hawke from "The Critic" as either eerie or a genius, but it does seem like most of Maurice's characters are like that.

He also played an archeology professor on one episode of "King of the Hill," and that may have been as close to his real voice as we'll ever hear on a cartoon!

tpe "But first, a tasteful shot of me bum for the ladies... " -Jeremy Hawke, as "Crocodile Gandhi"

Mike Zaite wrote in message ...

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Yeah, that's Maurice Lamarche.

It also sounded like a voice artist I've heard on Dexter on CN.

Well spotted! That voice was Maurice LaMarche...he does the Brain in a very Orson Wells-sounding voice, and used a very similar voice for that high priest.

That's also LaMarche as one of Mom's sons, the "lead" son who sounds like Vincent Price.

LaMarche also did Orson Wells' voice in the movie "Ed Wood," but he wasn't the look-alike that you see on screen. There was an entire episode of Pinky and the Brain based on a famous "outtake" reel from a recording session with Orson Wells in which he freaks out because a director is telling him to accentuate an impossible syllable...."The correct reading is the one I'm giving it!!!"

I didn't see the episode of The Critic you mentioned, but I'm sure that was LaMarche, too.

-Amanda

PS: Billy West is on about a zillion different commercials...anyone want to guess some?

Craig Winckler wrote in message news:7golls$o5c$[email]...

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I believe they are the same voice, or at least the same person doing two similar voices.

Michael "Rosebud Frozen Peas: Now with even more green pea-ness!"

Haynes Lee wrote in message news:[email]...

How about Bender's Apron "To Serve Man" refering to the classic Twilight Zone Epp.

yeah, that was one of the biggest laughs for me. the whole spoof of chef Emeril Lagasse was somewhat amusing, too.

-calyxa

On Wed, 5 May 1999 10:47:50 -0500, "Todd Hurley" wrote:

Which, of course, is based on Damon Knight's classic story of the same name.

Can i say "UHH, SIMPSONS NG NOT FUTURAMA!!!!!!! GET A HINT!!!!!" That is all.

I don't know if other places got this or not, but where I am, the scene where Fry is incredibly thirsty, and drinks the Emperor, was immediately followed by this commercial announcement: "Futurama is brought to you by Gatorade Thirst Quencher".

On Wed, 5 May 1999 09:59:53 -0400, wrote:

I know! My wife and I picked up on that right away.

How long before the airing do they know who is sponsoring them? I am sure Groening did not demand that a Gatoraide (sp?) commercial be aired at this time. So then it must have been there all along and Groening either knew about it at production time (unlikely) or manipulated the timing of it to be aired after that scene.

Makes you think (Ow, I sprained that muscle again)

In alt.tv.futurama,alt.tv.simpsons, [email] (Haynes Lee) writes: |

DYN: head shop in the 30th century sells actual human heads

mikey

Haynes Lee wrote:

How about "Enjoy Refreshing CRACK"?

Deacon wrote:

And the guy buying the crack was wearing a Charlie Brown-type shirt.

Wasn't it a Neptunian slug? This bothered me a bit. How could a slug live on a gas giant? The writers could just as easily have come up with some ficticious planet to be the slugs' home world.

Shouldn't that be "insurrection" or "revolution"? I don't recall any coming back from the dead in that episode.

Nathan Mulac DeHoff wrote:

It's a thousand years in the future! They've presumably terraformed Neptune--at least to the point where CARTOON characters can survive on it. . . .

Well, the emperor did, so I guess they did have a resurrection after all. . . . ; )