2ACV13: Wired Guys
Review by Haynes Lee {hl}
TV GUIDE (Canada): Bender heads into the kitchen when he can't pay a pricey food bill and meets a secret robot Mafia plotting to get Bender to participate in a Zuban cigar heist.
OPENING GAG: Simulcast on crazy people's fillings
REVIEW: I thought the plot was really undeveloped with a premature ending. I found the Clamps robot a bit irritating. And with the premature ending, the only way to leave the Robot Mafia is in a metal box.
GRADE: C--
DYN: - mirror image "ambulance" in regular letters and alien alphabet? - Bender said "sterno schwab" but close captioning said "sterno noodles"? - Bender spitting oil is Futurama's first rake scene?
CUBAN CIGARS: Until recently a strict U.S. embargo dating from the Kennedy administration outright banned importing Cuban cigars.
CULTURAL REFERENCES: - any old gangster movie: tommyguns, shooting from vehicle while standing on running boards. Godfather: - audience with Corelone - robot got shot up like James Caan Goodfellas: social club Picasso: surreal paintings Urban Cowboy: mechanical bull Rodney King beating Star Wars: light sabers, fry shooting from ship
COMPUTER GAGS: - numbers racket is in 1's and 0's - mercy file/hard drive/file not found
SIMPSONS REFERENCES: 8F03: Bart involved in a cigarette smuggling ring
FOLKLORE ALERT: U. Radio transmissions picked up by the fillings of Television comedienne Lucille Ball led to the capture of Japanese spies.
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/fillings.htm
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