10/3 - Mars University (1ACV11)
Fry goes to Mars University, where his roommate is a
superintelligent monkey, and Bender bands the "robot nerds"
together
*** NOTE for San Francisco types ***
KTVU will be showing the Raiders game on October 3, and this
episode will be shown at midnight (note this is earlier from when they
usually show "delayed" episodes)10/10 - Pre-empted for a game in the baseball playoffs first round
(either Game 4 in the American League or Game 5 in the
National League; it's possible that all of the series can
end early - it happened in 1996 - in which case FOX might
show a Futurama repeat, although most likely they'll show
a special of some sort)10/17 - Pre-empted for game 4 of the baseball National League Championship Series
Note that NBC is showing the World Series this year, so there will be an episode on 10/24
I'll ignore the ones everybody probably mentioned, like the "The Love Boat" reference of iZac the bartender, or the Star Trek door-opening sound effects, but did anyone else mention:
In the 2980 Olympics, the stagger lines on the track are drawn so that they run counterclockwise.
Why didn't the magnetic tie make Bender go crazy, the way he did in "The Series Has Landed"?
The escape pods didn't appear to have airlocks, so Bender's opening of the doors should have caused everybody and everything inside to be sucked out.