Futurama Episode Capsule
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General Episode Data Title: Insane in the Mainframe First aired: 04/08/01 Production Code: 3ACV11 Written by Bill Odenkirk Directed by Peter Avanzino Opening theme promotion: Bender' Humor by Microsoft Joke
Synopsis When Fry and Bender are mistaken as bank robbers, they are sentenced to time in an insane asylum for robots. Bender, of course, sees it as a vacation, but Fry begins to crack under the pressure of mechanical examinations and a diet consisting of motor oil. Fry soon becomes convinced that he too is a robot and is declared cured and released back to New New York. Bender and his new partner in crime, Roberto, escape from the asylum and attempt to rob a bank only to find the cops waiting to bust them. On the lam, the seek refuge on the Planet Express and take the crew hostage.
Voice Credits Starring- Billy West (Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Professor Farnsworth, Nixon)
- Katey Sagal (Leela)
- John DiMaggio (Bender, Norm)
- Tress MacNeille (Nurse Ratchet, CIA cafeteria announcer, Surveillance camera, bank teller)
Guest Starring- Phil Lamarr (Hermes Conrad, Unit 2013)
- David Herman (Roberto)
- Lauren Tom (Amy Wong)
Also Starring- Maurice LaMarche (Chicken Lawyer)
Did You Notice...
- the courthouse seal has an eagle holding mallets? {JK}
- By 3000, the U.S. Constitution has 67 Amendments? {JK}
- the cover of Hermes' book with the mandatory speech reads "Minimum Obligations Manual"? {JL}
- the statue of the fortuna goddess in front of the court is holding two pizzas in her hands instead of a libra and a sword? {JL}
- the judge's cell-phone plays Mozart's 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'? {JL}
- the birds flying in a circle over the "HAL Institute for criminally insane robots"? {JL}
- Bender and Roberto had to break through five walls in order to escape? {JL}
- The calculator has a "carry the one" key? {MW}
- Hermes has been lazy? There is a sheet of paper in the "in" folder, but none in the "out" one. {MW}
- Thats it is really freaky when Fry is asleep talking about peanut butter? {d}
- Fry's retirement fond is stuck in his socks? {T}
- That Richard Nixon is on the $1000 bill {LL}
- That Fry steps on a woman, lying on the floor in the bank during the robbery, when he runs to open the door? {LL}
- That the judge ruled that being poor is a mental illness? {LL}
- That Bender has a live bird inside flying around? {LL}
- That Hermes' calculator was an anniversary gift from Barbara, his wife? {LL}
- That Fry calls Leela "bossy-me-creature"? {LL}
- That Bender has the heart of a human? {LL}
External references
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
- HAL INSTITUTE is a reference to HAL computer than went insane in the movie {M}
- 3 in one brand oil
- 7-11 (convinience store chain)
- Fry and Bender sit infront of one. {M}
- Alice In Wonderland (book)
- Insane in the Brain (Song by Cypress Hill)
- Episode Title is a reference to the lycrics of the song, specifically "Insane in the membrane" {JL}
- Lucille Ball Urban Legend
- Robot with teeth that pick up CIA transmittions {JK}
- One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest (movie)
- Nurse Ratchet is a reference to Nurse Ratched from the movie. Her "haistyle" is also modeled after the movie version. {M}
- several Robot Asylum scenes are a reference to that movie {M}
- Tenderv Vittles (cat food)
- Zoidberg refers to the name of that cat food {AH}
- The Star Diaries (novel, Stanislaw Lem 1971)
- Fry's stay in the robot asylum reminds of the chapter 'The Sanitorium of Dr. Vliperdius'. {JL}
- "Perceptron" mentioned "Professor A. Donda" {M}
Futurama references
- 1ACV06 - A Fishful of Dollars
- Fry has to deal with his old bank account. {M}
- 1ACV13 - Fry & the Slurm Factory
- Bender's mechanical insides {JL}
- 2ACV02 - Brannigan Begin Again
- Hyperchicken Lawyer appears {M}
- 2ACV07 - Put your head on my shoulder
- Victor and Malfunctioning Eddie appear {M}
- 3ACV04 - The Luck of the Fryrish
- 3ACV05 - The Bird-bot of Ice-catraz
- Hyperchicken Lawyer appears {M}
Freeze Frame Fun
Sign on Big Apple Bank:
COUNTERFEIT MONEY?
ASK ABOUT OUR
"PHONEY BALONEY"
ACCOUNTOutside Robot Insane Asylum:
HAL
INSTITUTE
FOR CRIMINALLY
INSANE
ROBOTSPlaque on Dr. Perceptron office:
Dr. Perceptron
DOCTOR OF
FREUDIAN
CIRCUT ANALYSISNote on the wall in Asylum:
You Don't
Have to
Be Crazy to
Mutter to
Yourself
Here
But it HelpsIn the visitor room:
WELCOME VISITORS
GIBBERISH TRANSLATORS AVAILABLEmandatory speech book:
MINIMUM OBLIGATIONS MANUAL Fry is stamped:
DEFECTIVE ELECTRONICS
Animation, continuity, and other goofs...
- After offering the others the sandwiches, Fry's pants are suddenly zipped up. {JL}
- Why would a robot write something on paper, even with a pen? (Perceptron) There should be better ways for these few kilobytes by now. {JL}
- Leela seems to unscrew the nut in the wrong direction. {JL}
- Bender knows some french words, even though french is a dead and forgotten language now {MJ}
- Fry seems to be able to grow a beard. He looks unshaved at the visit, while in "I, Roommate" he doesn't even though Bender's appartment doesn't have a bathroom. Also: How did his growing beard disapear later? The asylum doubtly has a bathroom, and as he think he's a robot Fry wouldn't want to shave either? {MF}
Comments and other Observations...
Contributors {AH} Andrea Huckstep {JK} Joe Klemm {JL} Johannes Lempp {LL} Lena Linck {M} Me {MF} Martin Fink {MJ} Matty Jorissen {MW} Marc Wichterich {T} Thrasher {d} deltron_Fetus {w} wavking
Original Capsule Author: Me whose name I prefer not to mention
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