======================================================================== FUTURAMA CAPSULE [3ACV12] - The Route Of All Evil ======================================================================== Written by Dan Vebber Directed by Brian Sheesley Originally aired 12/08/02 as episode number 03 in season 05 ======================================================================== > Synopsis ======================================================================== Cubert - the clone of the Professor - and Dwight - Hermes' son - are suspended from school for illegal use of the AV equipment. Upon their return to the Planet Express, they form a business -- a competing delivery company that threatens the existence of Planet Express. Meanwhile, Leela, Fry and Bender brew up a batch of homemade beer. ======================================================================== > Title sequence ======================================================================== Opening theme promotion: Disclaimer: Any Resemblance to actual Robots would be really cool Opening theme cartoon: unknown ======================================================================== > Voice Credits ======================================================================== + Starring - Billy West (Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Prof. Farnsworth) - Katey Sagal (Leela) - John DiMaggio (Bender) - Tress MacNeille + Guest Starring - Phil LaMarr - Kath Soucie - Bumper Robinson - Dawnn Lewis + Also Starring - Maurice LaMarche ======================================================================== > Did You Notice... ======================================================================== ... Cubert has a Zapp Brannigan lunchbox, and Dwight has a periodic table lunchbox. {AH} ... Once again, Fry is fooled by a phony pizza delivery prank. This time, though, he's not alone, as both Leela and Bender were also fooled. {JF} ... Futurama continues The Simpsons tradition of bashing FOX. {JF} ... The spacecraft Cubert and Dwight purchase looks nothing like the craft in the comic book page? They learned the lesson that every kid who bought Space Monkeys or sold GRIT found out - it's all a big rip-off. {JF} ... Apparently, skill is needed to send or receive items through a mail tube, too. {JF} ======================================================================== > External references ======================================================================== + 1984 (Ad) - The Professor says "We Shall Prevail" in a manner much like the one in the ad by Apple for its Macintosh. {V} + Gerald Ford - The New New York Daily News headline "Space Monster to City: Grrrrrrr" is reminiscient of the famous New York Daily News headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead". {JF} + Klein Bottles - One of the beers is Klein's Beer, and is contained in a Klein Bottle, which is a one sided object similar to a moebius strip. {F} + Löbrau - Probably a reference to the German Löwenbräu (lions' brew) which is manufactured in Munich. {MW} + Manwich (food) - ConAgra Foods' famous sloppy joe sandwich brand. {JF} + Old English Malt Liquor - Olde Fortran Malt Liquor is probably a reference to the Pabst-brewed malt liquor Old English. (English is a human language, Fortran is a computer language.) {JF} + Pabst Blue Ribbon (beer) - Pabst Blue Robot is a reference to the Milwaukee brewing company, which brews Pabst Blue Ribbon and Old Milwaukee, among others. {JF} + Paper Boy - In this old Nintendo game, you have to deliver papers, by bike, like the two boys (somehow). Just the way the whole scenes are made up, remind me very much of that game, as everything sorta fits. {DS} - The streets, Dwight and Cubert do the paper route in, looks like those in this game from the first Nintendo console. {DS} - The dog that chases the two, also appeares in this game. {DS} - The sound of the crashing of the Blob's window, is the exact one from Paper Boy, I think. {DS} + Sam Adams - American beer brand named after Samuel Adams who led the Boston Tea Party. {MW} + St Pauli - The red light district of Hamburg, Germany. {MW} - St Pauli's Exclusion Principle Girl beer also refers to Wolfgang Pauli's Exclusion Principle which states no two electrons in an atom can have the same quantum number. Wolfgang Pauli was a physist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1945. {II} + The Bible - The title is based on 1 Timothy 6:10: "For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs." {AH} + The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars movie) - The dog chasing the hover-wagon is eaten by a space slug from this film. {AH} + The Little Prince (novell) - The boy on top of the small planet is a refence to this book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry {MW} - The Little Prince's baobab tree is missing, however. {JF} + The Real World (TV series) - This MTV-produced series followed the lives of people in different cities (the city name was usually a subtitle). Although it supposedly showed unscripted real life, a lot of people found it really unconvincing. {AH} + The Tommyknockers (Stephen King book/miniseries) - Inventing a device that adjusts your voice too sound like someone else, then using it to mislead people by phone. {MJ} + Victoria's Secret (lingerie) - Bender is reading the robot version Victoria's Circuit {MW} + Wacky Packs stickers - These stickers featured parodies of products and were hugely popular in the 1970s. {AH} ======================================================================== > Previous episode references ======================================================================== + [1ACV01] Space Pilot 3000 - Fry is sent on a prank pizza delivery. {AH} - Fry was frozen with a can of Löbrau beer {AH} - Something shoots out of a transport tube violently, rather than gently arrives. {JF} - Fortran Beer appears in space pilot, incidently it is also an old computer programing language. {M} + [1ACV06] A Fishful of Dollars - Mom's Robot oil appears. {M} + [1ACV10] A Flight To Remember - A picture of Hermes' Olympic limbo competition is in his dining room. {AH} + [2ACV10] A Clone of My Own - Cubert is introduced. {MN} + [2ACV11] How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back - Hermes paper shredder and recycler features in Hermes office {M} + [2ACV12] The Deep South - Dwight says "My Manwich!" like his dad. {AH} + [2ACV17] War Is The H-Word - The futuristic 7-11 (7 to the Eleventh) is revisited. {JF} + [3ACV18] Anthology of Interest 2 - Introduced Dwight, but this was supposed to be introduced in this episode... {DK} ======================================================================== > Freeze frame fun ======================================================================== xxxxxxxxx 11 x x x x open 28 hours Cashier does not have keys to a successful marriage OLDE FORTRAN MALT LIQUOR KLEIN'S BEER ST PAULI EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE GIRL BIER BEER SAM ADAMS' HEAD BOSTON LAGER LÖBRAU BEER PABST BLUE ROBOT VICTORIA'S CIRCUIT DAILY SUPERNOVA SPACE MONSTER TO CITY: GRRRRRR Build A Hoverwagon Neptunian Boody Building MOM'S MORON OIL FOR DUMB ROBOTS MAPLE CRATERS An exclusive field of planetary debris DAILY SUPERNOVA PAPER BOYS WIN AWARD ON SLOW NEWS DAY! BENDËRBRÄU Let's Get Drunk! Cold-fusion Steam Beer TACO BELLEVUE HOSPITAL Urine Samples in Collectible NASCAR Cups! ======================================================================== > Animation, continuity, and other goofs ======================================================================== ... Dwight starts complaining about the late delivery of the hoverwagon before 4 seconds have elapsed. {AH} ... This third season episode aired during the fifth season. {JF} ... If Farnsworth had been declared dead 3 years ago, the sunset police would never have come for him, among other things. {Z} ... When Farnsworth speaks into the voice-machine you can hear his own and the machine-generated voice. However, when someone else speaks into it you hear only the machine-generated voice. {JL} ... The woman at Maple Craters speaks the dead language French {dn} ======================================================================== > Comments and other observations ======================================================================== ... A Klein bottle is a three-dimentional figure with only one surface. {AH} ... The Pauli Exclusion Principle states that every electron in an atom must have a unique set of quantum numbers. {AH} ... A real Klein Bottle is a 4D object which can not be filled with liquids. The 3D one seen in this episode has only one surface which is both inside and outside. It can be filled with liquids, but one needs to go through its bottom with shaky motions. Not the best idea. {MW} ======================================================================== > Contributors ======================================================================== {AH} Alan Hamilton {DK} David Kirkham {DS} Daniel Stahl {F} Fick {II} IO II {JF} Jonah Falcon {JL} Johannes Lempp {M} Matt {MJ} Matty Jorissen {MN} Michael Nissen {MW} Marc Wichterich {V} Vladimir {Z} Zyxer {dn} dave nangle Original Capsule Author: Can't Get Enough Futurama Document created on 08/13/2022 at 17:19:08 CET http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/Capsules/3ACV12.txt