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Episode Capsule: [1ACV11] Mars University

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Official Title: Mars University
Episode Number: 1ACV11  (#11)
First Airdate : Sunday, October 3rd, 1999  (8:30 PM)
Written by    : J. Stewart Burns
Directed by   : Bret Haaland
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= Additional tidbits =

Opening theme promotion  : Transmitido en
                           Martian en SAP
Opening theme cartoon    : "Pig in a Polka"  {jk}
03-Oct-99 Nielsen ranking: 6.7 million viewers  (#54 for the week)
MPAA rating              : TV-PG
Length minus commercials : [21:20]
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= Foxworld Synopsis =

   When Fry returns to college to prove he can be just as good of a
   dropout as he was in the Twentieth Century, Professor Farnsworth
   surprises him with a dorm roommate, a super-intelligent monkey.
   Meanwhile Bender, a legend of the robot fraternity Epsilon Rho Rho --
   "ERR" -- leads a revenge of the robot nerds.

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= Minutiae =

 - Fry eats what looks like an amoeba and drinks from a Slurm can.
   Bender drinks a bottle of LoBrau beer.
 - Fry went directly for Leela's protection after the box started
   yelping and moving.  {trl}

 - You can see one of Mars' moons in the establishing shot.  (Either
   Phobos or Deimos.)
 - Outside the frat house is a broken-down hovercar.
 - Inside: A ratty old couch and armchair, dartboard, guitar, fem-bot
   poster, "ERR" crest, LoBrau Beer ad, unfumigated moosehead, discarded
   magazines, pizza boxes & beer, MARS U flag.
 - As Bender is being flattered by his ERR buddies, Leela is returning
   from up a staircase.  What was she doing up there?
 - In 20th-Century Coney Island, two of the prizes at a game booth are a
   Bart Simpson and Homer Simpson doll.
 - Did anybody notice Fry's killer short-long back at Coney Island?
   Then again, only I would find that funny ...  =)  {bt}  [Did anybody
   think it looked like Archie Andrews' haircut, circa 1975?  {jb}]
 - Robot House's midnight panty-raid takes place under the moonlight of
   another aspherical Martian moon.
 - As Bender and his buddies scan the womens' dorm, if you look closely,
   you can see one of the ladies drop her towel to the floor.  She's
   facing the other way, though, and the 'camera' quickly deletes her
   from its field of vision.
 - Financial Aid Dorm Gag 1: Wooden sign with the name falls off and
   scares away a goat.
 - Tell me what's wrong with this line: "Pretty nice for a single.  Two
   desks, two chairs, a couple of beds ... "

 - The contents of Guenter's suitcase are toiletries, a brush and an
   old-fashioned hairdryer.
 - When Professor Farnsworth explains the inner workings of Guenter's
   hat, Fry scratches his head like a monkey.
 - A character looking a little like Professor Frink (of The Simpsons)
   is biking past one of the college buildings.  {jk}  (This same biker
   appears when Farnsworth mentions Utah.)
 - Look at Dean Vernon's model shipis a 30th Century spacecraft with
   16th Century sails!
 - It's funny that Guenter happened to ask Fry at the dining hall if he
   likes bananas.  Guess what was on Fry's plate at the time!
 - At Parents' Weekend, Fry stuffs a bowlful of pigs-in-a-blanket in his
   mouth at once.
 - Financial Aid Dorm Gag 2: A brown piece of paper with the name falls
   off.

 - Financial Aid Dorm Gag 3: The name is written in chalk above the
   door.  The goat is eating the paper sign.
 - A seagull flies below our heroes as they await Guenter's rescue from
   the waterfall.
 - Was Matt Groening standing in the crowd at the boat race?  Coulda'
   sworn I saw his face for a split second ...  {fp}

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= Parallels to Science Fiction =

 ~ "Mars Attacks"  (1997 Tim Burton movie)
   - The Martian depicted in the statue on MU's campus resembles the
     Martian creatures from this movie, and sports similar weaponry.

 ~ "The Martian Chronicles"  (Ray Bradbury novel)
   - This was a science fiction novel from the early 50's that tells the
     tale of man conquering and inhabiting Mars.  The idea of the planet
     being terra-formed with lush jungles was explored here, and it
     probably wasn't intentional, but the line "Not even if you were the
     last man on Mars!" parallels part of the novel.  (I won't give the
     whole thing away ... I'd like a few people to read it.)  It's also
     worth mentioning that one of the Martian colonies in the book is
     named "New New York."

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= Other References =

 ~ "Archie"  (cartoon)
   - Early-90s Fry's hair looks like 1970s Archie Andrews'.  {jb}

 + "Animal House"  (movie)  [And I thought "Titanic" was overdoing it!]
   - Mars University Motto "Knowledge Bring Fear," from Faber College's
     "Knowledge Is Good."  {ak}
   - Similar Statues, though Faber's was not on a horse.  {ak}
   - Similar music at beginning.  {ak}
   - The house is nearly identical, with the junked car, old metal
     drums, patio furniture, spool table, broken roof and hanging crest.
     {ak}
   - Fatbot is a direct take-off of Flounder.  He wears the same beany
     as Flounder did in the beginning of Animal House.  He uses the
     quotes "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!" and "This is gonna be great!" in
     the same voice.  In the end scene, his freeze frame is identical
     with Flounder's.  {ak}
   - The continuous track of "Louie, Louie," and the panty raid.  {rc2}
   - Similar music during the night time scene.  Bender shuffles his
     feet like Bluto.  {ak}
   - John Belushi's character puts a ladder up to the window to peek in
     on the coeds clad only in their panties (and bras when it ran on
     TV).  {bb}
   - The ladder stunt is done in Animal House, but is knocked over by,
     uh, a different kind of extention.  {ak}
   - Snooty House is like the rival frat in Animal House, what with the
     snootyness and the pipe-smoking.  Though that might also be a
     reference to P.C.U.  {ak}
   - One of the frat guys name is named Meiderneyer, which is similar to
     Neidermeyer.  {hl}
   - Dean Vernon is a takeoff Dean Wormer,who's first name is Vernon,
     and was played by John Vernon.  He gives a similar list of Frat
     offenses.  In Animal House, Wormer puts Delta on double secret
     probation.  {ak}
   - Bender acts like John Belushi, crushing a beer keg on his head.
     {hl}
   - Song "Shout!" plays at the end.  {hl}
   - The ending with a parade is from Animal House, as is the cake-
     shaped float, and the freeze-frame and captions saying what
     happened to the characters in the future.  {ak}

 ~ "Big Guy and Rusty"  (cartoon)
   - This Fox Kids Saturday Morning cartoon features a talking monkey
     (voiced by Kathy Kinney of "The Drew Carey Show") that looks and
     sounds much like Guenter.  {jb}

 ~ "The Breakfast Club"  (movie)
   - When Dean VERNON appeared, I was thinkin really hard of "The
     Breakfast Club" (1985).  In this movie the teacher who had to
     overwatch the five students in detention was named Richard VERNON,
     one of the students (the "criminal") was named John BENDER and when
     Vernon had a fight with Bender he talked about fire alarms John
     started ...  {mb}

 ~ "Dilbert"  (comic strip)
   - Like Fry, Dilbert must deal with a super-smart monkey called Zimbu
     at his office.  Zimbu, like Guenter, appears to be smarter and more
     competent than Dilbert.  {sam}

 + "Good Will Hunting"  (movie)
   - I belive that the scene where Guenter gets the girl's number, holds
     it up against the window of the cafe and shouts  "How do you like
     them bananas" is a parody, tibute or what ever to the film.  {jr4}
   - Matt Damon get's the girl's phone number and holds it up to window
     and says "Do you like apples?  I got her number, how do you like
     them apples!"  {jl4}

 ~ "The Paper Chase"  (70's movie/TV show)
   - The professor who teaches the 20th-Century history class is drawn,
     and voiced like, John Houseman.  {dbc}

 ~ "Race for your life, Charlie Brown"  (Peanuts movie)  {jph}
   - Charlie Brown and the gang rafted down the river in competition
     with a team that cheated at every move.  {jb}  In the end,
     Woodstock won.  {rm2}

 ~ "School of Hard Knockers"  (movie)
   - Dean Vernon sounded exactly like Dean Bitterman!  {mm}

 + "Up the Creek"  (movie)
   - Another forgettable 1980s frat movie in which the climactic event
     is a raft race in which every house cheats like mad.  {dbc}

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= Freeze Frame Fanaticism =

>> Signs / Locations

 -    MARS UNIVERSITY
   Knowledge Brings Fear

 - SOCRATES - VOS SAVANT - COGNITRON  {da}   (See "Final
                                              Thoughts / Comments.")

 -  WONG
   library

 - FICTION       NON-FICTION
   Disc One       Disc Two

 - Notice of Failure
     to Graduate

    [ferris wheel]

        CICC

 - STUDENT REGISTRATION

    [A-L]  [M-Y]  [Z]

 - SNOOTY HOUSE

 - 20th CENTURY HISTORY
       TEST TODAY

 - MENTHOLYPTUS
      HALL

 - PARENTS RECEPTION

 - BIG FRATERNITY
    RAFT REGATTA


>> At the carnival  {jb}

 - The Ferris wheel has a very hard-to-read title, and this is my best
   guess:

 -    MICKEY CASY
      HIWHEEL

 - SNAKE BOY

 - CONEY ISLAND COMMUNIITY COLLEGE

 - YOU MUST BE  --O
   THIS TALL TO   \|
   ENROLL         | |


>> Fry's classmates

 - ?HESS     PEREIRA  MANDEL   KIDD
 - ?YTERSKI    FRY    GUENTER  WONG
 - ?ATRIZIO  GUTRICH  DEMPSEY  MINGO


>> Chrissy's textbook & phone number

 - ENGLISH
     101

 - Chrissy
   789-3629

   (The people on <alt.tv.futurama> had something else to say about this
    ... see "Final Thoughts / Comments.")


>> Farnsworth's lesson  (again, very hard to read)  {jb}

   TODAY'S LESSON: Wd  or "WITTEN'S DOG"
   --------------

       C
        \_                             ...................
    P - /_/\  Wd        Q             .  NEUTRON ENHANCED .
        \ \ \________/|               .   STEAMING HOT    .
         \       /\   |--             .    DARK MATTER    .
         |    ___\/__|   --            ...................
         / / /   | |\ \    --
         |_|_|   |_||_|      - V
                                C

       e^2+p -> (?) + v
                 __                           __
   (Omega)y= (?) | / re \   < (Omega)2 Wd >^2   | "Superdupersquirmetric
             [+] | | -- | + ------------------  |    Steaks Theory"
                 |_\93er/        (z+1)^y      __|


>> The test  {jb}

   Almost all of it is illegible, but there is one thing that can be
   seen on the last part of question 2:

       OJ Simpson steal?


>> Snooty House's boat

 - S.S. Von Snoot

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= Goofs =

 - Why would someone need to go to college if they already had permanent
   career chips installed?  {zb}
 - Why did Fry already have some books with him when he came across
   Coney Island College?  If he was a student at another school at the
   time, he'd have either dropped out or graduated from that one, which
   makes no sense.  (This is assuming Fry would have no other reason to
   carry books with him -- which he wouldn't unless he was holding them
   for his girlfriend or something.)
 - Fry shouldn't be able to enroll if, by 31st-Century academic
   standards, he hasn't acheived a high-school diploma.
 - When Bender and the other ERRers got on the ladder, they were not on
   the top when it started going up, but they were at the top when it
   stopped.  {ddg}  [With a panty-raid ladder in the 30th century, only
   the rungs move.  {jlm}]

 - Guenter's note paper disappears from his desk as he explains the
   television.
 - According to the Instructor's seating chart, there is someone sitting
   to Fry's right, but there isn't.  (And there can't be, with only
   twelve people in the class and Amy not being the furthest seat to the
   left.)
 - The word is "dodectuple," not "dodecatuple."  (That would be like
   saying "pentatuple" instead of "quintuple.")  {ddg}
 - Although Guenter says that monkeys can't cry, one can distinctly see
   a tear in his eyes around the beginning of his lamentations to Fry
   and Leela.  {sam}

 - How could Guenter have handed in a paper smeared with feces?  We saw
   him at all the final moments before he ran away.
 - Robot House's boat magically reinflates itself.
 - While Bender water-skis behind his team's boat, in the close-up of
   Gearshift in the back of the boat, his rope disappears.

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= Extended Goofs / Technical Nitpicks =

>> There Will Come Complaints

Jerry Cornelius:  Well ... I was a little disappointed.  Mars doesn't
   have has much gravitational pull as the Earth here and I didn't see
   anyone walking around with a lighter, bouncier step.  Ruined
   everything for me.  [Sarcasm  -ed]

Brent Allison:  Perhaps, in the process of the terra-formation of Mars,
   an electomagnetic field was added to the planetary core.  In the
   process, Mars Customs demands that all visitors, residents and
   illegal humans wear magnetic strips on the soles of their shoes.
   It's the only way I can think of to explain the tacky theme park
   on the moon as well.

Dave Antonoff:  Density?  Aha!  That's why they weren't bouncing around
   on Mars.  Its density was increased so the gravitational pull would
   match that of Earth!  ... so what's sarcasm?

Mike Zaite:  I'd say they inject Dark Matter into the core of the planet
   to increase it's gravitational field as part of its terra-forming.
   The moon probably just used Artificial Gravity.

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= Reviews =

Jason Barrera:  This might actually be the tamest episode to date,
   garnering only a TV-PG (The Simpsons even gets a TV-PG-D usually).
   Nevertheless, it was great, if not the greatest.  Fry and Guenter
   were hilarious in their petty rivalry, as was Farnsworth's general
   senility.  The only thing it lacked was the irony present in a lot of
   the best episodes of "The Simpsons" -- the nerds of Robot House ask
   Bender to teach them how to be cool without a trace of irony in that
   cliched message.  The new musical score that Christopher Tyng seems
   to have adopted worked well for a change of pace.  (A-)

Haynes Lee:  This had two subplots in it and Guenter was a bit weak.  It
   should have been more of the Robot Frat.  (B-)

Patrick McGovern:  _That sucked_.  Every single Futurama was gold up
   until this tragedy.  Fry's plot sucked, the characterization was way
   off, but that was nothing compared to the "Animal House" parody.
   Why, Matt, why?!  All it amounted to was a bunch of boring, lame,
   immature jokes with coincidence wrapped around it.  After a good
   opener, it looks like Futurama has finally hit a bump.  I don't think
   it will be commonplace, but it still sucked.  (D)

Yours Truly:  I agree this may have been one of the corniest Futurama
   episodes to date, but let's not go nuts ... it still did a great job
   at tying some standard story with some heavy science fiction ideas.
   Bender's plot was funny, but I wish he'd have some more interaction
   with the crew itself this season.  Guenter's story was an interesting
   idea, but was full of holes and pathos that didn't quite make sense,
   and became preachy near the end.  All the elements of a fine episode
   were there, but the final product was quirky and didn't really work
   well.  (C+)


Average Grade:  [27/4=6.75]  (C+)
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= Final Thoughts / Comments =

>> Trivial Title Sequence Minutiae

Jason Barrera:  The opening music seemed to be gleaned from a different
   portion from the same piece of music by Christopher Tyng, and then
   spliced down to fit into the opening sequence.


>> No transmitido en HTML en SAP

According to Brian Tivol, the abbreviation 'SAP' stands for:  Second
   Audio Programming.  It strikes me as being very useless, but
   apparently, when they were revamping the broadcast signal to include
   something like stereo sound, they wound up with extra room for this
   feature.

   Newer TVs have the option to listen to the SAP track instead of the
   normal sound track.  Many syndicated TV shows let you switch to hear
   the show in Spanish -- but that's not what the "S" in "SAP" stands
   for.  Many PBS shows use the SAP to have a narrator describe the
   scene for any blind audience members.  A vast majority of the shows
   don't use it at all, and leave the SAP as a copy of the normal
   soundtrack.

   Anyone actually check to see what the SAP for that episode actually
   was?

Nicolás Di Candia:  SAP is very useful in non-English speaking
   countries, where the shows are (usually) broadcast in the local
   language, and the SAP hosts the original versions.  In the case of
   Futurama (and also The Simpsons) it's the only way to watch the show
   without the _awful_ Spanish dubbing.

   There's an episode of Friends that parodies the dubbed versions /
   SAP.  It's "The One With Two Parts," from the first season, and its
   tag features the characters speaking dubbed Spanish.  It was also
   parodied in "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me."

   BTW, Martian in Spanish is "marciano."


>> Knowledge brings fear ... especially in the form of lengthy capsules

Adam King:  Mars University's motto "Knowledge Bring Fear" is from Faber
   College's [of "Animal House"] "Knowledge Is Good."

The Mars University motto brings to mind the entrance to a WWII German
   concentration camp (Dachau) that's been depicted in old art and
   photography.  The sign over the entrance gate was written in a
   similar style and spelled the German phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei,"
   which means "Work Brings Freedom."  You can read more about it here:
   <http://www.charm.net/~rbennett/TheDachauGate.html>.


>> You mean you've never been?

Rick Carlson:  The line about the 20th Century having no clue that Mars
   had a University is an inside joke to the internet community at
   large.  Mars University has it's own internet address domain
   reserved.  Click on the following link to get the full story:
   <http://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/staff/snewton/tcp-tutorial/sec7.html>

   I've been on the 'net for years, being a Unix programmer for almost
   17 years now.  I was expecting a reference, and I was not
   disappointed.

   One of the sources is:  "Details about Internet addresses: subnets
   and broadcasting" Copyright (C) 1987, Charles L. Hedrick.  Anyone may
   reproduce this document, in whole or in part, provided that: (1) any
   copy or republication of the entire document must show Rutgers
   University as the source, and must include this notice; and (2) any
   other use of this material must reference this manual and Rutgers
   University, and the fact that the material is copyright by Charles
   Hedrick and is used by permission.

   Because 0 and 255 are used for unknown and broadcast addresses,
   normal hosts should never be given addresses containing 0 or 255.
   Addresses should never begin with 0, 127, or any number above 223.
   Addresses violating these rules are sometimes referred to as
   "Martians", because of rumors that the Central University of Mars is
   using network 225.


>> The boorish manners of an Earthling

Steven Aaron Monroe:  Mars University was founded in 2636, exactly 1000
   years after Harvard University was founded (1636), further suggesting
   a similarity between the two universities (i.e., both are very old
   and very prestigious schools, and were both founded (presumably) in a
   colony early after its permanent settlement).


>> SOCRATES - VON SAVANT - COGNITRON

Jonathan S. Haas:  Presumably everyone knows who Socrates was. "Vos
   Savant" is a reference to Marilyn Vos Savant, the world's alleged
   (and self-described) smartest human.  She writes a column for some
   publication or other, and has made several errors in it.  Those
   errors have been pounced on by people annoyed at the smarminess
   inherent in calling yourself the world's smartest human. 
   "Cognitron", I'm guessing, refers to a robot or other thinking
   machine that lived sometime between 2000 and 2999.

Matt O'Connell:  I remember seeing this video tape in computer-science
   class in high school a few years back ... they had this  computer
   that, instead of doing the 1's and 0's thing, worked via the
   recognition of patterns ... the government wanted to use it for
   finding snipers in crowds or some such.  I believe it was called a
   cognitron ...


>> "Heavy Metal" char at Mars U. ... sort of

Michael Morbius:  At the end of the "Z" line at the registrar's office,
   there's a guy with a purple head, a white shirt, an orange down vest
   and brown boots who reminded me of Harold Ramis's character in "Heavy
   Metal" (the alien that did huge lines of "nyborg" and then said he
   knew how to drive stoned).


>> Mathematics of Quantum Neutrino Fields for Dummies

Steven Aaron Monroe:  The professor mentions the "mathematics of quantum
   neutrino fields."  Although he made it up, it seems (to me, at least)
   to be a possible subject which studies how neutrinos are released
   from particles.  It doesn't sound very interesting, though.

   Professor Farnsworth mentioned the "taste" of an electron.  Although
   it would be easy to dismiss this as a ridiculous joke, we should
   remember that physicists have applied some interesting qualities and
   names to quarks, the subatomic particles that create hadrons (i.e.,
   protons, neutrons, mesons, etc.), including "flavor," "color,"
   "charmed quarks," "strange quarks," etc.  It is possible that "taste"
   could be some new aspect of subatomic particles that we have not yet
   discovered.  (NOTE: in this case, "taste" is not meant in the normal
   sense)

   I'd like to make a comment: any scientific inconsistencies that can
   be found in "Futurama" may be rationalized and explained by two
   ideas:

     1. Most of the scientific explanations come from Farnsworth.  Any
        mistakes can be blamed on his senility.

     2. Matt Groening has artistic license and can bend the   laws of
        physics, chemistry, biology and reality in general to make a
        point (or a joke).


>> To ERR is robot

Haynes Lee:  The Greek capital "rho" (equivalent to "R") actually looks
   like the letter "P" in our Roman alphabet.  The frat letters should
   be "EPP," but this is less funny.

Daniel B. Case:  I also like that Robot House's letters —- Epsilon Rho
   Rho -— spell out "ERR," as in "error."

Brian Tivol:  As long as we've had the "What does a capital rho really
   look like?" discussion elsewhere in the group, I don't mind saying
   that the sixth "digit" [of Chrissy's phone number] is a lowercase
   lambda.  [Fen Phen recognizes it as "the Greek letter used in Half-
   Life."]

Although people may say the number looks like none of the 10 digits
   we're used to, and therefore must be something more obscure, like a
   lambada, I still maintain that it's a hastily drawn "2."  Who has the
   nerve to actually ask a producer?  <g>


>> Do you think you could be a little _less_ evil than that?

Ceci M.:  In "Mars University," I think you see another side of
   Professor Farnsworth.  It seems like he's not the "absent-minded
   professor" type anymore -- especially with the way he treated Guenter
   during the show.  He seemed more like a villain.  What does everyone
   else think about this change?

Jason Barrera:  Farnsworth has always been sort of a stereotype of the
   "mad scientist"-types in sci-fi cinema.  He's always been something
   of a sadist, especially with sending OFC on some dangerous mission
   every week.

Baron Calamity:  From the first episode we knew that [he] has a habit of
   going through crew members.  We are talking about a society that
   doesn't value life much.  So he is probably as good natured as anyone
   can be.  He at least he gave them a _job_.

Mike Zaite:  Am I the only one who thought Leela and Fry seemed badly
   portrayed in this episode?  Was it written by a new writer or
   something?  [No, it wasn't.  -ed]  They sort of seemed to be there
   just to take up space and to bounce a few jokes off of.  Anyone's
   thought's on this?

Jason Barrera:  I thought so too -- this episode had a lot less
   substance and depth to the characters than last week's.

Ceci M.:  Maybe the reason why is that it was supposed to introduce
   another aspect of the year 3000 we haven't seen.  In past episodes,
   life on Mars has been talked about between certain characters.  And
   of course, Mars University has always been evoked from time to time
   throughout the show.  But we haven't seen what these places were like
   until this week's episode.  So, I tend to see it as another way to
   set up future plotlines to add to the panorama of Futurama's world
   within the program.

   So, the main characters might figure into the plot ... but not in the
   conventional way we're used to seeing them.


>> "Can't talk -- thinking about Amy."

Don Del Grande:  According to the end, Fry dropped out and went back to
   his job -- but what about Amy?  Did she drop out as well?  Maybe the
   university gave her a degree in exchange for yet another Wong
   contribution?

Benjamin Robinson:  To borrow the term used be the computer-standards
   committees, Amy's behavior is not defined.  That is, she might have
   dropped out, she might have graduated magna cum laude, or something
   else might have happened [*].  Whatever it was, the writers didn't
   feel it was important or funny enough to show.

   Personally, I think Amy will be a MU student for some time.  She's an
   engineering intern, after all, and this gives her an excuse to be on
   the PX crew.  It also explains why she might be _absent_ from a
   mission, like the one to Vergon 6: we can just assume she had a class
   that day.

   [*] "Up to and including World War III."


>> Last, and probably least ...

Adam King:  A little aside, if a statue of a person is on a horse with
   both feet up, he died in a war, if one foot, he died from wounds
   gotten in a war, and all feet down, he died of something else.

Jason Barrera:  The Macintosh-ish computer in the robot "panty raid" is
   outdated even by today's standards.  No wonder it keeps crashing.
   (Naughty, naughty computer!)

Mike Zaite:  I thought that was wrong.  I always thought it was a comedy
   convention that talking monkeys speak in a British accent.  Or is
   that just for Chimpanzees?

Jason Barrera:  Both the 10/3/1999 episodes of "The Simpsons" and
   "Futurama" had instances of characters being subjected to electric
   shocks.  Matt Groening must think they're funny.

Joe Klemm:  Lite-Brite is a toy created by Hasbro.  Kids make pictures
   and signs by placing colored pegs in a screen.  To make the toy even
   neater, you can plug [it in and] turn on a light that makes the pegs
   light up.

Bender and his buddies sure have their work cut out for them if they
   expect to take a road trip to Tiajuana from Mars.

Don Del Grande:  They never show Kappa Kappa Wong sorority.

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= Fun Stuff =

>> References to Previous Episodes

   - [1ACV01] Fry reduced to screaming at the push of a button
              (Probulator cf., Classroom)
   - [1ACV03] Fry: "Booooring!" cf., Amy: "Booooring!"
   - [1ACV03] Fry eats an amoeba  (?)
   - [1ACV03] Fry is roommates with a non-human
   - [1ACV04] Creature with a ferocious appetite  (Nibbler cf., Fat-Bot)
   - [1ACV10] Leo and Inez first appear
   - [1ACV10] Bender operates underwater


>> Fan-made Alternate Titles for this Episode

   "I, Primate"
   "Mechanical House"  {hl}
   "The Ape in the Hat"

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= Voice Credits =

>> Starring

   Billy West ........................ Farnsworth, Fry, Gearshift, Carny
                                               Operator, Instructor, Leo
   Katey Sagal ................................................... Leela
   John DiMaggio ................... Bender, Oily, Carny Professor, Chet

>> Guest Starring

   Tress MacNielle ............................. Guenter, Intercom voice
   Dave Herman ....................... Fat-Bot, Meiderneyer, Dean Vernon
   Lauren Tom ............................................. Amy, Chrissy



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= Contributers =

{ak}  Adam King                     {jlm} Jesse Leon McCann
{bb}  Bronco Bob                    {jph} John P. Hayes
{bt}  Baykent Tukeli                {jr4} Jonathan Reed
{da}  David Antonoff                {mb}  Matt Bard
{dbc} Daniel B. Case                {mm}  Michael Morbius
{ddg} Don Del Grande                {rc2} Robert Castillo
{fp}  Fen Phen                      {rm2} Ryan Mead
{hl}  Haynes Lee                    {sam} Steven Aaron Monroe
{jb}  Jason Barrera                 {trl} Team Rocket Leela
{jk}  Joe Klemm                     {zb}  Zapp Brannigan
{jl4} Jeff Lester

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properties 30th Century Fox.  Lawyers  ===== Revision C    : 13-Mar-2000
Bring Fear.  By Jordan "MU" Eisenberg. ===== E-mail me: <jedraw@aol.com>