A Fishful of Dollars
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| A Fishful of Dollars | |
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| Episode | 6 |
| Season | 1 |
| Air date | April 25, 1999 |
| Running Time | 30 minutes |
| Directed By | Ron Hughart, Gregg Vanzo |
| Written By | Patric M. Verrone |
| Guests | Pamela Anderson |
| Storyboards By | Albert Calleros, Rodney Clouden |
| Preceded by | Fear of a Bot Planet |
| Followed by | My Three Suns |
- "Ok my friends, get ready for the most delicious extinct animal you've ever tasted."
- ―Fry
A Fishful of Dollars is the sixth episode of Futurama Season One. It was written by Patric M. Verrone, and co-directed by Ron Hughart and Gregg Vanzo.
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[edit] Synopsis
After having their dreams taken over by an advertisement, the Planet Express crew takes a trip to the local shopping mall. Trying to buy the product from his dreams, Fry realizes he is broke. At the same time, Bender is caught shoplifting and is sent to jail. Unable to pay the bail, Fry remembers he had a bank account back in the twentieth century. Surprisingly, his old bank account is still active and has been accruing interest for the past thousand years, bringing the balance from 93 cents to $4.3 billion dollars. Fry goes on a massive spending spree. He buys numerous 20th century artifacts, such as Ted Danson's skeleton, an antique robot toy, and the last known tin of now-extinct anchovies, which were fished to extinction shortly after the Decapodian people arrived on Earth. Zoidberg breaks down crying, "We kept saying 'one more can't hurt' and then they were gone. We're sorry!"
Mom, famous industrialist and owner of Mom's Friendly Robot Company, whose main product is Mom's Old-Fashioned Robot Oil, wants to secure the anchovies for her own purposes. Anchovy oil could be used to permanently lubricate robots, and therefore represent an enormous threat to Mom's business interests if the remaining anchovies were cloned. Mom uses Mom's Old Fashioned Video Friendly Surveillance Unit to spy on Fry and overhear the clue to his number.
Mom's sons Walt, Larry, and Ignar conspire with Pamela Anderson's head to steal Fry's ATM card and PIN (the price of a cheese pizza and a large soda), by tranquilizing him and making him wake up in an environment similar to the 20th century. They get Pamela Anderson to order a cheese pizza and a large soda. Now that they have his PIN they can bankrupt Fry. All of Fry's 20th century artifacts are repossessed, except the anchovies, which Fry had hidden in his sock.
After Mom discovers Fry intends to eat the anchovies, she stops interfering. Fry covers a pizza with the anchovies, and shares them with the rest of the Planet Express employees. Everyone except Fry spits their pizza out in disgust. Fry claims that they are an acquired taste. When Zoidberg enters the room, he smells a 'heavenly stench' and immediately devours all the remaining anchovy-covered pizza, and goes on a rampage screaming "MORE! MORE! MORE!!"
[edit] Trivia
- Alien Overlord and Taylor references the department store chain Lord and Taylor.
- Lightspeed briefs references Speedo.
- Farnsworth injects an egg until it explodes to explain to Fry the beaming of 30th century advertisements into people's brains; this references the "this is your brain on drugs" advertisements.
- Calvin Clone fragrance references the Calvin Klein line.
- Other references: Ted Danson's skeleton, Sir Mix-a-lot's Baby Got Back, "Historic 20th Century Apartments" sign reading "With Original Asbestos", Knock-em Sock-em Robot toy, the fictional post-2000 AD "Baywatch: the Movie" "the first movie to be shot entirely in slow-motion."
- The title is in reference to "A Fistful of Dollars" starring Clint Eastwood.
- Fry's PIN is 1077, or $10.77, the price of a cheese pizza and a soda in 1999.
- The teacher in Fry's dream can later be seen on the escalator after Bender sprays the saleswoman.
- Scruffy makes his first appearance in this episode, but he is giving Bender a massage instead of working as a janitor. However, this could be because he does not yet work at Planet Express.
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[edit] Gadgets & Inventions
- 30th Century advertisements are beamed straight via gamma radiation into people's brain as they sleep.
[edit] Foreshadowing
- Farnsworth mentions the race of Atomic Supermen he will later create in the episode Time Keeps On Slippin'.
[edit] Goofs
- It could be argued that Prof.Farnsworth could clone the anchovies, taking them out of extinction.
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