No edit summary |
|||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| + | {{Tab}} |
||
| − | |||
{{Infobox television episode |
{{Infobox television episode |
||
Revision as of 20:05, 27 May 2010
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||||
"I, Roommate" is the third episode of Season One of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on April 7, 1999. The episode was written by Eric Horsted and directed by Bret Haaland. The plot focuses on Fry and Bender's search for an apartment after deciding to become roommates and the various difficulties they have in finding a place that is acceptable to both of them.
Plot
Since his arrival in the future, Fry has been living in the Planet Express offices, eating everything, using the chemical burn shower and drying his hair with the Planet Express ship's engines, giving him huge doses of radiation. Fry's presence is disrupting business . When Fry eats the Professor's alien mummy it is decided that Fry has to go. After being physically removed from the office, Fry moves in with Bender.
Several days later, Fry discovers that he can't take living in Bender's 2 cubic meter apartment, and the two begin a search for living space that will satisfy them both. But ultimately, they are unsuccessful until one of Professor Farnsworth's colleague's dies. Fry and Bender lease his old apartment, with Bender living in the closet.
"Please, Bender. Have some malt liquor. If not for yourself, then for the people who love you."
After discovering his antenna interferes with the building's televisions, Bender is forced to relocate back to his old residence, but Fry stays put. Distraught at the separation from his friend, Bender goes on a self-destructive sobriety binge, eventually cutting off his own antenna to live with Fry.
Out of concern for Bender, Fry moves back into Bender's old apartment (after recovering benders antenna). Then discovers that Bender's over-sized closet (bigger than a human sized bedroom) has more than enough room for a human to live comfortably.
References
- The title of the episode is a reference to the Isaac Asimov book I, Robot.
- When Bender bends Fry's alarm clock and drapes it over the edge of the table, the image is a reference to Salvador Dalí's "soft watches", which first appeared in his famous 1931 painting La persistencia de la memoria (The Persistence of Memory).
- When Fry is watching TV and says, "Sheesh! 40,000 channels only 150 of them have anything good on." references the Bruce Springsteen song 57 Channels (and Nothin' On).
- One of the apartments Bender and Fry look at is based on Relativity, a 1953 lithograph by M.C. Escher.
- The theme music to the TV Series The Odd Couple is heard when Fry and Bender move into their new apartment, and its iconic "umbrella staking a cigar" scene is parodied.
- When Fry and Bender are redecorating the apartment, they take down a Slurm painting that is a homage to Andy Warhol.
- One of the apartment renters has a cell phone which chirps exactly like a communicator from Star Trek, the apartment door sounds like the doors on Star Trek as well.
- Bender's apartment number, 00100100, when decoded from binary is a $. His neighbor, 00111001, is 8. The apartment across the hall, 00100011, is #.
Debut Appearances