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Episode Number: 3ACV07
Title: The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
Original Airdate: February 18, 2001
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Plot
Quotes
Leela: So, your real name is Lord Nibbler? That's a coincidence.
Nibbler: That name is for your sake. In the time it would take to pronounce one letter of my true name, a trillion cosmoses would flare into existence and sink into eternal night.
[Leela laughs and pinches Nibbler's cheek.]
Leela: Oh, you're all so cute!
Ken: No, we're not. [He pulls his hood off.] We Nibblonians are an ancient and powerful race. Behold. [A hologram appears above his head and changes as he narrates.] When the universe was forged in the crucible of the Big Bang, our mighty race was already 17 years old.
Leela: Awwww!
[Leela stares at Queequeg, plays with her hair and sways in the manner of one torn between shyness and great interest]
Leela: Is there a Mrs. Queequeg?
Fry: Take that! And that! This sentence I don't understand but take this one!
References
- A number of books are referred to in the library, including The Hardy Boys (Fry: "too easy"), Nancy Drew (Fry: "too hard"), The Bonfire of the Vanities (Fry: "Perfect!") Moby Dick, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Pride and Prejudice.
- The name for The Hall of Forever is probably a reference to the famous Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The City on the Edge of Forever", which features the Guardian of Forever.
- By the 30th C, Stephen King titles from A - Aardvark have their own room in the library.
- The giant brain makes reference to the Dewey decimal system.
- The title is a reference to the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still. The Simpsons also referenced this film in the Treehouse of Horror story "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid".
- At the pet show, there is a booth advertising "Soylent Chow," a play on "Soylent Green." The logo is a dog's head inside a recycle symbol.
- "The Civilization of Space Rome," one of the planets Hermes says was destroyed, could be a reference to the TOS episode Bread and Circuses.
Miscellaneous Trivia
- The title of the book Fry wrote is "Fry Defeats The Brain"
- An episode of Fairly Odd Parents also features a similar sequence of events where the characters are transported through many books, including Moby Dick and Tom Sawyer.
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