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============= THE FUTURAMA CHRONICLES ==== EPISODE CAPSULE =============
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Official Title: Episode Two: The Series Has Landed
Episode Number: 1ACV02 (#2)
First Airdate : Sunday, April 4th, 1999 (8:30 PM)
Written by : Ken Keeler
Directed by : Peter Avanzino
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= Additional tidbits =
Opening theme promotion : IN HYPNO-VISION
Opening theme cartoon : "Baby Bottleneck" {dga}
Subsequent Fox airdates : 27-April-99, 18-Jul-99
04-Apr-99 Nielsen ranking: Averaged 14 million viewers
27-Apr-99 Nielsen ranking: 3rd in its timeslot (6.1 million viewers)
{dga}
18-Jul-99 Nielsen ranking: 4.4% of audience (#73 for the week)
MPAA rating : TV-PG
Length minus commercials : [21:16]
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= Foxworld Synopsis =
After delivering a package to an amusement park on the moon, Fry
shows Leela how to appreciate the celestial body. Meanwhile Bender
finds a little robot romance with a farmer's daughters, which puts
the whole crew in jeopardy.
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= Minutiae =
- Did you notice how tiny Prof. Farnsworth's VCR++ cassette was? {dh}
- Prof. Farmsworth ducked when the tape started. {dh}
- Professor Farnsworth is crazy to use such a tiny egg-beater for those
giant bird-eggs.
- An interesting twist: the security gate outside the Planet Express
office looks just like those in the 20th century, but simply vaporize
when unlocked.
- Sign says "Sorry We're Closed" and "Sorry We're Open."
{ds}
- Fry's pitcher of milk is shaped like a nuclear cooling tower. {dh}
- Admiral Crunch isn't drawn in the Groening style. {dh}
- Eggs were from giant bird in commercial. {hl}
- Leela is right-handed. {dh}
- Dr. Zoidberg's chart of the human body is upside down. {dh}
- After telling Fry that everything will be alright, Farnsworth gives
a
rather unsettling hesitation on his way out.
- Dr. Zoidberg told Fry he was "healthy as a crab" = "fit
as a crab" =
"fit as a fiddle" = "fit as a fiddler crab." {ds}
- Bender has a few loose nuts and bolts. :-) {dh}
- Amy has a nice belly button. :-) {dh}
- Amy carries a wallet in her back pocket. {dh}
- From what we see of Amy's wallet, she has the "new" dollar
bills.
The peoples' faces are off-center.
- Bender looks bored during take-off. {dh}
- The Planet Express ship is started with keys. {ds}
- One of the keys looks like Dr. Zoidberg's claws. {ds}
- A man in line wears a shirt that says "MOON U."
- One kid has a helmet shaped like the moon.
- One of the park rides is missing a car. {dh}
- Amy says "G'uh" instead of "D'uh."
- Two security cameras rest outside the Receiving Depot.
- 30th century and still people are lazy. Also the clothing 1000 years
from now is not that different. {dt}
- The similar controls in the 'claw' game and the Planet Express ship
also show up by the giant magnet that 'stole' their keys. I Guess
Amy's skills improved as the episode progressed.
- One package in the receiving department is turned upside-down. {jk}
[{dh} mentions that "This side up" is written on it, but
pointing the
wrong way.]
- Did you notice the sucking sound as Bender walks? {dh}
- Did you notice the guy with the "invisible dog?" {dh}
- The robot who went to highschool w/Bender plays a drunkard (somewhat
like Bender) {mp}
- A whaler is chasing a woman. (Disney changed that a couple of years
ago for PC reasons. Now @ Disney, the animatronic ladies hold
platters of food.) {mp}
- Gophers come out of holes that look like craters. {pb}
- Their mouths move about once for every ten word spoken.
- One of the Goophy Gophers is missing an eye.
- Did you notice the "gas pump" beside the drinking fountain?
{dh}
- And the crater-shaped trashcan? {dh}
- Fry luckily manages to walk by the only window port that overlooks
the moon. {dh}
- "Honeymooners" characters are lip-synched just as badly as
the Goophy
Gophers.
- Leela probably learned the words to the Whaling Song from the
previous show, it being a "catchy tune." {pb}
- Leela wasted a lot of oxygen when she freed herself with the pump.
She didn't need to go nearly that high.
- Lazy receiving guy uses a robot arm on his belt. {ds}
- Those coin-operated prize machines could accept $100 in real life.
{dh}
- Bender stole Amy's money, but she still has some to play the claw
game with. Guess he forgot to raid the change pocket. (Or it
would've made too much noise.)
- Bender's claw hand looks like the game's claw hand; both even have
difficulty picking up things. {ds}
- One of the toys looks like a pink Binky doll from "Life in Hell."
- There was also a stuffed Kermit toy in the Stuffed Toy Machine. {jh}
- Luna Park patrol carry guns. {dh}
- The farmer's tractor-like vehicle was parked outside the barn the
whole time before we saw him use it.
- The redneck moon farmer has a gaping tooth. {dh}
- The redneck farmer's spacesuit has suspenders. {dh}
- The redneck's spacesuit has patches. {dh}
- 128K is a reference to computer memory. {hl}
- Crushinator robot speaks like the cop robot -- the mouth piece lights
up as it says words. {ds}
- I thought it was cute that the Crushinator wore tiny little pigtails.
- Not just mutated aphids: mutated -Holstein- aphids. {pb}
- Those giant menacing bugs were very still and well behaved. {ds}
- There are bales of hay sitting on the _ceiling_ in the barn.
- Did you notice Bender's obsession with hookers? {dh}
- Did you notice Bender's diamond-shaped pupils? {dh}
- Moon farmer wears his cap on top of his space helmet. {pb}
- Did you notice the Stars and Bars design on the escape lunar rover?
{jk}
- Stars & Bars on lunar rover had 17 stars. Confederate flag had
13.
Make of that what you will. {mp} [{tr} argues: "Actually, that's
the Confederate Battle Flag. Stars & Bars had two big red strips
and
one big white stripe in place of the thirteen stripes in the Union
Flag."]
- Alligators in the moon crevice wear special helmets, and leap as if
in lunar gravity. {pb}
- Nike supplies the moon boots for the park, also quite plausible,
since the "swoop" is already everywhere on earth ... {ah}
- A slow rendition of the theme song plays as Fry and Leela watch the
Crescent Earth. Those bells are really growing on me ...
- Bender is always out of breath when he runs. {ds}
- Notice the irony that their whole mission was to ship the 'claw game'
prizes to the park, but Amy ended taking nearly all of them back
home.
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= Parallels to Science Fiction =
+ "A Trip to the Moon" (movie)
- Craterface, after failing to confiscate Bender's alcohol, gets the
bottle shoved into his right eye. The image of his face is a
reference to a scene in this movie, in which a rocket ship collides
into the 'eye' of the man in the moon.
- It was done by French filmmaker Georges Melies, who was one of the
pioneers of Surrealist cinema. He was inspired by the science-
fiction works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. (FYI, the Surrealists
were a group of artists in the 1920s who based their work on dreamy
and hallucinogenic images. Members included Max Ernst, Andre
Breton, and Salvador Dali.) {jk2}
+ "Mouse on the Moon" (movie)
- Fry driving into crater - rover sinks. {mp}
~ "Sleeper" (Woody Allen movie)
- Scene of the dismembered robot heads. {hl}
~ "Star Trek" (movies/TV series)
- When we see that Captain Crunch is promoted to Admiral, and in Star
Trek (most noticably "The Next Generation") whenever we
take a look
into the 'future' the Captains are always Admirals. {mf}
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= Other References =
+ "Alvin & the Chipmunks" (TV show)
- One gopher like Simon w/glasses and mortarboard. {mp}
+ "Apollo 11"
- When Apollo 11 first landed, the phrase "The eagle has landed"
was
used. The title ("The Series Has Landed") is a play on
that.
+ "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan song, 1963)
- Sung by Bender on a magnet bender. :) {ds}
+ Captain Crunch (cereal)
- Admiral Crunch. {jk}
~ "Centipede" (video game)
- Third arcade game at the Luna Park arcade. {jk}
+ Count Chochula (cereal)
- Archduke Chocula. {jk}
~ "Dark Side of the Moon" (Pink Floyd album, 1973) {cb}
- Mentioned, [as Fry literally encounters the 'dark side of the
moon']. {ds}
~ "Deliverance" (movie)
- Hillbillies. {hl}
+ "The Delphi Bureau" (1972 TV movie)
- Hillbilly chased Bender in harvester. {mp}
+ "Destination Moon" ('50s movie)
- The place where Leela and Fry rent a rover, "Destination Moon,"
is the title of a 50's movie about a trip to the moon. {sv}
+ Disneyland (theme park)
- Pretty much the entire Luna Park area. {jk}
+ Federal Express
- Planet Express commercial {ds}
+ "The Honeymooners" (70's TV show)
- The star characters are forver immortalized in Luna Park's
educational lunar rover ride.
~ "Inspector Gadget" (TV series)
- Bender's arm stretching out reminds me of the way Inspector
Gadget's arms expanded and contracted.
- After watching an episode of Inspector Gadget the television
series, it seems that how Leela propelled Fry and herself out of
the crater using the oxygen from their tank is very similar to how
Brain pulled Gadget back to a space station while in space using
the exact same method. {jtc}
~ "The Jetsons" (TV show)
- [The Crushinator] looks like one of the robot football players from
The Jetsons. (Plus she's a Transformer.) {jjb}
+ "Liberty Bell 7" (Mercury capsule; 2nd flight
[suborbital] by V.Grissom)
- Robot daughter Lulu Bell 7. {mp}
~ "Life In Hell" (Matt Groening comic strip)
- Bunny wabbits. {hl}
~ "Little Hot Riding Hood" (cartoon)
- [Lulebell 7] looks like the "country" Red Riding Hood from
Tex
Avery's "Little Hot Riding Hood." {jjb}
+ "Moon Patrol" (video game)
- Popular 80s arcade game. {pb}
- The Moon Patrol is what throws Bender out of the park.
+ "Mortal Kombat" (video game)
- Mortal Kooperation. {jk}
+ MTV (TV station)
- Fry marvels at "the flag from MTV."
+ Nike
- "The swoosh" on the bottom of Fry's boot. {ds}
+ "Pac-Man" (video game)
- Gender Neutral Pac Person. {jk}
+ "She'll be Coming Around the Mountain" (song)
- Sung by Bender. {ds}
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= Freeze Frame Fanaticism =
>> Luna Park signs
MOON STREET U.S.A.
MOONVENIRS
Whalers of
the Sea of
Tranquility
GOOPHY GOPHER REVUE
Orlon Candy
DESTINATION
MOON
>> Luna Park merchandise
- T-shirts
I'M WITH
STUPID-
ON THE
MOON
- Bumper stickers
My other car is a porsche-
O N T H E M O O N!
- Refrigerator magnets
What part of
MOON
don't you
understand?
>> Luna Park arcade games
Skeeball
Virtual
Skeeball
Virtual
Virtual
Skeeball
DODECAPEDE
Gender-Neutral
PAC - PERSON
MORTAL
KOOPERATION
>> The redneck farmer's hat {dh}
THE MOON SHALL
RISE AGAIN
>> Plaque inside the Lunar Lander
Lander returned
to this site by the
Historical Sticklers
Society.
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= Goofs =
- When Hermes walks to work in the morning, he jumps instantly from
across the street to outside the front door.
- Prof. Farmsworth prepares eggs for breakfast but after the opening
credits nobody seems to be eating them. {dh}
- Bender's beer bottle disappears from table while Fry talks about his
breakfast. {dh}
- Leela pulls the Archduke Chocula out of thin-air. (Must be one of
those magical cereal boxes. :-) {dh}
- Bender's head is unscrewed counter-clockwise. Later (seen in the
background) when he is securing it to his torso, the movement is also
counter-clockwise. {mp}
- The interior of the rocket ship changes shape during take-off. Amy
and Bender were seated on a couch, which disappears later on, along
with both of them. {dh}
- The moon has no atmosphere so sound can't travel. {hl}
- Fry walks magically through his oxygen tube when he declares "It's
every man for himself!" the second time.
- Redneck Farmer "magically" puts on a space suit while chasing
Bender.
{dh}
- The shadows on the ground should be a _lot_ longer that close to the
dark side of the moon.
- Fry's oxygen tube disappears when Leela yells to him from insides the
lunar lander.
- The moon changes phase while Fry and Leela are in the lander and when
Amy rescues them. {dh}
- U.S. flag vanishes from landing site when Amy rescues the gang. {dh}
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= Extended Goofs / Technical Nitpicks =
>> Thirty Seconds to Pluto
James Anderson: I did a quick calculation, and, based on Fry's
countdown, the ship took 2 secs to travel the 384,400km to the moon,
giving it a (current) top speed of .641c.
>> One small step for man, one giant hole in history
Joe Lorraine: How come the heads in the museum couldn't tell the people
how we first landed on the moon?
With all the technology in the world, how could they not be able to find
something as standout-ish as the moon landing site? It took Fry and
Leela barely a day to find it, and they were travelling on foot.
>> The important thing is, they didn't claim it was made out of
cheese.
Paul Brinkley: The earth was a bit -too- lit up on the dark side, but
I'm willing to accept artistic license. OTOH, if they were just
entering the dark side of the moon (which DOES move about as fast as
the episode showed; roughly 12 mph by my calculations), the sun side
of the earth should have been facing the lunar horizon, not sideways.
Moon farmer says it gets down to -173. Fry asks "Fahrenheit,
or
Celsius?" Farmer says "first one, then the other."
According to
<http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1837/data.html>,
the temperature at night reaches -250degF, or about -155 C.
Once the night side overtook them, it should have been almost
complete dark, except for Earthshine.
Leela says night lasts two weeks on the moon. According to the page
above, the moon's circumference is 10920km. Assuming a rotational
period of about 30 Earth days, the day/night line moves about 364 km
per day, or 15kph, which comes out to around 8mph about where Fry and
Leela were outrunning it. This is about twice walking speed, which
is pretty close to how it appeared in the show.
One last science fun fact. :-) According to that page again, a
telescope on earth with an 8" aperture can resolve lunar features
.65
miles wide. To see Leela and Fry, Prof. Farnsworth would need to
resolve about a foot, requiring something like a 2300-ft aperture!
He's probably got some sort of special telescope in any case. :-)
>> They also engineer and market magic xylophones.
Any comments as to the the existence, condition or completeness of the
moon landing site as Fry and Leela discovered it are to be called
off, because a plaque on the inside reads "Lander Returned to
this
Site by the Historical Sticklers Society." For once, the writers
pick up on this sort of thing before us nerds do!
IMO, this makes the sudden disappearance of the original moon landing
site all the more unbelievable.
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= Reviews =
Ryan Irvine: I thought there were some funny things in this episode as
well as some not funny things. Bender going crazy near magnets was
pretty funny, as well as the moon farmer taking off his helmet,
stomping on it, and then suffocating. This was, however, a bit
better than the first episode. (A-)
Joe Klemm: No sooner does the show premire than Matt does a spoof of
Disney World, which was proven to be very funny. The appearances of
the whalers and gophers in the moon rover ride and the truck-like
robot daughter had me ROTFL. Let's hope Matt can keep it up and Fox
will renew it. (A+)
Haynes Lee: This could have been two episodes. The Farmer's daugters
could have been done in another non-moon episode leaving more time
for the tacky Luna Park. (B)
Paul Melnyk: When I first saw the premiere of Futurama, I loved it for
the "feel-good" content. I got into the "who cares
about comedy?!"
mood. However, this episode certainly contradicted that. The
episode basically started off with Fry complaining about random
things. For that brief second where he said "Admiral Cruch?!",
I was
excreted a laugh which was more then I had done in [S1-1/13]. I
expected a little more characterization since it was done so good in
[S1-1/13], but the humor made up for that, yet it failed with the
characterizations a little. I hope they don't get too 1D. I just
hope Fry stays amazed at space, and like "The-1st-3-minutes"
Fry.
This episode was a little less serious, but the moon monolouge by Fry
at the end saved it. (B+)
David Puckett: MUCHA BETTER!!!! Not that the premier didn't have its
share of laughs, but I think I saw a definite improvement now that
they don't have to establish the whole ... thingy ... with the show
... and the future ... n'glaven! Seriously, despite a few jokes that
just didn't seem to go anywhere, it was an enjoyable episode. The
professor's commercial was a riot ... as was Fry's "physical."
Bender's bit about blackjack and hookers was great at first, but the
second time was a bit much ... Oh yeah, the space alligators were
HILARIOUS!!!! There were about a dozen of us watching it, and there
was this sort of simultaneous "What the hell?!?" from the
whole
crowd ... THIS is why I love Matt Groening!!! This show DEFINITELY
has promise ... (B+)
Matt Rose: I think this was very well done ... now that the main
characters and setting have all been introduced, we've seen them all
settle into sort of a niche. I know I probably shouldn't draw too
many comparisons to the Simpsons, but this was like a cross between
"Itchy and Scratchy Land" and the Duff Gardens scenes from
"Selma's
Choice" (though nothing will ever be able to top the seven Duffs).
Great Disney skewering. Rednecks in space who own hydroponic farms
... I'm still laughing. Death by sonic diarrhea? This episode
really makes you think ... *will* there be a Disney-type park on the
moon in 1,000 years? Will space travel become something completely
effortless and nonchalant? It tells me that you can pretty much
watch the episode on any level you want to, and that's a Groening
trademark I hope lives on until long after he's gone. (A)
Yours Truly: Such an ingenius blend of plot, character and humor is
starting to be displayed on this show. The plot is so well-thought-
out yet can take a back seat to the great jokes anytime you want it
to, and it's still there if you don't. My only disappointment with
it is the drop in animation depth since the pilot. (A)
Average Grade: [21/7=3] (A-)
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= Final Thoughts / Comments =
>> Have they jazzed up football too?
Assuming they didn't skip any years, Professor Farnsworth's commercial
will air during either Super Bowl MMXXXIV or Super Bowl MMXXXV. The
first episode took place about a month before that year's Super Bowl
should have taken place, so we don't know if that month has passed
yet or not. (But for all we know, the next millennium's Super Bowls
could be played biannually during the summer!)
>> The Happiest Place Orbiting Earth
Gary Wilson adds: Luna Park is a popular name for amusement parks around
the world. It is a particularly popular name for parks in Europe.
Paul Brinkley says "the invisible dog leash is a popular novelty
today.
I've seen clowns walking around with it as a visual gag ..."
Robert X. Smith: I could have sworn that in Luna Park there was a door
with a little "33" to the right of this. If this is so,
this refers
to Club 33 at Disneyland, the only place in the park where alcohol
is
served. :-D
Clay Halliway: Also, the "Orlon Candy" stand ... orlon being
a
synthetic fiber resembling cotton. And this is immediately followed
by Fry griping about how artificial everthing is.
>> What part of Moon don't you understand?
Dave Sweatt: What is peculiar with the surface of the moon in the full
angle view as the ship approaches it? I can't quite put my finger
on
it, perhaps something hidden in the formations.
Dave Sweatt wonders "who has to drink that moon bug milk?"
Joe Klemm: When MTV launched in the early 1980s, it's launch began with
a rocket launching and an astronaut putting a flag with the MTV logo
on the moon. To this day, that symbol is still used as the trophy
given out by the network for the best music videos of the year.
>> Next year in our proper time-slot!
Mitch Fishman explains Bender's line "Next Year in Jerusalem!":
Since
Bender wants to go to Jerusalem to visit the Sexateria, "next
year in
Jerusalem!" is also said after the Jewish traditional Passover
meal
(this airing during the week of Passover), signifying that next year,
we'll do this in Jerusalem, but people rarely go there the next year.
Daisy May 1-28K: this is probably spelled "128K" without
the hyphen,
as 128K means 128 kilobytes, which is 1 followed by 17 0's in binary,
or more simply 2 to the 17th (2 to the anything is common when
working with computers).
>> Shimata baka ni!
Anne Bach: I am almost positive that Amy Wong screamed 'Jaam-an-a-how'
and something else ... (I have absolutely no idea how to spell that)
when she was frustrated with the toy grabber thing ... which is the
equivalent to F-you in Chinese. Sure as hell sounded like it at
least. Anyone else notice that, or if I am wrong, know what she
really did say?
>> Encyclopedia Luna
Tom Restivo quotes the Encyclopedia Britannica about the confederate
flag: "The Stars and Bars were adopted by the Confederate convention
in Montgomery, Alabama, in February of 1861. Due to confusion with
the appearence of the Union Flag after the First Battle of Bull Run,
the ubiquious Confederate Battle Flag was designed by General
Beauregard, consisting of a blue cross of St. Andrew with 13 stars
over a white cross and a red background. The 13 stars represented
the 11 Confederate States, plus Kentucky and Missouri, who were
Border States that remained in the Union, but had representation in
the Confederate Congress. It was issued in the fall of 1861 and
became adopted as the Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia in Summer
1862. Gradually, other Confederate regiments adopted the Battle Flag
as well.
In 1863, a second flag was adopted, consisting of the Battle Flag in
the upper left corner of an otherwise white flag. Finally, a third
and final flag was adopted in 1865, with a red bar added to the end,
from top to bottom, to avoid conclusion that it was a flag of
surrender.
(And I'd like to thank the Rebel Queen, who piqued my interest about
the history on the Confederacy more than this Yankee Boy thought
possible. Also, I recommend the Boston Athenaeum at
<http://www.bostonathenaeum.org> for their extensive collection
of
Confederate photos and documents.)"
>> On the Cutting-Room Floor
According to the show's producers, a scene in an early version of the
episode had the Crushinator revealing to her father that she is
pregnant with Bender's child.
>> Last, but not least ...
Jason Barrera: Bender sounded EXACTLY like my old 8086's hard drive
crashing when Fry stuck a magnet on his head. Click, whirr, smoke
comes out of the case ...
Monsanto is a real-life company which, here in 1999, specializes in
genetically engineering vegetables and/or grains for consumer use.
I'm not sure what they have to do with animatronic gophers, but
complaints directed at them are nothing new. Bioengineering tends
to
get a bad rap, and some nicknames for Monsanto are "Monsatan"
and
"Mutanto."
Aaron R. Teitlebaum: Did anyone else recognize the emblems on Fry and
Leela's spacesuits as being identical to the emblems on old Lego
astronaut figures? In recent years they've been making more
intricately decorated spaceman figures, but in the olden days they
all had the same gold planet and rocket orbit logo. At least, that's
what it looked like to me.
Larry Finkelstein: The original Mercury 7 astronauts were allowed to
name their own capsules. They agreed to end each name with the
number 7. Gus Grissom named his "Liberty Bell 7." This
is the
capsule that was recently raised from the ocean.
Dave Sweatt: Did anyone else think Fry and Leela were going to try to
kiss when she said: "Its beautiful. I don't know why I never
noticed before."
When I watched it I felt sad again for the loss of Phil Hartman --
he
should have been the one to do the voice overs for the Planet Express
commercial and the Destination Moon ride documenary.
Pablo del Moral: Apparently, between 1ACV01 and 1ACV02, someone
corrected Fry, because he says "A thousand years ago, I dreamed
of
the moon ... " or something like that. The point is that he no
longer believes that a million years passed, as he stated in the
pilot.
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= Fun Stuff =
>> Alien Language #1 sightings
Awning in Luna Park: "TASTY HUMAN BURGERS"
>> References to Previous Episodes
- [1ACV01] Bender interrupts a 'moment' between Fry and Leela
>> Fan-made Alternate Titles for this Episode
"Deep Space Fry"
"Loony Tunes" {hl}
"Moon Over My Amy" {ds}
"To the Moon and Beyond" {ri}
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= Voice Credits =
>> Starring
Billy West ....................... Professor Farnsworth, Fry, "Planet
Express" narrator, Dr. Zoidberg,
lazy guy, Bender's high-school bud,
"Monsento presents ...",
"I die
doin' what I love,"
farmer
Katey Sagal ................................................... Leela
John DiMaggio ........................... Evans, Bender, "MOON
U" man
>> Guest Starring
Tress MacNeille ................... Craterface, Gopher 1, Lulubell
7,
Daisy May 128K
Lauren Tom ...................................................... Amy
Phil LaMarr ........................................ Hermes, Gopher
2
Maurice LaMarche ...................... H.G. Blob, "Destination
Moon"
narrator, Ralph Kramden robot,
Crushinator
= Quotes and Scene Summaries =
% Fry, Leela and Bender are at the table in Planet Express HQ, with
% Professor Farnsworth lecturing them.
Prof.: As new employees, I'd like your opinion on our commercial.
I've paid to have it aired during the Super Bowl.
Fry: Wow.
Prof.: Not on the same channel, of course.
% Farnsworth inserts a mini-tape into the VCR, and the screen comes to
% life. The commercial opens with a narrator telling us how much of a
% headache interplanetary deliveries are. A horrible, gelatinous blob
% of a customer complains to a man named Evans about not receiving a
% package from Earth. Even though the man claims "I'm not Evans!"
the
% blob swallows him whole, and tells us that he should have used Planet
% Express.
% A Planet Express delivery boy makes a heroic delivery past laser-fire
% and toxic chemicals, only to be picked off the ground by a giant bird
% after the delivery is made.
Narrator: When those other companies aren't brave or fool-hearty
enough to go, trust Planet Express for reliable, on-time
deliveries!
% The _real_ Evans now presents "Mr. Horrible, Gelatinous Blob"
his
% package, and the blob congratulates him, but eats him anyway. He lets
% out a hearty belch and we rejoin that giant bird flying away with a
% Planet Express worker.
Narrator: Planet Express! Our crew is replaceable; your package
isn't. [bird screeches]
% End of commercial; back to real life.
Fry: [to Professor] Are there really giant birds like that?
Prof.: No ... no! That was all just special effects. Now, lets have
breakfast. I hope everyone likes eggs.
% The professor leaves for the kitchen, where a six-pack of enormous
% eggs sits. One hatches and the giant baby bird puts Professor
% Farnsworth's head in its mouth. We hear his muffled screams.
% End of Act One (1:11)
% A man walks towards PEHQ and lets himself in with a set of keys.
% Rather than opening, the gate in front of the door simply vaporizes.
% Inside, the crew is eating breakfast at the table. Fry talks about
% how he's never going to get used to the 31st century, pointing to the
% caffeinated bacon, baconated grapefruit and box of Admiral Crunch on
% the table.
Leela: Well, if you don't like that, try some Archduke Chocula.
[holds up a box]
% The man from before wheels a large package into the main room, and
% Professor Farnsworth greets him.
Prof.: Ah, Hermes! Crew, meet Hermes Conrad. He manages my delivery
business. Pays the bills, notifies next of kin, what have you
...
Hermes: Someone come and drop this package through the slot last
night. Now, which one of you is the captain?
Prof.: Oh my, I haven't picked a new captain. It's always so hard
to
choose.
% From Professor Farnsworth's point of view, we see Fry pointing
% anxiously at himself, Bender apathetically belching fire, and Leela
% responsibly signing Hermes' clipboard, with a salute. The obvious
% choice is made, and Leela is taken to Hermes' office to do the
% paperwork.
Hermes: Okay, captain, this is a standard legal release protecting
Planet Express from lawsuits in the event of the unforseen.
Leela: [reading] Death by airlock failure ... death by brain
parasite ... death by sonic diarrhea!?
Hermes: Ho, you don't want that.
Leela: Look, I don't know about your previous captains, but I intend
to do as little dying as possible.
% Hermes lets out a belly laugh and tells Leela to just sign the paper.
% Meanwhile, Professor Farnsworth takes Fry to the staff doctor for a
% physical. Outside the door, he warns that Dr. Zoidberg is a little
% unusual because he wears sandals. We see that he does indeed wear
% sandals, but to Fry's surprise, he's also a giant lobster.
% Farnsworth introduces the two, and when the doctor learns that Fry is
% there for a physical, he whips out some odd-looking tools. Farnsworth
% tells Fry he'll be fine, but looks back hesitantly on the way out.
% Fry and Dr. Zoidberg are now alone.
Zoidberg: Now, open your mouth and let's have a look at that brain.
[Fry does so]
No, nononono, not _that_ mouth!
Fry: I only have one!
Zoidberg: [stunned] Really? [he looks worriedly at in index card
from his pocket]
Fry: Uh, is there a human doctor around?
Zoidberg: Young lady, I am an expert on humans.
% He tells Fry to pick a mouth, open it and say something, only that
% 'something' is complete inhuman gibberish. Fry tries in vain to
% reproduce the sound, but Dr. Zoidberg interprets it the wrong way.
Zoidberg: What? My mother was a _saint_. Get out!!!
% Back in the ship's hangar, Leela watches as Professor Farnsworth and
a
% woman struggle to twist off Bender's head. When it finally comes off,
% Professor Farnsworth shakes out some wads of paper and dusts it clean
% as he carries it over to his lab table.
Farnsworth: Dear Lord, Bender, you're filthy!
Bender's head: [sarcastically] Yeah, like you don't have crap in your
neck.
% Professor Farnsworth tells the woman to give Bender a going-over with
% a cleaning pick, and as she uses it to pluck a cord inside Bender's
% headless body, her arm slips and hits Leela in the face. Per her
% question, Bender answers that it does hurt a little. Fry returns to
% the room excitedly, saying "the doctor says I'm as healthy as a
crab,"
% and they can all go into space as soon as they finish cleaning Bender.
Prof.: Fry, this is our intern, Amy Wong. She's an engineering
student of mine. [whispering to Fry] I like having her around
because she has the same blood type as me.
Amy: [to Fry] Hey, you're the unfrozen guy! From the 20th century,
right?
Fry: [smugly] Last time I checked.
Leela: Hang on, _Amy Wong_? Of the Mars Wongs?
Amy: [defensively] Look, we're not as rich as everybody says.
Leela: Uh-huh. What sorority do you belong to?
Amy: [sheepishly] Kappa Kappa Wong.
% Bender's head yells to Amy "Hey, rich girl, look over here! It's
me,
% Bender! I'm being entertaining." As his head sings meanderingly
off-
% key and wobbles back and forth, his body walks up behind Amy and
% swipes her wallet, emptying its contents into the big hole on his
% neck. Back to the singing head ...
Bender: Alright, show's over, I'm tired.
Prof.: [to himself] Ah, to be young again ... and also a robot.
[to the crew] Now, as I recall, you youngsters have a package
to deliver.
Fry: Finally! C'mon, Bender, let's mosey.
% Fry throws Bender's head to his body, and the body tries to catch it
% in its arms, but it misses. As the head rolls to a stop on the floor,
% he looks up at himself.
Bender: Nice catch, idiot.
% The package is lifted up into the cargo bay via a large, tube-operated
% magnet. The crew stand around outside the ship taking care of
% business.
Fry: So, where're we going, anyway?
Leela: Nowhere special. The moon.
Fry: The mo- [realizes] The moon? The _moon_ moon? Wow! I'm
gonna be a famous hero, just like Neil Armstrong and those
other brave guys no one ever heard of.
Amy: Ah, I love stuff like the moon! Can I come, Leela?
Leela: Well, I guess so. Just be careful. I'd like to hold off any
major screwups until at least my second day as captain.
Prof.: [warmly] Nothing will go wrong! [whispering to Leela] If
something goes wrong, bring back the blood.
% The ships engines warm up, and they're aimed towards the sky. Fry
% wants to do the countdown, and Leela condescendingly lets him. So Fry
% begins counting, but from the view outside the windsheild, we see the
% scenery zoom by fantastically, and they're in the moon's orbit before
% Fry can count down to "8."
Leela: Okay, we're here!
% Fry rushes to say the rest of the numbers quietly to himself.
% Meanwhile, the ship flies into an opening on top of a huge, light-blue
% dome on the moon's surface. When they land inside, Fry rushes to the
% hatch.
Fry: Hurry up, I want to see the moon!
Leela: Relax. It's open 'til 9:00.
% Fry gets ready to step out of the hatchway and onto the moon's
% surface, not seeing the man in front of him, or the long line of
% people the man is standing in.
Fry: That's one small step for Fry ...
Man: ... and one giant line for admission.
% Zoom out to show what these people are in line for: it's an amusement
% park! The banner in front says Luna Park, and colorful ferris wheels,
% rides and roller coasters operate behind it, all crammed inside the
% huge blue dome. "Wow!"
Fry: Um, can I have cuts?
Man: [pretends to think for a moment] Mmm ... _NO_!
% End of Act Two (4:46)
% As business booms in Luna Park, Fry is eager to reach his co-workers
% back in the parked Planet Express ship.
Fry: You're not gonna believe this, but they landed an amusement
park on the moon!
Amy: G'uh. It's "the happiest place orbiting Earth."
Fry: Well, let's go, already!
Leela: [anxiously] Fry, we have a crate to deliver.
Fry: Well, let's just dump it in the sewer and say we delivered it.
Bender: Too much work. Let's burn it and say we dumped it in the
sewer.
% Leela suggests that if everyone's finished being stupid (Fry says he
% wasn't, but urges Leela on anyway), they simply deliver the crate like
% professionals and go home. Fry's never been to the moon before, so
he
% convinces her to let them visit the park for a little while. Leela
% sends Amy to help Fry hoist down the crate, and gives her the keys to
% the ship.
Amy: Aye-aye, captain! I mean, only one eye ... I mean, yes, sir.
Um ... ma'am.
% From inside the cargo chamber, Amy maneuvers the large suspended
% magnet from before with Fry's help. She accidentally drops it onto
% her own head, and in addition to giving her a bruise, the magnet lifts
% the keyring out of Amy's shirt pocket. When the magnet finds its home
% on the roof of the crate, the keys slip inside the cracks. The
% package, with the keys stuck inside, is wheeled over to the park's
% delivery room and Fry boasts about "his first space delivery!"
The
% man at the counter is surly, lazy, and rough-looking.
Fry: [enthusiastically] Greetings, moon man! We come in peace. I
am
Fry, from the planet Earth!
Guy: Wise guy, eh? If I wasn't so lazy, I'd punch you in the stomach.
Fry: But you _are_ lazy, right?
Guy: Oh, don't get me started!
% After passing through Luna Park's turnstyle entraces, the first thing
% the crew sees is "Moon Street U.S.A." A group of animatronic
musical
% instruments dance and play for the crowds on the street, and Bender,
% liquor in hand, bumps into a mascot with a large moon-shaped disk over
% his head.
Mascot: Hi! I'm Craterface! Welcome to Luna Park ... I'll have to
confiscate your alcohol.
Bender: Better mascots than you have tried.
% Bender takes one more gulp and plunges the empty bottle neck-first
% into Craterface's eyehole. Craterface turns to the camera and muses
% that he at least still has his self-respect. But his high-pitched
% laugh changes into tears of self-pity. The girls are looking at a
% souvenir stand, with some familiar-looking impulse items, all with
% "MOON" worked into the text. Bender joins them.
Leela: Ugh, who buys this crap?
Bender: Idiots who need gifts for other idiots.
Fry: [walking towards them] Hey, I got you guys refrigerator
magnets!
% Fry places a refrigerator magnet on Bender's forehead, and Bender
% stumbles around awkwardly for a few seconds, with sparks and fuses
% coming from inside. He comes to life again, and starts dancing around
% while singing "How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down?", then
begins
% howling like a wolf. Fry promptly removes the magnet.
Bender: [out of breath] Keep those things offa' me! Magnets screw
up
my inhibition unit.
Fry: So you flip out and start acting like some crazy folk singer?
Bender: Yes. [sadly] I guess a robot would have to be crazy to wanna
be a folk singer ...
% They visit the "Whalers of the Sea of Tranquility" ride.
In it, you
% must sit in a boat as it carries you past a number of animatronic
% "whalers" against their moon sky backdrop. The whalers sing
a song.
Whalers: We're whalers on the moon
We carry a harpoon
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing out whaling tune
% One of the animatronic robots waves to Bender, and Bender covers his
% face embarrased. "Aw, geez, I went to high school with that guy."
% Now they're off to the Goophy Gopher Review, presented by Monsanto.
% The animatronic gophers take turns rising out of their respective
% craters as the audience watches.
Gopher 1: Why does a moon rock taste better than an Earth rock?
Gopher 2: Because ... it's a little meteor!
% The gophers all giggle, and Fry thinks the show is pretty week. The
% first gopher tells us to direct all complaints to the Monsanto
% Corporation. Afterwards, they purchase Orlon Candy as they pass by
% the edge of the Luna Park dome, and Fry looks upset.
Leela: What's wrong, Fry?
Fry: I dunno. This place is great and all, but it's just so
artificial. The gravity, the air, the gophers ... you might
as well stay on Earth. [Fry sees a porthole in the wall and
looks through] _That's_ what I came to see! I wanna go out
there and jump around like an astronaut. Screw this phony
stuff.
Leela: But the phony stuff is what's fun. It's boring out there.
Bender: Yeah. You're the kind of guy who visits Jerusalem and doesn't
want to see the Sexateria.
Leela: [thinking] Maybe I should take Fry on the Lunar Rover ride.
You get to wear a spacesuit and drive around on the surface,
and the line's short because it's educational.
Fry: I don't care _how_ educational it is. Let's do it!
[Fry and Leela run off]
Bender: [loudly] Next year, in Jerusalem!
% Fry is excited as their lunar rovers ride along their carefully laid
% tracks, past the loading dock and into the breezeway that leads to the
% outside atmosphere. The door shuts behind them, and the one in front
% of them opens. A deep voice comes from the walls.
Voice: The story of lunar exploration started with one man. A man
with a dream.
% The rover, still on a track, takes them past various exhibits set up
% next to the track. Over a black-and-white backdrop similar to the TV
% show "The Honeymooners," an animatronic Ralph Kramden talks
to his
% wife and gestures to the moon in the sky.
Ralph: One of these days, Alice ... Bang! Zoom! Straight to the
moon!
Leela: Wow! I never realized the first astronauts were so fat.
Fry: That's not an astronaut, it's a TV comedian. And he was just
using space travel as a metaphore for beating his wife.
% In the Luna Park arcade, a man is playing old-fashioned Skeeball.
% Next to him, there is a man playing Virtual Skeeball, wearing headgear
% and making throwing motions in the air. Next to him, Amy sits still
% with virtual headgear on, playing Virtual Virtual Skeeball.
Amy: Wow, I could swear I was really playing Virtual Skeeball!
% Bender shows up, and directs her attention to "that crate we were
% gonna throw in the sewer." Sure enough, the lazy park receptionist
is
% across the room, emptying the contents of that large crate into the
% prize gallery of a 'claw game' machine with the help of a mechanical
% robot arm. They watch the toys pile up at the bottom, and Amy spots
% the keys to their ship (that fell into the crate earlier) falling down
% among them. She isn't too happy.
Amy: Ayyah ... Leela's gonna kill me.
Bender: Nah, she'll probably make me do it.
Amy: [to the lazy guy] Mr., could you please get those keys out
for me?
Lazy Guy: What do I look like? A guy who's not lazy?
% The man walks off, leaving them to their own devices, and Amy pops a
% quarter into the machine and gets to work. She's able to grab hold
of
% the keys for a moment, but the claw drops them on the way up. She
% curses to herself in a foreign language. Back at the Lunar Rover
% Ride, the rovers are still traveling through a hall of cardboard
% backdrops on the moon's surface as the voice-over lectures them.
Voice: No one knows where, when or how man first landed on the moon.
Fry: _I_ do!
Voice: But our "fungineers" think it might have happened something
like this ...
% A cardboard spaceship opens its hatch and cardboard moon whalers slide
% out and start to sing their whaling tune. Some goophy gophers pop out
% of a nearby crater and sing along, as does Leela, which annoys Fry.
Fry: That's not how it happened!
Leela: Oh, really? I don't see _you_ with a Fungineering degree.
Fry: [sighs] This is stupid. I'm taking this thing out to the
_real_ moon.
Leela: Fry, no! This is my first mission, and I'm not gonna let us
get in any trouble. Besides, the car's on a track.
Fry: [craftily] Not for long!
% Fry grabs a harpoon out of the hands of a nearby whaler, and throws
it
% into the track in front of them so that it gets caught on a wheel of
% the rover. The rover turns itself sideways from the friction, and
% starts to move off of the track, running over a hapless animatronic
% whaler robot in the process. The mangled robot proudly speaks from
% the ground: "I die doin' what I love."
% Fry is now driving Leela around on the surface, drifting farther and
% farther away from the Luna Park dome. Leela promises him ten minutes
% before he has to turn back and apologize for being a jerk, and Fry
% gives a half-assed agreement. As he pulls a few stunts over the
% craters, he tells Leela to crank up the radio. She does, but when the
% "whalers" song starts playing again, she quickly switches
it off. Ten
% minutes pass ...
Leela: Time's up. Make a u-turn at the next crater.
Fry: [eager] No, not yet. How 'bout we go look for the original
moon-landing site?
Leela: That's crazy! It's been lost for centuries!
Fry: Well, _I'm_ feeling lucky.
% Lucky Fry isn't watching the path ahead, and sends them tumbling down
% the edge of a steep cliff he somehow missed, into a pit of quicksand.
% The rover is sinking rapidly, but Fry and Leela are still sitting
% still in their seats.
Fry: Uh ... I'm ready to go back now.
% End of Act Three (6:44)
% The lunar rover, along with Fry and Leela, is still sinking into the
% quicksand at a fast pace. Fearing death, Fry announces that it's
% "every man for himself," and jumps out, only to land in the
quicksand
% himself. He immediately yells to Leela for help. Leela takes charge,
% grabbing Fry's arm and releasing the valve in their oxygen tank. The
% oxygen pouring out propells them upwards and out of the deep crater,
% where they land on the surface outside.
Fry: You did it! We're safe!
Leela: No, _now_ we're gonna die.
% Leela proves her point when she shows that her little stunt has put
% their oxygen level near empty. Fry once again yells "It's every
man
% for himself!" and tries to run away, but the oxygen cord attached
to
% the two of their helmets snaps tight and he falls to the ground. Back
% in the arcade, Amy still can't get a tight grip on the keys. As she
% struggles, Bender walks over and shows her a stuffed-animal.
Bender: Hey, look what I won from a tourist's pocket!
Amy: Shut up, you're distracting me.
Bender: C'mon, it's just like making love. You know ... left, down,
rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor ...
Amy: [grunts] I know how to make love.
% The keys drop once more, and Bender offers his assistance. He slides
% his arm up through the prize slot and tries to pick up the keys, but
% his three-fingered hand can't get any more of a grip than the claw
% could.
Bender: Lousy arm must be rigged.
% Two members of the Moon Patrol show up behind them, and Bender looks
% awkwardly for a moment, before pointing his free arm squarely at Amy.
Bender: That's her, officers! That's the one who programmed me for
evil!
% The Moon Patrol chases Bender out of the room, and he drags his arm
% (which is now twice its normal length) on the ground behind him.
% Outside the park's dome, a hatchway opens, and Bender is thrown out
% onto the ground. He speaks his mind to them one last time while
% dusting himself off.
Bender: Yeah, well ... I'm gonna go build my own theme park. With
blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the park!
% He walks off into the emptyness, and somewhere out in that emptyness,
% are Fry and Leela, trudging along desperately in search of some means
% of survival. Fry doesn't think he can go on any further, but they
% discover a barn over the next hill. The barn and surrounding property
% are enclosed in their own small, transparent dome, just like the park
% was. Leela and Fry rush inside and pull their masks off to enjoy the
% fresh oxygen, but a farmer pulls a shotgun on them.
Farmer: Tresspassers, eh?
Fry: No, sir. We're amusement park patrons.
Farmer: Ooh, that's a wicked, sinful place. Tilt-a-whirl's okay, but
the rest is mighty wicked.
Leela: Our car broke down and we're out of oxygen. Can we borrow
some?
Farmer: [laughs] Borrow? Looky here, city girl, oxygen don't grow
on
trees. You'll have to earn it doing chores on my hydroponic
farm. You can go back to your precious theme park at sunup.
Fry: I guess we could do chores for a few hours.
Leela: Fry, night lasts two weeks on the moon.
Farmer: Yep. Drops down to -173.
Fry: Farenheight or Celcius?
Farmer: First one, then the other. And them spacesuits ain't a-
heated, so you ain't goin' nowhere 'til sunrise. You can
sleep in the barn. Just don't be a-touchin' my three
beautiful robot daughters! Ya'hear?
Fry: Robot daughters?!?!
% The farmer introduces Lulubell 7, who comes out on the barn's porch
% and yells "Yoo-hoo!" Then he introduces Daisy May 128-K who
does the
% same, and finally introduces The Crushinator. She's a large, tank
% like robot, who rigidly declares, in a scratchy voice "Yoo ...
hoo."
% Fry is intimidated. Later, the two of them are alone, milking animals
% in the barn.
Leela: I told you to turn around and go back to the park, but oooh,
_no_! The park was too _phony_! We had to see the _real_
moon!
Fry: And it was great! We got to see craters and rocks and that one
incredible rock that looked like a crater, and ... and these
fellas!
% Zoom out to show exactly what kind of animal they're milking: two
% giant bugs! They look like ladybugs, with cow-spots on their bodies,
% and each one is about ten feet long. Fry's lets out an odd "moo."
Leela: [yelling] Fry, face it! The moon is a dump. It's a boring,
dried-up wasteland, and the only reason anybody ever comes here
is for the tacky little amusement park! Can't you just accept
that?
Fry: [condescendingly] I guess I can't.
% They hear gunshots coming from outside, and through the tinted glass
% walls of the barn, they see Bender run out of the farmer's cabin
% screaming. "I'll learn you to sleep with my robot daughters!"
the
% farmer yells in pursuit, and Bender scrambles inside the barn and
% shuts the door, not seeming to care that it's all transparent.
Bender: He'll never find me in here.
Leela: [confused] Bender?
Fry: Ugh, Bender, you didn't touch The Crushinator, did you?
Bender: Of course not. A lady that fine you gotta romance first.
% The farmer shoots a bullet straight through the glass door, and the
% three of them desperately run away. After escaping out the barn's
% back door, they find a discarded dune buggy with full oxygen tanks,
% don their helmets and take off. The farmer responds in kind, and upon
% request, the Crushinator converts herself into an automobile and her
% three relatives climb aboard.
% What follows is a standard chase scene through the craters and ravines
% of the moon's surface, and the Planet Express team finally manages to
% lose their foes when they launch themselves across a large canyon.
% They lose a wheel in the process, but the farmer is unable to follow.
Farmer: Gawd-darnit, Crushinator, jump!
Crushinator: No ... Paw ... I ... love ... him.
% The farmer throws his hat on the ground and stomps on it angrily. Fry
% notes the "dark side of the moon," because an enormous shadow
is
% suddenly creeping its way across the landscape towards them. Leela
% encourages everyone to start running away from it.
Leela: [gasp] Nightfall's coming! Hurry, before we freeze.
Bender: Whaddaya mean "we," mammal?
% Bender walks contently behind the desperate mammals, as they continue
% to hop in endless retreat from the approaching shadow. From a view
in
% his telescope back on Earth, Professor Farnsworth is watching all of
% this happen.
Prof.: Oh dear, I really ought to do something about this! [thinks]
But I am already in my pajamas.
% Farnsworth dozes off at his observation chair, so there's not much he
% can do. Leela whines that they can't outrun it forever, but Fry has
a
% solution. He spots what appears to be the original moon-landing site
% up ahead, and they rush towards it. It sure looks to be genuine.
% Leela climbs up the ladder inside and yells for Fry to follow, but Fry
% is still preoccupied with joy. He marvels at "that flag from MTV,"
% and then compares his own footprint to Neil Armstrong's by placing his
% shoe right on top! It leaves a Nike "swoosh" symbol in the
dust.
Fry: Leela, isn't this the greatest thing you've ever seen?
Leela: [sternly] Fry, look around! It's just a crummy plastic flag
and a dead man's tracks in the dust.
% This really gets to Fry, and as if to symbolize it, that's the time
% when the moon's dark side casts its shadow over the two of them. Fry
% simply stands motionless for a moment until Leela reminds him not to
% freeze. He climbs in with her and they close the hatch, when Bender
% finally catches up with them.
Bender: Oh, no room for Bender, huh? Fine. I'll go build my own
lunar lander. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget
the lunar lander and the blackjack! Ah, screw the whole
thing.
% Bender walks off the way he came. Inside the lunar lander is a tiny,
% dark room with control panels surrounding them on all sides, and a
% small window on one wall. Fry and Leela sit impatiently in the
% center.
Leela: Well, if the oxygen holds out, we might live long enough to
starve to death.
Fry: Look, Leela, I'm sorry. I never should have dragged you out
here.
Leela: That's right, you shouldn't have. I still don't get what the
big attraction is.
Fry: [sighs] I never told anybody this, but 1000 years ago, I used
to look up at the moon and dream about being an astronaut. I
just didn't have the grades. Or the physical endurance. Plus,
I threw up a lot and nobody likes spending a week with me.
Leela: A week _would_ be a little much.
Fry: The moon was like this awesome, romantic, mysterious thing
hanging up there in the sky where you could never reach it no
matter how much you wanted to. But you're right. Once you're
actually here it's just a big, dull rock. I guess I just
wanted you to see it through my eyes, the way I used to.
% Fry looks down at the floor sadly, and when his helmet leans forward,
% the reflection of the Earth outside the window shines on the glass.
% Leela turns to look at the real thing, and they both watch the shadow
% of nightfall move across the Earth. The trademark Futurama Bells
% chime quietly, and Leela comments "It really _is_ beautiful. I
don't
% know why I never noticed it before."
% They turn towards each other for a moment of silence, and on the
% horizon line outside the window, Bender pops up running. Bender is
% running from the farmer once more, and the farmer is riding on a huge,
% tractor-like device with dozens of sharp, spikey wheels.
Farmer: You had to come back for the Crushinator, eh, robot? Well,
I
got you this time.
% Bender continues to outrun the machine, but is slowing down fast, and
% just when all seems lost, the Planet Express ship shows up in the sky
% triumphantly. Fry cheers, and Leela wonders how Amy learned to
% operate the ship's controls so well. But the view inside the ship
% answers that, because the dashboard is piled up with stuffed-animals,
% and the control stick looks just like the "claw game" control
stick.
% Amy lowers the ship's magnet, and as it dangles over Bender's head,
he
% protests furiously. He's picked up anyway, though, and as Amy drags
% him through the sky, he begins singing "She'll be Coming Around
the
% Mountain" against his will. In between verses, he shakes his fist
at
% Amy and threatens to kill her. They reach the lunar lander, and
% Bender is suddenly squashed between the magnet and the outside of the
% lander. The ship picks all three of them off of the ground once more,
% and begins flying into orbit, to freedom.
% The farmer is outraged, and having lost his hat, he now throws his
% helmet onto the ground and stomps on it. Once he starts to choke, he
% quickly places it back on. Somewhere in space, Bender is stuck in the
% middle of things, so he sings to himself some more, and some good,
% old-fashioned guitar music accompanies it.
Bender: She'll be riding 61 horses when she comes.
She'll be riding 61 horses when she comes.
Hey, I'm pretty good!
% The song continues. The ship and Bender's music fly into the
% distance, and Fry and Leela are heard speaking as the first credits
% appear.
Leela: [softly] So, Fry, was the real moon anything like the moon you
used to dream about?
Fry: Mmm ... close enough.
% End of Act Four (8:35)
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= Contributers =
{ah} Aaron Howald {jk} Joe Klemm
{cb} Chris Brewer {jk2} Jennifer Kremer
{dga} Dale Abersold {jtc} Justin Thomas Cass
{dh} Dave Hall {mf} Mitch Fishman
{ds} Dave Sweatt {mp} Mark Poyser
{dt} Daniel Tropea {pb} Paul Brinkley
{hl} Haynes Lee {ri} Ryan Irvine
{jh} John Hutton {sv} Steve VanDevender
{jjb} J. John Bloch {tr} Tom Restivo
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We're lawyers on the moon. We sing a ==== First uploaded: 06-May-1999
lawyer tune. The disclaimer's here, so ==== Revision E : 05-Dec-1999
they can't come near ... Fox owns it ==== E-mail me: <jedraw@aol.com>
all, it's true. Capsule compiled by ================================
Jordan "Tasty Human Burger" Eisenberg. ================================
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