Godfellas

==============================================================================
Godfellas				Written by Ken Keeler
					Directed by Susan Dietter
==============================================================================
Production code: 3ACV20			Original Airdate: Sun, 17-Mar-2002

Synopsis:
    When Bender is accidentally swept away into a space vacuum,
    he becomes spiritually inclined and makes some devastating
    decisions.  Meanwhile, Fry, Leela and Professor Farnsworth
    frantically search for Bender as he floats through space,
    and learns an important lesson from his journey.

Title Sequence

Opening theme promotion:
	PLEASE TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES AND TRICORDERS

Opening theme cartoon:
	Unknown

Did You Notice...

    ... The skull on the space pirate flag had 3 sockets as the
        pirates have 3 eyes?  {MW}

    ... Two of the three pirate captain's eyes are patched and he
        has 3 additional wooden legs?  {MW}

    ... The Pioneer 10 plaque Bender engraves on his chest is made
        "prudes-proof"?  {MW}

    ... Bender once held Fry dangling from the torch of the Liberty
        Statue? {MW}

    ... Swiss Army Knifes still exist?  {MW}

    ... Coolio was a president?  {OA}

    ... Bender has tear inducing feelings?  He only had these with
        the emotion chip before.  {MW}

    ... Bender takes the coin out of his back (or lower)?  {MW}

    ... God is not unknowing?  He has no clue where the Earth is
        at first. {MW}

    ... Rolex either still exists or their watches have a really
        long life span?  {MW}

    ... The First Amalgamated Church combines Buddism, Christianity,
        Islam and Judaism?  {OA}

    ... Helper has got eyebrows  {CF}

Voice Credits

- Starring
  - Billy West (Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Zoidberg)
  - Katey Sagal (Leela)
  - John DiMaggio (Bender)
  - Tress MacNeille
- Guest Starring
  - Phil LaMarr
  - Lauren Tom (Amy)
  - David Herman
- Also Starring
  - Maurice LaMarche (God)

Movie (and other) References

+ Goodfellas (Movie)    {ah}
   - Episode Title
+ Star Trek (TV Series)    {ah}
  - Opening promotion tells us to turn off our tricorders.
+ "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Music)    {ah}
  - The song with the drums, also known from "2001," is named after
    Nietzsche's work, which also includes the famous line "God is
    dead".
+ "Microcosmic God," by Theodore Sturgeon (Short Story, 1940)    {ah}
  - Scientist Kidder creates his own little race in an aquarium
    which thinks he's God.
+ Budweiser (Beer)    {ah}
  - Bender lets his little people brew "Lordweiser"
+ "The Nine Billion Names of God"  (Story by Arthur C. Clarke)    {ah}
  - Tibetan monastery uses technology to search for God.  They have
    worked for centuries to write out the nine billion combinations
    of their letters that could be God's name.  Then they buy a
    computer and a printer and wrap it up in a few months.
+ Twilight Zone (TV Series)    {ah}
  - In "The Little People" episode, Peter wants to be god over a
    race of little people he found.
+ The Simpsons    {ah}
  - [4F02] Lisa becomes the god of a little race.

Previous Episode References

- [1ACV08] The smell-o-scope is used again    {mw}
- [1ACV12] Lrr, the Omicronian, receives communications    {mw}
- [2ACV04] Fry mentions when Bender stole blood    {j25}
- [2ACV05] Zoidberg's smell glands overpower Bender's odor    {hc}
- [2ACV08] Bender has another body part he doesn't wear    {mw}
- [2ACV18] Fortune teller gypsy wants to sell Fry false hope    {mw}
- [3ACV11] Photo of Bender during his Napoleon episode    {et}
- [3ACV18] Fry uses an arcade video game to shoot space ships    {mw}
- [3ACV19] Ship uses its torpedo tubes    {mn}
           The pieces of Bender picked up by the army is radioactive,
           and now Bender has a pile of nuclear materials    {mn}

Freeze Frame Fun

- Malachi's wife's apron:
  Metal Lord is my Metal Shepherd

- The one commandment:
  GOD NEEDS BOOZE

- The coin Bender flips:
  Heads: Liberty - 2996 (picture of Coolio)
  Tails: MC Pluribus Unum - Word! (picture of two-headed eagle)

- Fry and Leela shop at:
  Ed's Hiking Supplies & Spelunketeria

- Bender's Bible:
 The Bible - by Bender - with Malachi

- The Porno Theater:
  Ezekiel's Nasty House

- Sign on Bender's antenna:
  Do not disturb

Animation, Continuity, and Other Goofs

Marc Wichterich:
  - The Statue of Liberty keeps changing what it has in the hand.
    This time it's the torch again (on a photo).  Usually it's a
    transportation tube.
  - The dropping bomb sound Bender makes can be heard before he
    even enters the atmosphere.

Cosmic F:
  - Why does the sack of Swag Bender is holding on to wave?  Usually
    there isn't any substance in the universe like air that could
    make the bag wave.
  - Why is Malachi hanging "down" when Bender holds him even though
    there's no gravity?  But even if Bender affected him enough,
    he would have to "hang" in direction to bender, and not to the
    bottom of the camera's viewangle when Bender turns around.
  - One of Bender's tears produces a river so big that he can put his
    own hand into it.

Joe25: The hole in Bender's head disappears later on.

Reviews

[None]

Comments and Other Observations

[None]

Quotes and Scene Summary

[None]

Contributors

Capsule authored by Tom Georgoulias with alt.tv.futurama.
Merged with capsule authored at Can't Get Enough Futurama.

{oa}  Ozan Ayyüce
{cf}  Cosmic F
{et}  edeltraut
{hc}  haley_comet
{ah}  Alan Hamilton
{j25} Joe25
{mn}  Michael Nissen
{mw}  Marc Wichterich