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Fry falls asleep during his watch because he spent his sleeping time watching Flexo, when the ship lands and he wakes they discover the atom is gone, they begin to search for Flexo. | Fry falls asleep during his watch because he spent his sleeping time watching Flexo, when the ship lands and he wakes they discover the atom is gone, they begin to search for Flexo. | ||
Bender and Flexo begin to chase | Bender and Flexo begin to chase each other through the bueaty pagent, they later discovered that Bender stole the atom and not Flexo. | ||
Flexo saw Bender steal the atom and ran to tell [[Bob Barker's Head]]. | Flexo saw Bender steal the atom and ran to tell [[Bob Barker's Head]]. | ||
The atom is returned and Flexo is locked up. | The atom is returned and Flexo is locked up. |
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No. | 19 | ||||
Production number | 2ACV06 | ||||
Written by | [[Eric Horsted]][[Category:Episodes written by Eric Horsted|The Lesser of Two Evils]] | ||||
Directed by | [[Chris Sauve]][[Category:Episodes directed by Chris Sauve|The Lesser of Two Evils]] | ||||
Title caption | The show that watches back | ||||
First air date | February 20, 2000 | ||||
Broadcast number | S02E11 | ||||
Opening cartoon | "Felix the Cat" cartoon from 1920. | ||||
Sponsor | Arachno Spores | ||||
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The Story
Act I: "Shut up and get to the point!"
Bender, Fry and Leela are watching Cop Department when an advertisement for Past-O-Rama appears on the television, Bender wishes to see a time before life was cheapened by heartless machines. They look around Past-o-rama at various attractions such as a telephone booths and Al Sharpton’s burial chamber, then they come across a ancient car, Fry attempts to drive it but instead takes it through a wall. Unable to stop they hit Flexo, a bending unit with a beard.
Act II: "He's the evil Bender."
The crew are nevoursly pacing around while Bender is looking at a robot pornography book and Flexo is successfully fixed. Flexo and Bender take Fry to a robot gentlemens club where they pay a robot to give fry a lap dance which results in injuires. Fry begins to think Flexo is evil. The crew go into the Professor's bedroom to see what he has to show them, he reveals to them the atom of Jumbonoium which is so expensive, that if stolen it will cause Planet Express to go bankrupt, so the Professor hires Flexo to help out.
Act III: "And the winner is..."
Fry falls asleep during his watch because he spent his sleeping time watching Flexo, when the ship lands and he wakes they discover the atom is gone, they begin to search for Flexo. Bender and Flexo begin to chase each other through the bueaty pagent, they later discovered that Bender stole the atom and not Flexo. Flexo saw Bender steal the atom and ran to tell Bob Barker's Head. The atom is returned and Flexo is locked up.
Additional Info
Trivia
- Sponsored by Arachno Spores.
- Past-o-rama's logo is based on the Futurama logo.
- Flexo has a goatee, which is a reference to the goateed Mirror Universe Spock from the Mirror, Mirror episode of the original Star Trek.
Quotes
- Speaker: ...The stately 1992 Latura.
Fry: Hey, my girlfriend had one of those! Actually, it wasn't hers, it was her dad's. Actually, she wasn't my girlfriend. She just lived next door and never closed her curtains.
Leela: Fry, remember I when I told you about always ending your stories a sentence earlier? - Fry: How's that robot I ran over?
Farnsworth: We did all we could...
Fry: You mean he's...?
Farnsworth: Good as new? Yes!
Outside References
- Past-o-rama shows that people in the 31st century have little knowledge of the distant past a few mistakes include:
- Mammoth hunts in New York
- Star Wars 9: Yoda's Bar Mitzvah
- Appearance of primative robots
Fast Forward
- Miss Universe reappears in Raging Bender.
- Flexo reappears in Bendless Love
Characters
(In alphabetical order)
- Amy
- Bender
- Debut: Bob Barker's Head
- Calculon
- Florp
- The Crushinator
- Debut: Flexo
- Fry
- Hermes
- Jellyfish Nurse
- Leela
- Prof. Farnsworth
- Smitty and Url
- Debut: Stripperbot
- Zapp Brannigan
- Zoidberg
Episode Credits
- Writer
- Director
- Voice Actors
- DVD Commentary
- Special Guest