31st Century Fox
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31st Century Fox | |||||
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No. | 125 | ||||
Production number | 7ACV11 | ||||
Written by | Patric M. Verrone | ||||
Directed by | Edmund Fong | ||||
Title caption | Today's Episode Brought To You By The Letter (Alien Letter) | ||||
First air date | 29 August, 2012 | ||||
Broadcast number | S09E12 | ||||
Title reference | 20th Century Fox | ||||
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- This article is about the episode. For the in-universe organisation, see 30th Century Fox.
"31st Century Fox" is the one hundred and twenty-fifth episode of Futurama, the eleventh of the seventh production season and the ninth broadcast season.
Plot
Bender becomes the hunted after saving a robotic fox from hunters.[1]
Production
On 29 February 2012, CGEF revealed the episode's title, its writer to be Patric M. Verrone and its director to be Edmund Fong.[2][3] On 29 June, MSN TV revealed the episode's plot and air date.[1]
On 12 July, following the broadcast of the episode "Zapp Dingbat", the public were given the opportunity to participate in a live chat with the Futurama cast and crew. Several clips of "31st Century Fox" were shown during the live stream.[4]
Reception
On 30 January 2012, Eric Rogers revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either "The Bots and the Bees", "A Farewell to Arms" or this one.[5]
Additional information
Trivia
- This is the first episode (in production order) of season 7 to be aired out of order, as the broadcast order of both this episode and "Viva Mars Vegas" were swapped.
Allusions
- The episode's title is a reference to 20th Century Fox, the company that owns Futurama.
- The uniforms tried on by the crew contain many references:
- The first uniforms are stillsuits from the film of Dune by Frank Herbert.
- The red thong with suspenders is a reference to Sean Connery in the film Zardoz.
- Amy wears a uniform from Spaceballs.
- Fry wears an operations uniform from Star Trek.
Characters
References
- ^ a b c Cite error: Invalid
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- ^ Episode Guide: 7 ACV. (CGEF.) 29 February 2012. Retrieved on 29 February 2012.
- ^ "Just Fan" (29 February 2012). "Futurama: Futurama News (pre-season 7)". (PEEL.) Retrieved on 29 February 2012.
- ^ "Tastes Like Fry" (12 July 2012). "Newsarama! (Futurama News Thread)" (page 1). (PEEL.) Retrieved on 13 July 2012.
- ^ Eric Rogers (30 January 2012). Kitchelfilms. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 31 January 2012.