It's the 30th century, not the 23th century.
(Note from the Moderator: Oops! Corrected that!)
Wasn't the hat that made Guenter smarter an homage to the Kerwood Derby from Rocky & Bullwinkle?
I beleive the teacher of the 20th century class may have been based on the teacher from The Paper Chase.
I think the raft race was a reference to the movie Up The Creek.
Homer & Bart Simpson were painted on the front of a Coney Island fun house.
Why would students in the 30th century be using what looks like a Mac Plus? (And why would Bender & co. be so turned on by a 1,000 year old 'girl'.)
I thought Homer and Bart were stuffed toys one could win at the fair, but I wasn't paying much attention.
Dean Vernon is a reference to John Vernon, who played Dean Wermer in Animal House. He also looks like him.
I personally find the "Financial Aid Dorm" jokes fairly accurate.
Nobody noticed the statue of a "Mars Attacks" alien riding some form of beast near the beginning?
I really enjoyed this episode. It was a fitting tribute to my new college experience. Although my roommate did make a rather mean sprited joke about having a talking monkey for a roommate. Um, Bananas.)
I loved Bender drinking a keg and a crushing it on his forehead. I haven't seen a frat boy that could do that. There was something very strange about Fry and the rest of the gang wandering around the hemp jungles of Mars.
~Amos
Come to think of it, that hat does look a lot like the Kerwood Derby. Maybe Farnsworth should expect a visit from Gidney and Cloyd.
As for why the robots would be turned on by something so ancient, keep in mind that three-quarters of them are nerds.
Let us not forget the reference to the movie Good Will Hunting when Guenter acquired the female college student Chrissy's phone number, inquired as to whether or not Fry likes bananas, and slammed the phone number on the glass as he taunted, "How do you like them bananas?"
My brief assessment of this episode: Animal House stuff, good. Monkey stuff, bad. Futurama's worst to date.
Fry vows to attend Mars University and consequently drop out again. This sentence is incorrect, considering Fry had not previously attended the college and thus would be dropping out for the first time.
He was referring to dropping out again. Not at that school, but just dropping out.
The voice of the monkey sounded remarkably like the voice of Nelson Muntz from The Simpsons.
Geunter freaks out during the test, jumps on the desk and goes out through the window. Later Farnsworth says, that Geunter covered his test with [CENSORED] and handed it in. So did Geunter come back & do that or did Fry cover it with [CENSORED] in the hope of getting a higher grade?
As a snotty humanities type, I have to say that this ep contains one of my all-time favorite Futurama lines: "All I want is to be a moderately intelligent monkey in a suit. So I'm transferring to business school!" :-)
As an engineer, I like that line too!
As a teacher of business students, I find it cute too!