Hmmm!
Quite good actually. I liked the mutants and how every store was a dry cleaner store. But what about all the food Nibbler ate...wouldn't that produce a LOT of dark matter?
Reference: Data's Emotion Chip
Other references:
Toy Story
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Ingredient for Bender's cake: Third and a third and a third.
Of course, a Harlem Globetrotters reference with Bender's spinning of his head.
The sewer cover had "The PJ's" and a picture of the main character on it.
Nice reversal of the Act Four "now we have all learned our lesson" cliche'. "Goodbye, losers!" During most of the run of Nextgen I used to announce "PLEASE REMAIN SEATED UNTIL THE MORAL OF THE EPISODE HAS COME TO A COMPLETE STOP." For some reason, I am no longer married....
I fully expected Nibbler to eat the monster. I mean, when you can eat anything, what are you afraid of?
I'm an afficianado of Urban Legends, and the end of this episode is a great riff on the whole thing. "Oh, that's just a suburban legend!"
The title comes from a Motown song - I forget which artist.
One of the pets in the vet clinic (owned by a robot) was a Rust Monster from Dungeons and Dragons
How come when Bender was picked up by the giant can opener's magnet he didn't start folk singing? :-)
Re the Motown artist:It was Smokey Robinson & the Miracles.
I think one of the mutants was the Great Mutato from X-Files.
I liked the shot in the pet shop of the guy with a pet cat & next to him was catwoman with a pet human.
Bender's oven was an EZ Bake Oven.
The girl mutant sounded like she was doing an old Gilda Radner character from Saturday Night Live, and I believe the mutant he talked to was named Tod which was the name of the character Bill Murray played in those sketches.
If the emotion chip was running at triple strength, and we see Bender completely unable to control himself previously, how was he able to overcome Leela's emotions there at the end to give her her 'pep' talk?
The Gilda Radner character was Lisa Lubner (sp?).
Anyone for a Tang toast?
Lisa Loopner.
For an Australian who has no idea what "The PJs" is... can someone fill me in?
It was a tv show on FOX (The network that brought us The Simpsons, Fururama, X-Files, Etc.) It stared Eddie Murphy and was about a group of people in a Housing Project (hence the title PJ-project). The opening of the show showed a sewer cover being removed that was similar to this one on Futurama.
This episode claims Nibbler is 5. We find out later he's over a thousand years old.
I believe, in one shot of the mutants, Lela's parents are standing in the background.
Are the dry cleaners a reference to "special unit 2", which hunts monsters, which are some form of mutants, and has its headsquarters in a dry cleaner?
I felt reminded of the X-files ep. "el mundo gira" about the chupacabra.
I wondered, too, why nibbler didn't eat the monster. Maybe the stuff down there made him loose his appetite?
The idea of an underground civ. beneath an underground/ sewer civ was funny, but if New New york was built above new york, plausible.
Yup. I saw correctly. On the season 2 DVD, the audio commentary confirms it. "Ding ding ding ding ding"
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