Good episode.
One of the Robot Elders from Chapek 9 was in the jury.
Anyone else get the feeling the court scene with Zap defending himself was a small tribute to Phil Hartman and Lionel Hutz? He defended himself just like Hutz would.
So DOOP is just like the Federation? :-) Well us nitpickers always thought so. :-)
The scene at the end was reminiscent of STIV.
"Soon, we will look back on this and laugh...HA HA HA!"
Bender to Leela after locking her in the laundry room.
The title gag said, Not Y3K Compliant. Well, since they passed Y3K during the pilot episode, they seem to be holding up very well.
So why didn't the laser damage the dome when Zapp fired the laser?
DOOP has an interesting legal system. Apparently the judge & jury were also victims of Brannigan's ribbon cutting. (All of them were injured & the judge looked like the DOOP head alien.)
So why didn't the laser damage the dome when Zapp fired the laser?
The dome was clear, therefore light could pass through it without harming the window.
Why wasn't Leela effected by the high gravity when she left the ship after the hovercart broke?
Good episode--few queries:
(1) Was the "Midnight Cowboy" reference just a little bit too obvious for "Futurama"? That seemed more like "Simpsons" territory.
(2) Is Zapp Brannigan being used a little bit too much? The character is usually funny (just like Lionel Hutz on "Simpsons" was usually funny), but I worry about overuse.
(3) "If I don't survive, tell my wife I said Hi."
Hilarious Episode.
I loved seeing Zapp and Kif as civilans. I thought this was an even better outing for Zapp than the Single Female Laywer outing a few weeks ago.
~Amos
"My gut tells me... maybe"
Didn't the Neutrals also sound a beige alert?
Mmhm. And the Neutral people talked in monotones.
I liked Leela's reaction to Kif's incessant talking about shaving Zapp's armpits...but I used to like Kif, it made a little less sympathetic to him.
"Am I to understand that you have had sex with someone in this courtroom?"
"Yes..."
"Please point to him."
*points to Zapp*
"And his name?"
"Zapp Brannigan."
I also liked the hill-billy chicken lawyer and "I'm going to allow this!"
GH
Ccabe: When light passes through clear glass doesn't it heat up the glass? Since a laser is focused light wouldn't it heat up, & possibly melt, the clear dome?
I don't remember seeing Amy in this episode, but weren't she and Kif an item at the end of A Flight To Remember?
I think they made Kif a weaker character here than he was in Love's Labors Lost In Space.
Was the hillbilly lawyer based on someone? I'm thinking maybe "Inherit the Wind", but I'm not sure.
I think it was "Matlock" - Andy Griffith's character.
It sounded a little like "Unfrozen Cave Man Lawyer" from Saturday Night Live. (Also played by Phil Hartman.)
Why wasn't Leela effected by the high gravity when she left the ship after the hovercart broke?
actually bender did make a comment about leela having a wonderbra or some type of special bra which kept her up. and if you listen carefully during the scene there is also a sound effect (the sound indicates that gravity is effecting the characters) which precedes bender's comment. also i think her breasts sag a little once she steps on the planet.
Also Leela's hair drops a bit. It points straight down and she also walks kinda slower.
Kif's spacesuit has a zipper. Wouldn't his oxygen leak out?
MikeC,
Yes, the hillbilly lawyer is based on the character played by Fredric March in "Inherit the Wind" (Sorry it took so long to answer but, I missed this episode the first time around.)
The DOOP logo is similar to the one used by the mid 1990s dance act of the same name.
The courtroom scenes are reminiscent of "Heavy Metal"... STERNN!
I thought the last setting on the laser was funny:
STUN
KILL
HYPERDEATH™
The last sentence in the show is Fry saying "Let's mutiny!" Amazingly he does it without moving his lips.
Zapp Branigan: "One day a man has everything. The next day he blows up a 400000000$ spacestation. And the next day he is nothing. Makes you think."
Kiff Kroker: "No it doesn't!!"
Did the destruction of DOOP headquarters remind anybody else about the destruction of Spaceball I? (I'm refering to the flying head of Megamaid)
I thought it strange how, despite all his complaining, and also despite the fact he looks intelligent enough, Kif seems quite attached to Brannigan. When Brannigan is fired, kif sticks with him, instead of getting a job of his own (he even has sex with ugly old ladies!). Then, during the trip, leela tries to talk with him, but kiff can't talk about anything else. He doesn't try to stop brannigans mutiny. If he had acted a little bit more independet, leela probably would have kept him instead of stuffing him into the space suit to go with brannigan. and yes, I felt sorry for him and liked him, too.
'The last sentence in the show is Fry saying "Let's mutiny!" Amazingly he does it without moving his lips.'
Actually, Leela said that.
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