According to a TV guide interview, in the year 3000 Christmas is a scary holiday. You have to stay inside, or Santa Claus will get you. Sounds intriguing.
Hilarious! It was sweet of fry to try and get Leela a Xmas gift....and they seem to be doing a Mulder/Scully type joke with L&F attempting to kiss but never actually doing it!
Xmas sure has changed in a thousand years...palm trees, instead of pine, Xmas instead of christmas...Santa being a robot with his views of naughty or nice to high.
The profesor naked...GOD my worst fears come to life. LOL
A very good episode, but two questions come to mind.
Is is really believeable that in the year 3000 that brocken bones still require casts? I mean certainly by then they can be healed like in Star Trek. I have heard that even now they are coming up with theories on how to heal bones and cuts really fast.
Also if this robotic santa is this bad then why doesent the military go after him and destroy him? When Fry was shopping a vendor tried to sell him an air to Santa missle, I was half expecting someone to appear with one of those and to toast Santa.
I hope this message comes out okay--I went blind after seeing Farnsworth's backside. My touch-typing will have to see me through.
Amy and Hermes selling their hair to wigmakers to buy combs is a reference to the story "The Gift of the Magi." Not to be indelicate--but for hair to be suitable for wigmaking, it has to be well oiled. As in, unwashed.
What a great time for television. Sure, most of it is junk, but when else would you see Santa's belly wiggling like a bowlfull of nitroglycerine? And this in the same week that gave us "Is that an orgasm friend?" over on Buffy.
Happy holidays, everyone.
If Santa punishes robots as well as humans, why wasn't anyone concerned when Bender went out?
Is this the first time we've ever seen a futuristic city that had snow on the buildings?
Is is really believeable that in the year 3000 that brocken bones still require casts? I mean certainly by then they can be healed like in Star Trek. I have heard that even now they are coming up with theories on how to heal bones and cuts really fast.
True...but maybe some macho guys forego the bone healing treatment because they know hot chicks will feel sorry for them and fall all over them like Amy did with those guys.
Also if this robotic santa is this bad then why doesent the military go after him and destroy him? When Fry was shopping a vendor tried to sell him an air to Santa missle, I was half expecting someone to appear with one of those and to toast Santa.
I was expecting that too...but maybe that thing was thrown in there to throw us off. ;-)
If Santa punishes robots as well as humans, why wasn't anyone concerned when Bender went out?
I think maybe the gang thought that Bender would be back before dark.
Actually, if Dr. Zoidberg is cold-blooded, he can't keep a constant body temprature, and he would be more affected by cold temperatures than warm-blooded creatures
But, RPGMaster, he wouldn't FEEL cold. He'd just get sluggish...
Anyone else notice the clock tower at the end of the episode? As everyone is singing, the camera pulls back and shows some of New New York. In the scene is a clock tower and the time reads 8:57 PM...it was exactly that time in real life too. Intersting. :-)
They've done that on the simpsons with old fashioned, non digital clocks so you could never see what exact time was indicated on the clock...but Futurama managed to tell the time to the exact minute. Good work on the part of the Futurama team! :-)
I guess I didn't notice the exact time at the end because here in the Midwest it was 7:57 pm.
The scene with Fry hanging off the clock tower was reminiscent of Harold LLoyd dangling over the street by hanging on to a clock's hands in the silent film "Safety Last".
But how did Fry grab onto the DIGITAL numbers? Usually produced by using LCD's, they provide a flat surface. I thought the sequence was really funny, though. He falls (aaagh!), grabs the number 2---3---4(aaghhh!)---5---6---7 (aaaagggghhh!).
Well since New York (and of course New New York) is on the east coast the times do match up to standard eastern time. I just found it interesting.
How did Santa, his sleigh & reindeer fit down the chimney? Imskian shrinking technology?
Santa says that Fry & Leela are bad because they don't care for the feelings of their coworkers. Later Santa says he is going to kill everyone, except Dr. Zoidberg, to whom he gives a pogo stick. Then Zoidberg begins bouncing on his pogo stick, apparently not caring about what happens to his coworkers. So once Santa kills everyone, but Zoidberg, wouldn't he then have to kill Zoidberg for not caring? (Oh, that Santa's a sly one.)
When the explosion goes off in the chimney, Santa & his reindeer are blasted up & out, but we see no sign of the sleigh.
Isn't there a reference to Oliver Twist too, when Tinny Tim holds out his empty bowl?
CONTINUITY ERROR: When Amy presents her gift to Hermes, Amy removes her hat & reveals she is bald. Hermes then presents his gift to Zoidberg, Hermes then removes his hat & reveals he is bald. However, when the Professor enters the conversation, both Amy & Hermes have their hats back on! Granted, there may have been a segment where they put their hats back on...it just looks funny.
They put their hats back on. Big deal.
Careful now, Rene.
He knows when you are sleeping
He knows when you're on the can
He'll hunt you down and blast your
ass from here to Paskistan
Ohhhhh....
You'd better not breathe
You'd better not move
You're better off dead
I am telling you dude
Santa Claus is gunning you down
Leela claims nuclear winter cancelled out global warning...Except in a fourth season episode, it's still a problem and they have to drop a giant ice cube in the ocean every year to correct it.
I believe the clock actually reads 08:57:nn (where nn is some number of seconds) without an AM or PM. This would imply that it's actually almost 9AM! Yet the sky is dark and the moon is out.
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