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| − | |airdate = August |
+ | |airdate = August 15, 2012 |
|subtitle = There's No Bismuth Like Show Bismuth |
|subtitle = There's No Bismuth Like Show Bismuth |
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|cartoon = TBA |
|cartoon = TBA |
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| − | |preceded_by = [[Free Will Hunting]] |
+ | |preceded_by = "[[Free Will Hunting]]" |
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+ | |followed_by = "[[31st Century Fox]]" |
| + | |director = Lance Kramer |
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| − | |writer = [[Eric Horsted]]|image = [[File:Near-Death_Wish.jpg|250px]]}} |
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| + | |writer = [[Eric Horsted]] |
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| + | |image = [[File:Near-Death Wish.jpg|300px]] |
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| + | |guests = [[Estelle Harris]] |
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| − | {{PAGENAME}} is the tenth episode of production season seven and [[season 9 (broadcast)]]. |
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| + | [[Fry]] wins an award for Best Delivery Boy and is disappointed when the [[Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] doesn't show up for the award ceremony. The next morning, the Professor explains his reason for not being there was that he had come down with "a searing case of 'Who gives a crap?'". Upset with how the Professor treats him, Fry says that he wishes he had more family, to which [[Zoidberg]] replies that the Professor's parents are still alive in an old-age home called the Near-Death Star. |
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| − | Fry wins an award for Best Delivery Boy and wanted to thank The Professor for being there, but he didn't show up. The next morning The Professor explains he didn't show up because he "Caught a bad case of who gives a crap.". Upset with how the Professor treats him, Fry says that he wishes he had more family, to which Zoidberg mentions that The Professor's parents are still alive on the Near Death Star to which Fry, Bender and Leela all go to visit. After finding them, Fry nicknames his realitives "Gram-gram" and "Shabi-doo". The crew enters the virtual reality and discovered that they live in a run down virtual retirement home. Fry connected with his relatives and when he left, she kissed them goodbye to where one of the Life Support system plugs fell off and the security considered it "Elder Abuse" and began attacking." Leela grabbed Gram-gram and Shabi-doo and used them as batteries and escape. After been taken to Planet Express, the eldery couple are see their son for the first time in years and he tells them he doesn't want to see them again.Soon after Fryspends time with Gram-gram and Shaba-doo, not realising that The Professor is watching them. While they are spied on, Leela and Amy noticed the Professor's behavior and he tells them while bathing that his parents never cared about his life and how they ruined his dream of going to a college he was accepted in at age eleven by moving to a farm. He runs off into the street completely nude and returns to the old farm he grew up in. His parents, Fry, Leela and Bender go to the farm and The Professor's parents confess he had a brother named Flyod who wanted to be a scientist but had nightstirs which is why his parent's never had time for Hubert. They explain that Flyod tried to run away but went insane and was sent to the Insane Asylum. After a moment of confusion, the elderly couple realize that Hubert was the one who went to the insane asylum and Floyd became a rodeo clown. After reconiling with his parents, Bender mentions a homeless rodeo clown came to the door at the Planet Express building a few years ago but was interupted by Fry. Gram-Gram and Shaba-doo return to the Near Death Star where the Professor upgrades the virtual reality into their old farm. The Professor then presses a button which regains his and his parents youthful appearances and they play together one last time. |
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| + | Fry, [[Bender]] and [[Leela]] all go to visit the elder Farnsworths, Ned and Velma, and find that they live in a run-down, virtual retirement home where their bodies are used as batteries (which, Leela says, is an idea they got from the old movie, ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix The Matrix]''). The crew enters the virtual reality, and Fry connects with his relatives, whom he nicknames "Gram-gram" and "Shabadoo". As they are preparing to leave, Fry kisses them goodbye but accidentally knocks one of the electrical plugs of their life-support system out of its socket. The automated security considers this "Elder Abuse" and begins attacking. Finding the cheap batteries in their vehicle dead, Leela grabs Gram-gram and Shabadoo and uses them as batteries to escape. |
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| + | They take the elderly couple to [[Planet Express]], where they see their son for the first time in years, but to everyone's surprise, the Professor angrily tells them he doesn't want to see them again. Leela and [[Amy]] confront him about his sullen behavior while he's in the bathtub, and he tells the story of his childhood: According to Hubert, his parents never cared about his life, never spent time playing with him, and ruined his dream of going to college at age eleven by moving to a farm and not permitting him to leave. He runs off into the street completely nude and returns to the old farm where he grew up. |
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| + | Fry, Leela, Bender, Gram-gram, and Shabadoo follow Hubert to the farm, and the Professor's parents tell him that he had an older brother who wanted to be a scientist. Although brilliant, the brother was mentally unstable and had frequent night terrors, keeping the parents up at nights to care for him. This was why they were always too tired to play with their children during the day. After running away, the brother had ended up in a mental institution ("on a full whack-a-demic scholarship"). However, when they finally mention the brother's name, Hubert, it becomes clear they were talking about the Professor himself, having mistaken him for his younger brother, Floyd. Floyd had left home to pursue his dream of being a rodeo clown. Gram-gram and Shabadoo never knew that Hubert had gotten out of the mental institution 25 years later. |
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| + | Reconciling with his parents, Hubert offers to accompany them back to the Near-Death Star. Bender mentions that a homeless rodeo clown named Floyd had come to the door of the Planet Express building a few years earlier, but Bender is interrupted, and no one hears him. Back at the Near-Death Star, Hubert enters their virtual home with them and shows them that he has reprogrammed it to be an exact duplicate of their farm. At this point, Hubert's virtual avatar changes to him as a child, those of Gram-gram and Shabadoo become younger versions of themselves, and the three play together happily. |
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"Near-Death Wish" is the tenth episode of production season seven and season 9 (broadcast).
Synopsis
Fry wins an award for Best Delivery Boy and is disappointed when the Professor doesn't show up for the award ceremony. The next morning, the Professor explains his reason for not being there was that he had come down with "a searing case of 'Who gives a crap?'". Upset with how the Professor treats him, Fry says that he wishes he had more family, to which Zoidberg replies that the Professor's parents are still alive in an old-age home called the Near-Death Star.
Fry, Bender and Leela all go to visit the elder Farnsworths, Ned and Velma, and find that they live in a run-down, virtual retirement home where their bodies are used as batteries (which, Leela says, is an idea they got from the old movie, The Matrix). The crew enters the virtual reality, and Fry connects with his relatives, whom he nicknames "Gram-gram" and "Shabadoo". As they are preparing to leave, Fry kisses them goodbye but accidentally knocks one of the electrical plugs of their life-support system out of its socket. The automated security considers this "Elder Abuse" and begins attacking. Finding the cheap batteries in their vehicle dead, Leela grabs Gram-gram and Shabadoo and uses them as batteries to escape.
They take the elderly couple to Planet Express, where they see their son for the first time in years, but to everyone's surprise, the Professor angrily tells them he doesn't want to see them again. Leela and Amy confront him about his sullen behavior while he's in the bathtub, and he tells the story of his childhood: According to Hubert, his parents never cared about his life, never spent time playing with him, and ruined his dream of going to college at age eleven by moving to a farm and not permitting him to leave. He runs off into the street completely nude and returns to the old farm where he grew up.
Fry, Leela, Bender, Gram-gram, and Shabadoo follow Hubert to the farm, and the Professor's parents tell him that he had an older brother who wanted to be a scientist. Although brilliant, the brother was mentally unstable and had frequent night terrors, keeping the parents up at nights to care for him. This was why they were always too tired to play with their children during the day. After running away, the brother had ended up in a mental institution ("on a full whack-a-demic scholarship"). However, when they finally mention the brother's name, Hubert, it becomes clear they were talking about the Professor himself, having mistaken him for his younger brother, Floyd. Floyd had left home to pursue his dream of being a rodeo clown. Gram-gram and Shabadoo never knew that Hubert had gotten out of the mental institution 25 years later.
Reconciling with his parents, Hubert offers to accompany them back to the Near-Death Star. Bender mentions that a homeless rodeo clown named Floyd had come to the door of the Planet Express building a few years earlier, but Bender is interrupted, and no one hears him. Back at the Near-Death Star, Hubert enters their virtual home with them and shows them that he has reprogrammed it to be an exact duplicate of their farm. At this point, Hubert's virtual avatar changes to him as a child, those of Gram-gram and Shabadoo become younger versions of themselves, and the three play together happily.