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Trivia[]

  • The title for this episode is a pun on the title of the 70s television show The Bionic Woman.
  • The circumnavigation of the globe by the Planet Express Ship passes by some notable landmarks: Golden Gate Bridge, St. Louis Gateway Arch, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. After the ship smashes a gap in the Great Wall of China, an invading Mongol horde immediately passes through it.
  • Gangs of savage children and adolescents are found throughout science fiction, including films such as Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Escape from New York, Escape from L.A., and Logan's Run. Also, a similar concept is featured in the Star Trek episode "Miri". Predating all of these, and notable as the decline into savagery is the entire subject of the book, is Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It's interesting to speculate whether the Lost Boys of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan play and books fit into this category.
  • When meeting the man who wanted to see Shakespeare met Fry, he assumed time was cyclical, yet Fry said it wasn’t. He was proved wrong in "The Late Philip J. Fry".
  • The painting tattooed on Sal's stomach, which was previously shown in Fry's apartment in "A Fishful of Dollars", is done in the style of 1980s pop-artist, Patrick Nagel.
  • While Fry is deciding which celebrity to unfreeze for his amusement, "Weird Al" Yankovic can be seen in the middle capsule. Yankovic regularly shows this clip in his concerts.
  • The 30th century sign on the building of the Museum of Modern Art reads "Museum of Really Modern Art".
  • The hand prints on the Avenue of the Stars include some real 20th century actors: Clark Gable, Calista Flockhart, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and James Mason, the last possibly an ironic reference to the fact that James Mason was thrice nominated for an Oscar but never won one. Fictional 30th century celebrities from other Futurama episodes are also represented: Slurms MacKenzie and Calculon.
  • This is the last episode to air in 2000.

Censorship[]

  • Following the Norway terrorist attacks in July of 2011, the scene where Bender has a severed arm that used to belong to the Prime Minister of Norway was changed to the arm once belonging to a chainsaw juggler in free-TV syndication, on the DVD re-release of the series, and in cable reruns on Comedy Central and SyFy Channel (when the show was on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in the mid-2000s, it was uncut). The Netflix American feed once had the "Prime Minister of Norway" cut of the episode, but when they added the last season of the show and rearranged the episodes by broadcast order, the "Chainsaw Juggler" version was used instead (which is also the version currently showing on Hulu). The original DVD version (not the re-release) has the original "Prime Minister of Norway" screen.

Background Notes[]

  • As well as being voiced by a different actress, Kath Soucie, in "Space Pilot 3000", Michelle's hair was black. In this episode, her hair is changed to brown.
  • Michelle first met Bender when he walked in on her and Constantine in Bender's Big Score, though it's possible she thought it was a cheesy costume. However, it's possible Michelle screamed because she recognized him.
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