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Contents 1 Cultural references 1.1 Cultural references 1.2 Popular Culture References 2 Episode review

[edit] Cultural references

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[edit] Cultural references

• The title comes from the album Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy.
• The robot-populated planet of Chapek 9 is named after Karel Čapek, the Czech playwright who popularized the term "robot".
• The story is similar to Ijon Tichys eleventh Voyage from Stanisław Lems Star Diaries, in which Ijon Tichy travels in disguise to the planet Circia to attempt to bring an end to hostilities coming from its robot population.
• When Bender is being set down on the planet he says, "Yes, Miss Leela. Tote that space barge, lift that space bale." A reference to the song Ol' Man River, ("Tote dat barge! Lif' dat bale!") from Showboat.
• When Fry and Leela are initially discovered, the discovering robot cries the shriek from the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and later heard the well-known phrase "Intruder alert! Intruder alert!" from the 1980 video game Berzerk about humans fighting robots.
• The horn that sounded the hunt for humans was the start-up sound for the Apple Macintosh of the early 1990s (mainly the Quadra).
• The construction robots Fry and Leela talk to build with Tetris blocks.
• The movie posters at the robot movie theater are:
  • Barbot Streisand in Yentltron (a parody of Barbra Streisand and Yentl)
  • Buff Bot the Human Slayer (a parody of Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • I Was a Teenage Human (a parody of I Was a Teenage Werewolf)
  • It Came From Planet Earth (a parody of It Came From Outer Space)
• A billboard on Chapek 9 parodies the Got Milk? advertising campaign with a sign reading "Got Milk? Then you're a human and must be killed".
• In the blernsball game near the start, a sign in the audience says "Glorx 3:16", a reference to the John 3:16 signs seen at many sporting events held by Rollen Stewart, aka "The Rainbow Man", Known for wearing a rainbow clown wig.
• In the blernsball game, a player is riding around the bases on a light-cycle from the movie Tron.
• There is a parody of the Kitchener/Uncle Sam Wants You campaign poster on the robot planet.
• The Judge-bot has a striking resemblance to the Macintosh Classic using the original MacOS. The dialog box displayed when he freezes up and one audience member's suggestion to "Clean the gunk out of the mouse!" are also references to old Macs.

[edit] Popular Culture References

• Shortly before Leela subdues him, the robot who offers Fry the resin emits an inhuman shriek and points at the two. This is a direct reference to the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which the pod-people do the same upon discovering humans. The scream is in fact the same scream Donald Sutherland's character emits at the end of the film.
• The robot construction site that is destroyed is a reference to the classic video game Tetris.
• The robotic police exclaim "Get the humanoid, get the intruder!" and "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!", a reference to the Atari title, Berzerk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stardust8212 (talk • contribs) 03:00, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Episode review

This episode, along with all other episodes from season one, is being reviewed to determine whether it currently satisfies Wikipedia's various policies in guidelines. All editors are welcome and encouraged to contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Futurama/Season 1 review. Stardust8212 18:42, 27 January 2008 (UTC)