Three Hundred Big Boys
| "Three Hundred Big Boys" | |
|---|---|
| Futurama episode | |
| Episode no. | Season four Episode 16 |
| Directed by | Swinton O. Scott III |
| Written by | Eric Kaplan |
| Production code | 4ACV16 |
| Original air date | June 15, 2003 |
| Opening caption | "Voted "Best"" |
| Opening cartoon | "Flop Goes the Weasel" (1943) |
| Guest actors | |
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Roseanne Barr as herself |
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"Three Hundred Big Boys" is the sixteenth episode of season four of Futurama. It originally aired in the United States on June 15, 2003. The episode was inspired by The Simpsons episode "22 Short Films about Springfield".[1]
Plot
Zapp Brannigan leads an attack on Tarantulon VI, claiming numerous silken artworks for Earth. Earth President Richard Nixon considers this a windfall, and gives every citizen a $300 tax rebate. Brannigan later invites Leela and her friends to an exhibit of the silk treasures.
The Planet Express crew each contemplate how to spend their funds. Leela uses it to swim with a whale; Fry uses the money to buy and drink one hundred cups of coffee over the course of the episode, and Bender spends his on burglary tools to steal a $10,000 cigar. Bender refuses to smoke it until the exhibition, wanting to save it for the act of blowing smoke into the faces of the "fancy-pantses" that would be attending. Others find their expenditures less thrilling: Professor Farnsworth uses the money to buy stem cells to give him a youthful appearance but they only last temporarily, while Hermes buys a set of mechanical stilts for his son Dwight but they go haywire and drag the two off, rampaging through New New York. Kif had bought a watch for his girlfriend Amy but accidentally loses it to the same whale that Leela was swimming with, though he eventually recovers it after a brief accusation of ambergris thievery.
Eventually, they all gather for the exhibition. Just as Bender lights up the cigar, Hermes and Dwight, still stuck on the stilts, smash through the side of the building, causing the cigar to ignite the silk artworks. At the same time, Fry finishes the 100th cup of coffee and enters a caffeine-induced state of hyperspeed, moving much faster than anyone else. Fry easily rescues all the exhibit guests to an alley behind the exhibit hall before the hyperspeed ends. As they all recover from what just happened, they find that Zoidberg, who had been debating on how to spend his tax rebate for something that would make him happy, instead opted to spend it on a nice meal for a number of hobos. The guests all agree and join them for the meal, though Bender is soon caught by the cops and beaten up for the robbery earlier.
Broadcast and reception
In its initial airing, the episode received a Nielsen rating of 3.6/7, placing it 79th among primetime shows for the week of June 9–15, 2003. [2]
References
- ↑ Cohen, David S. (2005). Commentary for "22 Short Films about Springfield", in The Simpsons: The Complete Seventh Season [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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