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Futurama: Three Hundred Big Boys

 

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8.9 Great
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Air Date

Sunday June 15, 2003

Production Code

4ACV16

Episode Summary

As a result of Zapp Brannigan's victory over the Arachnid home-world, Richard Nixon's head gives everyone a $300 refund from the silk surplus. Leela, the Professor, Bender, and Fry find wacky ways to spend the money. When things gets too hot at Zapp's celebration dinner, Fry saves the day.

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    10 Perfect

    This episode is pure brilliance. hide show

    This episode made me laugh so hard like when Farnsworth was buying stem cells and he said is it true that stem like help fight off my wrinkles and the lady said well the sam chance an infant has in a fight with Muhammond Ali and when Mushu kept throwing up and the cops said it just keeps coming out and out. Also it was hillarious how Zoidberg couldn't settle for anything because he thought he was rich. It was very creative and smart to use so many unique storylines but my favorite was Zoidberg thinking he was rich. Overall this is highly recomended.

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    freakin hillarious episode hide show

    was first introduced to Futurama through my boyfriend, who has a wonderful obsession with it. He showed me this episode first before starting me through the full seasons. The first time a saw this episode I was utterly confused with what was going on. Of course the characters were new to me and I hadn't really seen any other episodes of it. My boyfriend's advice was just watch it. Well.. a few weeks later and a complete submersion into the world that is Futurama I finally come around to watching this episode again. Needless to say I was rolling on the floor laughing. I believe that it takes the character development of all the previous episodes to truly enjoy this episode. I think this episode is really the epitome of everyone's personality. For example... Kif spends all of his refund on Amy... and Amy spends all of her refund on herself... and when she looses the watch that kif gave her, it is Leela, that always gives everything of herself to everyone else that spends her $300 on the ability to get the watch back. Its also in the personal touch of when Fry blows out the flame on Leela's dress before rescuing her that shows you how much he cares. I believe it is the added touches and the painstaking time that was put in to all of the episodes before this one that make this one, in my opinion one of the best episodes.... that and the often used quote from Morbo of 'stop it, stop it, its fine... I WILL DESTROY YOU!'

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    9.6 Superb

    $300 richer!!! hide show

    After a successful campaign against a spider race, President Nixon's Head announces that everyone will receive $300 a portion of the spoils of war.

    Bender speculating on one three hundred dollar hookerbot or three hundred one dollar hookerbots was a highlight moment of the show.

    We see many short stories during the episode showing how each of the members of Planet Express spend their money.
    From Bender being obsessed with a $10,000 cigar resorting to a set of $300 burgar tools to obtain it, Fry buying 100 cups of coffee, Leela swimming with a whale, Hermes purchasing Bamboo Boogie boots, the Professor using stems cells to combat the ageing process and Zoidberg trying to appear one of high society. All culminating in the end with the destroying of the silken spiderian treasure.

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    9.3 Superb

    $300 for each of our characters leading to amusing stories? You bet! hide show

    This was a awesom e episode, the idea of having around 10 or so stories was a great idea and turned out well. My favourite of these stories would have to be Bender with the grand Cigar, or Fry with him getting more and more crazy and "awake" after each cup of coffee leading him to becoming the hero of the episode, or maybe just Zoidberg having money, that was good. All the stories and jokes in this episode was well written and this is most deffinately in my top 20. If you haven't seen this episode pick up the fourth season DVD it's well worth it.

    An extremely well episode-captaindillo.

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    9.6 Superb

    What would you do with $300? hide show

    After a successful campaign against a spider race, President Nixon's Head announces that everyone will receive $300 a portion of the spoils of war.

    Bender speculating on one three hundred dollar hookerbot or three hundred one dollar hookerbots was a highlight moment of the show.

    We see many short stories during the episode showing how each of the members of Planet Express spend their money.
    From Bender being obsessed with a $10,000 cigar resorting to a set of $300 burgar tools to obtain it, Fry buying 100 cups of coffee, Leela swimming with a whale, Hermes purchasing Bamboo Boogie boots, the Professor using stems cells to combat the ageing process and Zoidberg trying to appear one of high society. All culminating in the end with the destroying of the silken spiderian treasure.

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  • Nixon is on the 300 dollar bill in this episode, he is also on the 1000 dollar bill as seen in "Insane In The Mainframe." []
  • In Futurama comic #17 we learn that the population of Earth is 985,947,635 (986 million). Since we assume that this includes robots since Bender is a taxpayer, we can assume that Nixon awarded the people of Earth $295,784,290,500 ($296 billion). Nixon therefore kept $704,215,709,500 ($704 billion) - 70% of the profit made from the plunder. This figure is obviously greater (perhaps 80-90%) since children (e.g. Dwight) and the Hobos at the end of the episode, did not get a tax rebate.

    Response: The Futurama comics are not canonical. Plus, I find the 986 million number absurd - the population of Earth is around 6 billion now and there are no robots! []
  • What happened to Fry at the end of this episode? After he rescues everyone from the building and puts out the fire at caffeine induced speed, we don't see him anymore in the story. Fry's is notably absent when the cast is eating turkey dogs outside of the building at the end, so where did he go after rescuing everyone? []
More Trivia
  • We see Morbo and Judge Whitey's wives for the first time in this episode. Judge Whitey's wife's name is "Kitty." []
  • In this episode when the gang hears about their tax refund Amy remarks "I'm slightly richer". Which is very similar to when Mr. Burns exclaims "We're slightly richer", when he and the 'rich side of town' discovered some gold in the Simpsons episode A Tale of Two Springfields. []
  • The idea for this episode came from George W. Bush announcing that he would give all Americans a tax refund in 2001. If you filed as a 'single' you got $300, single parents got $500 and married parents got $600. Checks were mailed out over July-September and the idea was that people would spend the money, thereby boosting economic growth. However, with the 9/11 attacks and subsequent war in Iraq, it would appear the government would have been better off keeping the $1.3 trillion that was distributed. []
More Notes
  • Morbo: (as his wife adjusts his tie) Stop it. It's fine. It's fine! I will destroy you!! []
  • Bender: My story kinda petered out without me learning a lesson.
    (He laughs. Smitty and URL burst through a door)
    Smitty: There he is!
    (Bender panics. They grab him and bash him with their lightsabers)
    Bender: Oh right! Closure! []
  • Whitey: Heck, you're never too rich to enjoy a free turkey dog. []
More Quotes
  • Commander Riker's Island The name of the New New York jail is a combination of Commander Riker, a character in Star Trek: TNG, and Rikers Island, the New York City's jail facility. []
  • Misery

    Whitey: (to Bender) So I said to Kitty 'The only way to keep the butler from running away is to cut off his foot!'

    This seems to be an indirect reference to the Stephen King book (and subsequent movie) "Misery," in which Annie Wilkes cuts off Paul Sheldon's foot in order to keep him from escaping from her. []
  • Hungry Hungry Hippos: Gus the hobo's inquiry to Zoidberg, "Might us hungry, hungry hobos take a sample from your aluminum snack box?" is an allusion to the popular children's board game "Hungry Hungry Hippos". []
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