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Futurama: The Farnsworth Parabox

 

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9.4 Superb
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Air Date

Sunday June 8, 2003

Production Code

4ACV15

Episode Summary

When the Professor conducts an experiment so hideous that he wants his apparatus destroyed in the thermonuclear inferno of the sun, he has Leela guard the two-foot cubic box overnight so that no one opens it and sets it off. Fry and Bender try their best to sneak a peek but it is Leela who finally gives in and opens the box. Drawn into the power of the box, Leela is thrown into a parallel universe, which has duplicates of the Planet Express gang - including Leela.

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    9.5 Superb

    Another Great Episode for the Fans! hide show

    The Farnsworth Parabox. A great episode. Not only for the fans, but for anyone who wants to get into Futurama. This Episode is incredibly exciting and really funny. It also gives a very strong Sci-Fi feeling for anyone who loves the Sci-Fi parts of Futurama. I thought that the Plot and Script were very cleaverly thought out. I really liked the way that the Parallel Characters interacted with eachother. With a mixture of honestly Great looking Animation and CGI, all of these ingredients make this episode of Futurama one of my Favourites. The Scene where they all go into the different Parallel Universes is so funny!

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    10 Perfect

    Another brilliant episode. hide show

    Wow yet another clever and creative idea for there to be more than universe and some hillarious parts are when bother Benders hugged and stole each others walets and when Hermes hesitated on whether to destroy everyone in the sun. Also it was very funny when after both Zoidbergs stole universe 1's box and regular Zoidberg was bowing down to universe 1's Zoidberg and regular Zoidberg says how about letting me have a try and universe 1's Zoidberg says the box says no. Overall an episode that should be remebered as briiliant for a long time and it is highly recomended.

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    9 Superb

    Yay! A proper comedy ep, and a fantastic one at that hide show

    Three romantic ones in a row would have really annoyed me. Anyway, this was the most enjoyable bit of television I've seen in a long time. An insane but satisfying and interesting plot, excellent jokes, great use of all the characters, and the kind of insane scientific explanation that Futurama excels at. The beginning was great, with Fry and Leela arguing about their relationship (as always) as the Professor screamed for the help of various deities, and this standard was kept up throughout. In fact, I really can't think of anything I didn't like here, and that's saying something for this season. I loved Leela-1 and Leela-A fighting, Fry's reaction to the fact that Leela had been lying to him, all the scenes with the two counterparts bonding (especially Zoidbergs and Amys), and the whole thing was just a lot of fun. Poor Zoidberg, even getting bossed around by himself. Hermes' long deliberation over whether to send his friends to a fiery death was just hilarious. The best scenes were the ones with the chase through the various universes, that was absolutely brilliant, especially the hippy versions of Amy and the Professor. I liked that Leela and Fry finally went out on a date at the end, without the whole episode being taken up by that plotline. The ending was pretty cool. I was laughing out loud for most of the time, even on second viewing, and the show hasn't been that good in a while.

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    10 Perfect

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    10 Perfect

    great episode hide show

    Prof. Farnsworth accidentaly created a parrallel universe. Fry and Bender attempt to see what is in the box as no one knows what it is until Leela decides to flip a coin, the coin tells her to look in the box. As she puts her head into the box she get's sucked into the parrallel univers. After both universes agree that they are both not evil they have to try and find the box with the original universe in it which both Zpidbergs have took. After they find it they manage to go back to their own univeres and all is well...Or is it? Nah all is well.

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  • This episode marks the second time Fry and Bender have attempted to climb through a steam vent, the first being Love's Labours Lost In Space. []
  • The reason Dr. Zoidberg is blue is because one in every two million lobsters is blue. []
  • Opening theme promotion: BEATS A HARD KICK IN THE FACE []
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  • A number of scenes were deleted for time. Some of them can be found on the Volume 4 DVD. []
  • The Bobble Head universe is numbered 1729. This number is Ramanujan's taxi-cab number, Bender is Mom's 1729th son, and Zapp's spacecraft the Nimbus is labelled BP-1729. []
  • Hermes: Item 1: Box. Check. Item 2: Sun. Whoo, that's a big check! (Hermes puts down the rear view mirror then catches fire) Whoo! []
  • Hermes 1: Oh, if I know Hermes A, he's half way to the sun by now!
    Bender 1: Our universe is doomed!
    Both Benders: DOOOOOOOOMED! []
  • Bender 1: Y'know what they say about making friends, make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver-
    Bender: And the other's gold. (both hug) []
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  • The Narnia Chronicles
    The idea of jumping from one universe to another well predates Star Trek or Sliders.
    The Magician's Nephew, was published in 1955 and is the first book in the series containing The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
    In this book, the two main characters jump into many shallow pools in a forest clearing that lead to different universes, similar to the many boxes on the floor in this episode. []
  • The "hippy" universe is numbered 420. 420 is a term used by pot smokers as a code for getting high. []
  • DC Comics: Multiverse

    Most of the episode is a parody of the DC Comics Multiverse where there are several Earths that explained why various superheros were different in different comic series. []
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