Episode Capsule - 2ACV03 - A Head in The Polls
Ostap Bender
Directed by Bret Haaland
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Production code: 2ACV03 Original Airdate on FOX: 12/12/1999
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TV Guide synopsis:
Bender pawns his body, which is bought by and attached to a prominent head
who uses his new mobility to run for political office — again.
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> Title sequence
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Opening theme promotion:
FROM THE MAKERS
OF FUTURAMA
Opening theme cartoon:
1927's "Koko's Earth Control"
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> Did You Notice...
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... The "You gotta do what you gotta do" man has 5 fingers in "Decision 3000"
sketch, but only 4 in "DISASTER" one?
Eric Sansoni
... Bender reads a "Playbot" magazine.
Joe Klemm
... Among the heads in the Closet of President Losers is Rob Reiner?
... By 3000, the Vice President Debate would become a Snaps contest?
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> Voice Credits
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- Starring
- Billy West (Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Prof. Farnsworth)
- Katey Sagal (Leela)
- John DiMaggio (Bender, NRA guy)
- Tress MacNeille (Linda, Nixon's campaign manager)
Guest Starring
- David Herman
- Phil Lamarr (Hermes Conrad)
- Lauren Tom (Amy Wong)
- Special Appearance by
- Claudia Schiffer (Herself as a head in a jar)
- Also Starring
- Maurice LaMarche (Morbo)
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> Movie (and other) references
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+ "Twilight Zone" (TV series)
- "The Scary Door" TV show is a spoof
- Time Enough At Last classic 1959 episode starring Burgess Meredith {HL}
+ John Quincy Adams
- John Quincy Adding Machine
+ Watergate Break-In
- Break-in to regain Bender's body
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> Previous episode references
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> Freeze frame fun
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Things flying by in THe Scary Door intro:
A stopclock going for 0:00:14 to 00:00:16, a rotary phone, an old shoe, a guy
washing his hair, a bitten cooked cow leg.
At the registration. The sign outside:
VOTER REGISTRATRION
FIRST 100 CUSTOMERS
GET EXTRA VOTE
The booths:
TASTYCRATS
FINGERLICANS
ONE CELL, ONE VOTE
GREEN PARTY
(with green aliens)
BRAIN SLUG PARTY
DUDES FOR THE
LEGALATION OF
OF HEMP
BULL
SPACE MOOSE
PARTY
N.R.A.
NATIONAL RAY-GUN
ASSOCIATION
(Picture
of a weird
alien with
a gun)
I'm The NRA.
PEOPLE FOR THE
ETHICAL TREATMENT
OF HUMANS
(A Neptunian - Elzar's race - in the booth)
VOTER
APATHY
PARTY
ANTISOCIALISTS
RAINBOW WHIGS
Election covearge on TV:
CHANNEL
__
\/2
ELECTION
COVERAGE
?
(Picture of
"You gotta do
what you gotta
do" guy)
DECISION /
3000 [ \/ ]
!
(Same guy,
but now
he's scared)
DISASTER
The pawn shop.
ROOK TAKES
PAWNSHOP
CASH ON THE SPOT
L LOANS
INSTANT O
CASH A
N
S
Outside the Head Museum
HEAD MUSEUM
1820-1887:
The Golden Age
of Muttonchops
At the Head Museum. Section:
Movie B-Movie PORN TV
Stars Stars STARS STARS
The sign at the debate:
TONIGHT
PRESIDENTIAL
DEBATE
TOMORROW
VICE PRESIDENTIAL
"YOU MAMA SO FAT"
CONTEST
Sign on Nixon's door:
(star)
RICHARD NIXON
WATCH
YOUR HAT
AND COAT
On the steps of congress:
FXJKHR
60th PRESIDENT
(Statue of
a horrible alien
eating a human,
with a pile of
skulls at his feet)
Bumper stickers on Bender's butt:
NIXON'S HEAD'S
THE ONE!
IMPEACH THIS!
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> Animation, continuity, and other goofs
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> Reviews
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> Comments and other observations
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Haynes Lee
FOLKLORE ALERT
From the Simpsons Folklore List:
[AABF07] Controversial `under 70' curfew law passed by one vote
because Homer didn't bother to vote.
U. Many important elections have been decided by one vote.
T. In an effort to impress upon her readers the importance of
casting their votes, Ann Landers passed along various
`one vote' canards her sister had run ten years earlier,
riddled with many historical inaccuracies, a.k.a.
`One Vote Fallacies'.
See <http://snopes.simplenet.com/spoons/fracture/onevote.htm>
NIXON REFEREMCES:
- Checkers: his dog and subject of his famous speech
- Watergate: hotel the breakin occured
- "II am not a crook": NMixon quote
- "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore.
- missing 30 seconds of the tapes that were accidently
erased.
ASIDE: in the Woody Allen movie Sleeper nothing was
known about Nixon as all records about him have been detroyed.
Don Del Grande
But here's one that everybody else seemed to have missed:
A reporter said that "nobody can be elected President more than twice", but
Nixon was running for President of Earth; had he ever held that office
before? (Or is there some law saying that nobody who had been elected
President of the United States twice could be elected President of Earth?)
Fen Phen
Did anyone notice that the cage in the pawn
shop is a reference to Super Mario World for the SNES? The cage thing that
the shop owner stands behind is built like the chain-link structure Mario
can climb on that has rotating panels that flips him to the other side.
Note the gray chain-link and the red border around the square.
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> Quotes and Scene Summary
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% Fry and Bender are watching TV. "The Scary Door" show starts.
Narrator: You're entering the vicinity Of an area adjacent to a location - The
kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird
mirror. These are just examples. It could also be something much
better. Prepare to enter... The Scary Door.
% Cut to the ruins.
Narrator: As per your request, please find enclosed the last man on earth.
% The man goes into publci library.
Man: Finally... solitude. I can read books for all eternity.
% His glasses slip, fall down and break.
Man: It's not fair. It's not fair! Wait. My eyes aren't that bad. I can
stread the large-print books. [His eyes fall out] A-a-ah! It's not
fair! Well, lucky I know how to read braille. [His hands fall off]
A-a-ah! [His tongue falls off. Then his head] Hey, look at that
weird mirror.
% Fry shudders.
Bender: Cursed by his own hubris.
Leela: There's a political debate on. Quick, change the channel.
Bender: Hey, that's what Fry said when we turned ON the debate.
% Leela changes the channel.
Announcer: C-span nine presents: The Thrill of Politics.
% Cut to Bender and Fry snoring. Leela sighs, moves Fry and jumps on the
% couch between them. They wake up.
Fry: Wha...?
Bender: Huh?
Leela: Look, I know there are no car chases, but this is important. One of
these two men will become president of the world.
Fry: What do we care? We live in the United States.
Leela: The United States is part of the world.
Fry: Wow, I HAVE been gone a long time.
Candidate: [On TV. His name is Jack Johnson] It's time someone had the courage
to stand up and say: I'm against those things that everybody hates!
Opponent: [His name is John Jackson] Now, I respect my opponent. I think he's
a good man. But, quite frankly, I agree with everything he just
said!
Fry: These are the candidates? The sound like clones. [Squints] Wait a
minute. They ARE clones!
Leela: Don't let their identical DNA fool you. They differ on some key
issues.
Johnson: I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far.
Jackson: And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough.
Fry: If I were registered to vote I'd send these clowns a message by
staying home on election day and dressing up like a clown!
Leela: You're not registered?!
Fry: Nope. Not vaccinated, either. Besides, it's not like one vote ever
made a difference.
Leela: That's not true. The first robot president won by exactly one vote.
Bender: Ah, yes! John Quincy adding machine. He struck a chord with the
voters when he pledged not to go on a killing spree.
Prof.: But, like most politicians he promised more than he could deliver.
Leela: The point is, one vote CAN make a difference. And even though it
won't I'm still taking you to get registered.
Prof.: Yes, that's a capital idea. Let's all go register.
Fry: Professor, when did you become so obsessed with voting?
Prof.: The very instant I became old.
% At the registration.
%
% Professor looks at "Tasticrats" and "Fingerlicans" booths.
Prof.: The problem with both parties is that they always want to give your
tax dollars to the less fortunate.
Fry: The less fortunate get all the breaks.
Zoidberg: You know, fry, you could join a third party, maybe.
Amy: Only weirdos and mutants join third parties.
Zoidberg: Really? I better keep an eye out at the next meeting.
Fry: What party do you belong to, Bender?
Bender: Eh, I'm not allowed to vote.
Fry: 'Cause you're a robot?
Bender: No. Convicted felon.
% At the Brain Slug party booth.
Woman: [With brain slug on her] We favor unreasonably huge subsidies to the
brain slug planet.
Fry: Okay, but what are the brain slugs who control you going to do for
the working man?
Woman: Attach brain slugs to them.
Fry: Sure, you say that now.
% At the "Dudes for Legalation of of Hemp" booth.
Amy: So is it true you can make all kinds of shirts and ropes out of
hemp?
Dude: Dave's not here, man.
Amy: I also heard hemp makes great shampoo.
Dude: It does? No way! I got to check out this brochure. [Picks up a
hamburger and takes a bite out of it]
% Professor at the NRA booth.
Prof.: So, what are you doing to protect my constitutional right to bear
doomsday devices?
Man: Well, first off, we're going to get rid of that three day waiting
period for mad scientists.
Prof.: Damn straight! Today the mad scientist can't get a doomsday device,
tomorrow, it's the mad grad student! Where will it end?
Man: Amen, brother! I don't go anywhere without my mutated anthrax - for
duck huntin'.
% At the "PEOPLE FOR ETHICAL TREATMENT OF HUMANS".
Zoidberg: Sure, humans are cute but how else are we supposed to test
cosmetics?
Hermes: [With brainslug on him] I concur.
% At "VOTER APATHY PARTY" booth.
Fry: Now here's a party I can get excited about. Sign me up.
Man: [Apathetically] Sorry, not with that attitude.
Fry: Okay, then screw it.
Man: [Excited] Welcome aboard, brother!
Fry: [Cheerfully] All right!
Man: You're out.
% Back at Planet Express.
Fry: That was pretty cool. I think I'm actually starting to get
interested in politics.
% Leela turns on the political news. Fry and Bender instantly fall asleep.
Linda: And so, with two weeks left in the campaign the question on
everyone's mind is who will be the next President of Earth - Jack
Johnson, or bitter rival John Jackson? Two terrific candidates, huh,
Morbo?
Morbo: All humans are vermin in the eyes of Morbo.
Linda: [Laughs] Aw... In other local news disaster struck on Saturn's moon
of Titan today when a titanium mine collapsed trapping 1,000 robot
workers.
Bender: [Wakes up] What? Lord have mercy!
Linda: Unless something is done quickly the trapped robots will be dead
within 300 years. Sir, what rescue operations are planned?
Mine
spokesman: The plan is, basically, to pave over the area and get on with our
lives. [Bender gasps]
Morbo: News of the mine's closing sent titanium prices skyrocketing.
Bender: All right! I'm rich!
Leela: What are you talking about?
Bender: My body's 40% titanium. I'm finally richer than those snooty A.T.M.
machines.
Fry: Too bad you can't spend it.
Bender: Oh, can't I?
Fry: No.
Bender: Watch me, poor man.
% At the pawnshop.
Shopkeeper: Pleasure doin' business with you.
% He carries out Bender's head with a mouthful of cash and puts it on the
% sidewalk.
Bender: [Laughs] Game's over, losers! I have ALL the money. Compare your
lives to mine and then kill yourselves. [A dog sniffs him] Hey, get
away! Shoo! I'll give you $5 to not do what you're thinking about
doing. [The dog groans and raises its leg. Camera pans to the side.
Bender chuckles] You just lost $5.
% [End of Act One. Act Time: 7:39 Running Time: 21:51
Bender: [To a passing guy] Hey, buddy! Little help? [His kicks him] Thank
you!
% Bender's head flies to Planet Express through the window, ricochets off the
% opposite wall and lands on the meeting table.
Bender: Hello, peasants.
Leela: Bender! What happened to you?
Fry: You look different. Did you get a haircut?
Bender: No! I sold my body. [Spits out the cash from his mouth]
Prof.: Sold your body?! Oh, Bender, I've been down that road. I know it's
glamorous and the parties are great, but you'll end up spending
every dollar you make on jewelry and skintight pants.
Fry: This is crazy, Bender. How are you going to live without a body?
Bender: [Blows raspberry] Bodies are for hookers and fat people. All I need
is a wad of cash with a head wrapped around it.
Fry: Well, at least now you can pay off your loan shark.
Bender: Yeah, right, what's he going to do, break my legs? [Laughs]
% Bender relaxes in a pool.
Bender: Ah, this is the life! Another martinI, please!
% A servant picks up his head, takes off the antenna and pours the drink
% right into the top of Bender's head.
Bender: [Mimicking 007] Shaken, not stirred. [The servant shakes him up] Oh,
yeah!
% At the casino.
Bender: Put it all on black.
% Fry moves it to black, knocking Bender's head into the roulette.
Bender: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Croupier: 21 Red. [Bender moves over] I beg your pardon - 33 black.
Bender: Yes! The rich get richer.
% At the bowling alley. Leela gets her bowling ball. The ball looks like her
% eye - big, white and with a little black dot. Fry rolls Bender's head. He
% gets a strike.
Bender: Strike! In your face, Leela! [Laughs]
% Sound of a bowling ball rolling is heard. Leela's ball hits Bender right in
% the face (where else).
Bender: Ow!
% At planet express. Nibbler runs away from something in panic. It turns out
% to be Bender's head in a minicar. Bender drives through Planet Express,
% everyone jumps out of his way, finally he hits the professor.
Prof.: Ow!
Bender: Timber! [The professor goes down like a tree]
Fry: Hey, Bender, can I take a ride in your car?
Bender: Maybe if you clean up first. It looks like your neck stepped in
something. Oh, I'm sorry. That's just your body. [Laughs]
Fry: Hey, you look me in the shins and say that.
Bender: Hey, I've had it up to here with this place. I'm off to the head
museum to hang out with classy heads like me who appreciate the
finer things: poetry, philosophy, hats. So long, coffin-stuffers!
% Starts going, but loses control and crashes his car.
Bender: Could one of you coffin-stuffers please carry me?
% At the Head Museum.
Bender: Now, which group of heads is good enough for me to hang out with?
What do you think, Fry? Fry?
% Fry is at supermodels section.
Fry: Mmm...
Claudia: Hi. I'm Claudia Schiffer's head.
Fry: I recognize you. Didn't you used to have a body of some sort?
Claudia: Yeah, but it was holding me back. You know, I just did the cover Of
the SPORTS ILLUSTARTED swim cap issue.
Fry: [Purrs] Well, you're looking great.
Claudia: Thanks. I wouldn't mind losing a few pounds, though.
Fry: Couldn't hurt.
% They enter the Hall of Presidents.
Bender: Ah, U.S. Presidents! Sturdy shelves, good security... [Pan to two
security guard head on top shevles] This place has class.
Clinton: [To Leela] Hey, sugar cookie! You know, legally, nothing I can do
counts as sex anymore.
Ford: I apologize for his rudeness, ma'am. He gets this way around
meaty-looking women.
Fry: [To Clinton] Hey, I remember you. I was going to vote for you one
time. But voting isn't cool, so I stayed home alone and got trashed
on listerine.
Ford: Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the
process.
Nixon: No kidding, Ford.
Bender: [To Washington] So then the hooker-bot says "That's not my expansion
slot." And my friend says "That's not my gold-plated 25-pin
connector." [Laughs]
Washington: [Laughs] Oh, Bender. Thou robots really cracketh me up.
Bender: You know, I like it here. What's the rent on one of these jars?
Bush: Sorry, Bender, but we can't allow every Tom, Dick and Harry to move
in. No offense Jefferson, Nixon and Truman.
carter: Maybe mr. Bender can get a spot in the closet of presidential
losers.
Dole: Bob Dole needs company. Larouche won't stop with the knock-knock
jokes.
Bender: Pass.
Washington: So telleth, Bender, what hath happened to your body?
Bender: I hocked it.
Washington: Hocked it? Why wouldst thou do that?
Bender: Same reason you hocked your teeth.
Washington: Ah, booze money.
Nixon: I remember my body. Flabby, pasty-skinned, riddled with phlebitis. A
good republican body. God, I loved it.
Fry: I hear that. I spent most of my teen years loving my body. Of
course, it was tough love... [Leela hits him in the ribs]
Leela: Fry, he opened up relations with China. He doesn't want to hear
about your ding-dong.
Bender: So, Nixon, even if you miss your body, being a head's great, too,
right?
Nixon: No, son. It's a sad and lonely life.
Bender: Oh, great. Now you tell me.
Nixon: That's my style. I like to kick 'em when they're down.
% At the Robot Arms apartments. Bender tosses around in his bed, muttering.
% He dreams a bunch of ones and zeros, and a two.
Bender: Ones... zeros.. one.. zero... A-a-ah! [He wakes up]
Fry: Bender, what is it?
Bender: Whoa, what an awful dream. Ones and zeroes everywhere. And I thought
I saw a two.
Fry: It was just a dream, Bender. There's no such thing as two.
Bender: I know what this is about. My body loved me and I turned its back on
it. Well, old friend, tie a yellow ribbon 'round your neck 'cause
I'm a-comin' home.
% At the pawnshop.
Bender: You sold my body?! To who?!
Shopkeeper: I can't reveal that information. But you look like a nice robot.
Tell you what - I'll give you 50 bucks for the kid.
Fry: Hey, my clothes are worth 50 bucks.
Shopkeeper: Deal.
% Back at Planet Express.
Bender: [Cries] How could I let this happen? I can't go through the rest of
my life like this.
Prof.: Don't you have a self-destruct button?
Bender: Yeah... But it's on my body. What am I going to do? [Cries]
Fry: Uh, I can't stand to see a robot cry. [Takes the remote] Let's watch
TV.
Nixon: [On TV] And so, ladies and gentlemen, I'm throwing my head into the
ring. I'm announcing my candidacy for the Presidency of Earth.
% Reporters shout.
Reporter: Scoop Chang, Beijing Bugle. Sir, the constitution clearly states
that nobody can be elected president more than twice.
Nixon: That's right... no BODY. But as you can plainly see, I've got a
shiny new body. [Performs a dance]
% Fry, Leela and Bender gasp.
Leela: Bender, he's got your body!
Bender: That dirty, double-crossing bastard! How dare he run off with
Richard Nixon!
% [End of Act Two. Act Time: 7:39 Running Time: 21:51
Leela: Nixon must have bought your body from the pawnshop.
Fry: Yeah, and that electric guitar.
Nixon: [On TV, signing] Remember what the dormouse said feed your head...
[Stop singing] I'm meeting you halfway, you stupid hippies.
[Crowd cheers] I am not a crook's head.
Bender: Yeah, you are. You stole my body. Fry, Leela, you got to help me.
Leela: Ordinarily, I'd say no and lecture you on how this is your own fault
for being such an idiot, but when a robotic Nixon is on the loose,
we have a duty to take action. Idiot.
% The ship lands at Washington, DC, at the Washington monument. There's also
% another monument nearby - Clinton monument, which is the same, but taller.
%
% At the presidential debate.
Morbo: Morbo will now introduce tonight's candidates. Puny human number
one, puny human number two and morbo's good friend, Richard Nixon.
Nixon: Hello, Morbo. How's the family?
Morbo: Belligerent and numerous.
Nixon: Good man. Nixon's pro-war and pro-family. [Audience cheers]
% Nixon takes out a baby, kisses it and puts it back.
Bender: Great. First he steals my body, now he's touching my stuff.
Leela: Come on. We've got to find some way to talk to him.
% The leave the debate room.
Morbo: Morbo demands an answer to the following question: "If you saw
delicious candy in the hands of a small child, would you seize and
consume it?"
Johnson: Unthinkable!
Jackson: I wouldn't think of it!
Morbo: What about you, Mr. Nixon? I remind you, you are under a
Truth-O-Scope.
Nixon: Uh, well, uh... The question is-is vague. You don't say what kind of
candy. Uh, whether anyone is watching... [Clear his throat] At any
rate, I certainly wouldn't harm the child. [Truthoscope beeps and
draws a wide graph]
% At the Nixon private room.
Campaign
manager: You scored big points tonight, sir.
Nixon: What are you talking about? They ate me alive out there.
Campaign
manager: Yes, but your body stayed on message. And that message is, "look at
my shiny new body." The robots ate it up. You've got real charisma
from the neck down.
Nixon: Nixon with charisma? My god! I can rule the universe!
% Box opens up behind Nixon's back and Fry, Leela and Bender pop out.
Bender: Give me my body back, you two-bit thief!
Nixon: Now, look here, you drugged-out communist, I paid for this body and
I'd no sooner return it than I would my little cocker spaniel dog,
checkers. [Checkers' head in a jark barks] Shut up, damn it!
Fry: Please, Mr. Nixon, we're appealing to your sense of decency.
% Everyone laughs, except Fry.
Nixon: Seriously, though, I'm never giving back this body. Now, beat it,
before I get cambodian on your asses!
% Later, outside.
Bender: [Cries] It's hopeless. We might as well turn in my head for the
five-cent deposit.
Fry: No way. I'm not letting my best friend get recycled - not for five
cents, not for 500 cents. Leela, I've got a plan.
Leela: I've got a better plan.
% At Watergatwe hotel. Leela and Fry in catburglar outfits, sneaking in.
Fry: Why would Nixon stay at the Watergate?
Leela: They give you a discount if you've been here before.
% Leela shoots a grappling hook. The hook walks to a tube on the roof, grabs
% on to it and tgs the rope twice. Cut to Leela, climbing with strain.
Fry: Keep going. We're right behind you.
% Pan to Fry and Bender just hanging off her back.
Bender: [Looks in the a room] Whoa, mama. Get a room, you two.
Man: We're in a room!
Bender: Well, then, lose some weight.
% Leela finally pulls fry to the top. They look inside Nixon's room. Nixon's
% asleep on a couch.
Nixon: [In sleep] Oh, yeah, you women's libbers really know how to party.
Bender: [To his body] Psst, there I am.
% Leela starts carefully unscrewing Nixon's head off the body. Nixon snores.
Nixon: [In sleep] Hey, Betty Friedan, send a little of that lotion my way.
Leela: Okay, almost got it. Steady... Steady... Don't panic.
% Fry is resting on a bed nearby. He looks at a gizmo next to the bed. It's
% called "MAGIC TENTACLES".
Fry: Ooh...
% The device activates. The sign on it says "Though activated". Tentacles grab
% Fry and bang him against the bed. Nixon wakes up. Leela look angrily at Fry.
Nixon: Huh? what the...? You shaggy peaceniks have some nerve.
Bender: I'm just here for what's mine. Don't make me kick your neck.
Nixon: Bring it on, soup can. [Growls]
% Bender also growls and they start slowly crawling towards each other.
Leela: [Grabs them both] All right, break it up, you two. [Puts them both
on the couch]
Nixon: That's it! You're all going to jail, and don't expect me to grant a
pardon like that sissy Ford.
Leela: You'll never pardon anybody, because you'll never get elected
president. The voters of earth aren't the pea-brained idiots they
were back in your time.
Nixon: Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as
they were in 1973, but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as
ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become bitter - and,
let's face it, crazy - over the years, and once I'm swept into
office I'll sell our children's organs and I'll go into people's
houses at night and wreck up the place. [Laughs fiendishly]
Fry: Well, he lost my vote.
Nixon: Like one vote ever made a difference. Now, if you'll excuse me I'm
going to inch myself over to the phone and call the police. [Starts
slowly skipping towards the phone]
Bender: Not so fast, Nixon! Are you familiar with... Audio tape? [Tape
rewinding sounds]
Nixon: Uh-oh, I don't like where this is heading.
Bender: [Replays] ...and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up
the place. [Laughs fiendishly]
Nixon: My god, I really sound like that? I thought my voice had more of a
Clark Gable quality.
% Leela pushes on Bender's antenna and the tape pops out fo Bender's mouth.
Leela: The jig's up, Nixon. We'll trade you the tape for the body.
Nixon: Oh, expletive deleted. You've got a deal.
Fry: Hey, I've got one last thought. [He's sitting on the tentacle bed]
% The tentacles activate and rough him up some more.
% Back at Planet Express. Everyone is at the TV.
Bender: Ah, it's good to be back in one piece again... Except I can't get
these damn bumper stickers off.
Linda: [On TV] The sheer drama of this election has driven voter turnout to
its highest level in centuries - six percent.
Morbo: Exit polls show evil underdog Richard Nixon trailing with an
estimated zero votes.
Leela: Yes! The system works.
Linda: The time is 7:59 and the robot polls are now opening... and the
robot vote is in. Nixon has won!
Fry: Ooh...
Leela: Oh, no!
Bender: Get out of town!
Fry: Why would robots vote for Nixon wow that he's just a head in a jar?
% On TV. At Nixon's campaign headquarters.
Campaign
manager: I give you the next president of Earth!
% Nixon walks out with his head on a giant robot body.
Nixon: Nixon's back! [Crowd cheers]
Prof.: I can't believe it. He won by a single vote.
Bender: Well, it ain't my fault. I'm a non-voting felon, thank you.
Fry: Well, it's not my fault, either, 'cause I forgot to vote.
Leela: Oh, crud, I KNEW there was something I meant to do today.
Morbo: Morbo congratulates our gargantuan cyborg president. May death come
quickly to his enemies. [Linda laughs]
% Nixon marches to the White House wreaking havoc on the way.
Nixon: Who's kicking who around now? [Growls, howls and sputters. Hail to
the chief plays] Knock, knock. [Punches a hole in White House wall.
Laughs deliriously]
% [End of Act Three. Act Time: 7:39 Running Time: 21:51
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> Contributors
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{} Me
{HL} Haynes Lee
{DDG} Don Del Grande
{ES} Eric Sansoni
{JK} Joe Klemm
Larry
Bender) wrote:
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>> Movie (and other) references
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Bullwinkle is in the "Bull Space Moose" booth. The Bull Moose Party
was a short lived minor party in the US. Space Moose is a cartoon, but
more intended for adults.
> NIXON REFEREMCES:
> - Checkers: his dog and subject of his famous speech
> - Watergate: hotel the breakin occured
> - "II am not a crook": NMixon quote
> - "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore.
> - missing 30 seconds of the tapes that were accidently
> erased.
That was 20 mins of erased tape. There is some talk that they may be
able to recover the audio.
--Larry
Jym Dyer
... Leela has a cyclops-like bowling ball?
... Bender's nightmare looks like a screenshot from The Matrix?
... Nixon says computers are only "twice as fast" as they were
in 1973?
>> Movie (and other) references
=v= Nixon sings the Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit."
> At the Head Museum. Section:
>
> Movie B-Movie PORN TV
> Stars Stars STARS STARS
=v= You might want to mention the decreasing status of these
heads, as indicated by the quality of their shelving and signs.
(TV Stars get an even shabbier sign than the one put up by the
Voter Apathy Party.)
> On the steps of congress:
>
> FXJKHR
> 60th PRESIDENT
=v= That's the Lincoln Memorial. Either that, or the FXJKHR
Memorial was built to look exactly like it.
>> Comments and other observations
> ...
> NIXON REFEREMCES:
> ...
> - missing 30 seconds of the tapes that were accidently erased.
=v= It was about 18 minutes, and most people don't think their
erasure was an accident.
- 1960 Debates: Nixon's shifty, sweaty performance.
- "Women's Libbers"/Betty Friedan: Nixon and the women's
movement weren't exactly friends.
- "Expletive Deleted:" Transcripts of Nixon's tapes use this
phrase to replace his frequent use of profanity.
- "Nixon's The One:" A campaign slogan that was revived during
the Watergate scandal.
=v= A villainous Nixon has also been featured in _The_Simpsons_
and Matt Groening's _Life_in_Hell_. He's not what you'd call
Groening's favorite President.
<_Jym_>
Jym Dyer
>> Previous episode references
=v= Nixon's head first appeared in the Pilot [1ACV01].
<_Jym_>
Robert J. Muldoon
Gremlins- Bender (or his head) drives a little car and crashes.
Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree- Bender says "Tie a yellow
ribbon 'round your neck..."
Some ascenine teenager film- Joke about the Washington Monument being a
phallic symbol.
[Came later than the episode, but intetesting coincidence] Planet of the
Apes (2001) and Jay and Silent Bob (comic, not the movie)- FXJKHR Memorial
either similar to or made from the Lincoln Memorial.
Resivoir Dogs- "Now, beat it, before I get cambodian on your asses!"
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VIII- Alien elected president and enslaves
humanity.
Nixon's new body is similar to a robot from some Japanese anime. Someone
here once said so.
--
Sincerely,
Robert J. Muldoon
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"If you are angry with someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes...
then you'll be a mile away from them, and you'll have their shoes."
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P.S. Uhm... Why didn't you capitalize Jimmy Carter's name? I assume that
was a typo....
Ostap Bender
> The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VIII- Alien elected president and enslaves
> humanity.
I think it's more of a coincidence than a reference. The idea
isn't exactly unique :-).
> P.S. Uhm... Why didn't you capitalize Jimmy Carter's name? I assume that
> was a typo....
Well, he IS one of the history greatest monsters :-). But you're
right, it was just a typo. Fixed.
Robert J. Muldoon
exactly unique :-). >>
An evil alien being elected president isn't unique? Oh well, if you say
so....
--
Sincerely,
Robert J. Muldoon
o--(|8[#]
"This space intentionally left blank.... oops."
Nadimo Nyth
> here once said so.
I have a feeling that you mean that it's very Gundam Wing style... (And
please, no one kill me if I haven't gone out and got you the exact name of
the model used by Nixon's Head)...
Nyth
8)
Robert J. Muldoon
please, no one kill me if I haven't gone out and got you the exact name of
the model used by Nixon's Head)... >>
I believe that's the name. I really have no idea.
--
Sincerely,
Robert J. Muldoon
o--(|8[#]
"Just lay your head back on the ground and let your hair fall all around me.
Offer up your best defense. But this is the end. This is the end of the
innocence."