Futurama episode
"The 30% Iron Chef"
Episode no.	54
Prod. code	3ACV22
Airdate	April 14, 2002
Where	United States
Writer(s)	Jeff Westbrook
Director	Ron Hughart
Opening subtitle	IF ACCIDENTALLY WATCHED, INDUCE VOMITING
Opening cartoon	Unknown
Guest star(s)	None
Season 3 January 2001 – December 2002
Amazon Women in the Mood Parasites Lost A Tale of Two Santas The Luck of the Fryrish The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz Bendless Love The Day the Earth Stood Stupid That's Lobstertainment! The Cyber House Rules Where the Buggalo Roam Insane in the Mainframe The Route of All Evil Bendin' in the Wind Time Keeps on Slippin' I Dated a Robot A Leela of Her Own A Pharaoh to Remember Anthology of Interest II Roswell That Ends Well Godfellas Future Stock The 30% Iron Chef
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“The 30% Iron Chef” is the 22nd episode in season 3 of Futurama. It originally aired April 14, 2002. Futurama is an American animated sitcom that follows Philip J. Fry after he is cryogenically frozen at midnight, December 31, 1999, and is revived a thousand years later in the year 2999. ... Image File history File links Futurama_ep54. ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Jeff Westbrook is an American TV writer best known for his work on The Simpsons and Futurama. ... The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Amazon Women in the Mood is the first episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... Parasites Lost is the 2nd episode in series 3 of Futurama. ... A Tale of Two Santas is the 3rd episode in series 3 of Futurama. ... The Luck of the Fryrish is the 4th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz is the 5th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... Bendless Love is the 6th episode in series 3 of Futurama. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: The Day the Earth Stood Stupid The Day the Earth Stood Stupid is the 7th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... Thats Lobstertainment! is the 8th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Cyber House Rules is the 9th episode in series 3 of Futurama. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Where the Buggalo Roam Where the Buggalo Roam is the 10th episode in Season 3 of the animated television series Futurama. ... Insane in the Mainframe is the 11th episode in series 3 of Futurama. ... The Route of All Evil is the 12th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... Bendin in the Wind is the 13th episode in series 3 of Futurama. ... Time Keeps on Slippin is the 14th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... I Dated a Robot is the 15th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: A Leela of Her Own A Leela Of Her Own is an episode of the animated series Futurama. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: A Pharaoh to Remember A Pharaoh to Remember is the 17th episode of Futuramas third season. ... Anthology of Interest II is the 18th episode of the third season of Futurama. ... Roswell That Ends Well (Production number 3ACV19) is an episode of the TV show Futurama. ... Godfellas is the 20th episode of the 3rd season of Futurama. ... Future Stock is the 21st episode of Futuramas third season. ... The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Futurama is an American animated sitcom that follows Philip J. Fry after he is cryogenically frozen at midnight, December 31, 1999, and is revived a thousand years later in the year 2999. ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Plot

Bender cooks for the Planet Express crew and the meals he produces are awful. Also, Zoidberg destroys the scale replica of the world's largest bottle that Professor Farnsworth has made. He frames Fry for the damage and the Professor demands that Fry pay $10 for the material cost, because of this Zoidberg is riddled with guilt. Bender Bending Rodríguez, more commonly known as Bender (assembled c. ... Doctor John Zoidberg is a lobster-like alien, Decapodian, in the television series Futurama. ... Professor Hubert Farnsworth Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth is the extremely elderly proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service in the animated television series Futurama. ... This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... Doctor John Zoidberg is a lobster-like alien, Decapodian, in the television series Futurama. ...

Running away, Bender hopes Elzar will teach him how to cook, but Elzar refuses. Bender then finds two hobos who take him with them on the spacerails, Bender and the hobos end up on the biggest hobo joint in the universe. There, Bender meets Helmut Spargle—a legendary cook who lost his TV show when Elzar replaced him. Spargle begins to train in Bender how to cook in order to get revenge. Futuramas recurring characters: Spoiler warning: // Richard Nixons head Richard Nixons head (voiced by Billy West) - after a millennium of being a disembodied head, Nixon has lost more than a few of his marbles. ...

Once Bender is finished with his training, he accidentally kills Spargle by causing his stomach to explode with the meal he has made. With his dying breath, Spargle reveals the secret to great cooking and gives him a vial of clear liquid to use whenever he needs to spice up a food.

Bender challenges Elzar to a cook-off on Iron Cook. The main ingredient used in this cook-off is Soylent green.He applies the liquid that Spargle gave him and wins. During the contest, Zoidberg becomes remorseful of framing Fry when Fry is unable to pay for a commemorative turkey baster. Zoidberg publicly apologises before trying to commit seppuku honorably using a ceremonial Wakizashi, only to damage the $5000 sword and blame Fry. Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai With the above words begins each edition of Iron Chef, a Japanese television program produced by FujiTV. The original Japanese title is Ironmen of Cooking ). It began airing on October 10, 1993 as a half-hour show and after 23 episodes, it was expanded to a... Soylent Green is a 1973 science fiction movie starring Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joseph Cotten and Chuck Connors. ... Seppuku with ritual attire and second (staged) General Akashi Gidayu preparing to commit Seppuku after losing a battle for his master in 1582. ... Wakizashi style sword mounting, Edo period, 19th century A wakizashi (, Kanji for side arm) is a traditional Japanese sword with a shōtō blade between 30 and 60 cm, with an average of 50 cm (between 12 and 24 inches), similar to but shorter than a katana and sometimes longer...

When the Professor examines the liquid in the bottle Spargle gave Bender, it turns out the liquid was water laced with LSD. The episode closes with the characters joyfully anticipating a meal prepared with plenty of Bender’s new-found “confidence.” For other uses, see LSD (disambiguation). ...

Quotes

• Bender: (crying) It’s over! My dream of being a chef is deader than the cat I’m sitting on!
  (Two hobos stand next to him.)
  Hobo: Gus, old chum, let’s give a friendly welcome to this new robo.
  (Bender rolls up his sleeves.)
  Bender: What did you call me?!!
  Gus: A robo. You know? A robot hobo.
  Bender: Oh, okay. I thought you said “romo.”
• Spargle: You don’t understand. Without the distraction of taste, your mind is free to touch the Zen of pure flavor. You could become the greatest chef ever!
  Bender: I could?
  Spargle: Yes. Just as Beethoven was a great composer because he was deaf.
  Bender: Or like how Rembrandt was blind and had wooden hands!
• Hiroki: Aki, what’s Elzar making?
  Aki: Well, Hiroki-san, when I asked him, he asked what business it was of mine and conjectured that my mother was a prostitute.
  Martha Stewart: In the English countryside, many prostitutes decorate their rooms with festive gourds.
• Farnsworth: Hmm. Let me see that vial, Bender. (He puts it in a machine and a readout prints and he looks at it and gasps.) Good Lord! According to the spectralyzer, Spargle’s magic ingredient was… water! Ordinary water!
  (Everyone gasps.)
  Hermes: No!
  Fry: Ah, so the real gift Spargle gave you was confidence. The confidence to be your best.
  Farnsworth: Yes, ordinary water. Laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of LSD.
  (Bender takes the vial.)
  Bender: The important thing is, by my standards, I won fair and square. Now, who wants brunch? Cooked with plenty of… confidence?
  Leela: I’m in!
  Farnsworth: I do!
• Hobo: You've never heard of Helmut Spargle? He used to be the greatest chef who ever lived! He once ran a restaurant that was so exclusive that the only way to get a reservation there was to create a parallel universe where you already had reservations!
  Gus: Yup. I once et there when I what was a senator.

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Cultural references

• The title and the Iron Cook cooking contest parody the Japanese cooking competition show Iron Chef.
• The song played during Bender’s training montage is “You’re The Best” from The Karate Kid soundtrack.
• Spargel’s character and subsequent death are a parody of Yoda of the Star Wars series, as is the scene in which Bender peels hovering potatoes. Also, Spargel's name is a reference to celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck's restaurant, Spago.
• Elzar's seduction by the "Dark Side of Cooking" (cilantro, mango salsa, raspberry vinaigrette) was a reference to Darth Vader's seduction by the Dark Side of The Force.
• The ending, with the LSD-laced water, is a parody of Space Jam, in which a secret elixir that Bugs Bunny (voiced by Billy West) gives the team is actually just water.
• When the winner of the competition is announced, Chairman Koji says to Bender, “Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,” a reference to the popular song “Mr. Roboto” by the band Styx.
• The episode concludes with a clip from Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love,” a well-known psychedelic song.
• Linda and Morbo appear on “Good Morning Earth,” a parody of Good Morning America.
• The Iron Cook main ingredient is Soylent Green, a parody of the 1973 film. Bubblegum Tate’s Line: “Soylent green is my kind of people” is a parody of Charleton Heston’s famous line “Soylent Green is… people!”
• When Bender and the hobos jump before the stop there is a Pink Floyd reference to Dark Side of The Moon with the prism that splits into the rainbow.

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Trivia

• This episode reveals Dr. Zoidberg’s first name to be John.
• Bender’s original role, as shown in some production sketches and part of the Director’s commentary, was supposed to be that of the ship’s (horrible) chef. However, a decision was made to cast him as the lazy robot instead and not give him a defined role.
• It is said that Bender would like to make good-tasting meals but can’t because he has no sense of taste (as alluded to in previous episodes, such as “My Three Suns”). However, near the end of the episode “A Fishful of Dollars”, he could taste, as he spits out Fry’s anchovy pizza (as does everyone else except Fry).
• The Kitchen Coliseum is home to the Kitchen University Wildcats, possibly a reference to Johnson & Wales University (Johnson & Wales's mascot is the Wildcat) where Emeril Lagasse went to college. Chef Elzar is based on Emeril.

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External links

• Episode Transcript

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