Futurama episode
"A Big Piece of Garbage"
Episode no.	8
Prod. code	1ACV08
Airdate	May 11, 1999
Where	United States
Writer(s)	Lewis Morton
Director	Susie Dietter
Opening subtitle	Mr. Bender's Wardrobe by ROBOTANY 500
Opening cartoon	Elmer Fudd in "A Corny Concerto"
Guest star(s)	Ron Popeil Nancy Cartwright
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"A Big Piece of Garbage" is episode 8 in season 1 of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on May 11, 1999. Futurama is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox Network. ... Image File history File links Futurama_108_-_A_Big_Piece_of_Garbage. ... May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Susie Dietter is a television director. ... Elmer Fudd The fictional cartoon character Elmer J. Fudd, now one of the most famous Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies characters, also has one of the more convoluted and disputed origins in the Warner Brothers cartoon pantheon (second only to Bugs Bunny himself). ... A Corny Concerto is a 1943 Looney Tunes cartoon made by Warner Bros. ... Ronald M. Popeil (born May 3, 1935 in New York City) is a multi-millionaire inventor, well-known for his direct response marketing company Ronco. ... Nancy Campbell Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American actress and voice actor. ... Space Pilot 3000 is the first episode of Futuramas first season. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: I, Roommate I, Roommate is the third episode of season one of Futurama. ... Loves Labors Lost in Space is the 4th episode in Season 1 of Futurama. ... Fear of a Bot Planet is the 5th episode in season 1 of Futurama. ... A Fishful of Dollars is episode 6 in the 1st season of Futurama. ... My Three Suns is episode 7 in series 1 of Futurama. ... Hell Is Other Robots is episode 9 in season 1 of Futurama. ... A Flight To Remember is episode 10 in the first season of Futurama. ... Mars University is episode 11 of season 1 of Futurama. ... When Aliens Attack is episode 12 in season 1 of Futurama. ... Fry and the Slurm Factory is episode 13 in season 1 of Futurama. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Futurama is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox Network. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Plot

Tomorrow the crew will be making a delivery to Ebola 9, the virus planet. Farnsworth wants them to wait until tomorrow so they will all be alive tonight for the Academy of Science symposium. He has built the Deathclock, a device that tells how long you have to live. At the academy, he meets a former student from Mars University, Professor Ogden Wernstrom, who vowed revenge on the professor after receiving an A minus on a pop quiz, even if it took him a hundred years. Ninety-nine years have passed and still Wernstrom has not had his revenge. Farnsworth was ready to present his deathclock when Wernstrom mentioned he presented it last year. After ten minutes, he comes up with a smelloscope. Wernstrom gave him the worst grade imaginable for this invention, an A minus minus. Farnsworth vows to build the smelloscope, but quickly remembers that he already built one last year. Mars University is episode 11 of season 1 of Futurama. ... 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. ...

Fry begins pointing the smelloscope around, and discovers the smelliest object in the universe with "a stench so foul, it ranks right off the funkometer". After calculating its path, Professor Farnsworth announces that the object is on a path to collide with New New York City in 72 hours. After some research, a video is produced, revealing the object to be a giant ball of garbage launched into space by New York around 2052. (Redirected from 2052) (20th century - 21st century - 22nd century - other centuries) Definition In calendars based on the Christian Era or Common Era, such as the Gregorian calendar, the 21st century is the current century, as of this writing, lasting from 2000-2099. ...

After warning the mayor of New New York Mayor Poopenmayer, a plan is hatched to destroy the garbage ball. The Planet Express crew is sent on a suicide mission to plant a bomb on the ball. The bomb has been set to allow twenty-five minutes to escape. Unfortunately, the Professor actually set the timer upside-down allowing only fifty-two seconds, and the crew is forced to throw the bomb into space to save themselves. Futuramas recurring characters: Spoiler warning: // Captain Zapp Brannigan Main article: Zapp Brannigan Zapp Brannigan (voiced by Billy West) - Captain of the Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP) starship Nimbus, Capt. ...

Attempting to redeem himself, Farnsworth formulates a second plan to save the city: Launch a second ball of garbage to bounce the first one away. Using Fry's 20th century garbage-making skills, the city of New New York quickly generates a second ball of garbage, which succeeds in saving the city. Leela's concerns that the new garbage ball will return and destroy a future generation are dismissed by other characters. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...

Trivia

• Wernstrom says "Au Revoir" although it was stated in "A Clone of my Own" that French was a dead language.

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Cultural references

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A Big Piece of Garbage

• A pile of Bart Simpson dolls is found on the surface of the garbage ball. After the Bart Simpson doll says "Eat my shorts!", Bender eats the doll's shorts. This is followed by Bender saying "Mmmmm.... Shorts" à la Homer Simpson.
• Fry finds a Mr. Spock collector's plate on the surface of the big ball of garbage.
• The entrance to City Hall is covered by a blue sign labeled CITIHALL, which is similar to the old Citibank logo.
• The planet Ebola 9 is a reference to the fatal virus Ebola which has killed most of its victims.
• There are several references to the movie Armageddon:
  • The Professor's first plan to destroy the ball of garbage is similar to the plot of the movie
  • The scene where the giant hamburger asteroid crashes through the skyscraper is the same as a famous scene in the movie.
  • The scene in which the space heroes walk out to their ship is very much like the same scene in the movie. (Which is, in itself, a reference to a famous shot in the film "The Right Stuff."
• When the ship is advancing towards the garbage ball, it looks similar to the meteor from Final Fantasy VII after they send a rocket to blow it up.
• The delivery of the message from Neptune was identical to that of an outpost colony in Star Trek: The Original Series, "Balance Of Terror" when it was describing an approaching Romulan vessel's attack run on the colony.
• The credit sequence features the song "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn. This is a reference to the 1964 black comedy Dr. Strangelove which featured the song in the ending along with a montage of nuclear bomb explosions, mirroring this episode's views of world destruction.

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External links

• Episode Transcript

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