Futurama episode
"A Fishful of Dollars"
Episode no.	6
Prod. code	1ACV06
Airdate	April 27, 1999
Writer(s)	Patric M. Verrone
Director	Ron Hughart Gregg Vanzo
Opening subtitle	LOADING....
Opening cartoon	1932's "Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions"
Guest star(s)	Pamela Anderson as herself
Space Pilot 3000 The Series Has Landed I, Roommate Love's Labours Lost in Space Fear of a Bot Planet A Fishful of Dollars My Three Suns A Big Piece of Garbage Hell Is Other Robots A Flight to Remember Mars University When Aliens Attack Fry and the Slurm Factory
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"A Fishful of Dollars" is episode six in the first season of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on April 27, 1999. This also marks the first appearance of the antagonist Mom. Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... Image File history File links Futurama_106_-_A_Fishful_of_Dollars. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... Patric Miller Verrone is an American television writer and labor leader. ... Ron Hughart is an American animation director. ... Gregg Vanzo is an American animator. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Betty Boops Crazy Inventions is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film, starring Betty Boop. ... Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian/American[1] actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. ... Space Pilot 3000 is the first episode of Futuramas first season. ... The Series Has Landed is the 2nd episode in series 1 of Futurama. ... I, Roommate is the third episode of season one of Futurama. ... Loves Labours Lost in Space is the fourth episode in season one of Futurama. ... Fear of a Bot Planet is the 5th episode in season 1 of Futurama. ... My Three Suns is episode 7 in season 1 of Futurama. ... A Big Piece of Garbage is episode 8 in season 1 of Futurama. ... Hell Is Other Robots is episode 9 in season 1 of Futurama. ... “A Flight To Remember” is episode ten in the first season of Futurama. ... Mars University is episode eleven of season one of Futurama. ... When Aliens Attack is episode twelve in season one 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 Emmy Award-winning 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. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... An ... Mom in her first appearance, wearing her fatsuit and kindly public persona Mom is a fictional character and recurring antagonist on the animated series Futurama. ...

Plot

After having their dreams taken over by an advertisement, the Planet Express crew takes a trip to the local shopping mall. Trying to buy the product in his dreams, Fry realises he is broke. At the same time, Bender is caught shoplifting and sent to jail. Unable to pay the bail, Fry remembers he had a bank account back in the twentieth century. Surprisingly his old bank account is still active, and has been accruing interest for the past thousand years, bringing the balance from 93 cents to $4.3 billion. Fry goes on a massive spending spree, buying numerous 20th century artifacts, including the last known tin of now-extinct anchovies, which were fished to extinction shortly after Dr. Zoidberg's people arrived on Earth. This article or section on a Television-related subject may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... This article or section on a Television-related subject may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... Interest is the rent paid to borrow money. ... (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... {{Taxobox classis = Actinopterygii | ordo = Clupeiformes | familia = Engraulidae | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = Amazonsprattus Anchoa Anchovia Anchiovella Cetengraulis Coilia Encrasicholina Engraulis Jurengraulis Lycengraulis Lycothrissa Papuengraulis Pterengraulis Setipinna Stolephorus Thryssa }} The anchovies are a family large but uncommon schooling saltwater plankton-feeding fish. ... Doctor John Zoidberg is a lobster-like alien, Decapodian, in the television series Futurama. ...

Mom, famous industrialist and owner of Mom's Old-Fashioned Robot Oil, wants to secure the anchovies for her own purposes. Anchovy oil could be used to permanently lubricate robots, and therefore represent an enormous threat to Mom's business interests.

Mom's sons Walt, Larry, and Ignar conspire with the head of Pamela Anderson to steal Fry's ATM card and PIN, which they use to bankrupt Fry. All of Fry's 20th century artifacts are repossessed, except the anchovies, which Fry had hidden in his sock. Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian/American[1] actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. ... Outdoor ATMs may be free-standing, like this kiosk, or built into the side of banks or other buildings An automatic teller machine, automated teller machine (ATM) or cash machine is an electronic device that allows a banks customers to make cash withdrawals and check their account balances without... A personal identification number (PIN) is a secret numeric password shared between a user and a system that can be used to authenticate the user to the system. ...

After Mom discovers Fry intends to eat the anchovies, she stops interfering. Fry covers a pizza with the anchovies, and shares them with the rest of the Planet Express employees. Everyone except Fry spits their pizza out in disgust. Fry claims that they are an acquired taste. When Dr. Zoidberg enters the room, he smells a 'heavenly stench' and immediately devours all the remaining anchovy-covered pizza, and goes on a rampage screaming "MORE! MORE! MORE!!"

Characters

Characters who make their first appearances in this episode are:

• Mom
• Walt, Larry and Ignar
• Scruffy

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Future products

Future products seen in this episode are:

• Lightspeed Briefs
• Kelvin Clone Fragrances
• Mom's Old Fashioned Robot Oil
• Angry Norwegian Anchovies

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Cultural references

Leela in front of the Patrick Nagel-esque painting

• The title references the Clint Eastwood/Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars.
• When Fry purchases his "authentic 20th century apartment", there is an illustrated poster of a woman on the wall. The poster is drawn in a style reminiscent of 1980s pop-artist Patrick Nagel, most renowned for drawing the cover of the Duran Duran album, Rio. The painting appears again, tattooed on Sal, in the episode "The Cryonic Woman".
• The song "Baby Got Back" is described as classical music by Leela.
• Fry watches a parody commercial for Pepperidge Farm.
• Fry is seen watching an episode of Sanford and Son, where Redd Foxx's character, Fred G. Sanford, is heard saying "Esther, you ugly", referring to Sanford's constant humiliation of his sister-in-law's profound ugliness.
• Sometime between Fry's freezing and his waking up, Pamela Anderson apparently won an Academy Award. It was for the fictitious Baywatch: The Movie, which was "the first movie filmed entirely in slow motion". This jocularly refers to the slow motion shots of the cast running up and down the beach prominently featured in the television series.
• The auction house where Fry buys anchovies is called Staagi & Staagi, a reference to the advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi, and its founder, Charles Saatchi's interest in art collection, as well as the term "stodgy," meaning dull and pompous.
• In the scene at the fake Panucci's pizza a campaign poster from Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign can be briefly seen.

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Continuity

• This episode marks the first appearance of Scruffy, although he is not identified and does not speak. His mustache is also red as opposed to grey, though he has been shown to enjoy dyeing his hair in "Three Hundred Big Boys", in which he sports a pink mohawk.
• Near the end of the episode, a comment by Amy implies that cows are extinct by the year 3000, which would explain the buggalo's use for meat.
• The figure of $4.3 billion is in fact accurate, given the one-thousand-year investment period at the stated average of 2.25% interest with a beginning principal of $0.93. This is with annual compounding, as opposed to the more traditional monthly compounding of interest. The actual amount would be $4,283,508,450.

• Fry bought video tapes of shows from his time, however, Farnsworth states that video tapes were destroyed during "the second coming of Jesus".

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Goofs

• The door in Fry's apartment is seen to open to the left when Leela's ponytail gets caught then later to the right when Mom's boys kidnap Fry.
• Fry's Bank interest gives him billions of dollars, despite the fact civilization was destroyed by aliens sometime between the years 2000 and 3000, as portrayed in "Space Pilot 3000". However, since the cryogenics laboratory was not destroyed, it can be supposed that Fry's bank survived as well.
• The interest earned also assumes that the bank would keep track of fractions of a cent. If the bank compounded annually and rounded down to the previous cent, the total would only come out to be $3,271,166,270.67, or roughly $1billion dollars short! Also, assuming the bank compounds monthly, (i.e. a rate of 2.25%/12months=0.1875%)the minimum balance which would gain at least 1 cent a month (and even more later) would be $5.34, eventually earning $17,374,002,371.39. If the bank compounded quarterly (0.5625%/quarter), the minimum starting balance would have to be $1.78, earning $5,562,916,155.84. Otherwise, no interest would have been earned.
• At the end when Fry introduces anchovies to the crew, its obvious to see he still has a half full tin of them on the table, however when Zoidberg comes in, the tin disappears and Fry says there are not any more left.

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Fry's shopping spree

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A Fishful of Dollars

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• Top hats
• Champagne
• Zuban Cigars
• A walking ash tray
• A massage session for him, Leela, and Bender at Le Spa
• A day at the shooting range where priceless paintings are used instead of clay pigeons
• A 20th century apartment block with original asbestos
• Ted Danson's skeleton (in the Latin American dubbing the skeleton belongs to Chespirito).
• Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots given to Bender.
• An unopened can of Angry Norwegian Anchovies
• Assorted videotapes of 20th Century television shows and commercials
• A bucket of fossilized KFC
• Sir Mixalot Albums