Futurama episode
"A Taste of Freedom"
Episode no.	59
Prod. code	4ACV05
Airdate	December 12, 2002
Writer(s)	Eric Horsted
Director	James Purdum
Opening subtitle	Or Is IT?
Opening cartoon	unknown
Guest star(s)	Phil Hendrie
Season 4 January 2002 – August 2003
Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch Leela's Homeworld Love and Rocket Less Than Hero A Taste of Freedom Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV Jurassic Bark Crimes of the Hot Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles The Why Of Fry Where No Fan Has Gone Before The Sting Bend Her Obsoletely Fabulous The Farnsworth Parabox Three Hundred Big Boys Spanish Fry The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
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Plot summary

The crew celebrates Freedom Day, a day where you can do anything you want, regardless of the consequences. Zoidberg seems affectionate about the holiday, as he loves the idea of freedom, something he didn't have on his home planet Decapod 10. At the big Freedom Day celebration in Washington, D.C., Earth President Richard Nixon('s head) unveils the Earth flag ("Old Freebie"), which Zoidberg eats to celebrate the spirit of the holiday. The rest of the crowd, however, sees him as a traitor. Zoidberg is chased all the way to Decapod 10's embassy. Zoidberg is put on trial and the crew hires lawyer Old Man Waterfall (voiced by radio legend and occasional Futurama guest star Phil Hendrie) to represent him. Zoidberg, however, is found guilty and sentenced to death. After Earth's army storms the Decapodian embassy to seize Zoidberg (which constitutes an act of war, since the embassy is technically on Decapodian mud), the Decapodian ambassador to Earth summons the Decapodian military to retaliate. The Decapodian army easily defeats Earth's defense forces (thanks in no small part to Zapp Brannigan's incompetence) and Earth is enslaved by the crustacean extra-terrestrials. Zoidberg does nothing to help his former employees, claiming that Earth didn't deserve its freedom. Later, Fry, Bender, Leela, Zapp, and Kif find a heat-seeking missile and launch it toward the Decopodians' newly-constructed Mobile Oppression Palace. However, the palace is "cold-blooded," like the Decapodians themselves, and the Palace continues its destructive rampage. It eventually crushes Old Man Waterfall, whom Zoidberg respected for defending him when no one else would. Zoidberg then lights a flag on fire and throws it toward the Mobile Oppression Palace, attracting the missile and thus destroying the Palace. Zoidberg is declared a hero and is honored by Nixon at a ceremony, where he unveils a new Earth flag, out of which he is allowed to take a bite. Zoidberg concludes that Earth, not Decapod 10, is now his true home planet. Phil Hendrie Philip Stephen Hendrie (born September 1, 1952, Arcadia, California) is the host of The Phil Hendrie Show, a comedy talk radio program syndicated throughout North America on Premiere Radio Networks and on XM Satellite Radio. ... Infra-red homing refers to a guidance system which uses the infra-red light emission from a target to track it. ...

Trivia

• This episode features Phil Hendrie playing another Waterfall character. He played Free Waterfall Jr. in "The Problem With Popplers" and Free Waterfall Sr. in "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz". All of these characters die in the episodes they are in.
• Harold Zoid appears on a newspaper in this episode.
• The episode originally featured the Mobile Oppression Palace destroying buildings. This was changed because of the 9/11 attacks.
• Zoidberg's first name is revealed to be John.
• The Globetrotter Homeworld's embassy is briefly seen. The guards at the entrance dribble basketballs.
• The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is Myrtle Fu, while the Associate Justices are Abe Vigoda, Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Snoop Dogg. Except for Vigoda and Snoop Dogg, all of the Associate Justices mentioned were actually Associate Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court at the time the episode was made. (O'Connor has since retired and been replaced by Samuel Alito.)
• Zoidberg says that two of his three hearts are having attacks while in court. In the earlier episode Roswell That Ends Well, Zoidberg states that he has four hearts - but the doctors performing his vivisection in that episode took one, leaving him with three.

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Quotes

• Leela: Cool your jowls, Nixon. You may not like it that Dr. Zoidberg desecrated a flag. You might even find the image of it festering in his bowels somehow offensive. But the right to freedom of expression is guaranteed by the Earth Constitution.

Nixon: Aroo, maybe so. But I know a place where the Constitution doesn't mean squat!

(cuts away to Supreme Court)

Chief Justice Myrtle Fu: The Supreme Court hereby accepts the case of Earth v. Zoidberg.

Nixon: Sock it to 'em!

• Zoidberg: My planet's own embassy. They're paid to not kill me!

• Fry: Hey, wait! I'm having one of those things. You know, a headache with pictures.

Leela: An idea?

Fry: Mm, hmmm, hmmm!

• Ambassador Moiven: I don't need to tell you that occupation forces are expensive. But with the Mobile Oppression Palace, a few delegates can occupy your planet for pennies a day!

• Old Man Waterfall: That's right, I'm a polygamist.

(crowd boos)

• Chief Justice Myrtle Fu: Also, in a rare double-whammy decision, the court finds polygamy constitutional.

(crowd boos)

Old Man Waterfall: I can't wait to tell my husband!

(crowd boos louder)

• Old Man Waterfall: Do your worst, you sea devils. I'll make my stand with Old Freebie. You can crush me but you can't crush my spirit!

(The Mobile Oppression Palace crushes him)

Old Man Waterfall: Argh, my spirit! [...] My last request is a satanic funeral.

(crowd boos)

• Ambassador Moiven: This is your secret weapon?! Heat seeking missiles don't work on the Mobile Oppression Palace! All Decapodian technology is cold-blooded, like us!

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References

• The episode is based off the famous flag burning controversy.
• The Klingons have an embassy, which is pink. It was originally the Barbie Planet Embassy, but it was changed prior to the episode's airing.

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