Futurama episode
"My Three Suns"
Episode no.	7
Prod. code	1ACV07
Airdate	May 4, 1999
Writer(s)	J. Stewart Burns
Director	Jeffrey Lynch Kevin O' Brien
Opening subtitle	Presented In Double Vision (Where Drunk)
Opening cartoon	Grampy in Fleischer Studio's The Impractical Joker from 1937
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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"My Three Suns" is episode 7 in season 1 of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on May 4, 1999. 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_107_-_My_Three_Suns. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... J. Stewart Burns is a writer and producer for The Simpsons. ... Jeffrey Lynch is an american animator and graphics artist. ... Grampy is an animated cartoon character appearing in the Betty Boop series of films produced by Max Fleischer and released by Paramount Pictures. ... Fleischer Studios is an American New York animation company founded by the brothers, Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer who ran the company from 1921-1942. ... The Impractical Joker is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 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 fifth episode in season one of Futurama. ... A Fishful of Dollars is episode six in the first season of Futurama. ... A Big Piece of Garbage is episode 8 in season 1 of Futurama. ... Hell Is Other Robots is episode nine in season one 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. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ...

Plot

Hermes Conrad threatens to fire Bender, since Bender has no official duties at Planet Express. Inspired by the Neptunian TV chef Elzar, Bender decides to be the ship's cook. Professor Farnsworth sends the crew off on a delivery to the planet Trisol, and Bender serves the crew a meal of almost pure salt. Hermes Conrad is a character in the Futurama animated series. ... Bender Bending Rodríguez, more commonly known as Bender (assembled c. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... The animated television series Futurama is set in a time when galactic travel is commonplace, and the series features a wide variety of inhabited worlds. ... Futuramas recurring characters: Spoiler warning: // Brain Slug Controlling Hermes The Brain Slugs are small, gelatinous, fist-sized aliens that attach themselves to human heads and act as mind control devices, reducing their hosts to a zombie-like state. ... Professor Hubert Farnsworth Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth is the extremely elderly proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service in the animated television series Futurama. ... The animated television series Futurama is set in a time when galactic travel is commonplace, and the series features a wide variety of inhabited worlds. ... Jordanian and Israeli salt evaporation ponds at the south end of the Dead Sea Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite, is a chemical compound with the formula NaCl. ...

After the ship lands, Fry is assigned the task of making the delivery trek across the desert under the planet's three blazing suns. When he arrives at his destination, the Trisolian palace, he finds it empty. Stricken with thirst, he grabs a bottle of blue liquid that is sitting on the throne and consumes it. 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. ...

Armed guards storm the throne room, revealing that the bottle Fry drank was actually the emperor, in liquid form. Rather than being punished, Fry is declared the new emperor.

Fry opens the package, revealing a small sign reading "Please don't drink the emperor". He (slightly sarcastically) comments that it got there just in time. The high priest Merg informs Fry that as part of the coronation, Fry will have to recite the royal oath, from memory, under penalty of death if he makes a mistake.

During the pre-coronation party, Leela informs Fry that the average reign of a Trisolian emperor is only one week, as whoever murders the old emperor is declared the new one. When Fry refuses to listen to her warning, Leela returns to the ship, vowing not to help Fry again. Turanga Leela (referred to as simply Leela) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ...

At the coronation, Fry recites the oath, and is sworn in as Fry the Solid. As the suns set, the Trisolians begin to glow, including the former emperor Bont from inside Fry's stomach. Bont demands that Fry be cut open and drained.

The crew takes refuge in the throne room, and tries to work out a way to extract the emperor without killing Fry. Bender calls Leela on Fry's behalf, but gets an inconclusive response. After Leela arrives, she begins beating Fry, causing him to cry in pain, extracting the emperor. Once he is out, the emperor beats Fry up, taking turns with the other crew members, and thanks him. With the emperor safely outside Fry's body, the crew is allowed to leave.

Characters

Characters who make their first appearances in this episode are:

• Elzar

Futuramas recurring characters: Spoiler warning: // Brain Slug Controlling Hermes The Brain Slugs are small, gelatinous, fist-sized aliens that attach themselves to human heads and act as mind control devices, reducing their hosts to a zombie-like state. ...

Trivia

• This episode was rated TV-14 on adult swim, yet it was rated TV-PG-V on FOX.

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Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons.
• At the beginning of the episode when Bender goes through the robot wash the song Car Wash by Rose Royce plays and Bender sings along with his own version.
• As they're going through Little Neptune, they pass a "Head Shop"--which is slang for a shop where drug paraphenalia (for potheads) are sold. On Little Neptune, the "head shop" sells human heads.
• The Neptunian chef Elzar is a spoof of the popular TV chef Emeril.
• Bender cooks wearing a chef's apron bearing the bold text "TO SERVE MAN". This is a reference to the short story by Damon Knight and an episode with the same title of the TV show, The Twilight Zone. In that story, the large book carried by giant aliens promising a bright future for Earth and its inhabitants turns out to be a cookbook.
• The alien stand-up comic making the racially oriented jokes is a reference to Chris Rock.
• The "Forbidden Zone" could be a reference to the movie of the same name, and "Galaxy of Terror" was a low-budget 1981 sci-fi movie.

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Goofs

• When Fry and the group are held under siege in the castle, Dr. Zoidberg has to stay at the door to plug up the water people. Later, when everyone is "helping" Fry, he is no longer at the door, and the water people should be flowing in.
• When Bender says "Hey, look. The suns are setting. I can finally switch to hard liquor!" He is seen already holding a Martini glass before the 'camera' switches to him holding a wine glass and only then tossing it and pulling a Martini glass from his chest cabinet.
• When running into the castle, Amy is barefoot and is carrying her shoes in her hand, but once inside, her shoes are back on without her doing so.

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