Crimes of the Hot
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| Episode no. | 62 |
| Prod. code | 4ACV08 |
| Airdate | November 10, 2002 |
| Writer(s) | Aaron Ehasz |
| Director | Peter Avanzino |
| Opening subtitle | KNOWN TO CAUSE INSANITY IN LABORATORY MICE |
| Opening cartoon | unknown |
| Guest star(s) | Al Gore |
| Season 4 January 2002 – August 2003 |
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“Crimes of the Hot” is the eighth episode of the fourth production season of the television show Futurama.
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[edit] Plot summary
On Planet Earth, the days are starting to get hotter and hotter. The crew, looking for an explanation, watches an old movie about global warming. They find out that global warming was solved by dropping a huge piece of ice in the ocean on a regular basis. The Planet Express crew is assigned the task of gathering the ice. The crew goes to Halley's Comet, but find that it is out of ice. With no ice left, the world’s top scientists are called to a special meeting to find a new solution to the problem. Professor Farnsworth reveals that robots, (which he invented) with their high-pollution emissions, are the cause of the crisis. The scientists, led by Ogden Wernstrom, decide that the only course of action is to destroy all the robots on earth.
Meanwhile, Bender is moved after witnessing a news report showing the migration of turtles due to the heat and decides to rescue one. When questioned by the crew it is revealed that Bender, like the turtle, can not get up if he falls directly on to his back. Earth President Richard Nixon’s head organizes a party for the unsuspecting robots on the remote Galapagos Islands, where he plans to destroy the entire population with an electromagnetic blast shot from an orbiting EMP cannon built by Wernstrom. Bender, who was at the meeting of scientists and thus knows of the plan, decides, for the sake of the turtles, that he will accept his fate and attend the party. At the party he is overheard saying that all the robots are doomed, causing panic. Farnsworth arrives with Fry and Leela and delivers a solution to the robots; every last one needs to blast their exhaust vents at the same time, straight up in the sky, in order to push the earth farther from the sun, thus cooling the earth and causing the EMP cannon to miss its target. Unfortunately, during the panic Bender and the turtle are knocked onto their backs and can not get up, which means there is not enough exhaust to move the earth. As Bender is lamenting his fate, the turtle rocks from side to side and rolls to its feet. Shocked, but not to be shown up, Bender does the same, allowing him to release his massive exhaust, just barely saving the robots from the EMP. Farnsworth receives a pollution medal for his work, and the extra week caused by the new orbit of the earth is declared robot party week.
[edit] Cultural references
- The episode title is a reference to the 1986 movie Crimes of the Heart.
- One of Farnsworth’s failed robots is a parody of C-3PO from Star Wars. The same robot was crushed afterwards by a hydraulic press, like T-800 in the end of the movie The Terminator.
- Farnsworth’s line “The Jedi are going to feel this one!” is a reference to the destruction of Alderaan in Star Wars: A New Hope, after which Obi-Wan Kenobi said, “I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
- The evil wizard at the scientist meeting looks strikingly similar to Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- Leela calls a beer a “Bender Snack”, a reference to Scooby-Doo’s Scooby Snacks.
- Al Gore’s claim that he has “ridden the mighty moon worm” is a reference to Frank Herbert’s Dune universe.[citation needed]
- Al Gore's robotic body resembles the one of Simon Wright from the Captain Future TV anime series by Toei Animation.
- The documentary shown is titled “None Like It Hot” this is a parody of the Marylin Monroe film Some Like It Hot.
- Al Gore's head makes reference to the book Earth in the Balance, written by Al Gore in 1992; the second, more popular book, entitled "Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth", is a reference to the Harry Potter book series.
- The internet clip about global warming the crew is watching at the beginning of the episode was reused in Al Gore’s 2006 documentary on the same subject, An Inconvenient Truth.
- One of the robots riding a camel through a desert resembles R.O.B.
- Kyoto and global warming, when put together, is a reference to the Kyoto Protocol.
[edit] Goofs
- In the scene where the Planet Express crew are seen resting outside the building, they are resting on the front steps of the Planet Express building, yet the building never had steps in the first place. This however, can be seen as a parody of New York culture.
- This episode seemingly contradicts "Xmas Story", wherein Leela says global warming was cancelled out by nuclear winter.
[edit] Foreign language messages
- The rising thermometer shown after the news has an alien scale. The units are abbreviated with an Alien Alphabet "F". There are only two markings (also in Alien): 2, and 7.
- The “Curious Pussycat” sign in Kyoto, Japan, reads 「私は、あなたのことをあなたのお母さんより愛しています。」, which is Japanese for “I love you more than your mother does.”
[edit] Production notes
- The song "Get Down Tonight" is included on this episode, a song from KC and the Sunshine Band in the 1970s. The song "Hot Hot Hot" from Buster Poindexter also appears at the end (although the captions have the lyrics to "I Feel Good" by James Brown).
- The first alcohol-drinking and less efficient robot appears to be based off of original concept drawings of Bender and has curly ear antennas, which he almost ended up entering the series with[citation needed].
[edit] Continuity
- With the exception of Flexo, every robot character previously appearing in the series appears in this episode.
- The ending to this episode is similar to "A Big Piece of Garbage", in that the end of the world is merely postponed.
