In the "Futurama" movie "Bender's Big Score," a visit to a nude beach planet revealed that Philip Fry (Billy West) had a tattoo on his butt -- a tattoo of his robot friend Bender smoking a cigar -- that he didn't know had been placed there. A closer examination of the butt tattoo revealed a miniature binary code embedded in one of the portrait's eyes. It seemed that this was a thought-to-be-mythic time-travel code that, when read aloud, manifested a portal to the past. The Professor (West) noted that time travel was dangerous as it couldn't be achieved without creating universe-threatening paradoxes.
Unluckily, Bender himself (John Dimaggio) had been infected with a computer virus, placing him in the control of a trio of nudist internet scam aliens. The aliens ordered Bender to go back in time to steal Earth's artifacts. Bender, being a robot, could wait in a basement for...
Unluckily, Bender himself (John Dimaggio) had been infected with a computer virus, placing him in the control of a trio of nudist internet scam aliens. The aliens ordered Bender to go back in time to steal Earth's artifacts. Bender, being a robot, could wait in a basement for...
- 10/30/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Matt Groening's and David X. Cohen's "Futurama" is a show made by nerds, for nerds. While the show is rife with low gags -- one of the main characters is a drunken robot who frequently invites his flesh-wrapped compatriots to bite his shiny metal ass -- a highly educated mathematician might notice the many complicated math proofs in the background. In Dwayne Carey-Hill's 2007 "Futurama" movie "Bender's Big Score," Professor Farnsworth (Billy West) stands at a chalkboard to determine whether or not time travel is possible. He writes E = 9.87sin(2B) - 7.53cos(B) - 1.5sin(B) only to lamentably admit that the equation cannot be solved. Luckily,...
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- 6/9/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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