I, Roommate
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| Futurama episode | |
| "I, Roommate" | |
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| Episode no. | 3 |
| Prod. code | 1ACV03 |
| Airdate | April 6, 1999 |
| Where |  United States |
| Writer(s) | Eric Horsted |
| Director | Bret Haaland |
| Opening subtitle | As Seen On TV |
| Opening cartoon | Baby Bottleneck |
| Guest star(s) | None |
| List of all Futurama episodes... | |
"I, Roommate" is the third episode of season one of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on April 6, 1999.
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[edit] Plot
Since his arrival in the future Fry has been living in the Planet Express offices. Fry's presence is disrupting business however and when Fry eats the Professor's alien mummy it is decided that Fry has to go. After being physically removed from the office Fry moves in with Bender.
Several days later, Fry discovers that he can't take living in Bender's 2 cubic meter apartment, and the two begin a search for living space that will satisfy them both. When one of Professor Farnsworth's colleagues dies, Fry and Bender lease his old apartment where Bender lives in the closet.
After discovering his antenna interferes with the building's televisions, Bender is forced to relocate back to his old residence, but Fry stays put. Distraught at the separation from his friend, Bender goes on a self-destructive sobriety binge, eventually cutting off his own antenna.
Out of concern for Bender, Fry moves back into Bender's old apartment, and discovers that Bender's oversized closet has more than enough room for a human to live comfortably.
[edit] Characters
Characters which make their first appearances in this episode are:
- Calculon
- Monique
- Hattie McDoogal
[edit] Future products
Future products in this episode are:
[edit] Future planets
Future planets in this episode are:
[edit] Foreshadowing
- While sleeping, Bender repeatedly says, "Kill all humans." The desire for robots to kill all humans is evident in the robot citizens of Chapek 9 in "Fear of a Bot Planet" although Bender reveals in The Sting that he would always whisper (presumably) "except Fry", hence Bender says (to Fry) "I was having the most wonderful dream...I think you were in it."
- Some believe that Hermes Conrad's loathing for Dr. Zoidberg is first made apparent when Zoidberg offers Hermes a plate of food; Hermes immediately spits the food out once he learns that Zoidberg himself made it. However, since the food in question is crab claws and Zoidberg is a lobster, Hermes was probably meant to be disgusted by the cannibalistic implications rather than by dislike for Zoidberg. It may also be a suggestion that Dr. Zoidberg himself produced the claws (from his own body).
- The tune Bender whistles at one point in this episode is the same one he whistles in his fantasy at the end of "Obsoletely Fabulous".
[edit] Cultural references
- The title is a reference to Isaac Asimov's short story collection, I, Robot.
- At the beginning, Bender bends Fry's alarm clock over the edge of the table. This is a reference to the clock in Salvador Dalí's painting The Persistence of Memory.
- The popular TV show All My Circuits is a parody of the soap opera All My Children.
- When Fry and Bender are looking for an apartment, they visit one that resembles M. C. Escher's Relativity.
- A Slurm painting in Fry's and Bender's new apartment is a reference to an Andy Warhol painting.
- A lady from the apartment next to Fry and Bender claims that Bender's thoughts are being transmitted to her cellphone. When she closes the phone, it beeps like the communicator from Star Trek.
- After Fry fixes the TV, his "'Ey" is similar to that of Happy Days character, Fonzie.
[edit] Goofs
- When Hermes says, "We'll bill ya for the couch" in the beginning of the episode, his mouth does not move.
- Leela suggests that Bender remove his antenna and bender say's "That's little Bender you're talking about." Two minutes later, Bender, Fry, and Leela are in Fry's apartment and Bender threatens to cut off his antenna. Leela tells Fry not to enoucurage him to multilate himself. Leela has no reason to say this when mutilation was her idea in the first place.
- Although Bender's antenna is knocking out the reception on the whole floor, the TV would turn off and on when Bender walked through the door, not when he got on the floor.
[edit] External links
| Preceded by: "Episode Two: The Series Has Landed" |
Futurama episodes | Followed by: "Love's Labours Lost in Space" |
