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Tonight is the annual inventors symposium, and the Professor is hoping that his invention is good enough to win the prize and beat Dr. Wernstrom. He presents the Smelloscope, a device that allows one to smell distant objects. Though he is laughed off the stage by his peers, the crew tests it out back at the Planet Express. Fry discovers what is believed to be the smelliest object in the universe. They learn that the object is a giant ball of garbage that was rocketed into outer space fifty years ago. Now, it's up to the Planet Express crew to figure out how to stop the garbage ball before it crashes to the earth and destroys New New York.
Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x8 Production Number: 1ACV08 Airdate: Tuesday May 11th, 1999 |
Main Cast
 Billy Westvoiced Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Dr. John Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Leo Wong, Various | |
 David Hermanvoiced Mayor Poopenmayer, Professor Ogden Wernstrum, Scruffy, Turanga Morris, Larry, Dwayne, Various | |
Episode Notes
Opening theme promotion: Mr. Bender's Wardrobe by ROBOTANY 500
Opening theme cartoon: A Corny Concerto.
Episode Quotes
The Professor: Perhaps 149 is just too old to be a scientist.
Bender: Yep!
Fry: No, Professor. Don't give up. There were plenty of times in my century when I was gonna give up, but I never did. Never! Hey, are you even listening to me? Oh, I give up!
Bender: Yep!
Fry: No, Professor. Don't give up. There were plenty of times in my century when I was gonna give up, but I never did. Never! Hey, are you even listening to me? Oh, I give up!
The Professor: (pointing the Smelloscope at various planets) And now Saturn.
Fry: (smelling) Pine needles! Oh, man, this is great! Hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus.
(He laughs)
Leela: I don't get it.
The Professor: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor: Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Fry: (smelling) Pine needles! Oh, man, this is great! Hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus.
(He laughs)
Leela: I don't get it.
The Professor: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor: Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Leela: Should we really be celebrating? I mean, what if the second garbage ball returns to Earth like the first one did?
Fry: Who cares? That won't be for hundreds of years.
Professor: Exactly! It's none of our concern.
Fry: That's the 20th century spirit!
Fry: Who cares? That won't be for hundreds of years.
Professor: Exactly! It's none of our concern.
Fry: That's the 20th century spirit!
Wernstrom: (to the Professor) I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus.
Fry: You got this from the Internet? In my day, Internet was just used to download pornography.
The Professor: No, that's still true.
The Professor: No, that's still true.
Bender: There's your problem. The Professor put the counter on upside down!
Leela: That idiot! It wasn't set for 25 minutes. It was set for 52 seconds!
Leela: That idiot! It wasn't set for 25 minutes. It was set for 52 seconds!
Cultural References
Armageddon
The part where the Planet Express crew have to land on the big piece of Garbage and detonate an explosive to save the world is similar to the plot of the 1998 film Armageddon where a crew is sent up to detonate an explosive on an asteroid threatens the earth.
The part where the Planet Express crew have to land on the big piece of Garbage and detonate an explosive to save the world is similar to the plot of the 1998 film Armageddon where a crew is sent up to detonate an explosive on an asteroid threatens the earth.
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