Three Hundred Big Boys
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"Three Hundred Big Boys" is the sixteenth episode of season four of Futurama
, which aired June 15, 2003.
leads an attack on Tarantulon VI, claiming silken
artworks. Earth President Richard Nixon
gives the riches to the citizens of Earth as a $300 tax rebate. Leela plans to swim with a whale, while Fry
decides to drink 100 cups of coffee
. Dr. Zoidberg sets off to live like a rich man. Scruffy the Janitor decides to get an expensive haircut. Bender ponders buying one $300 hookerbot or 300 $1 hookerbots. Brannigan calls up Leela, and invites the staff to a display of the silk treasures.
Kif
rents a paddle plane, and he and Amy
go for a flight. Amy purchases a talking tattoo that repeatedly insults and mocks Kif, to her irritation. Professor Farnsworth buys one pound of stem cells and smears them on his face, causing a temporary anti-aging effect. Bender spies a $10,000 cigar
at a tobacco
shop. Unable to afford it, he buys a $300 set of burglar's tools
at the same shop. Hermes
spends $299.99 on a pair of boots that turn into bamboo stilts for his son Dwight, allowing Dwight to invest the remaining cent. When Dwight rejects the gift, Hermes puts the boots on; they malfunction, and Hermes becomes an out-of-control menace, with Dwight hanging on.
Professor Farnsworth, now looking younger, meets a 20-year-old woman. Leela purchases a ticket to swim with a whale named Mushu. As Kif and Amy continue their flight, Kif gives her a watch that tells the time where both of them are. They fly over the aquarium and when Amy waves to Leela and Fry, the watch falls and Mushu swallows it. That night, Bender uses his burglar's tools to steal the Grand Cigar, unaware that he is videotaped.
Zoidberg remembers how he ate another watch Kif had given Amy and that the solution was to induce vomiting. Scruffy devises a plan to make the whale throw up: Leela will feed rotten fish from Elzar's to Mushu when she goes for her swim, which will cause him to vomit. The next day, Bender tells an over-caffeinated Fry that he does not want to light his stolen cigar until he is at Zapp Brannigan's party and can blow smoke into the faces of the "fancy-pantses" there; he reasons that the cigar is too good for its smoke to be wasted on regular people. Leela arrives at the aquarium with her swimsuit stuffed with rotten fish, and Mushu eats both the fish and the suit. Later, Mushu vomits up the watch. Kif recovers it, but is imprisoned for stealing aquarium property. At Commander Riker's Island, the Whale Biologist tells Kif that he will drop the charges if he returns the property. When Kif thought it was the watch he dropped, the Whale Biologist states that he was talking about the ambergris
he's covered in having to use the Hologram of Roseanne Barr
to explain what ambergis is in "The Guide to the World of Facts." Kif just sheds his skin in order to return the ambergris to the Whale Biologist.
At the silk gala, Bender lights the cigar and blows smoke into the faces of everybody there. As Professor Farnsworth makes out with his girlfriend, his stem cells reject his body and crawl off. After Farnsworth confesses his age, his girlfriend admits that she also used her tax refund to make herself look more attractive. She pulls a ring from her navel and her volume increases by several times (i.e., she seems to get fatter). Putting aside their physical problems, they confess their love for each other.
Hermes crashes through a window, still on the stilts. They hit Bender's cigar, sending it flying into a tapestry. As flames spread through the room, an agitated Fry drinks his hundredth cup of coffee. Fry enters a caffeine
-induced state of hyperspeed where he perceives everything else as moving so slowly that it appears to be standing still. He rescues everyone at incredible speed (which for him is a leisurely pace).
The rescued partiers find themselves in an alley behind the gallery where Fry left them, confused but unharmed. They find Zoidberg, who, unable to make himself feel rich, has bought a meal for a group of hobos. Everybody joins in; the silk surplus has been destroyed; and Bender joyfully gets closure to his story by being beaten by the police.
During the credits, the Hologram of Roseanne Barr gives more facts from "The Guide to the World of Facts."
Futurama
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...
, which aired June 15, 2003.
Plot
Zapp BranniganZapp Brannigan
Captain Zapp Brannigan is a fictional character in the animated sitcom Futurama. He is voiced by Billy West, but was originally intended to be voiced by Phil Hartman, with West taking over the role after Hartman's death. Brannigan is a 25-Star General in the Democratic Order of Planets, and captain...
leads an attack on Tarantulon VI, claiming silken
Spider silk
Spider silk is a protein fiber spun by spiders. Spiders use their silk to make webs or other structures, which function as nets to catch other animals, or as nests or cocoons for protection for their offspring...
artworks. Earth President Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
gives the riches to the citizens of Earth as a $300 tax rebate. Leela plans to swim with a whale, while Fry
Philip J. Fry
Philip J. Fry, known simply as Fry, is a fictional character, the main protagonist of the animated science fiction sitcom Futurama. He is voiced by Billy West using a version of his own voice as he sounded when he was 25.-Character overview:...
decides to drink 100 cups of coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
. Dr. Zoidberg sets off to live like a rich man. Scruffy the Janitor decides to get an expensive haircut. Bender ponders buying one $300 hookerbot or 300 $1 hookerbots. Brannigan calls up Leela, and invites the staff to a display of the silk treasures.
Kif
Kif Kroker
Lieutenant Kif Kroker is a character from the animated television series Futurama. He is the long suffering assistant to Captain Zapp Brannigan and Fourth Lieutenant on the Democratic Order of Planets starship Nimbus...
rents a paddle plane, and he and Amy
Amy Wong
Amy Wong, voiced by Lauren Tom, is a fictional character, one of the main characters from the Fox and Comedy Central television animated series Futurama. She works as an intern at Planet Express...
go for a flight. Amy purchases a talking tattoo that repeatedly insults and mocks Kif, to her irritation. Professor Farnsworth buys one pound of stem cells and smears them on his face, causing a temporary anti-aging effect. Bender spies a $10,000 cigar
Cigar
A cigar is a tightly-rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco that is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, and the Eastern...
at a tobacco
Tobacco
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines...
shop. Unable to afford it, he buys a $300 set of burglar's tools
Burglary
Burglary is a crime, the essence of which is illicit entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offense. Usually that offense will be theft, but most jurisdictions specify others which fall within the ambit of burglary...
at the same shop. Hermes
Hermes Conrad
Hermes Conrad is a fictional character in the Futurama animated series. He is voiced by Phil LaMarr.- Appearance and personality :Born in 2959, Hermes is a grade 36 bureaucrat from Jamaica. He manages the Planet Express delivery business with responsibilities that include paying bills, giving out...
spends $299.99 on a pair of boots that turn into bamboo stilts for his son Dwight, allowing Dwight to invest the remaining cent. When Dwight rejects the gift, Hermes puts the boots on; they malfunction, and Hermes becomes an out-of-control menace, with Dwight hanging on.
Professor Farnsworth, now looking younger, meets a 20-year-old woman. Leela purchases a ticket to swim with a whale named Mushu. As Kif and Amy continue their flight, Kif gives her a watch that tells the time where both of them are. They fly over the aquarium and when Amy waves to Leela and Fry, the watch falls and Mushu swallows it. That night, Bender uses his burglar's tools to steal the Grand Cigar, unaware that he is videotaped.
Zoidberg remembers how he ate another watch Kif had given Amy and that the solution was to induce vomiting. Scruffy devises a plan to make the whale throw up: Leela will feed rotten fish from Elzar's to Mushu when she goes for her swim, which will cause him to vomit. The next day, Bender tells an over-caffeinated Fry that he does not want to light his stolen cigar until he is at Zapp Brannigan's party and can blow smoke into the faces of the "fancy-pantses" there; he reasons that the cigar is too good for its smoke to be wasted on regular people. Leela arrives at the aquarium with her swimsuit stuffed with rotten fish, and Mushu eats both the fish and the suit. Later, Mushu vomits up the watch. Kif recovers it, but is imprisoned for stealing aquarium property. At Commander Riker's Island, the Whale Biologist tells Kif that he will drop the charges if he returns the property. When Kif thought it was the watch he dropped, the Whale Biologist states that he was talking about the ambergris
Ambergris
Ambergris is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull gray or blackish color produced in the digestive system of and regurgitated or secreted by sperm whales....
he's covered in having to use the Hologram of Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Cherrie Barr is an American actress, comedian, writer, television producer and director. Barr began her career in stand-up comedy at clubs before gaining fame for her role in the sitcom Roseanne. The show was a hit and lasted nine seasons, from 1988 to 1997...
to explain what ambergis is in "The Guide to the World of Facts." Kif just sheds his skin in order to return the ambergris to the Whale Biologist.
At the silk gala, Bender lights the cigar and blows smoke into the faces of everybody there. As Professor Farnsworth makes out with his girlfriend, his stem cells reject his body and crawl off. After Farnsworth confesses his age, his girlfriend admits that she also used her tax refund to make herself look more attractive. She pulls a ring from her navel and her volume increases by several times (i.e., she seems to get fatter). Putting aside their physical problems, they confess their love for each other.
Hermes crashes through a window, still on the stilts. They hit Bender's cigar, sending it flying into a tapestry. As flames spread through the room, an agitated Fry drinks his hundredth cup of coffee. Fry enters a caffeine
Caffeine
Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid that acts as a stimulant drug. Caffeine is found in varying quantities in the seeds, leaves, and fruit of some plants, where it acts as a natural pesticide that paralyzes and kills certain insects feeding on the plants...
-induced state of hyperspeed where he perceives everything else as moving so slowly that it appears to be standing still. He rescues everyone at incredible speed (which for him is a leisurely pace).
The rescued partiers find themselves in an alley behind the gallery where Fry left them, confused but unharmed. They find Zoidberg, who, unable to make himself feel rich, has bought a meal for a group of hobos. Everybody joins in; the silk surplus has been destroyed; and Bender joyfully gets closure to his story by being beaten by the police.
During the credits, the Hologram of Roseanne Barr gives more facts from "The Guide to the World of Facts."
Broadcast and reception
In its initial airing, the episode received a Nielsen rating of 3.6/7, placing it 79th among primetime shows for the week of June 9-15, 2003.External links
- Three Hundred Big Boys at The Infosphere.