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This week the gang visits a haunted castle and Bender becomes a Were-Car and then Fry and Bender enlist in the Earth Army, let by Commander Zapp Brannigan😆

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Geoff S.

The Honking is very weird. I see a number of parodies in it but not sure from where. I know one of them is from The Car with James Brolin, which would be a great Spooktober watch, but there have to be others. Speaking of robots I'm having sushi delivered tonight by one of those foodbots!

Matt

GOOD NEWS!!!

Dean

So The Honking is actually referencing at least two classic horror movies that I’m aware of: An American Werewolf in London and Christine. I won’t spoil anything for either in case you want to check them out.

Curran Dobbs

Jen: I do wanna get laser eye surgery, actually. My Brain: She should watch Final Destination 5...

LookingForOwls

I always liked that they knew the details of the curse, and yet decided to attack the factory right at midnight anyway.

Gary Cameron

"The Honking" is basically a parody of Steven King's "Christine" (made into a movie in 1983); there was another "killer car" movie in 1977 named "The Car" along similar lines. But there are bits thrown in from various werewolf, Dracula, and even Frankenstein movies.

WallyWeasel

The name of Brannigan's ship the Nimbus BP-1729, which is a play on the Hardy–Ramanujan number. It's the smallest positive integer expressible as the sum of two positive cubes, which is something Bender and Flexo mention off their own registration numbers. I don't know what any of that means, just that mathematicians were among those who enjoyed the first few seasons for these little references.

Bammer

Because they were mentioned, the movie "Christine" and T.V. show "Knight Rider" are definitely two I'd enjoy seeing you react to.

William Rosmer

i've been thinking about this. i think the different episode orders are i think an airdate order vs production order thing because fox being fox aired the episodes out of order. the ship's name is "the nimbus"

Kristin

The number bender saw in reverse was the binary representation of 666 (source: my husband, the programmer) :)

TheADHDOverlord

I love the Futurama takes on things like Redrum

TheADHDOverlord

yeah, to say that Fox did not care about the Airing Order is an Understatement lol

Harvey Lee

Since I'm rubbish at math that joke went way over my head , but I'm sure it was hilarious to those in the know😉 Pop culture references are what I'm good at !

William Rosmer

At least it wasn't as impacting the story as when they did it to other shows

TheADHDOverlord

The Howling is where I believe the title came from. Classic Werewolf movie with an ending that needs to be seen to be believed heh.

TheADHDOverlord

The Howling is where the title is from (i believe). an 80s Werewolf Classic with an Incredible Ending.

TheADHDOverlord

"The Howling" is an 80s Werewolf Classic which is where I believe they got the title from. THe ending to the above is INCREDIBLE.

TheADHDOverlord

I love how much the writers care about the Mathematics on the show. They actually created an algorithm for a later episode that is real and applicable to their situation, which is named after them. "In a 2010 interview, David X. Cohen revealed that the episode writer [FUTURE EPISODE] Ken Keeler, a PhD mathematician, penned and proved a theorem based on group theory, and then used it to explain the plot twist in this episode.[1] However, Keeler does not feel it carries enough importance to be designated a theorem, and prefers to call it a proof.[2] Cut-the-Knot, an educational math website created by Alexander Bogomolny, refers to Keeler's result as the "Futurama Theorem",[3] while mathematician James Grime of the University of Cambridge[4] calls it "Keeler's Theorem".[5]" via Wikipedia

Matt

Lots of numbers are a sum of two positive cubes. 1729 is the first number expressible as the sum of two positive cubes *in two different ways*. It's 12^3 + 1^3, and it's also 10^3 + 9^3.

Marcus Hicks

Yes, you definitely now need to watch The Howling and Christine.