Crimes of the Hot

Production Number: 4ACV08

Title Caption: KNOWN TO CAUSE INSANITY IN LABORATORY MICE

First Aired: November 10, 2002

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Trivia

 * More or less every robot on the show has a little cameo appearance on the Galápagos Islands.
 * The horned wizard who is interested in the Moon Sapphires (and subsequently, the opening of the Gate of Garash) is based on Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
 * The "Global Warming or none like it hot!" newsreel in this episode is featured in Al Gore's documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth'

Quotes

 * Bender: Don't touch my stuff after I'm dead! It's booby-trapped!
 * Professor Farnsworth: A billion robot's lives are going to be extinguished! Ooh, the Jedis are going to feel this one...
 * Bender: (after the chlorine cloud emerges and knocks everyone out) Hahahaha, lightweights! Oh wait, chlorine... (corrodes completely and falls over)
 * Zoidberg: I don't hear any gasping...

Outside References

 * The first robot Farnsworth designs at Mom's Friendly Robot Company looks and sounds a lot like C3PO from the Star Wars universe.
 * The Dark Wizard rather resembles the magician Tim from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
 * The conference at Kyoto is a spoof of the UN climate conference held there.

Goofs

 * Seen from space, the exhaust blast from the robots is, in some shots, not coming from Galápagos.
 * Somehow it is odd that around the PE building, which is right in downtown New New York at the waterside and therefore close to the ocean, the water has not risen at all with the severe flooding reported on the news.

Characters
Essentially every robot that's been seen before is seen in this episode.
 * Fry
 * Leela
 * Bender
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Hermes
 * Amy
 * Zoidberg
 * Richard Nixon's head
 * Wernstrom
 * Al Gore
 * Morbo
 * Linda
 * Nibbler
 * The Crushinator
 * Malfunctioning Eddie
 * The Chainsmoker
 * The Clearcutter
 * Roberto
 * Preacherbot
 * Debut: Headless body of Agnew
 * Debut: Hedonism Bot
 * Debut: Civil Defense Van
 * Debut: Dark Wizard

Episode Credits

 * Writer
 * Aaron Ehasz
 * Director
 * Peter Avanzino
 * Voice Actors
 * Billy West
 * Katey Sagal
 * John DiMaggio
 * Frank Welker
 * Lauren Tom
 * Phil LaMarr
 * DVD Commentary
 * Matt Groening
 * David X. Cohen
 * Rich Moore
 * Ron Weiner
 * Ken Keeler
 * David Goodman
 * Peter Avanzino
 * Billy West
 * Maurice LaMarche
 * Special Guests
 * Al Gore
 * Joan Rivers