31st Century Fox

"31st Century Fox" is the one hundred and twenty-fifth episode of Futurama, the eleventh of the seventh production season and the ninth broadcast season.

Plot
Bender becomes the hunted after saving a robotic fox from hunters.

Production


On 29 February 2012, CGEF revealed the episode's title, its writer to be Patric M. Verrone and its director to be Edmund Fong. On 29 June, revealed the episode's plot and air date.

On 12 July, following the broadcast of the episode "Zapp Dingbat", the public were given the opportunity to participate in a live chat with the Futurama cast and crew. Several clips of "31st Century Fox" were shown during the live stream.

Reception
On 30 January 2012, Eric Rogers revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either "The Bots and the Bees", "A Farewell to Arms" or this one.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode (in production order) of season 7 to be aired out of order, as the broadcast order of both this episode and "Viva Mars Vegas" were swapped.

Allusions

 * The episode's title is a reference to 20th Century Fox, the company that owns Futurama.
 * The uniforms tried on by the crew contain many references:
 * The first uniforms are stillsuits from the film of by.
 * The red thong with suspenders is a reference to Sean Connery in the film .
 * Amy wears a uniform from.
 * Fry wears an operations uniform from Star Trek.

Goofs

 * The Trench that the Hunts Master knocks Leela in, isn't there before or after (later on the second hunt) he knocks her in.
 * Leela states she's okay with a robot fox dying, but later goes to Benders antiviolence to robot animals meeting.
 * Bender says he's starving, but as a robot, its been stated he doesn't get hungry.
 * Bender cuts his finger off with a knife, but he's made of metal.
 * Bender is unable to break a metal cage, but is strong enough to bend a unbendable bar?
 * Bender runs further, than the distance shown when the hunt catches up with him the first time.
 * When the horse falls on Bender the first time, it flaterns him, but the second, he just keeps running, with it on his back.
 * Its stated the fox urinated on the floor, but its made clear by Bender in several stories, that robots don't go to the bathroom.
 * Fry says Bender got rid of all robot animal cruelty in fifty yards of the building, but there is no farm or pier in fifty yards of planet express, as shown in overshots.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Leela
 * Mayor Poopenmeyer
 * Debut: Robotic Fox
 * Ron Whitey
 * Debut: Squidward Scissorhands
 * Zoidberg