Calculon 2.0

Bender goes grave-robbing to bring his favourite actor back to life.

Production
In 2012, assistant director Aimee Steinberger made three revelations concerning the episode. On 9 March, she revealed that she had "just read [her] next and last [Futurama] script for a while", the script for the episode, that it was "really funny [and] cute" and that she was "looking [forward to working] on it after [the production team finished "7ACV14"]".

On 30 March, she revealed that she was "starting thumbnailing and storyboarding on [the episode]". On 16 May, she revealed that she had "screened [her] last [Futurama episode for] a while [on that day]" - this episode - and that it had "turned out really nice [and] funny".

On 5 February, 2013, released a preview clip for the tenth broadcast season, which contained footage from the episode.

By 19 July, Comedy Central had released a two-minute preview clip featuring Bender and Fry successfully freeing Calculon from Robot Hell.

Trivia

 * The voice of the Robot Devil, Dan Castellaneta, guest-stars in this episode, which is the seventh episode of the tenth broadcast season. He also guest-stars in "The Six Million Dollar Mon", which is the seventh episode of the ninth broadcast season. Both of these episodes are episodes of the seventh production season.
 * According to Randy Munchnik's clock, All My Circuits starts at 2 o'clock.

Allusions

 * The Shubot Theater is a reference to New York's.
 * The Tragic Pan is a reference to the restaurant chain the.
 * Calculon says, "In the world of theater, there are no second acts", a statement reminiscent of author 's "There are no second acts in American lives".
 * In the casting office, there is a poster of 10,000 A.C., a reference to the 2008 film .
 * Calculon's one-man show is a dual reference to ''2001: A Space Odysseys and actor 's '.

Continuity

 * Entertainment and Earth Invasion Tonite previously appeared in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television".
 * Calculon's original death took place in "The Thief of Baghead".
 * Calculon's ghostly appearence is identical to the ghostly versions of Bender and the Robot Devil seen in "Ghost in the Machines".
 * Randy's line "Calculon's back" is from "I, Roommate".
 * A picture of Coilette appears in Calculon's suitcase. Calculon was due to wed her in "Bend Her".
 * Leela circles jobs in the classifieds section of the newspaper that Calculon may be able to do. One of those ads is about a robot needed to assemble machinery. He mentions working as a robotic arm, assembling the Were-Car in The Honking.

Goofs

 * The Robot Devil is able to trap Calculon in a flask, yet he constantly complains about how annoying he is.
 * He may have still been able to hear Calculon's voice through the flask.
 * The script for Calculon's one-man show should have decayed while he was buried.
 * The material with which the script was written on may have been non-biodegradable.
 * Calculon is unaware of what a second take is, but, in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television", he says that he doesn't do two takes.
 * He may have been being sarcastic, and his reaction to Leela's explanation of what a second take is may be due to outrage, not shock.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Boxy Robot
 * Calculon
 * Casting woman
 * Censored couple (cameo, 20:20, woman only)
 * Charles
 * Coilette
 * Dandy Jim
 * Director
 * Executive Alpha
 * Executive Beta
 * Executive Gamma
 * Farnsworth
 * Flabby
 * Fry
 * Debut: General Extermulo
 * Gus
 * Hattie
 * Hermes
 * Hoschel
 * Huge-assed woman
 * Humorbot 5.0
 * iZac
 * Jesus
 * Leela
 * Linda
 * Mayor Poopenmeyer
 * Monique
 * President of the network
 * Randy Munchnik
 * Debut: Robert Wagner's head
 * Robot Demons
 * Robot Devil
 * Sal
 * Satan
 * Smitty
 * Tinny Tim
 * URL
 * Debut: Vaxtron
 * Zoidberg

Places

 * Hollywood
 * Los Angeles
 * Planet Express attic
 * Planet Express employee lounge
 * Robot Hell
 * Debut: Shubot Theater
 * Debut: The Tragic Pan
 * Debut: Urbana, Illinois