Future Stock

Production Number: 3ACV21

Title Caption: LOVE IT OR SHOVE IT

First Aired: March 31, 3002 Title Reference: The book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, or the album of the same name by Herbie Hancock

Act I: Awesome! Awesome to the max!
Planet Express' stockholder meeting is taking place at the Lodgatorium Comfort Dome Inn, and Fry and Zoidberg get hungry and visit the Bot-Mizwah next door to get some free food. Zoidberg must stay out (no shell fish). Hermes tells the stockholders of Planet Express that the company is on the verge of bancrupcy, while Fry and Zoidberg move on to a Cryogenic Support Group which also offers free food. There Fry meets That Guy, a 1980ies stockbroker who had himself frozen until a cure to his terminal disease, boneitis, could be found. Fry invites him to work for Planet Express, and they return to the stockholder meeting where Hattie is demanding to nominate a new CEO because the Professor has insulted her cat. Leela, Bender, Amy, Hermes and the Professor (10.000 shares each) vote for Farnsworth, Fry (10.000 shares) and Scruffy (40.000 shares) vote for That Guy. Now Hattie (1 share) demands the floor and votes for That Guy, making him the new CEO of Planet Express.

Trivia

 * The businessman from the 1980s is loosely based on the character of Gordon Gekko from the movie Wall Street. In turn, Gekko was modeled after real world corporate raider Ivan Boesky.
 * In the scene where That Guy and Fry are watching an ape fight, Calculon is struck by an oversize tricycle hurled from the ring. His angry "Get your stinkin' trike off me, you damn dirty ape!" is an obvious parody of George Taylor's line "Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!" from the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes.
 * The PlanEx commercial is a parody of the famous 1984 commercial for Apple Computer.
 * The stock exchange space station bears a striking similarity to Space Station Five from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * The stock exchange's giant-image holographic public-address system ("I am Jor-El, Master of Scheduling!") is a reference to a scene in the 1978 Superman film, featuring a character named Jor-El and a tribunal of larger-than-life projected faces.
 * That Guy had a Miami Vice lunchbox.

Quotes

 * Scruffy: Now hold on there. Scruffy votes his forty thousand shares for the mysterious stranger. Leela: Forty thousand? How come you have four times as much stock as the rest of us? Scruffy: Scruffy believes in this company. *sniffles*
 * Leela: Oh my god! I'm a millionare! Suddenly I have an opinion on the capital gains tax!
 * Hermes: We can't compete with Mom! Her company is big and evil! Ours is small and neutral! That Guy: Switzerland is small and neutral! We are more like Germany, ambitious and misunderstood!

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Characters

 * Fry
 * Leela
 * Bender
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Hermes
 * Zoidberg
 * Amy
 * Scruffy
 * Hattie
 * Mom
 * Walt, Larry and Ignar
 * Thog
 * Debut: That Guy

Episode Credits

 * Writer
 * Aaron Ehasz
 * Director
 * Brian Sheesley
 * Voice Actors
 * Billy West
 * Katey Sagal
 * John DiMaggio
 * Tress MacNeille
 * Maurice LaMarche
 * Phil LaMarr
 * DVD Commentary
 * Matt Groening
 * David X. Cohen
 * Rich Moore
 * Jeff Westbrook
 * Brian Sheesley
 * John DiMaggio
 * Billy West
 * Tress MacNeille