Viva Mars Vegas

"Viva Mars Vegas" is the one hundred and twenty-sixth episode of Futurama, the twelfth of the seventh production season and the ninth broadcast season. The Planet Express crew stages a casino heist to recover stolen property from the Robot Mafia.

Production
On 29 February 2012, CGEF revealed the episode's title, its writer to be Josh Weinstein and its director to be Frank Marino. On 10 July, updated their Futurama episode guide, revealing the episode's plot and air date. The same day, released a TV listing of Futurama which showed the same information about the episode, with slight variation from the plot published by MSN.

On 12 June, 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 "Viva Mars Vegas" during the live stream.

Allusions

 * The episode's title is a reference to the 1964 Elvis Presley film .

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Clamps
 * Donbot
 * Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Joey Mousepad
 * Leela
 * Zoidberg