Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

[wallace]

One of the Justices of the Supreme Court is a woman listed as "Sagal". Her hair and name suggest that she is Katey Sagal, the voice of Leela.

[kenzi]

The Number 9 Man (The Grand Curator) states "grokking some super weird junk". "To grok" is a word coined in the Robert Heinlein book "Stranger in a Strange Land" which means "to comprehend fully". The word was introduced in the book as part of the Martian language and The Number 9 Man uses this word while on Mars.

[ruby]

The Alienese that is on the sign under the roller coaster reads: "Caution : Falling humans".

[ruby]

Casino parodies in the opening credit sequence include: "Trumb Casino" (Trump Casino), "Venutian" (Venetian), "Excalibot" (Excalibur), "Botany Bay" (Mandalay Bay), Miragio (The Mirage, Bellagio), and Buggalo Bill's (Buffalo Bill's).

[amber]

Nine has served as a cameo character in several Futurama episodes, mostly as an Easter Egg in crowd scenes.

[charlie]

One of the casino parodies in the opening sequence is "Botany Bay" which resembles a cross between the real Mandalay Bay casino and the SS Botany Bay, Khan's ship from Star Trek.

[eli]

The Sinatra-esque opening song is performed by Family Guy (1999) creator Seth MacFarlane.

[ethel]

Zap Brannigan can be heard singing 'Hungry Like the Wolf', by Duran Duran.

[mathew]

The last time Fry and Bender played poker together - in the series episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" (2000) - Bender, not Fry, was the one who cheated. He wore X-Ray glasses to see everyone's cards, referring to them as his "lucky shades," foreshadowing his actual lucky streak in this episode.

[oscar]

After Brannigan and Bender overhear the conversation between Leela and Fry, using some sort of spying device, Brannigan orders Kiff to set the coordinates to 36-24-36. This is Bart's locker combination from The Simpsons (1989), as well as the obvious, according to his hand movements, the measurements on Leela.

[stephanie]

The film takes place in 3009.

[jessica]

At the craps table (0:01:07), the dice roll is a 7. One die is the square root of 9, which is 3 and the other is 2 squared, which is 4.

[ivan]

The film was written by Ken Keeler. When the 'Wong Sweeper' is destroying the rings of Saturn, a sign reading 'Mind the Keeler Gap' is shown. The Keeler Gap is a 42km gap in the 'A Ring', kept clear by the orbiting moon of Daphnis. Later, Fry makes reference to the Keeler Crater, which is actually located on the far side of the moon (not Mars). Zap Brannigan's map shows the location of 2261 Keeler, a main belt asteroid.

[nora]

Two of the original Eco-feminists (Dixie and Trixie, the blonde and the African American with pigtails) bear an uncanny resemblance to Slurm's Mackenzie's party girls from the episode Futurama: Fry and the Slurm Factory (1999).

[chris]

Frida is killed off in typical Waterfall fashion, by some horrible method, as is the family's curse when dealing with the Planet Express crew, as well as her brother, Hutch, by the end.

[javier]

The 'Wheel-of-Fortune' machines at the casino all say Wheel-of-Fortran. Fortran was the first high-level computer programming language.

[kyle]

The judges include Antonin Scalia, Janeane Garofalo, Clarence Thomas, Paula Abdul, Snoop Dogg, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Björk and Katey Sagal. Scalia, Thomas and Ginsburg are American jurists, Garofalo is a comedian and political activist, Snoop Dogg is a rapper, Abdul and Björk are singers/actresses, and Sagal is the voice of Leela.

[lena]

In the underground cavern on Mars a drawing of a diamond can be seen on the wall. It includes likenesses of the Martians, Bender, Kif, and Amy. This is in reference to the episode "Where the Buggalo Roam" from season 4.

[bernard]

Throughout the entirety of the Futurama series, and the movies, all human (non mutant) have 3 fingers and a thumb. When Bender wins the poker tournament, Leo Wong holds up his hand stating that Bender has 5 kings, and he has 4 fingers and a thumb.