[4] In keeping with the episode's focus on classical music (opera in particular), the plot is loosely based on the story of Faust.
Bender discovers that Fry is attempting to play the holophonor so he can woo Leela. [9], "Al Gore reprises role on 'Futurama' cartoon", "Suddenly for Al Gore, Not a Moment to Lose", "A 'new' Al Gore returns: front, not quite center", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crimes_of_the_Hot&oldid=981304660, Short description is different from Wikidata, Television episode articles with short description for single episodes, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This is the second guest appearance by Al Gore who previously appeared in the episode ", Al Gore's head makes reference to the book, This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 14:17. New episodes started airing in 2010. When Fry refuses, the Robot Devil says that he will take Leela's hand in marriage. Meanwhile, Bender is moved to tears after witnessing a news report on the migration of turtles due to the heat and decides to rescue one from Holland. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on June 15, 2003. As Bender is lamenting his fate, the turtle rocks from side to side and rolls to its feet.
[5] The episode has been used to highlight the dangers of global warming, particularly the retro-style public service announcement shown to the Planet Express employees at the beginning of the episode. Fry, in an attempt to win Leela's heart, bases the opera on her life.
The episode was inspired by "22 Short Films About Springfield", an episode of The Simpsons.[1]. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on June 15, 2003. Zapp Brannigan leads an attack on Tarantulon VI, claiming numerous silken artworks for Earth. The episode contains several cultural references and it was well received by critics. With Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille. The episode was written by Aaron Ehasz and directed by Peter Avanzino. [8], The episode received a "B" rating from Sci Fi Weekly noting that, while the episode was not one of the best in the series, it was still a solid effort and was "funny and irreverent". Fry easily gathers all the guests onto a trolley, wheels them into an alley behind the museum, and extinguishes the fire before the hyperspeed ends. Upset at getting the raw end of the deal, the Robot Devil decides he has to get his own hands back. [6] The original 72-episode run of Futurama was produced as four seasons; Fox broadcast the episodes out of the intended order, resulting in five aired seasons. With no ice left, the world's top scientists are called to a conference in Kyoto, Japan. "Crimes of the Hot" is the eighth episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series Futurama. [9] The reviewer praised the voicing in the episode, particularly Gore's performance, calling him "a stitch".
Earth President Richard Nixon's head organizes a party for the unsuspecting robots on the remote Galapagos Islands, where he plans to destroy the entire robot population with an electromagnetic blast from an orbiting EMP cannon made from Wernstrom's mirror. Because Fry can now no longer play so expertly, the entire audience storms out sans the sympathetic Leela, who requests that he finish as she wants to know how "it" ends. Just as Bender lights up the cigar, Hermes and Dwight, still stuck on the stilts, smash through the side of the building, causing the cigar to ignite the silk artworks. With his new, nimble hands, Fry becomes a skilled holophonor virtuoso. He noted that there were many humorous moments in the episode, bur overall it was too "scattered". It stops on the Robot Devil himself, much to his disbelief and horror. In this episode, Fry makes a deal to swap hands with the Robot Devil so he can better play the holophonor, an instrument he believes can help him express his true feelings for Leela. [2] The episode's opening subtitle was "See You On Some Other Channel", referring to the broadcast syndication that many shows enter after cancellation as this was the last episode at the time of production.
The film explains a temporary solution for global warming was found by dropping a mountainous slab of ice into the ocean on a regular basis to cool it. Kif buys a watch for his girlfriend Amy but accidentally loses it to the same whale that Leela was swimming with, though he eventually recovers it after a brief accusation of ambergris theft. [1] The location chosen for the robot party was the Galapagos Islands because the writers thought that, if they were actually going to push the Earth out of orbit, they would need to be near the equator. He is commissioned by Hedonismbot to write an opera. During the panic Bender and the turtle are knocked onto their backs and cannot get up, leaving not enough exhaust to move the Earth. However, the show returned on March 23, 2008, for a fifth season that consisted of four direct-to-DVD films. He notes in the DVD commentary that Gore's daughter Kristin, who wrote for Futurama, was also at the table read, and he jokes that this was one of the highlights of his career.
Brannigan later invites Leela and her friends to an exhibit of the silk treasures. Leela refuses to tell Fry, afraid that Fry will stop writing the opera, so she attends the premiere pretending she can still hear the performance. [9], 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, "The fish that got away took top honors at the 31st Annie Awards", Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Devil%27s_Hands_Are_Idle_Playthings&oldid=975745879, Television episodes written by Ken Keeler, Short description is different from Wikidata, Television episode articles with short description for single episodes, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 August 2020, at 05:37. [1] Halley's Comet was originally going to be white and snowy in this episode, since that was what the staff's idea of a comet looked like; however, they later realized that, since the comet was "out of ice", it should be brown. Farnsworth receives a medal of pollution for his work, and the extra week caused by the new orbit of the Earth is declared Robot Party Week. Earth President Richard Nixon considers this a windfall, and gives every citizen a $300 tax rebate. "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" is the final episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the finale of the original run. Club. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on August 10, 2003. At the time, this episode was the series finale, as Fox had not renewed the series for any further seasons. Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy, is accidentally frozen in … Fry decides that he has no choice but to trade the Robot Devil's hands back for his own. Eventually, they all gather for the exhibition. In the audio commentary, it is stated that it took nearly six months to record the line. [4], In Robot Hell, the Robot Devil plays an iteration of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by The Charlie Daniels Band. [1], Al Gore was unable to attend the table reads of the script, so Maurice LaMarche read his lines. At the same time, Fry finishes the hundredth cup of coffee and enters a caffeine-induced state of hyperspeed, moving much faster than anyone else. Created by David X. Cohen, Matt Groening. Required Cookies & Technologies. [3] West also voices the C-3PO-esque robot which appears early in the Professor's flashback. Leela uses it to swim with a whale; Fry uses the money to buy and drink one hundred cups of coffee over the course of the episode, and Bender spends his on burglary tools to steal a $10,000 cigar. When Bender refuses, the Robot Devil then makes another deal, in which he trades Bender a stadium air horn for his "crotch-plate" so that he can annoy people.
When Bender uses the air horn on Leela, it causes her to go deaf. Set in a retro-futuristic 31st century, the series follows the adventures of the employees of Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company. [3] That fall, the series aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, running until the end of 2007, and was bought by Comedy Central to air in 2008. Others find their expenditures less thrilling: Professor Farnsworth uses the money to buy stem cells to give him a youthful appearance but discovers they only last temporarily, while Hermes buys a set of mechanical stilts for his son Dwight that inadvertently go haywire and drag the two off, rampaging through New New York. "Three Hundred Big Boys" is the sixteenth episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series Futurama. The Robot Devil tries to make a deal with Bender for his hands. When they are unable to retrieve the ice, the Earth is forced to search for other ways to solve their global warming problem. [3], This episode was nominated for an Environmental Media Award in the television episodic-comedy category in 2003, it lost to the King of the Hill episode "I Never Promised You An Organic Garden". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 10, 2002.