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2ACV03: A Head In The Polls
First UK airing: Sky One, 8:00pm, 28-3-00
"When a robotic Nixon is on the
loose, we have a duty to take action!"
Finally, my degree in American Politics came in useful
for something! If not for three years of university education
at the taxpayers' expense (I graduated at the end of the final
year before student loans were introduced in the UK -- bwah hah
hah!), I wouldn't have got some of the jokes in this episode.
(It also allowed me to nitpick -- Nixon was never actually at
the Watergate himself -- but never mind.) Mind you, even with
a degree in the subject, I still don't fully understand American
politics. Besides, it's always some tall right-wing white male
with good hair who wins.
This was a very funny episode all round, even if the
odd political gag slipped past the radar. The Professor's shameful
past. Leela's bowling ball. The brain slugs. Amy and the hemp
dude (is she really that naive? Must be that sheltered
Martian upbringing). Bender living it large, or at least as large
as you can when you're just a head. The grappling hook (very
cute). President Jesse "The Head" Ventura. "Oh,
expletive deleted!" And the absolutely hilarious Twilight
Zone pisstake. I just wish that my recording of the show had
been good enough to make out all the names in the Head Museum.
Sodding Sky and their encryption system that interferes with
my VCR's reception...
Interesting to see that we're still in the year 3000
(presumably November). So all of Fry's adventures to date have
taken place in just 11 months? And next week, it's Christmas!
(Three months late, admittedly, but at least we don't get pre-emptions
and mid-season reruns in the UK.) Does this mean that 2ACV05
will feature bores droning on about how it's not "really"
a new millennium until 3001?
The production company is starting to make a lot more
use of CGI -- in addition to the Gundam/Evangelion-style Nixonborg
at the end, Bender's wild ride in the VW was computer animated.
There's now even a full CGI version of the Planet Express offices,
inside and out, as well as the ship. An end to continuity errors?
Don't bet on it!
Another thing -- why does everyone pick on Leela?
First Amy disparages her thighs, now Gerald Ford calls her "meaty".
I think her Watergate break-in catsuit ought to put paid to that
kind of thing. So what if she can lift Fry with one hand? She
can break into where I'm sleeping and try to unscrew my
head any time. And I bet she looks better in a catsuit than G
Gordon Liddy.
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