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The laser guns the Robot Mafia uses look almost exactly like the Thompson Sub-Machine gun which is the stereotypical gun used by the original Mafia. URL refers to the " Marmaduke " newspaper cartoon. MmmTV, the channel that broadcasts Elzar's television show, is a reference to MTV .
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company and later revived by Comedy Central, and then Hulu. The series follows Philip J. Fry, who is cryogenically preserved for 1,000 years and revived on December 31, 2999.
The robot that the Planet Express crew meet on the Moon, Billy West, is named after the voice actor of the same name, Billy West, who voices various Futurama characters, including primary characters Fry, Dr. Zoidberg and The Professor. The Futurama staff were amused by this reference. One of the villains, say "In space, no one can hear you clamp."
The Robot Mafia is a small crime syndicate operating out of "Fronty's Meat Market" and "Small Bill's Laundry", who periodically dine at Elzar's, hijack shipments of Zuban cigars, arrange "accidents" for robots who act against them, as well as other unspecified Mafia-related illegal activities. They are made up of:
The Robot Devil strikes a deal with Fry to trade hands with any robot in the world. The Robot Devil uses a carnival wheel to select which hands Fry would trade with. It stops on the Robot Devil himself, much to his disbelief and horror. With his new, nimble hands, Fry becomes a skilled holophonor virtuoso.
The Robot Mafia holds up an armored car in space and steals $8 million in cash, but jettisons it into a dumpster on Earth when the police give chase. Meanwhile, the Planet Express crew takes a vacation to Mars, planning to stay at Leo and Inez Wong 's hotel and casino.
The episode also references the Turing test (a philosophical test designed to assess whether a computer can demonstrate true intelligence), [8] actor Nicolas Cage, [9] and the television character Fat Albert. [10] Big Bertha, who shoots the Professor in Bender's body, was also the name of a German Howitzer during World War I. [11]
Enrolling in college on a whim, Bender gets a questionable student loan from the Robot Mafia and falls in with a bad crowd. He promptly drops out of college, gets addicted to the robot drug "Spark," does dubious acts for Hedonismbot, and ultimately attempts to rob Girl Scouts to earn money, only for them to turn the tables on him.