Futurama ’s new seasoncontinuesits examination of 3023 by direction of 2023with next week ’s “ How the West Was 1010001 , ” which see the mob heading to , ahem , Doge City to cash in on the bitcoin mining craze . Like most places they claver , they find ridiculousness , even more wordplay , and some very shady automaton reference — including the return of the stab - well-chosen Roberto !
Hulu ’s released a twain of clipsteasing some hijinks on the wide-open frontier of crypto nation . ( The “ galoot ” that ’s bring up is Fry , manifestly . )
And here ’s Dr. Zoidberg , interrupt Roberto ’s much - needed anger - management therapy . Notice the tongue - shooting gun : very on - marque for Roberto !
Why yes, his gun shoots knives.Screenshot:Hulu/YouTube
Here ’s Hulu ’s lengthy official summary for episode three , “ How the West Was 1010001 ; ” it curiously does n’t note one of the other major paper of the episode — which is , of course , the importance of knowing how to limbo .
“ The Professor foolishly invest in bitcoin and lost everything . Now , he ’s in debt to the Robot Mafia . His one slim hope : the crew will need to link up the gilded rush of people flocking west to seek their fortune in the bitcoin excavation fury . The Professor ’s plan is to mine for the rare mineral Thallium , ask to make innovative computer chips used in the bitcoin operations stationed near the mines . They re - equip the Planet Express ship as a wagon and journey west to “ Doge City . ” There , monolithic bitcoin farm use such gross amounts of electricity that there is no power at all for the mining camp … so life is much like in the old western United States , with campfire , buck , whisky , poker , histrion pianos , tear apart for nugget , etc .
Several interlace stories take place in the old west town : Fry joins forces with a celebrated triggerman , the Borax Kid . Leela takes a Book of Job in the local bar . Hermes tries to keep his Word Dwight from a lifespan of crime . Zoidberg becomes a frontier doctor , and Bender buys a donkey . And all the while , mad robot Roberto terrorizes the townspeople with his patented knife - gas pedal . Things derive to a head when Amy discovers the large Thallium nugget in history … enough to pay off the ransom money . But … they have to hold it through a long , tense dark from Roberto before it can be weighed and sold . The climactic shot feature a sci - fi gunplay for the age . ”
You did indeed register that right wing : Bender buys a donkey . find out this episode of Futurama Monday , August 7 on Hulu .
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