Talk:I, Roommate

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On the goofs section, while the mutilation is leela's idea, bender has since compared it to cutting genitalia - making leela's later reaction quite valid.

I'm adding Olde Foretran to the list of featured products. It can be clearly seen (though Bender tosses it away, turning to sobriety) at around minute 16, though it's labeled "Old Fortran" Caliprincess 07:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Sources?

Just noting a possible source for this article. It's pay to view but it appears to be about the Futurama move to Tuesday nights and is published two days after this episode aired (this was the first to be on Tuesdays). I'll try to have a look at it sometime when I have more time. Daily Herald Archives Stardust8212 04:48, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Cultural references

As I recently brought up at the wikiproject (here) it is time we did something about the cultural references sections. I am moving all unsourced references to the talk pages for the time being in hopes of creating a better, more thoroughly sourced article. Please discuss this action at the wikiproject link above so as not to split it over 72 different talk pages. The information removed from the article follows. Stardust8212 15:14, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Cultural references

• The title is a reference to Isaac Asimov's short story collection, I, Robot.
• Bender's bending of Fry's alarm clock and placing it at the edge of the table is a reference to Salvador Dalí's famous painting, The Persistence of Memory.
• The owls which are infesting the entrance to Planet Express - and which seem to be everywhere in New New York - are North American Spotted Owls. In the late 1980's/early 1990's, the Spotted Owl was added to the Endangered Species List and became the touchstone for the demand to end the logging industry in the Northwest woods. Ironically, it seems that by the year 3000, the Spotted Owl has not only become far from endangered, they have eliminated the presence of rats in New New York and have become the new pest. One billboard featured in the show's opening sequence is for Def-Con Owl Traps - a pun on such devices as the Roach Motel.
• The popular TV show All My Circuits is a parody of the soap opera All My Children.
• The sequence in which Fry, Bender, and Leela look at new apartments is very similar to a sequence in the Simpsons episode Lisa's First Word, in which Homer and Marge search for places to live for their growing family.
• When Fry and Bender move into their new apartment, the music playing is the theme from the TV series "The Odd Couple". The bit where Fry jabs the cigar Bender throws away with the tip of an umbrella is from that show's opening title sequence.
• A Slurm painting in Fry's and Bender's new apartment is a reference to an Andy Warhol painting.
• In Fry and Bender's new apartment, there's a picture on the wall that has three lines of BASIC:

10 HOME
20 SWEET
30 GOTO 10

• A lady from the apartment next to Fry and Bender claims that Bender's thoughts are being transmitted to her cellphone. When she closes the phone, it beeps like the communicator from Star Trek.
• After Fry fixes the TV, his "'Ey" is similar to that of Happy Days character, Fonzie (who would often repair things with a simple tap).
• The montage during which Bender wanders the streets of New New York stinking sober is a reference to the film "The Lost Weekend", starring Ray Milland, a story about an alcoholic desperate for a drink.
• The finding of Bender's severed antenna in a field by Officers Smitty and URL may be a reference to the discover of John Wayne Bobbitt's penis in a similar fashion. Lorena Bobbitt, after cutting off her husband's penis, tossed it out of the window of her moving car. Like Bender, Bobbitt's missing "Little Bender" was found and reattached.
• "Fruit Salad" trees, also called "Fruit Cocktail" trees, actually do exist. They are produced by grafting multiple (related) species onto a single tree.

Removed two more that popped up, as I stated in the edit summary, linking to a possible copyright violation video on youtube is not the same as a reliable source. Please consider this before readding these. Stardust8212 17:14, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

• At the beginning of the episode, Bender takes Fry's alarm clock and bends it in the style of Salvador Dalí's "The Persistence of Memory"

• When Fry and Bender first move into their new apartment, The Odd Couple (1970 TV series) theme song starts playing. At one point, Bender drops his cigar on the floor and Fry uses an umbrella to pick it up which is making fun of The Odd Couple's opening segment.
• When the "fat-ass" woman shuts her phone, it makes the same noise as a communicater does in Star Trek when opened._{Stardust8212 16:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)}

Episode review

This episode, along with all other episodes from season one, is being reviewed to determine whether it currently satisfies Wikipedia's various policies in guidelines. All editors are welcome and encouraged to contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Futurama/Season 1 review. Stardust8212 18:41, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

picture

is it possible to add this picture, instead? i think it might better. http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/I%2C_Roommate

Twipley Twipley (talk) 22:15, 8 February 2009 (UTC)