How The West Was 1010001
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Season 8 episode Broadcast season 11 episode | |||||
How The West Was 1010001 | |||||
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No. | 143 | ||||
Production number | 8ACV03 | ||||
Written by | Nona di Spargement | ||||
Directed by | James Kim | ||||
Title caption | Based On An Actual UFO Sighting | ||||
First air date | 7 August, 2023 [1] | ||||
Broadcast number | S11E03 | ||||
Title reference | The 1962 film How the West Was Won, and the letter 'Q' in ASCII binary form. | ||||
Opening cartoon | A Is for Atom by John Sutherland Productions (1953) | ||||
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"How The West Was 1010001" is the one hundred and forty-third episode of Futurama, the third of the eighth production season and the third of the eleventh broadcast season. It aired on 7 August, 2023 [1], on Hulu.
Plot
Act I
Act II
Act III
Production
The writer of record for this episode is Nona di Spargement.[2]. During the Futurama Fan Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2022, Patric Verrone revealed that the script was actually written by Ken Keeler.[3]
Reception
Additional information
Trivia
Allusions
- 1010001 in binary is 51 in hexadecimal, 81 in decimal, and maps to the letter 'Q' in the ASCII standard.
- During the Futurama Fan Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2022, Patric Verrone revealed that the number 81 itself also has a meaning.[4] This would turn-out to be the atomic number of thallium, the metal that the crew seeks out in this episode.
- The title of this episode is also a reference to the 1962 film How the West Was Won.
- When the Professor was showing the periodic table to the crew, the element indium can be seen to be renamed to "Native Americium", alluding to the Native American name controversy.
Continuity
Quotes
Alien Language Sightings
Goofs
Characters
References