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"A Fishful of Dollars" is episode 6 in the 1st season of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on April 27, 1999.
Plot After having their dreams taken over by an advertisement, the Planet Express crew takes a trip to the local shopping mall. Trying to buy the product in his dreams, Fry realises he is broke. At the same time, Bender is caught shoplifting and sent to jail. Unable to pay the bail, Fry remembers he had a bank account back in the twentieth century. Surprisingly his old bank account is still active, and has been accruing interest for the past thousand years, bringing the balance to $4.3 billion. Fry goes on a massive spending spree, buying numerous 20th century artifacts, including the last known tin of now-extinct anchovies, which were fished to extinction shortly after Dr. Zoidberg's people arrived on Earth. Mom, famous industrialist and owner of Mom's Old-Fashioned Robot Oil, wants to secure the anchovies for her own purposes. Anchovy oil could be used to permanently lubricate robots, and therefore represent an enormous threat to Mom's business interests. Mom's sons Walt, Larry, and Ignar conspire with the head of Pamela Anderson to steal Fry's ATM card and PIN, which they use to bankrupt Fry (Fry's PIN is the price of a cheese pizza and a large soda at his old job, $10.77, so they reenacted a scene in the year 2000 to find out the price from Fry). All of Fry's 20th century artifacts are repossessed, except the anchovies, which Fry had hidden in his sock. After Mom discovers Fry intends to eat the anchovies, she stops interfering. Fry covers a pizza with the anchovies, and shares them with the rest of the Planet Express employees. Everyone except Fry spits their pizza out in disgust. Fry claims that they are an acquired taste. When Dr. Zoidberg enters the room, he smells a 'heavenly stench' and immediately devours all the remaining anchovy-covered pizza, and goes on a rampage screaming "MORE! MORE! MORE!!" Frys shopping spree With his fortune, Fry buys many different things: Characters Characters who make their first appearances in this episode are: Future products Future products seen in this episode are: Trivia and goofs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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