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Three Hundred Big Boys

"Three Hundred Big Boys"
Futurama episode
Episode no. Season 4
Episode 16
Directed by Swinton O. Scott III
Written by Eric Kaplan
Production code 4ACV16
Original air date June 15, 2003
Opening caption "Voted "Best""
Opening cartoon "Flop Goes the Weasel" (1943)
Guest appearance(s)

Roseanne Barr as herself

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Roseanne Barr as herself

"Three Hundred Big Boys" is the sixteenth episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on June 15, 2003. Set in a retro-futuristic 31st century, the series follows the adventures of the employees of Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company. In this episode, Earth president Richard Nixon issues every citizen with a $300 tax rebate; the Planet Express crew each ponder how they shall spend their money. The episode was inspired by "22 Short Films About Springfield", an episode of The Simpsons.

Zapp Brannigan leads an attack on Tarantulon VI, claiming numerous silken artworks for Earth. Earth President Richard Nixon considers this a windfall, and gives every citizen a $300 tax rebate. Brannigan later invites Leela and her friends to an exhibit of the silk treasures.

The Planet Express crew each contemplate how to spend their funds. Leela uses it to swim with a whale; Fry uses the money to buy and drink one hundred cups of coffee over the course of the episode, and Bender spends his on burglary tools to steal a $10,000 cigar. Bender refuses to smoke it until the exhibition. Others find their expenditures less thrilling: Professor Farnsworth uses the money to buy stem cells to give him a youthful appearance but discovers they only last temporarily, while Hermes buys a set of mechanical stilts for his son Dwight that inadvertently go haywire and drag the two off, rampaging through New New York. Kif had bought a watch for his girlfriend Amy but accidentally loses it to the same whale that Leela was swimming with, though he eventually recovers it after a brief accusation of ambergris theft.


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