The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings

The Devil's Hands Are
Idle Playthings
August 10, 2003

Writer: Ken Keeler
Director: Bret Haaland
Production Code: 4ACV18
Original Air Date: August 10, 2003
Guest Voices: Dan Castellaneta

See You on Some Other Channel

While practicing the holophoner to impress Leela, Bender walks in on Fry and suggests that in order to get better at it maybe he should make a deal with the Devil - the Robot Devil to be precise. They go to Robot Hell to meet up with the Robot Devil who makes a deal with Fry - a set of robot hands for his set of human hands. The Robot Devil spins his selecting wheel (which contains all robots names on it) and surprisingly it lands on the Robot Devil! Grudgingly he exchanges hands with Fry.

Space Pilot 3000

Writer: Matt Groening, David X. Cohen
Director:
Production Code: 1ACV01
Original Air Date: March 28, 1999
Guest Voices: Leonard Nimoy, Dick Clark

The first episode of this series that introduces us to the main characters of Futurama: Fry, Leela and Bender. After accidentally falling into a cryogenic chamber and being frozen for 1000 years, Fry wakes up to a whole new world. Along the way he meets up with a certain robot by the name of Bender as he tries to escape his career implantation assignment from Leela. Great moment at the end of this episode where all three make the conscious decision to alter their own fate and choose their own path thus proving you don't gotta do what you gotta do.

Lots of fun moments in this episode like when Larry welcomes Fry to the future. Fry's first trip on the boom tube, meeting up with Bender in the Suicide Booth and Leonard Nimoy being fed like a goldfish in the Head Museum.After tracking down his great, great, great, great,... you get the idea, nephew Professor Farnsworth, Fry, Leela and Bender take up employment as the delivery crew for the Planet Express Delivery Service. Oh, well some things never change.