| FUTURAMA CUTS SEASON 3 12: INSANE IN THE MAINFRAME C4 PREMIERE 04.12.02, 18:30 THE ONE WHERE After being arrested when Bender�s old (insane) buddy Roberto incriminates them in a bank robbery, Fry and Bender plead insanity to avoid a jail sentence and are both sent to the robot mental home. Somehow none of the asylum staff notice that Fry�s human, and he�s given the same treatment as any robot (oil for food, exploding roommate etc). He starts acting like a robot and is released, but continues to act like that once he�s out! Can Leela make him realise he�s human? --------------- DEFINITE CUTS (C4) Fry is testifying in his and Bender�s trial: They�ve just looked at a security hologram of the robbery: FRY I�ll never forget that name [Roberto] as long as I live. And that name is� (Hologram disappears, and Fry spots Roberto in the public gallery, wearing a beard. He pulls his beard down and wiggles his knife so Fry can see it. Fry chokes and coughs in shock) --------------- A real long one here: After Malfunctioning Eddie has been released, leaving Fry without a cellmate: NURSE RACHET Fry� are we ready to meet our new roommate? (a box is wheeled up to the cell door: it opens, revealing Roberto) - on the C4 version at this point, the screen pauses and blacks out, but we hear Fry�s horrified gasp without him moving his lips (Fry gasps, horrified) ROBERTO Hiya, Red! FRY Roberto! W-w-what are you doing here? ROBERTO I got busted robbing that bank again. FRY (shaking with fear) Why would you hold up the same bank twice? ROBERTO Ah, that first time was just to case the joint and rob it a little. What�s the matter� (lurches manically toward Fry) You scared?! FRY N-n-no- ROBERTO Noticeably? I�ll say. Now stand back, I gotta practice my stabbing (starts trying to poke Fry with his knife, making a high-pitched kung fu-ish �ha-ha!� noise) FRY No! Please! Stop it! Pleeease! (Roberto aims for him a few more times) BENDER (in another cell) (bangs on the wall) Hey, keep it down in there, I�m tuning my banjo. (we hear him strum the banjo a few times) (Roberto stops his stabbing practice: Fry whimpers and holds his arms to his face) ROBERTO Jeez, Red, quit cowering! You call yourself a robot? (starts the stabbing practice again) FRY I�m not a robot� I�m not a robot!! Waaaaaaaaargh! END OF SCENE: total amount cut = 45 seconds --------------- In the scene where Roberto has taken PX hostage after robbing the bank a third time: COP (on loudspeaker) Do you have any better hostages? ROBERTO To show them who�s crazy, I�ll execute some of you. (to Professor) How about you? (pokes the end of the knife on Prof.�s neck) PROFESSOR Ouch! That�s going to bleed when my heart beats. LEELA Wait! Take me first! --------------- That 45-sec cut is at least the longest since A Bicyclops Built For Two (back in season 2), possibly the longest ever. Looking at it, it�s a pretty unpleasant scene with only a couple of jokes � and I can�t name any other occasion on The Simpsons or Futurama when we�ve seen knife violence like this. They cut the �executions� bit because of the deliberate (but light) use of a knife on someone � although they show Fry inadvertently get cut by the knife later. But C4 still left in most of the knife scenes, and this is the most violent Futurama episode I can recall. Still... - We now don�t hear about the second bank robbery by Roberto (the reason why he gets put in the mental home), but we do hear about the third later on � I mean, that could ruin the episode for a person, that could. - Also, all fans of Bender�s banjo will have been disappointed by the fact that the first of its two appearances by it was cut! Disgraceful anti-banjo cutting by C4 there. |
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