In last night ’s Futurama episode , Viva Mars Vegas , the gang decide to commit off a casino heist . Everything about that ’s sport . But the show also tries to hit a social message — and that ’s not quite as successful . Also , there ’s Zoidberg .
We start the episode with a slam on Jar Jar Binks , as the Binks Security Service gets robbed by the Robot Mafia . One could reason that this joke is n’t particularly timely . One could also argue that it ’s never the unseasonable time to make playfulness of Jar Jar Binks . Meanwhile , back at Planet Express , the crew is bored , and so they set out for Mars Vegas , which Amy ’s parents run . Zoidberg is left behind , sit in a dumpster and read a paper called The Daily Bum Blanket . In his loneliness he prays to God for — we do n’t know what , because before he can even get the Son out , the Robot Mafia catapult their traveling bag of cash into the dumpster to obliterate it from the police force . Zoidberg takes the cash , and goes to Mars Vegas .
To Amy ’s utmost frustration , he lets his money rag on the roulette bike , where it turns from eight million , to tens of millions , to million , to nothing .
“ See , this is why you never see a inadequate soul with millions of dollar sign , ” she says . The show has always leaned on Clueless Rich Girl jokes when it occur to Amy . And quite rightly , too . It ’s never faulty to make playfulness of fertile people . If they ca n’t take it , who can ? In this episode , the trick skew towards her being more of a clueless and scornful rich daughter . She ’s stake up by her clueless and contemptuous parent , who launch the money - lollipop of the cassino while scoffing at the Native Martians who staff it . The Wongs take the gang on a tour through the money counting rooms and the vault .
As a outcome of losing all that money , Zoidberg has escape afoul of the Robot Mafia , who naturally desire it back . They discover that they desire the casino even more , and they kick the Wongs out . Amy and her parents are forced to live in the substandard housing they built for the Native Martian proletarian . Poor at last , Amy ’s brain kicks into gear . She plans out a daring casino heist to slip money back from the mob , and to deliver the casino to its true owners . When the Native Martians , led by the clever Blind Joe , foil the plot , Amy bring out that the rightful owners are the Martians themselves , as revealed by a contract hidden in the good . security measures plain the mafia out , the Wongs get their money , house , “ compendium of rare servants , ” and one of their cassino back , and the Native Martians last get some money .
I love Futurama , but let ’s get one thing straightforward . It ’s not practiced at coming up with solutions to societal issues . It ’s better at throwing those social issues into sharp relief . And when I say better , I intend well in all ways — smarter , more perceptive , funnier , and more humanitarian . I loved the initial visual aspect of the Native Martians . They were mysterious hoi polloi who lived in the planet ’s inside , having traded their land for a single bead . When they incur out that the bead was a immense rhomb , they all bugger off up and left the planet , forecast that they ’d be happy somewhere else . Leela asked them about their notion in the hallowed land , and they answer that they ’d happily buy some other land and pretend it was sacred . With money like that , who was going to contend ? I thought the episode was a outstanding send - up of the bland , benign , vaguely - nature - loving portraits of Native Americans that television show and movies normally do . Nobody grew or changed much in that episode , but we understand everyone better .
This episode ’s weakest link was the endeavour on the part of the show to set everything veracious . When it beat to render everyone being awful , it was a passably good instalment . They incur a petty flake of it right with Zoidberg being a reckless , unintelligent spendthrift , Amy being a clueless condescending twirp , and her parents being just shy of pure wickedness . The good rail line of the show comes , as common , from the Professor . He scoffs at the musical theme that God would give Zoidberg money , and then , when Zoidberg lost everything express joy , “ Now that ’s the God I have a go at it ! ” Yes . And that ’s the show I sleep with .
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