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TV Review: Futurama 6.05 – “The Duh-Vinci Code”

August 4, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Christina Myers
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Episode: Futurama 6.05 – “The Duh-Vinci Code”
Original Air Date: July 15, 2010

Ah, The Da Vinci Code; liked the movie, loved the book, and absolutely loved the episode of Futurama it inspired, “The Duh-Vinci Code.” This episode was too much fun, as Professor Farnsworth and the crew follow obscure clues that lead them to a stunning (read: amusing) discovery and send Fry and the professor on an adventure.

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We start with Fry as a contestant on Who Dares to be a Millionaire? with Morbo as host. Did he look funny to anyone else? I don’t know if it was his head, his clothes, or maybe the different backdrop, but he just looked strange to me. Anyway, Fry blows it on the first question, big surprise, which results in the crew discussing his intelligence, or lack thereof.

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Professor Farnsworth explains why Fry’s idiocy bothers him so much by showing him his shrine to Leonardo da Vinci. Fry doesn’t really seem to grasp its importance, as he decides to play with the professor’s most prized possession, Da Vinci’s beard, and ruins it. For a moment the professor is devastated. Then he notices a hidden paper and unfolds it, revealing the blueprints for Da Vinci’s lost invention.

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The clue search starts with Bender retrieving the original painting, The Last Supper, in which the crew discovers that Saint James was a robot. The professor declares that they must go to Rome and exhume his body. I loved Herme’s completely ignored question, “Didn’t we used to be a delivery company?”

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So, the crew flies to Rome. It was absolutely hilarious when the professor references “an ancient text” to decipher a code in Roman numerals, only to whip out The Da Vinci Code. They find the robot, Animatronio, who tells them he is guardian of da Vinci’s great secrets. Animatronio doesn’t seem that bright, however, because he keeps revealing more than intended and then faking his death to get out of answering any further questions.

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I loved how Professor Farnsworth pulls clues right out of thin air, only to have them pan out. After several amusing scenes, they locate da Vinci’s lost workshop and Fry and the professor are shot out into space in a primitive flying machine built by da Vinci. After a month of flight (rather amusing since they should have starved to death during that time and that’s assuming the machine had an oxygen supply), they land on an alien planet, only to be greeted by Leonardo, who welcomes them to planet Vinci.

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On planet Vinci, everyone is brilliant. In fact, Leonardo is the dumbest person on the planet. This leads to hilarity as the professor suddenly feels stupid while Leonardo bonds with Fry, understanding how it feels to be dumber than everyone else. Fry helps Leonardo finish his greatest invention, the Machina Magnifica, whose plans he’d lost and Fry had found. Fry comes to regret helping when he finds out its true function: revenge. Fry saves the day. Lessons are learned and apologies made. Overall, it was a fun episode.

Rating: 4 / 5 Stars

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About the Author
Christina Myers is many things, but a mother first and above all. She has a seven year old girl and a newborn son whose name proves her geekthnicity. Dante Jay was named for two Clerks characters, and if that wasn’t enough, his lovey has been dubbed Randal. You can’t keep best buddies apart!

She was a nerd long before she was a geek, spending most of her childhood buried in books and studying her heart out. It wasn’t until she met her husband 12 years ago that the overgrown nerdiness died and the spark of geek in her grew, and her grades showed it! No fancy degrees here. Though she once intended to become an elementary school teacher, she later decided that she’d much rather teach her own children.

Being a stay at home, home schooling mom gives Christina time to fill. Her love of books was instilled early by her mother and she has her own library to prove it. Television is an addiction and must be on in the background at all times. Movies are a love shared with her husband and many late nights are spent picking apart crappy B movies. Whatever spare time is left is devoted to writing smutty altpair Inuyasha fanfiction and keeping her fans impatiently waiting for updates while she starts new projects instead of finishing the current ones! She’s even finally attempting to write an original fiction after years of encouragement from her readers.

Christina would be a hermit if she could, absolutely despising the heat and humidity of her home in Central Florida and dreaming of moving someplace where seasons actually change and snow exists. Until that dream comes true, she does most of her socializing through her laptop and her blackberry.

She only just got a Twitter account, but you’re welcome to follow her as she tweets random thoughts during late night feedings and diaper changes. http://twitter.com/SunsetMiko
2 Comments
  1. Justin August 20, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    My favorite part was Fry using a nail to hammer another nail in the Machina Magnifica, which is exactly what he answered on Who Dares To Be A Millionaire.

  2. anderson brandino August 18, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    This futurama robot loved by me I would create a robot like that of wood, with antique pieces watches and moved instead of mouse would be the hamster like that and call Vincent.

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