| "All the Presidents' Heads" | |||
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| Futurama episode | |||
| Episodeno. | Season 6 Episode 23 | ||
| Directed by | Stephen Sandoval | ||
| Written by | Josh Weinstein | ||
| Production code | 6ACV23 | ||
| Original air date | July 28, 2011 (2011-07-28) | ||
| Episode features | |||
| Opening caption | Apply viewing oil now | ||
| Opening cartoon | Zoich (2010) | ||
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| Futuramaseason 6 | |||
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"All the Presidents' Heads" is the twenty-third episode in thesixthseason of the American animated television seriesFuturama, and the 111th episode of the series overall. It originally aired July 28, 2011 onComedy Central. The episode was written byJosh Weinstein and directed by Stephen Sandoval.
Fry has a night job at the Head Museum, feeding the preserved heads of thepresidents of the United States. He invites the Planet Express crew to the museum, where they ingest the preservative fluid inside the jars. Doing so causes them to temporarily time travel to the eras each head came from.Professor Farnsworth reasons that this is caused by the powdered andcrystallineopal used in the fluids' creation. After learning fromGeorge Washington's head that one of his ancestors,David Farnsworth, was one of American history's most nefarious traitors during theAmerican Revolutionary War, the professor, determined to salvage his family's reputation, dumps a vial containing the world's powdered opal supply into Washington's jar and licks his head, transporting himself, Fry,Leela andBender to colonial-era New York in 1775 for the next twenty-four hours.
The quartet learn from theContinental Congress that David Farnsworth works atBenjamin Franklin'sprint shop inPhiladelphia, where David forgescounterfeit money that will jeopardize the country's economy should it enter circulation. Though they do not find David, they discover a forgedMassachusettshalfpenny and determine he has gone toPaul Revere'ssilver shop inBoston. They defeat David just as Revere beginshis ride to alertLexington of the British attack that will start the Revolutionary War. However, Fry takes one of the two lanterns hanging at theOld North Church to use for the counterfeit money's disposal, resulting in Revere incorrectly warning of the British attack "by land" rather than "by sea".
The opal's effects dissipate and the quartet are returned to their proper time period, finding that history has been altered –Great Britain won the war and conqueredNorth America, with it now being known as "West Britannia". David assassinated George Washington and was rewarded withdukedom, making the professor a noble landowner and consort of theQueen of England. Having depleted the world's crystalline opal supply, the professor despairs that there is no way to rectify their mistake until he notices theAndamooka Opal in the queen's crown. After stealing the opal, the quartet use David's preserved head on display at the Head Museum to return to the past and restore the timeline, though in place of theGadsden flag hanging in the museum, a similar flag displays Bender with a colonial spelling of his "Bite my shiny metal ass" catchphrase.
Zack Handlen ofThe A.V. Club gave the episode a B−.[2]
