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"Saturday Morning Fun Pit" is the nineteenth episode in theseventh season of the American animated television seriesFuturama, and the 133rd episode of the series overall. It originally aired onComedy Central on July 17, 2013. The episode was written by Patric M. Verrone and directed by Crystal Chesney-Thompson.

Plot

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Amid angry protests from anti-television groups on theWhite House lawn, the head ofRichard Nixon and the headless clone ofSpiro Agnew try to watch aSaturday morning cartoon block, which features some of the series' characters in parodies of some well-known Saturday morning favorites:

Bendee-Boo and the Mystery Crew: AScooby-Doo parody featuring guest appearances byGeorge Takei, theHarlem Globetrotters andLarry Bird, the third of which has only a single line via avoicemail he left.
Purpleberry Pond: AStrawberry Shortcake-meets-The Smurfs parody used to advertise an excessively sugarycereal.
G.I. Zapp: A violentG.I. Joe parody that Nixon attempts to censor.

Reception

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Dennis Perkins atThe A.V. Club gave this episode a D,^[1] while Max Nicholson ofIGN gave the episode a 7.7/10 "Good" rating, saying "This week'sFuturama featured an overall enjoyable lampooning of Saturday morning cartoons, with no exceptional dud."^[2]

Patric M. Verrone was nominated for aWriters Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing in Animation at the66th Writers Guild of America Awards for his script to this episode.^[3]

References

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^Perkins, Dennis (July 18, 2013)."Futurama: Saturday Morning Fun Pit".The A.V. Club. RetrievedFebruary 28, 2022.
^Nicholson, Max (July 18, 2013)."Futurama: "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" Review".IGN. RetrievedDecember 22, 2016.
^Milligan, Mercedes (December 5, 2013)."'Simpsons' & 'Futurama' Dominate WGA Nominations".Animation Magazine. RetrievedFebruary 23, 2019.

External links

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"Saturday Morning Fun Pit" atIMDb
"Saturday Morning Fun Pit" at theInfosphere, the Futurama Wiki.

Futurama

Episodes

Season 1	"Space Pilot 3000" "The Series Has Landed" "I, Roommate" "Love's Labours Lost in Space" "Fear of a Bot Planet" "A Fishful of Dollars" "My Three Suns" "A Big Piece of Garbage" "Hell Is Other Robots" "A Flight to Remember" "Mars University" "When Aliens Attack" "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
Season 2	"I Second That Emotion" "Brannigan, Begin Again" "A Head in the Polls" "Xmas Story" "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" "The Lesser of Two Evils" "Raging Bender" "A Bicyclops Built for Two" "A Clone of My Own" "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" "The Deep South" "Bender Gets Made" "Mother's Day" "The Problem with Popplers" "Anthology of Interest I" "War Is the H-Word" "The Honking" "The Cryonic Woman"
Season 3	"Amazon Women in the Mood" "Parasites Lost" "A Tale of Two Santas" "The Luck of the Fryrish" "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" "Bendless Love" "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" "That's Lobstertainment!" "The Cyber House Rules" "Where the Buggalo Roam" "Insane in the Mainframe" "The Route of All Evil" "Bendin' in the Wind" "Time Keeps On Slippin'" "I Dated a Robot" "A Leela of Her Own" "A Pharaoh to Remember" "Anthology of Interest II" "Roswell That Ends Well" "Godfellas" "Future Stock" "The 30% Iron Chef"
Season 4	"Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" "Leela's Homeworld" "Love and Rocket" "Less Than Hero" "A Taste of Freedom" "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV" "Jurassic Bark" "Crimes of the Hot" "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" "The Why of Fry" "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" "The Sting" "Bend Her" "Obsoletely Fabulous" "The Farnsworth Parabox" "Three Hundred Big Boys" "Spanish Fry" "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
Season 5	Bender's Big Score The Beast with a Billion Backs Bender's Game Into the Wild Green Yonder
Season 6	"Rebirth" "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" "Attack of the Killer App" "Proposition Infinity" "The Duh-Vinci Code" "Lethal Inspection" "The Late Philip J. Fry" "That Darn Katz!" "A Clockwork Origin" "The Prisoner of Benda" "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" "The Mutants Are Revolting" "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" "The Silence of the Clamps" "Möbius Dick" "Law and Oracle" "Benderama" "The Tip of the Zoidberg" "Ghost in the Machines" "Neutopia" "Yo Leela Leela" "Fry Am the Egg Man" "All the Presidents' Heads" "Cold Warriors" "Overclockwise" "Reincarnation"
Season 7	"The Bots and the Bees" "A Farewell to Arms" "Decision 3012" "The Thief of Baghead" "Zapp Dingbat" "The Butterjunk Effect" "The Six Million Dollar Mon" "Fun on a Bun" "Free Will Hunting" "Near-Death Wish" "31st Century Fox" "Viva Mars Vegas" "Naturama" "Forty Percent Leadbelly" "2-D Blacktop" "T.: The Terrestrial" "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" "The Inhuman Torch" "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" "Calculon 2.0" "Assie Come Home" "Leela and the Genestalk" "Game of Tones" "Murder on the Planet Express" "Stench and Stenchibility" "Meanwhile"
Further seasons	Season 8 Season 9 Season 10