A Bicyclops Built for Two
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Wedding anniversary on Cyclopia (Original title: A Bicyclops Built for Two) is an episode of the American science fiction animated television series Futurama. It was first aired as Episode 13 of the second transmission season on 19 March 2000 of FOX. The first broadcast of the German dubbed version was held at ProSieben on February 5, 2001. The work was awarded an Emmy Award and was also nominated for an Annie Award.
Action
The Cyclops Leela does not know their origins and considers himself to be the last of its kind when she meets an unknown one-eyed on the Internet, it breaks a supply contract out of hand and fly together with their colleagues from Planet Express - the delivery boy Fry and the robot Bender - to the planet of the stranger. This is called as Alcazar and represents the world as Cyclopia ago, home of the Cyclopes, which have died out except for Leela and Alcazar. He gives insightful and Leela can seduce so. They decide to try and create a new civilization of the Cyclops.
The next morning, Alcazar has changed: it has become a macho bully, the Leela no longer swarmed, but bossed around. However, Leela accepts a marriage proposal because she feels her extinct folk commits. Travel to the wedding Leela's other work colleagues - Prof. Farnsworth, Amy Wong, Hermes Conrad and Dr. Zoidberg - to. Fry distrusts Alcazar and provides together with Bender inquiries to. He discovers that Alcazar is a con man that can change its shape. He has already led four other women with the same trick duped and wants all married on the same day. Fry can discover this in time to stop the wedding.
Background
The original title of the episode is A Bicyclops Built for Two ( German about: A Bi - Cyclops made for two). He plays on the line " A Bicycle Built for Two" ( German: " A bicycle made for two " ) to from Harry Dacres song Daisy Bell. This song was the first that was " sung " by a computer using a synthetic voice, saying in 1961 by an IBM 704 was referred to several times in the film and television history, including Stanley Kubrick's film 2001 In this episode: Odyssey space. Even Futurama itself takes up the issue in a later episode again on: With love and rockets Bender sings the song in a romantic scene.
The act contains a number of allusions to the American sitcom Married with Children, especially after the supposedly sensitive Alcazar has turned out to be female inhuman grouch. The appearance, posture and movements of Leela and Alcazar are very similar to, for example, those of Al and Peggy Bundy, the main characters of the sitcom. A peculiarity of this allusion is that Katey Sagal, who played the leader of Leela, the role of Peggy Bundy. In the German dubbed version of this level is lost because Sagal is synchronized in Married with Children by Kathrin Ackermann and in Futurama by Marion Sawatzki.
Production
Wedding anniversary on Cyclopia was the ninth episode of the second production season of Futurama, it is hence the 22 episode overall. The screenplay was written by Eric Kaplan, Susan Dietter directed. In addition to the speakers of the main characters David Herman took the part of the Alcazar. Herman worked regularly for the series, he borrowed recurring among other minor characters like Scruffy and Dr. Wern power his voice and was later adopted in the main cast.
Publication
The first broadcast of the episode took place on the American FOX network on March 19, 2000. This was the broadcast of the first production season ended prematurely and relocated the remaining episodes in the second transmission season. Therefore wedding anniversary was on Cyclopia different from the census of production, the 13th episode of the second transmission season (see Original from Futurama ).
The German dubbed version was first performed on 5 February 2001 on ProSieben.
Awards
For their work on this episode Bari Kumar won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation in 2000. After several nominations, did not result in awards, this was the first time that Futurama was honored with the Television Award.
In addition, director Susie Dietter was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in to Animated Television Production. She had, however, her colleague Brian Sheesley beaten, who also propose on the Futurama episode The strange behavior of mature crustaceans during the mating season in this category and they chose for themselves.
The Internet portal TV.com chose the episode in its list of the ten best Futurama episodes to eighth place.