Despite the obvious allusion to popular beat combo The Beatles, there’s little (if anything) pertaining to I Am The Walrus in the latest episode of Futurama. Sadly, it doesn’t contain much of the originality contained in the John Lennon tune, either. As a sidenote, the feel of this is very similar to The Simpsons episode, Bart The Mother, where Bart also looked after an egg, only for it to hatch into a lizard. Fry also suffers a heart attack, which is reminiscent of Homer’s from the Futurama maker’s longer-running show. Anyway, I digress. This leads the Planet Express crew to take the new pet to its home world, Doohan 6 – a planet populated by kilt-wearing guys called Angus who all have a “Scottish” accent. After the English accents displayed a few weeks back, it’s good to see their Scottish attempts are just as poor, though the episode’s all the more funny for it. It’s extremely likely, in fact, that the planet’s name is a tribute to the Canadian actor James Doohan, who memorably played Scotty in Star Trek. Read our review of episode 21, Mobius Dick, here.
