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Nixon's anguished cry of "Expletive deleted!" refers to the editing of transcripts of those tapes, in which Nixon casually and frequently used obscene language. [5] Nixon refers to Gerald Ford (whose head is seen earlier in the episode) as a pardon-granting "sissy", in light of Ford's blanket pardon of Nixon for all Watergate-related charges. [6]
Philip J. Fry (voiced by Billy West), primarily known by his surname Fry, is the main protagonist of the series.He is a 20th-century pizza delivery boy in New York City who, after getting dumped by his girlfriend and being stuck in a dead-end job, is cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999, waking up 1000 years later just before the year 3000.
"Three Hundred Big Boys" is the sixteenth episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 70th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on June 15, 2003.
As the episode started with an extended intro, it begins as Bender jumps off the Planet Express Ship after seeing an ad for free beer. As Earth's election time nears, President Richard Nixon's Head builds his reelection campaign platform on the promise to order the construction of a "Dyson fence" around the southern part of the Solar System, which will keep out illegal extraterrestrial aliens.
President Nixon's Head insists that a decision-making machine called the Choose-Matron be used to select the most optimal cross-section of humanity to take to Mars, where they will restart human civilization. Fry is chosen because of his "lucky pants", while Leela is rejected since Zapp has been chosen to pilot the craft.
A furious Richard Nixon's Head imposes an embargo on their planet in retaliation, forbidding trade and communications with other planets. Due to the embargo, the Planet Express crew is sent to Omicron Persei 8 to harvest the "sacred weed of Omicron" for Professor Farnsworth 's arthritis medication.
Fry, Leela, and Bender confront Nixon over Bender's body, and Nixon rants about his devious future plans for Earth, which Bender records and uses to blackmail Nixon into giving his body back. The three believe they have defeated Nixon, but because Leela forgot to vote, Nixon wins by a single vote thanks to acquiring a new, giant war robot's body.
Earth President Richard Nixon's head organizes a party for the unsuspecting robots on the remote Galapagos Islands, where he plans to destroy the entire robot population with an electromagnetic blast from an orbiting EMP cannon made from Wernstrom's mirror. Bender, who was at the meeting of scientists and thus knows of the plan, decides, for ...