Talk:Xmas Story

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[edit] Disclaimer

Does anyone else recall the disclaimer that FOX ran just prior to this episode? It was something along the lines of "small children shouldn't watch this." Should this be added to the article? I do believe it was the only Futurama episode to have such a warning. DudleyScardsdale 02:58, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Not until they start adding the same disclaimer to the rest of their programming! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.102.104.80 (talk) 05:07, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural references

As I recently brought up at the wikiproject (here) it is time we did something about the cultural references sections. I am moving all unsourced references to the talk pages for the time being in hopes of creating a better, more thoroughly sourced article. Please discuss this action at the wikiproject link above so as not to split it over 72 different talk pages. The information removed from the article follows. Stardust8212 03:28, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural references

• One of the creatures Fry inspects in the pet store is Bongo, a character from Matt Groening's comic strip Life in Hell.
• The character Tinny Tim is a reference to Tiny Tim from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
• During this episode 30th century versions of popular Christmas carols are sung including "The Twelve Days of Christmas", "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", and "Here Comes Santa Claus".
• The title of this episode is a reference to A Christmas Story.
• When Fry falls from the clock tower he grabs hold of one of the number segments, this scene is reminiscent to the 1923 silent film Safety Last! in the famous scene where Harold Lloyd hangs on the hand of a clock tower.
• When Bender falls off the cliff you can see kids that look like the peanuts gang from Charlie Brown.
• The exchange of combs as gifts and the ironic selling of hair that makes them useless is a send-off of The Gift of the Magi.