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"Simpsorama" is the sixth episode of the twenty-sixth season of the animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 558th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on November 9, 2014. "Simpsorama" is a crossover with ''Futurama'', another animated series created by ''The Simpsons'' creator Matt Groening, that had previously aired on Fox and later Comedy Central before concluding in September 2013. ==Plot== At Springfield Elementary School, Principal Skinner is showing Mrs. Krabappel's class a time capsule that they intend to open a thousand years later and tells the students to each put something inside of the capsule. Bart, having forgotten to bring something to put in it, puts a sandwich that he blows his nose on into it. At a ceremony, Mayor Quimby lowers the time capsule into the town square in front of the statue of Jebediah Springfield. When they dig up the hole, they notice some green ooze pouring out. Later that night, the Simpsons hear a strange noise outside like something falling from the sky. Marge then hears something glugging and belching downstairs. Homer and Bart decide to go to the basement and investigate. Down in the basement, Bart sees a shadowy figure opening up a can of Duff Beer, who is revealed to be Bender, who reveals he is from the future. Homer and Bender become instant best friends. The next day, Lisa starts to doubt that Bender is actually from the future, since robotic technology in the present is relatively advanced, so Lisa takes Bender to Professor Frink's laboratory. Bender admits that he does not recall why he was sent to the present, so Frink unplugs and replugs Bender's mission protocol, causing Bender to reveal his mission is to terminate Homer; however, he cannot do it, having developed a close friendship with him. A hologram of Turanga Leela and Philip J. Fry and some rabbit-shaped creatures that are attacking New New York appears. Seeing that Bender has not yet killed Homer, Leela and Fry encourage Bender to kill Homer. Lisa asks why he must be killed, and Professor Hubert Farnsworth replies that the creatures have Homer's DNA and Bender was sent back to kill Homer before the creatures could evolve from him. The Professor, Leela and Fry go into the past to kill Homer themselves, but Bender protects Homer, preventing Leela from shooting him. Everyone goes home but Farnsworth, Frink and Lisa, who stay back at the lab to analyse a DNA sample. Farnsworth, Frink and Lisa get to the house; the Professor reveals that the DNA was only half of Homer's, with the other half belonging to Marge; they must kill one of their children instead now. Bender's rear shows a hologram of the creatures attacking Linda and Morbo, who report that the creatures have started evolving. One of the rabbits eats Linda and transforms into a lizard-like creature that resembles Bart. Bart remembers that when he put his sandwich in the time capsule, it touched Milhouse's lucky rabbit's foot and the toxic ooze in the hole touched the items in the time capsule mutating them into rabbit-like creatures with Bart's DNA. The Simpsons and the Planet Express crew arrive in the town square to dig up the capsule, but the portal the crew travelled through is damaged, and all of the Simpsons and the crew but Maggie and Bender and sent to the year 3014. The Simpsons all hang out at the Planet Express headquarters, having failed to figure out a way to stop the creatures. However, Lisa is surprised everyone has given up. The professor then proposes they shoot all the creatures into space. Lisa helps lure the creatures into Madison Cube Garden; the Planet Express ship lifts the cube up and hurls it into space (it is later revealed to have landed on Omicron Persei 8). ==Background information== The episode was first announced in July 2013, two days after "The Simpsons Guy" — the hour-long crossover between ''Family Guy'' and ''The Simpsons'' — was announced. It was originally planned to air as either the season 25 finale or the season 26 premiere.〔http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/20/the-simpsons-futurama-crossover-episode/〕 It was ultimately slated for November 9, 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Simpsons' death in premiere; 'Futurama' crossover in Nov. - Inside TV - EW.com )〕 In an interview with ''Entertainment Weekly'' about the episode, Groening said, "That was a really tough one to negotiate, because I had to talk to myself." Al Jean added, "They were going off the air, so I thought people would really love it if we had one more chance to see those characters"; adding, "We're always looking for things that are compatible with us, and I thought, 'Well, what’s more compatible?' We do a joke, actually, about how similar Bender and Homer look. Like, they just erased Homer's hair." Jean also stated, "There's a thing in ''Futurama'' code where if you solve it, it says, 'Congratulations! You're a nerd.'"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=See the first image from the 'Futurama'-'Simpsons' crossover episode )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simpsorama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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