Cultural References
- The title is a reference to the 1993 Cypress Hill song "Insane in the Brain".
- The name "Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots" refers to HAL 9000, a spaceship-installed robot from the Space Odyssey series that murderously turns against its human crew.
- Robotic nurse Ratchet is an allusion to another nurse from Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It may also be a reference to the Autobot in Transformers.
- Fry's being assumed to be insane because he is in an insane asylum is a reference to the Rosenhan experiment.
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