Cultural References
As the Planet Express ship intercepts the Omicron mothership Fry compares himself to Uhura, Captain Janeway and Xena.
The show Single Female Lawyer, as well as Earth President McNeal, is a reference to Ally McBeal, a popular contemporary Fox program.
The spaceship blowing up the White House at the Monument Beach is a reference to the film Independence Day.
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“The rumor of a great city goes out beyond its borders, to all the latitudes of the known earth. The city becomes an emblem in remote minds; apart from the tangible export of goods and men, it exerts its cultural instrumentality in a thousand phases.”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)