A Fishful of Dollars Fry discovers they put advertisements in dreams now and then he finds out he's a billionaire. Then he buys the last tin of anchovies as anchovies are extinct now.

Plot

Fry is asleep in his bedroom in Bender's closet. Basically they found out robots live in reverse of humans. Ie they have tiny apartments but massive closets suitable for human habitat.

However he was woken by what sounded like squeaky mattress springs in another room. Omg they're doing it!

Fry growls.

"I can't take it anymore! They've been at it for hours!" Oh god! That's one horny couple! "Knock it off you two!" He yelled banging on the wall.

Next door though are not a randy couple. But two robots playing poker. They have springs for torsos that squeak when rusty.

"Sorry!" said one of the robots. He oils himself to stop the squeaking.

Fry eventually goes to sleep.

He dreams he is in college. He is taking a lecture.

There is a stern old biddy of a teacher with grey hair in a bun and spectacles.

"Good morning, class. I trust you've all prepared for today's final exam." She said.

"Uh, excuse me? I missed a few lectures. Uh, what subject is this?" Fry asked.

"Ancient Egyptian algebra." said the teacher. Hopefully it involves Yugioh...

The blackboard has very complex formulae on it.

"What a nightmare!" Fry gasped.

"Mister Fry, are those your underpants?" The stern teacher asked. He was only wearing his underwear...

Fry gasped embarrassed.

Everyone laughs at him.

"Oh man..." Fry blushed, he was embarrassed.

"Mister Fry. It seems you need a lesson in Lightspeed Briefs.

Suddenly his dream becomes an advertisement for Lightspeed Briefs. An out of shape man becomes very muscular when he puts on a fancy pair of underwear. He is wearing them at a college lecture. At a boardroom meeting. And in the bedroom while pointing at a blackboard while a blonde beautiful lady is on the bed waiting for him.

Fry wakes with a start.

"That was weird! Oh now I'll never get back to sleep..." He immediately goes to sleep and snores.

...

We cut to the opening credits. The title gag this time is the word Loading... as if something like a file is taking a long time to load...

Planet Express board room.

Fry explains his weird dream.

"And basically it was one of those nightmares where you're in a public place in your underwear when suddenly I was dreaming a commercial about Lightspeed Briefs." said Fry.

"Oh yeah. That's normal." said Amy.

"Normal?! Are you saying everyone gets commercials in their dreams?!" Fry asked.

"Why sure. The government put commercials in dreams to defeat Freddy Krueger. Well until he gets the latest update of AdBlocker." said Leela.

"But, how is that possible?" Fry asked.

"It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg." said the Professor. He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes, covering him and Leela in yolk. "Although, in reality, it's not liquid, but gamma radiation."

"But that's terrible! It's like brainwashing!" Fry asked.

"It's better than potentially being murdered in your sleep by Freddy Krueger." said Leela.

"Hehehehe! Eggsplody..." Oscar laughed.

Bender glared at him.

"Fry didn't you have commercials in the twentieth century?" Leela asked.

"Yes. But not in our dreams..." said Fry. "We had them in newspapers, on TV, on radio, on billboards. And bananas and..."

"We most certainly didn't have commercials on bananas..." Oscar argued

"Well commercials are in dreams now flesh-bag. At least you can dream. I don't even have a sub conscience!" said Bender.

"But it's just... wrong!" Fry whined.

"Quit squawking, flesh wad. Nobody's forcing you to buy anything." said Bender smoking a cigar.

Oscar suddenly stood on the table and squawked loudly while wagging his arms in a chicken dance pose.

Everyone face palmed.

...

During the minutes of the morning meeting after breakfast Fry and Bender instead watched All My Circuits on the lounge TV.

There was a commercial for Bachelor Chow.

"Now that's normal." said Fry expecting there to be commercials.

Bender sighed and drank his beer.

"Now come on Fry... I mean we all have commercials in our dreams but you don't see us running off to buy brand-name merchandise at low, low prices." said Amy.

They sit there for a moment then suddenly get up and flee!

We cut to a store called Alien Overlord and Taylor.

"Cooool! The future is silly now..." Oscar giggled.

And Giorgio Armani is now Giorgio Armonster. With alien monsters working there.

Oscar laughed hysterically.

Leela sighed.

At a perfume store with annoying staff that spray you even when you tell them you're not interested!

"Hi! Care to sample the latest fragrance from Calvin Clone?" said the lady there.

"Uh don't you mean Calvin Klein..." Oscar asked. She sprayed perfume in his eyes! "Aaaaaaagh! It burns! IT BUUUUUUURNS!"

"How about you miss?" The annoying perfume store saleswoman asked Amy.

"Uh no thanks." said Amy, the woman sprayed her in the eyes. Amy swore in Cantonese as she rubbed her eyes.

"How about you sir?" The annoying woman asked Bender.

"Get bent..." said Bender rudely. The lady sprayed him with perfume. Bender sprayed her with oil from his mouth.

The woman coughed and spluttered.

Oscar laughed.

He rubbed his burning eyes and headed through the perfume store. There were women trying on perfume. Ie spraying their necks or wrists.

Oscar suddenly found it difficult to breath and started choking. He hacked and grasped his throat coughing and sank to his knees and then collapsed.

The women just glanced at him as if he was just drawing attention to himself.

...

Elsewhere Leela got a makeover.

"Well you see sugar... we need to draw attention away from the eye." The cosmetics artist explained about Leela's eye.

She zapped Leela's face with some future technology makeup pen device.

"And voila!" said the cosmetics lady.

Leela looked in the mirror but frowned because the lady gave her way too much lipstick so she looked like a clown...

"Hey Leela- Oh my god! You're a clown!" Oscar yelled.

Leela sighed.

Amy was trying on novelty night vision goggles that instead allow you to see through the eyes of a bending unit. The goggles point out purses and wallets on people and label them as rubes and jerks.

Amy sighed and scoffed.

The Professor was taking toothbrushes out of their packaging, brushing his dentures with them and then putting them back.

"Sir please stop doing that, or I'll have to call security..." said a store clerk.

Anyhoo, the episode is called A Fishful of Dollars so there was a Robot Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name.

"My mule don't like people laughing." said The Robot With No Name.

Men's Wear. A clothes store for men. Fry finds a packet of Lightspeed briefs. He feels compelled to try them on.

"Can I try these on before I buy them?" Fry asked the store worker.

"I'm afraid I can't let you open the package. But you can try on the demo pair." said the obviously gay store owner.

He sprayed a used pair of Lightspeed briefs with deodorant and handed them over.

Fry retched and went to the fitting room.

Bender got out his Gaydar device and scanned the store owner. It gave off a very high reading... Bender wasn't surprised.

Fry tried on the Lightspeed briefs. He was impressed by how he looked in them.

"Ooh! Ho, ho, ho!" In his mirror he was muscular with huge pecs. Then two lovely ladies appeared. Fry looked about confused as they weren't real. The mirror had a sign that said "Objects in the mirror may appear more attractive than they actually are."

Fry sighed.

...

The Robots accessory department.

A fembot is trying on Robot Eyes.

Bender extends his eyes to look at her.

"Perv..." said a bulky looking robot.

Bender found a tacky green sweater. He tried it on. He then decided to use it to smuggle out cans of Mom's Old Fashioned Robot Oil by hiding the cans up his sweater.

A robot camera flew after him.

Amy is trying on sunglasses.

"Hey, Bender! Great new sweater." She said not noticing the cans under his sweater.

Bender got very defensive and nervous... "New? What sweater? I came in with it. I don't know you people!" He fled with the robot camera following him.

Men's clothing area.

Oscar passed a fitting room mirror that makes things seen in it more attractive. Oscar saw his reflection as that weird handsome older version of him someone drew for me when I commissioned them. Oscar winced then glanced at his bruised apple with a worm poking out and slithering about. In the mirror his apple was a shiny green and delicious looking crisp apple.

Oscar sighed.

Fry was paying for his Lightspeed briefs.

"That'll be thirty dollars sir." said the salesman.

"Thirty dollars?! Awwww! I don't have that on me... Unless... Do you take Visa?" Fry asked taking out his credit cards.

"Ooooooh! Visa hasn't existed since it foreclosed 500 years ago..." said the store clerk.

"American Express?" Fry asked.

"Foreclosed 800 years ago..." said the store clerk.

"Discovery?" Fry asked.

"We don't take Discovery..." said the store clerk. Nobody takes Discovery!

"MasterCard?" Fry asked.

"Oh that's ancient... It's now called DoctorCard." said The clerk.

Fry waited for the bad news.

"Oh and it foreclosed 200 years ago..." said the gay store clerk.

Fry sighed.

...

"Where's Fry?" Leela still resembling a clown asked Amy.

"I think I see him in the men's department..." said Amy.

"Hey! You're springing for Lightspeed? Pretty ritzy!" Amy caught up with Fry as he put the Lightspeeds back disappointed.

"No, I can't afford them. Being poor sucks. What kind of world is this where they advertise things not everybody can afford?" Fry whined.

"Quiet. There's an ad coming on." said Amy as the commercials started.

"No! I will not be quiet for the blood sucking, time wasting commercials! Put my show back on damn it!" Oscar ranted.

Amy hushed him.

On a big screen is an old biddy wearing an apron and knitting. She is Mom. And she's essentially Mr Burns of New New York.

"Hello, shoppers. It's me, Mom!" said Mom in a sweet tone.

"Hey who's the rocker jockey?" Fry asked.

"Or old biddy..." Oscar squinted with a cynical look.

"Guh! It's Mom. The world's most huggable industrialist." said Amy. Unfortunately Mom later turns out to be evil...

Mom: [on screen] "Call me old-fashioned, but when my robot starts to squeak like an old screen door, well, that's when I reach for a can of Mom's Old Fashioned Robot Oil."

"Mmm, tasty!" said Bender in a silly manner that I found amusing for some reason.

Oscar laughed.

Mom: [on screen] "And remember: Mom's oil is made with 10% more love than the next leading brand!"

Mom smiles.

""Mom", "love" and "screen door" are registered trademarks of Momcorp." said a voiceover.

Plot 2

Bender is squeaking.

"Bender you could use some of that Robot oil." said Fry.

Cans dropped out of Bender's sweater.

Security camera robots surround him.

"Uh oh!" said Bender.

"Freeze scuzzbot!" said Smitty the cop.

"Now now fellas! I can explain!" Bender asked. Cabs fell out of his sweater and clatter on the floor. "What I mean is-" More cans fall. "I'm sure we can be reasonable-" More cans fall.

"Oh it's on..." said URL in a cool voice as he ignited his lightsaber baton thing.

"Coooool!" Oscar cooed.

Leela sighed disappointed in Bender as he got a pummelling and was then arrested.

The police station.

"forty five, forty six cents... Darn! Leela do you have some money to cover Bender's bail?" Fry asked.

"I had some cash but Bender stole my purse..." Leela sighed glaring at Bender in his cell.

"Oh gosh help me! I don't deserve to be in here! I'm a political prisoner!" Bender cried.

"You were caught shoplifting..." Leela sighed.

"Yeah but what can ya do..." Bender played a harmonica because convicts have harmonicas in jail...

Fry saw a bank. "I know! We can withdraw some money from my old bank account!"

"Fry your cards don't work..." said Amy.

"Oh yeah..." said Fry glum.

"Well I say we all go home and let Bender stew in his cell and think about what he did..." said Leela cross with Bender.

They go home.

...

Planet Express Headquarters.

"Oh my... Where's Bender!" said Farnsworth.

"He got arrested for shoplifting..." said Leela.

"Oh my this won't do! I need my bending unit! Go and bail him out!" said the Professor.

"We don't have enough money, you don't pay us enough!" said Fry.

The Professor sighed. "Well you'll have to make a delivery to Mars without him!"

"Mars?! Oh can I come! I get to see my Mom and Dad!" said Amy.

"No you can't go! You're needed here! For some unexplained reason to do with your internship!" said the Professor.

Amy sulked.

And so the crew went to Mars then after they did that they went to the bank after work.

For some dumb reason Fry can still use his ATM number to access his account.

"Well you're not on our fingerprint database, retina scan or soul scan. How odd..." said a bank clerk.

"Well I was frozen 1000 years ago." said Fry.

"Oh an ice cube guy. Well fortunately we have an emergency account access system. You just need to type in your PIN."

"Oh that's easy. It's the price of a pepperoni pizza at Panuccis!" Fry says the price.

"You dolt! Now everyone has access to your bank account..." Oscar snarked.

Fry groaned.

"I highly recommend you change your PIn immediately sir and this time don't blurt it out..." said the bank clerk.

Anyway the Tweeeeeest in the story...

Fry looked in his account.

"You had a saving of 93 dollars." said the clerk.

"Not bad..." Fry grinned.

"And the interest accumulated over a thousand years means your entire account holds a total of 4.5 billion dollars." said the lady at the bank.

Fry stares blankly. Then hyperventilates and foams at the mouth and faints.

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