WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT

GENRE:

ADULT ANIMATION

SCIENCE FICTION

COMEDY

WHY THE NEED FOR ADULT

ANIMATION:

RISQUE THEMES

GRAPHIC VIOLENCE

DISPLAYS OF SEXUALITY

WHY THE NEED FOR SCIENCE

FICTION:

OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD

INVENTIONS

TO DEFY A FIXED SETTING

WHY THE NEED FOR

COMEDY:

TO GO OVER THE TOP IN

TERMS OF PLOT

THE GODFELLAS EPISODE

KEY THEME COVERED IN THE

EPISODE:

RELIGION

HOW THE THEME WAS COVERED

MAIN PLOT

BENDER BECOMES A GOD FIGURE

(SERIOUS SIDE OF RELIGION)

SUB PLOT

FRY SEARCHING FOR BENDER

(LIGHTER SIDE OF RELIGION)

THE USE OF INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES IN TV

“THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SIMULATIONS AND THEIR

ORIGINALS IS NOT SIMPLE OR STRAIGHTFORWARD, AS IT IS

OFTEN INTERTEXTUAL IN NATURE, INVOLVING PLAGIARISM,

QUOTATION, PARODY, AND INTERTEXTUAL HUMOUR.

UMBERTO ECO HAS TERMED THESE PRACTICES „AESTHETICS

OF SERIALITY‟” (NAFICY, 1989)

FURTHER EXAMPLES

„NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD‟ SHORT SCI-FI STORY BY

ARTHUR C. CLARKE (1953)

„MICROCOSMIC GOD‟ SCI-FI NOVELETTE BY THEODORE

STURGEON (1941)

THE TWILIGHT ZONE, - “THE LITTLE PEOPLE” EPISODE (1962)

THE VOICE OF "GOD" IS BASED ON VIC PERRIN'S "CONTROL

VOICE" FROM THE OUTER LIMITS

„PLAYING GOD‟ IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

NERD THEOLOGY - KEVIN KELLY

“WE HAVE BECOME MINI-GODS. AND THUS WE SEEK GOD BY

CREATING GODS”

TRANSNATIONALISM

VIA

AMERICAN CULTURAL IMPERIALSIM?

CLOSE READING OF EPISODE

(CLOSE READING

SEGMENT OF VIDEO WILL

BE PLAYED HERE)

REFERENCES

“In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?”, by David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy no. 107, Summer 1997, pp. 38–53

Television Intertextuality and the Discourse of the Nuclear Family.

Naficy, Hamid, Journal of Film and Video, v41 n4 p42-59 Win 1989

The nine billion names of God: the best short stories of Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Charles Clarke, Publisher Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967

„Microcosmic God‟ novelette by Theodore Sturgeon (1941), pucblished in Astounding Science Fiction April 1941

"Twilight Zone" The Little People, Original air date, March 30, 1962

The Outer Limits aired (1963 – 1965)

http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Reviews/04Cook_Futurama.html Lucius Cook, ""Hey Sexy Mama, Wanna Kill All Humans?":

Looking Backwards at Futurama, The Greatest SF Show You've Never Seen" published on Locus Online, 2004

The Neoteric Society

Nancie L. Gonzalez

Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1970), pp. 1-13

Technology in Society 21 (1999) 387-392 'Nerd theology.' Kevin Kelly