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First Aired: Oct. 03, 1999 on Comedy Central

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Season 2 » Episode #02 - Mars University

Summary: The Professor instructs the crew to deliver his newest experiment to his office at Mars University. While there, Bender relives his frivolous college days with his robot fraternity, Epsilon Rho Rho. Fry also gets nostalgiac and fondly recalls dropping out of college. He's determined to prove he can drop out of college by 30th-century standards, so he enrolls at the university. His excitement diminishes quickly upon meeting his roommate Gunter, the Professor's experimental monkey. Guenter's hat is more than just fashionable; it gives him enhanced intelligence, making Fry increasingly envious.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

20th Century History Teacher	voiced by Billy West (II)
Gearshift	voiced by Billy West (II)
Leo Wong	voiced by Billy West (II)
Bender	voiced by John DiMaggio
Oily	voiced by John DiMaggio
Chet	voiced by John DiMaggio
Carnival Ride Professor	voiced by John DiMaggio
Chrissy	voiced by Lauren Tom

Episode Quotes

Guenter: I could never disappoint the professor. He's like a father to me.
Leela: But he's not your father. The guy in the punch bowl was your father.

Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Oh, I always feared he would run off like this. Why? WHY? WHY didn't I break his legs?

Fry: Very impressive, back in the 20th century we had no idea there was a university on Mars.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, in those days Mars was a dreary uninhabitable wasteland much like Utah, but unlike Utah Mars was eventually made livable.

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Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The question in Fry's 20th Century History class about the invention of television is answered incorrectly. While popularized in the 20th century, television was actually invented in the late 19th century.
Goof (factual errors): Bender sees the house of his old fraternity, Epsilon Rho Rho, which has a sign reading "ERR". However, the Greek letter Rho looks like the Latin letter P (as does its Cyrillic descendant), so the sign should look like "EPP".
Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): Leela says of Mars University: "They planted traditional college foliage: ivy, trees, hemp..." but when she says "hemp," her lips appear to be saying, "marijuana."

Trivia

Prof. Farnsworth mentions that Mars University was founded in 2636. This is 1000 years after the 1636 founding of the New College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. (In 1639, it was renamed Harvard.)
Title screen gag: Transmitido en Martian en SAP