History Recap / FuturamaS2E3AHeadInThePolls

* FreezeFrameBonus: Bender has a nightmare where he sees "[[ComputersSpeakBinary 1s and 0s everywhere,]] [[FauxHorrific and I thought I just saw a 2!]]" If you pay attention, you can actually see said "2" during the aforementioned DreamSequence.

* HumongousMecha: After giving back Bender's body, Nixion gets a gigantic new robot body, which results in him getting the majority of robot vote.

** The episode begins with an episode of the ShowWithinAShow ''The Scary Door'', a clear shout-out to ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', specifically to the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough at Last]]."

* CaughtOnTape: Bender manages to convince Nixon to give back his body after recording Nixon's rant about his plans for when he became President again.

* LowCountGag: The TV news describes the election results for the Earth presidential campaign:
-->'''Linda:''' The sheer drama of this election has driven voter turnout to its highest level in centuries. Six percent!

-->'''Bender's Head''': Great. First he steals my body, now he's touching my stuff.

-->'''Fry''': Now this is a party I can get excited about! Sign me up!\\
'''Recruiter''': Not with ''that'' attitude. \\
'''Fry''': Oh, well screw it then.\\
'''Recruiter''': Welcome aboard, brother!\\
'''Fry''': All right!\\
'''Recruiter''': You're out.

-->'''[[TheDitz Fry]]''': Leela, I've got a plan!\\
'''Leela''': ''([[DeadpanSnarker without missing a beat]])'' I've got a ''better'' plan.

* CaptainObviousAesop: Parodied during the debate between Jack Johnson and John Jackson, where one of them proclaims that "I'm against those things nobody likes!", treating it as if it's some kind of brave proclamation. Not to be outdone, his rival declares that "I agree with everything he says!"

* TakeThat: In the establishing shot of the Presidential Debate broadcast, the sign changes to "Tomorrow: Vice Presidential "Yo' Mama So Fat" Contest".

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Fry speaks of how he spent his teen years giving his body tough love, before Leela elbow jabs him in the stomach.

--->'''Fry''': Now this is a party I can get excited about! Sign me up!\\

* DeathByIrony: The ''Scary Door'' segment, parodying ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', has a man walk into a post-apocalyptic library declaring he can now read all the books he wants... at which his glasses slip off his face and break. Initially, he reacts angrily, but then he realizes he can still read large print. Then his ''eyes'' slip out of their sockets. Then he notes that he can read braille, prompting his hands to fall off. At that point, he starts screaming, and then his body falls apart. Somehow, Bender's conclusion from this is that he was "cursed by his own hubris."

** Nixon wins the election for Earth President by a single vote--and only because Fry and Leela forgot to vote. (Bender can't vote because he's a convicted felon).

* HistoricalInJoke: When the subject of voting comes up, Gerald Ford's head states he never considered voting essential, something Nixon agrees on.[[note]]Ford was never elected President; he was appointed to the Vice Presidency when Agnew resigned, then became President when Nixon also resigned a few months later, and lost the 1976 election.[[/note]]

* LoopholeAbuse: The Earth Constitution states that no''body'' can be elected more than twice- but Nixon's head is eligible as it's on Bender's body.

** The episode begins with an episode of the ShowWithinAShow ''The Scary Door'', a clear shout-out to ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', specifically to the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough at Last]]".

* SomebodyElsesProblem: The owners of the titanium mines, faced with the fact that if they don't act within 200 years their trapped workers will die, decide to just pave over the entire area and get on with their lives.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Bender has a nightmare where he sees "[[OnesAndZeroes 1s and 0s everywhere,]] [[FauxHorrific and I thought I just saw a 2!]]" If you pay attention, you can actually see said "2" during the aforementioned DreamSequence.

* HistoricalInJoke: When the subject of voting comes up, Gerald Ford's head states he never considered voting essential, something Nixon agrees on.[[note]]Ford was never elected President. He was Speaker when Agnew then Nixon left office.[[/note]]

* HistoricalInJoke: When the subject of voting comes up, Gerald Ford's head states he never considered voting essential, something Nixon agrees on.

* GoshDangItToHeck: "Oh, expletive deleted!"

* PlotHole: Farnsworth's line about Nixon winning by a single vote is supposed to be a BrickJoke to how the first robot president won by a single vote. However, since the total votes won by each candidate aren't given (except that Nixon has zero votes at the start), the joke falls apart.

* LowCountGag:
** Donbot introduces his two henchmen as 'the entire robot mafia'. So the criminal organization consists of the boss Donbot and goons Clamps and Joey Mousepad.
** In [[Recap/FuturamaS2E3AHeadInThePolls "A Head in the Polls"]], the TV news describes the election results for the Earth presidential campaign:
--->'''Linda:''' The sheer drama of this election has driven voter turnout to its highest level in centuries. Six percent!