Future Stock story
"Future Stock" is the 21st episode in the third production season of Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 31, 2002 as the ninth episode in the fourth broadcast season. Directed by: Brian Sheesley. Story by: Aaron Ehasz.
15 total · 7 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| entrepreneurship | major | Gordon Gekko taught Fry the ins and outs of how to be a corporate sleezeball. |
| friendship vs. career | major | In the end Fry chose friendship over riches to his friends' collective dismay. |
| greed for riches | major | Everyone wanted to be rich on their stock. Gordon Gekko wanted to get rich by taking over Planet Express and gutting it. |
| mentor and protégé | major | Gordon Gekko took Fry under his wing and taught him how to be a corporate stooge. |
| the business world | major | We saw Cutthroat businessman and CEO Gordon Gekko take over Planet Express and try to gut it. |
| the desire for professional success | major | Gordon Gekko wanted to advance his career by running Planet Express into the ground and getting out with lots of kickbacks. Gordon Gekko inspired Fry to try and climb the corporate ladder. |
| what if I found myself in the future | major | Gordon Gekko froze himself after being diagnosed with bone-itis in the 1980s and was revived and became CEO of Planet Express. |
| coping with a terminal illness | minor | Gordon Gekko forgot to cure his bone-itis. |
| coping with senility | minor | Professor Farnsworth woke up not knowing where he was twice on stage. |
| cryogenic technology | minor | Gordon Gekko cryogenically preserved himself in the 1980s after being diagnosed with bone-itis. |