Crimes of the Hot story
"Crimes of the Hot" is the eighth episode in the fourth production season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 10, 2002. The episode was written by Aaron Ehasz and directed by Peter Avanzino. Al Gore guest stars as his own preserved head in a jar, his second appearance in the series. The episode tackles the topic of global warming as the Planet Express crew is sent to retrieve Earth's yearly ice supply in order to keep the planet cool. When they are unable to retrieve the ice, the Earth is forced to search for other ways to solve their global warming problem. In 2003, the episode was nominated for an Environmental Media Award. Directed by: Peter Avanzino. Story by: Aaron Ehasz.
16 total · 4 major · 12 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| environmentalism | major | Bender took up saving the Earth from global warming as a cause. |
| global warming | major | Earth was threatened by anthropogenic/robopogenic global warming. |
| human self-sacrifice for another | major | Bender was prepared to sacrifice himself to stop global warming and encouraged other robots of the world to follow his example. |
| the calculus of human life | major | There was an ethical dilemma centered around sacrificing sentient robots to save humans. |
| asteroid mining | minor | The Planet Express crew went on a mission to mine Haley's comet. |
| changing the orbit of a planet around its star | minor | The threat of global warming was thwarted by moving the Earth into a more distant orbit around the sun. |
| climate change and bureaucratic inaction | minor | The Earth government just dropped an ice cube in the ocean every now and then, postponing the problem of global warming. |
| disembodied head | minor | Earth President Richard Nixon's head held a party for all the robots of the world. Al Gore's head hosted a scientific conference on global warming. |
| humanoid robot | minor | Robots, mechanical men for the most part, were found to be the cause of global warming. |
| infatuation | minor | A middle aged Professor Farnsworth and Mom. |