Each Cohen and actor John DiMaggio — who performs the drunken robotic Bender and a number of different characters — famous that the unique line was certainly “JFK Jr. Airport,” and Cohen clarified that the episode aired as soon as with the unique line. In all subsequent airings, and on the DVD model, the road was modified to “Radio Metropolis Mutant Corridor.” In each cases, the road was carried out by DiMaggio — the latter joke being, after all, a reference to Radio Metropolis Music Corridor.
The small print of Kennedy’s demise have been startling in 1999. Piloting a small airplane himself, and carrying his spouse Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette, Kennedy took off at night time, however his airplane vanished over the ocean. After two days of looking out, the Coast Guard declared the search to be a misplaced trigger and that each one three passengers have been useless. Particles from the airplane was discovered the next day. The our bodies have been later found on the ocean flooring.
In 2024, it won’t be gross to discuss with a futuristic airport as JFK Jr., however in 1999, it was smart to keep away from cheapening the real-life demise of a celeb. Cohen was proper to change the road to “Radio Metropolis Mutant Corridor.”
“Futurama” barely altered different traces all through its run as nicely, prone to stay topical, typically to tone down a crude joke, and infrequently merely to shorten an episode’s runtime for re-broadcast on a unique channel. In “The Day the Earth Stood Silly” (the episode that featured the Hypnotoad), Bender, having been made much less clever by an itinerant race of disembodied, intelligence-hating brains, yelled, “Hey, let’s go be part of the Reform Celebration!” In Comedy Central reruns, “Reform Celebration” was modified to “Tea Celebration.”
This was much less about politics or tastefulness, nevertheless, as “Futurama” merely wanted to cram right into a shorter scheduling block.
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