![]() The fob, after all, was the source of the musical tones, the two additional notes being the acknowledgement from the ship. Accompanying Nibbler, Digby used a key fob, coincidentally at the very instant that Fry fell in, to remotely lock the spaceship. The ship lands, and from it emerges Digby, Nibbler's personal chauffeur.ĭigby explains that on December 31, 1999, he had conducted Nibbler to Earth on his mission to ensure that Fry entered the cryo-tube. When it arrives and blasts out the four notes, Fry uses a keyboard to respond with the final two. Armed with this new information, Nixon leads the crew to a landing facility built to receive the alien craft. In the final seconds as he falls back into the tube, he at last hears the four notes, followed by two additional, higher-pitched notes that he had not earlier recalled. Fry takes his place in front of the cryogenic tube, leaning back in his chair as the countdown to the New Year begins. Making a final effort to escape them, he runs back inside, but his family is gone, the interior of the house becoming just a white void as he had no memory of the house after he left for the last time before being frozen.īitter and defeated, Fry leads the crew through the rest of his day, even up to his last two minutes at Applied Cryogenics, still with no satisfaction. Eventually they drag him out of the house, insisting that he continue his mission. He realizes that he needs closure, especially with his mother, but his fellow crewmembers begin to arrive in his dream, interrupting. As Fry muses that perhaps he does miss his family after all, he brushes off Farnsworth's protests and re-engages with his family, savoring the experience. The alien ship is now so close that major earthquakes occur every time the tones are played.Īlthough initially reluctant to return to the dream state, remembering what a bad day it had been for him including hanging out with his "crazy" family, Fry returns to the dream state at the family home, where Seymour runs up to greet Fry. After exploring his neighborhood and retracing his steps for a very short time, he accidentally wakes up, only to find that he has been asleep for almost two weeks. The crew are able to view Fry's experience on a TV monitor, and even communicate with Fry with microphones. While the alien ship is still two weeks away from Earth, Farnsworth connects Fry to one of his machines and sedates him, transporting Fry in a kind of dream state to the world of his memories of that day. Seeing that it is crucial for Fry to recover his memory of the melody, Farnsworth scans Fry's brain, finding that Fry's memory of the music originates from December 31, 1999, the night he was cryogenically frozen. No one has any idea what the ship is trying to communicate only Fry seems to recognize the alien melody, but his memory of hearing it is so vague that he cannot place it. At first, the music is merely an annoyance, but as the ship draws nearer, the booming tones begin to cause structural damage and threaten to tear the planet apart. The title is a spoof of Game of Thrones, while the episode as a whole makes many references to Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Inception, and the plot contains many similarities to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.Įarth is slowly approached by a mysterious alien ship that repeatedly broadcasts four loud musical tones, which can be heard by everyone on the planet. The Planet Express crew enter Fry's dreams and find themselves back in the year 1999 in search of a mysterious alien song. The episode was written by Michael Rowe and directed by Edmund Fong. ![]() It originally aired on Comedy Central on August 14, 2013. ![]() " Game of Tones" is the twenty third episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom Futurama. If Unable To See This Message, Turn On Futurama Now
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