If that episode titlesounds familiar, well… thats no coincidence.
We have someSquid Gamefans in the writers room, including myself, obviously, Cohen said.
[But] we like to take everything and make it one step removed.
Fry re-lives a childhood birthday in the next episode of Futurama.© Hulu
So were not going to say this is a memory ofSquid Gameor something.
So it requires no background knowledge inSquid Game.
But thats the inspiration obviously, to take some innocent childhood thing and do it to the death.
Its sort of like our own lives; everyone wishes they could go back to something in their life.
But its touching, I think, because of that hook to Fry remembering his childhood.
Watch Quids Game, the second episode ofFuturamaseason 12, August 5 on Hulu.
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