Talk:Where the Buggalo Roam

Zapp's first appearance
I've edited the part that said "When Zapp Brannigan first appears in the episode, he declares...", because that isn't his first appearance - he's also seen in the beginning of the episode, giving "advice" to Kif. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.92.178.164 (talk) 19:22, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Cost of the Diamond "Bead"
I made the edit on the diamond "bead" at the end of the episode. I wondered how much it was worth, since it looked pretty big and maybe the natives were fairly paid for their Western Hemisphere of Mars. Well, I figured the diamond looked a bit shorter than a person, so I made it 4 foot wide and 4 foot tall. A Cone (geometry) is 1/3 * pi * base * height. $$V = \frac{1}{3} \pi r^2 h $$ Diamonds have a specific density of 3.52 (3.52 heavier than same volume of water). So I calculated the volume as: $$ 1/3 $$ π r2 h with both h and r= 60.96 cm. This makes the diamond 14,461,325 cc =  50,903,864 gm =  50,904 	kg. Can someone check my math? This is 50 tons, which is a bit much. I would have guess the weight of a car, which is 1-2 tons, so I am off by an order of magnitude. Anyhow, a diamond carat (not to be confused with a gold karat) is $$ 1/5 $$ gram. I read that a diamond goes up as the square of the weight: and it seems true on a diamond site that a 1/2 carat diamond goes for $2,000 and a 1 carat goes for $8,000. Thus, the diamond "bead" will be 254,519,319 carats. One must square that to get the increase over $8,000, which is 518,240,669,305,116,000,000 = $518 x 1018 (thank you, Excel).

--Peter10003 (talk) 02:54, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I removed this as it is speculation and Wikipedia does not publish original research. Stardust8212 17:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Cultural References
When Leo says that they are going to eat Betsy, Amy's lifelong pet, at her wedding, I think this may be a reference to the practice in some culture (I think from somewhere in Asia?) of giving infant girls the gift of a turtle, which grows up with her and is consumed at the wedding. Does anyone recall the culture that this is from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.204.85.128 (talk) 09:07, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Historical references section
I have added a template concerning the citations used in this section. while the source seems to be accurate it does not verify that any of the events in this episode of Futurama are actually references to those events. The article needs references which will show that the events portrayed in this episode are intentional references to these historical events, the current citations do not do this. Stardust8212 21:13, 17 August 2010 (UTC)