A Big Piece of Garbage [SEP] series
A Big Piece of Garbage
"A Big Piece of Garbage" is episode eight in season one of "Futurama". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 11, 1999. The episode was written by Lewis Morton and directed by Susie Dietter. Ron Popeil guest stars in this episode as himself. Nancy Cartwright also has a brief cameo as a Bart Simpson doll. Much of the episode is a spoof of the 1998 film "Armageddon"; however, instead of Earth being threatened by
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