Futurama Loves Apple Gear

Edible Apple:

Apple is pretty adept at getting its products onto some of TV’s most popular shows, but no show can top Futurama when it comes to a sprinkling of both well-known and obscure Apple references. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise given the fact that series co-founder David X. Cohen is a huge Apple fan whose favorite piece of technology is the Apple II – Cohen even named the character “Dr. Zoidberg” after a computer game he originally created for the Apple II in assembly language.

I don’t actually own a television, but I can appreciate this a whole lot – I literally cheered out loud when WALL•E chimed* after he was done charging each morning.
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*WALL•E’s chiming is funnier than it appears on the surface – a Pixar character acting like an Apple product. That’s funny simply because Steve Jobs has huge roles in both companies – having help found and lead both of them. That chime is the signal a OS X-running machine gives that it has passed POST (Power On Self Test) – meaning the basic hardware requirements for boot are present. WALL•E ’s battery wasn’t just fully charged – he was prepared to work, knowing his major systems were good to go.