Why was Futurama 'eyePhone' reference edited out?

It's always fun when one of our favorite shows skewers a tech company, like the current target of left-handers, Apple. The Simpsons did it in 2008, and Futurama did it last night, although for some strange reason, part of it didn't make it to the Web.

The episode, the latest in Futurama's (finally) new set of episodes, was "Attack of the Killer App." Although the episode also mocked Susan Boyle (with a boil called Susan), it also hit up Apple and the "eyePhone." In Futurama, the eyePhone is actually placed into your eye, and is manufactured by MomCorp.

It wasn't all about Apple, as the episode also contained references to Twitter ("Twitcher") as well as commentary on our e-waste ending up in third-world countries (which is a real problem). However, of course, Apple (or rather, MomCorp) and zombies wanting the eyePhone were central to the episode.

In fact, it was sort of reminiscent of the iPhone 4 vs. EVO YouTube video, in terms of the utter fanboyness of customers. This part was extremely similar, though unlike the YouTube video, SFW.

Clerk: Okay, it’s $500. You have no choice of carrier. The battery can’t hold a charge, and the reception isn’t very...

Fry: Shut up and take my money!

Mac|Life, however, noticed that strangely the Comedy Central clip of the very end of the episode, titled "Fry and Leela's Humiliation," differed from the broadcast in the last few seconds, in which a set of zombies are shambling into the MomCorp store to the voice over of "Introducing the all new eyePhone 2.0," to which the crowds cheer (with fistfuls of money). Cut to Mom, who then says, "Dumb bastards."

Now why would they make that change? Comedy Central wouldn't have done that unless someone had complained, perhaps a large corporation with tons of lawyers and a fruit for a logo. Anyway, the original clip is embedded below.



Here's the clip Mac|Life found.

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Oh, we also had to throw in the e-waste delivery to, not a third-world country, but a third world: Third World of the Antares system. After all, e-waste is a real issue.

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