It’s an extremely embarrassing admission for me to make that I read through The Da Vinci Code. I suspect most people reading this article are in the same boat, given the sheer readership of the book — even the book’s supporters are hard pressed convincing anyone it’s better than the literary equivalent of a Michael Bay flick. Even if you had no real interest in it, you may have been like me and simply curious to see why exactly another 80 million in our semi-illiterate society have read the book. But this review isn’t just a set-up for bashing the book, especially as Futurama has already done so quite nicely, though it’s worth noting that it’s not what the episode’s really about.
“The Duh-Vinci Code” begins with a search for a long lost invention of Leonardo Da Vinci’s after Fry and the Professor stumble upon its blueprints. This leads them into a Dan Brown-style journey through Rome where the Planet Express crew jumps to insane conclusions with the best of them, eventually learning that Saint James was a robot (or, as it turns out later, was killed by a robot).
A couple of idiotic clues later and Fry and the Professor end up flying to Da Vinci’s home planet, as the great man turns out to be an alien. Not only that, on Da Vinci’s planet Da Vinci himself is in fact an imbecile on the level of Fry. So while the Professor spends his time attending math lectures, Fry and Da Vinci bond over their mutual stupidity. The professor ends up earning his comeuppance when he also proves to be dumb for an inhabitant of this planet, and things close in a typically Futurama manner with Da Vinci attempting to kill everyone else with his Renaissance-era doomsday device.
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