Current modern supercomputers are actually a mesh of relatively lower spec machines, not a single “computer”, per se. The cost of these isn’t the hardware, it’s the low-latency interconnects and writing the software that can carry out jobs in a massively parallel way.

The episode is “A head in the polls”

Your main character syndrome is showing.

It wasn’t, really. It was passed around as IP for a long time like a used car everyone wanted to fix & sell, but no one wanted to do anything with.

Everything after season 5 is hollow, like the jokes are being written with a laugh track in mind. Its just not as clever. This season is no exception.

Consider Old man Waterfall defending Zoidberg: “I request a Satanic funeral.” “Boooo!” This the culmination of a running joke about American freedom values to “do what you want, but not like that.”

To season 6 opener: “Professor, my Fry-fro…”