I don't watch Futurama, so I may be wrong in how the story goes. But I think he thought that he's rich but inflation shouldn't be much lower than interest (irl, it's actually way higher), so the 4 billion is likely worth 4 bucks or at most 4 hundred.
It seems like the episode treats him as legitimately rich, but you're right: assuming targeted 2% inflation, it's like $10. That's being pretty generous too, 1000 years is a long time to go without some kind of societal shakeup event where people stop honoring 800 year old numbers on a screen as legitimately valuable. It's not like there is any entity today who would feel obligated to give you $4 billion dollars for your 11th century banknote.
4 hours on TurboExpress may be pushing it. I think it's more like 3hrs+. There is no disappointment though as any kid should be amazed that getting that kind of graphics (one and only full current gen console -- none of the 2 older gens made it) into a 2 gameboy sized system for 3+ hrs is quite impressive.
I have it placed below the keyboard, like in a laptop. I don't see how the right or left side placement is good for hand travel time. If I don't mind that, I would have used a mouse.
I'd argue it's much easier to make an iconic movie (you shoot and statistically at some point you hit) than a good series based on it (you already have the expectations set high, you need to surprise so as not to bore but keep consistency with the overall mood etc. - a very demanding task).
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