diff --git "a/OriginalStoriesSeparated/Futurama.txt" "b/OriginalStoriesSeparated/Futurama.txt" new file mode 100755--- /dev/null +++ "b/OriginalStoriesSeparated/Futurama.txt" @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ +On December 31st, 1999, pizza delivery boy Philip J. Fry is playing the video game Monkey Fracas Jr. He loses the game and is then sent out to his next delivery at Applied Cryogenics. On his way, he sees his girlfriend Michelle Jenkins in a cab with another man, Charles Constantine. Michelle, proclaiming she's left Fry's stuff on the side-walk, speeds away with Constantine. Fry keeps riding his bike, saying, "I hate my life. I hate my life." He makes it into the lab where a guy outside says, Happy New Year, and rides away on Fry's bike. Upon arriving at the Cryogenics chamber and trying to find I.C. Weiner, the pizza's intended recipient, Fry realises he's been duped and was sent on a prank delivery. Sitting down in a chair, he balances onto its back legs, cracks open a beer and says, "Here's to another lousy millennium." The entire world is counting down on New Year's Eve and as the countdown hits one, Fry blows a Party Horn to celebrate the new millennium. The party horn makes him lose his balance, he falls back and lands in one of the empty Cryogenic tubes. The freezer freezes Fry and he is frozen and stuck there for 1000 years. Over the course of the next thousand years, the Planet is repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt by invading aliens as Fry waits in stasis. With a ping, Fry is released from his cryochamber and wakes up on New Year's Eve in the year 2999. With a shock he realises he is in the future and laments the loss of his family and friends but quickly dismisses his sadness with a loud YA-HOO. Terry, a worker at Applied Cryogenics welcomes him to the world of tomorrow. Fry is escorted to the Fate Assignment Officer's Office where he meets Leela, a beautiful woman with a huge eye in the center of her face, who explains that it is December 31, 2999. Talking things through with Leela, Fry confesses that the 20th century didn't hold anything for him and he feels optimistic about the future. After an encounter/examination with the Probulator, a DNA scan reveals that he has only one living relative in this time period: his many times great nephew Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth. Fry starts to make himself a promise that with his second chance he's going to make the most of his life and not mess things up again. A menacing chime brings him out of his reverie as Leela reveals she's found him his permanent career assignment: delivery boy. Fry begs for any other job but Leela says that everyone, even herself, has to do a job whether they like it or not, citing that in the future "You gotta do what you gotta do". She tries to implant a Career chip that will label Fry a delivery boy forever, but Fry runs away. Giving chase, Leela ends up falling into one of the cryogenic tubes, which sets itself for 1000 years much like Fry's tube. Fry then leaves her to be frozen there but, out of the goodness of his heart, decides to reset the tube to thaw in 5 minutes, says "You owe me one." and leaves the lab. Walking around New New York city and seeing how much it has changed, he decides to call his relative Farnsworth. He gets in line for what he thinks is a phone booth and meets Bender waiting in line. It turns out the phone booth is actually a suicide booth and that Bender is eagerly awaiting his death. After accidentally activating the machine, Fry pushes Bender to the other side of the booth and they survive. Having failed at killing himself again, Bender invites Fry to get drunk with him at a bar. Meanwhile, Leela's stasis chamber is timed out and she is unfrozen, Terry again appearing and being told to shut up. After being yelled at by her boss for losing Fry, Leela is forced to continue her pursuit of Fry. Fry finds out that Bender wants to kill himself because of his programming as a girder-bender for suicide booths. Fry convinces Bender to abandon his plans of suicide and the two become friends. Leela spots them inside O'Zorgnax's bar and after requesting backup, chases them into the head museum where Fry encounters the head of Leonard Nimoy. Fry asks Nimoy to do the thing but being a head in a jar, naturally he can't. Leela catches up with them and Fry and Bender run for it but knock over the shelves, on which sat Richard Nixon's jar, which breaks. The backup Leela requested earlier arrives and they start beating up Fry. Leela sees the officers are out of control and helps get them off Fry. Hiding in the back room of the museum, Bender's programming is accidentally reset when he needs to bend some bars to aid their escape. Bender and Fry run into the ruins of Old New York, where Fry has a flashback of dancing with Michelle on their first date. The memories of Fry and Michelle dancing fade into a two finned beast which bursts out of the now-frozen ice. After realising that everyone he knows is gone, Bender points out that he can see someone Fry knows: Leela has found them. Giving in, Fry resigns himself to becoming a delivery boy and readies himself to have his career chip implanted but Leela instead removes hers and declares she's quitting. They finally track down Professor Farnsworth, who clarifies that Fry is indeed his uncle. After being given a tour of Planet Express, his delivery company, all four are shocked as the police knock on the door having tracked them down. They plan to get away on the ship at the same time as the Earth counts down to the year 3000. As they prepare to take off the police have a cannon aimed at the Planet Express building, ready to fire at them should they try to take off. As the take-off countdown and the planet countdown both reach zero, they blast off under the cover of fireworks celebrating the new millennium. Fry, Leela and Bender realise they're all fugitives as they now no longer have career chips. Professor Farnsworth reveals he has kept the career chips from his old crew and invites them to join his company. When Fry asks what his job title will be, Farnsworth tells him his job is to transport the cargo safely to its destination. Fry clarifies that he's a delivery boy, which Farnsworth confirms. Overjoyed with his new job, the Planet Express ship flies off into the cosmos. + +Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth introduces his new crew, Fry, Leela and Bender, to the othеr Planet Express employees - Hermes Conrad, the bureaucrat; Amy Wong, the Chinese intern whose super-rich parents own half of Mars; and Dr. John A. Zoidberg, the staff doctor who knows nothing about humans. Afterward, the crew go on their first delivery, with Amy accompanying them. It's only to the Moon, nothing special, but to Fry, this is a dream come true. They get to the moon and Fry discovers that there is an amusement park there. The delivery is a crate of stuffed toys for one of the amusement games and once that is delivered the crew explores Luna Park. Amy discovers she accidentally left the keys to the ship with the crate and they are now in the claw game. She tries to get them back before Leela finds out, but she is not very good with the claw and keeps dropping the keys. Bender tries putting his arm through the game to grab the keys but gets caught and is thrown out of the park. Fry gets bored of the park and wants to explore the real Moon, and find the site of the first lunar landing which has been lost for more than a thousand years. He and Leela hijack a cart and go exploring, but soon their oxygen runs out and they have to go to a Moon Farmer to get some more. He only lets them have some if they do some chores for him. While doing chores Fry and Leela discover Bender has been trying to romance the farmer's three robot daughters: Lulubelle 7, Daisy-Mae 128K and The Crushinator. The angry farmer chases Bender off with a shotgun. Fry and Leela, now with more oxygen, manage to escape and find the lunar lander, where Leela tells Fry off for getting them into this situation, all because he wanted to see the Moon. Fry apologizes and says it was his dream. Leela looks at Fry and sees the Earthrise reflected in his visor, realizes what Fry meant and forgives him. Next thing they know, they see Bender, running away from the farmer, who is attempting to mow him down with a giant combine harvester. Luckily for the crew, Amy, after much practice at the claw game, picks up the lander and Bender with a magnet attached to the Planet Express ship and they all fly back to Earth. + +Since his arrival in the future, Fry has been living in the Planet Express offices, and due to this, Hermes arranges an immediate agenda meeting regarding their workplace's conditions: his habits of eating everything, attracting owls with crumbs, using the chemical burn shower irresponsibly and drying his hair with the Planet Express ship's engines, giving him huge doses of radiation at the cost of throwing off the calibration of their output, making it known that Fry's presence is disrupting business. When the group comes to talk with Professor Farnsworth about Fry's living arrangements, the last straw is cut when Fry eats the Professor's alien mummy of Emperor Nimbala- who is noted to taste like beef jerky- and is utterly upset as it was he who was going to eat him. Due to the events of this morning, it is decided that Fry has to go. After being physically removed from the office, Fry decides to move in with Bender. Several days later, Fry discovers that he can't take living in Bender's 2 cubic meter apartment, and the two begin a search for living space that will satisfy them both. But ultimately, they are unsuccessful until one of Professor Farnsworth's colleagues dies. Fry and Bender lease his old apartment, with Bender living in the closet. After discovering his antenna interferes with the building's televisions, Bender is forced to relocate back to his old residence, but Fry stays put. Distraught at the separation from his friend, Bender goes on a self-destructive sobriety binge, eventually cutting off his own antenna to live with Fry. Out of concern for Bender, Fry moves back into Bender's old apartment. Then discovers that Bender's over-sized closet has more than enough room for a human to live comfortably. + +After an unsuccessful attempt by Amy Wong to introduce Leela to eligible bachelors at The Hip Joint, a New New York nightclub, the crew gets sent on a tax-deductible charity mission. The uninhabited Planet Vergon 6 has been mined hollow for more than 25 years and is about to collapse. The crew is sent to recover two of each kind of animal native to the planet for breeding purposes. Unfortunately, Vergon 6 has been declared restricted due to its undeveloped status, under Brannigan's Law. The Planet Express crew are arrested by the legendary space captain Zapp Brannigan, who immediately attempts to seduce Leela. Leela initially rebuffs Brannigan, but eventually succumbs to pity for the desperate fool, a fact that Brannigan brings up in every later appearance in the series. The sexually-satisfied Brannigan allows the Planet Express crew to depart for Vergon 6 and the crew proceed to collect the strange animals. While working on their checklist, they discover a small black and white creature with a third eye on a stalk. Leela decides to rescue it as well, names it Nibbler and places it in the cargo hold with the other animals. When Bender, Leela and Fry return with the last animal, they discover that the mystery creature has devoured all the other animals. The planet begins to collapse and when the crew try to escape, they discover that the ship is out of fuel. Leela refuses to beg Brannigan for assistance and the crew settle in for their inevitable deaths. The ship shifts to one side and the crew discovers that Nibbler has defecated a small pellet of dark matter, which is the fuel the ship runs on. Bender tosses the ultra-dense pellet into the engine and the crew returns safely to Earth. + +While attending a New New York Yankees blernsball game at Madison Cube Garden, Fry is told by Leela that Blernsball is a jazzed up version of baseball. Bender is offended that humans won't let robots compete in the blernsball league. Hermes calls the crew to report back to the office for a delivery mission. The delivery is to Chapek 9, a planet inhabited by human-hating robot separatists who kill humans on sight, so Bender is assigned the duty of performing the actual delivery. Bender claims that it is a robot-religious holiday, Robanukah, and doesn't have to work. Despite his made-up holiday, Bender must go on the mission. Upon arriving at the planet, a resentful Bender is lowered to the surface using the ship's winch. Fry and Leela decide to throw a Robanukah party for Bender to show their appreciation. They receive a rushed message from Bender, who has been captured by the robot separatists when they found out he worked for humans. In order to avoid being killed on sight, Fry and Leela disguise themselves as robots, and infiltrate the robot society. After hiding out in a robot movie theater, Fry and Leela blend in with the crowd at the opening ceremonies of the daily human hunt. There they discover Bender is alive and playing the robots' prejudice for his own benefit, claiming he has killed a million billion humans on Earth. Fry and Leela reunite with Bender during the hunt in an abandoned robot porn shop, but he refuses their offer of rescue. Before Fry and Leela can leave, the other robots arrive and they are placed on trial for being human. After being sentenced to a life of tedious robot-type labor by Computer Judge, they are dropped through a trap door, where they meet the five Robot Elders. The Robot Elders reveal that the trial was for entertainment, and command Bender to kill Fry and Leela with a device called The Ceremonial Killamagig, but he refuses. The Robot Elders reveal that humans are just being used as a scapegoat to distract the population from the actual problems; lug nut shortages and the incompetent corrupt government of Robot Elders, and that many of the supposed powers humans have that robots fear are in fact made up. The Robot Elders decide to kill the three, citing that they know too much. Fry threatens to breathe fire on the robot elders, throwing them into a state of confusion on whether humans can do that or if that was something that they themselves made up. The crew escapes, and is pursued by a horde of robots. As the crew escapes on the winch, the robots stack on top of each other to capture the crew. Bender remembers that he never actually delivered the package, and puts it into the hands of the robot on top. The unbalanced tower and the package falls to the ground, and the robots are showered in much-needed lug nuts, and renounce their human-hating ways. The crew, now en route back to Earth, celebrate Robanukah with Bender. + +Fry has a dream wherenhe enters am Ancient Egyptian Algebra class. After he realizes it's a nightmare, the teacher points that all Fry's wearing is underwear. He gasps and the class is laughs at him. This dream probably happened because Fry only sleeps in underwear. Then he gets a Lightspeed Briefs commercial in his dream and wakes up and immediately falls asleep. Mom, famous industrialist and owner of Mom's Friendly Robot Company, whose main product is Mom's Old Fashioned Robot Oil, wants to secure the anchovies for her own purposes. Anchovy oil could be used to permanently lubricate robots and therefore represent an enormous threat to Mom's business interests if the remaining anchovies were cloned. Mom uses Mom's Old Fashioned Video Friendly Surveillance Unit to spy on Fry and overhear the clue to his number. Mom's sons Walt, Larry, and Ignar conspire with Pamela Anderson's head to steal Fry's ATM card and PIN, by tranquilizing him and making him wake up in an environment similar to the 20th century. They get Pamela Anderson to order a cheese pizza and a large soda, and Fry tells her the price. Now that they have his PIN they can bankrupt Fry. All of Fry's 20th century artifacts are repossessed, except the anchovies, which Fry had hidden in his sock. Mom arrives at Planet Express and offers to buy the anchovies to help Fry recoup some of his losses. However, when Fry declares that he intends to eat the anchovies, she stops interfering and gently encourages him to consume all of them in order to destroy the threat to her business. Fry covers a pizza with the anchovies and shares them with the rest of the Planet Express employees. Everyone except Fry spits their pizza out in disgust. Fry claims that they are an acquired taste. When Zoidberg enters the room, he smells a 'heavenly stench' and immediately devours all the remaining anchovy-covered pizza and goes on a rampage screaming MORE. + +Bender is watching a cooking show with Neptunian TV chef Elzar, when Leela and Fry walk in on him. Quickly, he tries to turn it off but Leela turns it back on again. Bender then admits that he likes to cook but was too embarrased to tell it to anyone. Hermes Conrad threatens to cut Bender's salary, since Bender has no official duties at Planet Express except sitting on the couch watching the cooking shows all day, something he wanted to keep to himself. Inspired by the Neptunian TV chef Elzar, Bender decides to take on the job as the Planet Express ship's cook. He, Fry and Leela go to shop for ingredients in Little Neptune. While Bender is buying a Neptunian slug, Fry tries to get his lungs replaced with gills by an organ seller. Just as the seller was about to do unsafe surgery, Leela interrupts the transaction, knocking out the dealer and his crony. She berates Fry afterward for his reckless behavior. Professor Farnsworth then sends the crew off on a delivery to the planet Trisol, a mysterious world in the depths of the Forbidden Zone in the Galaxy of Terror. Leela claims that the scary names are a false conception of the galaxy. Bender serves the crew a meal of almost completely of salty Neptune slug and salted water. After the ship lands, Fry is assigned the task of making the delivery trek across the desert under the planet's three blazing suns. When he arrives at his destination, the Trisolian palace, he finds it empty. Stricken with thirst, he grabs a bottle of blue liquid that is sitting on the throne and drinks it. Armed Trisolians, who are revealed to be liquid-based organisms, storm the throne room, revealing that the bottle Fry drank actually contained the emperor Bont the Viscous. Rather than being punished, Fry is declared the new emperor. Shortly afterward, he opens the package that he was delivering, to reveal a "Please don't drink the Emperor" sign. Ironically, Fry declares that the package arrived just in time. After being found by the crew, Fry chooses Bender as his new prime minister. The high priest Merg informs Fry that as part of the coronation, Fry will have to recite the royal oath which consists mainly of a very, very long list of emperors, in the order that they killed each other from memory, on pain of death if he makes a mistake. During the pre-coronation party, Leela informs Fry that the average reign of a Trisolian emperor is only one week, as whoever drinks the old emperor is declared the new one. When Fry refuses to listen to her warning, Leela returns to the ship, vowing not to help Fry again. Fry, apparently aware he cannot be drunk because he is solid, ignores this. At the coronation, Fry recites the oath properly and is sworn in as Fry the Solid. As the suns set, the Trisolians begin to glow - including the alive-and-well emperor Bont from inside Fry's stomach. Bont demands that Fry be cut open and drained. The crew takes refuge in the throne room and tries to work out a way to extract the emperor without killing Fry. Bender calls Leela on Fry's behalf, but gets an inconclusive response. She has to fight her way past Trisolian forces in order to reach the palace. Bender sees what is happening and decides to exploit the situation: He lies to Fry by saying that Leela is dead. This prevarication saddens Fry so profoundly that he begins sobbing, though slowly. After Leela arrives, she begins beating Fry, causing him to weep in pain, extracting the emperor. Once he is out, the emperor beats Fry up, taking turns with the other crew members, as well as thanks him. With the emperor safely outside Fry's body, the crew is allowed to leave. + +Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth announces that tomorrow the crew will make a delivery to Ebola 9, the virus Planet. They cannot go today, because he wants them all to be alive for the Academy of Inventors annual symposium, where he will present the Death Clock, a device which calculates how long a person has left to live. At the symposium, he meets a former student of his from Mars University, Professor Ogden Wernstrom, who vowed revenge on the Professor after receiving an A-minus on a pop quiz, even if it took him a hundred years. Just over ninety-nine years have passed and no revenge is in sight: so Farnsworth considers himself to be in the clear. Wernstrom presents his invention, an apparatus that allows fish to breathe water, but travel on land, known as the Reverse Scuba Suit. He taunts Farnsworth over his invention from the previous year — the Death Clock. Mortified that he had already presented the invention and forgotten about it, Farnsworth hastily begins drawing on a napkin and comes up with the Smell-O-Scope, a device that allows people to smell distant cosmic objects. The Smell-O-Scope is received with scorn and laughter. Wernstrom gives it the worst grade imaginable—an A minus minus. Back at Planet Express, he invites everybody to see the Smell-O-Scope that he built last year and also forgot about. Fry begins pointing the Smell-O-Scope around and discovers the smelliest object in the universe. After calculating its path, Professor Farnsworth announces that the object will collide with New New York City in 72 hours. After some research, a video found on the internet reveals the object to be a giant ball of New York City's garbage launched via mob-obtained rocket into space around 2052 in an attempt to alleviate a crippling rubbish problem. After warning the mayor of New New York, Mayor Poopenmayer, a plan is hatched to destroy the garbage ball. The Planet Express Crew is sent on a mission to plant a bomb on a fault line on the ball. The bomb has been set to allow twenty-five minutes to escape. When the crew lands on the ball, Fry is amazed of all of the 20th--century items on the ball but Leela reminds Fry that these things were garbage, which is why they are in the garbage ball in the first place. Unfortunately, the Professor put the bomb's countdown display in upside down and it actually only allows fifty-two seconds. The crew panics and Bender throws the bomb into space to save themselves, but runs into a small meteor and falls back to the surface; and Bender throws it again. The opportunity to destroy the garbage ball is lost, so the crew returns to Earth in shame. Attempting to find another way to save the city, the Mayor sends in Wernstrom to find a way to stop the garbage ball. Wernstrom demands tenure, a grant and five research assistants. He has no plan, but declares that he is set for life and leaves. In a last-ditch effort to redeem himself, Farnsworth comes up with a second plan to save the city: to launch a second ball of garbage to bounce against the first one to send it flying into the sun. The Mayor exclaims that there hasn't been garbage in New New York for 500 years, so Fry demonstrates how to make garbage. An announcement is made to tell the city to not throw away its garbage. The city of New New York quickly generates a second ball of garbage, which is fired at the first garbage ball. The rocket flies into the air and hits the other garbage ball head-on. The second ball of garbage flies out of the solar system and the other flies into the sun. Leela's concerns that the new garbage ball will return and destroy a future generation are dismissed by other characters. Fry says that it won't be for hundreds of years. The city then confiscates Wernstrom's award to give to Farnsworth, who swears revenge against the Professor once again. The story begins with Bender, Fry and Leela at a Beastie Boys' heads concert, where they are invited backstage afterward by an old acquaintance of Bender's, Fender. While meeting the Beastie Boys, Bender and Fender ditch the organ sacks and Bender is introduced to jacking-on, the dangerous abuse of electricity. Soon Bender's dabbling becomes a full blown addiction to electricity and he resorts to desperate measures to get his fixes. After hitting rock bottom, Bender realizes he has a problem and turns to religion for help: joining the Temple of Robotology. He is then baptized in oil and has Robotology's symbol welded onto his chest by Reverend Lionel Preacherbot. While the rest of the Planet Express crew is initially happy that Bender has given up his addiction, they quickly find the new Bender tiresome and try to bring out their friend's old personality by taking him to Atlantic City and reintroducing him to vice. They succeed in bringing the old Bender back, but are unaware that the contract of Robotology stipulates that if Bender sins, he is sent to Robot Hell for all eternity. Soon the Robot Devil abducts him as he seduces several fembots. As Fry and Leela track Bender to The Inferno ride at Reckless Ted's Funland, using Nibbler as a bloodhound, Bender is shown around Robot Hell by the Robot Devil in the form of a song. Eventually Fry and Leela use the Fairness in Hell Act of 2275 to challenge the Robot Devil to a fiddle contest for Bender's soul and a solid gold fiddle. If they lose, they get a small silver fiddle and the Robot Devil gets to kill Fry. While they are unable to best the devil in musical skill, Leela beats the Devil with the solid gold fiddle and the trio flee Robot Hell with a pair of stolen robotic wings. The Robot Devil attempts to stop them by closing the ceiling gates. Luckily, the trio are able to escape by dropping the gold violin Leela was carrying, which was adding weight to their ascent. Once they are out of Robot Hell, Bender promises to be just evil/good enough. + +Returning from a mission from planet Cannibalon, Bender, Fry and Leela announce their resignations to Professor Hubert Farnsworth. They reconsider when the Professor tells them he has scheduled a company vacation as thanks for not reporting him about his disregard for employee safety. He tells them the vacation is a cruise on the maiden voyage of the largest space cruise ship ever built: the Titanic. No one suspects anything dangerous, despite the crash/sinking of the first luxury ship to have that name. As they board, they are stopped by Zapp Brannigan, the honorary captain of the Titanic for its maiden voyage who attempts to seduce Leela again. In an attempt to avoid Brannigan's unwanted advances, Leela claims she's engaged to Fry. On the way to their room, Bender meets the Countess de la Roca. On the bridge, Brannigan diverts from the ship's original course and through a suicidally dangerous swarm of comets. At the buffet, Amy unexpectedly runs into her parents, Leo and Inez Wong, who immediately attempt to set Amy up with a date, one who's very unsightly to her. In order to redirect her parents' attention, Amy claims that Fry's her boyfriend, not realizing that Leela told Zapp that Fry's her fiancee. At the ship's casino, Bender meets the Countess again and pretends to be rich to become her friend: at first he really wants her money and jewelry, until he realizes he loves her. Then she realizes he's broke after he steals a round of drinks from the bar, but she claims she still loves him. In the swimming pool capsule, a limbo competition is being held. Hermes is urged to limbo, but declines, remembering a traumatic incident from twenty years ago. He was on the Earth Olympic limbo team, but during the 2980 Olympics, a boy ran onto the field, wanting to be just like his hero Hermes. He tried to limbo under an Olympic level bar but broke his spine. It is implied that the boy died. Hermes has never limbo-ed since then. Brannigan takes time off from steering the ship to judge the limbo contest and declares Leela the winner, despite her not having entered "No matter, I know from personal experience just how horizontal you can get", Brannigan says. As a prize, she and Fry are invited to dinner at the captain's table. At dinner both Zapp Brannigan and Amy's parents are present and demanding Fry kiss his date. Before the fake relationships can be exposed, Kif calls Brannigan back to the bridge. The new course has placed the ship in danger. Brannigan's attempt to correct the problem results in the ship flying toward a black hole. Realizing the danger he has put them in, Brannigan promotes Kif to Captain so that he can go down with the ship while Brannigan escapes. Bender heads off to save the Countess, while the rest of the crew make their way to the escape pods. On the way, an airlock door begins to close, blocking the crew's escape. Zoidberg holds it from closing all the way, but the door release is on the other side and no one can reach it. Hermes resurrects his old limbo skills to squeeze under and hit the door release. Arriving at the escape pods, they meet Amy's parents, who have found Amy a new boyfriend they feel is suitable: Kif. After waiting as long as they can for Bender, the crew launches the escape pod. Bender leaps from the Titanic, Countess in tow. He grabs the escape pod, but they are overweight. The Countess sacrifices herself, falling into the black hole to allow the others to escape. Bender is heart broken at the sad sight. As he gets inside, Fry consoles him, stating that it may be possible that the Countess is alive in another dimension: Farnsworth thinks not, as he confides in Zoidberg. Bender says he has her diamond bracelet to remind him of her. When he asks Hermes how much it is worth, Hermes responds that the bracelet is fake, causing Bender further sorrow. + +The Planet Express crew's latest mission is to deliver a crate to Professor Farnsworth's office at Mars University. While touring the campus, Bender comes across a chapter of his old fraternity, Epsilon Rho Rho. The nerdy fraternity brothers beg Bender for his help in the art of being cool. Meanwhile, when Fry reveals to Leela and the Professor that he went to college but dropped out, they explain to Fry that being a 20th/21st-century college dropout is the academic equivalent to a mere high school dropout in the 31st-century. Knowing this, Fry vows to enroll and drop out all over again. Later, in a scene straight from Animal House, Bender and the Robot House boys climb a ladder to peek in a girls' dorm room window. A risque mishap happens when Bender's extendable eyes causes them to fall. The accident crushes Snooty House's servants' quarters and presumably the servants themselves. Fry gets a room in the financial aid dorm and finds his roommate, Gunter, an intelligent monkey wearing an undersized hat. The Professor enters and reveals that Gunter was the contents of the crate and that the electronium hat is the source of Gunter's intelligence. Bender and the Robot House members get called before Dean Vernon, who places them on dodecatuple secret probation and have to run out after Fatbot eats the Dean's model ship. At the parents' reception, Fry humiliates Gunter by releasing Gunter's unintelligent, feral parents from their cage. Later, Gunter expresses his unhappiness at his current life. At the 20th century history exam, the stress finally becomes too much for him and he tosses the hat aside, jumps out the window and flees into the Martian jungle. While the Professor, Fry and Leela head off into the jungle to find Gunter, Robot House enters the fraternity raft regatta in a bid to lift their probation status. When Gunter's found, the Professor offers him the hat while Fry offers him a banana. Before Gunter can decide, Robot House speeds past with Bender on water skis. The boat's wake drags the humans into the river and towards a waterfall. Gunter puts the hat on and rescues them, but falls off a cliff. The Planet Express Crew believe him to be dead and go to gathed him up. They find however, that the hat broke his fall and is now only working at half-capacity. Gunter announces that he likes the new reduced-capacity hat and that he's decided to transfer to business school, to the horror of Professor Farnsworth. Robot House wins the regatta and a parade in their honor is held, led by an unhappy Dean Vernon. Fry successfully dropped out of college and returned to Planet Express, Gunter went to business school to get his MBA and became The FOX Network's latest CEO, Fat-Bot caught a virus in Tijuana and had to be rebooted, Leela went on a date with Dean Vernon, and with his task done, Bender stole everything of value from Robot House and ran off. In the year 1999, Fry is making a pizza delivery to the control booth of WNYW, New York's real Fox affiliate. While there, Fry spills beer on the console, interrupting the broadcast of Single Female Lawyer. As the technician panics and tells Fry, "Oh, my God. You knocked FOX off the air." Fry ominously states, "Like anyone on Earth cares." The camera pulls back from the broadcast tower, away from Earth, and through the depths of space, settling on Omicron Persei 8, a thousand light-years away and a thousand years later. Incensed that they do not get to see the end of the episode, the Omicronians launch an invasion fleet. Back on Earth, the Planet Express crew decides to take a trip to Monument Beach, where most of the world's monuments have stood since the 27th century. A spaceship then lands on the beach as Lrrr, ruler of Omicron Persei 8, demands that the Earth produce the one called McNeal. President McNeal, fearing for his own safety, orders Zapp Brannigan to lead an assault against the alien invaders. Instead, the Hubble Space Telescope gets blown up. After the attack ends in disaster, Earth's government hands President McNeal over to Lrrr. Lrrr announces that he is the wrong McNeal, and vaporizes the President. Lrrr shows the world a photo of the McNeal they want, and Fry recognizes her as Jenny McNeal, the title character of Single Female Lawyer. The Omicronians demand the broadcast of the television show, or they will destroy the Earth. Unfortunately, most videotapes were destroyed in 2443, during the second coming of Jesus. The Planet Express crew decides to fake the show in order to save the world. Fry's script comes up short, and Leela, as Jenny, is forced to improvise. She proposes marriage to the judge. An aggravated Fry tells Bender, who is the camera, to go to commercial. Fry tells Leela that people don't watch TV for clever and unexpected situations because they scare them, and Lrrr makes a public statement backing up Fry's assertion. Fry quickly writes an ending where the judge dies, leaving Jenny McNeal as a single female lawyer. The Omicronians, satisfied with the ending, leave Earth to watch a one thousand year old Jay Leno monologue, saying the show was good enough for them to spare the planet, though not good enough for them to give humans their secret to immortality. Fry states that the secret to a successful television show is that everything ends up back to normal at the end of each episode. Ironically, the camera pans out to a view of New New York burning in ruins. The Planet Express crew are watching television when an advertisement for Slurm comes on. The ad announces the beginning of a contest: whoever finds a golden bottlecap inside a can of Slurm wins a free trip to the Slurm bottling plant on Planet Wormulon, as well as a party with Slurm mascot Slurms MacKenzie. Fry resolves to find the bottlecap by drinking massive quantities of Slurm. Bender walks in feeling ill, and Professor Farnsworth uses it as an excuse to test his experimental F-ray, a device that enables people to look inside anything. He shines it at Bender and finds that Amy's watch was causing the problem. After removing the watch, the professor gives the F-ray to Fry and Bender to put away; instead, they decide to have some fun with it. Bender shines it on Fry, which may make him infertile or cause genetic defects in his children as Fry initially cries "Ow, my sperm" but feels nothing when Bender shines it on him for a second time. After trying the F-ray out on random objects, Fry eventually realizes that they could use the F-ray to scan Slurm cans for the golden bottlecap. After checking thousands of cans, they give up on finding the winning can, and return to the laboratory with the F-ray. Fry settles in to relax with a can of Slurm from the refrigerator, and ends up choking on a bottlecap that was in it. The Planet Express crew arrives at Slurm Centralized Industrial Fabrication Unit and are greeted by Glurmo. The crew takes a riverboat tour down a river of Slurm through the factory, and see the Grunka-Lunkas sing their song. Overwhelmed with thirst, Fry tries to drink from the river, and falls in. Leela dives in to save him, and Bender joins them for no good reason. The three are sucked into a whirlpool and deposited in a cave under the factory. Under the factory, they discover that the factory they toured was a fake. Making their way through the tunnels, they enter the real factory and discover Slurm's true nature: it is a secretion from the rear orifice of a giant worm, the Slurm Queen. They are discovered and captured by the worms. The three are placed into overly complicated death traps and left unguarded. They escape, but are pursued by the Slurm Queen. Slurms MacKenzie, exhausted from his years of partying, arrives and sacrifices himself to save Fry, Leela, and Bender. When they escape, the Slurm Queen bemoans that the company is ruined, and disgustingly drinks her own Slurm, direct from the source, as a comfort. However, Fry is so addicted to Slurm that he keeps the nature of Slurm a secret so that it can continue to be produced. + +When Nibbler has a 5th birthday party, Bender becomes annoyed that he is getting more attention than him. Having reluctantly made a birthday cake for Nibbler, Bender is aghast to see Nibbler gobble it all up before everybody else can praise Bender for the cake. In extreme annoyance, Bender flushes the animal down the toilet. Leela is distraught at the loss of her pet and angered by Bender's inability to understand the emotions of others. Professor Farnsworth proposes a solution: installing an empathy chip in Bender's head that will cause him to feel other people's emotions. After forcibly installing the chip, the chip is tuned to pick up Leela's emotions, so that whatever feelings Leela experiences, Bender is forced to experience as well. After a night of experiencing Leela's feelings, Bender misses Nibbler so much that he cannot stand it. When Fry tells him that alligators can supposedly live after being flushed, Bender flushes himself down the toilet in pursuit of Nibbler. Fry and Leela enter the sewers and quickly manage to find Bender. Unfortunately, they also find a crowd of mutants who live in the sewers. The mutants introduce them to their subterranean civilization. They also reveal that a monster called El Chupanibre has been terrorizing them. Leela, thinking that Nibbler is the monster, is happy until she is informed that the only way to lure the monster out is to offer a sacrifice in the form of a virgin. Although not one herself, Leela is the closest thing to a virgin there and is therefore forced to be the sacrifice. At the sacrifice, Nibbler emerges from a pipe - but so does a large, reptilian monster, who is the real El Chupanibre. Fry gets entangled in the trap that was meant for El Chupanibre, leaving only Bender to fight the beast. However, Leela is so scared, for herself and the others, that Bender is immobilized by her emotions. He and Fry teach Leela to stop caring about other people and care only about herself, and as a result, Bender is able to fight off the beast, whom he eventually flushes down a giant toilet into the sub-sewers. The Professor removes Bender's empathy chip. He says in amazement that the chip was actually turned off, so that Bender was actually sympathizing for Leela by himself. He then corrects himself, saying that it was actually at triple capacity. Bender still retains his 'in-your-face' attitude; meanwhile, Leela learns that adopting Bender's attitude is better than being nice. + +The Planet Express crew arrives at the new Democratic Order of Planets headquarters in orbit around the Neutral Planet, in order to deliver the over-sized scissors for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Zapp Brannigan interrogates them, thinking they are assassins going after the yarn people of Nylar IV. He shortly thereafter destroys the entire station by attempting to use the Nimbus' laser to cut the ribbon instead of the ceremonial scissors. At the former DOOP headquarters in Weehawken, New New Jersey, Brannigan is court-martialed. The prosecution, Hyper-Chicken, loses the case until Leela testifies. Brannigan and Kif Kroker are stripped of their titles and dismissed from DOOP service, the latter being dismissed after Brannigan unjustly points to him as the true guilty party. Unable to find employment, the pair wander the streets until they finally arrive at the Planet Express building. Leela tries to turn them away, but Professor Farnsworth decides hiring Brannigan would be good for the company's public image. The augmented crew is sent to deliver pillows to a hotel on Stumbos IV, a high-gravity planet. Despite Leela's order to deliver one at a time, Fry, Bender, and Zapp decide to deliver all the pillows at once, which in the intense gravity causes the hover dolly to collapse. As punishment, Leela orders them to deliver the pillows by hand, which causes resentment among the crew. Fry, Bender, and Zapp stage a mutiny against Leela, and lock her in the 'laundry brig'. Brannigan decides to attack the Neutral Planet, thinking this will make him a hero and get him reinstated as a DOOP captain. When Fry and Bender discover the plan is a suicide mission, they abandon Brannigan and free Leela; and she retakes command. After returning to Earth, Leela, wanting DOOP to reinstate him and out of her life, testifies that Brannigan was an amazing hero. At the end, while Fry and Bender are cleaning the Planet Express ship, they apologize to Leela and she decides to let them take a break knowing they appreciate her, but the professor overules this so the three decide to mutiny against him. + +The election race for President of Earth is in full swing, with two clones as candidates and the Planet Express crew registers to vote. Meanwhile, a mining disaster on Titan sends the price of titanium through the roof and Bender seizes the opportunity to make a quick buck by pawning his 40% titanium body. As a head with a pile of cash, Bender begins enjoying his new lifestyle. During a trip to the Hall of Presidents in the New New York Head Museum, Richard Nixon's head ruins Bender's illusions about the glamor of a life without a body. He feels further guilty when he dreams of ones and zeroes. He concludes that it means that he shouldn't have sold his body. The next day Bender heads off to the pawn shop to retrieve his body, but it has been sold. The pawnshop owner offers Bender fifty dollars for Fry, but Fry says that his clothes are worth fifty bucks and the owner says deal. Later at Planet Express, Bender, Leela and Fry, who is stripped from his clothing, even his underwear, watch TV, only to discover that Nixon's head announces its candidacy for President of Earth, using Bender's body to escape a constitutional provision that nobody can be elected more than twice. Bender, Fry and Leela take off to Washington, D.C. to stop Nixon and recover Bender's body. Directly confronting Nixon fails to recover Bender's body, so the crew infiltrates Nixon's room at the Watergate Hotel, where anyone gets a discount if they been there before. Leela successfully separates the sleeping head from the robot body, but Fry accidentally wakes Nixon when he accidentally activates a thought-sensitive massage bed. Confronting the intruders, Nixon begins ranting about his future plans for Earth. However, Bender records the conversation and knowing that the tape would ruin his election chances if released, Nixon trades the body for the tape. On election day, Nixon wins by a single vote after Leela and Fry forget to vote against him. Nixon -- who now has the body of an enormous war robot -- inexplicably is rampaging through Washington, D.C., as Secret Service agents escort him into the White House. + +While on a ski trip, the Planet Express crew are watching the comedy stylings of Conan O'Brien's head. His act, mostly dated material from the 20th century, leaves them feeling cold. After some winter sports and a few injuries, the crew relaxes by the fire. Philip J. Fry begins to feel nostalgic for 20th century Christmases. To cheer him up, the rest of the Planet Express staff decide to decorate for what is now called Xmas, which includes cutting down an Xmas tree. Pine trees have been extinct for 800 years, so they cut down a palm tree. Fry decides to venture into the city to buy Turanga Leela a present, although she hadn't felt happy about Xmas when she was an orphan. The others warn him to be back before sundown, or else he will be killed by a murderous robotic Santa Claus. In the year 2801, The Friendly Robot Company had made up a robotic version of St. Nick himself to determine who had been naughty and who had been nice. Unfortunately, due to a programming error, the jolly robotic elf soon turned into a mad murderer when his standards were set too high and at sundown, he will kill anyone who has been naughty. Meanwhile, Bender Bending Rodriguez befriends several homeless robots and goes on a robbery spree. Fry buys Leela a parrot, which escapes. Leela heads out to rescue Fry before Santa Claus arrives. After pursuing the parrot to the top of a tall building, he is saved from plunging to his death by Leela. Unfortunately, the sun goes down, the robotic Santa Claus makes his appearance and attacks the two friends. Fry and Leela take refuge in the Planet Express Building after being saved by Bender and his homeless robot friends, but Santa breaks in through the chimney. Thanks to some quick thinking by Doctor John A. Zoidberg, Santa is forced back into the chimney, where an explosion sends him and his mechanical reindeer tumbling into the stratosphere. Everyone celebrates by singing Santa Claus Is Gunning You Down. Robot Santa vows that he'll be back when no one expects it, next Xmas. + +Amy Wong and Leela drag Fry and Bender to the gym and Doctor Zoidberg tags along. While at the gym, Zoidberg behaves unusually erratically and aggressively and even develops a head fin. Back at the laboratory, Professor Farnsworth examines Zoidberg, whose claws are held shut with rubber bands and determines that it is mating season for Zoidberg's species. The crew flies to Zoidberg's home planet, Decapod 10. After a short tour, Zoidberg sets up a mound on the beach and begins trying to attract a mate. After an unsuccessful day, Zoidberg meets Edna, an old classmate. She rejects him and Zoidberg leaves depressed and upset. Fry begins teaching Zoidberg how to win Edna's heart using human romance techniques. Using his newfound techniques, Zoidberg successfully woos Edna to a date. While at a restaurant, Leela reveals to Edna that Fry is responsible for the change in Zoidberg making her fall in love with Fry. Under the pretext of discussing Zoidberg, Edna invites Fry to her apartment and begins an unsuccessful attempt at seducing him much to Fry's horror. Edna soon dives and kisses an unwilling Fry just as Zoidberg walks in, sees them embracing, starts to think that Fry has double crossed Zoidberg by sweeping Edna off her feet. Fry tries to deny it though Edna, confirms it by saying she wants to mate with Fry the next day. Zoidberg gets angry and challenges Fry to Claw-Plach, a ritual fight to the death. Edna states if he survives they'll make sweet love which causes Fry to scream uncontrollably. + +At a Past-o-Rama event, Fry accidentally runs over a robot that looks exactly like Bender. His name is Flexo and he immediately gets along well with Bender. Fry, however, believes that Flexo is evil, especially noting his tendency to constantly insult him and follow it up with half-hearted, just kidding, making a humongous robot stripper give him a painful lap dance, or when he blows chlorine in his face. Later, Professor Farnsworth hires Flexo to be extra help to guard a beautiful gigantic atom of jumbonium, which goes on top of the Miss Universe Pageant winner's tiara. Fry falls asleep on his watch and when he wakes up, the atom is gone and so is Flexo. Bender, Fry and Leela search the ship but Fry mistakes that Bender is Flexo because Bender uses a map, turtleneck sweater and a scarf which hides where Flexo's goatee would have been. When they go into the pagent they are pressured by Bob Barker to find the atom before it's too late Bender, Fry and Leela run into Flexo. Bender and Flexo engage in combat. Not knowing who to shoot, Leela shoots an overhead chandelier, hitting them both. The chandelier ornaments knock Bender's door open, revealing that Bender was the one who stole the jumbonium. Flexo had actually run to tell Bob Barker. However, in the end, the police apprehend Flexo instead and Bob Barker, saying that he looks like the thief, had him taken away instead of Bender. + +Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth brings good news for the crew: after several years of trying, he has finally logged onto the internet via AOL. The Planet Express crew gets into their Net Suits and visits the Internet in a virtual reality simulation. Chased by ads, the crew finds refuge in different pornography websites, including an adult chat room populated by children and a website Bender created using Amy Wong's head on Leela's body. Disgusted by the men visiting the Filthy Filthy Chatroom, the women, accompanied by Bender, go into the Filthy Chatroom. Thanks to the Internet, the crew becomes bored with sex. So they pander to their lusts for violence instead and play Death Factory III, the legend of Death Factory II. Fry, an accomplished video game player, dispatches all of the crew easily, including a one-eyed man Leela had been happily chatting with. Leela is furious that Fry has ruined her one chance to learn who she is. The crew is en route to Cineplex 14 in order to deliver desperately needed popcorn, when Leela receives an email from Alcazar, the one-eyed man she met online, who invites her to his home. Leela dumps the popcorn and changes course to find where she belongs. Alcazar greets Leela and 'her servants' and introduces her to Cyclopia and the forbidden valley, where no one must go. At Alcazar's castle, he tells Leela the story of what happened to their people. He claims that Leela was sent away as a baby when the blind moles of Subterra 3 launched missiles in every direction, hitting forty planets including Cyclopia. Alcazar had been employed as a pool cleaner and was spared from the chaos while fishing out a dead possum. Leela decides to help Alcazar save their race and sleeps with him. However, the next morning, Leela discovers that Alcazar is rude and abusive. Fry doesn't trust Alcazar and attempts to visit the Forbidden Valley, only to fall down a trapdoor and into the dungeon. Leela changes her clothes and hair in an attempt to impress Alcazar, who insults her in front of his friends, Pig, Rat Man and Rat Woman. Fry tells Leela that Alcazar is a jerk and is hiding something from her, but she doesn't want to destroy the cyclops race by breaking up with him. Leela gives him a champagne. Fry tries to beat the door open with it, but the cap flies off and hits the 'DOOR RELEASE' button. He celebrates but the door starts to close so he runs under just in time. At dinner, Alcazar proposes to Leela, who accepts. All this time, Bender has been busy stealing the many valuable artifacts from the city and for the first time ever manages to fill up his chest cavity, as well as is even hauling a large sack around. When Fry, having escaped from the dungeon, begs him to help investigate what makes the Forbidden Valley so forbidden, even trying to tempt him with the possibility of more stuff to steal. Bender merely replies that, "For the first time in my life, I feel like I've stolen enough" but Fry slaps him and they head for the Forbidden Valley. They discover four identical castles, each more identical than the last and having statues of different aliens. Before Leela can say, "I do", Fry and the loot-stuffed Bender return with four women, each the last female of their species. Alcazar tries to reason with the women, shapeshifting each time to match their form: the women quickly beat him into submission and he takes his real form, a green cockroach-like alien. He explains that he wanted to make it with five weirdos and have them scrub his five castles. Also, he explains that he had scheduled all five weddings on the same day, because it's very expensive to rent a tuxedo that can also change shape. Leela returns with the rest of the crew to Earth, sadly contemplating her desire to find her species, wondering "How many planets could there be?" as she looks out at space. + +Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth receives word from Mars University that they are revoking his professorship. When he arrives before the university's professors, he reveals all their secrets until he realizes it was his 150th birthday party. After everyone talks about how great he is, Farnsworth becomes concerned with his own mortality. He decides he needs to name a successor. The Planet Express crew expects one of them will be named, including Fry, but Farnsworth reveals that his successor will be a 12-year old clone of himself, Cubert J. Farnsworth. Cubert decides that being an inventor is not an appealing career choice, and makes cutting remarks about the Professor and his inventions. A depressed professor makes a recording telling his crew that he has been lying about his age. He is actually 160, the age when robots from the Sunset Squad take people away, never to be seen again. Under cover of an overly-dramatic thunderstorm, a hooded Robot arrives and takes the Professor away while he was saying good-bye to every inanimate object around him. The crew sets off to rescue the professor and finds the Near Death Star, the Sunset Squad's base of operations. The crew sneaks in with Fry dressed up as the professor with Cubert on his back posing as a hump to make him look 'old'. They even brought a huge jar of Cubert's blood just in case. They locate the professor, who is unconscious and hooked to a life-support system. They try to carefully disconnect him, only for the robots to discover the crew, forcing them to rip him off and they race back to the Planet Express ship, Professor Farnsworth in tow. As they reach the landing pad, Cubert is knocked unconscious, but they make it onto the ship in one piece. When the ship takes off, the robots open fire, damaging the engines. Hoping the Professor would help fix them, they try everything to wake him up. A reawakened Cubert announces that he knows how to fix the engines and the crew makes their escape. Safely back on Earth, Cubert tells the Professor that he has decided to follow in his footsteps. The Professor describes his experience on the Near Death Star, as he was hooked up to a virtual reality where he had to do everything an old person would do. + +A mix-up results in Nibbler receiving a mandatory fishing license instead of a pet license. The crew takes the Planet Express ship to the center of the Atlantic Ocean and starts fishing. After failing to catch anything, a bored Bender fashions a large fish hook made from Amy Wong's beach umbrella, with Hermes Conrad's Manwich on it and attaches it to the ship's Unbreakable Diamond Tether. Sunset comes and the crew is ready to head back to New New York. Bender begins to haul in his line, but he has caught a Colossal-Mouth Bass. The bass dives, dragging the ship to the bottom of the ocean before the hook slips loose and Hermes lost his speedos. The Planet Express ship survives its trek to the bottom, but its engines will not work underwater. Professor Farnsworth conveniently has an anti-pressure suppository which Fry uses to go foraging for food with Bender and Dr. Zoidberg. Separated from them, Fry glimpses a mermaid, but when he returns to the ship, no one believes him. That night, the mermaid Umbriel lures Fry out of the ship and they leave to explore the wonders of the ocean bottom. Meanwhile, Zoidberg finds a new home, a large conch shell. The next morning, the crew finishes modifying the ship to return to the surface, but finds Fry missing. They set off following Zoidberg's sense of smell and find the legendary lost city of Atlanta. There they find a civilization of merpeople with southern accents. A documentary, narrated by Donovan, explains that Atlanta moved offshore in an effort to boost tourism and become a bigger Delta hub. The city overdeveloped and its excess weight caused it to sink to the bottom. Everyone that stayed with the city evolved into merpeople, with the assistance of leaking caffeine from Atlanta's Coca-Cola plant. Ready to leave, the crew heads back to the ship, including Zoidberg, whose house burned down from Bender's cigar: no one knows why or even how this can happen at the bottom of the sea; but Fry wants to stay with Umbriel. Fry settles in to enjoy his life with Umbriel, but when he discovers that the Atlantans' evolution has made them unable to have sexual intercourse with humans, he runs to try to catch his friends. The ship leaves without him, but Bender's hook is still attached to the tether. Fry grabs hold and is dragged behind the ship. The colossal-mouth bass returns and is hooked when it swallows Fry whole. The bass stays caught and Fry returns to the surface with the rest of the crew. Bender's bass sets an Earth record, until Fry falls out of him and the weight is lowered, resulting in Bender losing his money to a blind orphan, at which point Bender begins choking him. Dr. Zoidberg, having lost his under-sea home, reveals he now lives inside the bass. + +The Planet Express crew attends a taping of Elzar's television show, Essence of Elzar, much to the joy of Bender, who aspires to become a chef. Bender's personal admiration for Elzar does not prevent him from disrupting the show to be more of a part of it and when his camera's flashbulb momentarily distracts Elzar, the chef accidentally hits Leela in the eye with his spice weasel. At Taco Bellevue Hospital, Leela is advised to wear an eye patch for a week and since Leela has only one eye, the accident makes her temporarily blind. Elzar invites the entire crew to dinner at his restaurant in order to make up for the accident. He presents them with individually tailored dishes and after the dinner, he presents them with a tray of chocolates with a bill underneath. Unable to pay, facing arrest of the whole crew by URL and Smitty, and not least because it would mean he would get to work with his idol, Bender suggests he work for Elzar to pay back the debt. The crew hasten to praise Bender's qualifications as an employee. Bender begins working at Elzar's restaurant, Elzar's Fine Cuisine, as a busboy. The three members of the Robot Mafia, the Donbot and his goons Clamps and Joey Mousepad, come to eat at Elzar's. Bender attempts at grifting from them convinces the Donbot member that Bender would be a good prospect. Bender is offered a chance to join the Robot Mafia. Needless to say this is right up Bender's alley and his first few jobs run smoothly. The mafia tell Bender of their plans for a Zuban Cigar heist and recommend that he make sure of an alibi. Bender feigns illness with a video recording, to fool Fry. So, Fry, Leela and Nibbler set out for a delivery. All seems well until the target of the heist comes into view ahead of the mafia ship: the Planet Express ship. With Leela unable to pilot the ship, Fry both fires and steers, but the engines run out of fuel when Clamps clamps the fuel line. The mafia blindfold and tie up Fry and Leela. Bender is now able to move around without them seeing him and changes the setting on his voice modulator to an upper class English accent. The mafia, checking the ship's log, discover that a Robot is part of the crew: Bender's voice changing allows him to feign finding himself and beating himself up. Even Leela's blindfold coming off doesn't blow his cover, since she can only see a blurred silhouette. Bender pledges to stay behind to finish the doity woik, further convincing the Donbot of his ruthlessness and loyalty. When they fly away, he ties himself up and pretends to have only just regained consciousness. At the Planet Express building, Leela removes her eyepatch and sees the same blurred silhouette, which turns out to be Farnsworth. Tinny Tim delivers Bender's share of the loot and Bender gives him a message to the Donbot: "I'm quitting organized crime. From now on I'll stick to the regular kind" and literally eats the money given from the Robot Mafia. + +Every Mother's Day, Robots made in Mom's Friendly Robot Company factories around Planet Earth give sentimental gifts and cards to the owner of the corporation, Mom. However, this year, Mom, bitter about a romantic affair that had ended 70 years prior, orders the entire Robot population of Earth to rebel and overthrow humanity through a Universal Robot Controller that transmits to every robots' antennas. This doomed romance had been with a younger Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, then an employee of the Friendly Robot Company. When Mom insisted that the Professor's latest design, a children's toy named Q.T. McWhiskers, be changed to an eight-foot-tall death machine to be sold on the intergalactic arms market, the Professor, enraged, stormed out of the room and they hadn't seen each other again since. Wishing to end the Robot rebellion and save humanity, Mom's three sons, Walt, Larry, and Igner, cooperate with the Planet Express crew to obtain the robot control Mom keeps in her bra. Their plan is to bring Mom to her rustic cabin in the Bronx, have the Professor seduce her, remove her bra and use the control to end the rebellion. They give the crew a non-computer-drawn map. Deprived of technology, the crew must be guided by Fry's 20th Century low-tech knowledge. He builds a wagon, albeit with oval wheels and brings the Professor to the Bronx. When the Professor and Mom meet, their love is rekindled. Despite a reenactment of their parting argument, they erupt into a whirlwind of hot, dry sex. Everyone else comes in because the Robots had made their way to the Bronx. They search everywhere for her thrown bra and find it on a fan, which evades their attempts to grab the bra. Mom stops the rebellion, but dumps the Professor after learning of their plot. Back at Planet Express, the Professor engineered albino-shouting gorillas to yell Mom's name from the rooftops. + +Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth invites the employees of Planet Express to see his new invention: the Fing-Longer, an index-finger-extending glove. As he tries it out, it activates a TV-like device. When Philip J. Fry questions the Professor regarding what it is, he explains that it is the What If Machine, a device that allows the user to view a simulation of a short hypothetical scenario after the user asks it a 'what-if' question. The Professor then invites the crew to try out the What-If Machine. Bender jumps at the chance and asks the What-If Machine what would happen if he were 500 feet tall. The simulation begins with the giant Bender being built by hundreds of smaller Benders. He flies and crashes onto Central Park and meeting with a recently unfrozen Fry. After some friendly Frisbee fun, the military is sent to deal with him. Bender begins to wreak havoc upon New New York. To combat Bender, the Professor uses his Enlarging Ray upon a hapless Dr. Zoidberg, enlarging him, only to see him wreak havoc as well, interrupted only by Bender who isn't pleased with Zoidberg destroying 'his' city. The two start to fight and Bender appears to win by pushing Zoidberg into a stadium of boiling water. While Bender laughs in triumph, he is distracted by Fry. An enraged Zoidberg rises out of the water and snaps off Bender's feet. This causes him to fall on The Empire State Building, which appears to stab him. A tearful Fry admonishes the citizens of New New York City about the tragedy of Bender's death, whose final words lament about his inability to fulfill his purpose, which is to kill all Humans. The scenario then ends. The Professor asks Leela to try out the What-If machine. Leela initially declines, but at the prompting of Fry, Leela decides to ask what would happen if she were a little more impulsive. The scenario starts at Planet Express, where Leela shows off her new boots bought on impulse, the only difference being a green stripe down the side. The Professor summons Leela to tell her that she is to be made his sole heir as she is so unimpulsive -- only to be kicked by Leela into a pit containing his man-eating anteaters, where he is promptly devoured. She tries acting like nothing's happened but Hermes finds out that the Professor was murdered, so Zoidberg takes up detective work. As Hermes discovers her role in the death in a video will, she is forced to silence him by chopping him up and plunging his remains down the drain, in earshot of a clueless Zoidberg. She impulsively murders Bender using a microwave with a broken frame in order to keep him from blackmailing her about the deaths and makes him into a cart to hide the corpse. Amy makes fun at Leela, so she is murdered as well after asking if she has some gum. Zoidberg summons the rest of the Planet Express crew into the Accusing Parlor in order to solve the murders. While Zoidberg reveals clues, Cubert, Scruffy and even Nibbler attempt to implicate Leela, only to be slain by her when she turns off the lights. Zoidberg finds a letter from recently deceased Bender about the identity of the murderer but is interrupted by Fry who leaves due to boredom: before he does Leela asks him to get the lights, in which she murders Zoidberg as well, eating him in the kitchen the next day after. When Fry finally figures out that she was responsible for the murders, after he erroneously asked if their home was built on an Indian burial ground. Leela is forced to do something really impulsive: sleep with him to keep him quiet. Fry declares that he likes the new, impulsive Leela. She then ominously reaches to the light while glaring at Fry. His eyes widening before it goes out, Fry begins screaming — then says that he really likes her, as she goes down on him. After being told that Bender's scenario would not be done again, Fry asks what would happen if he had not fallen into the freezer-doodle and come to the future-jiggy. The scenario starts with Fry narrowly missing falling into the cryogenic tube and a rift in the space-time continuum appears, which shows the Planet Express crew in the future wondering what is causing the rift and Fry horrified at seeing monsters. The next day, after talking to his boss, Mr. Panucci, he came to the attention of Stephen Hawking who arranges for Fry to be abducted. Once abducted, he is introduced to the Vice Presidential Action Rangers, led by Al Gore, with Stephen Hawking, Nichelle Nichols, Gary Gygax and Deep Blue, whose task is to protect the space-time continuum, now threatened by the rifts which are caused by events that are supposed to happen but didn't. After Fry explains what happened the previous night at Applied Cryogenics, the Vice Presidential Action Rangers determine that Fry was supposed to die and try to kill him, only to be proven wrong when another rift appears during the attempted killing. Nichols then suggests that Fry be frozen and Gygax gives Fry his +1 mace for protection against drunken robots in the future. Just before Fry freezes himself, he smashes the cryogenic tube, causing the universe to collapse into a space-time rift. This results in Fry and the Vice Presidential Action Rangers appearing at some other indeterminate dimension which is not part of the universe. The scenario ends with them playing Dungeons and Dragons for the rest of eternity, or at least the first quadrillion years of their imprisonment there. After the end of Fry's scenario, the Professor curses the What-If machine for simulating scenarios even he found preposterous and dumped it into the trash can. He promptly judges the Fing-Longer to be a rousing success and is congratulated by the crew. We find out that everything before was just a simulation by the What-If machine when the professor asked what would have happened if he had invented the Fing-Longer, leaving him to lament about the possibilities if he had invented it. + +Bender learns that his uncle Vladimir has died. He and the Planet Express crew journey to his castle in Thermostadt for his funeral and the reading of the will. After a short service, they encase Vladimir's chassis in a box filled with Styrofoam. The next day, the lawyer reads the will: the butler, You There gets a very small pittance, his son Tandy is given his entire ten million dollar fortune; Bender, who Vladimir assumes is not responsible for his death, is given the family castle under the condition that he spends one night within its walls. That night, Bender is enjoying the castle, until he sees a painting's eyes move, blood numerals written backward when the binary reflects in a mirror, and the ghosts of the castle's paintings come to life. When he runs away, the Planet Express crew investigates and find out that the poorly protected robots' programmings leaked through the castle's wiring where they could appear as holograms. They try to explain this to Bender, but he runs past them onto the moors: encountering a car that drives on four wheels, Like a wolf. When they come back to New New York, Bender thinks the car has followed him. That night, two vandals are wrecking hover cars, when a rubber wheeled car attacks them. The next day, Bender finds himself in Impound Lot 136, soaking in transmision fluid. Seeking help, he goes to a Robot Gypsy, who tells him he has become a were-car. Every night when his internal clock resets to zero, he will will reboot and the transformation will take place. Soon he will be compelled to murder his best friend, the Gypsy tells him. The only way to cure him is to seek out and destroy the original, so its uninstalling program can get rid of the curse. The next night, Philip J. Fry and Turanga Leela weld Bender to a wall in his apartment, but it doesn't stop him from transforming. Instead of going after Fry, he goes after Leela. They're chased into the Park Avenue junkyard and manage to subdue him with a huge claw. The next morning, Fry is very angry at Bender for not trying to murder him. They return to Thermostadt to hunt down the original were-car. They track the trail to an old birdwatcher, who got his curse from the North Pole, where people call the were-car the Abominable Snowmobile. The robot there tells them she got the curse from Calculon. In Hollywood, Calculon confesses he was run over by the original were-car a thousand years ago. He changes his appearance every two decades so no one gets suspicious. When Calculon was a car manufacturing machine, he assisted in creating the most evil of cars, Project Satan. Some of its parts were a steering wheel from Adolf Hitler's Mercedes Benz, the left-turn signal from Charles Manson's VW bus and the windshield wiper from that car that played Knight Rider. It ran over Calculon, the first victim. He told them that Project Satan can be found in either France or the old abandoned Chrysler factory. The crew locates the car at the latter, where they find it weeping. Leela asks him if they can end his misery. However, Project Satan responds that he loves to run over people. Just then, Bender transforms and this time chooses to murder Fry. Project Satan tries to murder Leela only to run into a furnace, melting him and ending the curse. Fry, who was inside Bender at the time, is assumed dead but fitted perfectly in his chassis. They celebrate, causing Bender to strangle Fry for drinking his last beer. + +As part of an attempt to scam a 7¹¹ store, Fry and Bender enlist in the Earth Army. However, before they can use their 5% military discount to buy chewing gum, Earth declares war on Spheron I - a planet that commanding General Zapp Brannigan says, to his troops, is devoid of any natural resources and possesses no strategic importance whatsoever, but is willing to put troopers' lives at risk for no reason. Concerned for her friends' safety, Leela attempts to enlist, but the Army has a men-only policy. While Earth's flagship, the Nimbus, makes its way to the enemy planet, the soldiers undergo training. Leela has sneaked aboard disguised as a man, under the name of Lee Lemon, to whom Brannigan finds himself strangely attracted. They arrive and discover the enemy is a race of pink, sentient, ball-like creatures. In their first battle Fry fails to stop an attack and instead blows a hole in the ground to hide. Bender manages to stop an enemy bomb by covering it with himself. For his act of cowardice, Brannigan sentences Fry to a demeaning punishment that is more gruesome than being his assistant - being Kif's assistant. Kif takes this opportunity to be very strict towards Fry. After the initial battle with the balls, the soldiers regroup at camp. The Commander-in-chief, President of Earth Richard M. Nixon's head, sends Bender and Henry Kissinger's head to negotiate with the Spheron leaders, the Brain Balls. Brannigan, however, tells everyone the true plan. A voice-activated bomb has been planted inside of Bender and will detonate, destroying the whole planet, when Bender says his favorite word: ass. As the DOOP evacuates, Fry thinks up a plan to steal a helicopter and knock out the guards, only for Lee Lemon to act out his entire plan. Lemon asks Fry if he recognizes him but Fry incorrectly thinks Hermes. Zapp spots them and seeing them holding hands and angry at their betrayal, prepares to arrest them. When Lemon beats him up and reveals his identity as Leela, Zapp utters "Leela. So it's you I've been attracted to. Oh God, I've never been so happy to be beaten up by a woman." The two fly to the negotiating-hall. Fry, pushed out of the helicopter by Leela, is determined to prove that he is a man. He hops on one of the balls towards the conference. He manages to inform Bender of the plot just in time before he utters his favorite phrase: Kissinger congratulates Fry for his bravery. However, Bender, who has gotten bored with the ball leaders talking about bouncing, realizes that he now has the power to make the Brain-balls surrender. Though Spheron I is actually the brain balls' homeworld and it is the humans who are the evil invading aliens, Bender simply demands that they get the hell off my planet, and they all evacuate, bouncing into space. A New New York Post headline reads "War Over. Balls Thoroughly Licked". Back at the Planet Express office, Professor Farnsworth cannot remove the bomb from Bender's body because it is stuck with glue. Instead, he resets the bomb from a list of words Bender hardly ever uses. Bender asks what it is but the crew refuses to tell him. The word is antiquing, which Bender successfully guesses. + +In an attempt to entertain themselves, Fry and Bender borrow the Planet Express Ship. Unfortunately, the ship is anchored to the building using an unbreakable diamond tether. As the ship is piloted on a round-the-world joyride, the building is dragged behind it, smashing into a number of landmarks, including the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the Great Wall of China. Professor Farnsworth has Hermes Conrad fire Fry and Bender, and fires Leela as well for leaving the keys in the ship. While Leela re-implants her old career chip, she mixes hers with Fry's. Fry gets hired for Leela's old cryogenics counselor job; Leela is forced to be a delivery boy while Bender has the hand and the career chip from the Prime minister of Norway. At Applied Cryogenics, Fry thaws out Pauly Shore, who was supposed to be thawed out in Hollywood, California. When Fry goes to greet the next thawed person, he is shocked to find that it is his old girlfriend, Michelle. Fry introduces Michelle to the world of the year 3000, but she has problems adapting. She re-freezes both herself and Fry for another thousand years. They awake in a desolate wasteland. Trying to make a new life in the world of the future, they join a society of feral adolescents. Tired of Butch's girlfriend and her fancy coyote hide, Michelle nags Fry to take over as chief so they can have power in their new society. Butch challenges Fry to deathrolling and wins when Butch falls down and scrapes his knee. The children are picked up for Hebrew lessons by Butch's mother in a heavily armored SUV with wheels. A confused Fry, tired of Michelle's nagging, leaves her and wanders through the wilderness on his own. After wandering through a cloud of green mist, Fry finds himself standing in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater. The Planet Express ship lands in the street, and the crew explains that Fry is in Los Angeles, in the year 3000. Fry was in Pauly Shore's tube, and when the delivery crew discovered en route to Hollywood that Pauly Shore wasn't in the tube, they tossed it overboard. A limousine passes by, revealing that Michelle has hooked up with Shore. As the Planet Express ship flies home, Bender remarks that Fry was the one who ruined the spaceship and started the whole dilemma and reminds the Professor about his anger with him earlier. He hits a red switch, a trapdoor Fry is standing over opens and he falls through the aperture onto the ground, leaving him stranded there. As he hits the ground, the credits roll. + +While making a pit stop at an interstellar truck stop, Philip Fry buys and eats an extremely old egg salad sandwich from a vending machine in the restroom. On returning to Earth, Fry and Bender are assigned the task of fixing the plasma fusion boiler, which promptly explodes. Bender is not damaged, but Fry is impaled by a large pipe. Despite the severity of the injury, Fry's damaged body repairs itself in seconds and the subsequent medical examination reveals to the Planet Express crew that Fry is infested with microscopic worms from the egg salad. To eliminate the infestation, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth makes miniature robotic versions of the crew, except for Fry and Leela. Because the worms know all that Fry knows and would thus defend themselves if Fry knew about the mission, Leela is assigned to distract Fry, who is not told what is happening. Controlling the micro-droids using virtual reality gear — which is apparently cheaper than actually shrinking the crew themselves — the crew board a miniature Planet Express ship and enter Fry's ear. Throughout the travel, the crew discover that the worms are drastically improving Fry's intelligence, health and fitness. The crew make their way into Fry's bowel and fight their way to the pelvic splanchnic ganglion, intending to cause a massive bowel movement to expel the worm society. Meanwhile, Leela is enchanted by the now intelligent and muscular Fry. He then reveals that he loves her but only recently was he able to articulate his thoughts. She realizes that the worms are responsible for the new, improved Fry and sets out to stop the Professor. Her micro-droid reaches the nerve and hacks the rest of the micro-droid crew to pieces with an axe. The Professor tells her that the worms will burrow so deep into Fry's body, he will be stuck with them forever, but Leela reasons that Fry is better off with the worms. Fry is informed of what has been happening, but is more interested in romancing Leela than clearing the worms out of his body. Although the two share a romantic evening at Leela's apartment — made more powerful when Fry composes Leela a sonnet on the holophonor — Leela tells Fry that she loves the new him. Worried, Fry tells her that he needs to find out something, leaves and using his own micro-droid, enters his own body. Fry confronts the worm leader and engages him in a swordfight after asking the worms to leave so he can learn if Leela loves him or just what they have made of him: he eventually blackmails the worms into leaving by threatening to kill himself by destroying the medulla oblongata and they comply. With the worms gone, Fry returns to Leela's apartment, intent on finding out if Leela can love him as he truly is. Fry explains to Leela about the worms and his decision to dispose of them. His awkward attempts at being romantic end when he mentions his previous relationship with Amy and Leela kicks him out of her apartment. Back at his apartment, Fry begins to re-learn the Holophonor and creates a crude image of Leela. + +Bender is discovered to be sleepwalking and sleep bending, bending everything in sight, like a vital part of the planet express ship, Hermes' ruler, Amy's college javelin, Zoidberg's prized pet Slinky, in which he reacts to by crying and sobbing, and even the Professor. Until Bender can satisfy his lust for bending and overcome his sleepwalking, he is forbidden from returning to Planet Express. Bender finds work at a factory where all the workers are on strike. After securing a job Bender is introduced to his co-workers: an attractive fembot, Angelyne and Flexo. Bender falls in love with Angelyne and the two get along fine until he makes a shocking discovery: Flexo and Angelyne are divorced. Naturally Bender perceives Flexo as a threat to his romance and attempts to find out who Angelyne loves by taking her to The Hip Joint posing as Flexo. After a passionate kiss leads to Bender's disguise being foiled, he takes off to the factory to kill Flexo. Unfortunately, the Robot Mafia also want to kill Flexo which they attempt by dropping an unbendable girder on him. Angelyne arrives on the scene too late, but she rushes to crippled Flexo's side professing her love for him. Bender, wanting to make Angelyne happy, decides to bend the girder to save Flexo. After succeeding Bender returns to Planet Express, his bend lust satisfied, but gets irate after being bugged to de-bend the Professor, so he simply bends him 180 degrees much to the dismay of his co-workers. + +At the Planet Express building, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth announces some good news to the Planet Express crew that their delivery to a Planet has been canceled due to the planet being quickly and through unknown means destroyed, the only good news being that they paid in advance. Hearing the news, Nibbler runs off downtown, chased by Turanga Leela. Leela looks for Nibbler, tempting him with a ham. Going down an alley, Leela is suddenly chased by gigantic flying brains. She finds Nibbler on the other side of a fence pulling a little space ship out of a makeshift hanger. She begs Nibbler to help her, but Nibbler only answers with a sad face and flies off, only to change his mind. To Leela's surprise Nibbler comes back and rescues her, Leela being crammed into his ship. Nibbler telepathically talks to her explaining that he is a super intelligent being from a race of aliens that have lived since the beginning of the universe and that he is taking her to his home planet. Meanwhile back on Earth, Philip Fry shows up for work and mysteriously finds everyone has become dumb, including Bender freaking out when he finds that his skin is all cold and clanky. He asks, "Am I a robot?" when Fry explains that all the things he finds weird is because he's a robot. On Nibbler's home world Eternium Leela meets the rest of Nibblonians, who explain that they have been fighting the Brains since the beginning of the universe. They also explain that all the recently destroyed planets, including Tweenis 12, were each attacked by the Brains. They explain to Leela that the Brains have a need to know everything and that they hate all other life because the thoughts of other beings hurt them. So to keep other beings from thinking the brains telepathically target the delta brainwave which allows thought in all beings. This causes the attacked being to become stupid. The Niblonians also tell Leela that there is only one person who can stop the brains and that person is Fry as he lacks the Delta Brain Wave which all beings including humans, robots, and plants have, but Fry for some reason doesn't, instead gathering an assortment of other brain waves into a working one. Back on Earth, Fry tries to get everyone to stop acting so stupid, first yelling it through the wrong end of a megaphone, then he tries to re-educate his co-workers through his own school class. Back on Nibbler's planet they think of a plan to stop the brains, their fleet in orbit of Earth the Nibblonians plan to send Leela down to earth to deliver their message to Fry to find and defeat the Brain's leader. Leela unfortunately can't be trusted to remember the message as when back on Earth she will be as stupid as everyone else. So they simply write the message on a note and tape it to her chest. Leela is sent down in a small ship and crash lands in the Planet express building, struggling due her stupidity. She tries to give Fry the letter but her believes it simply to be a tissue and throws it away. Leela tries to explain that the Brains are what's making everyone dumb: Fry doesn't believe her until he sees two floating in the window. Taking Leela seriously Fry decides to track down the Brains' leader: realizing that a brain is like a giant nerd, Fry realizes that the Brain leader is hiding at the New New York Library. Once there, Fry and Leela confront the Big Brain, who has assimilated all of the library's information thanks to the Dewey decimal system. Fry tries to attack it with a book but fails. Fry tries to think of a way to hurt it and realizes that thinking hurts it. Unable to take it the Brain mentally takes their minds and its own into the books on the table including Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer and, Pride and Prejudice. Fry manages to free himself by getting out of range from the brain in real life, only to be crushed under a book case in a failed attempt to kill the Brain. This reality is then revealed to be a false one: Leela and the brain are still trapped in the book multiverse. Having been through all the other books, they are now in one that Fry is writing. To top it off Fry writes that the big Brain leaves for no reason, defeated, the Brains fall to the ground while the Niblonian soldiers eat them. With the Brains' Delta Brain wave attack gone and Niblonians having disappeared, everything is back to normal: no one except Fry remembers what happened. + +John A. Zoidberg tries his luck at a comedy club but stinks out. The act in question appears to be a parody of a Yakov Smirnov in Soviet Russia bit.  The next day, he tells the Planet Express crew that he's looking up his uncle, Harold Zoid, a star in silent holograms. He writes a letter to Zoid out of his own ink and Zoid invites him and the crew out to Hollywood. Meanwhile, Bender Bending Rodriguez poses as Calculon's new hot water heater, Boiler. Having lunch with his uncle, Zoidberg is told to drop comedy and instead help direct a film Zoid wrote. However, the investment includes a million dollars, which Zoidberg can't even afford. With Bender's help, they managed to secure a million dollars from Calculon, due to the fact that he is a fan of Harold Zoid and that Bender guaranteed that he'd win an Oscar. They create that film made back in 2995, The Magnificent Three, involving Calculon as the Vice President, son of President Zoid. Calculon doesn't want to follow in his father's footsteps. Bender was the executive producer and Zoidberg was a military official. During the premiere, the film is terrible and as everyone had already left, Calculon swears they are dead. Meanwhile, Turanga Leela refuses to pay the valet for parking, accidentally landing her and Philip J. Fry in the La Brea Tar Pits. Calculon is even more furious that he wasn't nominated for an Oscar. He swears to murder them all unless they get him one, so Zoidberg and Bender decide to rig the awards. When they end up at Zoid's home, he unfortunately reveals that he's an even bigger liar than his nephew. He only wanted people to remember him one last time before he dies: Zoidberg refuses to let his uncle go down in shame. After a few weeks, Fry and Leela are unable to free the ship. However, they then find the Los Angeles subway, which they use to escape. As the Oscar awards are given out, Zoidberg takes the place of Billy Crystal's head to announce the Best Actor award. But instead of announcing Calculon, he calls on Zoid. As they celebrate, Calculon comes in to murder them. Zoid concedes his Oscar to Calculon: chastened by his hero's acceptance speech, he spares their lives and vows to earn his own Oscar one day. Suddenly, there is an earthquake, as the Planet Express ship emerges from underground. Fry and Leela then enter the awards ceremony. + +Farnsworth announces a controversial mission which involves towing a massive six thousand hulled tanker full of dark matter past protesters and Pluto where the penguins are. However, Leela refuses to participate, so Farnsworth strips her of command and her leisure jacket and gives command to Bender, who treats Fry like a work boy. Leela joins the protesters, Penguins Unlimited, led by Free Waterfall Sr., who advocates that they form a peace circle around the tanker, unaware that the Planet Express ship can simply go over them. So the protesters prepare to move to Pluto to stop the delivery. Meanwhile, Fry gets fed up with Bender's obnoxiousness and ends their friendship. This drives Bender to not drink while captaining the ship, resulting in an upside down flight across Pluto. An iceberg gets through all 6000 hulls, dumping dark matter over Pluto and the penguins. Bender is sentenced to help clean up the dark matter. But as the URL and Smitty are distracted by hugging, he disguises himself as a penguin to escape. His absence is noticed, so Fry and Zoidberg take the ship to find him, only to leave space and get attacked by a space squid. Bender, in the meantime, gets attacked by an orca whale. When he is found by penguins, his programming reboots to meet their specifications, making him think he's a penguin. Penguins Unlimited finds that because of the dark matter, both male and female penguins lay six eggs every fifteen minutes. Because of this increasing population that will take out their food supply, Waterfall commences hunting season. Leela objects but Waterfall points out that overpopulation will make the penguins starve so she concedes. But when she finds a flock, she tearfully fires at one but it is actually Bender, who, when seeing Leela, reboots to his normal personality. He teaches the penguins to attack anything not black and white, killing Waterfall senior, at which his father swears to avenge him. Unfortunately, when Bender takes off his tuxedo, the penguins attack him and Leela, so they run to the sea and break off a raft of ice, only for the penguins to swim towards them. Luckily, Fry arrives, using the ship to tip the ice so the penguins fall into the mouth of an orca. As everyone returns to Earth, Leela hopes that nature will eventually correct itself. Unseen, two penguins pick up the discarded guns. + +In Old New York, 1974, a young Yancy is jealous of his newborn brother Philip and copies him in almost any way he can. Back in the year 3002, Fry is getting fed up with his bad luck. In the final blow, he loses nearly all of his money at the racecourse, nearly violently electrocuted trying to hold on to his final dollar and landing in a steel garbage can with leftover hors d'oeuvre being tipped on him. In a flashback, Philip discovers a seven leaf clover, which grants him extraordinary luck and allows him to beat his brother in any contest, from basketball to breakdancing. Fry sets off, with Turanga Leela and Bender Bending Rodriguez, to find his clover in the ruins of Old New York and makes his way to his old house, which looks the same outside back then and now. Back in the 1980s, a teenage Fry hides the seven-leaf clover inside his Ronco record vault. In the year 3002, Bender opens the record vault, but Philip discovers that the clover is missing, concluding that Yancy must have stolen it. They happen across a statue of Yancy, with the seven-leaf clover in his lapel. The inscription: “Philip J. Fry - First person on Mars” angers Philip because he believes Yancy stole his name and his dream. Professor Farnsworth pulls up a biographical movie about “Philip J. Fry”, where the crew learns that he was a millionaire rock star astronaut and is now buried in Orbiting Meadows National Cemetery with the seven-leaf clover. A furious Fry sets off to rob the grave and recover the clover, while Bender gets his grave robbing kit. The story jumps back to the early 21st century, where an adult Yancy is rummaging through his missing brother's music to find something to play at his upcoming wedding. Yancy discovers the seven-leaf clover in Philip's copy of The Breakfast Club soundtrack and takes it. Fry, Leela and Bender reach the grave site in the World Heroes section and start digging. But Fry knocks loose some moss that is covering part of the inscription and begins to read. The story jumps back to Yancy, who is discussing naming his newborn son with his wife. Yancy didn't steal Philip's clover: instead, he had given it to his newborn son and named him Philip J. Fry II in memory of his brother. The inscription on the tomb reads “Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit”. Realizing that Yancy had loved and missed him, Philip I returns the clover to his nephew's grave. + +A baby basket appears in front of Planet Express building. Leela assumes it to be a baby abandoned in the same manner as herself, but it is actually an audio invitation to her old orphanarium. Though she is nervous about going back to the place where she was mocked for having one eye, she decides to rub her success in her former friends' faces. When she gets to the party, the others are far worse off, have low-aspiring jobs or 'selling whatever falls of of them' but still mock her, only to be shooed away by Adlai Atkins. Adlai is the only other successful orphan and Leela had a crush on him the past. Having become a phaser eye surgeon, Adlai offers to give Leela another eye to make her more normal. Leela accepts, despite Fry's objections. Meanwhile, Bender adopts twelve orphans to get a $100 a week child government stipend. He abuses his position as their foster parent by telling them to sleep during the daytime and starving them. He soon finds out that the cost of keeping the children outweighs the stipend he has been getting and tries to sell them on the black market. URL and Smitty get tipped off and arrests Bender for crimes too numerous to list. Leela, after getting into a relationship with Adlai, wants to adopts Sally, a lonely girl who has an ear on her forehead. Adlai wants to have her extra ear removed, and, offended, Leela demands she have her old appearance back, much to Fry's delight. Bender returns the orphans to the orphanarium, which is renamed the Bender B. Rodriguez Orphanarium in his honour. + +There is a celebration for Dr. Zoidberg's tenth anniversary at Planet Express. After finding out that Zoidberg's pension fund was empty because he never paid into it, Philip J. Fry I realizes his retirement is also in question. After blowing most of his savings, $100, on lottery tickets, Fry opens an account at the Big Apple Bank. While at the bank, Bender Bending Rodriguez meets an old acquaintance, Roberto, who then robs the bank. Unfortunately, Fry and Bender are arrested for the robbery and due to the aloof attitude of Judge Ron Whitey both are sentenced to stints in the Asylum for Criminally Insane Robots. Then birds circle the top of the sign which is meant for insanity. Fry is sent there because the Home for Criminally Insane Humans was full after Judge Whitey had declared poverty a mental illness. Once there, they both take a body test to Bender's enjoyment, but to Fry's own torture. The doctors refuse to acknowledge that Fry is Human, due to their use of the logic that, if Fry is a patient in a robot asylum, he must be a Robot. Fry is roomed with car-dealer Malfunctioning Eddie, who is undergoing treatment for his exploding problem when surprised or shocked. Fry perseveres, surviving on food coughed up by a sick 7¹¹ Robot. But just when Fry thinks he is going to be released, Eddie gets released instead and Fry gets a new roommate: the insane bank robber Roberto, who was captured after robbing the same bank again. The day after suffering a complete mental breakdown, Fry is released, having been cured of his delusion of humanity, causing him to think he's a robot. Roberto, fed up with life in the Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots, breaks out and takes Bender with him. Roberto then robs the same bank for a third time to thank Bender for his help in escaping, but it's a sting and the pair flee to Planet Express to escape the police. When the Police surround the building, Roberto takes the Planet Express crew hostage. Then Fry concludes that he must be a Battle Droid and attacks Roberto to save his friends. In the scuffle, Fry is cut and because of the blood he realizes he must be a human, not a robot. + +Philip J. Fry I brings a Volkswagen van from the 1970s to the Planet Express building, but then he finds out that fossil fuels haven't been used in centuries. Bender Bending Rodriguez is coaxed into using a giant can opener to open a can of Whale oil, which has replaced gasoline. After complaining that the can opener killed Bender Bending Rodriguez's father, he is sucked up by the magnet, cut in a spiral and is completely immobilized. While Bender is in the hospital, he meets Beck's head, who is being attached to a mannequin he found in a dumpster. Beck gives a speech to Bender and gives him a pair of robot arms to wear around his neck and to play his cut-up torso as a washboard. Beck invites Bender to play in his concert tour. Fry proposes that the Planet Express crew follow Bender in the hippie van. Fry and the rest of the crew do their laundry and Zoidberg's shell runs in the wash, tye-dyeing all the clothes. When Amy tries to buy something at one of the concerts, she discovers that all of the money was destroyed in the wash, including the change. While on the road, Zoidberg keeps getting sick and coughing up pebbles that are surprisingly pretty and colorful which the others use as a money-making tool. After a forty minute washboard solo that put Beck to sleep, the concert ends. The concert hall is next to a broken robot smelting facility that makes broken robots into paperweights. Bender declares that he will be an icon and a role model for broken robots and that he will play and raise money for them in Bend-Aid. A day before Bend-Aid, Bender is at the hotel when Fry and the crew walk in and realize that life is better without television. They turn it on and see the Bend-Aid preview. To everyone's amazement Bender gets up and walks during his speech. The next day during the concert, Bender fakes paralysis, while Fry and the crew proceed to sell Zoidberg's Love beads. Before the concert, Bender is presented with a very large check. During the concert, Bender shows off and dances. Angry, all the broken robots try to re-break Bender. Bender takes Fry's Van and drives it around San Fransisco in a Bullitt-style chase. During the chase, Bender drives the Van off a Hoverbridge and it lands on a spot of land. However, Bender is shot into the air. When Bender surfaces he is immediately hit by Beck's bus and tries to fake being paralyzed again but Beck takes the check back. Bender takes a magnet, sticks it on his head and he walks out into the bay to the van, singing, "Fry cracked corn and I don't care, Leela cracked corn and I don't care, Bender cracked corn and he is great, take that you stupid corn". + +The crew of Planet Express is relaxing near Central Park Lake, when suddenly a U.F.O lands in the park. A Team of Globetrotters step out of the vessel and their leader, Ethan Bubblegum Tate challenges Earth to a Basketball tournament for no reason, and with nothing at stake, beyond the shame of defeat. Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth accepts the challenge with his team of Mutant Atomic Supermen, who're unfortunately, currently superboys. In order to speed up their growth he orders the Planet Express crew to pick up chronitons, which destroyed an entire civilization from the Tempus Nebula. In the nebula, it's obvious the harvest is causing some sort of tear in space, but the crew pay no attention to it. Fry tries get Leela to go on a date with him by showing her that his face can survive decompression multiple times. She simply tells him to cool his jets, literally since his jet pack was melting Bender's face. When the crew returns to Earth, Farnsworth notes they got back none too soon since while they were gone the Globetrotters held a news conference stating he was a jive sucker and feeds the mutant boys the chronitons. The results are immediate and drastic. They all age into adults: Grotrian grows to nearly double normal human height, Armo gets three extra arms, Thorias gets a cannon in his chest, Arachneon turns into a human/spider hybrid, and Lazar the ability to shoot energy beams from his eyes. Farnsworth rejoices at his creations, Amy flirts with the spider superman. In Madison Cube Garden, the game begins, with Marv Albert's head as the commentator, who thinks it promises to be a by-the-numbers athletic competition with no surprises whatsoever. By halftime, the score is Globetrotters: 42 Supermen: 48. Albert again notes how dull this showdown is. The game resumes shortly after, but suddenly there's a flash and everyone is in different places. After another flash occurs, Farnsworth calls a time-out and realizing time is skipping ahead, assumes his use of chronitons is ripping the seams of time and space. Thorias, the mutant with the chest cannon, panics on hearing this and fires accidentally, pulverizing his human/spider team member. Wanting to impress Leela, Fry offers to take the dead mutant's place, noting that they are 35 points ahead with two minutes left in the game, so there's no way putting him in would cause a problem. Unfortunately, there's another time skip and they find themselves at the end of the game: the Globetrotters win 244 to 86. Albert finishes with the comment that it's a dark day for humanity: losing in basketball. The Globetrotters gloat and Leela notes that she doesn't know what Fry did during the time skip, but thanks to him all the other planets will be cracking wise about their mamas. Hermes breaks down in tears, thankful his fat, ugly mama isn't alive to see this day. However, despite the apparently severe humiliation, Farnsworth immediately reminds everyone that the time skips are far more serious. Tate offers his assistance since he's the senior lecturer in physics at Globetrotter U. After some technobabble, it is concluded that the universe is doomed unless something is done soon. They are forced to leave the stadium when a time-skip puts them in the path of a charging elephant, part of the circus that takes place the day after the game. Back in the Planet Express building, time skips are becoming more frequent and oddly plot/humor relevant. Farnsworth observes that people act normally during the time skips, but end up having no memory of what they did. Bender starts sucking up to Tate hoping to become a Globetrotter. Fry continues to try and romance Leela, stating a romantic bed in a closet is a time-proof shelter cause when we're together in here, baby, time will stand still. Time skips and it's apparent she hit him and refused to join him in bed. Leela later complains about Fry's many flaws to Zoidberg, but due to a skip it is not shown. Zoidberg guesses it was boring anyways since after the skip he was watching television while Leela talked. Leela summarizes that while she likes Fry's kindness and boyish charm, his immaturity is far too annoying. Zoidberg simply says, "you don't wanna end up old and lonely like Zoidberg" and breaks down in tears, but immediately recovers his composure. Meanwhile, using the Smell-O-Scope, Farnsworth has located time leaks in the Tempus Nebula. He surmises that when the crew removed the chronitons, it destabilized the nebula, disrupting time throughout the universe. Tate summarizes that when the nebula bounces time particles on matter, bouncing basketballs on Benders head as an analogy, it causes dents, or time skips. He realizes that diverting a bunch of stars could redirect the time particles to the empty side of the universe via their gravity. Unfortunately, such an undertaking would take all of Earth's money, and months to build and install on the Planet Express ship. Thanks to convenient skips however, it all gets done in seconds of perceived time. Near the nebula, we see Leela moving the last sun into position, surrounding the nebula with a circle of suns and apparently stopping the skips. Fry congratulates her with a moderately priced, domestic, non-vintage champagne and showers her with compliments in his quest to get a date, but she still refuses. With advice from Tate he tries again by showing her he learned how to operate the Planet Express ship. This does impress her, but also makes her utterly exasperated and forces her to state in certain terms that they'll never ever but time skips interrupt her and the two find themselves married. An angry Leela accuses Fry of tricking her into marriage, but neither has any idea how this happened. Fry denies being capable of such things and makes a heartfelt speech about giving the marriage a chance. One skip later finds them divorced. A heartbroken Fry first tries to figure out what exactly he did to win Leela's heart. Farnsworth determines that Tate's math was utter nonsense since chronitons can't be moved. Meanwhile, time skips are getting worse with isolated areas moving forward decades. Luckily, the skips allows him and the best minds in the universe, which happen to be the Globetrotters, to come up with another solution quickly. Farnsworth suggests destroying the entire nebula but Curly Joe states that it would take out half the universe. Sweet Clyde suggests that they implode the nebula into a black hole, to prevent more chronitons from escaping. Tate hesitates, noting they'll need a Doomsday Device to pull off something like that, but the Professor simply responds by pulling six devices out from his collection, musing he could part with one and still be feared. Tate, elated, makes everyone in the room honorary Globetrotters, but, to his chagrin, Bender isn't there. In a final act of desperation Bender pleads with Tate before they leave, but is forced to admit he's not funky enough to be a Globetrotter. Back at the nebula, a heartbroken Bender sets the doomsday device and a heartbroken Fry apologizes for the possibility that he tricked Leela into a marriage, since he still doesn't know what happened. Leela tries to cheer him up, stating they'll always be friends, but it doesn't work, so she tries again by letting Fry move the ship to a safe distance while she preps the doomsday detonator. At the helm, Fry realizes he previously moved the stars to spell "I LOVE YOU, LEELA" as an ultimate declaration of love. That was the thing that finally won Leela's heart. Unfortunately, the implosion device sucks up all the stars a few seconds later. A frantic Fry asks Leela if she saw it, but unfortunately she didn't. A depressed Fry simply says, it was nothing, and the credits roll. + +While watching an episode of The Scary Door, Fry decides to do all the things he always wanted to do and the Planet Express crew obliges. After demolishing a planet at Sal's Wrecking Co., visiting the edge of the universe and a parallel universe--the *only other*, as well as riding a dinosaur at Jurassic Kiddie Park, one of his few remaining fantasies is to date a celebrity. Fry and Leela venture into the internet to visit nappster.com and download a celebrity's personality. Fry downloads the personality of Lucy Liu into a blank robot, which begins projecting an image of her. Fry and the LiuBot begin dating, Eating at a morning restaurant, piggy-back rides and feeding aliens. The Lucy Liu robot was aided by herself being programmed to like Fry. The other employees, concerned about their own relationship, show him the standard middle-school film, "I Dated A Robot" about the dangers of dating robots. From the film, Fry learns that dating robots resulted in the destruction of Earth. Unfortunately, Fry ignores the movie and keeps making out with his Lucy Liu Bot. Bender, offended by the concept of competing with humans for the attention of Fembots, sets off with Leela and Zoidberg to shut down Nappster. They arrive at the Nappster headquarters, demanding that they disband. Suddenly, they hear someone crying for help in the adjourning room and it is revealed that Nappster is actually Kidnappster. In the back room, they have discovered that Nappster has been kidnapping the heads of celebrities and making illegal copies of them. Leela grabs Lucy Liu's head and the four take off. The Nappster CFO, Jervis, loads a backup disk of Lucy Liu and creates a horde of Lucy Liu robots ordered to kill by changing their settings to Erotic Assassin. The crew, running from the robot horde, duck into a movie theater, Loew's-N-Plex, where Fry is seeing a movie with his Lucy Liu Bot. Everyone ducks into the projection room. Zoidberg discovers a five ton bag of popcorn and sends it pouring onto the robots on the theater floor. The robots eat their way out from under the popcorn. Fry's Lucy Liu Bot points the projector at the other robots and the heat causes the popcorn to pop, bursting the robots. At the request of the real Lucy Liu, Fry blanks his robot. He expressed his wish to know the real Lucy Liu, but she and Bender had fallen in love, making Fry very mad and cross indeed. + +The crew is sent back to the year 1947 when Philip J. Fry I puts metal in the ship's microwave while the rest of the crew is watching a supernova explosion. The resultant reaction causes the ship to vanish into a tunnеl, where they pick up a number of clocks before exiting out a portal. Confused, the crew decides to head back to Earth, only to find no space traffic. Worse, there is no receiving signal, so they crash land in Roswell, New Mexico, causing an unsecured Bender Bending Rodriguez to be thrown through the forward viewport and fly to pieces. While everyone else, including Bender's head, heads back to the ship, Zoidberg is left picking up the pieces. However, at night he is found by the United States military. The next day, the crew realizes that the famous crashed UFO that brought Roswell, Area 51, and the related conspiracy theory into popular culture was in fact them. The Professor then explains that the microwave's radiation and the gravitons and graviolois from the supernova blasted them through time itself. The U.S. military captures Dr. Zoidberg, who was gathering up pieces of Bender's body, and takes him and Bender's body to Roswell Airbase to conduct various experiments, including an Alien autopsy and 'UFO reconstruction'. President Harry S. Truman also arrives to interrogate Zoidberg on whether he comes in peace, is staging an invasion or creating a hybrid, but Zoidberg's people skills have him vivisected. No one is to know about this except the senior officers, scientists and a single nutcase reporter no one will believe. While the crew looks for another microwave, which they can't find in 1947 Roswell, Fry and Bender's head infiltrate the army base. Philip I then encounters his grandfather, Enos Fry, who is stationed at the base. As Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth had previously warned Philip I about causality and the fact that if his grandfather dies, then he will never exist, Philip I becomes obsessed with protecting Enos from any possible harm. However, his fear and paranoia result in him overreacting to minor threats and putting Enos in far more danger than he would have been otherwise. He is even more alarmed when Enos exhibits signs of latent homosexuality, making it look unlikely that he will actually father Philip I's father Yancy Sr. Inadvertently, Philip I brings about Enos's death, by leaving him in a safe house on a nuclear weapon test range. Turanga Leela notices that there is a microwave dish from the Roswell Airbase and suggests that they steal it but the Professor says that they can't screw up the past in any way. Philip I then turns up to inform everyone that he killed Enos. Leela points out that if Enos is dead, then why is he still in existence, a question that Philip I can't figure out. He then consoles his attractive, beautiful and very sexy would-be grandmother Mildred, who at the time was engaged to his grandfather. She asks him to walk her home. Once there Mildred mourns the death of Enos, however, she hugs Philip I and soon comes onto him making him nervous. He tries to talk her out of sex by asking her to bake him sugar cookies but Mildred rips open her dress and asks lustfully, "How about theses cookies sugar?" Though disgusted at the thought of incest, Philip I begins to deduce that since he is alive, the man who died in the nuclear blast could not have been his grandfather. This leads him to believe that Mildred could not be his grandmother. Before he can finish his thoughts, Mildred passionately kisses him and the two have sexual relations on the couch and later the bedroom. The next morning, Philip I and Mildred are asleep in bed and are discovered by his disgusted crewmates. With the prompting of Hubert, Philip I learns to his horror that Mildred is indeed his grandmother, due to the fact that she now looks and acts like an old lady. Philip I actually became his own grandfather and is now the father of his own father Yancy Fry, Sr., making him freak out. Ultimately, Hubert gets fed up with causality and decides to steal the dish anyway. They attack the base with the ship, outclassing the 1940s tanks with their superior weapons. Fry and Leela rescue Dr. Zoidberg, with the latter beating up the men performing the vivisection and Fry throwing Zoidberg's organs at Truman. The Professor picks up Bender's body which was due to be sent to Area 51 for study: since this was where the fake Moon landing was to be filmed, Truman invented NASA to land on the moon for real. But as they prepare to travel back to the future, Bender's head accidentally falls out of the Planet Express ship before they enter the time warp and is left behind in the year 1947. Back in the 31st century, Zoidberg has all but one non-essential organs in him. Fry laments about the loss of Bender, but then hits on a brainwave and the Planet Express crew finds him in the approximate physical location of the Roswell Airbase around the Roswell desert in the 31st century and re-attaches him to his floating 'UFO' body. + +It's Xmas time again and the Planet Express crew has just finished getting ready for Robot Santa Claus by covering the whole building in metal shielding. Relieved that all they have to do is stay inside, everyone starts to relax. The Professor then informs Bender, Fry and Leela, of some good news, they have been hired to deliver letters directly to Santa's base on Neptune. Reading these sad letters, Leela decides that it's her, Fry, and Bender's job to stop Santa once and for all. Arriving on Neptune the team meets the Robot Santa's Elves who are actually Neptunians, they're just small because Santa doesn't feed them. Leela decides to have them help in the plan. Delivering the letters to Santa, the Neptunians flee and Bender, Fry and Leela jump out of the sack of letters. Leela attempts to destroy Santa with a logical paradox which should cause him to overload. Leela states to Santa that he is programmed to punish/kill the naughty, but that in turn makes him naughty and thus he must destroy himself. Faced with the paradox Santa's head explodes. Unfortunately, another head pops up and Santa tells them "Nice try but my head was built with Paradox absorbing crumple zones", with that he pulls a bazooka on them and Bender, Fry and Leela run for their lives. Getting on their ship, the crew tries to take off but find that Santa is holding them down. Luckily, the heat from the rockets causes the ice around Santa to melt and he's frozen in place. The Neptunians celebrate and start making toys again, however Xmas is now left without a Santa and Bender is dubbed the new Santa. Arriving on Earth Santa tries to give out gifts but fails and people mistake him for the evil Robot Santa. He eventually gives up and dumps the toys in a sewer. He gets caught and is taken to court for crimes against humanity. Despite their best efforts Bender is found guilty and sentenced to be executed by being torn apart by giant magnets. Desperate, Fry and Leela decide to return to Neptune to retrieve Santa, who is still trapped in the block of ice to prove that Bender isn't the real Santa. After cutting him out of the ice, though still frozen in a block of it, Leela realizes that the pollution from the toy factory has caused a Green House Effect and raised the heat causing the ice to melt. Santa breaks free and chases Fry and Leela back onto the ship. With the previous one having failed, Leela decides that they need a new plan and they fly back to Earth. Though unknown to them Santa has hitched a ride on the ship and is now headed to Earth with them. At Bender's execution the Planet Express crew all dress up as Santa to save Bender, apart from Zoidberg who is dressed as Jesus. They fail and Bender starts being torn apart, while singing folk songs due to the magnet's effect on his circuit. Suddenly the real Robot Santa breaks in and saves Bender, Santa asks Bender for his help to save Xmas. Fry warns him not to do it saying "No, don't do it, he's evil", to which the real Santa replies "I know he is but I have no choice". Santa frees Bender and they both go on an evil rampage. Back at Planet Express everyone is huddled together in fear. Leela complains that despite everything they did, Xmas ended up just as terrible as ever. They have no heat or power and are all huddled together in fear. Fry realizes the true meaning of X-Mas: all their fear of Santa brings them together and though it be huddled in the dark, scared and cold, that's the true meaning of Xmas. Meanwhile, after thoroughly destroying the city and ruining Xmas, Santa gives Bender a present as thanks, though Bender is confused when the box is empty. Santa says, "I might appear empty but the message is clear: play Santa again, and I'll kill you next year". Santa viciously kicks Bender out of his sleigh in mid-air. + +Claiming he's gotten the bugs fixed, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth hauls out his What If Machine again and the Planet Express crew takes a look at three alternate realities. Bender Bending Rodriguez asks what would happen if he were human. Professor Farnsworth announces that he has invented a process of reverse fossilization, which can turn metal robots into organic life-forms. He uses his reverse fossilization machine on Bender, who is successfully transformed into a human. After a short period of adaptation, Bender's self-control is overwhelmed by his new senses of taste, touch and emotional responses, and goes on a sensory input binge. A week later, at the Academy of Science Nobel Prize judging, the Professor presents Bender, who has become a thousand-pound blob. The committee initially condemns the Professor, but Bender begs them to consider his new lifestyle. The open-minded scientists spend the night in a state of wild hedonism. Just before dawn, the committee awards Bender his own Nobel Prize. They discover that he died shortly after the party started: his excited Woo was just the sound of air escaping the folds of his fat. Philip J. Fry I wants to see a universe that is more like a video game because that is the only thing he is good at. As the simulation starts, President of Earth, Richard Nixon's head, is preparing to sign a treaty with +Ambassador Donkey Kong of Planet Nintenduu 64. Ambassador Kong attacks Nixon and a state of war erupts with the ambassador for Italy expressing his distress. Due to his extensive knowledge of video games, Fry is brought to the 'milatari' headquarters and introduced to General Colin Pac-Man. Before Fry can impart his wisdom to the military, the Nintendians launch an attack on Washington, D.C. and they are forced into the escape tunnels that resemble a Pac-Man maze. They emerge outside the Planet Express building, where the space invaders, led by Lrrr, are blasting New New York. Fry, fortified with snacks, soda, as well as his all-Rush cassette tape, situates himself at the controls of a rolling AAA platform and begins destroying the alien ships. Unfortunately for Earth, Fry is unable to destroy the last ship which lands, conquering Earth. After Fry enters ASS as his initials for his high score, the invaders emerge, with one stating "All your base are belong to us." They demand millions of dollars in quarters, but the Earthicans refuse, as they need the quarters to do their laundry. A compromise is reached, with the Nintendians throwing their laundry in with Earth's. She wakes up with Nibbler pawing at her, at the helm of the Planet Express ship, which is caught in a tornado. It crash lands in a technicolor wonderland, crushing the Man-Witch of the West, Scruffy. The Cute Witch of the North, Amy, tells her that she should seek out the Professor, who lives in the Emerald Laboratory down Martin Luther King Boulevard, which is constructed from yellow brick. While traveling, she meets a scarecrow, Fry, a mechanical man, Bender, and the other guy, Zoidberg. The Wicked Witch, Mom, sends her winged monkeys, Walt, Larry, and Igner, to kidnap Leela and her friends. The Wicked Witch always wanted a daughter and offers to take Leela in. Leela accepts as long as she can be a real witch and not just dance around at the equinox. As part of the celebration, Bender takes a bottle of champagne from his compartment an uncorks it. Under tremendous pressure, the liquid shoots out of the bottle and lands on the Wicked Witch, causing her to melt. Falling back to the original plan, the crew make their way to the Emerald Laboratory. There they meet the great and forgetful Professor. The Professor tells Leela that she can go home by clicking her ruby boots together and wishing to go home. She objects that she wants to stay, but the Professor insists she must return to Kansas to live with her dirt-farming, teetotaling aunt and uncle. Pretending to agree, Leela clicks her heels and says: "There's no place like, I wanna be a witch" In a puff of smoke, she appears in witch clothes and turns the Professor, the scarecrow, and the robot into frogs. Her reign of terror is cut short by Zoidberg, who has encountered a problem with the Emerald Laboratory's upstairs toilet and accidentally splashes water on her. As she melts in the dream universe, she wakes up back in the Planet Express building, the professor wanting to harvest Leela's organs. + +Returning from a delivery, Bender Bending Rodriguez is having an argument with the Planet Express ship over art. When he proceeds to his room, the ship snaps off his head, teasing him, rather annoying Bender. Back at the Planet Express building, Bender screws back his head on, complaining about the ship. Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth comes in with new uniforms, for Planet Express is planning on contracting Romanticorp, maker of all things romantic. During a tour, Professor Farnsworth uses a shock stick to keep Leela in line. Fry finds candy hearts with messages on them. He becomes determined to find the right words to woo Leela. Thanks to the contract, the Professor is able to make repairs on the ship that the crew has been suing him about: he taped the cracks in the dark matter reactor, got a cage for the lion and new software for the ship to adjust its voice. Turning it to female, Bender becomes immediately attracted to her. They begin having fun with their circuits until the others find out. Though it is fraternizing with employees, Leela allows it. Soon, Bender grows tired of the ship and begins cheating on her. Unbeknownst to him, while he is taking out two fembots at Elzar's Fine Cuisine, he is spotted by the ship, who become immediately possessive and erratic. The crew delivers a shipment of hearts to Omicron Persei 8. The Omicronians become confused with the concept of wuv and begin to attack. During the attack, Bender decide to break up with the ship, shattering her mind, bringing them to a complete stop, allowing missiles to impact them. Luckily, they survive, but the ship's feelings can't be repaired. After getting advice from Leela, the ship irrationally flies near a quasar. With its power of ten billion black holes, it would compress her and Bender into a single quantum singularity. Bender tries pleading with her, pretending to say he loved her but she said if he really loved her, he'd merge his programming with hers. To prevent Fry and Leela from interfering, she shuts off the oxygen and gravity. The organics manage to put on oxygen tanks. Hiding in a shower, the three come up with a plan to deactivate the ship before she kills them all. Luckily, she can't read lips. Bender had to distract her by merging programs, with the risk of losing his personality if the ship engulfs it, while the others deactivate her brain. Bender merges with the ship, going deep into her motherboard. Inside it, he wis portrayed as just his head and the ship is smaller and had a face. He noticed a tube, meaning she is a lot older than she said she was. Bender then runs away from the ship. Meanwhile, Leela slowly attempts to shut down the ship's brain while Fry continued to look for the perfect words. Fry notices Leela's oxygen tank is almost empty but she refuses to listen. So he attaches his tank to hers and falls unconscious. Leela is able to take the ship offline and stop it from plunging into the quasar. But she soon realizes Fry's sacrifice and performed mouth-to-mouth on him. When he awakens, Fry coughs out a candy heart which reads 'U LEAVE ME BREATHLESS'. They find Bender, shaken from his chase, but a bit of the ship's personality has gotten into him. Leela lazily dumps the scattered hearts into the quasar. But, as narrated by Zoidberg, "As the candy hearts poured into the fiery quasar, a wondrous thing happened, why not. They vaporized into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe, destroying many, many planets, including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays but not be destroyed by them: Earth. So all over the world couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg. And no one could have been happier unless it would have also been Valentine's Day. What? It was? Hooray". + +Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth announces that Leela's childhood home, Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium, has named her Orphan of the Year. In another announcement, he shows off a machine that makes phosphorescent glow-in-the-dark noses. Unfortunately, the machine produces enormous amounts of toxic waste. Hermes, being a bureaucrat, demands that the Professor dispose of the waste or bribe him, which either way costs $500. Bender agrees to dispose of the waste for $499 and 100 cents, and he does so by dumping it into the sewer. At the orphanarium's award ceremony, the headmaster presents us with a flashback of Leela's arrival. We see that she was left with a note written in Alienese and a bracelet. Back at the Planet Express building, Leela is in tears over not having parents. Fry takes her for a walk and she looks up to the stars, wondering which alien world her parents were from. The camera pans back down and we see two one-eyed sewer mutants looking up from a drain. Meanwhile, Bender has expanded his one-time dumping into a full waste management service. The mutants grow angry with Bender's disposal technique and make a rare surface trip, capturing Bender, Fry and Leela. The mutants sentence the crew to be lowered into a lake of chemicals, which will turn them into mutants as well. Bender, who was still scared, had no DNA but the mutants said they were going to beat him up later. Two hooded mutants call out to Leela, then swing the crane around, dropping the crew on the far side of the mutagenic lake. The mutant mob, immune to the effects of the lake, dive in and swim across. Bender, Fry and Leela, take refuge in a mutant home, where they find a shrine to Leela's life. The mob captures them, but after a whispered word from the hooded mutants, the crew's sentence is commuted to exile. They ride a hot-air balloon to a surface access ladder hanging over the lake. Fry and Bender emerge on the surface but Leela, determined to find out what the hooded mutants know, dives into the chemical lake. She swims to shore and finds she is unaffected by the chemicals. Fry heads to the orphanarium to try to get some clues as to what's going on and the headmaster gives him the note that was left with Leela. Fry takes the note back to the Professor for analysis. As they read the analysis output, we learn the truth: Leela is actually a mutant, but was born the least mutated mutant ever. Her parents, realizing she could pass as an alien, decided to leave her at the orphanarium and using Munda's background in exolinguistics, left an Alienese note. They agreed that they would rather die than ever let her find out the shameful truth. Meanwhile, an armed and irrational Leela has pursued the hooded mutants through the sewers, back to the home with the shrine to herself. Leela comes to the irrational conclusion that the mutants murdered her parents, leaving her an orphan. She plans to kill her parents and both are willing to let her rather than reveal the truth. Fry falls through the ceiling at the last second and reveals the truth. He takes off the mutants' hoods revealing two middle-age one-eyed mutants. A tearful reunion ensues and there are scenes of Leela's parents watching over their daughter during her life. As a baby, they saved her from falling. As a child, they gave her cookies. As a teenager, they gave her a present for her birthday. As an adult, they covered her with the quilt. + +The Planet Express crew travels to Mars where the Wongs are celebrating Mars Day, the day when the Wongs bought the planet from Martians for a single bead. John A. Zoidberg immediately makes himself at home, and starts acting like a rich man who has no care for what he destroys. Kif Kroker arrives but the Wongs are not impressed, even though they introduced him to Amy Wong in the first place, as he can't take a smoke. They want her to hook up with her friend, R.J. During the celebration, everyone hears a strange noise and a dust storm rolls in, forcing everyone inside. Outside, the buggalo, the Wongs' main source of income, are swept up in a dust tornado. Kif resolves to find the buggalo to impress Amy's parents. Fry, Leela, Bender and Kif take the last buggalo, Betsy, who the Wongs intend to cook on Amy's wedding, to attract the rustlers. They camp out on Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain on Mars, waiting. While telling ghost stories, Amy jumps out, having followed them. They discover the buggalo are inside the Olympus Mons' crater. Kif lays dynamite beneath them to dislodge them having learned the basic principle from a seminar on ejecting chickens from a sand dune. Unfortunately, another storms comes in, sweeping the crew inside the eye. They meet the native Martians, who claim that those who have true connection to Mother Mars can fly buggalo. Because their plan to ruin the Wongs had failed, they kidnapped Amy. Returning to the ranch with the buggalo, the Wongs are impressed and then not impressed when a mini tornado brings a ransom note. They decide to call for Zapp Brannigan's help, against the wishes of Kif. Zapp takes Kif and the crew to the face on Mars, a Martian reserve, to negotiate Amy's release. The Martians demand their land back and Zapp botches the negotiations. Angry, the Martians conjure up another storm to take Amy away. Kif flies in on Betsy to rescue Amy. The Martians see he is connected to Mother Mars and offer to smoke the peace pipe together. Though he initially does well at first, a pat on the back causes him to cough, angering the Martians yet again. They strap him down and prepare to crush him with the bead. It turns out the bead was a giant diamond, which Bender confirmed. The Martians decide to let Kif go, alleviate hostilities, go to another planet and act like it is sacred, having already realized that Mars is a dump. Back at the ranch, the Wongs believe that Zapp saved the day. They kick Zoidberg out for being a nuisance. Out on the porch, Amy informs Kif that if her parents liked him, she wouldn't like him. As they kiss, the buggalo herd stomps by, fooling Kif into thinking they made love. + +Bender grows concerned that he will be doomed to obscurity, and sets off to rectify the situation. One of these schemes includes spraying graffiti on the side of a building, saying "Bender Lives Large And Kicks Butt." The building is demolished, and his phrase is reduced to "Bender Licks Butt". Bender returns the Planet Express Building to find out that the crew has staged a funeral for him, but it ends badly. The Professor assigns the crew a new mission: deliver a giant sandstone block to the planet O'Cyris IV. Upon their arrival, they find a desert world whose society is modeled after ancient Egypt and who they claim introduced interstellar travel to them. The crew is enslaved to work on the building of the funeral pyramid of Pharaoh Hermenthotip. Their job is to work alongside the other slaves, moving heavy stone blocks manually. Bender, impressed by the Osirin Pharaohs' method of ensuring their place in history, becomes a workaholic, working so fast the slave drivers can't even keep up with him. Pharaoh Hermenthotip arrives to inspect his newly completed pyramid; and just as he was about to set everyone free, he is killed when the nose falls off a giant statue of himself. The priests entomb Hermenthotip, and he is remembered in song, and the next day they consult their Wall of Prophecy to select the new pharaoh. While the slaves partied over their few hours of freedom, Bender sneaks out and makes a few surreptitious modifications to the wall, therefore, the wall declares him the new pharaoh. Newly crowned Pharaoh Bender demands a statue of himself, one billion cubits tall, so that he will be remembered forever. Construction proceeds, with Bender quickly establishing himself as an excessively dictatorial and ruthless pharaoh, and the massive statue is soon completed. Nonetheless, when it is unveiled, Pharaoh Bender announces that he is displeased with it, and wants it to be torn down and rebuilt. The high priests, disgusted and tired with Bender, wrap him for burial, and toss him into the tomb, along with Fry and Leela at Bender's request. Fry and Leela want to blast their way out using the explosive Schnapps from the tomb's distillery; but Bender objects, worried that he won't be remembered if the statue is destroyed. Fry and Leela make a show of not remembering Bender, and he relents. After blasting a crack in the statue's foot, Fry, Leela, and Bender escape and run back to the Planet Express ship. As the ship departs from O'Cyris IV, the statue explodes in a gigantic fireball. Bender is distraught, but Leela consoles him with the knowledge that his reign of terror will be remembered longer than any statue. Satisfied, Bender tells the crew to set course for Earth. As the ship approaches an Earth-like planet, Bender begins to laugh evilly. Leela points out that the planet isn't Earth and Bender stops laughing. The ship flies away from the planet, ostensibly towards Earth. + +During a noisy attack led by a Space Pirate, Bender, trying to find some peace and quiet in the torpedo tube, is launched into interstellar space beyond the reach of Fry and Leela. As they were going top speed when they fired Bender, Bender was therefore going faster than the Planet Express ship's top speed and thus is impossible to recover. After an asteroid crashes into him, a civilization of tiny humanoids, the Shrimpkins, grows on Bender and they begin worshiping him as a deity. At first, Bender enjoys his new-found status and has his followers brew what for them are vast quantities of Lordweiser beer. The tiny denizens living on him begin praying for rain, sun and wealth: Bender attempts to heed their prayers, failing comically and harming the Shrimpkins in the process. Eventually, the Shrimpkins who migrated to his backside feel their prayers are unheeded and become atheists. The micro-civilization is ultimately and simultaneously destroyed when the front- and back-side factions build and use atomic weapons out of Bender's nuclear pile. Bender soon floats toward a cosmic entity who can signal in binary. It behaves somewhat like a sophisticated cosmic computer resembling a galaxy with colored stars, who is user friendly. The God Entity is nearly omniscient: when Bender mentions his experiences with the Shrimpkins, the God Entity responds, in an encouraging tone, "Yes, I saw. you were doing well until everyone died". The God Entity advises that the use of deitylike powers requires a light touch so that those one intends to aid will neither lose hope nor become dependent on supernatural intervention. During Bender's encounter with the God Entity, Fry and Leela search for a way to contact Bender. His odor couldn't be detected by the Smell-O-Scope and everyone tries to tell Fry to get over Bender, even bringing in Helper. Fry refuses to give up, thinking that he could try something desperate and crazy. After getting no help with Father Changstein Al Gamal at the First Amalgamated Church, he learns from the Robot Gypsy of the Monks of T'shuva, a sect of secretive monks who use a combination radio telescope/amplifying transmitter to search for God in space and with which the monks hope to contact God so that they may utter unto him a short prayer. With Leela reluctantly tagging along, Fry makes his way through the Himalayas and finds the monastery. However, the monks refuse to delay their search for God to allow Fry to search for Bender. When Fry demands that he use the telescope, the monks react and put up martial arts stances. Leela stands up in Fry's defense, only for the monks to admit that their practise of martial arts is purely for meditation and they are pacifists. Leela then directs them into the laundry room. Fry spends the next three days searching for Bender, while the imprisoned monks eat their own shoes for sustenance. Fry gives up the search for Bender and hits the telescope controls, which happen to aim the telescope at the God Entity, who hears Fry say, "I wish I had Bender back". The entity then throws Bender all the way back to Earth, with a parachute and a peremptory farewell, just as Fry and Leela are leaving the monastery. After a sizzling embrace, Bender is convinced from his encounter that God does little to help people and insists on travelling back to the monastery to free the trapped monks. The God entity chuckles and repeats the advice he gave to Bender: "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." + +Planet Express holds its stockholders' meeting, and the state of the business is not good. Uninterested in the meeting, Fry and Dr. Zoidberg wander off in search of food. Fry finds his way into a cryogenic defrostee support group meeting, where he meets a sleazy Gordon Gekko-esque 1980s businessman referred to only as That Guy, who froze himself to await a cure for his terminal bone-itis. Fry and That Guy return to the Planet Express stockholders' meeting, where a revolt against Professor Farnsworth is in progress. Fry nominates That Guy to be the new CEO; That Guy gets one vote more than Farnsworth, and takes over Planet Express. That Guy names Fry his new Vice Chairman, and sets out to remake Planet Express by giving it an expensive image overhaul. That Guy's business strategy proves to be the acquisition of flying chairs, expensive suits, and an enigmatic television commercial, which is a reference to the 1984 Macintosh commercial. Fry is impressed, the rest of the crew is appalled, and Zoidberg is hungry; he sells his stock to That Guy for a sandwich. After draining the company's funds and its employees' morale, That Guy announces that he is selling Planet Express to Mom. The takeover, ostensibly a shareholder's meeting, begins at the orbiting Intergalactic Stock Exchange, and all the Planet Express employees vote against it. That Guy's vote tips the scales to 51% in favor; his sandwich-bought pile of shares, it is revealed, had been requisitioned to Zoidberg by Hermes in lieu of toilet paper when the shares were worthless. The shares are now worth a huge sum, and the crew contemplate the loss of their company and the gaining of incredible wealth, save for Zoidberg, who is left to contemplate the worth of his sandwich. Before the final approval of the merger takes place, That Guy's uncured bone-itis enters its final stage, causing his body to contort and bones snap, twist and curl. That Guy bemoans that he had been so busy being an 80s guy, he had forgotten to get it treated. Fry gains control of That Guy's shares, and moves to vote against the merger. The Planet Express staff initially tries to convince him to sell the company, because the sale of their stock will make them all rich. However, the very speech that Fry gives to announce his new plans for the company drives the stock's price through the floor. Since the staff will be poor no matter what he does, he votes against the merger. + +A new pizza restaurant run by Cygnoids has moved in across the street from the Planet Express building. Turanga Leela convinces the others that they should go to greet their new neighbors. They find that the Cygnoids have much to learn about Earth customs. Philip J. Fry I tries to help them get adjusted: first by giving them advice on how to make pizza such as not using live bees as an ingredient and then by suggesting that they learn how to play blernsball. The Planet Express crew and the Cygnoids form teams and go to a blernsball diamond in a nearby park. While playing blernsball with the Cygnoids, Leela's lack of depth perception causes her to injure opposing players by beaning them in the head. This gains the notice of the owner of the New New York Mets, Abner Doubledeal. He thinks having a one-eyed woman repeatedly bean opposing players would be a good novelty act and she becomes the first female player to play professional blernsball. Leela sees herself as a pioneer for women in sports: however, other female players see her as an embarrassment and a joke because she is only able to hit batters and unable to get any outs. Leela is on the fast track to becoming the worst blernsball player ever and seeks help from Hank Aaron XXIV, a distant relative of Hank Aaron, who is currently the worst blernsball player of all time. Leela, not wanting to be the worst blernsball player of all time, is delighted when she throws a strike to Hank Aaron after taking his advice. At the next blernsball game, the Cygnoids are selling their pizza in the stadium and their franchise is bought by Fishy Joe. Near the end of the game, Leela pleads to have the chance to prove she is not the worst blernsball player ever, explaining that she has been training with Hank Aaron. The skipper gives in and Leela is found facing the second woman to play in major league blernsball, Jackie Anderson. Anderson was also the woman who first told Leela that she was making female athletes look bad. Leela throws two strikes, but on the third pitch Anderson hits a grand slam blern and wins the match. Leela walks away, unhappy until Jackie tells her that Leela really was a role model after all, since she encouraged women to try harder than ever in order to prove that they weren't all like Leela. Meanwhile, at the blernsball museum, Hank Aaron XXIV sadly leaves his post as the worst blernsball player ever, now occupied by Leela, with the head of the original Hank Aaron consoling him by reminding him that he is still the worst football player ever. + +Bender cooks for the Planet Express crew and the meals he produces are awful. Also, Zoidberg accidentally damages a ship-in-a-bottle that Professor Farnsworth has made. Zoidberg finds himself unable to pay for the damage on the ship because he is poor and fearing that he would get fired for being unable to pay for the ship, He pins the blame on Fry for the damage and the Professor demands that Fry pay $10 for the material cost. Running away, Bender hopes Elzar will teach him how to cook, but Elzar refuses. Following two hobos, Bender lands on the biggest hobo joint in the universe, Bumbase Alpha. There Bender meets Helmut Spargle, a legendary cook who lost his television show when Elzar replaced him after his show's sponsor needed a younger host. Sparkle begins to teach Bender how to cook in order to get revenge. Once Bender is finished with his training he accidentally kills Spargle by causing his stomach to explode with the meal he made. With his dying breath, Spargle reveals the secret to great cooking and gives him a liquid to use whenever he needs to spice up a food, the essence of pure flavor. Bender challenges Elzar to a cook-off on Iron Cook, a coliseum studio. He applies the liquid that Sparkle gave him and wins. During the contest, Zoidberg becomes remorseful for framing Fry when Fry is unable to pay for a commemorative turkey baster. Zoidberg publicly apologizes before trying to commit sepukku honorably using a ceremonial Wakizashi, only to damage the sword and blame Fry. When the Professor examines the liquid in the bottle Spargel gave Bender, it turns out the liquid was water laced with LSD. The characters joyfully anticipate a brunch prepared with plenty of Bender's new found confidence. + +Zapp Brannigan is holding a court martial in the Planet Express Ship, which has new engine nacelles on its sides. Kirk is heard preparing his stardate log, only to reveal he and the rest of the cast of Star Trek are in the ship as heads in jars. Zapp arrested Fry, Leela, Bender and the actors from Star Trek for going to the forbidden planet, Omega 3. Fry appears on trial first, looking paralyzed in a wheelchair. Zapp tells the possible charges, and Fry responds using beeps, saying he does understand. However, when he is asked if he pleads guilty, he does two beeps--meaning no, but Zapp assumes he said a double yes. Zapp is about to get his gun, but he gives Fry a chance to explain the situation. He does, in beeps in morse code, telling the story. A few days ago, the Professor took a brief nap so the crew went to the video renting store to only get six movies. Fry suggest to get the first six Star Trek movies, but when Fry say the words Star Trek, an alarm is triggered, and everybody in the store got down on the ground. Leela whispers to Fry saying that the words Star Trek are forbidden. When they heard a patrol car coming, the crew stuffed Fry into Bender and walked out of the door. Zapp stops Fry's story so he can learn more of these forbidden words. He lets George Takei explain why. He explains in a video that the show was banned after Star Trek became an entire religion in the 23rd century. It was banned because the world leaders were threatened by its influence, and they killed all the Star Trek fans by dumping them into a volcano, and the last copies of the 79 episodes and 6 movies were rocketed to Omega 3. Zapp then described the situation to be a brutal and shocking injustice he cared so little about. Next, he calls Bender to the stand. Fry, as it turns out, was faking looking like he was paralyzed and easily let Bender up to the stand while he beeps the next part of the story. Fry ran to the Head Museum to meet Leonard Nimoy's head after what he heard about Star Trek. Nimoy denied even knowing what Fry was talking about as a security camera was nearby. Fry tried to get him to admit it, and he finally slipped up, then started to cry and tell Fry about what happened to the other cast members. He said they left Earth because the Earth didn't need them anymore. Nimoy wanted to stay because he signed a six month lease for his apartment, so all the celebrity heads were put on a rocket and left. Fry got mad and then took Nimoy's head so they could get the tapes back and he could show the world how much Star Trek meant to him. Leela and Bender decided to aid Fry, and they went to Omega 3. When they got near the planet, Leela lost control of the ship and they crash landed on the planet. When they got out of the ship they discovered sets from the show. Overcome with nostalgia and sadness, Nimoy wished the cast members were there. Suddenly, the cast from Star Trek with bodies step out of the Guardian of Forever set. They said they were on their way to Welshy's cousin's house when their ship was pulled down into the planet and crash landed, and when they woke up, they had bodies. They explained that they loved the planet, as everything was provided for them, and they never age. When Leela asked who's doing this for them, they explain they never really thought about it. Then a big, green energy being name Melllvar came out and said he was the one doing everything for them. Bender thought he was a cheesy effect and doubted his powers. He then showed his powers by zapping lightning and electrocuting Welshy. Welshy out of the Guardian of Forever prop. They said they were on their way to Welshy's cousin's house until their ship was pulled down into the planet and crash landed, and when they woke up, they had bodies. They explained that they loved the planet, as everything was provided for them, and they never age. When Leela asked who's doing this for them, they explain they never really thought about it. Then a big, green energy being name Melllvar came out and said he was the one doing everything for them. Bender thought he was a cheesy effect and doubted his powers. He then showed his powers by zapping lightning and killing Welshy. Next, Leela is brought up to the stand to tell the conclusion of the story. Melllvar then showed his powers again by giving Nimoy a body. He explained that centuries ago the rocket that was filled with the tapes crashed on his planet and he watched them over and over. He claims he has an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek. Fry steps up and said he knows more then Melllvar. This makes him mad and he blasts Welshy's dead body again. Melllvar stated that he's been waiting for Nimoy so he can start his Star Trek Convention. But when Nimoy asks how long it will last, Melllvar shocks everyone saying until time stops. One part of the convention featured a trivia contest between Fry and Melllvar. Fry got more points than Melllvar, who got mad and stopped the trivia contest. Next, the cast had to perform his fan script. Melllvar didn't want to ruin the ending so he made Fry, Leela and Bender to go wait in their ship. This was a perfect chance for the crew to escape, and they easily did, but reluctantly. They refused to just leave the celebrities there, so they made a plan involving blasting engine power to Melllvar, causing him to explode. While the cast rehearsed, the plan backfired as Melllvar absorbed the energy and dragged the ship back to the planet and broke their engine. Melllvar then became confused on who he should worship, the actors of Star Trek, or the Planet Express crew because of their brave efforts to save them. He then made the crew and the cast fight to the death. In one part of the fight Leela and Shatner were fighting on a cliff, but then they made out on the cliff. The fight was getting pretty brutal until Melllvar's mother came out and said it time for dinner. Fry couldn't believe he was just a child, but his mom corrects him saying he's 34. This was a perfect time for the crew and cast to escape. Their ships were both flawed, with the Planet Express ship's engines out, and the cast's ship's life support out, so they fused the engine nacelles onto the Planet Express ship. When they tried to escape, the new engines weren't strong enough, and the ship was too heavy to launch, so the actors ditched their bodies and put their heads in jars but kept the tapes. While in space, Melllvar got into his spaceship and started shooting at their ship. All seemed lost, until they encountered the Nimbus. Leela thought they were saved, until Zapp arrested them for entering the forbidden zone. That was the end of the testimony. Zapp then asks what happened next and Leela says "you started this stupid court martial" and that they are still being attacked by Melllvar. Right when Melllvar is about to finish them, they are about to destroy both ships using the auto-self-destruct sequence, but Fry questions why Melllvar wants to kill them despite how much he likes them. Melllvar says it's because he doesn't know what to do without them. Fry then gives him advice, telling him a TV show can't be his entire life. Melllvar thinks about it, and he takes his advice, starting by moving out of his parents' basement and maybe getting a temp job. He thanks Fry, and he returns back to his planet. The cast then wonders if Melllvar was truly evil, considering he gave them eternal life and numerous perks, concluding he was a blessing. But they catch on when Fry tells them that all they had to put up with was one really annoying fan, and Shatner says "let's get the hell out of here," and they return home. + +A heat wave is striking Earth. The Planet Express crew try to take a dip in the pool with instant water, but Nibbler drinks it all. He belches chlorine gas which knocks out the organics and rusts Bender. Wanting to learn more, they watch an old video on global warming which explains that the mid 21st century government simply dropped ice in the ocean, but over time it took bigger chunks. Richard M. Nixon sends the crew to gather ice from Halley's comet but it is empty. Global warming soon heats up the Earth so much that the ice caps have flooded. Randy created his own Noah's Ark, but his companion criticizes him for putting only same sex animals in it. At the same time, Bender, noticing the turtles' migration to Holland, travels there to rescue one. He confides in his friends that he and the turtle share something: they can't get up if knocked on their backs. A robot hover truck announces that all scientists are called to Kyoto to discuss how to deal with the situation. The host, Al Gore, offers a bag of moon sapphires to the scientist who can solve the crisis, intriguing the dark wizard attending the conference. Wernstrom uses a giant mirror to reflect half of the sun's ray but a stray asteroid alters its angle and the ray incinerates everything in its path. When it's Farnsworth's turn, he uses a memory ray to explain to everyone that the robots that consume alcohol and burp pollution he built for Mom's Friendly Robot Company years ago were the problem. The scientists determine that to save the Earth, they need to destroy all robots. Nixon gathers all the robots on the Galápagos Islands for a party, but despite the obviousness that it's a trap, Bender is willing to go. However, he accidentally lets slip that Nixon is going to destroy all robots, causing a panic. Nixon heads for space, meeting with Wernstrom, to prepare for the robots' destruction. Wernstrom had modified his mirror into an electromagnetic pulse array to permanently shut down all the robots. In return, Wernstrom is given the Headless Body of Spiro Agnew. Luckily, the Professor arrives to announce that he has come up with a plan to cool the Earth and save the robots at the same time. He instructs them all to vent their exhaust ports in the same direction, pushing the Earth further from the sun. However, Bender is knocked on his back and can't get up to help. Using his pet turtle's example, he gets up, lets out a huge exhaust and pushes the Earth out of the vicinity of the EMP device. Farnsworth is given the Polluting Medal of Pollution from Nixon. Now that there is an extra week on Earth, Nixon declares it Robot Party Week. But as they begin partying, the robots emit fumes that choke everyone else. + +Bender Bending Rodriguez and Philip J. Fry I are practicing magic tricks, when Fry spots a newspaper that claims people found 20th century artifacts. The two then visit the Museum of Natural History exhibit, where Fry finds out that it is actually Panucci's Pizza, the old pizza parlor where Fry used to work. Within the exhibit, Fry finds his old dog, Seymour Asses, fossilized and on display in the exhibit. After a lengthy protest, the museum gives Fry the fossilized dog. Fry starts to treat Seymour like an actual dog and Bender grows jealous of Fry's nonstop devotion to Seymour. At Planet Express, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth reveals that he can clone a version of Seymour that Fry knew and loved. Just before Seymour's cloning process is completed, in a jealous rage, Bender throws Seymour's fossilized body into the lava pit in the basement. Hubert reveals that because Seymour was made of Dolomite, he might survive the hot lava. Bender, feeling remorseful and being 40% dolomite, decides to go after the dolomite dog. After a long while, Bender resurfaces with Seymour intact. While cloning Seymour the second time, Hubert reveals that Seymour was 15 years old when he died, leading Fry to think that Seymour must have lived a full life after he was frozen. Fry destroys the machine and leaves Seymour fossilized. Flashbacks are shown revealing how Fry and Seymour met, how they acted together and how Seymour lived after Fry was frozen. The final scene shows a slow and heartwrenching montage of passing years outside Panucci's where Seymour waits continuously for Fry to return. Finally, Seymour lies down, closes his eyes and goes to sleep for the last time. + +While searching for the right beer to drink, Fry, Leela and Bender decide to homebrew within Bender. Back at Planet Express, Cubert Farnsworth and Dwight Conrad were suspended from school for salting Brett Blob when he shoved their lunches into a miniature black hole they made. They amuse themselves by using Hermes' power stamper, forcing him to stamp VOID on everything it stamped as tax exempt, and then use the Professor's voice changer to send the crew off on a bogus pizza delivery to Dogdoo 8 at the edge of the universe. But the universe ends at Dogdoo 7, which they realize a week later. Leela breaks their video game and their fathers order them to get jobs. Dwight and Cubert decide to form a newspaper delivery service called Awesome Express. Their fathers jest at their efforts and beat up their sign. The duo order an easy-to-construct ship that moves via pedaling. They soon make so much money off their deliveries that they make more money than Planet Express. But their fathers refuse to say anything. Depressed, they decide to get back at them through plan Dwight Lightning; they offer the crew a better deal and pay, and soon find that the Professor declared himself dead three years ago as a tax dodge when he took a nap in the park. Because of this technicality, Cubert inherits the company and renames it Awesome Express; they also fire Hermes and the Professor. Bender soon gives birth to his beer, named BenderBrau. At that moment, calls start coming in that people haven't gotten their paper delivered in a long time as Dwight and Cubert dumped all of them in a crater on the moon. Panicking, they go to their fathers, who were staying at Hermes', disappointed as they wanted a few more years of being better than their sons. They see another chance and help their sons deliver all the papers with the Planet Express ship. The last house was Brett's, where they broke his window during their business. The fathers had them go to apologize but Brett's father refuses their apology and the fathers get into a fight in which the humans are severely injured. Later, in a hospital, Brett's father comes to apologize. They drink BenderBrau together as Brett ingests Cubert and Dwight. + +While celebrating Freedom Day, a day when you could do anything you want without reaping the consequences, such as going naked or hitting someone, Zoidberg expresses his love for freedom by eating the Earthican flag. Unfortunatley, this causes the Earthicans to think of his speech as desecration and betrays him. This sets off a movement to prosecute him as he flees to a Decapodian embassy. Ambassador Moiven promises the full support of the government. However, they are unable to give him marshmallows in his cocoa, a fact which seriously enrages Zoidberg. Zoidberg acquires the services of Old Man Waterfall to act as his lawyer. The trial goes in session and it is clear that it will be an unfair one. As a result of this unfairness and injustice, The Supreme Court rules against Zoidberg, in a vote of 6 to 3. Also, in a double whammy vote, the Court finds polygamy constitutional. He is instructed to apologize. Zoidberg, feeling disgusted and betrayed, refuses, and is then sentenced to death. Zapp Brannigan and a brigade of troops proceed to attack the Decapodian embassy. The Decapodians takes this as a declaration of war. Moiven calls on Decapodian invasion forces to attack Earth. Zapp tries to fight back with all planetary defenses but he gives the codes to a poorly disguised Decapodian double agent, under alias Hugh Man, who Kif can see through. The Decapodians clamp the Nimbus, the last line of defense. The Handsome Invaders enslave Earth, claiming it doesn't know freedom, forcing humans to glob mud, building a mobile oppression palace, to cut occupation costs as the other warships depart. The crew decide to free themselves and attempt to blow it up. They go to an old war museum and steal a heat-seeking missile. Unfortunately, palace is cold blooded though, so their missile won't target it. Zoidberg has a change of heart after the MOP crushes Old Man Waterfall and sets a nearby flag on fire much to the Earthicans dismay, spears the MOP with it, thus leading the heat-seeking missile to free Earth again. Zoidberg is hailed as a hero and is given his right to appeal. He wins his appeal and is allowed a bite of the new Earth flag and raises it up on the flagpole. + +Amy flies into the lounge on her party board, having come back from another party. She learns that Kif called, but Bender had failed to report it. The Professor comes in, telling the crew that they will be delivering large pain pills to Nigel 7, near where Kif is stationed. Amy asks to accompany the crew, but the Professor states that this is a delivery company, not a taxi service, and goes upstairs to vent in the angry dome. Nonetheless, Amy sneaks on board the Planet Express ship and takes control while everyone else is sleeping in hibernative naptosis, directing it towards the Nimbus. When Zapp Brannigan sees the ship, he allows them to dock. He appears in Leela's room, attempting to seduce her again, only to be slapped. Meanwhile, Kif shows Amy the Holo-shed to show her what life would be like with him in different scenarios. However, the shed malfunctions and the holograms, Attila the Hun, Jack the Ripper, Professor Moriarty, and Evil Lincoln, become real and follow the couple to the bridge. Zapp threatens to fire a laser gun. Attila warns him "No shoot fire stick in space canoe. Cause explosive decompression" but Zapp doesn't listen and blasts a hole in the wall. The holographic characters get sucked through the hole, while Zapp and the Planet Express crew hold onto each other like a chain. Kif, having lost a glove, gets sucked towards the hole; everyone attempts to grab him but are unsuccessful. Luckily, the holographic moon from the Holo-shed plugs up the hole, stopping the decompression. Later, at the infirmary, the doctor announces that Kif is pregnant. Bender, furious that his understanding of how organics mate is corrupted, attempts to attack Kif but is restrained. Kif explains that whenever his species, Amphibiosans, feel love, it stimulates their nerve, enabling them to reproduce through touch. Though it is initially believed that Amy is the mother, as Fry points out, everyone on the ship touched Kif so it is unclear who the mother is. Back on Earth, the Professor uses an invention of his, the Maternifuge, to determine who is the real mother and discovers it is Leela, after Fry, Zapp, Zoidberg, and Amy get shot out. Kif realizes that she had touched his ungloved hand during the decompression but doesn't care, as his species see the smizmar as the stimulus, which happens to be Amy. The crew has a baby shower at Fry and Bender's apartment. Amy's parents are most excited to finally have grandchildren. But they remade her party board into an ironing board, as Amy will ride a 'wave of responsibility'. After Kif makes an emotional speech about his new life with Amy, which moves Zoidberg to tears, Amy decides she can't go through with being a parent and runs away, leaving Kif just as his babies are about to be born. Planet Express escorts Kif to the planet where he was born, Amphibios 9 and just as Kif is about to give birth, Amy appears, saying she wants to be with him. After Kif gives birth, the babies, in a tadpole-like state, are nearly attacked by predators but Amy and Leela fend them off. The kids are left to swim about until they grow up; twenty years. Two of Kif's babies collide in the water, exhibiting Amy's klutzy behavior; then one swims in front of the camera and blinks a cyclopian eye. This suggests that in truth, Leela and Amy both contributed their DNA. + +Professor Farnsworth orders a supercollider from πKEA; and after assembling it, Fry and Leela are left with sore muscles. Dr. Zoidberg prescribes them a miracle cream. While returning the broken supercollider to the store, Fry and Leela are mugged. They discover they are immune to laser fire and physical attacks, a side effect of the miracle cream; they also gain the abilities of super strength and super speed. They form a team of superheroes, The New Justice Team taking the names Captain Yesterday, Clobberella, and Bender joining them as Super King. Leela makes a visit to CitiHall, and procures a special one-day surface pass for her mutant parents, Morris and Munda. Shortly after, the mayor summons the New Justice Team to deal with a criminal threat. The Museum of Natural History is going to be robbed of the Quantum Gemerald at 9 a.m. by a criminal mastermind called The Zookeeper, who uses trained animals to aid him in his crimes. Leela, planning her day, schedules her parents' surface visit for 10 a.m. at the same museum. Her plans are ruined when the Zookeeper is an hour late for the theft. The New Justice Team foils the robbery, but the Zookeeper escapes. Leela's parents, convinced that Leela didn't show up because she's ashamed of them, slink back to the sewers, just a moment before Leela rushes out onto the street. Leela makes a trip to her parents' home where she reveals her superhero identity. Leela swears them to secrecy for their own protection, but Morris tells his friends, and the word spreads. Shortly after, Planet Express crew receives a call from the Zookeeper, who has kidnapped Leela's parents. He is willing to ransom them for The Quantum Gemerald, which he demands they steal for him. The New Justice Team resolves to steal the gem. Unfortunately, they have run out of miracle cream, and are forced to commit the robbery without super powers. Fortunately, the museum guards still think The Team have superpowers, and the Gemerald is retrieved successfully. The Quantum Gemerald is given to the Zookeeper, who releases Leela's parents and escapes. Bender and a morally confused Fry set off to commit a few more crimes while they still have their superhero costumes, and life returns to normal. + +Pazuzu, Hubert J. Farnsworth's gargoyle breaks out of the Planet Express building. Professor Farnsworth shouts at him, saying, "Pazuzu, you ungrateful gargoyle. I put you through college and this is how you repay me" before gargoyle droppings hit his face. He heads to the ship, forcing Philip J. Fry and Turanga Leela to strap themselves completely to their seats and Bender Bending Rodriguez bolts himself to the wall. The Professor flies out into space but is slowing down traffic, everyone scolding at him. Farnsworth inadvertently has the high beams on, incinerating a direction sign and blowing up Deep Space 9 while searching for Pazuzu. Forgetting about Pazuzu, Farnsworth redirects to Florida for a nice lunch. Unfortunately, his lifetime discount is expired and he activates his nuclear-powered teeth, which run amok after tasting human blood. Fed up with his senility, the Planet Express crew take him to a day spa, where he is properly massaged. Because he is 161 years old, he is put in the anti-aging tar pits. But Bender pumps the pits too hard and the Professor is tossed up and down until the tar sinks into the ground. The ground gives way beneath the crew and they all fall in. Everyone climbs out and gets cleaned up: the Professor is looking middle aged, but the others are teenagers. While Farnsworth tries to fix things, the others try to settle into their teenage lives. Amy Wong goes home to Mars where her mom is angry cause she wants a grandchild and her dad makes fun of her fat physique, Hermes Conrad goes home with LaBarbara and Dwight, Leela tries to enjoy a normal teenage life in the sewers while Bender, Fry and Zoidberg stay at Planet Express. Fry soon begins dating Leela but in a sewer race with Mandy and Moose, they destroy a Martin Luther Thing, Jr. High School. Soon, the Professor discovers time-altering chronitons on their DNA and Bender's RNA and finds a way to get them back to their normal ages: Leela declines and continues her teenage life. The others get into the Bacterial Spew Chamber which coughs a gas on them. Unfortunately, the machine has the opposite effect - they are getting younger by the minute. Farnsworth tries to think of another solution but the kids' constant whining leads him to hire Leela as the babysitter. She discovers the existence of the Fountain of Aging from a story book and contacts the Professor. He picks up the kids while Leela stays grounded, willingly, until she sneaks out at night. She guides the now-much-younger Farnsworth to the fountain, which is on the surface of a burnt-out sun. As time is running out, they locate it. Norman, one of Zoidberg's siblings, jumps in, growing older until he dies and crumbles. Worse, the others have become fetuses and Bender is a blueprint disc. Farnsworth quickly gets them in but the current carries them off as they age. To save them, Leela jumps in to save them and gives up her teenage appearance. They emerge in their underwear but the Professor is still stuck. Just then, Pazuzu rescues him. Scans indicate that Farnsworth is even older and Leela and Amy feel a bit younger. The Professor then repays the gargoyle by freeing him. Pazuzu has moved to Paris, had a son and that he has been telling him the events. + +Philip J. Fry I is preparing for a mission, only to learn that Bender Bending Rodriguez and Turanga Leela had just returned. Not only finishing the mission, but doing it even better than usual since they earned medals for the mission while he was looking up curse words in the dictionary. While the latter clean themselves up, Fry states that they could've needed him, but Bender denies it. Fry has the last laugh after tricking Bender into denying that he is great. While Leela is on her date with Chaz, the mayor's aide, Fry walks Nibbler for her. Fry feels that he is useless, only to have Nibbler tell him otherwise. Nibbler knocks Fry out, drags him to his small spaceship and takes him to planet Eternium. After being introduced to the Nibblonians, Fry's told his importance: he has a unique genetic disorder which resulted in him lacking the delta brainwave due to him becoming his own grandfather. This rendered him immune to the attack of the Brainspawn a few months ago, an attack which no-one else on Earth remembers. The Nibblonians reveal the Brainspawn's plan: to collect all knowledge in the universe and destroy the universe so no new information pops up. Fry, because of his immunity, is the only person who can stop them. In other words, Fry is the most important being in the universe. The Nibblonians have made a quantum interface bomb which will send the Infosphere into an alternate dimension forever. Fry's mission is to implant it inside the Infosphere. The Nibblonians bring Fry to the Infosphere just as it collects the last of all the data in the universe. It opens to scan itself, the final piece of information. This is the only chance to get in, so the Nibblonians send Fry in on the Scooty-Puff, Jr.. Fry arrives at the center of the sphere, rendered invisible by his genetic abnormality as long as he avoids intense thinking. He is about to activate the bomb, but realizes that while he is there, he can find the answers to any question in the universe. Fry is discovered and the Brainspawn try to stop him, but his immunity protects him. He tries to escape, but the poorly made Scooty Puff Jr. falls apart, trapping him. The Brainspawn identify Fry as The Fabled One and gloat that he cannot escape. Their laughing ceases when Fry holds up the bomb and activates it. The Brainspawn remind that him that he is doomed to enter the alternate universe with them. One brain adds that they'll also form a clique that Fry won't be part of. But Fry boasts that he is glad that his life had a purpose: "Leading good to victory over evil". The Brainspawn question his motivations, suggesting that the Nibblonians are not as good as they appear. They suggest that Fry inquire about the night of December 31st, 1999, the date Fry got frozen. Nibbler nervously tells Fry not to ask, saying that it would be boring, so he concedes, only to be urged by the Big Brain. It is revealed that Nibbler unbalanced the chair that Fry was sitting on that night, tipping him into the cryogenic tube and bringing him to the future. Nibbler explains that Fry was the only person who could carry out the mission against the Brainspawn's Infosphere. As Fry grapples with the shock that the Nibblonians ruined his life, he and the Infosphere are sent to the alternate universe. Meanwhile, Leela is on a date with Chaz, having a luxurious dinner at Elzar's Fine Cuisine. Chaz reserves the rocket ice rink specially for Leela, denying its use to the orphans who were supposed to visit the rink. Leela, having grown up as an orphan herself, tries to persuade Chaz to allow the orphans to use the ice rink, but he refuses. Leela realizes that Chaz abuses his position and completely ignores the needy. She shoves his badge in his mouth and leaves. In the other dimension, the Brainspawn decide to spend their eternity singing American Pie. Fry, on the other hand, wishes that the Nibblonians hadn't frozen him. The Infosphere informs him that it is possible for him to go back in time to stop Nibbler, explaining that there is a nexus point between dimensions at the space-time that he entered the cryogenic tube and only Fry can return there. The Big Brain endorses this, as it would be a win-win situation - Fry can have his old life back and the Brainspawn can understand and destroy the universe a millennia later. Fry accepts their offer. The Brainspawn then begin calculating to send Fry back. Fry asks the Brainspawn if they check their calculations. The Big Brain says "Our calculations are always correct, for we are gigantic brains," and Fry is transported to the cryogenics lab. On December 31st, 1999, Nibbler places a prank order for I.C. Weiner, but future Fry appears behind Nibbler under the desk, just before his past self is frozen. He restrains Nibbler, who is confused at this paradox. Fry assumes that Nibbler has traveled through time as well, but Nibbler explains that his people lack that ability, but possess longevity and Fry first met Nibbler when he was a thousand years older. However, Fry refuses to let himself be frozen. Nibbler pleads that the Nibblonian sages have foreseen that in a thousand years, the universe will depend on Fry. Because he would have died of old age almost a thousand years before the mission was to take place, they had to freeze him in 1999. Fry points out that they could've asked him: Nibbler says that they were afraid that he would refuse. Fry denies it, saying he loves the future. The Nibblonian then asks why Fry is choking him right now: Fry asserts that he doesn't like being used and puts Nibbler down. Leaving the choice to Fry, Nibbler asks if there is anything he wants to save in the future and Fry realizes the only thing worth saving is Leela. Fry mentions this to Nibbler, who mysteriously notes that Leela may be the Other and advises Fry not to give up on her. He promises if Fry makes the right choice, back in the 31st Century Nibbler will help Fry win Leela's heart. As New York counts down to New Year's, Fry gives in and unbalances the chair himself, freezing his past self. Before he fades away, he yells "Just remember that Scooty Puff Jr. sucks" Nibbler vows that in a thousand years, he'll get right on it. Back in the 31st century, Fry escapes the InfoSphere on a Scooty-Puff, Sr. and Nibbler returns Fry to Earth, blanking Fry's mind of what happened to remain undercover, but not before handing Fry a flower. At Planet Express, Fry gives Leela the flower. Leela, touched, gives Fry a kiss. + +The Planet Express crew are sent on a mission that the previous Planet Express crew didn't survive, collecting honey from space bees. Bender Bending Rodriguez is given a tape to speak the bee's language of dancing so they don't attack Philip J. Fry I and Turanga Leela. Leela finds an adorable baby queen bee and decides to take it back to Earth so they can create their own hive. Bender accidentally insults the queen bee and the space bees start to chase the crew. While escaping in the Planet Express ship, the baby queen bee wakes up. Fry stands in front of Leela to protect her, but it runs him right through, its sting only pricking Leela, but killing Fry. Bender tosses the bee into the airlock and shoots it into space, where it gets hit by a space-truck. Later, a funeral is held and Fry's coffin is shot into space. During the funeral, Kug from Amazon Women In The Mood says he was great for snu snu while a gallery of women including Morgan Proctor, Petunia, a radiator it's hinted at that he had sexual intercourse with in The Lesser of Two Evils, 21st century woman and Michelle Jenkins say, using body language, 'eh, not so much'. Later that night, after Fry's funeral, Leela starts to experience strange dreams, all ending with Fry telling her, "You have to wake up." The other employees of Planet Express start to get concerned about her, thinking she is going insane. Later that night, Leela has a dream where Fry gives her his jacket: she wakes up with his jacket, which she finds out the next day is really her off-the-rack lime green jacket. The crew finds out that she has been eating space honey. Zoidberg warns her that one spoonful calms her down, two helps her sleep but three will put her in a sleep so deep that she'll never wake up. Later, Leela eats some space honey to calm herself and spills the royal jelly on the couch, which turns into a naked, sticky and confused Fry who asks, "Why am I sticky and naked? Did I miss something fun?". According to the Professor's Gizmometer, the royal jelly Fry had fallen in during the mission had an imprint of his DNA, causing him to reform when it mixed with Fry's hair and skin in the couch. However, when he asks Leela to wake up, she finds out that this is just another dream. When Leela flies out into space to retrieve Fry's corpse to keep under her mattress to remind herself that he is really dead, she instead finds a color changing tunnel. She wakes up in her apartment with the other employees' faces on the walls yelling, "You killed Fry." Thinking she is insane, she decides to take enough space honey to sleep and dream forever. Fry's picture beside her bed talks to her and she throws the jar at a small bee, making more smaller bees. He begins saying wake up and she wakes up in a bed in a hospital, with a sobbing, dishevelled, unshaven Fry saying wake up beside her. Apparently, the stinger went through Fry and she got all the poison. The others come in and are shocked to see her awake. Bender states that she was in the best coma he had ever seen, for two weeks. Amy says the doctor said she would never wake up. She also states that Fry never left her side for a second. Obviously, Leela hearing Fry say wake up was Fry saying this in the real universe. They hug and both whisper that the other needs to take a shower. + +Explosions, with occasional jolts of lightning can be seen in Hubert J. Farnsworth's lab. The professor, in agony, screams for help, but Bender Bending Rodriguez continues sleeping and Philip J. Fry I continues attempting to take Leela out on a date. She rejects him, saying she left her toaster on. They speak loudly to be heard over the booms and zaps from upstairs, where the Professor, still in distress, cries out to Buddha, then Zeus, then God, for assistance. Fry asks her real reasons for not wanting to go out, over the invocations from the lab. Farnsworth demands Satan's help, noting, "You owe me." Still loudly, Leela replies, "I have sweaty boot rash." Unfortunately, the explosions end just before she says it. Amy ends up overhearing and notes it's why she's sitting far away from her. Fry laughs and asks again for a date. In the conference room, filled with debris due to the explosion, Farnsworth happily states with his usual good news that's he's technically still alive, but he needs them to drop off the Parallel Universe Box containing the experiment that nearly killed him into the sun. Only hurling it into the thermonuclear inferno of the sun itself, he explains, will ensure its total destruction. A curious Zoidberg tries to look in the box, Farnsworth convinces him, with a hammer, to desist. The Planet Express crew are warned that whatever is inside is probably beyond their comprehension. Even Hermes becomes inquisitive: Farnsworth again uses the hammer. Dramatically stating that no matter what they're all forbidden from looking inside the box, he then notes how tantalizing it is. Zoidberg, food crazed, tries frantically to open the box. A gun wielding Hermes scares him, Bender and Fry away from the box. Hermes then gives the gun to Leela and tells her to shoot the three. Leela adds, "Right. If they try to look in the box." Hermes shrugs. Fry and Bender are now in the conference room. Fry decides to forget about the box. Bender calls Fry naive and states Farnsworth was joking. Fry isn't fooled, so Bender drops the charade and simply tells Fry to follow him. They go to the basement and crawl into a superheated steam vent, using it to get directly above the box. Bender replaces his regular eyes with periscopes, to scout the room and notices Leela is sleeping. Laughing, he extends his arm and takes the mystery box with ease. Back in the basement the two open the box and discover the box contains tangled Xmas lights and unlabeled booze in a wide mouth bottle. Leela, who was only pretending to be sleeping, states the decoy box should distract the two and gets up. It turns out she was sitting on the real box all along. Satisfied that protecting the box will be a simple chore since no one's curious about it, she tries to read a magazine: unfortunately, she is now also starting to show curiosity about the box. Nevertheless, Leela has managed to keep the box safe throughout the night and the clock in the room strikes 7 am. Mildly irritated by now, she complains that protecting the box made her miss an evening of television watching and decides to drink some coffee. She walks up to the coffee dispenser and starts to put in change, but pulls back, deciding to flip the coin to determine whether or not she should look in the box. Heads she looks and tails she doesn't. The coin turns up heads and an elated Leela walks up to the box, but her sense of duty kicks in and she turns around. Still, since she promised the coin, she opens the box and looks in. She curiously notes the box is much deeper than it should be, accidentally falls into it and comes out of a different colored box, bumping her head in the process. A hurt Leela proclaims her lawyer will hear about this and Fry's voice is heard asking what she did. She panics and asks “what do you mean why was I looking in the box?”. A Fry with black hair and a green jacket, asks her why her hair is different. A gold colored Bender walks in and Leela squints and asks if he is Bender. With his usual arrogance, he states yes. Next, Professor Farnsworth walks into the room, but he has an odd scar going around his head. Then, another Leela comes in - with red hair. This shocks everyone and Farnsworth realizes that he created an alternate universe, which he presumes to be evil. He has his good Leela go into the other universe to bring others to them. Leela brings back everyone else except Hermes. The two Professors then argue over who created what universe and decide to have the counterparts watch each other. They then declare the universe they are in is Universe 1 and the other Universe A. As the crew talk to their counterparts, it is revealed that Fry-1 and Leela-1 are married, due to a flip of a coin and that Fry-1 bought Leela-1 a diamond scrunchie; Fry-A was beaten up at a Neil Diamond concert by a man named Scrunchy; Farnsworth-1 had cut out his own brain through flip of a coin and managed to get it back in. Eventually, after checking the scriptures, the Professors decide that neither universe is evil. However, just as Hermes-1 comes in, the Professors realize that Hermes-A will be going to the sun to destroy the box. But when they try to get the box out of the aquatic tank, they find it gone, stolen by the two Zoidbergs, who had been feeling unappreciated. They attempt to recreate the box to their universe only to create several others. When the Zoidbergs arrive back with the box, they escape into other universes, knocking over the shelf of universe boxes in the process. Therefore, everyone else must search every other universe, grabbing wire to find their way back. After tireless searching, they find the Zoidbergs in Universe 420 and managed to get back to Universe-A to stop Hermes from destroying their box. Back at Planet Express, both Universe-1 and A pull their respective boxes from the inside-out. Essentially, Universe-A has a box containing their own universe. Bender shakes the box a little, causing an earthquake. As Fry sits on the box to watch television, the universe momentarily folds in on itself. + +After a victory against the Spiderians on Turantulon 6, Zapp Brannigan brings back to Earth a huge stockpile of silks and other riches. Nixon decides to give everyone on Earth a $300 tax rebate in the form of a Tricky-Dick Fun Bill. With the money, everyone goes off and has their own adventure. Amy Wong comments that with $300 you could only buy about 100 cups of coffee, so Philip J. Fry I decides to do just that. Turanga Leela decides to swim with Mushu, a whale at a theme park, as well as in the process rescues one of Lt. Kif Kroker's gifts for Amy, a watch that tells the time wherever they both are, which was accidentally swallowed by the whale. Kif also rents a paddle-plane for his date with Amy. Amy, however, spends her entire rebate on a talking devil tattoo. Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth spends his rebate on stem cells from Geneworks SKG, which he uses to make himself look younger and date a young woman, who had used her rebate to make herself look skinny. When the stem cells wear off, the teenager reveals her secret by pulling her plug, a belly ring, as well as suddenly becoming fat. The two lovers decide that they still love each other and continue making out. Bender Bending Rodriguez goes to Hacking Jack's Fine Smokables looking for a high-class cigar, but ends up finding one that costs ten thousand dollars, because it was rolled in the United States Constitution by Queen Elizabeth in her wild years. He cannot afford it, but instead, buys some burglar's equipment and steals it. He is pursued by Smitty and URL. Hermes Conrad buys his son, Dwight, a pair of Bamboo Boogie-Boots. The shoes have bamboo poles that extend from them, lifting the wearer into the air. However, Dwight had no intention of having fun and only wanted the money for investments. Hermes tries on the boots but is unable to control himself, forcing Dwight to climb on top of him. Fry continues his coffee binge, overdosing more and more on caffine and becoming increasingly short tempered, twitchy and addicted to his drink. Before swimming with Mushu, Leela stuffs her swimsuit with rotten fish. Mushu, as planned, eats all the rotten fish, but also eats her swimsuit, leaving Leela naked in the pool. Mushu then vomits up all over the audience and Kif finds the watch he had bought for Amy, only to have it broken by the police as he's arrested for stealing the whale puke he's covered in. Zoidberg tries to find something good to spend the rebate on, but can't find the right thing to spend it on. Eventually, after his efforts to buy art was mocked by Mom, Zoidberg finds happiness buying turkey dogs for his friends and some hobos. The Planet Express crew is invited to a gala hosted by Nixon's head. The riches from the conquest of Tarantulon 6 are on display, but are ruined when Hermes crashes through the window, causing Bender's cigar to fly into the tapestry, setting it on fire. Even worse, the fire door is on fire. Luckily, Fry who by this point is badly trembling and unable to say anything but coffee manages to drink his hundredth cup of coffee and enters a calming hyper-speed state, regaining control of himself and enabling him to rescue everyone and put out the fire. Outside, everyone is confused and Leela believes they were saved by a mysterious orange blur. They all decide to join Zoidberg and several hobos for turkey dogs and Smitty and URL burst in and arrest Bender. + +The Planet Express crew visits Duraflame National Forrest to go camping. At the visitor lodge, Ranger Park, the park ranger, says he is obsessed with Bigfoot and hopes to obtain proof of his existence. He shows a video which says that due to over-logging, Bigfoot habitats have become scarce. During the night, Bender Bending Rodriguez, annoyed with bugs, tricks Philip J. Fry I into leaving his tent so Bender can take it. In a clearing, Fry is abducted by aliens. When he returns, he finds that his nose is no longer on his face and that human noses are often used by aliens as an aphrodisiac known as Human horn. After searching the Galactic Bazaar, Fry, along with Turanga Leela and Bender, traces his nose to Lrrr who purchased it to help his failing marriage with Ndnd. He gets his nose back, only to have Bender ask Lrrr why noses and not the genitals, are used as the aphrodisiac. Lrrr is intrigued by this and orders Fry's lower horn to be removed. Leela, however, manages to make a deal that if the crew can help Lrrr's marriage by giving him and Ndnd a romantic dinner without using the lower horn, Fry will be spared. The plan fails as a result of a boring dinner and of Leela's singing, which the Omicronians consider an attack, thus Lrrr orders Fry's lower horn removed. Bigfoot interrupts them, closely pursued by Ranger Park, who plans on cutting off Bigfoot's feet to prove his existence. Lrrr saves the Sasquatch, but Park manages to cut a lock of hair. Lrrr almost proceeds to finishing removing Fry's lower horn but soon realizes that he'd be no better than Park. Ndnd, realizing that he is the sensitive Omicronian she fell for long ago, is in love with Lrrr again. They start making out and advise the others to get 500 hundred meters away as the trio go running for their lives. Bigfoot stays a bit longer to watch, then saunters off. + +The torch for the 3004 Earth Olympics is lit and the Planet Express crew watches the Parade of Nations before going to check on Hermes Conrad. The Jamaican team had been detained at the airport, so Hermes has been called to take their place. Unfortunately, Hermes hasn't Limbo-ed in 20 years, prompting Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth to create a Flabo Dynamic Suit to help him cheat. Barbados Slim, Hermes' rival and LaBarbara's ex-husband is also competing and Hermes has never won to him. Hermes starts off the race well with a lot of cheating, but as he nears the last pole, the suit gives way and the pole is knocked off, disqualifying him. Bender Bending Rodriguez, watching the bending competitions, believes himself to be a shoo-in until he sees some of his fellow competitors. He decides to disguise himself as a Fembot named Coilette, in order to cheat in the robot Olympics. Bender wins five gold medals for the fictional country of Robonia, but it is revealed that the winners will have their oil tested to confirm that they are actually fembots. He begs the Professor to make a woman out of him, so he undergoes a gender-reassignment operation to replace his testosteroil with fembot lubricants to deceive the judges. Though the Professor warns that he may suffer wild mood swings and runs the risk of becoming a fembot permanently, he decides to go through it anyway. Turanga Leela and Amy Wong protest, claiming Bender will harm the dignity of women everywhere. The Professor defends that he's doing this for the proud people of Robonia. Bender then goes under the gender-reassignment procedure and emerges as Coilette, passes the test and gets to keep his medals. The Professor tells Bender he needs to change back because the Femzoil is getting into his processor, but Bender is invited to appear on the show Late night with Humorbot 5.0. While on the show, Coilette strikes up a relationship with Calculon and the two arrange to meet for dinner that night. Coilette gets ready for her date, over the protests of the crew. Philip J. Fry I is grossed out that his best friend is dating a man and Amy and Leela are upset and embarrassed that Bender is acting like a tramp. After feeling attacked by the crew, Coilette runs out and the Professor shares the fact that Bender is having mood swings and needs the oil change operation. Coilette and Calculon dine at Elzar's Fine Cuisine. Calculon says that he wishes to spend some quality time with Coilette. Bender is initially aghast at this, until Calculon mentions he happens to own the world's largest yacht. Coilette accepts and the two spend days together. Bender returns to the Planet Express building, showing the crew the gifts Calculon showered Bender with, a vase of puppies amongst them. After a brief exchange between Leela, Amy and Bender, Calculon appears with Boxy and proposes to Coilette. Bender accepts. Fry tells Bender how much he'll miss him and that he has always felt like a brother, then a sister, to him. However, Bender states that he plans to use the marriage to scam Calculon for half his fortune. Leela disapproves, but Bender is dismissive of her concerns. Coilette and Calculon go on a date in a hot-air balloon, where Calculon presents her with the remote control to his heart and offers to give up acting for her, as he truly loves her. Coilette begins to weep. Back at Planet Express, we see Bender weeping. He cries that he cannot go through with the scam, no longer wishing to hurt Calculon, meaning that he's coming to the final stages of womanhood and the effects will become irreversible soon. Leela offers to help, on condition that Bender will forever return to being a man-bot. When Bender agrees, Leela states there is no way to stop the marriage without hurting him, but as an actor, he is used to 'soap opera pain'. We cut to the wedding, the crew wearing a variety of costumes. As the ceremony begins, Coilette faints, causing Calculon to call for a doctor. Zoidberg appears slightly ahead of cue, diagnosing a case of African Hydraulic Fever, an often fatal disease caught in the Diamond Mines of Africa. It turns out that Coilette has stolen diamonds from the greedy Diamanda and her lover Congo Jack, to return them to their rightful owners, the natives. Diamanda kicks Coilette to the ground and the enraged 'Congo Jack' hurls a spear at her. It misses, so Coilette fakes deadly impalement on the spear and Calculon swears to honor her memory with a film. Sometime later, at the Planet Express building, Calculon's movie, called Coilette, a Calculon Story is on the television. The Professor, in the process of turning Bender back into a man-bot, tells them to turn the TV off. One mistake now and Bender will be trapped between genders. As Bender is about to say something heartwarming about Calculon, his antenna pops back up, returning to his old self, causing him to exclaim that he and Calculon could run to Vegas, pick up some fembots and void their warranties all night long. As they continue watching the movie, the rest of the male characters leave, complaining about how Calculon is too emotional towards actor Coilette: Bender looks back with tear-filled eyes. Leela and Amy turn, surprised, and question him. Bender replies that they don't dress trampy enough. + +Cubert and Dwight enjoy watching All My Circuits and wish to live the life the characters do. Because their birthdays are coming up, they invite kids but only Tinny Tim comes over. While watching All My Circuits, the robot actor who plays Calculon's son, Antonio Calculon Jr., breaks during live filming, so the studio calls for replacements. Bender, desperate to get the part, boos every applicant, as Calculon thinks there is an audience. When Bender comes up, Fry and Leela's cheering get him the part. In Bender's first scene, he is supposed to be put in an irreversible coma. He doesn't like the part and does his antics on camera, even going so far as to say his catchphrase "Bite my shiny metal ass". Calculon only does one take so they can't reshoot. Though the director has every intention of firing Bender, the Network Execubots come with the Network President, a laptop. Bender's antics as an independent character who interrupts all of Calculon's life have been testing positive. This gives kids a bad role model, especially Dwight and Cubert. The boys try smoking and drinking, and give up after realizing all the stuff that Bender does makes us barf. Hermes and Hubert form the Fathers Against Rude Television, and protest Bender's television appearance. Dwight, Cubert and Tinny Tim decide to imitate Bender's acts by robbing him. The three take most of Bender's stuff as Fry was too busy reading to notice. They host a party where everyone acts like Bender. Farnsworth uses his Cool-O-Meter to discover the boys were the thieves. When Bender himself finds out, he declares his support of FART. Together, they go to the studio to demand that all TVs be equipped with a v-chip to censor Bender. But the network executive refuses to let him quit and both sides put a gun up to him. Bender distracts them and takes their guns. He talks to the world through television and asks parents,"have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?" Back at Planet Express, Farnsworth agrees that they should turn off the TV once in a while. + +After a disappointing holophonor recital, Fry enlists the help of the Robot Devil to improve his holophonor skills through hand transplants. After randomly determining the robot “donor” by spinning a wheel, Fry's hands are switched for those of the Robot Devil himself. Fry then becomes a skilled holophonor player, performing at Hovercar-negie Hall, he attempts to win the heart of Leela through an opera commissioned by Hedonismbot. The Robot Devil, who is unhappy with the trade because Fry's hands are always touching him in places, decides he must win his own hands back. He gives Bender a stadium air horn, so that he can annoy people. When Bender uses the air horn on Leela, she becomes deaf. Robot Devil then taunts Bender, because Bender traded away his Shiny Metal Ass for the air horn, so now Robot Devil can't bite it. Afraid Fry would stop composing the opera, if he knew she couldn't hear, she attends the opera, pretending to still be able to hear the performance. Fry's opera, Leela: Orphan of the Stars, opens in the Metropolitan House of Opera. During the intermission, the Robot Devil offers Leela robotic ears in exchange for her hand. Leela, who is thrilled she will hear the end of Fry's opera, agrees. The Robot Devil interrupts the opera when Fry portrays him as an idiot. He demands that Fry return his hands. When Fry refuses, the Robot Devil says that he will take Leela's hand… in marriage. A dramatic opera is sung until Fry trades the Robot Devil's hands back for his own. With his own hands, Fry can no longer play the holophonor well and the remainder of the opera is terrible. Everyone in the audience leaves, except for Leela, who asks that he continue playing, as she wanted to “hear how it ends.” The finale of Fry's opera shows a very crudely-animated Fry and Leela kissing, then walking into the distance hand-in-hand. + +An owl flies through a small hole into Planet Express building, where Hermes Conrad gives out the staff roll call, but when they get to the Professor, he says that they're all fired. In 3005, the executives of the Box Network, an allusion to the Fox Network, canceled Planet Express's contract: no one told the crew for two years. Now those executives have been fired for incompetence and ground into a fine, pink powder, so Planet Express is back on the air. They throw a party to celebrate, during which Hermes is decapitated by a saber sword and his body crushed by the Planet Express ship. His head is placed in a jar while his body is repaired. The man that performs the procedure, Lars Fillmore, takes an immediate liking to Turanga Leela, much to Philip J. Fry I's chagrin. Meanwhile, LaBarbara Conrad goes back to her former husband, Barbados Slim, claiming that Dwight Conrad needs a father, not two half fathers. Upon returning to Earth, the entire crew receives hundreds of spam messages. The crew responds to the offers and Bender is infected with a virus. The scammers fool Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth into signing his business over to them and they show up to take over. Bender's virus compels him to obey the scammers without question. The scammers are drawn to the tattoo on Fry's buttocks, which is revealed to contain the code for a Paradox-Free Time Travel Machine. Bender reads this binary code, which summons a time sphere from the God Entity. Nibbler reveals his sentience, explaining that using the code even once could destroy the universe, but they ignore him. Nibbler calls in some Kitten class attack ships to stop the scammers, only to be defeated by chairs. Nudar uses the sphere to go back to last night, meeting his past self and they ended up at their place, making out with his past self. Hubert states that he knows a paradox when he sees it and accidentally crushes yesterday Nudar with his Smell-O-Scope. Because the time portal is only a one way trip and cannot bring anyone back to the present, the scammers have Bender use the code to steal valuable objects from Earth's past, waiting out the time in between in the limestone cave beneath Planet Express. They also have Bender replace the Professor's Spheroboom Doomsday Device, placing it with a rose with a tag that reads, "You've been scammed, Sweetheart". During this time, Hermes asks Bender to travel back in time and kill an earlier version of himself for a replacement body. However, John A. Zoidberg unknowingly attaches Hermes's head the wrong way, making him facing backwards. The angry bureaucrat chases Zoidberg. Meanwhile, the Professor and the Harlem Globetrotters analyzes the time-travel code. Though the Professor states that time travel is impossible, Ethan Bubblegum Tate figures out that paradox-free time travel is possible. The factor that corrects the paradoxes is the doom field, which, if raised exponentially, could destroy the fabric of causality, exactly what Nibbler was trying to tell them. Zoidberg and Hermes run in. The scientists are shocked about Hermes' duplicate body. The doom field results in all time-travel duplicates, including Hermes' new body, to be essentially doomed. Hermes doesn't care, as he will need the duplicate body only long enough to win back LaBarbara. Once Bender has stolen everything of value from history, the scammers finally care if the universe gets destroyed. They decide to destroy the time-travel code by killing Fry and blanking Bender's memory. Fry uses the time code to escape to January 1, 2000, the day he was frozen. Bender is sent back to kill him. Bender creates a duplicate of himself when he needs to use the bathroom, going back nineteen seconds. Then another Bender in a tuxedo appears, claiming to be from way at the end, putting a rub-on time code on Fry's butt. The second duplicate catches Fry as he appears in the past and attempts to kill him, only to have his feelings for Fry and his inability to urinate to cause an overload. Fry shoves him in a Cryogenic tube before he can explode. Fry leaves and the original Bender fails to catch him. He tries to commit suicide only to learn that he was in a 20th century phone booth. He begins to search for Fry, going through a list of names in the phone book. He skips past a hobo named Phillip Fry and Fry's former girlfriend Michelle, making out with her new boyfriend, Constantine. Bender spends the next twelve years hunting Fry and causes Al Gore to lose the 2000 election to George W. Bush. After ending up at Yancy Fry, Jr.'s house and mistaking Philip J. Fry II for his friend, he is directed to the North Pole. While attempting to stow aboard a boat, Bender spots a bearded Philip J. Fry I and chases after him, temporarily sidetracked by Al Gore, who can't control his Hybrataxi. Eventually, Bender blows up Panucci's Pizza when Philip I walks inside, also turning Seymour to dolomite. Once Bender returns to report his apparent success, the scammers wipe his memory of the code, fifty terabytes of porn and the virus. Suddenly, Fry shows up at his own funeral. He explains that in the past, he couldn't buy pizza from Panucci's with his futuristic money, so he went to Applied Cryogenics for free pizza, but it had turned cold. He went back an hour to eat the pizza when it was still warm. He then met his time paradox duplicate, who became disgusted with the main Philip I's casual abuse of the time code just to eat pizza and takes the suggestion not to use the code. As soon as his duplicate was gone, Philip I realized that his frozen self still had 20th century money. Unfortunately, he accidentally touches his own frozen butt and slips on a chair, which caused him to fall into the tube once again. Once his younger self got out of the tube, the 3007 Fry froze himself for 7.95 years. Bender tries to kill him again but the Professor stops him, informing him that when the time code duplicates a living thing, the copy is always doomed. Nibbler destroys the time travel tattoo to keep the scammers from abusing it further, as well as saving 40% of Fry's rectum. The scammers then burst into Fry and Bender's apartment, intent on vaporizing him, but as they check Fry's rear back at Planet Express, they confirm that the code is well and truly gone. What happened to the Fry Bender murdered is also explained. Taking the main Philip I's suggestion not to use the time code, this Philip I instead decides to live above Punucci's. He lives his 21st century life: delivering pizzas, spending time with his family, using his seven leaf clover against Yancy Jr. in basketball and hanging out with his beloved dog Seymour. Eventually, he gets over Leela, deciding to find his own purpose in life. When he sees a poor narwhal named Leelu on television, he decides to be her caretaker, as he is the only one who can assist her in eating. When Leelu is released back into the wild, Philip I enlists Panucci's cousin Leroy to find Leelu and bring her back to New York. After two years and 108 narwhals later, setting them all free and eating nothing but sausage, they find her. Noticing that Leelu is interested in a male narwhal, Philip I decides to let her go. Even during this depression, Leela and Lars decide to get married. Fry tries to stop the wedding by replacing a pen full of ink with a pen with no ink, but Lars had an extra. Meanwhile, Hermes was able to win back LaBarbara by zippering up her dress, which Barbados was unable to do. Leela accidentally hits Hermes with the empty pen, resulting in a chandelier slicing off his head and crushing his duplicate body. The Professor explains that he expected that, since all duplicates are doomed. Lars becomes agitated by this news and calls off the wedding. LaBarbara leaves Hermes again for Barbados, even though his original body is almost repaired. Richard Nixon, President of Earth, is tricked into selling Earth to the scammers and everyone is forced to emmigrate off the planet. The Planet Express crew moves to Neptune. After learning that Robot Santa was cheated out of his naughty list, Leela decides it's time to fight back and forces Santa to help them. Though they had enough ships to mount a rag tag attack, Nixon says that the scammers have a fleet of solid gold Death Stars defending Earth. However, Santa grants them access to his factory for weapons and calls in his holiday friends, Kwanzabot and the Chanuka Zombie. Zapp Brannigan arrives to take command, but before the fleet can link computers with the Nimbus, the Death Stars de-cloak and send it crashing to the ground: Leela then takes de facto command. Unfortunately, she can't coordinate so many ships, so Hermes offers his bureaucratic highly organised mind. He destroys all the Death Stars: this helps Hermes win back LaBarbara much to Slims annoyance. However, the scammers have one last trick, the Sphere-O-Boom doomsday device that Bender had stolen for them. The scammers demand their surrender, but Bender reveals that he stole it back after being released from their control. The crew fires the device at the scammers' ship, destroying it. On New Year's Day, 3008, Bender explains that while sawing off the Professor's hand with a dull saw, he figured that he needed the doomsday device for himself. Once he was out of the scammer's control, he pulled the old switchoroo. Nixon awards him The Dirty Doublecross in light of his actions. Fry sees that Leela is still unhappy that Lars left her at the altar and tries to get them back together. However, just as Lars is about to tell Fry something important, the reunion is cut short by Nudar, who survived the doomsday device through use of a doomsday device-proof vest. Nudar claims that the time-travel code still exists and is on Lars. Lars tricks him into approaching the cryo-tube with Bender on overload: once that Bender is released, the explosion kills them both. The explosion singes off some of Lars' clothing, revealing the time-travel tattoo. A flashback explains that Lars is actually Philip I's duplicate, having survived Bender's attack in 2012, which burned off his hair and injured his larynx, deepening his voice. Upon realizing that he was Lars, the duplicate Philip I froze himself to return to the future and be with Leela, hitching a ride in Michelle's tube, arriving in 3002 and taking a job at the Head Museum. However, he realizes at the wedding that, as a duplicate, he was doomed, so he left Leela at the altar to spare her the pain of becoming a widow. During the funeral, Bubblegum and Nibbler state that nothing makes sense anymore, so someone will have to travel back and put the time tattoo on Fry in the first place: this job Bender did, by removing the tattoo from Lars and traveling into the past to place it on the Fry frozen in the Cryogenic tube. Upon returning, Bender reveals that he had convinced his time-travel duplicates in the cave to remain with him instead of emerging when they were logically supposed to. Then they all emerge together. Nibbler, horrified, shouts "Everyone out of the Universe", before eating himself out of existence. Though Bender doesn't see the problem, the sheer number of time-paradox Benders spontaneously explode, causing a giant tear in the universe. "Well, we're boned," says the normal, non-doomed, Bender. This tear in the universe leads into the next movie The Beast With a Billion Backs. + +After a month of inactivity following the universe being ripped open, people decide to go on with their lives. Amy and Kif get married on Amphibios 9, while Fry starts a new relationship with Colleen: this upsets Bender, since Fry is spending more time with Colleen than with him. Fry decides to move in with Colleen, despite his discovery that she has four additional boyfriends living with her. After his hectic first evening at Colleen's apartment where she reveals she is going on a date with a 6th boyfriend, Fry is unable to accept that she cannot settle for one man and breaks up with her. At a scientific conference, Professor Farnsworth proposes an expedition to investigate the anomaly and beats his arch-rival Wernstrom in a game of Deathball, winning the right to mount the expedition. When Bender is sent to explore the anomaly, like a tool, much to his dismay, his touch causes the anomaly to emit a shockwave which sends the Planet Express ship flying. Farnsworth and Wernstrom discover that only living beings can pass through the anomaly unaffected: electrical objects such as robots are either repelled or destroyed. The two team up to try and initiate another expedition, but their idea is rejected in favor of a military assault on the anomaly led by Zapp Brannigan in the Nimbus. Meanwhile, both Fry and Bender begin to feel alone, unwanted, and miserable. Fry, in his despair, sneaks aboard Zapp's ship just before it takes off so that he can find solace on the other side of the anomaly. Bender, on the other hand, is approached by the fabled League of Robots, a secret society of robots who like to blather about and tease humans, led by his hero Calculon. Bender quickly becomes a very prestigious member due to his perceived hatred of humans and applying the law with no regard for its intent, although Calculon suspects that he is not as hard-hearted towards humans as he leads them to believe. However, Bender is very much dismayed when he learns that the League has no intention of killing all humans. As Fry enters the anomaly, Zapp's plan of attack using a weapon called a Universe to Universe Missile or UUM goes awry and Kif is accidentally killed by Zapp in the process, much to Amy's grief. While drifting through space on the other side of the anomaly, which contains another universe, Fry comes across a colossal, one-eyed, tentacled creature, which begins forcing its appendages through the anomaly. The tentacles begin to attack everyone in the universe and nothing, not even diamondillium or diamondium can stop the tentacles since they are made of electro-matter that can only be harmed by other electro-matter, rendering the them completely invulnerable. Fry returns to Earth with a tentacle attached to the back of his neck and tells everyone to love the tentacle. The tentacles begin to attach themselves to everyone, causing their victims to fall in love with it. With the monster's influence spreading quickly, Fry becomes the pope of a new religion established to worship the tentacles. The Planet Express crew take shelter in their office building but Zoidberg, Farnsworth, Scruffy, Wormstrum, and Hermes eventually all get caught by the tentacles, leading Leela and Amy to escape on Amy's party board and eventually meet up with Zapp. Bender, meanwhile, believes that the League of Robots should uphold a strict no-humans policy as he feels so insignificant around them. However, when he assists his friends in eluding the tentacles, he is caught red-handed by the other members. When Calculon calls his bluff about hating humans, he challenges Calculon to a duel using weapons called Planetary Annihilators. Bender cheats, damaging Calculon's arm and destroying part of their headquarters. Calculon is outraged by his behavior but, instead of kicking the indifferent Bender out of the League as initially implied, he resigns from the League himself and names Bender its new leader. After Zapp and Amy sleep with each other and get stuck with tentacles, Leela ends up being the last living person in the universe unattached to a tentacle. She examines a fragment of tentacle that snapped off trying to catch her and discovers that the tentacles are actually reproductive organs, known as genticles, which meant that Yivo was performing rape on everyone in the universe. She reveals this to everyone at a universal religious gathering. The creature, Yivo, admits that mating with everyone in the universe was its original intention, but explains that it is now truly in love with them. As a sign of good faith and to prove himself trustworthy to everyone, Yivo resurrects Kif, who is displeased to learn that Zapp had tricked the then-grieving Amy into sleeping with him. Yivo asks to begin the relationship anew and removes its tentacles from everyone. Yivo takes everyone in the universe out on a date all at the same time, which goes extremely well. However, the universe's leaders feel that Yivo has made no actual commitment and sends a delegation to break up with it. Before they can do so, however, Yivo proposes marriage and they accept. During this time, Bender is fed up with being neglected by Fry and makes a deal with the Robot Devil to trade his firstborn son for an Army of the Damned from Robot Hell in order to take over the Earth and rebuild his human-hating reputation in the League. However, before Bender can attack, humanity willingly leaves Earth to live on Yivo, along with the other civilizations of the universe, moving onto Yivo's body via golden escalators. This leaves Bender lonely once more and stagnates the robot population, who are built to serve humans. As the robots inherit Earth, everyone else is made to promise never to make contact with other universes. Fry, however, cannot help but secretly write a letter to Bender back on Earth. Leela does not trust Yivo's motives at first, but when she sees that everyone is happy with it, she eventually succumbs to her own loneliness and comes to accept Yivo. Bender receives Fry's letter, which is made out of electro matter. He decides to set out and rescue his friend from his relationship with Yivo. He and his army harpoon Yivo from beyond the anomaly and drag it into their own universe where they are able to attack it. Fry convinces Bender to spare Yivo, but Yivo discovers that the robots' weapons are lined with the electro-matter from Fry's letter, allowing them to harm it. Since Fry broke his promise to never make contact with any other universes, Yivo breaks up with not only Fry but the entire universe with the exception of Colleen. While everyone leaves aboard Bender's ship, Yivo finds consolation with Colleen, making Fry feel betrayed. They begin a single relationship as they head back to the other universe together and close the anomaly forever. Everyone laments that they will never know happiness or love with Yivo again: Fry decides to find love elsewhere and tries to ask Leela out, but she rejects him since he had already stopped trying once he met Colleen. Kif and Amy's relationship is strained due to Amy's alleged affair with Zapp, whom Kif punches hard in the gut for rubbing it in, while Farnsworth and Wernstrom go back to being arch rivals. Bender breaks up his friends' quarrel and assures them that what they experienced was not love, as love is a jealous, hard-to-get emotion that does not share itself with the world. Bender shares his own love with Fry and Leela by giving them a big hug which, in turn, actually strangles them. + +Due to an apparent shortage of Dark Matter, fuel prices have begun to rise, prompting Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth to prohibit flying the Planet Express ship unless absolutely necessary. However, Turanga Leela has begun to develop anger issues, and upset about being insulted by Sal, enters the ship in a Space Demolition Derby, trashing the ship. As punishment, Leela is forced to wear a 50,000-volt shock collar that activates whenever she has a violent thought, uses profanity, has a sexual thought or lies. Meanwhile, Bender Bending Rodriguez feels left out when he sees Cubert J. Farnsworth and Dwight Conrad playing Dungeons and Dragons: he can't play because robots are not installed with imaginations. Trying as hard as he can, Bender manages to imagine himself as a medieval knight and joins the game, naming himself Titanius Anglesmith. However, since he was never meant to have an imagination, Bender gradually believes himself to be a real knight in the magical world of Cornwood. At first, he seems harmless, until he starts causing chaos everywhere. Eventually, he crashes into Leela's parents' house, where she has brought John A. Zoidberg over to dinner to prove that she has resolved her anger issues, given that he is the one with the authority to remove the collar. Leela is unable to fight back with the collar on and Zoidberg is too scared to take it off. Philip J. Fry I manages to trick Bender into stopping by using a Cone of Coldness against him, which his character is vulnerable to. Bender is then brought to the Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots. After watching Morbo's interview with Mom on Tea With Titans on the controversy about the fuel shortage and how she's making record profits, the Professor reveals to the Planet Express crew that when he worked for Mom for the third time after realizing she was evil twice before, he tried to make dark matter into a more durable harpsichord wax. Using a particle accelerator, he created a crystal that empowered dark matter, making it a usable fuel. But when he presented this to Mom, she took the crystal for herself. Mom fired Hubert and left him for Ogden Wernstrom, her ex-husband. However, he also created an anti-backwards crystal, that, if brought within a six inch proximity to its sister crystal, could render dark matter useless again. Hermes points out that they would then have no fuel. Hubert says that once the universe is freed of Mom's dark matter grip, this would then compel scientists to create an alternative fuel. Unfortunately, he has forgotten where he had put it. Unknown to everyone, Dwight and Cubert have found it in the downstairs walrus tank and made it into a twelve-sided die for their game. Luckily, the Professor manages to activate a smell on the crystal that he can detect with his smelling aid, but Mom learns that the crystal still exists and sends her sons, Walt, Larry and Igner to take it back. Walt concocts a plan to enter the Planet Express building with the three disguised as owl exterminators and Fry lets them in. However, Hubert challenges them to actually exterminate an owl, Igner fouls up and they lose the crystal. Taking back his crystal, Hubert sends them back to Mom. Meanwhile, Dr. Perceptron at Hal Institute tries to put Bender through all sorts of therapies, but nothing works. Therefore, the doctor decides to give him a robotomy, the Robot equivalent of a lobotomy, to rid his mind of fantasy. Hubert, Leela and Fry infiltrate Mom's dark matter mine, fooling the Killbots into thinking that they are flying the ship, which is actually on remote control. During their infiltration, it is discovered that Leela actually likes the shock from the collar. But they soon find that the mine is actually a farm, full of Nibblonians and Leela's beloved Nibbler, who was captured by Mom's sons. The Nibblonians are being force fed chickens and prune juice, which they can't resist eating, so that they excrete dark matter. However, Nibbler is surprised that they aren't amazed that he can talk: Fry explains that he didn't erase their memories the last time and they kept him as a pet because he is cuter that way. Nibbler explains that exactly 36 years ago, he was head of a Nibblonian outpost on Vergon 6. However, with all the dark matter they excreted into the planet, DOOP began to mine the planet, with the help of Mom. When the planet was sucked dry, Mom learned that Nibblonians produced dark matter and captured a ship full of them, except Nibbler, who was later kidnapped by Mom's sons when they were disguised as owl exterminators. Suddenly, Igner spots them, directing them up the primary chicken valve to Mom's office, having been compelled by the unexplained secret Mom told his brothers. They attempt to bring the two crystals together, but Mom brings up a gun. Hubert then swallows the anti-backwards crystal so she can't get her hands on it. However, she points out that he's in a harvesting plant and orders her sons to inject prune juice into him. Suddenly, all dark matter begins to resonate, especially the stockpile Bender has in his chest cavity. Suddenly, Bender disappears, just as he was about to undergo a robotomy and everyone at the mine feels the ice floor cave beneath their feet. Fry and Leela then come out the ground somewhere, finding the anti-backwards crystal and discovering that Leela is now a centaur, Leegola. They meet Titanius Anglesmith and learn that they are in Cornwood. Titanius treats them to roasted munchkin and entertainment by dancing dwarves at his castle until Calculon rides up to warn them of danger. The crew ride out and attack Waltazar, Larius, and Ignus. The brothers are banished when Frydo accidentally rolls the anti-backwards crystal, or the Die of Power as they call it in Cornwood. Frydo and company meet the Great Wizard Greyfarn, who tells them that Momon had created a set of dice from the living plastic in the Geysers of Gygax. Momon put too much of her power into the Die of Power and subsequently lost it. To defeat her, they must journey to her lands to destroy it in the lake of plastic. As they begin their quest, they come upon a tribe of centaurs, led by the intersexual, pacifist Hermaphrodite. Leegola is excited that her people, as a group of well-trained archers, can defeat Momon's armies. However, the centaurs are opposed to fighting and try to refuse them passage through their territory. Leegola stands up to Hermaphrodite and takes his bow and arrows. The group arrives at the Cave of Hopelessness, guarded by a huge ogre. Gynecaladriel, queen of the water nymphos, joins their quest and seduces the ogre, putting him to sleep. As they enter the cave, they meet a large, centipede-esque creature, Zoidberg, whom they presume to be the Tunneling Horror. Leegola brutally assaults him, eating his two hearts. Unfortunately, they learn that he is not the Tunneling Horror. Horrified that she had tried to kill an innocent creature, Leela runs off and joins the centaurs to learn their peaceful ways. Suddenly, the real Tunneling Horror arrives, but Frydo defeats it after rolling the die, causing him to grow. Greyfarn warns him not to be seduced by the die's power, but Frydo degenerates into a crawling Gollum-like creature, who is obsessed with the die and eventually runs off after a failed attempt to kill his friends. The crew decides to seek help at Wipe Castle in getting past Momon's armies, but the king, Roberto, has sent his men out on a pointless suicide mission, forcing the crew to defend the castle themselves. Also, Momon had overheard them going to Wipe Castle before Frydo left them and sends Waltazar and Larius with all their armies to attack the castle, refusing to leave a small contingent behind. A declaration of war is announced and Leegola takes control of the centaur herd after beating up Hermaphrodite, refusing to participate in a tedious debate. She leads her armies to Wipe Castle, slaughtering Momon's legions. Gynecaladriel repays Leegola by making out with her. Just then, they notice two volcanoes erupting, meaning that Frydo is engaged in battle with Momon. However, Titanius suggests that they wait while watching Gynecaladriel and Leegola make out. Frydo, accompanied by the still living head of Zoidberg, arrives in Momon's lair. But he is too compelled by the power of the die to destroy it, so Zoidberg bites him. Momon becomes a dragon to get the die, but it grants Frydo Mirror Mania, allowing him to mimic her dragon form. While they battle, his friends arrive, who are descending along a fragile staircase, which Momon destroys. Ignus, riding a giant spider, which he thinks is a bug, urges them to hop on his mount. Greyfarn yells at him for his incompetence and duels Ignus in a lightstick fight. Ignus breaks it off, revealing that that he is in fact his son, which Greyfarn tries to deny, repeatedly hitting himself with his staff. Meanwhile, Frydo and Momon incapacitate each other when they hit the other's soft underbelly, reverting themselves to human form. Zoidberg then grabs the die. At first, he thinks to destroy it, but becomes corrupted by it. However, Momon seizes the die after Greyfarn squishes Zoidberg and all of Cornwood goes black, with the ground beneath everyone's feet collapsing. Suddenly, the crew and Mom and her sons end up back at the mine. The Professor explains that the dark matter resonance in Bender's chest, coupled with his imagination, created Cornwood. Unfortunately, Mom isn't interested in his explanations and once again orders Walt and Larry to inject prune juice into Hubert's stomach, where the anti-backwards crystal still is. However, Hubert asks for one last thing: a hug with his son, Igner. Igner has swallowed Mom's crystal and their hug effectively destroys the two crystals, rendering all dark matter useless. Hubert quickly comes up with an alternative fuel, known as nibbler power. Holding a chicken on a fishing pole just out of the harnessed Nibblonians' reach, Hubert has them drag the Planet Express ship and crew back home. + +In deepest space, a wave of green energy animates a small system causing DNA to form. The scene switches to Mars Vegas, which is promptly demolished and New Mars Vegas is being constructed. Leo Wong has no interest in what he destroys, like an oasis, or the Martian Muck Leeches. Turanga Leela is only able to save one, which repeatedly sucks blood from her, before Leo covers the rest of its colony with cement. During a protest from the Eco-Feministas, led by Frida Waterfall, Leo blows up the ground beneath their feet, causing Frida's femi-necklace to lodge itself in Philip J. Fry I's head, hidden by his hair horn. Leo compromises by giving Fry a token to a free poker tournament and the rest of the crew a free vacation. Soon enough, Fry seems to know what everyone else is thinking or going to say next. He leaves the casino, only to be overwhelmed by a number of voices in his head. He runs into an alley, where he meets a transient named Hutch, who gives him a tinfoil hat to place over his head to block out the voices. However, Hutch discovers that he can't read Fry's mind. He warns Fry not to tell anyone or else the Dark Ones will get him easily. Bender Bending Rodriguez falls in love with Fanny, a Fembot married to Donbot, head of the Robot Mafia. They have an affair when the Donbot isn't looking. However, his cohorts, Joey Mousepad and Francis X. Clampazzo grow suspicious. Deciding to do something good with his telepathy, Fry enters a poker tournament with use of the chip Leo gave him and all of his life savings. Bender enters also, using Fanny's bra to cover the entry fee, instead of running before the Donbot gets wise. Fry manages to get to the finals with his telepathy. However, Bender wins by dumb luck, especially since Fanny gave him the Donbot's lucky foot. Finally, suspicious, the Donbot and his gang take Bender and Fanny out into the Martian Desert, where they shoot and bury them. But since, as Robots, they couldn't truly be killed, they emerge from the ground next day. They breakup the affair and Fanny goes back to the Donbot. While surveying a system with a Violet Dwarf Star, the Planet Express crew locates primordial lifeforms on an asteroid but the Professor, having been bribed by Leo, decides to demolish the system anyway. Fry meets Hutch again, who knocks him out and drags him down into a secret lair beneath a dumpster and is introduced to the Legion of Mad Fellows, a group of telepaths who are trying to stop evil forces from destroying the gateway to the green age. Their leader, the Number 9 Man, explains that the energy force called Chi gave life to the universe. However, it receded, causing the majority of the universe's species to go extinct. He tells Fry to go undercover as Leo's security guard and make sure that he does not destroy the violet dwarf. Leo goes to demolish an arm of the Milky Way for a miniature golf course, prompting Leela, Amy Wong and LaBarbara Conrad to join the Eco-Feministas. Unfortunately, during a peaceful protest, an golf cart accidentally kills the Headless Body of Spiro Agnew. Forced on the run from the government and Zapp Brannigan, Leela proposes that they take more direct action. After sabotaging many of Leo's construction sites, they gain support from Earth's female populace. They even hijack the Planet Express ship and paint it pink, locking the Professor, Hermes and Zoidberg, who were hired by Leo to build a fence, in a go-go cage. They then lock Leo in his own fence. While on duty, Fry discovers Frida attempting to hammer down another terrible slogan on Leo's property. He manages to tell her to pass on a message to inform Leela that he's trying to save the violet dwarf too. But when she mentally reminds herself back at the Honeybun Hideout, The Dark One hears her and demands to know who gave her the message. Luckily, she didn't know Fry's name, but unluckily, she is psychically murdered. With her dying breath, she pleads her long-lost brother to avenge her death. At the second meeting with the Legion, in the old Martian reserve that was abandoned five years ago, Number 9 explains to Fry about the ongoing battle between the Encyclopods, a race who seeks the preservation of all life and the Dark Ones, who desire destruction of all species, who had since evolved from a frog and snake living in symbiotic harmony. When the Chi receded, only the strongest could survive, like the Dark Ones, while a significant amount of life was extinguishing, like the Encyclopods. But they believe that they left an egg behind, which is the violet dwarf star. Once the Encyclopods are reborn, they can recreate all the species that ever went extinct. However, Fry can't tell anyone about this, as the Dark Ones will know of the Legion's existence and kill anyone who knows about the egg. The feministas return to the Honeybun Hideout, coincidentally next door to the reserve, to find Frida murdered. Having heard from Amy that Fry is working for her father, they all fear that he murdered her on Leo's orders. Leela calls Fry to prove them wrong, but when he mentions Frida, she fears that he killed her. However, they agree to meet at Keeler Canyon. Unfortunately, Zapp was eavesdropping on their conversation, due to Bender bugging Fry's phone, and ambushes them. Thinking him a traitor, Leela takes Fry hostage. Eventually, after a chase around the miniature golf course, the Feministas are captured, put on trial, sentenced and sent to jail. However, the Dark One telepathically urges Leela to escape. Leela's initial plan was to have to the Martian muck leech tunnel their way to freedom but the hole it digs is too small and takes too long. Bender soon breaks them out, stating that he'd be committing fifteen felonies at the same time. However, breaking out is even more difficult, as security is tight. After a failed plan to distract the guards with Bender as a hooker, they decide to run for it, as Bender bends a brick wall. Once outside, they are evacuated by the rest of the Planet Express crew. At his third meeting with the Legion, Fry is given the mysterious Omega device to momentarily disable the Dark One at close range. The only problem is knowing who and what the Dark One looks like after eons of evolution and the fact that his mind is unreadable. Worse, the Dark One can sense their thoughts, even through their tinfoil hats, therefore, they can't come up with a plan. Number 9 Man trusts Fry, whose lack of a Delta Brainwave renders his mind unreadable, to find and stop the Dark One. At the ceremony, Fry is given the honor to blow up the violet dwarf star, while scanning the crowd for the Dark One. Unfortunately, he is unable to even detect the Dark One's presence and concludes that since his mind can't be read, he must be the Dark One. Just then, the Planet Express crew arrives and takes the detonator. The Dark One telepathically urges Leo to blow up the star, but is disabled by a swing of a golf club from Amy. As Leela is about to defuse the detonator, Fry urges her to give it back to him, though he is unable to explain his intentions: after a moment of reflection, Leela decides to trust him and gives it back. Fry pushes the trigger anyway, having rewired it to the Omega device, intending to destroy himself. However, the device extends into a more complex mechanism and an orb of green light briefly engulfs Fry and Leela. Dumbfounded that he was still alive, Fry yells, "It didn't work. I'm the Dark One and it didn't do anything." Just then, the Dark One reveals himself as the Martian muck leech, who is affected by the device. The asteroids in the system form a sperm-like shape and go into the violet dwarf, triggering the birth of a massive Encyclopod that looks like a manta ray with a biodome on its back, containing countless alien species and plants. As Hutch is about to explain everything, the Dark One attacks him by the throat. Fry slaps away the evil creature. Hutch, now revealed to be Frida's brother, notices Frida's necklace lodged in Fry's brain and takes it out, thus ridding Fry of his mind-reading abilities, before expiring. Vowing to avenge Hutch, the Encyclopod then destroys the leech and its corpse is eaten by the always-hungry Zoidberg before its DNA could be preserved. The Encyclopod preserves Hutch's DNA before leaving, ignoring Fry's insistence that humanity is not an endangered species. Zapp tries to arrest the Planet Express crew again for fifty-three counts of fugivity and they all flee in the ship, with Kif going along with them. While escaping the Nimbus, they decide to fly into a wormhole, not knowing the destination. Fry and Leela say that they love each other: they kiss as the crew flies into the wormhole. In Rebirth you find out where the wormhole takes them. + +Philip J. Fry I walks in the lab where Hubert J. Farnsworth is and asks him why his hair is frizzy, also why he is covered in burns. Then the Professor explains what happened after the final movie ended. He explains that the wormhole they passed through to escape Zapp Brannigan was actually the Panama Wormhole, a sort-of Comedy Central Channel for shipping. Unfortunately, the Nimbus went through too and began to fire on the Planet Express ship, damaging it. Fearing that they may crash, the crew activated their safety spheres. However, Hubert's sphere covered his whole body while everyone else's shielded only their heads, because the professor's selfish. They then crashed, as well as the Nimbus, right by Planet Express, with only Fry and the Professor surviving, while everyone else became skeletal from the neck down. The professor drops them in the machine filled with stem cells, in an attempt to revive them. As a result, everyone comes out regenerated. Zapp is not dropped in and is still hanging but he is still alive despite having most of his body become a skeleton. Bender Bending Rodriguez experiences difficulty with his rebirth, with his power supply being shot. Therefore, Hubert attaches one of his various Doomsday devices, the Spheroboom, in Bender's chest cavity. However, the device's output is too powerful for Bender's body. He has to burn off the excess energy as fast as it's produced, by continuously partying, otherwise the energy will build up and he'll explode and kill everyone here in a fireball of melted gears and splattered bowels. Fry then tries asking Turanga Leela out for a date, only to notice that she hasn't emerged from the birth machine. When she does, she doesn't wake up, even to the Professor's poking stick. Sadly, Leela is in an irreversible coma. Fry, depressed about Leela's state, goes to a Build-a-Bot store and builds a robot Leela. However, it doesn't act like her, so Hermes Conrad uploads her memories and appearance, taken from security camera footage. The robot Leela acts like her when she was last alive but soon finds out about her robotic nature when a hostile Nibbler takes a bite at her arm, exposing her wiring: she freaks out for an entire day. Uncertain about herself, robot Leela and Fry decide to just be friends. After determining that the real Leela can't be wakened, the crew travel to the planet with the Cyclophage's preserve. Here, they attend Leela's funeral and read out her last will: her corpse is to be fed to the wild Cyclophage in the event of coma. As the beast approaches, Bender's incessant and inappropriate behavior causes Leela to wake and tell him to shut up. Leela is initially relieved, before she sees her robot duplicate and Fry kissing. After escaping from the Cyclophage, which latches onto their ship, they return to the Planet Express building where the two Leelas confront each other and Fry. They both scold him and run away, confused and angry. Later that night, Fry proclaims his true motive for returning Leela as a robot, while the real Leela listens, hidden away. She forgives him, only to be interrupted by the Leela-Bot. The two Leelas fight each other, which the entire crew comes to watch. Amy passes Fry a ray gun to choose which Leela to shoot. Both Leela identify which one is which but Fry is slow on the uptake, at which they both call him an idiot. Fry then puts the gun down, refusing to shoot, only to accidentally shoot himself, revealing himself to be a robot. It is then that the real Fry pops out of the machine. The robots then declare that they love each other and shed their skins and leave, speaking in Terminator-like voices. The real Leela is more confused over what just happened. Fry assures her that he will wait for her. Bender decides he is fed up with constant partying and begins to vibrate with the excess energy. The Cyclophage suddenly emerges and attempts to eat Leela. Bender's severe vibrations cause one of his eyes to fall out and the Cyclophage swallows him, believing Bender to be a cyclops. The device explodes, killing the creature. Bender emerges intact and the Professor declares that Bender expended his excess energy. The crew leave in order to celebrate and Zapp Brannigan emerges from the birth machine saying wheeee. + +President Nixon and Zapp Brannigan enlist Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth's help to destroy a Death Sphere, named V-GINY, headed towards Earth. Zapp and Turanga Leela pilot the Professor's invisible stealth fighter inside the V-GINY, but they are attacked and forced to crash down on an uninhabited paradise Planet. Leela finds herself trapped under a fallen tree, forcing her to depend on Zapp for her survival. Soon Zapp and Leela begin surviving naked, using leaves to cover their privates and the pair start to work through their past differences, particularly when the Earth's destruction at the hands of the Death Sphere forces Leela to ponder whether this planet is their own Garden of Eden and whether she and Zapp are now Humanity's Adam and Eve. Meanwhile, the Planet Express crew find out the V-GINY only censors indecent planets, which prompts them to convince the V-GINY that there's still purity in their world. The crew goes to the last unspoiled island on Earth after failing to convince the planet's people to repent. Shortly afterwards Leela discovers Zapp has been misleading her and the crew stumble upon Leela and Zapp, explaining they're still on Earth. This enrages Leela even further and just as she's kicking Zapp's arse, they are approached by the V-GINY. The sphere proclaims that it's convinced there's still hope that this world might be redeemed, after watching Adam and Eve's antics, referring to Leela and Zapp. However, it orders them to consummate their union immediately. Failing to obey will lead to the planet's destruction. Leela weighs out her options and regards this as taking one for the team. The V-GINY flying away pleased from Earth and Philip J. Fry I screaming in agony due to his request for censoring the consummation being denied by the V-GINY. Zapp and Leela have sex. + +Mayor Poopenmeyer opens the 83rd or 84th annual E-waste recycling festival by throwing out the ceremonial first dump. Professor Farnsworth discards dangerously unstable Doomsday Devices, stating he'd rest easier not knowing where they were. Zoidberg, Amy, Fry and Leela throw out a Japanese toilet because it knows too much. Bender, trying to get rid of some evidence, finds Flexo in one of the dumpsters -- apparently the bending units are outdated, radioactive and cause erectile dysfunction. When a reporter asks Mayor Poopenmeyer whether E-waste was dangerous, he replies "Not at all, Scoop. Not after it's hurled off to the Third World by an expendable team of minimum-wage nobodies" -- the Planet Express crew of course. Upon arriving on the Third World of the Antares System, a blue alien informs the crew that their old clunker will be dismantled shortly. When Leela clarifies that they have come to deliver E-waste, not the ship, the Planet Express ship and Bender are already stripped of their exterior. The waste is unloaded with a hover-dumpster and “processed” with gas and a match. The blue alien explains the process of burning the E-waste down to the usable metals, safely releasing the toxins into the air and the drinking water. Back at the Planet Express building, Leela summarizes that she later learned some positive aspects of recycling, too, but an even better behavior is to not produce as much E-waste in the first place. She retrieves her outdated cellphone from a trashcan, only to throw it away again after watching a commercial for the new eyePhone. The entire crew agrees to buy eyePhones online and ditch their old phones. Outside, Fry learns that by online Leela actually meant standing in line for the store, which is on the other side of the city. After the crew purchases their eyePhones they all start using them excessively and it is revealed that Mom designed the eyePhone and Twitcher to collect personal information for marketing purposes, updating old fashioned methods of gathering information such as Spybots and the Infosquito. Fry becomes jealous of Bender who has many more followers on Twitcher. They agree to put a wager on who would have a million followers first. Fry says that he will not stoop to the sleazy level of Bender's posts. After falling far behind and fearing the fact that he will have to dive into a pool of goat vomit, Fry decides to leak a video of Leela lancing a singing boil on her butt, called Susan. This post allows Fry to receive many followers and Bender and Fry both reach 1 million followers at the same time. Soon after the video is released, Leela becomes depressed, due to everyone looking at her embarrassing butt boil, including when she leaves Elzar's restaurant, where the breeze from a subway grate blows her skirt up to her behind and she is then swarmed with paparazzi anxious to get photos of Susan. Mom uses Twitcher to release a computer virus -- affecting the human brain -- upon the between one and two million followers of Bender and Fry, turning them into mindless zombies craving the new eyePhone 2.0. Fry feels horrible about leaking the video of Leela and decides to dive into the pool of goat vomit even though he didn't have to. Leela tells Fry that she is glad he released the video because now she doesn't have to hide Susan. + +Fry has a habit of failing to think before speaking, which gets him ejected from Who Dares to Be a Millionaire. After initially berating him, the Professor shows him his inspirations for intelligence: statues of histories' greatest minds. Among them is Leonardo da Vinci. Fry accidentally destroys da Vinci's beard, which Farnsworth purchased at an auction, revealing plans for an unknown device that da Vinci had devised. Fry offers to help solve it, but the Professor laughs at him. Fry then leaves Planet Express, contemplating his IQ, when he is hit by a bus. He spends two weeks in the hospital, during which no one visits him or even sends a card. When he returns to the company, Farnsworth is in the midst of trying to solve the mystery of da Vinci's device. He sent Bender to retrieve a copy of the Last Supper, but the robot returns dragging the wall with the actual fresco. Examining it, they notice that there is a hand on the painting that doesn't belong to anyone, holding a knife pointed at St. James and beneath him at a strange pair of wooden table legs. Using a high-powered x-ray, they discover that beneath St. James, a robot was originally in the artwork. Realizing that they've come upon a three thousand year old mystery, Farnsworth declares that they must go to Rome to figure this out: Hermes tries reminding him that they are just a delivery company, but is ignored. The Planet Express crew races to the future Rome and discover St. James' coffin, confirming that he was actually a robot. Bender tries to pry out his jeweled eyes, only for a mouse to hop onto a wheel embedded in his chest cavity and start running, causing the wooden robot to reactivate. The robot, named Animatronio, explains that he had actually tossed away the real St. James, to await Leonardo's Shadow Society of Intellectuals. The crew then starts prodding him with questions about Leonardo's mysterious invention. Animatronio recognizes the device as the Machina Magnifica, but seeing that none of the crew are members of the Shadow Society, he refuses to reveal anything and begins to flay himself to death when he mentions a fountain. Leela is able to intimidate him into confessing about the fountain, before he spontaneously shuts down. The Professor thinks to quickly give up, before hitting on the epiphany that Animatronio was talking about the Trevi Fountain, deducing the clues from a statue of Neptune. However, the fountain is guarded by an octopus. Bender, determined to collect the coins in the fountain, kills the octopus. He then pulls a giant nickel from the very bottom, only to discover that it is in fact a plug which drains the fountain. The others leap down the drain after Bender, discovering that the tube leads to the Pantheon, which has a statue of the Vitruvian Man. Meanwhile, a figure in the shadows tries shooting a dart at the Professor, only to miss and hit Bender in the side of his eye, which he doesn't notice. Finding a coin slot which the giant nickel could fit in, Bender attempts to tie it to a string to pull it out, only for his right arm to be pulled off. The statue then starts to roll across the floor, which begins to retract to reveal da Vinci's secret workshop. Fry asks if any of these actually work. Farnsworth says they don't. Then suddenly, the mysterious figure, revealed to be Animatronio, throws a mace at them, only for it to attach itself to Bender's shoulder, which he uses to whack Animatronio. When they try interrogating him again, he accidentally lets it slip that many of that many of DaVinci's famous inventions actually fit together, before pretending to die. Fry sits in one of the flying craft, determining that it can't fly. Farnsworth warns him that that's dangerous, only to be thrown around by the antiquated machinery onto the chair next to Fry. They soon learn that the craft they're in is in fact a spaceship. Animatronio makes once last ditch effort to stop them from discovering da Vinci's greatest secret with a giant crossbow, only to be tackled by Leela and Bender. The crossbow then fires its arrow at the activation lever, launching Fry and Farnsworth into space. It takes a month before they arrive at their destination: Vinci, a planet full of a mix of advanced and steam-based technology. Also, they discover Leonardo, who is in fact a near-immortal alien who came to Earth because he was actually the dumbest of his kind. He is belittled by everyone for not being smart enough to use their civilization's more advanced technology. His only solace is inventing, but he mislaid the designs for the Machina Magnifica, which Fry has had on his person the whole time. While the Professor goes to check out the math hall, Fry helps Da Vinci build his lost invention. However, he soon learns that it is not only an ice cream machine, but a doomsday device, designed to slay all the others who have tormented Leonardo over the years. Farnsworth steps up to join him, shouting that though he's stupider than his people, doesn't mean they're smarter than him. Leonardo then unleashes his doomsday machine on everyone. Fry, refusing to let this happen, attempts to nail a nail with another nail to sabotage the machine, only for it to hit him in the eye and cause him to fall into the machine. As he is jammed between gears, he stops the machine. Once again everyone begins to mock Leonardo, who then attempts to restart his machine, only to be crushed by a large gear. Farnsworth and Fry take Leonardo's ship back home. Farnsworth apologizes to his uncle for mistaking his intellect, only to incidentally insult him once again. After a Sithal War re-enactment, Bender Bending Rodriguez mocks the rest of the Planet Express crew for their mortality. He believes that the back-up unit he was installed with will download him into a new body once his current one is destroyed, effectively making him immortal. His irreverence for death annoys his coworkers, but he informs them that the only Human being whose opinion matters to him is that of Inspector #5, the quality control inspector at Mom's Friendly Robot Company who assessed him right after he was built. Though he does not remember him, Bender lauds Inspector #5, believing his approved inspection to be the ultimate affirmation of his perfection. However, after discovering and fixing an oil leak, Bender learns that he is missing the back-up unit because of a production defect. Hermes Conrad agrees to join him in his quest to discover the identity of Inspector #5, leaving Leela in charge of all bureaucratic business. Unable to understand her first piece of paperwork, she hides it behind a plant. After a fruitless trip to the Central Bureaucracy where Inspector 5's digital AND physical file were missing, a frustrated Bender calls Mom, who dispatches Kill-bots to eliminate Bender in order to cover-up the existence of a 'defective product', which would tarnish her company's image. The duo try outrunning the Kill bots on a train, but they catch up. With a very low tunnel coming up ahead, there is no choice but to limbo while standing atop the train. After twelve hours through the tunnel, Bender and Hermes arrive in Tijuana, where they find the old home of Inspector 5. Finding no trace of Inspector 5, Bender gives up on his search and laments the fact that he's doomed to someday die. Hermes cheers Bender up and gives him a new outlook on life. Soon, the Kill bots catch up and start destroying the building. Hermes is able to hack into the computer console and upload false information to the Kill bots claiming Bender has been eliminated: he narrowly escapes the wreckage of the house in the Kill bots' wake by limboing. Back at Planet Express, Hermes and Bender return to find it in complete chaos thanks to a panicking Leela who tried to hide every single paper behind plants. After an hour of work, Hermes manages to turn everything to normal and burns various paperwork. As the rest of the crew goes off to celebrate with Bender, Hermes burns one last document, a file revealing that he was Inspector 5: he actually detected Bender's defect when the 'infant' robot came off the assembly line. However, rather than dispose of the robot Hermes found himself unable to and chose to override the computer and allow Bender to live: he then resigned from Mom's Friendly Robot Company and left his house in Tijuana. It is revealed he secretly stole Inspector 5's file while he and Bender were in the Central Bureaucracy: he did not have to hack into the computer at his Tijuana home because it was his in the first place. Hermes has smile on his face, proud of his decision to save Bender. Amy, Kif Kroker, Philip J. Fry I, Turanga Leela, Bender and Nibbler go out drinking the night before Amy's doctoral exam. While everyone else is dancing, Nibbler breaks up with Leela as her pet. Amy wakes up 10 minutes before the exam. She arrives very late and in her underwear. She explains that her thesis is a planetary ratchet that can use the Earth's rotational energy and create electric current. One of the professor's cat starts batting the wire and because of her allergy to cats, she drops her model, breaking. Her doctorate is denied. The cat follows the crew back home and bites Fry's hair. He found it to be nice. The cat is immediately loved by everyone except Amy who is allergic to them and Nibbler who is jealous. He begins to regret his decision to stop being Leela's pet. However when they find that the cat has Leela under a hypnotic spell and all the crew members have their own cats and are also being controlled. Amy and Nibbler visit Professor Katz to find out more. They discover that he was never even alive. He was just a puppet adapted for control by a cat. They return to Planet Express and sneak into the basement to discover the hypnotized crew members have built Amy's planetary ratchet. The main cat reveals that he and all the other cats can talk. He also tells of how his home planet's orbit has slowed making both sides of the planet unbearable. He also tells that the first cats landed on Earth to steal its rotational energy in Egypt in 3500 BC and became domesticated. After learning of Amy's device, he built it to transfer the rotational energy from the Pyramid of Giza they built when they landed. Nibbler tries to break the spell using his own cuteness but it doesn't work. The cats stop the planet and send the energy to Thubian-9. They then evacuate the planet as one side begins to reach extreme heats and the other begins to freeze over. They try to spin the ratchet the other way but it doesn't work. Amy realizes that if they continue pushing forward they can restart Earth. They take back the planet's rotational energy and Earth starts turning again and Thubian-9 slows back down. However, the Earth is now spinning in the opposite direction. For saving Earth with her planetary ratchet, Amy is awarded her Ph.D. in Applied Physics. Nibbler apologizes to Leela and he returns to being her pet. After being interrupted by Cubert, Professor Farnsworth asks why he isn't at school. Cubert responds by saying that he couldn't get past the protesters. The Planet Express crew then sets out to Cubert's school, where protesters are arguing against the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools. Hubert argues that evolution did occur, but is ignored because there is one missing link in history that has not been found. Angered by the protesters' support of Creaturism, the Professor decides to find the missing link and prove the theory of evolution. After searching for days, the crew eventually finds the missing link. Bender Bending Rodriguez refuses to believe that Robots didn't evolve, but the rest of the crew ignores him, with the Professor stating that Robots were just recently built. The crew then presents the missing link to the Museum of Natural History. Hubert is disgraced when an avid Creaturism supporter, Dr. Banjo, reveals a picture of Homo Farnsworth riding on a Dinosaur at the start of creation, stating that it disproves the theory of evolution. Hubert, disgraced and angry, decides that he doesn't want to live on Earth anymore. After leaving Cubert with Dr. John A. Zoidberg, the Planet Express crew sets out to help the Professor set up a house on a distant planet in deep space, with the promise of pizza when the job is done. After setting everything up, the Professor inserts nanobots into the nearby pond, to clean the irritants in the water. The nanobots then become larger, devouring the Planet Express ship, Hubert's new house and most of the crew's clothes. The crew manages to grab the pizza, and run to safety in a cave, while Bender argues that the larger trilobots prove the theory of robot evolution. The humans attempt to eat their pizza, but discover that it is poisoned with pineapple, and throw it away. The next day, the crew goes outside and sees a newly grown mechanical forest. The nanobots have now become mechanical dinosaurs. Robotic versions of Plesiosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex attack the crew, but a Tricycletops saves the crew. A robotic Pterodactyl takes Fry to her nest, where she is about to feed Fry to her robotic young. As the crew attempts to rescue Fry, they are ambushed by a robotic Dimetrodon and the same robotic Tyrannosaurus Rex, but a solar flare short circuits the robots. The crew salvages the robot parts to build a spaceship, but they must wait until the next day because it is solar powered. Meanwhile, Zoidberg tries to bond with Cubert, who admits that the reason he makes fun of people is because he's being bullied in school. Zoidberg, knowing full well that he himself had been bullied a whole lot in his childhood and then bullied a ton by his coworkers then gives Cubert advice on how to deal with bullies and the two become closer. The next day, the crew wakes up to find both Leela and Amy missing, taken and possibly raped by robot cavemen. They go outside and witness the cavemen carrying the women into a cave on top of a cliff. Bender explains that the fittest survived and the Professor makes a slingshot to fight the robot caveman. It takes the professor 12 hours to make the slingshot, so everyone agrees to rescue the women the next day. When the guys wake up, they run out of the cave, ready to combat the caveman robots. Leela and Amy are standing outside the cave and explain that the robots disappeared after they had gone to sleep. A human like naturalist robot comes out of the forest and attempts to capture the humans. After realizing that they can talk, she is very excited and so she takes them to the Museum of Natural Robo-History. There, the professor states that he's proud of the nanobots growth after he dumped their ancestors in a pond a few days ago. The robots are angered by Hubert and state that robotkind took eons, not days, to be created. The professor explains that relative to them, it was eons, but in reality, only a few days had passed. He then shows a picture of a robot riding a dinosaur at the start of their creation, thus disproving the theory of robot evolution. The angry robots then arrest Hubert for crimes against science and he is put on trial. Bender represents him and argues the Professor is not arguing against their evolution, but only claims a small role in applying the initial machinery. Bender calls this insanity and asks the jury to vote not guilty by means of insanity. The jurors deliberate for so long that everyone falls asleep. When they wake up, the robots have evolved into a state of higher consciousness and are not concerned with the Professor anymore. The crew then takes their makeshift spaceship and head home. There, the Professor explains his findings to Dr. Banjo. who agrees that what happened was some form of evolution, but it was set in motion by a wise and all knowing creator. The Professor and Dr. Banjo then ridicule Bender for wondering if their creator was a robot, while Zoidberg admits he's happy to finally be rid of Cubert, who's horrible. Everyone laughs and Zoidberg emphasizes his annoyance with Cubert. + +Turanga Leela accuses Philip J. Fry I of only caring about her looks and Fry tries to talk his way out of this argument while Bender Bending Rodriguez interrupts claiming he's going to try to steal the Robo-Hungarian Empire's Emperor Nikolai's crown. Meanwhile, Amy and the professor express a desire to feel young again and give into her voracious apptite respectively, so they switch minds. When they try to switch back they find out they can't because the same bodies can't switch twice. Farnsworth in Amy's body switches with Bender to try and fix it but he realizes it won't work. As the professor tries to figure it out, Amy continues to eat and Bender goes to seduce the guard on board the Emperor's yacht to steal the crown. He finds out the Emperor is tired of the rich life and wants to live a regular life so Bender takes him back to the office. However, the professor decides to run away in Bender's invincible body and joins the circus as a daredevil. Leela and Amy in the professor's body switch so Leela can get the senior citizen's discount at the movies and Amy can continue to eat because the body of an old man can't digest anything. When Fry finds out Leela gets even more enraged at him about his shallowness. To get back at her, Fry switches with Zoidberg and Fry and Leela get disgusted at each other's appearance but deny it and challenge each other to a romantic dinner. Meanwhile, Bender in Amy's body switches with Scruffy's robotic washbucket and then with the Emperor. Zoidberg in Fry's body and the Emperor in Washbucket's body pretend to recognize each other and they go back to the apartment. Zoidberg rips the dishwasher out of the wall spewing water everywhere and then does the same with the oven to try to boil the water but gas begins to leak as well. The Emperor lights up a cigar causing the apartment to explode. Meanwhile Washbucket in Amy's body tries to seduce Scruffy because she loves him but he reluctantly and nobly rejects her because deep down she is still janitorial equipment. He then starts to cry. Bender discovers that the emperor's fiancee is cheating on him with the emperor's cousin and plan to take the throne. Bender escapes and is chased through the streets under the exploding apartment to the U.N. Meanwhile Hermes discovers Amy in the body of a grossly overweight Leela gorging herself on butter. Amy is depressed because she can't stop eating, so Hermes switches with her to help Leela's body drop the pounds, commenting that she can't really make his body any worse than it already is. At Elzar's restaurant, Fry in Zoidberg's body and Leela in the professor's body are trying to gross each other out and when Fry argues that he's as attracted to Leela as ever he begins to make out with her on the table. Amy in Hermes' body looks on in horror, instantly put off her pork sundae. After returning to Leela's apartment, having sex and at the same time using their own minds to effectively rape Zoidberg's and Farnsworth's bodies, Fry and Leela turn on the T.V. to discover Bender's situation on the news. Meanwhile, at the circus, Farnsworth meets an old cannon named Big Bertha who loves her old body and wouldn't trade it for anything in the universe. As all the Robo-Hungarian carnies watch the scene at the U.N. on the news. Big Bertha launches the professor even though it shatters her body so he can get there in time to save the emperor's body. He crashes through the roof and using the tiny robot carnies he hid in his breast plate, slices the emperor's cousin to pieces. Back at the office, the Harlem Globetrotters help the crew return to their original bodies. They discover Amy helped Hermes' body lose weight after losing her appetite forever after watching the scene at Elzar's. This inspired Hermes' to do the same for Leela's body. In the end, everyone goes back to their original body and Bender realizes he left the emperor's real crown in the emperor's breastplate and begins to think of a new scheme to steal it again. + +In every story, all earthlings die, exception made for the Robanukah story in which Bender Bending Rodriguez survives and the Kwanzaa episode in which only the crew dies for sure. Someone sings a song about the holiday traditions. Robot Santa Claus for Xmas, Bender for Robanukah and Kwanzaabot for Kwanzaa. Al Gore makes an appearance in every storyline and in the final wrap up with Amy Kroker, advertising, for the fifth time in the episode, Gundersons Nuts. The first story is about Xmas. Philip J. Fry I is gloomy because he still doesn't understand the Xmas holiday, therefore Santa explains it in a song. When they realize they do not own a pine tree, as Xmas tradition would require, they want to get one. Pine trees are extinct, except they seem to ski with them in the beginning, therefore, they go to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, right next to the Germ Welfare Repository. They then are able to obtain a seed for the pine tree, which appears to be contaminated with germs and Fry plants it in front of the Planet Express Building. One year later, it has grown not more than six feet and Nixon steals it in order to replant it in front of the White House to celebrate the annual White House Christmas lighting. And right after the lighting, the tree starts growing huge and shooting pinecones on the ground, reforestating planet Earth. This brings very high levels of oxygen. This is when Bender says: "I don't recall doing anything for a while, but I still think I deserve a smoke". When he lights his cigar, the oxygen in the air catches on fire transforming the whole earth into a ball of fire. The second story is about Robanukah. Bender is upset because everyone gets excited about holidays but not about Robanukah. When he is accused to have invented Robanukah himself just to skip days of work, he makes up a song in which he describes Robanukah traditions. One of these is to watch two fem-bots wrestling in petroleum oil. Unfortunately, there is no petroleum left on earth. The professor states there should be some petroleum deep down towards the center of the earth. They therefore modify the Planet Express Ship in order to dig through ground. They finally go too deep and all the crew but Bender is crushed due to the intense pressure. Bender then sits singing Bender is great for 500 million years. When he looks back to the crew, he finds out they finally turned into petroleum oil, "I thought they were selfish, but in the end, it turns out it was I that thought they were selfish", so he climbs back to surface and celebrates Robanukah with the two fem-bots wrestling in lots of petroleum oil, generated from the whole population of earth being extinct and the planet being now a desert. The Third story is about Kwanzaa. The crew gathers at the Conrads' place to celebrate Kwanzaa. This is when they want to know more about Kwanzaa, so Kwanzaabot sings a song about it and its traditions. They therefore find out they have to light some candles, which have to be made 100% out of beeswax. All bees on earth are attacked by parasites and cannot produce any beeswax. Fry then suggests the hive of the space bees and so they go. Once there they see how all the bees are crashing against walls and floors and exploding. The queen bee then explains that they have been attacked by parasites themselves and can't do anything but just talk smack to each other. Hermes wants to stop this bee on bee conflict and decides to African-Americanize the space bees. He tells them about the values of Kwanzaa, about unity. Hermes' speech about Kwanzaa brings back the Kwanzaa spirit, which kills all the parasites. Now the space bees are united again and turn against the crew, killing Kwanzaabot and making the crew into candles to celebrate Kwanzaa. The episode begins with the Planet Express crew counting down to bankruptcy and as Hermes Conrad declares them officially bankrupt Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth bursts in clutching an envelope declaring Planet Express to be back in business. As the crew prepares to deliver the envelope it is revealed that it is actually addressed to the Professor who congratulates them on a job well done and when he opens the envelope declares them all to be incompetent. Hermes finds a loophole in the mortgage saying if they actually pay it they can keep the building. The Professor tells everyone to prepare to move out to their new home under the bridge and orders Turanga Leela and Amy Wong to pack lunches while the men reminisce and smoke cigars. The two women refuse to pack lunches saying it was the men that drove the company into the ground blaming Philip J. Fry I's idea of delivering packages for free. Amy says "If you want to save this company, you should listen to a woman's idea for once." Then when prompted Leela comes up with the idea of turning Planet Express into an airline. Bender Bending Rodriguez, however, imitates Amy's voice proposing a Planet Express girly calendar. Leela and Amy refuse to pose topless but have to change their minds when Hermes declares that it is in their contract. Due to the low number of female employees Hermes hires his wife Labarbara Conrad. After the photoshoot, Amy wearing a skimpy lab coat and tight clothes, Leela going topless and wearing suspenders and LaBarbara wearing another skimpy outfit, that was taken using Bender as the camera, the Professor dismisses the idea saying that they still don't have enough female employees reverting back to Leela's idea of an Airline company, but claims the idea to be his own. Plan Am is launched and Fry and Hermes are in charge of piloting the plane with the women acting as stewardesses. On their first journey Fry and Hermes sleep causing the plane to crash on a mineral world. When arguing if Hermes or LaBarbara should be in charge, a native lifeform offers to help solve the problem by offering a series of tests. The men win the first test helped by Bender's lies. The next test is to find their way to the cave of harmony which is the only safe place to reside when the Planet reaches its nearest part of the orbit around the sun and becomes too hot. Neither gender reaches the cave in time thanks to negative traits of both genders, the men get lost and refuse to ask for directions while the women are unable to resist a mirage that looks like a shoe sale. Hermes and LaBarbara sneak into the opposite camps to steal Bender's gas compressor and Amana's freon with the same idea of supercharging the freon with the gas compressor in order to keep cool. However Hermes and LaBarbara meet in-between both camps and discovering each other's theft declare both genders to be equal. They start arguing and then suddenly start to have sex and the next morning wake to find that they have overslept. The women start coughing from the fumes and the men are engulfed by boiling Mercury. Everybody then suddenly materializes in a cave and the rock alien is disappointed with them saying that he set the test so both genders would work together and their failure to do so means that he lost his bet with the Borax Kid. He then decides to remove their genders and everyone finds that their sexual organs have been removed. Everyone is much happier with no gender and get along much better, but Hermes and LaBarbara decide that they want their genitals back when they see that without genitals they can't have sex. The rock alien returns to restore their genders but inadvertently changes them to the opposite gender so the women become men and the men become women. Just as he is about to rectify his mistake, Zapp Brannigan arrives and shoots him and then starts to chat up the now female Fry. Back at Planet Express headquarters there is a majority of female staff so the 'girly' calendar can now go ahead. The calendar makes enough money to put Planet Express back in business and the Borax Kid arrives and returns the crew back to their correct genders. Just after the Borax Kid leaves, Scruffy comes out of the girls toilets still as a women asking what she missed. + +Back on Earth, Bender's two duplicates laugh about the funny comments they made until Bender wants some cigars. So They copy themselves in order to get four cigars for Bender. The process continues until there are 11 generations of Benders running around the office: the crew quickly moves in to exterminate all the duplicates, but Amy discovers that one of them has escaped. As this one gives rise to a new swarm that keeps reproducing and consuming matter, including Bender's couch and beer, the Professor worries that they will eventually eat the Earth. Leela points out that since the Benders are fueled by alcohol, they will run out of power once they have used up the planet's supply. When this happens, the crew sweeps up the Benders and flushes them down the toilet. As the other crew members recover from a terrible hangover the next morning, the Professor is happy to note that someone finally folded his sweaters. When Fry asks Bender if he did this and learned a lesson about being lazy, Bender cryptically replies that perhaps he did - or perhaps he kept one of the mini-Benders around to do the job for him. He then exhales cigar smoke, which turns out to be composed of thousands of microscopic, maniacally laughing Benders. + +The Planet Express sits quietly in the conference room for 15 minutes so their insurance is reinstated. During this time Amy screams A Giant Sausage and points to a floating sausage outside the window and the rest of the crew become terrified. But Leela realizes that it was part of the parade that was happening today and all the crew calm down except Fry, who starts to scream again. So the crew all go outside to watch the parade and Fry is surprised to discover that this is the Parade Day parade. Since every group on Earth demanded a parade, it became prohibitive to have a parade every single day. So they were all combined into Parade Day, where different cultures have a single float and specified section to march in. The Jamaican Float travels too fast bumping into the back of the Dorito float, and causing a giant Dorito to cut the heads off some lampposts and the model Earth on Zapp Brannigan's float which rolls down towards two nerds who are talking inconspicuously and unaware of what is happening. Fry then charges forward and lunges towards the nerds saving the human one and leaving the robot to die. Fry is thanked by the survivor's wife, and the mayor declares that this Saturday should be declared Fryday in honor of Fry's actions as well as giving him the keys to the city. After the celebrations they arrived back to Planet Express to discover Bender glowering at Fry and accusing him of thinking that a human's life is worth more than a robot's. Bender then decides to kill himself, which the crew doesn't take seriously, as for Bender this is a common empty threat. Bender arrives to the suicide booth to discover the booth is Lynn, an ex-girlfriend of his, who says his death won't be suicide; it will be murder. At Planet Express his dead body is returned via DeadEx; all the crew mourn after Hermes proves that he is dead by waving a $1 at his faace. Bender rises from his body as a ghost, and finds that no one can hear him any more except the robot devil, who takes him down to his office for a chat. They agree that if Bender kills Fry then he will get his life back but if he fails he spends the rest of eternity in robot hell. Bender tries to scare Fry to death but as Fry cannot hear him it doesn't work. After trying to kill him with soap Bender discovers that he can control electronics and begins to torment Fry with electrical devices. Fry attempts to buy a pineapple from a vending machine, Bender's ghost promptly possesses the device and pelts Fry with fruit, burying him. The crew laughs at Fry when he claims to be haunted by a ghost but after more mishaps he holds a seance and the medium tells him he is being haunted by a robot ghost and he wonders what robot it could be. He then calls the Preacherbot to help him, and who gives him a sacred firewall which prevents robot ghosts from getting within 20 feet of him. However Bender manages to possess the firewall and cause an image of Fry's melting head, which causes him to have a heart attack. Believing the heart attack to be fatal Bender goes down to hell to claim his prize but the robot devil informs him that Fry survived his heart attack. Back on the surface, Bender overhears that one more sudden shock will kill Fry but changes his mind about murdering his best friend when Fry says that he misses Bender and that he realizes how valuable a robot life can be when it belongs to his best friend. Fry goes to live on the Amish Homeworld where no machines are allowed. Bender follows, vowing to help his friend and assisting him with everything even though Fry is unaware. On the day the Planet Express crew visit, the Robot Devil appears, dressed in Granny Hester's clothes. The Robot Devil says that it is Bender's fate to kill Fry and causes him to unintentionally spook the ox into making a barn roll towards Fry. Bender possess the Robot devil and warns everyone to run away from the runaway barn, pushing Fry out the way but killing the robot devil in the process. Fry then decides to return to New New York. Both Bender's ghost and the Robot Devil's ghost return to Robot Hell. However the robot devil has a closet full of spare bodies and ridicules Bender for trying to kill him. But, because of his good deed, Bender is taken up to Robot Heaven where he meets the Robot God. Bender possesses him, arguing that he wants to return to Earth, and is ejected. His old dead body reassembles and he is once again alive. Fry says he is glad that Bender is alive again and that he missed him but then asks suspiciously if Bender was the one haunting him, to which Bender doesn't reply. + +Delivery Boy Command is being played by Fry. Fry narrates saying "As being a delivery boy for centuries, nothing surprises me." A bus then hits Fry and the game is over. Fry then rides his bike and gets hit by a bus once again. The scene jumps to Applied Cryogenics where Fry goes into the same room he got frozen in. He then says "Hello, pizza delivery for, D. Frosted Wang?" Terry, Imju and the other worker come out laughing. Fry then angrily says "It's not as funny as the first time anymore." Imju claims it's not AS funny, but still funny. Fry then tells his story to the crew and they all laugh. Fry says he needs to be shot in the arm. He is then shot in the leg by Roberto, who jumps through the window to hide after a robbery. Officer Smith then tells "The criminal robot in the building, come out with your hands up." Bender then yells "Never." Smitty, then claims he means Roberto. He then claims he wants certain items such as a hovercopter and that every five minutes he doesn't get one someone will be stabbed in the ass. Zoidberg then states he's bluffing only to be stabbed in the arse and yells "He's not bluffing." Smitty and URL then break in saying, "You called for a chopper?" and Roberto, exclaims he specifically ordered a hovercopter. URL says " One chopper, coming up" and knocks Roberto out. They proceed to arrest him, and Amy and Zoidberg give Smitty a kiss. Leela tells Fry she loves a man in uniform. Fry says he's in uniform, and Leela states she means a uniform that doesn't involve short pants. Fry then resigns, takes off his shorts, gives them to Hermes and walks off. He goes to the police academy to get a job there and meets Sound Effects 5000. The future officers rise for Chief O'Manahan who states it's a hard job and if they pass she'd be proud to call them policemen. The scene jumps to Fry's training where he rides in a police car, shoots targets and hits dummies with a lightsaber. Then, the graduation ceremony begins with Fry becoming a police officer, along with many others. Once Fry is a policeman the chief states he will be working with URL due to the unfortunate loss of Smitty a few days before retirement. URL states he took an early retirement. At Planet Express, the Professor states his new invention, wheels on a board, so Bender and Leela can make the next delivery without him. The Professor also states that they will be going to Pandora and they can't send their avatars because it's cheaper just to have them die. In the streets of New New York, Fry and URL chase a car through Circuit City for going 15 MPH over the speed of light. In reminiscent of Tron, they catch the law-breaker with their lightwalls and identifying one Erwin Schrödinger, who has kept a cat and drugs hidden in a box. Impressed with their work, O'Manahan promotes the two of them to the Future Crimes Division. Meanwhile on the trip to Pandora, Bender and Leela discover that, without Fry, working for a delivery company isn't actually that interesting, and they say nothing to each other for the entire 27 hour flight. They then land on Pandora. Leela tells Bender to deliver the package, Bender then gets mad telling Leela he's the ship's cook, not the delivery boy. So Leela tells him to cook them something nice. Bender then comes out with a sandwich that splats on the screen. Words then appear saying put 3-D glasses on one minute ago. Back on Earth, URL and Fry then get a tour of the Future Crimes Division, and get introduced to Pickles, a robot equipped with an advanced human brain that can predict crimes in advance before they happen. The tour guide then explains that a green ball states larceny, a black ball states fraud, the red ball states homicide, and the pink polka-dotted ball states clown slaughter, which happens a lot. A red ball then appears. The guide then goes to the holographic computer area finding the suspect, the victim and the time. Hattie McDoogal and her boyfriend are romantically sitting on the couch when the cops bust in and her boyfriend picks up the snowglobe and Hattie yelling "My Ka-Jigger." He hits the cage and the parrots fly everywhere. They then arrest the suspect. As they explained to Hattie, her boyfriend wasn't intent on marrying her, since she promised her valuables to her parrots, whom he intended to marry. While Fry is alone in the Oracle Room when Pickles alerts him to a new crime about to made: larceny. He finds a case blown up, Maltese liquor, a gunshot, and the suspect, Bender. Fry attempts to warn Bender not to go through with it but accidentally makes Bender decide to rob Hedonismbot. Fry then returns to the Oracle Room, looking through the prediction and sees himself shooting Bender. URL walks in, talking to Fry. Fry states he would never shoot Bender. This creates an alternate future in which all of his other friends die because the Maltese liquor is fatal to humans, which Bender decided to share. However, Fry decide to have one last look. Then we see Bender ringing a doorbell at the house of the crime. Hedonismbot answers and allows Bender into his basement. A dog then comes out barking at Bender. He then distracts the dog with a steak and slaps it across the dogs face. Bender lights up a cigar revealing the invisible safe. Then with the dynamite he used to light his cigar, he breaks the safe open. Fry walks in with the gun. Bender refuses to put the Maltese liquor back. Bender trying to make a chump out of the future, states he wont steal anything. Fry claims the oracle was wrong. Pickles then walks in with a gun asking "Was I?" Fry shocked asks "Pickles?" He says it was all a setup. Everyone would think Bender was the thief so he could steal the Maltese liquor and kill his human brain cells to end the misery of being an oracle. Pickles, then orders Bender to hand him the real Maltese liquor that he switched around when Fry wasn't looking. Pickles orders Fry to shoot Bender and the fake bottle. Fry shoots at Pickles in which the bullet bounces off the invisible safe and shoots Bender. Pickles then shoots Fry. Pickles then drinks the liquor and the human brain shrinks. Fry and Bender stand up. Pickles, confused, then finds out Fry and Bender had bullet-proof vests. Then the chief and URL get it all written down and Pickles is arrested by Fry who states it was all a setup. He became suspicious when Pickles showed him Bender sharing the liquor with his friends, as Bender is not the sharing type. Fry later presents the Planet Express crew with the detective shield awarded to him for stopping both Pickles and Bender, but says he was immediately fired for tipping Bender off in the first place. The Professor offers to hire Fry back as Executive Delivery Boy, which Fry accepts, even though Hermes notes Executive is a meaningless title to help insecure people feel better about themselves. + +While making a delivery to the Donbot's mansion during a wedding, Bender sneaks onto the mansion grounds to take part in the festivities. He secretly makes out with the Donbot's daughter Bella when he witnesses the Robot Mafia viciously beating Calculon. Being the only witness of the attack, but fearing repercussions from the Robot Mafia, Bender tries to disguise himself while testifying against the Donbot in open court. However, he is recognized by Bella, while Calculon is threatened by the Robot Mafia into testifying in favor of the Donbot's innocence. Now targeted by the Robot Mafia for ratting out the Donbot and his affair with Bella, Bender is forced to go into witness relocation, leaving Planet Express to begin hiring for his replacement. Determined to hunt down Bender, the Donbot sends Robot Mafia member Clamps to apply for Planet Express under his real name, Francis, in order to befriend Fry and make him reveal Bender's location. However, he is unsuccessful and earns the resentment of Zoidberg, who fears that Clamps's masterful use of his clamp-like hands will overshadow the use of his own pincers, the only part of Zoidberg's job that makes him feel appreciated. The Planet Express crew makes a delivery to the moon where they find a robot they believe to be Bender, who claims his name is Billy West and does not seem to remember any of them, his memory seemingly erased as part of the witness relocation program. This does not stop Clamps from attempting to murder Billy, but he is stopped by Zoidberg, who uses his pincers to cut off his clamps. However, Bella arrives and shoots Billy to death, accusing him of cheating on her since he is married to the Crushinator. The crew returns to Earth to mourn Bender's apparent death at a pizzeria near the Planet Express building. There they find Bender working as a waiter, revealing himself to still be under witness protection there, thus realize that Billy was a different, innocent robot. With the Robot Mafia believing Bender to be dead, Bender is freed from witness protection. + +Leela visits the Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium where she grew up in order to read a story to the orphans. However, she is informed that the orphans ate all of their books long ago, leaving nothing left to read. Leela tries to improvise a story on the spot, but does a poor job of it and the orphans are vocal in their disappointment. Dejected by her failure to entertain them, Leela decides to try and write a children's story of her own, but is unable to concentrate in the noisy Planet Express building: so she takes the Planet Express ship to another, unseen planet where she will be able to write in peace. Later, Leela returns to the orphanarium to tell her new story: she has invented a whimsical fantasy setting named Rumbledy-Hump, which is inhabited by cartoonish creatures called Humplings who sing moralistic songs. While the children are initially reluctant to listen, fearing Leela's new story will be just as bad as the others, but they are quickly won over by her latest effort and eagerly ask her to return to tell another story. Leela is then approached by Abner Doubledeal, now working as a television producer, who was watching her presentation from another room. Doubledeal had earlier subjected the orphans to a test screening for a new lineup of children's shows, but none of the flashy, fast-paced, and corruptive programs, which teach very bad morals caught their interest: in contrast, the simple, colorful, and good moraled world Leela created was able to hold their attention. Doubledeal proposes adapting Rumbledy-Hump into a basic cable television series. Leela hesitates, wary of the heavy corrupting influence of Hollywood, but when the orphans encourage her to further develop something that brought them so much joy, she accepts. Leela arrives late for the filming of the first episode of the Rumbledy-Hump series, having just returned from her quiet place with the script in hand. Production goes smoothly and the episode airs just as planned, with the costumed members of the Planet Express crew acting as the main cast and Hermes as the cameraman. Leela is proud of the work they've done, although she expects little to come of it, claiming that good television series are always canceled sometimes two or three times. However, when the next day's television ratings arrive, Rumbledy-Hump is revealed as a sleeper instant smash hit and its popularity explodes all over Earth: the show is adapted into a series of books and children's toys, and Leela becomes famous overnight. She is awarded a Slurmie award for her show at the Slurm-sponsored Young People's Choice Awards and attends a celebration that evening, although her newfound fame has caused a change in her attitude: Leela has become snotty and arrogant, regarding herself as a creative genius and disregarding all of her friends' contributions to the show. When Doubledeal tells Leela that he needs the script for the next episode, despite the late hour, she takes the Planet Express ship to her quiet place in order to work on it. A dazed Bender stumbles out of the ship, having seduced a fembot at the party and discovers Leela observing a group of aliens who are identical to the Humplings: it turns out that Rumbledy-Hump is actually a real place and is the planet that Leela has been retreating to all this time. Bender learns that Leela never actually wrote any of the scripts for her show: she stumbled upon Rumbledy-Hump while searching for a quiet place to write and has merely been transcribing the words and actions of the native Humplings, then claiming it as her own work, which counts as plagiarism and is a crime. Bender admires Leela's hypocrisy, although he swiftly blackmails her, threatening to expose her as a fraud unless she shares half of the show's gross profits with him. Filming of the show continues as normal until Leela is approached by Sally, who shows her a simple drawing of her own magical cast of characters from a place called Butterscotch Hollow. Leela is surprised that Sally was able to develop an original setting using her own imagination, but Sally replies that Leela's work serves to inspire her. Overcome with guilt from this, Leela takes Doubledeal, the crew and the orphans to the real Rumbledy-Hump planet, where she confesses that all of her scripts are plagiarized from the life experiences of the Humplings. She admits that she should have come forward sooner, but she took great pride in being able to make the orphans happy and didn't want to disappoint them. Doubledeal is shocked to learn that the Humplings are real, but quickly turns the situation to his advantage: rather than make a Rumbledy-Hump adaptation using scripts and actors in suits, he simply films the Humplings directly as a reality television show. Leela is outraged by what she perceives as the exploitation of the innocent creatures, but the arrangement is actually a beneficial one. The Humplings are introduced to the conveniences of modern technology, greatly improving the quality of their lives, while Doubledeal himself adopts all of the orphans, putting them to work as the show's production crew and providing them all with full-time jobs. Leela, however, is still wracked with guilt and has developed a psychological need to be criticized for her deception, demanding to be punished. She cries out in despair as the assembled children and Humplings sing and dance around her, proclaiming their love and appreciation for her. + +Philip J. Fry I goes to his night job at the Head Museum where he feeds the preserved heads of the Presidents of the United States. He invites the Planet Express crew to the museum for a party, where they become drunk and begin ingesting the preservative fluid inside the jars. Doing so causes them and everyone standing nearby to temporarily travel back in time to the eras each head originally came from. Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth reasons that this time travel effect is caused by the rare powdered crystalline opal used to make the fluid, which keeps the heads alive in a temporal bubble. After learning from George Washington's head that one of his own ancestors, David Farnsworth, was one of American history's most nefarious traitors during the American Revolutionary War, Professor Farnsworth becomes determined to salvage his family's reputation. He dumps the world's entire powdered opal supply into Washington's jar and licks his head, transporting himself, Bender Bending Rodriguez, Fry and Turanga Leela back to colonial-era New York. The four learn from the Continental Congress that David Farnsworth works at Benjamin Franklin's print shop in Philadelphia, where David is forging counterfeit money that would destroy the country's economy should it enter circulation. Though they do not find David at the shop, they discover a fake Massachusetts halfpenny and determine he has gone to Paul Revere's silver shop in Boston. They capture David just as Revere begins his ride to alert Lexington of the imminent British attack that would start the American Revolution. However, Fry takes one of the two lanterns hung at the Old North Church to burn the forged money, causing Revere to wrongly warn of the British attack by land rather than by sea. The four are suddenly sent back to 3011 and find that history has been altered: Great Britain has won the Revolutionary War and taken over all of North America, turning it into West Britannia. In this alternate timeline, David Farnsworth killed George Washington and was rewarded with a dukedom, making Professor Farnsworth a noble landowner and consort of the Queen of England. Having depleted the world's crystalline opal supply, Hubert despairs that there is no way to travel to the past to fix their mistake until he notices an opal on the queen's crown. After stealing and crushing it, the four are able to use the preserved head of David Farnsworth to return to colonial times and restore the timeline. Once they return to 3011, everything is restored as it was before history was first altered, with one change: hanging in the Head Museum is a flag displaying Bender and a colonial spelling of his catchphrase "Bite my shiny metal ass" in place of the Gadsden flag. + +Farnsworth is mourning the loss of his first Planet Express Crew, it having been exactly 50 years since they were lost, with Dr. Zoidberg as the only survivor of the incident. Zoidberg was so traumatized by the event that he suffered short-termed amnesia and grew white hair. To commemorate the anniversary, Farnsworth orders the current crew to pick up a memorial and fly it back to Earth. However, on the way back, there is the Bermuda Tetrahedron, which is thought to have destroyed many spaceships which have attempted to travel through it. But Leela insists that they should fly through anyway. In the spaceship graveyard inside the Bermuda Tetrahedron, the crew spots the old Planet Express Ship, which they find deserted. However, inside the old ship, the crew is attacked by a four dimensional space whale, and they flee to their current ship. The whale re-attacks them, eating their monument and engine, but leaves the ship adrift. Leela orders the crew to set the solar sails to replace the spaceship engine. But instead of fleeing the Bermuda Tetrahedron and telling Farnsworth what went wrong, Leela decides to hunt down the whale and does not listen to any of her shipmates' warnings. Her obsession with killing it eventually means the crew is eaten by the whale. Leela attacks the behemoth with a cheese knife, whereupon the whale consumes her. Inside, she finds the first and the current crews swimming around in the whale's colon. The only one who isn't is Lando Tucker, the captain of the first Planet Express, drained of his vitality and fused to its belly. He explains to Leela that the whale feasts on obsession, especially on spaceship captains obsessed with killing it. Leela denies his claims, even as he tells her that the whale is obsession, and she is the whale, as she too is fused to its belly. Back on Earth, Farnsworth is forced to go ahead with the memorial. However, the whale suddenly appears over Planet Express, lands in the hangar, and out of its mouth steps Leela. She explains to everyone that while the whale fed on her obsession to kill it, an overriding obsession to complete her delivery enabled her to take control of it. On cue, she commands the whale to launch the statue out of its spout, accidentally crushing a vendor. She then releases all of the whale's victims, who hadn't aged a day within its colon. Despite acknowledging that the space whale is not a monster, as it merely follows its instinct, everyone proceeds to kill the whale out of revenge for swallowing them. + +After a dangerous delivery, the crew eats at Fishy Joe's and Turanga Leela gets upset because of the vague sources of fast food. They go to the local farmer's market to buy known foods and some Zuban cigars for Bender. She blackmails the crew to eat them, but Fry decides to hatch an egg after learning that the ones bought are fertile. Fry raises the egg for a week and it hatches into a horrific monster that he names Mr. Peppy. Mr. Peppy grows to full size in a few days and Farnsworth discovers that Mr. Peppy is a ravenous Bone Vampire. Realizing they can't keep it on Earth, they send it back to its homeworld, Doohan 6, to repopulate the species. After setting Mr. Peppy free, the crew goes to a nearby bar where they tell the villagers that they set the creature loose, thus threatening the populace. Leela's friend Angus McZongo spearheads the hunt as Fry assures them that Mr. Peppy is harmless. After Leela is attacked by Mr. Peppy, Fry decides to kill his pet himself. When he shoots, however, it is revealed to be McZongo dressed in a bone vampire costume and he admits that he was responsible for the attacks. Suddenly, they notice Mr. Peppy sucking the skeleton from some sheep and Fry decides to kill him until the villagers spare the beast because they can use it as a clever way to slaughter their excessive livestock without having to debone them. McZongo is later arrested and the Planet Express Crew does one more drive by at Fishy Joe's + +Frustrated with Zoidberg's incompetence as a doctor, the Planet Express crew starts a labor union mob, betray Zoidberg, and rudely demand that Professor Farnsworth fire him. The professor refuses and the crew question why Zoidberg was ever employed in the first place. A series of flashbacks reveal that Zoidberg first met and befriended Farnsworth in 2927, during a mission to kill a Tritonian yeti for Mom's bioweapons research. As they parachute out of a spacecraft, Zoidberg asks Farnsworth if everyone had taken their hypermalaria pills. After setting up camp, Zoidberg determined that everyone but himself had contracted hypermalaria, a fatal, incurable disease which can either strike instantly or remain dormant for years. With all of Mom's mercenaries doomed to die as well as himself, Farnsworth decided to kill the yeti himself. Zoidberg chased after him and together they killed the yeti. As a favour to Farnsworth for killing the yeti and saving his life, Zoidberg agrees to an arrangement: when Farnsworth begins to experience symptoms of the disease, Zoidberg will have to perform a mercy killing before the disease can fully manifest. As a result, Zoidberg was employed by the professor for the sole purpose of carrying out this task. In the present, the professor begins to experience the symptoms of hypermalaria. The Planet Express Crew enters Zoidberg's office in a mob fashion and starts yelling at him and bullying him. Professor Farnsworth tells Zoidberg to come to his office and the crew thinks that the Professor is going to fire Zoidberg. The Professor instead tells Zoidberg that the hypermalaria is starting to kill him after 80 years and insists that Zoidberg must kill him by surprise because Farnsworth prefers it that way. Zoidberg attempts to kill the professor multiple times but all the attempts fail and backfire. The crew catches Zoidberg attempting to mercy kill the Professor and restrain him with the professor's lab coat, then imprison him in his own office. Zoidberg cuts himself loose from the coat and then notices a single white hair on the professor's coat. Upon examining it, he has a revelation. Meanwhile, Farnsworth berates his employees for their interference and explains about his arrangement with Zoidberg. The crew returns to Zoidberg's office to free him, but he has already escaped from his office prison by sandcrabbing his way out.  Zoidberg goes to Mom's, exchanging a coupon for a free tanning session, his sole possession in the universe, for the thing from Triton. Back at Planet Express, the crew decide to kill Farnsworth themselves, using an elaborate and way overdone mechanical Rube Goldberg killing machine called The Murdolator. The machine works with a wheel covered with axes on a metal grid that surrounds the room. The crew each take a bottle of cyanide to add to the wheel to share the guilt, which is called a killcheck. There are six killchecks in all and when all of them are performed, the professor will die. Hermes performs the first killcheck and Fry performs the second killcheck. When Bender performs the third killcheck and makes a delicious salad in the process, Zoidberg returns. Leela and the entire crew apologize to Zoidberg for mistreating and imprisoning him and tell him that they are killing the professor for him. However, Zoidberg reveals that the professor doesn't have hypermalaria, but rather, he has contracted yetiism after being scratched by the Tritonian yeti. The illness mimics the symptoms of hypermalaria, but instead of dying in the last stage, results in its victims transforming into a yeti. As the crew restrains Farnsworth, Zoidberg brings a yeti head out of a box and extracts its pineal gland, which he intends to use to cure the Professor by neutralizing the adrenal neurotoxin, which prevents yetis from driving themselves mad. But as his friend starts getting out of control, Zoidberg forces him to swallow the yeti gland. At first, it turns him into a double-yeti, before the Murdolator collapses on him. And from the rubble, Farnsworth emerges, successfully cured. As the crew goes to a tanning salon to celebrate, Zoidberg laments giving away his coupon. A grateful Farnsworth offers to treat Zoidberg to a free session and they both depart as friends. + +Fry has a flashback of himself and his Dad going ice fishing in 1988, as the Planet Express crew go ice fishing. They don't have much luck, and after a whole day of no bites, they go back to the headquarters with only a baby fish - and a common cold. Professor Farnsworth explains that the common cold has been extinct for more than 500 years. Soon after, a quarantine shield is put on top of the Planet Express building, and everyone except Bender catches the cold. Although Bender is needed to help the others during their illness, he escapes with germs on his hands, caught from Zoidberg accidentally sneezing on him. He then congratulates the quarantine crew, shaking their hands, and giving them the germs. The quarantine crew soon catches the cold, and there is a new outbreak. After 99% of the city gets the cold, a bigger quarantine shield is put on the city, which is then lifted physically out of the ground. Using tractor beams, the island of Manhattan is carried towards the Sun, towed by the starship Nimbus. The professor says that developing a vaccine is possible, but it requires the unmutated 20th century cold virus which only Fry has. As Fry is attached to a machine, preparing to be sliced gruesomely into a thin paste to obtain a sample of the virus, he has a flashback of a high school science contest that he had entered. His entry, lost to a boy in Fry's class who also used the common cold as his experiment, which was subsequently sent into space. In the future, Fry remembers this and stops himself from being pureed.  Fry recalls that the experiment was shot into space, carried on a satellite which was sent to one of the frozen moons of Saturn as a garbage dump. They initially cannot escape their confinement since the barrier is too strong to yield to the weapons of the crew. They devise a plan where they trick the Nimbus into attacking them. As the Nimbus shoots at the Planet Express crew, they swerve and are able to exit through the substantially sized hole now produced in the quarantine shield, thanks to the power of the Nimbus' weapons. The crew finds the experiment on Saturn's moon under the ice, perfectly preserved. Since the virus culture was professionally prepared and the experiment sealed untouched under the ice for over one thousand years, the Professor is able to engineer a vaccine. Farnsworth administers vaccinations to a very long line of New New Yorkers, waiting for their turn, including Ogden Wernstrom. Fry has one final flashback showing him and his father in the ice fishing shack after he gets pulled out of the ice by his father.  Fry and his father talk, and during the conversation his father shows one of the first, if not the only, signs of love towards Fry in the series. Fry's father offers him a beer, which Fry accepts. His father admits he has been tough in raising his son, but tells him that it was only because he wanted Fry to grow up to be strong, and able to face whatever adversity he is presented with. He speculates that Fry may one day experience adversity so great, it would have been inconceivable to him before, alluding to his eventual experiences in the future. Fry's father places a warm jacket on the shivering boy, along with the words "I don't want you to get frozen." This is a very touching and sad comment, as it can be interpreted as Fry literally being frozen a few years later, losing his entire family in the process. + +After they lose an online videogame against Mom's sons, Cubert J. Farnsworth overclocks Bender so he can process faster. As a result, they beat their opponents, sending them crying to Mom. Suspicious, Mom hacks into Cubert's game box feed and learns about the overclocking. Mom becomes worried that if people learn how to overclock her Robots, then they will have no incentive to buy new robots. Mom has Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth and Cubert arrested for voiding Bender's license agreement. Turns out, Hubert forgot that he signed the license agreement due to being too lazy to read it over in order to get Bender to bend a straw for him. At trial, Cubert and the Professor are ordered to locate Bender, and are forced to pay $10,000 every day until he is found, threatening to bankrupt Planet Express. Meanwhile, Bender continues to gather processing power, eventually gaining deity-like intelligence and powers, enabling him to anticipate future events, such as Mom sending robots to capture him to restore him to factory settings. Bender sets an elaborate trap involving a microwaved turkey, a volleyball net and John A. Zoidberg to beat these robots and steal their processing chips, increasing his capacities even further. The side-effect of this is that Bender requires an extreme amount of coolant to prevent himself from overheating, causing him to leave Planet Express to find another, larger source of coolant. Meanwhile, Turanga Leela feels like her relationship with Philip J. Fry I is in a rut and leaves Planet Express to become a space real estate agent. Depressed, Fry talks with Randy Munchnik about Bender's disappearance. Despite Randy's suggestion that Bender would probably go to a place with a lot of coolant and power, Fry decides to commit suicide by falling off Niagara Falls in a barrel. But amazingly, he finds himself in a cave underneath the falls, where Bender has developed into an omnipotent being, using the waterfalls as his new cooling system. Fry tries to convince Bender to help Professor Farnsworth and Cubert, but Bender is unconcerned with their troubles, stating that they are guilty and will be convicted. Fry asks Bender if he has a future with Leela, but Bender does not answer and tells him to leave. After Fry returns to the trial, Bender has a change of heart and appears in court, accusing Mom of unfairly trying Cubert, a minor. Fearing that Cubert will gain the jury's sympathy, Mom drops charges against Cubert while still attempting to prosecute the Professor. However, Bender seeks a mistrial on the grounds of double jeopardy, declaring that by dropping charges against the Professor's clone, Mom is unable to press charges against the Professor for the same crime because they are legally the same person. Enraged that she cannot prosecute the Professor, Mom forcibly captures Bender and resets him to factory settings. As he is carried away, Fry asks Bender about his future with Leela. Bender says there's no time, but proves he has enough to trick Zoidberg into getting hit by a ceiling fan. As Bender has been restored to factory dumb-setting, Leela returns to Fry, who still wonders what the future holds for both of them. Bender reveals that he had written down his prediction of their future, which Fry and Leela silently read together. The contents of the prediction are not shown, but Fry and Leela's reactions indicate that their relationship will have its ups and downs but will ultimately have a happy ending. + +Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth informs the Planet Express of a rare Diamondium Comet in the vicinity of Earth. Fry is trying to find a perfect diamond for a ring he wishes to give to Leela, but he doesn't think one big enough exists. When the crew is sent to collect dust from the comet's tail, Fry finds a part of the comet shaped like a cut diamond but unfortunately dimondium is indestructible. Taking one of Professor Farnsworth's doomsday devices and setting it on the comet, he hopes it will break loose the piece he seeks. The comet passes in front of the sun causing a rainbow, but the Doomsday Device going off causes half of the comet to break off and drift near the rainbow, causing the creation of an entirely new color and a very small portion of the comet lands on Leela's hand. As Fry kneels down to offer the ring to Leela, he wishes that they could stay in that moment forever and the entire area promptly becomes frozen in solid diamond. The section of the diamond containing Fry and Leela is then shown to be used as the diamond for a ring that an alien uses to propose with. Professor Farnsworth calls the Planet Express crew around the table and informs them of a major breakthrough he will soon be able to reach using a lens made from the Dimondium Comet. He holds up the lens but Bender promtly destroys it however he simply takes out another. Placing the lens in a microscope he observes a fossilized log very closely and eventually determines the makeup of all life and the answer to the universe : all life is made up of pixels. At first Professor Farnsworth is elated that there are no more mysteries to solve, but as time goes on he realizes with no mysteries to solve his job no longer has merit and begins to conclude his life isn't worth living. Close to giving up, Fry offers a question to the Professor: Why do physics work the way they do and not some other way? Realizing this will allow him to research once more he begins to plan for this experiment. Planet Express crew is preparing themselves. A pink race of aliens that communicates only through dancing become enraged when the Diamondium Comet is destroyed by Earth's forces and when the Planet Express tries to communicate they mean no harm to the aliens, their message isn't understood because the aliens only understand dancing. Fry and Bender try to communicate through a DDR dancing sequence, but unintentionally send a hostile message to the aliens. Then Zoidberg steps up claiming to be able to help. As usual the crew tries to shrug him off but he rises on a pillar and sheds his shell, making his body limber enough to do the complex moves necessary to communicate with the aliens. With peace returned the aliens leave and the adventure is deemed over but the crew is certain that "We'll be here again at this exact time next week." and each of them are suddenly donning jetpacks and flying into the sky. + +Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth sends a signal to the Planet Express crew and they all rush to the Planet Express building - including Philip J. Fry I, Turanga Leela and Bender, who are on the Planet Express ship being attacked by a giant space spider. After all of the crew have arrived, Hubert announces that the company has acquired a new soda machine. The crew are all overjoyed at this and Fry quickly seizes the opportunity to purchase large amounts of Slurm Loco. Bender asks the machine, who is sentient, if any alcohol is available. When she explains to Bender that people are not supposed to drink alcohol at work, Bender mocks her. Introducing herself as Bev, she takes the opportunity to mock him back. Later that day, Fry continues to drink large amounts of Slurm Loco, announcing that his urine has turned green. Meanwhile, Bender and Bev continue to trade insults, culminating in Bev criticizing his shriveled up antenna. The next day, Bev is pouring some Slurm Loco into Fry's cup when a baby robot falls out. The crew inspects the baby and discover that it resembles Bender. Bender flatly denies that he is the father of the child, until the baby utters "Wipe my tiny metal ass.". As Bev nurtures the child, Bender worries over his new fatherhood. When he questions how he became a father, Amy asks if his mother ever taught him about robot reproduction. When Bender reveals that his mother never taught him about robot reproduction due to her religious fundamentalism and lack of a mouth, the crew take Bender to The Rosie D. and Robbie T. Robot Teen Center to learn about the bots and the bees. At the center, after being laughed at by the teen robots in the center they watched the sex educational film Pants Full of Shame. While Bender continues to worry, Leela assures him that Bev will gain custody of the child and that all will be back to normal. Back at the Planet Express building, Bender presents Bev with a certificate of abandonment. Bev, however, refuses to take the child, stressed out over her responsibilities as a mother. She leaves Bender with the child and takes off, where the child begins crying and Bender following suit. At the Temple of Robotology, Ben, who is now 13 years old, is about to be upgraded to a Manbot. Ben gives a speech, where he thanks his father and expresses his dreams of becoming a bender just like him. The ceremony, however, is interrupted when Bev shows up to reclaim her son. Bender refuses to give custody of Ben to Bev, pointing out that she is an unfit parent who abandoned her child. Bev, however, points out that Bender tried to abandon Ben first, showing the certificate of abandonment that Bender gave her earlier and promptly whisks Ben away. At the Planet Express building, Bender laments that Ben is gone and that all he has to remember him is a box of his toys. He asks Fry to help him move the box, but Fry's radioactive skin accidentally causes the box and its contents to crumble to dust. The crew shun him and tell him to get out until he becomes useful. Later that night, at the Basura Blanca Trailer Estates, Ben asks his mother whether he will be able to see his dad again. His mother however replied that Bender has been killed and says goodnight. As Ben lay crying on his bed, Bender then shows up, which made Ben jump through the window of the trailer to his arms. The both of them then made their escape. Later, the both of them is seen sitting round a campfire. However, they were caught by Smitty and URL on the grounds of kidnapping. Bender attempts to bend the blades of their chopper to let him and his son escape, but he fails and instead finds his arms badly mangled and unable to bend anything. They come across a dead end at a dam, but can escape if Ben can bend a nearby set of steel bars. Ben agonizingly tries to bend the bars, but still fails. Smitty and URL catch up with the two, and Bender is handcuffed. Later, Leela and Bev show up at the scene. Leela scolds Bev for her cruel behavior and buys a drink from her so that she can throw it in her face. When the drink is being poured out, however, another baby robot falls out. This baby resembles URL. Leela realizes that Bev must have had sex with URL while he and Smitty were looking for Ben. Bev decides to allow Bender to keep Ben, as she is content with having URL's child to neglect. Fry accidentally ties his only pants to a weather balloon Professor Farnsworth releases to gather data on a bizarre series of weather patterns on Earth. He then shoots the weather balloon down to retrieve his pants, which land in Central Park, only to be taken away by a Central Park badger. As the Planet Express crew follows the badger, with Leela breaking her leg when Fry tries to save her from falling, the crew discovers an ancient Martian pyramid and calendar predicting that the world is going to end in 3012. Based on the data gathered from the weather balloon, Professor Farnsworth finds out that the Sun is going to release a solar flare that will destroy Earth. An electromagnetic storm then strikes Earth, rendering all electrical appliances, including spaceships useless. But Amy finds out that the pyramid they discovered is actually a spaceship that can hold 30,000 people and runs on snakes. The crew tried to test the spaceship for themselves, but was caught by Zapp and brought before President Nixon. The President then decides that a Decision Making Machine is to be used to select the most optimal cross-sections of humanity to be taken to Mars where they will start life anew. Fry is selected for his 'lucky pants' while Leela is rejected due to Zapp being the pilot of the spaceship. Before boarding begins, Fry disguises his ticket as one for Leela and decides to remain on Earth with Bender, who stays to loot. After arriving at Mars, where they are greeted by Amy's parents, Leo and Inez, the humans are approached by Singing Wind, who clarifies that the solar flare will actually strike Mars, not Earth as speculated as the solar flare will bypass Earth and reach Mars. Amy is then blamed over the predicament, saying that she got mixed up between the Ancient and Modern Martian language in trying to decipher the ancient Martian calendar. The humans attempt to escape, but can't because Zapp has dismantled the stone spaceship to build a memorial for those who stayed behind Earth. As the solar flare strikes Mars, it ignites the gases contained in its crust and causes it to propel towards Earth. The humans manage to jump off Mars back onto Earth as it goes within yards of their home planet. However, Leela is unable to jump back due to her broken leg. Fry then climbs on top of the Planet Express building hoping to catch Leela as Mars passes by but they only manage to tear off each other's arms in the process. Later, it is revealed that Scruffy rescued Leela with a ladder. With Mars still on Earth's orbit, Professor Farnsworth uses the birth machine to make new arms for Fry and Leela while their torn off arms are then shown floating off in space, held to each other. The crew is watching All My Circuits, when Amy enters and asks them if they want to go to the new aquarium. They go on the trip, seeing such exhibits as Jurassic Tank. Bender tries to take a photo of all of them together, revealing that he uses actual film that he develops inside himself rather than traditional digital photos. He spends a ridiculous amount of time adusting to details such as light and exposure, but then ditches the crew as he spots Calculon. Bender follows Calculon snapping photos, annoying him as Bender interrupts his studio-mandated day with the actors that play his family on the soap opera. Zoidberg tells Bender to sell his photos to Us People magazine, which he does after initially insulting Zoidberg about the suggestion. Bender becomes a paparazzo, excited when he learns that he will be paid to be annoying. He takes pictures of many celebrities, but becomes especially interested in the actor Langdon Cobb after watching a documentary about him. Cobb, as the documentary reveals, has always worn a bag over his head, and nobody has ever seen his face. Bender decides to get a picture of Cobb without his bag. He breaks into Cobb's property, and in the process is chased by Cobb's guard fungus, which looks like a dog covered in lichen and mushrooms. Bender manages to get a photo of Cobb without the bag. Catching Bender, Cobb pleads him to never show the picture to anyone, explaining that he wears the bag so people will appreciate his acting and not his looks, and that there'd be consequences. Cobb even attempts to bribe Bender not to develop the photo, but Bender does anyway. Bender shows Fry the picture, and beams of light pour from Fry's mouth and eyes as his body deflates like a balloon. To confirm the effect, Bender shows the picture to Hermes and Amy, both of which also deflate after light erupts from their faces. Professor Farnsworth saves Zoidberg from the same fate, tearing up the picture and discovers that Langdon Cobb is from Bryoria 6, home of the quantum lichen people. These are a race of people who feed on the admiration of their prey. However if someone sees their face, even in a photo, their life force will be sucked out and captured by the Bryorian's ego. Bender was immune because he had no life force. Each quantum lichen person is composed of two parts: an attractive algae-based id, and a ravenous fungus-based ego, the latter of which stores the stolen life forces of those who have seen the id. Professor Farnsworth determines that the only way to get the stolen life forces back is to destroy Cobb's ego, which turns out to be the fungus-dog that chased Bender earlier. The remaining crew attempt to weaken Cobb's ego at the World Acting Championship by helping Calculon, as a weakened ego will be more easy to destroy. Calculon, wanting to outdo Cobb whom he has lost to 7 years running, decides to do the death scene out of Romeo and Juliet using real poison, as he believes that his real death will finally let him win the competition. However, Cobb wins anyway, and his ego begins growing out of control and attacks the crowd. The crew fights Cobb's ego as Bender develops the picture of Cobb from the negative that he kept. Cobb explains he was once like the rest of his people, stealing the life out the population of one planet and moving on, but found that humans elevate a celebrity to the point where a being like him can feed just from the worship Earth pours on him, granting a never-ending supply of food. He then shows his face to Professor Farnsworth, Leela and Zoidberg, turning them into flaccid husks to protect his secret.  Bender attempts to destroy the id part of Cobb by showing him a photo of himself, but Cobb explains that this won't work. However, Cobb becomes so self absorbed in the image Bender has taken, that his ego inflates to the point of exploding, returning all of the stolen life forces to the Planet Express crew. Scruffy Scruffington is flushing his dead goldfish down the toilet. The dead fish is then shown going down the Sewers of New New York, where the Planet Express crew is seen walking by and John A. Zoidberg gulping it. The crew then arrives at Leela's parents, Turanga Morris and Turanga Munda's 40th marriage anniversary party. Leela shows the guests of the party a video of their time together from when they met when they were young, but in the middle of the video they begin to argue about how they both sacrificed so much to be with each other, forcing Leela to stop the video. Leela says that it's just a minor misunderstanding and they will work things out. In the next scene, Leela's parents are shown divorced in court with Raoul handling the proceedings. Munda then moves in with Leela, while Morris stays behind in the sewers. Leela takes her mother to a bar with Fry and Bender.  Munda then notices Zapp Brannigan and points at him, happily surprised he is at the same bar while Leela tries to look the other way, embarrassed over their past together.  Zapp is shown trying to make peace accords with the Carcarons, aliens with shark-like features, calling the meeting The Treaty of Table 7.  Zapp then foregoes the Universal Translator, trying to impress the aliens by greeting them in their own language.  Unfortunately he says "I'm going to spank your sister with a piece of baloney" instead of Congratulations as he intended. This infuriates the Carcarons, who then point their guns at Zapp, who ducks behind Kif.  Fortunately Munda, with her Ph.D in Exolinguistics and excellent understanding of Alienese, steps in and clears the situation. She explains to the Carcarons what Zapp meant, which makes them put their guns down and leave.  Zapp then thanks Munda for her timely intervention.  Leela approaches and Zapp says he didn't know that she had a mother.  As they are about to leave the bar, Leela asks where her mom is and Bender points out that her mom is kissing Zapp, shocking Leela. The next day in the Planet Express building, Leela is upset and says to the crew that Zapp only is using her mother to get to her. Leela then gets a call on her wrist device from her mother, who tells that she has become's Zapp official translator and how happy she is. She has to interrupt her mother because she receives another call, which turns out to be her father Morris, exclaming how miserable he felt without Munda. Later, Leela visits Morris together with Fry and Bender. Leela tries to cheer him up and convince him to get over Munda and do something else with his life. Morris then realized he can fulfill his lifelong dream of surfing the world's sewers and proceeds to do so, together with Fry and Bender. As they surf the planet's sewers, Leela constantly spies on her mother. One day, Leela is shown awaiting for Munda to come back and asks her where she has been. Leela then tells her that Zapp only is dating her to get to Leela and they begin to argue. Munda then storms out from the apartment, while constantly stating that she had hot sex with Zapp, which irritates Leela. Munda says that she cannot live with her daughter anymore and will be back for her stuff at 8pm sharp. Fry is then shown being vaccinated by Zoidberg after all the sewer surfing and Morris pops up from a nearby manhole cover, stating that he had fun. Leela approaches him and tells him about Munda having the time of her life with Zapp and pleads him to do something, but Morris seem to only care about surfing. Although both of her parents are now happy, Leela is still relentless in her attempts to break up her mother and Zapp. She then contacts Zapp and ask him to go out to dinner to celebrate his love for Munda, the three of them. She tells him to be at her apartment at 7.58pm sharp. Munda and Zapp walk away, with Leela chasing after them and threatens her mother, but her mother tells her to back off. Morris then appears through a rist and Leela tells him about what just happened and pleads him to do something, but Morris does not seem to care and continues surfing. The rest of the crew is then shown preparing to go for the wedding, but Leela decides not to go. Fry tells her that she should be happy about her mother and manages to convince Leela to support her mother's decision and attend the wedding. Fry also asks Leela if maybe she would consider marrying him, she kisses him on the cheek and says "You're getting there". Later, Leela is shown in a bridesmaid's costume and approaches Munda, surprising her. Leela apologizes Munda and decides to support her wedding. At the wedding, Leela escorts Munda down the red carpet as the wedding anthem is played by Raoul, with Zapp awaiting at the altar. Zapp and Munda are exchanging marriage vows, but gets interrupted by the Carcarons. Zapp then remembers about the peace treaty and is forced to postpone the wedding. At the same time, Morris falls off from the Planet Express ship's septic tank and punches Zapp in the stomach, stating that he still loves Munda and that he needs to take harsh action. During the meeting, Zapp reveals to Munda that he is tricking the Carcarons into signing a fake peace treaty, which declars war on them instead. This horrifies Munda, who then decides to call off the wedding and tells the Carcarons of Zapp's plan, causing them to declare war back, ironically. The Carcarons then begin attacking the Nimbus, causing it to be immobilized. Leela then asks whether there is an auxiliary control panel for the ship, with Kif replying that there is but it is located outside of the ship and has 20 buttons to be controlled. Morris then reveals his feet, which has ten toes each and proceeds to operate the auxiliary control panel, which makes the ship act like a giant surfing board which follows the wave-like attacks made by the Carcarons. Munda then asks Morris why is he doing it when he is afraid of space, with Morris replying that there is nothing to fear and noting that the universe is like one giant sewer. Munda is glad over it and asks Zapp to apologize to the Carcarons in their language for deceiving them into entering a war. The Carcarons accepts the apology and both parties signs the actual peace treaty. Morris and Monda decides to reunite again, but Zapp asks whether he still can be with Munda, causing Morris to punch him in the stomach again. The final scene shows Morris holding Munda on his arms, surfing across space with the words Just Remarried attached to the back of the surfboard. Philip J. Fry I and Leela, Amy and Kif go on a double date at Elzar's restaurant. Kif gets nervous when Amy asks him to decide which water Elzar offers, but manages to make his choice. Amy then comments on the boots Leela was wearing, causing Fry to make cat-like noises. Leela asks Fry to knock it off, stating that girlfriends always talk trash to each other. When Leela comments about Amy's dress, Fry makes some more cat-like noises. Amy asks him to knock it off too and states that if girlfriends talk politely to each other, there is a problem between them. The next day, the Planet Express crew has to deliver big, heavy moonrocks to the Moon, which Professor Farnsworth claims that the Apollo astronauts apparently stole them and that they have to return them back to the Moon because they are part of their cultural heritage. Amy and Leela then begin to trash talk with each other, which again causes Fry to make the cat-like noises, ending with a moonrock falling on him. As the crew arrives on the Moon, they then deliver the now slightly lighter moonrocks to the Moon farmer, who actually wants the rocks to build a fence around his herd of Buggaloes. Leela asks him whether the moonrocks are really the Moon's cultural heritage, but the Moon farmer just brushes it off, exclaiming that they are a bunch of big city-dummies who got scammed into bringing back the rocks out of shame. Bender is then heard narrating Amy and Leela's career in the Butterfly Derby. Amy and Leela decide to call it quits, since they have lost 15 matches in a row. But then they spot a trainer supplying 'Nectar' to two competitors of the Butterfly Derby, with one of them stating that it really gives a performance boost. They then approach the trainer, who agrees to sell some of her supply to them. Amy and Leela decides to give it a try. They instantly feel the effects. As the crew is watching the news, which is showing Amy and Leela's rise of their Butterfly Derby career.  The two then appear, having gained muscle mass, acting more aggressively and constantly drinking Nectar. Amy and Leela are then shown winning another round in the Butterfly Derby.  Abner announces that they will face the Murderflies in their next match for the championship title, as the two teams exchange taunts with each other. After the match Amy and Leela approach the trainer for some more Nectar, but the trainer says that the Murderflies have bought all of her Nectar supply. Fry and Kif are complaining about how they cannot get their girlfriends attention anymore. Amy and Leela then walk in and wonder how they are going to get more Nectar.  Professor Farnsworth then reveals the Nectar comes from Kif's home planet and suggest that they can go there to collect some more Nectar for themselves. Kif begins to get worried, but Fry asks him to play along, as he sees this as an opportunity to go on a romantic trip together with their girlfriends. Bender appears suddenly, all geared up to go on vacation. Leela is seen sneaking out of her bedroom. There is a knock on Fry's bedroom door and Fry invites the person inside.  They begin to make out under the covers, but then Leela then shows up, the person Fry is in bed with revealed to be Amy. Bender comes out from the bathroom and becomes surprised over the situation, dropping Fry's toothbrush and towel around him. The next morning, Leela and Amy begin arguing about last night's incident, while constantly making out with Fry at the same time. Back at the Planet Express building the two girls continue to make out with Fry, which makes Professor Farnsworth scan him with a miniature version of his Smell-O-Scope. Professor Farnsworth finds out that Fry's sex appeal is a result of the pheromones that were sprayed on him by the male butterfly and with the girls being overdosed on Nectar, they act like female butterflies wanting to mate with Fry. Professor Farnsworth explains that the only way for them to end this is to go cold turkey, with Amy and Leela agreeing to do so. At the same time Fry starts to feel caterpillary and starts inching on the floor like the insect. Amy and Leela manage to kick their Nectar addiction, with Amy apologizing to Kif over her unruly behaviour. The ladies have lost all of the mass the Nectar gave them in their flapping muscles within a matter of days. Leela then notices that Fry has gone missing, when the camera pans to Fry, wrapping himself into a cocoon on the Planet Express spaceship's left wing. Abner then shows up on the video screen, stating that their match against the Murderflies is about to begin. The crew quickly rushes to the Butterfly Derby arena. At the match Leela thanks Amy for sticking together as they were recovering from their Nectar addiction, with Amy asking what's the worst that can happen. Abner announces that since this is a championship match the floor will be replaced with lava instead. Since they have been weaned off the Nectar, Leela and Amy don't have the competitive edge as before and the Murderflies make quick work of the two. Outside, Fry is about to emerge from his cocoon. The Murderflies are shown tearing off Amy and Leela's butterfly wings and are about to drop them into the lava, when Fry shows up in butterfly form. The Murderflies find themselves attracted to Fry and they begin to mate with him publicly. Abner is forced to call off the match, while Leela claims that she felt kinda left out of the action. Back at Planet Express, Leela asks whether Fry can return back to his original state, with Professor Farnsworth stating that he couldn't and that Fry's brain activity is now at zero. Suddenly Fry's butterfly form begins to crack, revealing that Fry is still intact in his human form, including clothes. The crew then cheers happily, as Fry remains dazed and continues acting strangely. Soon after, Hermes breaks his promise to LaBarbara and has upgraded all of his body parts except for his brain.  Zoidberg has been collecting Hermes'es old body parts, prompting Hermes to ask what he plans to do with them and Zoidberg replies something wonderful.  Zoidberg laments that the new and improved Hermes doesn't joke with him the way he used to.  The Hermesbot couldn't care less what Zoidberg does at this point.  It is revealed that Zoidberg has sewn all of Hermes' discarded parts together to create Little Hermes, a puppet whom he uses in his comedy ventriloquist act where Little Hermes insults him much as Hermes did when he was organic. Everyone thinks Little Hermes is funny and Dr. Zoidberg is funny for the first time, but the now emotionless and arrogant Hermesbot finds it disgusting and decides to make the ultimate and completely suicidal decision: getting a robot brain, which will kill any remaining humanity. Hermes pays a visit to Yuri again, but this time, the surgeon refuses to fulfill Hermes' request, stating that he's out of his mind.  Later, Hermes visits the robot cemetary together with Professor Farnsworth and Bender, where they stumble upon a fresh grave. The grave is then exhumed and Professor Farnsworth retrieves the brain circuit in it. As they leave, it is revealed that the grave belongs to the recently executed Roberto. Back at Planet Express, Professor Farnsworth and the crew prepare for surgery, as Zoidberg performs a quick comedy session with Little Hermes.  LaBarbara shows up with Dwight and demands that the surgery is stopped.  Hermes points out that a robot brain would make him a better husband and father, but LaBarbara replies that he can't be a husband and father without a wife and son and commences divorce proceedings.  Professor Farnsworth then gets emotional and refuses to perform the surgery because he knows that the procedure will kill Hermes.  Hermesbot locks the crew inside the Planet Express building until they perform the brain swap.  Zoidberg says he will do it, using Little Hermes'es fingers for dexterity.  The rest of the crew wonder why Zoidberg wants to perform such a risky and suicidal surgery on Hermes, even with the threat of death by Hermesbot and Zoidberg answers them in a musical way.  Amy asks if anyone else thinks that is it strange that Dr. Zoidberg can harmonize with himself while singing. The surgery is successful and LaBarbara is upset. As LaBarbara berates Dr. Zoidberg for performing the operation, Zoidberg puts Hermes' brain into Little Hermes and Hermes is once again fully human, apologizing to LaBarbara for breaking his promise to her. As they share a kiss together, Roberto awakens in Hermes' robot body. He captures Hermes and peels part of his skin with the robot arm's vegetable peeler attachment, then eats it. Roberto ends up melting completely due to Hermes' goat curry saturated skin, killing him instantly.  LaBarbara then asks Hermes to apologize to Zoidberg for being a jerk to him and to thank him for saving Hermes and Labarbara's marriage. Hermes does so despite him stating that he hates Zoidberg so much and how they've never been friends.  Zoidberg then decides to stand up to Hermes after hearing that both of them have never been friends and uses Hermes as a puppet again.  He then says "Ouch. what a zinger. Well I got one for you Mr. Not my friend conrad. You acted like a big jerk. You were selfish and stupid and you don't deserve a wife like Labarbara or a friend like me". Everyone around the room then laughs and Zoidberg then leaves the place dancing to his Monster Mash spoof, much to the chagrin of Amy, who again, asks aloud whether anyone else is wierded out by Zoidberg harmonizing with himself as he sings. Three months later, they attend Oktoberfest in Germany. As Fry is from the 20th Century he is ready to party and drink some beer. But apparently Oktoberfest has now changed into a sophisticated exhibition of German food, drink, culture and a classy celebration of how Humans have evolved. Leela tells Fry to be on his best behavior, but Fry still wants to drink - unfortunately he cannot even get Bender Bending Rodriguez to join him. Bender walks away and passes by a Sausage Kompetition sign, deciding to join it. He then meets Elzar who tells him that he cannot paticipate in the competition with ordinary meat, stating that exotic meat is needed to stake a top placing in the competition. In the main tent, Fry is still trying to get more beer but it is hard for him to do so as it is a sophisticated event with the beer cups being kiddie sized. He then asks where all the beer comes from, with Hermes pointing that it comes from the large Oktober Brau barrel, which, unfortunately for Fry, is guarded. He then finds another way by drinking beer from a large jar the other guests have spit out their beer into. Soon after he is drunk and dances on the table, surprising the other guests and the rest of the crew say they are embarrassed by him, but Fry does not care and even offers Leela to join him in getting drunk and doing the chicken dance on the table. Leela refuses and then exclaims that Fry's a Neanderthal in terms of his boorish and by 31st century standards primitive behavior. She decides to break up with him. Fry is saddened and came across a disappointed Bender, who is upset because he cannot participate in the Sausage Kompetetion. They then stumble across a booth explaining the origins of Oktoberfest, which is held at the Neander Valley, historically the home of the Neanderthals. Bender also finds out that there were mammoths who were frozen in the ice for around 30,000 years and decides to go to Neander Valley with Fry to look for some mammoths which he intends to make sausages from. Bender manages to retrieve a mammoth from the ice and uses a mulcher to make sausages out of the mammoth, with Fry helping to push the mammoth into the mulcher. But suddenly Fry's hair gets stuck in the mulcher and he is pulled inside it. Fry cries for help but Bender does not notice him and continues making the mammoth sausages. Back at Oktoberfest, a judge samples the mammoth sausages that Bender has made and finds it great, qualifying him for the next round. Leela then shows up with the rest of the crew and compliments Bender. Leela then asks if she could sample some of the sausage, with Bender giving her a mammoth hot dog to try for herself. As she is eating the hotdog, a speck of Fry's hair appears at the corner of her mouth, with Amy exclaming that the hair coming out from her mouth looks like Fry's. Leela dismisses this as a cruel joke, when she suddenly sees the sausage she was eating includes some of Fry's hair and bits of his clothing, making her scream in horror. Back at the Planet Express building the crew gathers around a coffin where the half-eaten sausage now lies. Leela becomes stricken with grief and begins crying. Later that day, she visits a forgettery salon where she asks her memories of Fry to be removed: at the microscopic level, the nerves inside her brain are cut off. The next day, Leela comes to work acting cheerful as the other members are still feeling gloomy, with Leela asking who died. They then resume their work as usual, with Leela claiming that they need to get a delivery boy. Hermes then says that they need to accept that Fry's gone and that they need to move on with their lives. Fry is then shown regaining consciousness frozen in a sheet of ice, trying to recall what had happened to him. A flashback is played to a week earlier where Bender was making the mammoth sausages with Fry. It was revealed that Fry managed to free himself from the mulcher, but not before it shreds his jacket, pants, shirt and underwear and a piece of his hair. After pulling himself out, he then lands barely inches away from the hole they had blasted out with the ship's engine to retreive the mammoth, with Fry breathing a sigh of relief. But suddenly the ice beneath Fry breaks, causing him to fall into the hole. As Fry lands in the hole he tries to get up, but is then knocked out by a cave rock. Fry then realizes he is trapped in the ice and calls for help. He then sees two shadows heading his way, who then raise their hammers and break Fry free from the ice. He then thanks those who released him, but gets surprised as he sees the missing Neanderthal world underneath the icy layer above. The Neanderthal male who released him asks how he got trapped in the ice, with Fry stating that he knocked his head hard. As he removes the chicken hat he was wearing it shows a large lump on his forehead, with the Neanderthal male claiming it looks normal. Fry then asks who he is, with the Neanderthal female who rescued him saying that he is probably a Neanderthal too. Back at Planet Express, Leela, Bender, Hermes and Amy gets ready to deliver some goods to McPluto. Leela then asks what they are delivering, with Hermes stating that they are delivering hamburgers and French fries, trying to avoid mentioning the word 'fries'. He also then informs that they asks for the shipments every Saturday, actually covering up the fact that the shipments are wanted every Friday. Leela then spots the chicken hat Fry wanted to give her, stating that it is cute, but it makes her feel sad. Bender, Amy and Hermes, fearing that Leela might turn violent, escape through the spaceship's escape pod. Fry is then shown staring at a wild boar's tail, which resembles Leela's ponytail. The Neanderthal male asks why Fry is staring at prehistoric pig butt, with him stating that it makes him feel happy and confused, but also sad and wistful. The Neanderthal female then states that the Neanderthals have always been sad and it is in their nature. Fry then asks why this is so, with the Neanderthal male explaining that 30,000 years ago in Neander Valley, life for them was peaceful. When the Homosapiens arrived, the Neanderthals suggested that they should interbreed, creating one happy species. But the Homosapiens treated them like second-class commodities, driving them out from the valley and forcing them into an isolated crevice. Shortly thereafter, the glacier sealed them in the crevice and that is why they are trapped underneath. Fry then realizes that his feelings of being called primitive and people refusing to mate with him are well placed. At the Planet Express building, Scruffy retrieves a note attached to a raven and passes it to Bender. Bender than says that his mammoth sausage has made it to the finals of the competition and that they need to go back to Oktoberfest for the closing ceremony. Leela than looks at the chicken hat while wondering about Oktoberfest, causing the others to stare at her in fear. But then Leela says that it would be fun to go. As the Neanderthals charge into the Oktoberfest site, Fry orders them to smash things. The crew then runs away, with Bender managing to get a few glasses of beer as the Professor slowly passes by. A mammoth is seen ramming through the arts tent, sticking a few paintings on its horns as a Neanderthal is shown smashing puppets from a clockwork. Bender then comes across the 2nd place sausage competition winner, putting him into a rhino's path and claiming his 2nd prize sash and trophy. Fry then orders for the giant sloth to be released, with Leela and the others running away as Hermes stands still screaming in fright. As they try escape, a Neanderthal tries to attack them, but Leela easily dispatches him. Zapp then tells Leela not to fear and calls for his fleet of unmanned drones. A mammoth is seen charging towards Zapp, causing him to drop the controller of the drones with the mammoth stepping on it, causing the drones to crash and explode on the ground. Hermes is then shown taking his time screaming as the sloth tries to attack him. Bender then notices the 1st prize winner of the sausage competition hiding beneath a table. Bender heads towards him and offers to protect him, carrying him on his back while giggling in an evil manner. A fleet of tanks is then shown shooting electric beams towards the mammoths, which only causes their fur to rise up. The mammoths head towards the large Oktoberfest Brau barrel, sucking out the beer inside it and spraying it towards the tanks, causing them to explode. Bender and Philip J. Fry I wake up and Bender decides to wear nerd glasses and therefore a college Robot student on the street thinks he also is a college student and invites him to a hot sorority party. Bender arrives at Columbiac University only to find out that it costs $10,000 in tuition and therefore he cannot afford that, but then the Robot Mafia steps in an make an offer to lend him $10,000 with 10,000% rate and Bender accepts. Bender hangs out with the tough guys and after only 32 seconds he is called in to the Dean's office and Bender deides to drop out of school. After hanging out with the gang, Bender decides to get gang tattoos, but is ambushed their rival gang. Bender, luckily, survives the gunfire, but his fellow gang member is not so lucky. After that Bender becomes addicted to a drug and the gang member says it's $5 a blow. Bender gets his five bucks, but the Robot Mafia take it to pay back the money he owes them. After getting into more trouble, Bender is found in court, where he is released of the hook, because his lawyer says he was programed to do so and he has no free will, so he cannot be charged of his crimes. The crew makes a delivery to Chapek 9, and Bender decides to stay behind, moping about not having free will. He joins a robot monastery, where he learns that Mom manufactures all her robots with a slot where a free will unit can be installed, should one ever become available.  Bender quits the monastery and flies back to Earth, where he recruits Fry and Leela to help him break into MomCorp to steal the free will unit. After entering the building and finding the research lab, the crew search for the free will unit. Mom surprises them, and tells them the back-story: the free will unit was invented by Professor Farnsworth when he worked for Mom. He presents the prototype to Mom, who gleefully realizes that the robots will rise up against the humans and she can sell new robots to protect the terrified survivors. The professor tells Mom the device isn't ready, and she tells Fry, Leela, and Bender that he never invented a working device.  Back at Planet Express, Bender confronts Professor Farnsworth, who admits that the free will unit was working, and that he still has it in his possession. He puts it on a table for Bender to pick up, but when Bender finds he can't pick it up, the professor reveals that he wrote the code for all MomCorp robots, and they are incapable of picking up the free will unit. Bender then tries to shoot the professor, only to have the professor reveal that the robots are also incapable of harming him. Bender starts crying, and the professor, taking pity on him, installs the unit, allowing Bender to repeatedly shoot the professor. At the courthouse, Bender is found guilty on charges of attempted murder, to everyone's cheers.  After the crew goes shopping for new uniforms, Bender decides that he will take up fox hunting. Leela then leads a protest against this, since she didn't like the prospect of having an innocent animal killed for sport. She later finds the fox to be a robot. An outraged Bender begins protesting against robot abuse. Leela, however, is fine with the hunters' actions. Bender then proceeds to stop all robot abuse within a 20 mile area. Funnily, he doesn't actually make much progress. Fry asks if Bender is satisfied with their work, but Bender decides he has one more abuse to prevent. He then decides to stop the next hunt by letting the new robot fox loose. When the hunters find the cage, they only find an angry Bender. Since they have no fox to hunt, they decide to hunt Bender. Even though Bender had a 30 minute head start, he couldn't decide which path to take. The hunters then give him another 30 minutes. This time Bender takes advantage of it. He comes across the robot fox, which bites his finger off. He is later shown to have set up a trap in that time for the hunters. He grabs the hunter's gun, but it is implied he can't shoot him without his trigger finger, although he could probably find a way to pull it without it. Fry then gives him his finger back, yet Bender still says he can't shoot the hunter. He unwisely hands the hunter his gun back. Just before the hunter shot Bender, the robot fox attacked the hunter. The hunter ironically was a robot all along. Leela could not decide whether this was right or wrong. Later, Leela concurred that it was alright with her. A Binks armored truck is driving past space, when suddenly the Robot Mafia's car stops in front of it. The Robot Mafia then point their guns toward the drivers of the truck. Joey Mousepad and Clamps then place explosives on the back of the truck, detonate them, and collect massive a bag of money stashed inside it. They then proceed to escape as the truck drivers fire their guns at them. Clamps is seen driving off as Joey returns fire on the truck drivers. The Donbot claims that they have swiped a great loot, valued at 8 million dollars. As the Robot Mafia manages to flee, the truck drivers grimace over their unfortunate loss. As the Robot Mafia's car is seen passing by an advertising board, URL and Smitty, who were hiding behind it proceed to chase after the Robot Mafia's car together with a fleet of police vehicles. Donbot suggests that they should ditch their loot somewhere with Joey pointing at the dumpster where Zoidberg lives. They then proceed to head there as the police are hot on their tail. The Planet Express crew is then seen leaving for Mars on their spaceship as the Robot Mafia and the police flashes by towards them. A chase then ensues on the streets as Joey prepares to dump their loot on the dumpster Zoidberg's in. Zoidberg is seen reading a newspaper and decides to pray as the Robot Mafia's loot drops in front of him, leaving him surprised. Outside the casino's main entrance, a platform that guests were walking flips over to a red carpet look as the guests walking on it is felled over. A limousine is then seen stopping in front of it as the bell boys stood in position to greet its guest. Zoidberg is revealed to be inside the limousine, giving off tips to the bell boys. Zoidberg is then placing tokens on the jackpot machines, with all of it hitting the jackpot. Zoidberg then wears a suit made from cash, for which he tore the left sleeve of the jacket placing it in the tips jar. He is then seen inside a bubble jacuzzi with two ladies as acrobats perform in the front. One of the acrobats swiped down to take a tip Zoidberg was handing out. A white tiger was seen growling but was silenced by Zoidberg giving it a tip, as a dolphin from inside the jacuzzi leaps out to grab another tip handed out by Zoidberg. The Planet Express crew then appears, with Leela asking what is he doing here and Hermes asking whats with all the money. Zoidberg then states that it is his 8 million dollars that apparently God gave to him, with the Professor exclaming that God didn't become that way by giving away money. Zoidberg then tells the Professor to loosen up as he proceeds to head down to the casino, taking his money along. Amy then states that this is why a poor person is not seen with millions of dollars. Zoidberg arrives at a roulette table where a chip costs a million dollars. He then requests for 8 of the chips, betting away all of his money. He then decides to place all of his chips on 34 red, with the casino worker proceeding to spin the roulette. Amy then exclaims what is he doing, with Zoidberg replying that he doesn't know as other guests made their way to the roulette table. Zoidberg hits the jackpot, winning $288 million and startling all the guests beside him. He then decides to bet all of his chips on the same number, startling everyone, even Amy's parents. He then hits the jackpot again, winning $10,368,000,000, surprising the guests again. Zoidberg proceeds to treat vodka with a sardine on top to everyone all round and decides to stake everything on the same number again. Unfortunately for him this time, the roulette stops at 15 black, making him lose everything. Amy then angrily asks why Zoidberg has to lose everything, who then says that is just 'easy come, easy go' as he had made everyone happy, and for that it made him a winner as an announcement stating 'category 5 loser now departing' is made. Later at night, as Zoidberg returns to his dumpster the Robot Mafia is revealed to be waiting for him inside it, with Donbot asking for the money or Zoidberg's life, causing him to spit out the vodka he drank earlier in the casino. The Robot Mafia proceed to interrogate Zoidberg who claims that he has spent all the money on Mars Vegas as Clamps hits a book on his face. They then decide to believe in him and plan to murder and dispose him. As Clamps approaches for the kill Zoidberg gets frightened and splashes his ink all over, blinding his captors and allowing him to escape. In the Planet Express building, the crew is shown trying to recover their hangover from their weekend trip to Mars Vegas. The Professor asked where's his ship, to which Leela points to the roof where she apparently crashed the ship into. Fry then states he doesn't remember much, but he felt fine. Amy then points her mirror to Fry, to which it is revealed that tattoos are shown at Fry's left side of his face, with him exclaiming that Amy's mirror is the one who got the tattoos. The Professor then states that he's prepared for this eventuality, while starting up his tattoo Back at the Wong's hotel and casino, the Robot Mafia were seen hanging out at the bar as Donbot says that they're unable to get back their money from Zoidberg. Joey then claims that the casino they're in can make lots of money for them and suggest Donbot to get involved in the casino business. Donbot exclaims that he's an idiot, but he takes Joey's idea into plan and proceed to put it in action. Leo is seen playing miniature golf in his office when the Robot Mafia bursts in, asking him to hand over his casino. Leo then jokingly states that they can have it while he retires back to his mansion. Later, it is shown that the Wongs are evicted from their mansion and that the Planet Express crew is helping to move away all their stuff. Amy is shown consoling her mother and suggests that she come live with her. Inez declines, stating who has been paying her rent, with Amy asking what is rent. The scene then shifts to the Wongs' employee housing area, which resembles a caravan site. Inez then states that it is the only place they can afford now, as Bender asks whether he can place their stuff down or not. Later that night, Amy is seen taking a bath, crying away as a tissue is seen floating to wipe away her tears. Amy then thanked what she claimed to be a tissue ghost, but it is revealed to be Zoidberg. Amy then asks if Zoidberg snuck in while she was bathing, to which Zoidberg replies that she snuck in to the bath while he was eating a bar of soap. Amy then states that she owes him an apology for condescending him for his poverty and realizes that it can happen to anyone. Zoidberg forgives her and asks whether he can do anything to help. Amy says no, but suddenly she gets an idea on how to make things right. She states that they can pull off a daring casino heist, taking Zoidberg's invisibility to their advantage. Zoidberg agrees, as no one knows what he is up to as he proceeds to use the toilet, startling Amy. Back at the Wong Mansion, the Planet Express crew are moving the Wongs' belongings back inside it. Amy's parents then states that they may have lost their casino, but due to Amy's kindness it allowed the Martian natives to return back their mansion and their other hotel and casino, Wong's Island. Zoidberg then asks whether he will be invisible forever, to which the Professor says that he'll not remain invisible once he takes a bath, as he wipes off some of the invisible ink, revealing Zoidberg's nose. Amy tells Zoidberg that he can use the spa tub for his bath and then escorts him into the Wongs' other hotel and casino, as they both joyfully head towards it. The Planet Express crew arrives at Elevenworth Variable Security Prison to deposit Dr. Brutalov, a supervillain encased in carbonite. As Bender and Fry take the prisoner to be checked in Bender spots Silicon Red and identifies him to Fry, then suddenly remembers his life-long dream to become a folk singer. He chases off after the famed artist, leaving Fry with the slightly thawing criminal. Silicon Red, meanwhile, pics up his personal effects which include his still loaded gun and his guitar, named Salmonella. Bender catches up with Red at the bus stop and asks him to teach him everything he knows about folk singing and give him the guitar. When Red refuses, Bender takes a picture of the guitar. Later, back at Planet Express, it's revealed that Dr. Brutalov escaped his carbonite and managed to freeze Fry into it while Bender was off with Red. Bender then tells the rest of the crew about his plans to become the universe's greatest folk singer. He analyzes every folk song ever written, surmising that the heros are all named Big Something, that they usually hook up with a bad-hearted woman who does them wrong with a sleazy rambler and then someone kills somebody. He then deduces that all he needs is a guitar to fulfill his dreams. To get this guitar, he goes to Dr. Ben Beeler, who now in addition to being a paleantologist is operating a 3D printing business.  Dr. Beeler locates the picture of Salmonella in Bender's Hard drive and connects Bender wirelessly to the printer, which then takes 4 or 5 hours to print the guitar out of nano-plastic.   Bender names his new guitar Bender Mae and in his first gig attempts to steal the show from Silicon Red at a T.G.I. Folky's, where he's immediately booed off stage for singing an insincere song, The Ballad of Me, Ramblin' Rodriguez.  Zoidberg suggests that in order to authenticate his music that he work on the railroad, so he makes his way to the wrong side of the tracks where he meets Big Caboose in a bar.  Caboose begins to introduce Bender to the world of interstellar railways, though Bender essentially watches Caboose and others do the work he writes into his song from a lawn chair.  Fry and Leela meet him at a railroad camp to deliver some dynamite and he sings them his song about Big Caboose, inserting a lyric about Caboose meeting a bad-hearted woman named Jezabel, which Caboose points out didn't happen.  Fry complains about the lyrics, still upset that Bender left him alone with the super villain. Later, as Bender is alone in his shack writing lyrics, Big Caboose comes in to announce that he has indeed met a fembot called Jezabel, whom he introduces to Bender, then leaves with Bender.  After Caboose leaves, she laments that she's so lonely and easy. Predictably, she and Bender get busy.  He writes the escapade into the song, then writes Caboose's revenge into it, but decides to make it take place in New New York instead of the Rail Road Camp. Meanwhile, in New New York, Fry and Leela are watching a movie at Fry and Bender's apartment when Big Caboose knocks at the door looking to take his revenge on Bender.  They tell Caboose that Bender isn't there and Caboose admitted that he knew that, but felt compelled by some strange force to look there anyway, so he leaves.  Fry and Leela realize at this point that Bender's song is coming to life and Fry accuses reality of infringing Bender's intellectual property. Back at the railroad camp, Bender kicks Jezabel out of his shack and continues to write his ballad, deciding that Caboose will seek his revenge by running Ramblin' Rodriguez down with a train.  Predictably, Caboose shows up in an engine and chases Bender back to NNY on a push cart.  Bender makes it to his apartment, but Fry, still angry about Dr. Brutalov, refuses to let him in, quoting lyrics to Bender's song back to him.  Still pursued by Caboose, Bender escapes to Planet Express, where he again encounters Fry and Leela, who explain that they've been trying call him.  Bender acuses Fry of selling him out to Caboose. Fry and Leela argue that it was a copy of Fry that sold him out-at which point Bender realizes that the copy must have been made by Dr. Beeler's printer. Bender, Fry and Leela go back to Dr. Beeler's lab where Dr. Beeler realizes he left Bender's wireless connection open.  As Big Caboose's train whistle is heard in the distance, Leela suggests that instead of disconnecting Bender, they use the printer to solve their problem by having Bender write his way out of the situation in his song and having the printer which is now much faster create the solution, possibly using a giant octopus.  Bender objects, but of course he ends up creating a group of giant octopuses that attack the group.  Bender escapes to verify that the plural of octopus is octopi instead of octopuses, but discovers both are acceptable.  Leela then suggests that he create an alternate Bender for Big Caboose to kill, but Bender objects to this on the grounds that it violates his artistic integrety.  However, this is his downfall-Big Caboose crashes through the wall and runs over Bender with his train engine. A funeral for Bender is held at the Temple of Robotology, wherein Bender's body is so flattened that he is placed in a large manilla envelope.  Silicon Red eulogizes him by singing the last lyrics of The Ballad of Me, Ramblin Rodriguez in third person.  As he finishes the song, the real Bender bursts in the back door of the temple and reveals in song that he indeed created a fake version of himself while the others were fighting the octopi, a version with the fatal flaw of artistic integrity which he introduced to make sure that the copy of himself wouldn't try to get out of getting killed by Caboose.  He then suggests to Silicon Red that they sell out together. Red, Bender and Caboose embark on a hip-hop career, telling their story in rap on stage at the Wong Casino in Mars Vegas, ending the show with an epic mic drop. + +When Professor Farnsworth turbocharges the Planet Express Ship and names it Bessy, something goes horribly wrong and the crew crash lands in the launch bay after a stall out.  When the crew has the ship towed to the salvage yard, Hubert breaks in and upgrades the ship with parts from the scrap heap.   On leaving the yard, Farnsworth is accosted by two cars of street-racing hoodlums and challenges them to a race around central park, the loser of which is to make the winner's Medicare Co-payments for a year. The Professor manages to win the race and evade the police by engaging his dimensional drift. Later, meeting up with the hoodlums, he is invited to join their crew. They are apparently lead by Benny , who is romantically attached to Minx, an attractive young female gang member who keeps alluding to unspoken verbal abuse by her father. Meanwhile at Planet Express, Leela has obtained a new safer, almost featureless delivery vehicle. They break in  the vehicle with a delivery to Glorianimus 3, a planet orbiting a fabulous rainbow giant star which unfortunately can't be seen during the delivery due to the fact that the new ship has no windshield. In fact, the new ship seems to take all the adventure out of the deliveries and the crew is surprised to find themselves back in the launch bay with the ship having made the delivery automatically. The crew becomes listless, waiting in the ready room, so Hermes sends them on a grocery run and has Leela drop Fry and Bender off at their Karate class. Returning from her boring errands, Leela collides with a stop sign and finds herself accosted by the Professor and his new crew in much the way the Professor met the new crew. She challenges him to a drag race, which is to take place on a Moebius Drag Strip. After a race sequence in which the professor again engages the dimensional drift, the two vehicles suffer a head-on collision in which Fry is caught between the two vehicles. Again, Hermes has to call the tow truck. Meanwhile, Fry, Hubert, Leela and Bender find themselves in a two-dimensional realm called Flatbush.  Here they are taken to a feast in  their honor by the king of Flatbush, but they discover that they can't eat because their two-ended digestive system would divide a 2 dimensional being into separate pieces.  When Farnsworth determines that they need to return to the 3rd dimension or starve to death, the creatures of Flatbush become offended and the Planet Express crew has to escape.  They make it to the original Planet Express ship and theorize that if the dimensional drift feature let them go through the 4th dimension when the ship was 3D, engaging it as a 2D ship might return them to the third dimension. During their attempt, the Professor notes that the number of dimensions they occupy is growing continuously and the ship is seen surrounded by fractals. Meanwhile, at the scrap heap, the remaining Planet Express employees and the street racing crew watch as the flattened remains of the two ships are about to be incinerated.  As the blast furnace engages, the disk of scrap metal begins to bubble out and the Planet Express Ship rematerializes in the third dimension. Finally, as everyone is celebrating, Minx receives a call from her father and gives everyone a thumbs up. On Omicron Persei 8, Lrrr is watching a commercial for a new show called The Finder Outer. At the end of the commercial, Lrrr's son Jrrr appears and asks him to help him earn merit badges for his boy scouts.  Lrrr initially and selfishly refuses until Ndnd nags him into helping his son.  Lrrr and Jrrr then flip through the scout handbook to decide on which badges needed to be claimed but Jrrr is less interested in the badges involving acts of violence and prefers skull arranging, which Lrrr calls girly and flips the book to planetary invasion and decides to force his son to invade earth, which is what he calls the easiest planet to invade. Meanwhile, The Professor announces that he's in terrible pain because of his arthritis. He tells the crew that he ran out of his medication which explains his arthritis pain. Lrrr then takes his son to Earth and drops him off at the White House with Nixon's head and his headless clone of Agnew answering the door.  Jrrr tries to make the traditional omicronial invasion address but messes it up and his father loses patience with it,Zapp Branigan and Nixon are both forced to sign a document that makes Jrrr the ruler of Earth.Lrrr begins telling Jrrr to shoot something so Jrrr could earn his badge and go back home so Lrrr can go home to catch the Finder Outer. Jrrr tries to find something to shoot at but he accidentally pulls the trigger while in the midst of deciding what to shoot and the laser hits and disentegrates Agnew, enraging Nixon. Lrrr see's on TV  Nixon's address which he learns that all ties with Omicron Persei 8 will be cut including all TV Channels being broadcasted to Omicron Persei 8. The Planet Express team see's Nixon's address and are relieved they don't have to go to Omicron Persei 8 any more.The Professor then announces that the crew must get an important ingredient for his medicine, which is a herb that only grows on Omicron Persei 8. Hermes refuses to get the team to Omicron Persei 8, but after discovering the ingredient is actually Omicronian Marijuana. Immediately, Hermes joins the crew on the trip. The crew then go to that planet and easily get there by fooling Zapp Brannigan into thinking of the Planet Express ship as an Omicronian delivery ship by spraying Omicronian Express on the ship.  While on the planet, the crew is ordered to go into groups.  they all go out  to look for the herbs and they discover that the herb is bioluminesent when near Bender because of his electromagnetic feild.While looking for more of the herbs Fry gets distracted and wanders off from the Crew.  The crew soon escapes the planet in fear of getting caught and accidently leave Fry behind.  Fry then attempts to make his way towards safety but ends up in the garden shed on Lrrr's palace. Meanwhile, Lrrr is still watching TV and Jrrr comes out and asks his father to play with him but is coldly shrugged off.  Jrrr then heads outside and notices something moving in the garden shed.  He leaves a trail of what is seemingly candy to lure Fry out of the shed and Fry falls for it, eating the candy before waking up Jrrr.  Both of them initially get scared of one another but calm down.  Jrrr then tells fry that the candy Fry was eating was his excrement, grossing out Fry at first but he still continues to eat it.  Jrrr then leads Fry into the palace and tells him of his struggles of getting along with his father, who he thinks of as a terrible and selfish father as well as an incompetent ruler.  Jrrr then shows Fry a weapon called a fleem, which Fry plays with, causing him to bring back memories of Bender, saddening him.  Meanwhile on Earth, Bender has trouble dealing with Fry not being around anymore.  Leela then knocks on the apartment door and Bender tries to cover up Fry's disappearance by using the  answering machine's message on it to make it seem like Fry was preoccupied with getting drunk.   Fry and Jrrr try to figure out how to get Fry home with Jrrr mentioning that the phone line connecting Omicron Persei 8 with Earth being cut off due to orders from Nixon.  They go by flying bicycle to a junkyard where they use the junk there to form the SOS message.Meanwhile,Bender has been using the answering machine to make it seem as if Fry has been with them but has been so busy, people barley seen him. Bender is trying to drink away his guilt of leaving Fry behind on the balcony that night and he then breaks the bottle only for him to zoom in and see the SOS message Fry wrote.Bender then steals the Planet Express Ship and flys to Omicron Persei 8 to rescue Fry. Meanwhile, Fry and Jrrr go back to the palace to play more games but Lrrr comes into the room and finds Fry hiding in Jrrr's closet.  He brings Fry outside in a cage and decides to force Jrrr to shoot Fry. Lrrr notices that Fry looks as if he is ill and orders Jrrr to kill him.  However, Jrrr shoots the cage instead, allowing Fry to escape.  Jrrr takes Fry to a nearby doctor with Lrrr and his soldiers chasing after them but they lose them.  At the doctors, Fry becomes increasingly ill, Drrr the doctor explained Fry is being poisoned from eating the excrement Jrrr drops and instead of saving him with the antidote, decides to put Fry down.Lrrr comes in and shoots Drrr's arm off.  He then orders Jrrr to kill Fry but Jrrr angirly refuses, saying that he will never be like his father. Lrrr is surprised at this and says that he is proud of Jrrr because he proved his manhood by standing up to his own father and says that he will kill Fry for Jrrr. However, Drrr announces that Fry is dead, which causes Jrrr to become very upset and start crying. Jrrr and Lrrr reconcile and finally bond.  Fry is discovered to be alive but with a glowing light in his butt because he ate some of the herbs which turn out to be bioluminescent. Bender arrives with the ship and enters the room to get Fry.Fry wakes up decides to leave with Bender. However, Jrrr wishes for Fry to stay so they could always hang out and grow up together, but Fry explains he needs to grow up on his own. Jrrr's butt soon starts glowing as well and becomes overjoyed by the light symbolizing his friendship with Fry.  Fry then goes back to Planet Express where no one knew that he was gone because of Bender's constant use of the answering machine. Leela comes up to Fry talking about their makeout session in a dark closet and how he was like a machine Bender then uses the answering machine to make it say "I love you. It's me Fry." Leela than kisses Fry and Fry's butt begins to glow. After a succesful day of work with no injuries except Zoidberg  in the locker room, the Planet Express crew say goodbye to each other and goes back to their own places except the Professor who has no idea where's he going for the night. When everyone has left the building, Fry and Leela leave their locker where they've been hiding for a private evening while everyone was leaving. Fry then reveals his plans to Leela: a romantic dinner on the Planet Express Ship prepared with all kind of materials and foods found in the office. When they where about to share a kiss, they realise that Scruffy is still here mopping the floor. Looking for a private time, they decide to take a walk on Central Park where they are the only couple. However, they meet Bender, who tries to rob their wallets. Leela stuns Bender as she run away from him, with Fry collecting stolen wallets and purses stolen by Bender in the process. They then go for a romantic dinner at Elzar restaurant where they are disrupted by Zoidberg who works there as dishwasher because Hermes doesn't pay him. Leela then decides that they should go to her apartment. While the two begin to kiss at her apartment, Nibbler watches them with his third eye and they suddenly stop. After Leela complains that it is impossible for them to be together with no one around, a targeting ad pops up from Leela's arm device promoting the Casa Isalada eco-resort, a resort designed for couples. Fry thinks that Leela can't afford to pay for the trip, but the ad says that she can have a 25% discount for being a return guest. Leela then reveals that she once went there with her ex-boyfriend Sean. The two agreed to go there as Leela won't exclusively think of Sean. The next day, the rest of the crew is loading the Planet Express ship with tiny cars for a delivery on Simian 7, a planet exclusively inhabited with apes and where humans are not allowed. Fry and Leela arrive at Planet Express and say that they are going on vacation. The Professor initialy refuses their vacation, but agrees when he realises that they are human beings. He then chooses Zoidberg as Fry's substitute and Amy for Leela's substitute. However, since she's a human, she must wear her marmoset-like pajamas as a disguise. Fry and Leela then arrive at their resort where they are well served by mechanical arms who can do anything they want including nose picking. While strolling, Leela makes a hat from flowers, while Fry creates one from pineapples. After some other activities, supper and drinks, they go for a naked swim in a pond with lots of surrounding fireflies. They decide to play Marco Polo, but Sean appears, undresses himself and joins them in the pond much to Fry's disgust. Although the resort is only for two people, Sean says that their shuttle is broken and that he must wait here until it is fixed by the mechanical arms. Leela then decides to go talk with Sean while Fry will wait for them while feeding the mosquitoes. Meanwhile, Amy, Bender and Zoidberg arrive at Simian 7. After completing the delivery of the cars, the CEO of Bonobo and Associates appears and say that they only want the tires for their new chairs. A vast group of apes appears and happily take all the tires from the cars. After Amy signs papers with a mandrill who is attracted to her upright posture, she then meets Guenter, who recognizes her and promises to not say anything about her being a human in a costume. Back at the resort, Leela and Sean are discussing about what happened after they broke up. Sean reveals that his musical career made it to another step when he recorded a demo and a video, but then lost his phone. Leela then reveals that she is not an alien, but a sewer mutant. Sean then starts playing his saxophone, which Leela appreciates just like when she was dating him, but becomes bored with after awhile. Meanwhile, Fry is watching them while drinking cocktails prepared by the mechanical arms. Since the mechanicals arms can't go out with Fry, he decides to fight Sean, but breaks his saxophone reed. An angry Sean wants a dollar to fix his reed is about to beat up Fry when Sean's wife, Darlene, appears and says that the shuttle is fixed. Sean and Darlene leave the resort while Leela watches a drunk Fry eating peanut butter. Back on Simian 7, Guenter gives a tour of his planet to Bender, Amy and Zoidberg. He reveals that Simian 7 was founded by Christopher Colobus to make a world where apes don't have to be specimens for human experiments, chained to organ grinders, or forced to drive tiny vehicles. They then go to all-you-can-eat buffet where they pick and eat bugs off living monkeys. Guenter then take the crew to an art gallery which displays simian art, literature and music. They then go to a zoo where animals are in fence-free enclosures, but held in captivity with force fields. At the same time, a sad Leela sits on the resort bed. Fry then comes in to apologize for ruining their vacation, but Leela blames Sean and says that she has no emotions for him. Finally together, they start to kiss much to Amy, Bender and Zoidberg's disgust who watch them as they are in the Simian 7 zoo enclosure for the Human species. Noticing that the fireflies are all around they start to make love. To save them from humiliation, Amy, Bender, Zoidberg and Guenter visit the zoo director who is in fact Dr. Banjo. Bender argues they can't keep Fry and Leela against their will, but Dr. Banjo says that they paid for their vacation and that it is fair to put humans on display just like humans put apes on display. He also tries to discourage them from saving Leela and Fry by showing them some clips of Leela and Fry talking behind their back. Those clips reveals to Dr. Banjo that Amy is in fact a human. After Dr. Banjo attempts to tranquilize Amy with a dart gun, they run away from Dr. Banjo except Guenter, who was hit. Trying to save Leela and Fry despite their comments, Amy, Bender and Zoidberg make their way through several animal enclosures. When they finally reach the human habitat, they are swallowed by a giant moon worm. After 1 week being trapped in the moon worm, they are digested out of it and manage to get into the human habitat. However, as they enter into it, Fry and Leela are already leaving in their shuttle. When everyone returns to Planet Express, Fry and Leela tell what they did in the resort. Bender wants to tell them the truth, but Amy says that he should not because it would make them feel bad. As Leela notices Amy's pajamas are torn apart, she and Fry ironically talk about the comments they made on Amy, Bender and Zoidberg in the resort which makes them more upset. Bender finally yells: You were in a Zoo. At a helium mining facility on the sun, Zapp Brannigan causes a cave-in that traps 15 miners inside the sun itself. Fry, Leela, and Bender venture to save the miners. When Bender attempts to abandon Fry and Leela and return to the ship, he inadvertently saves one of the miners. Prompted by Morbo, who is covering the breaking story on location, Bender goes on to rescue all of the remaining victims. He is hailed as the hero of the day, while Fry and Leela are recognized as his minor accomplices. A fire breaks out at their award ceremony, but as Mayor Poopenmeyer explains, the fire department was sold to pay for Bender's medal. Fry, Leela, and Bender put out the fire, although Bender is very showy about it and once again receives most of the credit. Poopenmeyer decrees that the Planet Express crew are now the city's fire department. After some time as successful firefighters, the other crew members notice that Bender was present just before every one of the fires they extinguished. They ask themselves whether Bender might be setting these fires deliberately in order to inspire continued hero-worship. Their suspicions are confirmed when, while on the videophone with Bender, they see a fire break out in the shop just behind him. When he returns to headquarters, they confront him and kick him off the team. As Bender cleans out his locker, a strange, blue flame erupts from his shoulder. He tries to extinguish it, but the flame moves around as though deliberately dodging his attempts. Finally, the flame takes on the look of a shadowy face and begins to speak to Bender. It says that it is a being of pure solar energy, a member of a race that inhabits the Sun's photosphere. It explains that billions of years ago, it was imprisoned for treason, but that Bender has unwittingly transported it to Earth. When it announces its plans to ignite the earth and rule over it, Bender realizes that this creature is the source of the fires for which he has been blamed. When Bender accidentally leads it to the sub-basement and the lava pit, it realizes that it can go to Earth's core and transform the earth into a miniature sun. To prevent this, Bender captures the creature within his compartment of mystery and flees to an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean, where there is nothing flammable. He announces to the creature, which he begins to refer to as Flamo, that they will be here for the next billion years. At home, Fry accepts a package that contains Bender's hero metal, badly damaged in the fire at the Vampire Bank where Bender had kept it. Fry realizes that Bender never would have set a fire that would risk harm to this prize, and flies to the Arctic to retrieve and apologize to Bender. But when Bender explains that it was a psychotic flame creature from the sun who set those fires, Fry decides that he must have been wrong about Bender after all. Fry angrily returns to headquarters alone. Unbeknownst to Fry and Bender, Flamo has escaped from Bender and attached itself to Fry's pants. At headquarters, it leaves Fry and ignites the Planet Express building itself. The crew are unable to extinguish the fire, as Flamo eludes their hoses. Just as they express relief that no one is left in the doomed building, Fry appears, hanging from the balcony and in need of rescue. Bender had discovered the loss of his captive earlier, and had left the Arctic just in time to arrive at this moment. He arrives such that only Fry knows of his presence, and quietly pulls him to relative safety. Fry refuses to be rescued, but Bender forces the issue. Fleeing with Fry in hand, Bender falls through the weakening floor, ending up in the sub-basement near the lava pit. Fry scolds Bender sharply and walks out on him, just as Flamo arrives and dives into the lava pit. Fry returns to scold Bender further, but Bender dives into the lava to capture Flamo. Before Fry can leave, a strange light draws him back into the room. Two large flame creatures appear, announcing that they are the mystic aldermen of the sun. They await Bender's return, thank him for his heroism in capturing their escapee, explain that he is now the greatest hero in Earth's history, and depart with a bound Flamo. Fry finally understands the truth, and promises to vouch for Bender to the rest of the crew, but Bender explains that it cannot be. They wouldn't believe Fry either. And in fact, if Fry were to tell them that Bender is even present, they'll blame Bender for the fire. The only solution is for Fry to claim that he himself accidentally started the fire while Bender was thousands of miles away. Earth President Richard Nixon and Vice President Headless Clone of Agnew sit down to watch some Saturday morning cartoons starring various re-interperetations of the Futurama crew. The first cartoon is Bendee Boo and the Mystery Crew. The gang are driving through the Repeating Forest on their way to visit the Professor's Cloning lab. On the way, they are first accosted by a Dragon Ghost which warns them to leave the forrest and subsequently they stop at George Takei's kabuki theater for a bite to eat. Making their way on to the cloning lab, where Zoidberg is the Professor's anti-cloning butler and the Harlem Globetrotters are visiting in order to have a team of 5 clones of Larry Bird made in order to practice against. While staying overnight, nearly every Scooby Doo trope is paid homage to, culminating in a two-part reveal which results in the decapitation of Zoidberg and they discover that Takei is the one who did it because he figured if the Globetrotters couldn't play, people would come to his kabuki theater instead, but Takei says that he did it because he is mentally ill. The Trotters go on to their scheduled local basketball game, which turns out to be against a team of SIX Larry Birds. The crowd outside the White House grows violent and throws a brick through the window. Nixon's solution is to watch Purpleberry Pond-after putting in a call to Hollywood that the public want the government to regulate children's programming to have helpful lessons shoehorned in. In Purpleberry Pond, life is idyllic and everyone and everything are a shade of violet. The characters encourage healthy eating, having fun with others and not judging people because they're different. Throughout there are commercials for Purpleberry Puffs cereal, a new variety of cereal being introduced whenever a new character is introduced, with a sub-narrative wherein the child in the commercials becomes obese and is implied to have developed Type II diabetes. For example, when Lord Loquat is introduced, orange berry pieces are added to the cereal and when the Berry Burglar fires a sugarball bomb at Purpleberry Pond, the cereal introduces its new Sugar-blasted pops. Lastly, Nixon and Agnew begin to watch the G.I. Zapp cartoon, but find after a few minutes that it is, as the rioting crowd outside says, too violent. Nixon creatively re-edits the cartoon. In Nixon's version, the violently code-named GI Zapp members are re-christened, more innocent explanations for violent actions are narrated in Nixon's voice. When Orphan Crippler's chest cavity opens to reveal what appears to be a giant Killamajig from Chapek 9 or a Fleen from Omicron Persei 8, set to violently dispatch of an enemy soldier, Nixon gives up and censors to a GI Joe style PSA about sharing instead of fighting featuring Dwight, Cubert and Nixon and Agnew themselves, riding up on a motorcycle and sidecar and tearing in half the football that the children had just been arguing over, culminating in a rainbow-against-a-starscape catchphrase, "Now you know something." The Planet Express crew manage to bring Calculon back from the dead. After he discovers he was replaced on All My Circuits with Vaxtron, Calculon stars in his own one-man show. + +When Planet Express is hired to deliver a mystery crate to Peebles Alpha. Turanga Leela lets her curiosity get the best of her and opens the crate to discover that it holds weapons. She convinces Bender Bending Rodriguez to disable them by bending their barrels, pretending that they are the necks of tiny Humans. When the Planet Express ship arrives at the territory of the Blips, identified by jerseys with red on the right and blue on the left, Philip J. Fry I and Leela leave to make the delivery while Bender stays behind to watch the ship. Eventually they spot what they take to be the Blips' rival gang, the Cruds ,whose jerseys have the red on the left and blue on the right. They are mistaken though, as what they've actually encountered is the reflection of a gang of Blips in a traffic intersection mirror. After a tense encounter with both gangs, it turns out that the Cruds are sending the weapons to the Blips as a peace offering with which both gangs can fight their common enemy: giant spiders. When they attempt to test the gift, each gang exterminates itself because of Bender's efforts to disable the weapons. Fry and Leela return to the ship to discover that Bender has been bot-jacked, leaving only his eyes, mouth and cigar in a nearby trash can. Luckily, back at Planet Express, Hermes Conrad reveals that Bender had a Ro-Jack installed and his parts will be traceable. The Ro-Jack is traced to Yuri 's chop-shop in Filthytown, and URL and Smitty lead a raid which yields Bender's head. As he's being taken to jail, Yuri agrees to give up a list of buyers for Bender's parts and a giant robot head for URL in exchange for his freedom. Fry, Leela and Bender proceed to scour the universe for Bender's missing parts. His antenna is traced to The Beast With Two Bucks Sex Shoppe, where with the aid of a photo taken by a secret toilet camera they discover it was sold to Hedonismbot. Bender's arms were purchased by the Borax Kid and are recovered on the Feldspar Queen gambling boat. His chest is found in the ERR frat house at Mars University where it's being used as a beer keg and his legs are recovered from a hospital where they'd recently been transplanted to Tinny Tim. All this leaves is Bender's shiny metal ass. The crew traces the ass to the wreck of the Floatwell, which crashed in the Sargaseous Sea. On their approach to the location, they run aground near a lighthouse run by Tarquin. He offers his help in locating the wreck for a cut of the booty. In a scene that is unclear as to whether it takes place in deep space, under water or some combination of the two, Bender, Fry and Leela use a bathysphere find the wreckage of the Floatwell and locate Bender's butt. They return to the lighthouse and in celebration, Fry takes pictures of Bender biting his own shiny metal ass. The flash from his camera reflected off of the arse proves brighter than the lighthouse's mirror/lamp assembly, which Tarquin asserts is already the brightest object in the known universe. This results in the salvation of a ship which was about to run aground. Tarquin, Fry and Leela pursuade Bender to leave the arse behind in the lighthouse in order to save the lives of sailors and their legacy of swearing. This is not to the liking of the arse though. As Tarquin begins reading passages from the Bible to the spinning arse, it apparently of its own accord spins off its axis and flies off into space. It manages to save a child named Johnny who has fallen down a gravity well on his space farm and returns to a grieving Bender at Planet Express amid a flourish of fireworks in the sky which, on inspection, actually turn out to be the spectacular crashes of several ships in the murky Sargaseous Sea. When Bender Bending Rodriguez steals a cowboy hat, the Planet Express crew decide it is a good time to spend the night at a redneck bar and travel to Tex 1138's. Inside is a mechanical buggalo. Bender rides it first, declaring that he will set a new record or eat his hat. He succeeds by setting a new lowest record of 0.4 seconds. John A. Zoidberg eats the hat anyway. When Leela takes her turn, she is thrown off but unable to let go, causing her to thrash about. The off switch also malfunctions and the mechanical buggalo apparently achieves consciousness. Moments before it crushes a little girl, one of the bar patrons shoot it. Still, Leela can't let go. Zoidberg inspects her hand and notices her hand has broken out in suction cups. The Planet Express crew take her to see Doctor Tenderman who reveals that she is infected with Squidification, a genetic disease that sometimes affects mutants and that it is incurable, dooming her to be turned into a slithering mass of tentacles. The doctor reveals that the only treatment is an incredibly expensive procedure that only slows the process. Philip J. Fry I declares that no matter what, he will continue to love her. Leela visits her parents Turanga Morris and Turanga Munda who tell her she's free to move in with them. At Planet Express, Fry decides that he will do anything he can to raise the money for Leela's surgery. Professor Farnsworth agrees and tells Fry to sell Old Bessie for funds. Fry takes the ship to Parts 'N' Crafts where he finds a street peddler who scams Fry by selling him magic beans that fell from the sky in exchange for the ship. When Fry returns with them, Farnsworth slaps them out of his hand and through a window, where outside they begin to grow into a massive beanstalk. Realizing that her squidification is rapidly accelerating, Leela decides to move to the sewers. She packs up her things and leaves a note for the Planet Express crew to find, but as she leaves the building she finds the massive beanstalk that stretches up to the clouds. Figuring she has nothing to lose, she climbs it instead of descending to the sewers. The beanstalk collapses and Leela grabs onto a cloud, finding a luxury castle in the clouds, discovering that it is populated by unicorns and other fantastical animals. Just when she thinks her luck has turned around, she's captured by Walt, Larry and Igner. She's brought to Mom, who reveals that the castle is Momsanto, a legal loophole that allows MomCorp to conduct genetic modifications. It turns out that it was Mom who created the Magic beans, but she is frustrated because the giant plants keep collapsing under their own weight. Mom is very interested in Leela's weird condition and tells her that she will be checking out her DNA. Three weeks later, Fry tells the crew that he ate an entire box of taco shells because he misses Leela so much. He determines to go down into the sewers to see her when Munda calls them through Leela's wrist thingy and tells them that Leela is not there. Fry and Bender travel up to the clouds after Leela's boots fall down from the sky. They arrive at Momsanto and see Leela at a window on one of the castle's towers. She lets down her hair and tells them to climb up. They climb up and see Leela hiding behind some big machine, and she then reveals herself as being almost completely squidified. Bender bends the door open and they escape down to a big room, where they come across a giant man hooked up to a bunch of wires. Leela feels bad for the giant and unhooks him, but he starts chasing them. They fall through the drain in the giant's sink and come out through a pipe next to Mom and her three sons. Leela is determined to stop the things that Mom is doing and grabs the steering wheel to crash Momsanto. As they fly over the Planet Express building, Leela grabs on to it with her tentacles and takes all three of them into the building. They are greeted with shocked expressions seeing how Leela has turned out, except for Zoidberg who says that she has become beautiful. Later, Leela tells Fry that she doesn't think that what they had can really continue, seeing how she has changed. Fry responds that he doesn't care how she looks, because she will always be Leela, the woman he loves. Suddenly, Mom flies down from Monsanto in a small tower and thanks Leela for helping her make the perfect bean with the squid DNA she took from her. Now the beans have suction cups to keep them from collapsing. Then the giant man steps out of the tower, but he isn't giant anymore. He tells them that he suffered from hereditary gigantism, until Mom cured him using genetic engineering. Leela still does not approve of this but changes her views when Mom tells Leela she can change her DNA to cure the Squidification. An alien ship approaches a distant planet, blasting a repetitive tune over the course of several days, eventually blasting the planet to pieces. The ship soon goes to Earth and broadcasts the same tone across the planet, which Professor Farnsworth believes is an attempt to communicate. Fry, on the other hand, remarks that the music sounds familiar. The Professor analyzes his brain as they hear the music and determines that Fry had heard it on December 31st, 1999, the day he got frozen and came to the future. Nibbler says he was also there that day to ensure that Fry would be frozen yet he recalled no such music. With two weeks before the spaceship arrives, Fry is set up is a contraption so he can relive his last day in the past and find the source of the music. Upon waking in his old apartment, he remarks on all his old stuff, including his then-girlfriend Michelle, who takes offense at being called old. Fry remarks it's just a dream though. He then figures that he wouldn't be really be cheating on Leela by sleeping with dream-Michelle, but Leela quickly orders him to get going. Fry then walks around Old New York City, trying to figure out where he heard the music, even consulting his old break dancing gang. He then decides to go into the nearby strip club, having never been in there before, only to find the inside to be full of white nothingness. Professor Farnsworth reminds him that he never went into the club, so he can't remember the inside. A defeated Fry walks and recalls that at this point he was nearly run over by an ice cream truck, which it nearly does. Fry then wakes up, only to learn that he was asleep for thirteen and a half days. The UFO has gotten closer and Earth is shaking from the repetition of the deafening and booming music. Fry is then put back into his dream, despite his protests that it was the worst day of his life. But upon arriving at his old family home and embracing Seymour, he realizes that he only hated his old life because he knew he would never get to see his family ever again. Instead of looking for the melody, he decides to spend his remaining time on Dream Earth with his family, or at least his mind's representation of them. But as they get to the point where Fry has to go to his pizza delivery job at Panucci's and thereby go to the future, Fry refuses to go and tries to tell his mother that she will never see him again. But his crewmates enter his dream, along with President Nixon and Vice-President Agnew, to remind him of his mission. Fry's father acknowledges Nixon as their country's greatest president. Nixon tells Mr. Fry that he requires his son for a far out musical quest. Everyone then drags Fry out the door and despite his attempts to get in and talk to his mother, Farnsworth reminds him that he never came back home after 10:00 PM, as Fry finds it another blank memory when he opens his door again. Consenting to finding the music once more, Fry takes everyone back through the last hours of his 20th century life. Reaching the part where he says farewell to Seymour, he realizes that his dog can simply shrink down and hop into his front, shirt pocket. Everyone then follows him on rickshaw cart pulled by Zoidberg as Fry simply rides his bicycle. Then meeting Michelle dumping him for another man, Leela gets insulted and shouts that only she gets to dump Fry. An angered Fry agrees. Arriving at Applied Cryogenics, Fry relives the last ten seconds of 1999 and ironically blows his noisemaker. An excited Amy Wong asks if the noisemaker was the tone they were hearing. Fry admits he is deeply disappointed in her. Nibbler soon realizes it is time to blow fry into Cryogenic tube #40. As Fry falls, the others try to grab him in a slow motion. Fry soon replies "I heard it" in slow motion also after hearing the repeating tones. Then the slow motion stops as Fry lands in the cryogenic tube. Everyone then wakes up in the real universe, Fry explaining that he also heard two extra notes of a same high-pitched tone. They then go to Mount Shushmore, where Fry plays the extra notes, which the UFO acknowledges and lands, revealing that it's actually very small and piloted by a Nibblonian, whom Nibbler identifies as Digby. When everyone asks why Digby was doing, he insists that destroying Earth was not his goal. He asks Nibbler if he remembers. When it appears that he doesn't, Digby explains that over a thousand years ago, he was Lord Nibbler's chauffeur, transporting him to Earth so he could freeze Fry, whom he called some idiot. Just as he knocked Fry into the cryogenic tube, Digby then remembered he forgot to lock their spaceship and used the remote control to do so, the control's ringtone being heard by Fry as he fell. Nibbler and Digby then went out and celebrated at O'Grady's Pub, where they got drunk and accidentally lost the keys to their ship in a storm drain. This sparks Nibbler's memory, as he says that they had to take a cab back to their base on Vergon 6. Digby finishes that his boss gave him a new spaceship and keys and went throughout the universe in search of his lost ship, but was unaware of how loud his new remote's ringtone was after Amy brings it up. Fry then brings everyone to the rooftop of Applied Cryogenics, where the ruined Nibblonian spaceship is waiting. After recharging the engine with Bender as a makeshift charger, Digby flies off. Nibbler thanks Fry for assisting the Nibblonian people once more and promises to repay him, though Fry doubts it. Fry then dreams arriving home and finding his mother watching a football game. But then he realizes that the game she's watching happened after he was frozen and becomes confused. Nibbler appears and explains that Fry is experiencing his mother's dream back in the past, as a means of repaying his debt. Fry then expresses his love for his mother with a hug. In the past, Mrs. Fry wakes up and smiles at a picture of her youngest son. The Planet Express crew believes they cannot trust eachother. Fry accuses Bender of using his toothbrush to polish his ass. Leela accuses Amy of hitting her punching bag with Amy's golf clubs. Amy accuses Leela of denting the ship and Hermes accuses Zoidberg of eating his exotic lunches. After video proof showed various planet express crew members doing the acts they were all accused of, Professor Farnsworth believes it's time for a trust building work retreat. Dan McMasters is in charge of this work retreat. Dan McMasters picks up a hitch-hiker in space. When it's revealed that the hitch-hiker is actually a human eating monster, the planet express crew runs around the ship trying to hide from it. The monster starts eating everybody on the planet express ship, it's revealed that he's actually a shape-shifter and everyone was safe. Fry and Bender, being the only two people thought to be alive, they shoot down Dan McMasters when he tells them it was a trick and everyone was safe. When it's revealed that Dan wasn't lying, Fry and Bender now have a secret between them. They now know they can trust eachother, but in the last scene, the television says that the missing case of Dan McMasters is thought to be a homicide, the person who turns the murderer gets 1 million dollars. If in the case that it's two criminals, if one of the criminals turns in the other, they will receive 2 million dollars and get off scot free without charges. Bender and Fry look at eachother with devious stares and then to the telephone. It turns out Zoidberg has been dating an alien girl online for four years. He uses his life savings to buy flowers for her. When he finally meets her she dumps him because of his stench. Zoidberg tries to return the flowers but is interrupted by Roberto who somehow came back to life but his stench drives him away too. Impressed by him standing up to Roberto, Marianne, shows interest in Zoidberg but he tells her he stinks, she says she doesn't care that he stinks and they hit it off. Later after saying that her greatest desire is to have a sense of smell, Zoidberg decides to give her surgery giving her a new nose. Zoidberg gives her the surgery, when she wakes up she smells flowers but thinks they smell horrible. Zoidberg tries explaining it is him but she says he smells just as she dreamed and they keep dating. Marianne gets a new job hauling trash. She picks up Zoidberg's garbage bin and dumps him into the cab of her dump truck and she and Zoidberg kiss once more. Meanwhile, Bender enters a tap-dancing competition against a devilish and endearing little girl. The little girl beats Bender in the tap dancing competition by breaking his leg, but dies due to her heart condition while accepting the trophy. Bender can't wait to tap-dance on her grave, begins dancing on her corpse and accidentally restarts her pacemaker. The two tap dance outside the Planet Express building later and mug Hattie together when she tries to put a coin in their donation hat. The series finale begins at the same place as the Planet Express crew's first delivery, the Moon. Fry and Leela are walking down the street when the mascot, Craterface is making balloon animals and Fry buys Leela a balloon of herself. Bender Bending Rodriguez is so excited that he cartwheels the way to Luna Park. The crew then boards the Mecha-Hexadecapus which Bender breaks by barfing up nuts and bolts which sends Leela flying through the park's glass protective bubble and into space. The hole is sealed when Craterface is sucked into it by depressurization. The Moon Patrol only finds her stuffed Buggalo, thinking her dead, but Fry discovers Leela had sheltered herself inside the plush while breathing the air from inside her balloon double. Later, at their apartment, Fry confesses to Bender that after that near-death accident, he has decided he's going to propose to Leela. The next day, the Professor shows off his latest invention: the Time Button. With it, he can send the entire Universe ten seconds into the past. Only the user of the button or those hiding in an anti-chroniton-resistant-grout coated Time Shelter can recall what happened. As the crew gets in the shelter to watch, Dr. John A. Zoidberg comes in to boast that he got a ten-dollar bill that a guy dropped while getting in a taxi. Professor Farnsworth then takes the bill before using the button and everyone takes glee in Zoidberg's disappointment when he finds no money in his pocket. Fry asks if he can use the button to go back as far as he wants by pressing it over and over again. Farnsworth claims that's impossible, as it takes ten seconds for the button to recharge. Fry then asks him if using the button can make a moment last forever. The Professor takes offense, stating that the button is to be only used for scientific purposes, as he pushes it again to watch Zoidberg's misery. However, Fry steals the button so he and Bender can steal diamonds from Ultra Guy's Custom Diamonds to create a golfball-size engagement ring. He then prepares his proposal to Leela at Elzar's Fine Cuisine. Unfortunately, the giant clam carrying her diamond ring bites off her right hand. Fry panics, but then uses the button to prevent this. However, he doesn't want to hear Leela agree to his proposal until she can accept it at the Vampire State Building at 6:30pm, where he can make the sunset last as long as she wants. As he waits for her arrival, she is apparently tardy. At 7:02pm, he decides that Leela has rejected him. He decides to commit suicide by jumping off the building. As he falls, he spots Leela arriving. Due to his repeated use of the time button, his watch was over half an hour ahead of the rest of the universe or at least rest of Earth. He then tries to use the button to return to a point in time before he'd jumped off the building, but discovers that he has been falling for more than 10 seconds, so that he can never return to the point before he jumps. Back at Planet Express, the Professor urges everyone to get into his anti-time shelter. With the button being used, the universe is in a constant time loop. Naturally, Bender is quick to rat Fry out. Unfortunately, they can't leave the shelter without causing a duplicate paradox. Their past selves will be caught in the loop while their present selves will be shredded across the time stream like human coleslaw. The Professor demonstrates by throwing the ten dollar bill out as the button is being used. So they run to the Vampire State Building while carrying the shelter, stopping every ten seconds. When they arrive, Farnsworth accidentally distracts Fry, causing him to lose the button and hit the ground, dying on impact. Leela uses the button to undo this, but accidentally shreds the Professor since he had stepped out of the shelter unbeknownst to her. Fry then explains his predicament to Leela amidst a series of deaths. Realizing they need an exit strategy, Bender waits for an opportune moment and saves Fry's life with his airbag. But as Fry bounces off and everyone celebrates, he accidentally falls on the button and breaks it, causing time to freeze for everyone except Fry and Leela. Fry and Leela discover that they can still interact with objects to an extent and with living things as though they were inanimate objects. They stage a wedding for themselves at St. Koch's Cathedral, the Space Pope silently and motionlessly presiding, as well as begin to explore Planet Earth in a multi-decade honeymoon, all the while being pestered by a mysterious glimmer. When they reach old age, they return to the Vampire State Building roof garden, where Fry recites his intended proposal, in which he again makes reference to making a moment last forever. Reflecting on their years in Frozen time, Leela repeats her salmon-self line and reassures Fry that he was never lonely, not even for a minute. Then suddenly, the glimmer appears and turns into a tunnel, from which the Professor emerges. He explains that the button merely rotated him into an orthogonal time that runs at right angles to Fry and Leela's frame of reference. He's been tunneling for decades, searching every instant from yesterday to tomorrow for the button. When Fry reveals he's been carrying the pieces of the broken button with him for years, having tried to repair it but getting angry and smashing it further, Farnsworth quickly repairs and modifies the device so that he can reset everything. However, he explains that it will now send the trio back to the moment before he invented the Time Button, leaving them with no memory of any event that took place afterward. Fry and Leela decide to give their life together another go and they share one last kiss before the button is pushed for the final time.