Bender's Big Score
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Two years ago, the executives of the Box Network canceled Planet Express's contract (a reference to Fox's cancellation
of the Futurama series). Now those executives have been fired 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 and his body crushed during a freak
limboing accident with a saber, prompting his wife LaBarbara to leave him. His head is placed in a jar while his body is
repaired. The man who performs the procedure, Lars, takes an immediate liking to Leela, who reciprocates, much to Fry's
chagrin.
During a delivery to a nude beach planet, Fry discovers a tattoo of Bender on his right buttock of which he was unaware.
While on the beach, a trio of scammer aliens use flimsy excuses to coerce the entire Planet Express crew into signing
petitions and providing their e-mail addresses. When the crew returns to Earth, the scammers send them hundreds of spam
messages, which they respond to; while browsing the spam, Bender is infected with a virus, and Professor Farnsworth is
tricked into signing over his business to the scammers, who show up to take over. Bender's virus compels him to obey the
scammers' every whim. The scammers, by a process known as "sprunjing," are drawn to the tattoo on Fry's buttock, which
is revealed to contain the code for paradox-correcting time travel. Nibbler once again reveals himself and explains that
using the code could rip the very fabric of the universe, but the scammers ignore him.
Since the time code only allows travel into the past, the scammers have Bender steal valuable objects from Earth's past,
waiting out the time between in a cave beneath Planet Express since, as a robot, he can last for tens of thousands of
years. During an interval of Bender's stealing spree, Hermes asks Bender to travel back in time and obtain an earlier
version of his body as a replacement to save his marriage (although Dr. Zoidberg puts his head on backwards). The
Professor analyzes the time code and discovers that all duplicates created via time-travel paradoxes, including Hermes'
new body, are doomed to die. Meanwhile, Leela and Lars begin going out on several dates, making Fry bitter and forlorn.
Once Bender has stolen everything of value from history, the scammers deem the time-travel code too risky to use any
further, so they decide to destroy it by killing Fry and blanking it from Bender's memory bank. Fed up with everything
that is happening, Fry uses the time code to escape to January 1, 2000, the day he was frozen. Bender is sent back to
kill him and arrives in the cryogenics lab where Fry was frozen. Bender creates a duplicate of himself when he needs to
use the bathroom (for the first time in his life). The duplicate catches Fry as he appears in the past and attempts to
kill him, only to have an emotional crisis—and his need to badly urinate—cause an overload, so Fry shoves him in a
cryo-tube, which sets itself for 1,000,000 years. Fry leaves and the original Bender spends the next twelve years
hunting him down, eventually cornering him at and blowing up Panucci's Pizza when Fry walks inside.
Bender returns to report his apparent success, and the scammers erase the code and the obedience virus. While the crew
holds a memorial for him, Fry shows up out of nowhere, alive. He explains that while in the 21st century, a series of
events involving Fry's further use of the time code led to the creation of a time-travel duplicate of his own, which
confronted the Bender duplicate and remained in the past while the original Fry accidentally fell into his own cryo-tube
again and returned to the future. From then on, there are flashback scenes that show that the duplicate Fry had spent the
twelve years before Bender's attack working at an aquarium, caring for an orphaned narwhal named Leelu.
Nibbler destroys the time travel tattoo to keep the scammers from abusing it any further. However, everyone is now living
in poverty thanks to the scammers, while Leela and Lars decide to get married, making Fry despondent. Unfortunately, a
chain reaction at the wedding leads to Hermes being decapitated again, and his body gets crushed by a chandelier. The
Professor explains that, as a time-travel duplicate, the body was inevitably doomed. At this point, Lars becomes
agitated and inexplicably calls off the wedding.
Earth President Richard Nixon is tricked into selling Earth to the scammers and everyone evacuates the planet. In an
attempt to reclaim Earth, the population assembles a motley yet resourceful attack fleet with the aid of Robot Santa,
Kwanzaabot, and the Chanukah Zombie, and defeats the scammers' fleet of remote controlled solid gold Death Stars,
achieving victory thanks to Hermes' bureaucratic brain wired into the battle computer, which also wins back his wife.
In a last-ditch effort, the scammers threaten to kill the crew with a doomsday device Bender had stolen for them
earlier, but fail to realize that Bender has double crossed them and stolen the device again for himself. The crew
fires the device at the scammers' ship, destroying it. Everyone returns to Earth to celebrate the New Year 3008, where
Bender is commended for his deeds and Hermes is returned to his original body.
Fry sees that Leela is troubled after her breakup with Lars. After failing to entice her, Fry decides to do what he
feels is best for her and tries to get the two back together. The reunion is cut short by Nudar, the lead scammer, who
had survived the explosion of the doomsday device thanks to his radiation-absorbing vest. Nudar claims that the
time-travel code still exists on Lars. Lars tricks him into approaching the cryo-tube with the Bender duplicate on
overload; once that Bender is released, Lars holds Nudar against the doomed Bender duplicate, who explodes and kills
them both. The explosion singes off some of Lars' clothing, revealing the time-travel tattoo. A flashback explains that
Lars was actually Fry's time-travel duplicate; after reluctantly releasing Leelu into the Arctic wild, he had returned
to his apartment and survived Bender's attack in 2012, the fire and smoke of which changed his appearance and voice.
Upon realizing that he was Lars, the duplicate Fry froze himself to return to the future and be with Leela. However,
once he realized that all time travel duplicates were doomed, he cancelled the wedding because he didn't want to cause
Leela to bear the pain of his death, as explained to everyone in his video will, especially Leela, who forgives Lars
and gives Fry a kiss.
During the funeral, Bender removes the tattoo from Lars' bottom and travels into the past to place it on the Fry frozen
in cryo-sleep to make sense out of all that has transpired (this process was actually portrayed earlier in the film,
when the original Bender duplicate met himself from "way at the end"). Upon returning, Bender has met many of his own
duplicates created during his stealing spree, each of which he invites to emerge with him all at once instead of when
they were supposed to give their artifacts to the scammers. Nibbler, terrified of the paradoxical consequences of this
emerge, urges everyone to evacuate the universe, and then leaves it by swallowing himself. The Bender duplicates begin
exploding one after another, and cause a huge tear in the fabric of space. Bender says "Well, we're boned", and the
movie ends on a grim note. The tear leads to events shown in Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs.
