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Bender's Big Score |
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When Professor Farnsworth learns that the executives of the Box Network who had canceled Planet Express's contract two years ago have themselves been fired and subsequently ground into a fine, pink powder, he announces that Planet Express is back "on the air." They throw a party to celebrate, during which Hermes is decapitated and his body crushed. 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 Leela, much to Fry's chagrin.
During a delivery to a nude beach planet, Leela points out a Bender tattoo on Fry's buttocks, of which Fry was unaware. While on the beach, a trio of scammer aliens use flimsy excuses to get the entire Planet Express crew to sign petitions and provide their e-mail addresses.
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 Farnsworth into signing over his business to them and 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 ass, which is revealed to contain the binary code for paradox-correcting time travel. Though Nibbler explains that using the code could destroy the universe, they ignore him.
Bender destroys New York while stealing the Nobel Peace Prize in 2308, one of the many moments of continuity with the previous episodes. The scammers have Bender use the code to steal every valuable object in human history. Meanwhile, Hermes asks Bender to travel back in time and kill an earlier version of himself for a replacement body, since repairs to his current one are delayed by the head museum being scammed. The Professor, having analyzed the time-travel code, discovers that all time-travel duplicates, including Hermes' new body, are doomed.
Once Bender has stolen everything of value from history, the scammers 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, and Bender is sent back to kill him. While waiting for Fry, Bender creates a duplicate of himself when he needs to use the bathroom. The duplicate Bender catches Fry as he appears in the past and attempts to kill him, only to have his feelings for Fry cause an overload. Fry shoves him in a cryo-tube before he can explode. Fry leaves by the time the original Bender walks out of the bathroom, and Bender spends the next twelve years hunting Fry, eventually blowing up Panucci's Pizza when Fry walks inside.
Once Bender returns to report his apparent success, the scammers wipe his memory and the virus. When the crew holds a funeral, Fry is revealed to be alive and well, having created a time-travel duplicate of himself which remained in the twentieth century while he hid in another cryo-tube and came back to the future. Nibbler destroys the time travel tattoo to keep the scammers from abusing it further.
Leela and Lars, having had several dates, decide to get married. At the wedding, Hermes' body is crushed by a chandelier, fulfilling the Professor's prediction. Lars becomes agitated by Hermes' accident and calls off the wedding.
The scammers eventually trick Earth President Richard Nixon into selling Earth itself, forcing everyone to evacuate to other planets. On Neptune, Leela assembles an attack fleet with the help of Nixon and Robot Santa. Despite the scammers having built a fleet of solid gold Death Stars around Earth, the attack is victorious thanks to Hermes' bureaucratic mind, wired directly into the battle computer. The scammers threaten the crew with a doomsday device Bender had stolen for them, but fail to realize that Bender stole it back after being released from their control. The crew fires the device at the scammers' ship, completely destroying it.
Fry, seeing that Leela is still unhappy that Lars left her at the altar, tries to get her back together with Lars. The reunion is cut short by Nudar, the lead scammer, who survived the doomsday device thanks to his doom-proof vest. Nudar claims that the time-travel code still exists, and is on Lars. Lars tricks him into approaching the cryo-tube with the Bender on overload, and 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 Fry's duplicate, having survived Bender's attack in 2012, of which the resulting fire permanently burned off his hair and injured his larynx, changing his voice. Upon realizing that he was Lars, the duplicate froze himself to return to the future and be with Leela.
During the funeral, Bender removes the tattoo from Lars and travels into the past to place it on the Fry frozen in cryo-sleep. Upon returning from the cavern below the Planet Express building, Bender tells all of his copies to come up with him instead of emerging when they were logically supposed to. The sheer number of time-paradox Benders causes a giant tear in the universe. |
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