Futurama

- Season 8

(2011)

To avoid an imminent bankruptcy, the "Planet Express" is converted into an airline company, but on its the first flight the airliner crash-lands on a strange planet.

Professor invents a device that creates two half-sized duplicates of any object. Bender uses this device to create copies of himself, so he doesn't have to work, but things quickly get out of control.

Fry believes that a human life is more important than a robot life, so Bender decides to kill himself again, only this time he really follows through. But instead of dying he turns into a ghost that haunts Fry.

Fry realizes he's stuck in a dead-end job, so he quits and enrolls in the police academy.

Bender testifies in open court against Donbot, and has to go into Witness Relocation Program, because the entire robot mafia is now after him.

Against all odds, Leela manages to write a successful children story, which becomes a huge TV hit. But Leela's success comes with a secret.

The crew changes the outcome of the American revolution when they travel back in time.

While traveling through the Bermuda Tetrahedron, the crew encounters a giant 4-dimensional space whale.

Leela buys some alien eggs, and Fry decides to hatch one of them instead of eating it, hoping to get a pet bird, but gets something else instead.

The Professor consistently refuses to fire Zoidberg, despite his complete incompetence in medicine. The reason for such devotion is finally revealed.

Fry gets the common cold, which is bad news for the 31st century Earth, where the common cold has been extinct for a long time, so no one is immune to it.

Cubert overclocks Bender's CPU to make him more powerful, but that creates some unexpected results. Meanwhile, Leela decides to dump Fry and move on.

The episode contains three separate stories. In the first, which parodies the 1930s B&W cartoons, Fry wants to propose to Leela, so he blows up a comet made of "dimondium" to make her a diamond ring. In the second, which parodies the 1980s video games, the Professor invents a microscope with an infinite magnification and learns all the secrets of the Universe, which puts him and other scientists out of business. In the third part, which parodies Japanese anime, the team must defend Earth from dancing aliens.