Bender's Big Score

Bender's Big Score
DVD Movie Information
Released	November 27, 2007
Running Time	89 minutes
Credits
Directed By	Dwayne Carey-Hill
Written By	Ken Keeler (teleplay and story) David X. Cohen (story)
Guests	Al Gore as Himself Coolio as Kwanzaabot Mark Hamill as Chanukah Zombie
DVD Movie Guide
Preceded by	The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
Followed by	The Beast with a Billion Backs

Bender's Big Score is the first of four straight-to-DVD movies based on the animated series Futurama, released on November 27, 2007. The movie is written by Ken Keeler and David X. Cohen. Established characters appearing include among others the Nibblonians, Seymour (Fry's dog), Barbados Slim (the limboer who always defeats Hermes), Morbo, Santa Claus Robot, the God space entity, Al Gore, and Zapp Brannigan. The plot also heavily involves several new characters; a trio of nudist scammer aliens, Head Museum technician Lars Fillmore and a narwhal named Leelu.

As a bonus, the DVD also includes a 1/2 hour episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, featuring the Hypnotoad.

Plot

Two years ago the executives of the Box Network (an allusion to the Fox Network) canceled Planet Express's contract. 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. 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 ass, 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 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 paradox-correcting time travel. Nibbler explains that using the code could destroy the universe, but they ignore him.

The scammers have Bender use the code to steal valuable objects from Earth's past, waiting out the time between in a cave beneath Planet Express. During this time, Hermes asks Bender to travel back in time and kill an earlier version of himself for a replacement body. The Professor analyzes the time-travel code and 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. Bender creates a duplicate of himself when he needs to use the bathroom. The duplicate 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 and the original Bender spends the next twelve years hunting him, eventually blowing up Panucci's Pizza when Fry walks inside.

Once Bender returns to report his apparent success, the scammers wipe his memory of the code, 50 Terabytes of porn and the virus. Fry shows up at his own funeral, 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 decide to get married. At the wedding, Hermes's body is crushed by a chandelier. The Professor explains that he expected that, since all duplicates are doomed. Lars becomes agitated by this news and calls off the wedding.

Earth President Richard Nixon is tricked into selling Earth to the scammers and everyone evacuates the planet. They assemble an attack fleet and defeat the scammers' fleet of solid gold Death Stars. 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, destroying it.

Fry sees that Leela is still unhappy that Lars left her at the altar, and tries to get them back together. The reunion is cut short by Nudar, the lead scammer, who survived the doomsday device. 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; 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, which burned off his hair and injured his larynx, deepening his voice. Upon realizing that he was Lars, the duplicate Fry froze himself to return to the future and be with Leela. 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, Bender removes the tattoo from Lars and travels into the past to place it on the Fry frozen in cryo-sleep. Upon returning, Bender reveals that he had convinced his time-travel duplicates to remain in the cave with him instead of emerging when they were logically supposed to. Then they all emerge together. Nibbler is horrified, and shouts "Everyone out of the Universe!" before eating himself. The sheer number of time-paradox Benders causes a giant tear in the universe.

Cast

• Billy West as Philip J. Fry, Lars Fillmore, Dr. Zoidberg, Professor Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, God Entity, Earth President Richard Nixon, Inuit #1, and Additional Voices
• Katey Sagal as Turanga Leela
• John DiMaggio as Bender Bending Rodriguez, Santa Claus Robot, Sal, Mr. Panucci, Barbados Slim, Elzar, Constantine and Additional Voices
• Tress MacNeille as Linda, Dr. Cahill, Dr. Shlavinowitz, Turanga Munda, Tinny Tim, Hattie McDoogal and Additional Voices
• Maurice LaMarche as Kif Kroker, Narrator, Hedonismbot, Schlump, Morbo, Horrible Gelatinous Blob, Donbot, Clamps, Charles de Gaulle's Head, Leelu, Cryogenicist, Leroy Panucci, Inuit #2 and Additional Voices
• Phil LaMarr as Hermes Conrad, Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate, Phil Fry the Presidential Aide and Additional Voices
• Lauren Tom as Amy Wong, Philip J. Fry, Jr. and Additional Voices
• David Herman as Nudar, Scruffy, Turanga Morris, Terry, Father Changstein-El-Gamal, Nude Bartender, Sweet Clyde, Phillip Fry the Obese Bum and Additional Voices
• Dawn Lewis as LaBarbara Conrad
• Kath Soucie as Cubert Farnsworth
• Frank Welker as Nibbler, Fleb, Seymour and Additional Voices
• Coolio as Kwanzabot
• Al Gore as Himself
• Mark Hamill as Chanuka Zombie
• Tom Kenny as Yancy Fry, Jr.
• Sarah Silverman as Michelle
• Bumper Robinson as Dwight Conrad (uncredited)

Goofs

• In the climax of the film, when Leela, Lars, and Fry are at the cryogenics lab it is day. However, in the scene before this, it is night, and Fry told Leela to meet him up there in 5 minutes.