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Leela and the Genestalk is the ninth episode of Season 10 (broadcast).
Synopsis
Turanga Leela learns she's infected with squidification and goes on a quest to cure herself.
Plot
When Bender Bending Rodríguez 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. Even 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 and they 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 (the Planet Express ship) 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 occuring, 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 they keep collapsing under their own weight. Mom is very interested in Leelas 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 seeing how he misses Leela so much. After Munda calls them through "Leelas wrist thingy" and tells them that Leela is not there, Fry and Bender travel up the beanstalk (by using some sort of jetpack) after Leelas boots fall down from the sky.
They arrive at Momsanto and see Leela at a window on one of the castles towers. She lets down her hair (which has turned completely into tentacles) and tells them to climb up. They climb up and see Leela hiding behind some big machine, she later reveals herself as being almost completely made into tentacles.
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, before he starts chasing them. They fall through the hole in a giant 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 steeringwheel 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 that 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 is become mostly tentacles. which Fry responds that he doesn't care how she looks, because she will always be Leela, the woman he loves.
Suddenly, Mom comes down with a cloud 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. After that the giant man arrives, but he isn't giant anymore. He tells them that he suffered from Hereditary gigantism, until Mom cured him using genetic engineering (that's why he was hooked up in the lab)
Leela still does not approve of this but changes her views when Mom tells Leela she can change her DNA to cure the Squidification.
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