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Professor Farnsworth creates a What-if machine, a device where a user can ask it a question and it will give a instant play of what will happen. Bender wants to know what life would be like if he were 500 feet tall, Leela wants to know what life would be like if she were more impulsive, and Fry wants to know what life would be like if he never came to the year 3000.
wikipedia.org summary:
Farnsworth invents a What-If machine that simulates the Planet Express crew’s wishes: Bender asks what if he were 500 feet (150 m) tall; Leela asks what if she were more impulsive; and Fry asks what if he never came to the future.
Terror at 500 Feet – Bender is built on another planet to be 500 feet tall and comes to Earth to wreak havoc. Desperate to put an end to Bender’s rampage, the Planet Express crew turns Zoidberg into a 500-foot tall giant who fights and kills Bender.
Dial L for Leela – Farnsworth tells Leela that she will be named his successor because she is boring and predictable. Acting on impulse, Leela kills Farnsworth and the rest of the Planet Express crew except Fry, who she has sex with to keep him quiet.
The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime – After just missing falling into the cryogenic tube, Fry discovers a wormhole that threatens to destroy the universe if Fry does not go to the future. Instead of stepping into the tube, Fry destroys it and brings about the end of the universe.
imdb.com summary:
In this episode of Futurama the Professor creates a What If machine that answers every question. The first question is what if Bender was 500 feet tall, the second is what if Leela was more impulsive, and the third is what if Fry never came to the future.

It’s Mother’s Day in the year 3000 and the robots celebrate the occasion by lavishing presents on Mom, who happens to be the beloved founder of Mom’s Friendly Robot Company. When Mom enlists the robots in a revolution to take over the world and make her Queen for Mother’s Day, she instructs the robots to turn against their human masters. Realizing that Mom seeks world domination, Professor Farnsworth’s seductive moves are made to save the humans.
wikipedia.org summary:
Mom reprograms the world’s robots to rebel against humanity. The only hope of salvation is Mom’s old flame – Professor Farnsworth, who must rekindle his romance with Mom in order to save mankind.
imdb.com summary:
When Mom of Mom’s Robot Factory takes control of every robot on Earth, the only man who can save the planet is Prof. Farnsworth.

When the Planet Express crew lands on a previously undiscovered plant, they find that it is covered in a new and delicious animal life form which they call “popplers”. These edible and highly addictive “popplers” soon become a new business venture for the crew as Earthlings just can’t seem to get enough of these delicacies. The dreaded Omnicrons reveal just what these “popplers” actually are, and seek restitution for Earth’s “poppler” consumption.
wikipedia.org summary:
The crew discovers an irresistible source of food on a distant planet, and brings it back to Earth to be sold at the Fishy Joe’s restaurant chain. But when it’s discovered that the so-called “Popplers” are actually Omicronian babies, the Omicronians demand recompense.
imdb.com summary:
The Planet Express crew discovers a delicious snack food on a remote planet, but Leela has a change of heart when she discovers a disturbing fact about the snack food that endangers Earth.

When Bender cannot pay the bill after an extremely expensive meal, he offers to work it off in the kitchen. While he’s working he is introduced to the secret robot mafia who cooks up a plan for Bender to participate in a Zuban Cigar heist. Bender is dished a deal that hits closer to home.
wikipedia.org summary:
Bender takes a new job in the Robot Mafia, but his loyalty is tested when he goes along on the robotic gangster’s efforts to rob the Planet Express ship.
imdb.com summary:
Bender gets inducted into the Robot mafia but has a crisis of conscience when their next score involves his friends on the Planet Express ship.

A day off from work, the crew aboard the Planet Express Spaceship goes fishing. When Bender fashions a gigantic hook catching a gigantic fish, he causes the ship to sink. Once submerged, the crew finds an ancient sunken city habitated by mermaids and mermen. Fry is the first to contact them – and one of them in a romantic way.
wikipedia.org summary:
A fishing trip over the ocean takes a turn for the worse when a colossal mouth bass pulls the Planet Express ship to the bottom of the sea. There, Fry falls in love with a mermaid named Umbriel with long blonde hair, and the crew discovers the sunken city of Atlanta, Georgia.
imdb.com summary:
When the crew goes fishing, a giant fish pulls the ship under water. There they find an ancient city, where Fry falls in love with Umbriel, a mermaid.

It’s Farnsworth’s 150th birthday, and a party is being held for him at Mars University. However the party makes him realize there is so much he has to do, and so little time to do it. Back home, he reveals his clone, Cubert Farnsworth, who looks and acts like an obnoxious 12 year old brat. The crew soon takes a dislike to Cubert. Farnsworth is crushed when Cubert tells him he doesn’t want to be a scientist because Farnsworth’s inventions never worked.
wikipedia.org summary:
Farnsworth celebrates his 150th birthday, but begins to grow concerned about what will become of his inventions after he is gone, so he names a clone of himself, Cubert Farnsworth, to be his successor. However, Cubert shows no interest in becoming an inventor and harshly criticizes all of Farnsworth’s ideas and inventions. Saddened, Farnsworth leaves a will revealing that he is in fact 160 years old, the age when people are taken to the Near-Death Star, a retirement home-like facility from which they never return. The crew and Cubert rescue Farnsworth while he is still unconscious, but their ship’s light-speed engines are damaged. Fortunately, a blow Cubert sustained to the head during the escape causes him to gain Farnsworth’s understanding of how the engines work. The crew safely returns to Earth, and Cubert tells Farnsworth that he has decided to follow in his “father’s” footsteps.
imdb.com summary:
Prof. Farnsworth reveals that he cloned himself years ago and introduces his clone to the Planet Express staff.

Hermes, the bureaucrat assigned to the Planet Express, is on the fast track to promotion until he starts to crack under pressure and is sent away in vacation. In his place, Morgan Proctor (Nora Dunn), an attractive woman and orderly bureaucrat arrives and immediately becomes romantically entangled with Fry. When Bender discovers their secret and threatens to tell their co-workers, Morgan panics and disables his memory disk.
wikipedia.org summary:
When Hermes takes a stress-relieving vacation, replacement bureaucrat Morgan Proctor becomes infatuated with Fry. Bender threatens to publicize their affair, but Morgan removes Bender’s memory and hides it within the cavernous Central Bureaucracy.
imdb.com summary:
A meticulous substitute bureaucrat at Planet Express develops an unseemly attraction to dirty Fry while career bureaucrat Hermes Conrad goes to a vacation resort featuring forced labor. After Bender discovers the affair, only Hermes can save his personality after it is downloaded by the unscrupulous substitute.

When Leela discovers that she is not the last cyclops in the Universe, she makes plans to meet with Alkazar, a male cyclops who tells Leela how she became the last female of their race. When Leela accepts Alkazar’s marriage proposal, Fry tries to convince her that Alkazar is all wrong for her and Fry and Bender set out to gather evidence before Leela walks down the aisle.
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Leela meets another cyclops named Alcazar, who appears to be the only other remaining member of their kind following the destruction of their home planet of Cyclopia. Leela moves into Alcazar’s castle and decides it is her duty to help rebuild their civilization with him, but he begins to treat her like a slave. Fry grows suspicious of Alcazar, but before he can persuade Leela, Alcazar proposes to her and she accepts. During the wedding, Fry and Bender discover that the planet has four other castles, each housing a different alien Alcazar had proposed to and is preparing to marry on the same day. Fry exposes the secret and Alcazar’s five brides gang up on him, forcing him to reveal his true form as a shapeshifting bug-like alien. As they leave Alcazar’s planet, Leela begins contemplating the odds of finding the planet she came from.
imdb.com summary:
After Leela meets a man named Alkazar, she finds out she is not the only Cyclops left. Alkazar takes Leela to his home planet and proposes to marry her. Meanwhile, Fry suspects Alkazar is hiding something.

When Bender goes to the movies, he ends up wrestling around to get a better view. While brawling, he gets discovered and signs on as the featured attraction in the brutal Ultimate Robot Fighting League — with some knock-out results.
wikipedia.org summary:
Bender inadvertently defeats a champion robot boxer and is hired to become a member of the Ultimate Robot Fighting League. Leela agrees to train Bender to get back at her old sexist martial arts teacher Fnog. Bender becomes more popular with each fight he wins, which all turn out to be fixed, causing him to neglect his training. Soon, however, Bender’s popularity begins to dwindle and he is instructed to throw the next match against a giant robot called Destructor. Leela only agrees to help Bender upon learning his opponent is trained by Fnog. During the fight, Leela discovers Destructor is being controlled remotely by Fnog, who she fights and beats up. Bender tries to use this opportunity to defeat Destructor, but his opponent falls on him and he loses the match anyway.
imdb.com summary:
Bender gets into trouble with a famous wrestling robot and accidentally knocks him out. Instantly, he is offered to fight in the professional robot wrestling league and Leela talks him into it, offering to train him. Bender soon figures out how the robot wrestling business works like and enjoys being rich and popular. But soon fame takes hold of him and he’s about to pay the price for his behavior.

The Professor hires Flexo — a new robot who, despite a goatee, is an exact duplicate of Bender — as extra security when the crew is asked to take a valuable jeweled tiara to the Miss Universe Contest. When the tiara turns up missing, Fry suspects Flexo and starts a cat-and-mouse chase throughout the pageant with Bob Barker guest starring as himself.
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Fry goes with Amy to try out her newly purchased car on Mercury. When the car runs out of gas, the two make love while waiting for a tow truck and begin dating. Valentine’s Day approaches and Fry begins to feel smothered by Amy, but as Fry prepares to break up with her, they get into a car accident that nearly kills him. With his body severely damaged, Fry’s head is kept alive by being grafted onto Amy’s shoulder. Fry breaks up with Amy anyway upon returning to Earth, so she arranges another date that Fry is forced to attend. Before Fry can unwillingly join Amy in an intimate relationship with her boyfriend, Leela saves him by prolonging their conversation and canceling their evening plans. Fry has his head is reattached to his repaired body the next day, and he and Amy continue to remain friends.
imdb.com summary:
While at a 20th century museum, Fry runs over another bending unit, Flexo. When Flexo is hired at Planet Express as extra security for the delivery of the tiara to the Miss Universe Pageant, Fry becomes suspicious of him and keeps watch on him for most of the journey. Tired, he falls asleep while guarding the tiara and when he wakes up he discovers it has been stolen.
tv.com summary:
Fry, Leela, and Bender go to “Past-O-rama”, While there, Fry runs over Flexo, a robot that looks exactly like Bender, except for his goatee. When a expensive jewel goes missing, Fry suspects it is Flexo who stole it.