Bender's Big Score Season: 5 Production Code: 5ACV01, 5ACV02, 5ACV03, 5ACV04 Writer: Ken Keeler Director: Rich Moore Airdate: November 27, 2007 Capsule: Gary M. Gadsdon Professor Farnsworth fires everybody at Planet Express because the morons at the BOX Network didnt renew their licence. Just as the crew is about to leave the office Farnsworth recieves a call from the Network announcing that the executives that didnt renew their licence were themselves fired, and that the new executives have renewed their licence. During the celebration ceremony, Hermes acccepts a Limbo challenge from Bender, and even ups the stakes by having him Limbo under a sword. He wins the challenge, but another sword falls from the wall and his head is chopped off before his body wanders around the office and is crushed by the Planet Express Ship. While at the Head Museum to get Hermes's body looked at, Leela meets the Jar Guy, Lars. Just before Leela and Lars are able to hit it off, Farnsworth comes in with a package to the Nude Planet. While there, three guys are wandering around collecting email addresses including Leela, Amy, Zoidberg and Bender. When they arrive home, they're bombarded with spam emails and scams which they all fall for, Bender is also exposed to a virus. In a seminar, Farnsworth himself falls victim to a scam and Planet Express is taken over by the scammers, who turn out to be the guys who were collecting email addresses on the Nude Planet. While Lars is visiting Planet Express to tell Hermes the status of his body, Lars asks Leela out for dinner, and she agrees. While the scammers are using their special organs, call a Scrunger, they find a safe containing various amounts of information on the Planet Express Crew including Social Security Numbers. The Scammers then scrunge up some information around Fry and pinpoint it to his butt, where a tattoo of Bender was discovered a few days earlier while on the Nude Planet. When Zoomed in on the Bender Tattoo, they find a code written in Binary which turns out to be the secret to time travel, it also has the ability to correct paradoxes. The Nibblonians try to prevent the scammers from using the code a single time but fail. The Lead Scammer travels back in time a single day and meets his past self, they show up in Planet Express and then Farnsworth topples the Smellescope on the duplicate preventing a paradox. The next day, The Scammers intend to steal all of history's artifacts and retain them in the year 3007. But they are unable to do so because the code isnt two-way. Bender agrees to go back in time and steal the artifacts and then wait out the time in a limestone cavern beneath Planet Express. Farnsworth is forced to sell all of his Doomsday devices excpet one to Heedonismbot. The scammers tell Bender to steal the device by sawing off the Proffessors Hand which Zoidberg sews back on. Hermes watches and asks if he were to get an undamaged body and bring it back to the present Zoidberg would attach it. Hermes asks Bender to claim the body, while Zoidberg attaches Hermes's head to his body from the past. Zoidberg puts his head on backwards. Farnsworth tries to figure out how the time spheres can work without causing Paradoxes by enlisting the help of Bubblegum Tate of the Harlem Globetrotters, they figure out that the paradoxes are prevented by an equation that causes all duplicates to be doomed anyways. Lars and Leela go out to dinner that night, and the two hit it off, making Fry increasingly jealous. Now that Bender has taken everything valuable in exisitance, the Scammers attempt to clear the code from Fry by killing him but he runs away and using a mirror he goes back in time with the code to Jaunary 1st, 2000. Back in the Year 3007, Bender is given the task of going back in time and termininating Fry. Bender finds the cola that Fry took with him on his delivery before he was cryogenically frozen, and for some reason he needs the bathroom. He travels backwards 19 seconds, to tell himself to keep an eye on Fry while he goes to the Bathroom, and another Bender pops in to attach the tattoo to Fry's butt. Fry arrives from the year 3007, and Bender ambushes him. Overcome with a situation, Bender activates his Self Destruct mechinism. Fry pushes Bender into a Cryogenic chamber and is frozen shortly before exploding. Fry then leaves the lab with Bender who travelled back in time 19 seconds chasing after him. Bender searches the entire country, while Fry lives at Panucci's Pizza, until the year 2012. Bender searches the phone book for everybody named Fry and even ends up at Yancy's house for Fry's Nephew (Philip J. Fry II). While getting on a boat to the North Pole, Fry arrives and gets a Taxi to Panucci's where Seymour is waiting. Bender arrives after being thrown out of Al Gore's taxi cab. Bender blasts a shot through the window, Fossilising Seymour in Dolomite and killing Fry. Bender waits out the rest of time until the year 3007 crying. Bender is then released from the scammers control and all traces of the Time Code is removed. A memorial service for Fry is made in Central Park, where Bender admits that he killed Fry. Seconds later, Fry shows up having evaded Benders attack in the past because he wanted Pizza, and tried to take money from his original self but fell into his own Cryogenic tube, Fry pulled up his own pants and and then refroze himself for a further 7.95 years, and reawoke ten minutes ago. Farnsworth tells Bender that the Fry he murdered was already going to die anyway. We find out that the doomed Fry continued to live in the year 2000, including having dinner with the family, deliviering pizza's with Seymour and playing Basketball with Yancy, but still upset about seeing Leela be with Lars. Back in the year 3007, Nibbler tells Fry that he has to erase the time code from his butt which he does so with a lazer. The Scammers scrunge for the code by are unable to find it. In the Year 2003, Fry decides that it's best to leave the past behind him (by which he means the future) and look for his lifes purpose he concludes that its to take care of a Narwal named Leelu. After 12 years, Leelu is to be released into the wild, and Fry goes after it on a boat to the North Pole. Back in the year 3007, it's Xmas Eve and Robot Santa is performing his usual rounds of murder and mayhem. While the Planet Express Crew is huddled together in fear in an alley, Lars proposes to Leela. In the year 2012, Fry learns that Leelu is about to be released back into the wild, and replaced with the Loch Ness Monster which is really a log with a halloween mask stapled to it. With Mr. Pannuci's help, Fry hires a boat to go after Leelu and bring her back. While Lars and Leela are preparing their wedding in the year 3007. At the wedding, Leela accidentally pokes Hermes in the eye and he loses his balance, falls over and a chendelier falls on his body chopping his head off again. When Farnsworth informs everyone that he was doomed anyway, Lars becomes concerned and calls the wedding off. Leela becomes depressed. While watching TV in a Pawn Shop, Richard Nixon says that he can buy back the planet from the scammers but that itself turns out to be a scam and everyone has to evacuate the planet, the Planet Express crew go to Neptune. After fighting off Yeti's, Santa comes to their igloo with a missle with intent to kill them. But he's too depressed to so. Leela forces Santa into a plan to fight back against the scammers. With Santa's help they're able to come up with enough weaponry to fight back. Zapp Branigan is originally the commanding officer of the plan but the Nimbus is shot down in two seconds, Leela quickly takes charge and is able to put up a fight in the Planet Express Ship, but cant co-ordinate all of the ships at once. Hermes requests that Farnsworth wires his head into the battle grid and wins the fight against the scammers. The scammers try to pull one last offensive themselves with the Doomsday device they stole from Farnsworth at Planet Express. Bender admits that it was him that stole it and it had it in his chest all along once he was out of the scammers control, he switched the two. Bender quickly places it in the torpedo tube and Leela fires, blowing the scammers up. While at the New Year Celebration, Fry tells Leela to meet him there. Fry brings Lars with him, and he wants Leela to be happy with Lars just as the alien comes in demanding the time code from Lars. Lars overpowers the alien with the Bender who was about to explode in the cryogenic tube. Bender explodes taking both Lars and the alien with him. The Time Code is on Lars's butt. In the Year 2012, Fry sees how unhappy Leelu is and tells the captain to release her. Fry returns back to Planet Express just as Bender fires through the window burning off all of Fry's hair and breathing in too much smoke makes his voice gravely. Fry realises that he is Lars. Fry travels 990 years into the future to the year 3002 in the same Cryogenic Tube as Michelle. Where he gets a job at the head museum. Lars leaves a video will to Leela who understands and says to Fry that he was a great man. Nibber then points out that for any of this to make sense, someone will have to back in time to put the code on Fry's butt in the first place. Bender does so. When he returns in the year 3008, he also invites all the other Benders who were in the caverns waiting instead of coming up when they were logically supposed to. The Universe then shatters.