Futurama: Bender's Big Score (or Bender's Big Score) is a 2007 American animated science fiction comedy film based on the animated series Futurama. It was released in the United States on November 27, 2007. It was the first Futurama production since the original series finale "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings". Bender's Big Score, along with the three follow-up films, comprise season five of Futurama, with each film being separated into four episodes of the broadcast season. Bender's Big Score made its broadcast premiere on Comedy Central on March 23, 2008. The film was written by Ken Keeler, based on a story by Keeler and David X. Cohen, and directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill. Special appearances include Coolio as Kwanzaa-bot, Al Gore as himself, Mark Hamill as Chanukah Zombie, Tom Kenny as Fry's older brother Yancy, and Sarah Silverman returning as Fry's ex-girlfriend Michelle (having previously voiced the role in "The Cryonic Woman").
Plot Two years after Box Network executives cancel Planet Express's contract, the executives are fired and Planet Express is back "on the air." As the crew celebrates, Hermes is decapitated, causing his wife LaBarbara to leave him. His head is placed in a jar while his body is repaired. Lars, who performs the procedure, flirts with Leela, much to Fry's chagrin. During a delivery to a nude beach planet, Leela discovers a tattoo of Bender on Fry's buttocks. Three alien scammers—Nudar, Fleb and Schlump—obtain the crew's personal information and infect Bender with an obedience virus, allowing them to seize control of Planet Express. The scammers discover that Fry's tattoo has a code that allows time travel into the past. Nibbler warns the scammers against using the code but is ignored.
The scammers have Bender use the code to steal valuable objects from Earth's past and a doomsday device from Professor Farnsworth, storing them in a cave beneath the Planet Express building. Hermes has Bender retrieve an earlier version of his body so he can win back his wife. Leela and Lars date, further depressing Fry. Once the scammers have history's treasures, they decide to eliminate the time code by killing Fry. Fry uses the code to escape to January 1, 2000, just after he was frozen. The scammers send Bender after him. Bender arrives before Fry, creating a duplicate of himself when he has to use the bathroom. Another Bender from "way at the end" appears, opens Fry's cryogenic tube and puts the tattoo on his butt. When Fry arrives, the first Bender duplicate inadvertently initiates a self-destruct due to not going to the bathroom. Fry shoves that Bender into another tube, then escapes. The original Bender spends twelve years hunting Fry before seemingly killing him by blowing up his apartment. Bender reports his success to the scammers, who erase the time code and the virus. The crew holds a memorial for Fry, but he suddenly appears. Fry says he created a duplicate of himself, which remained in the past while he accidentally fell into his cryo-tube alongside his original 2000 self. Awaking one-thousand years later, the present Fry froze himself until the current year. The Fry duplicate spent the years before Bender's attack working at Panucci's Pizzeria, then at an aquarium caring for Leelu, an orphaned narwhal. Nibbler removes the tattoo from Fry to prevent further abuse from the scammers. Leela and Lars decide to marry, but during the wedding, Hermes is again decapitated. Farnsworth says that Hermes' body would have died anyway, as time paradox duplicates are doomed to die prematurely; Lars panics and leaves Leela. The scammers trick Earth President Richard Nixon into giving Earth to them. Exiled to Neptune, the population assembles a fleet alongside their allies and enemies. Hermes has his brain wired into the ship's battle computer, allowing him to destroy the scammers' fleet and win LaBarbara back. When the scammers threaten to destroy the Planet Express ship with the doomsday device unless the crew surrender; Bender reveals to the crew that he had stolen the device back from the scammers for his own use. Leela then fires the device, destroying the scammers' ship. Fry arranges for Leela and Lars to reconcile at the cryogenic lab. Having survived the attack, Nudar ambushes them. Lars tricks Nudar into approaching the Bender duplicate on self-destruct and holds them down as the duplicate explodes, killing them. The explosion reveals the Bender tattoo on Lars, revealing him as the Fry duplicate who survived Bender's attack in 2012 and froze himself to return to the future and be with Leela; he ultimately canceled the wedding to spare Leela the pain of his death as a time paradox duplicate. Bender removes Lars' tattoo and travels to 2000 to place it on Fry in the cryogenic tube so that the events that transpired "make any sense at all". Upon returning, Bender explains that he convinced all the duplicates of himself from his stealing sprees to stay with him, instead of leaving "when they were logically supposed to." Nibbler urges everyone to evacuate the universe before swallowing himself. The Bender duplicates explode, causing a tear in the fabric of space.
Cast Billy West as Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, God Entity, President Richard Nixon's Head, Lars Fillmore, Inuit #1, Silly Willy Wideo Will Guy Katey Sagal as Leela John DiMaggio as Bender Rodríguez, Robot Santa, Barbados Slim, Mr. Panucci, Elzar, Sal, Constantine, Curly Joe Tress MacNeille as Linda, Dr. Cahill, Dr. Shlavinowitz, Turanga Munda, Tinny Tim, Hattie McDoogal, Leela's Wrist Thingy, Bender's Computer Maurice LaMarche as Schlump, Kif Kroker, Don Cunningham, Hedonismbot, Morbo, H.G. Blob, Donbot, Clamps, Leelu, Cyrogenist, Leroy, Inuit #2, Charles de Gaulle's Head, Headless Body of Agnew Phil LaMarr as Hermes Conrad, Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate, Dwight Conrad, Philip Joshua Fry Lauren Tom as Amy Wong, Philip J. Fry II David Herman as Nudar, Scruffy, Turanga Morris, Terry, Father Changstein El-Gamal, Nude Bartender, Sweet Clyde, Phillip Fry, 21st Century Newscaster Dawnn Lewis as LaBarbara Conrad Kath Soucie as Cubert Farnsworth Frank Welker as Nibbler, Fleb, Seymour Coolio as Kwanzaa-bot Al Gore as Himself Mark Hamill as Chanukah Zombie Tom Kenny as Yancy Fry, Jr. Sarah Silverman as Michelle
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