The Beast With A Billion Backs
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A month after the universe was ripped open in Futurama: Bender's Big Score, people decide to go on with their lives.
Amy and Kif get married, and Fry starts dating a girl named Colleen. This upsets Bender, since Fry is spending more
time with Colleen than with him. Fry decides to move in with her despite his discovery that she has four additional
boyfriends living with her. After his first evening at Colleen's apartment where she reveals she is going on a date
with a 6th boyfriend, Fry breaks up with her.
At a scientific conference, Professor Farnsworth proposes an expedition to investigate the anomaly, and beats his
archrival Wernstrom in a game of Deathball (a gigantic version of Labyrinth), winning the right to mount it. When
Bender explores the anomaly his touch causes it to emit a shockwave which sends him and the ship flying. Farnsworth and
Wernstrom discover that only living beings can pass through the anomaly; electrical objects such as robots are either
repelled or destroyed. The two plan to initiate another expedition, but are rejected in favor of a military assault on
the anomaly led by Zapp Brannigan.
Meanwhile, both Fry and Bender begin to feel lonely. Fry sneaks aboard Zapp's ship's lint cabinet just before the ship
takes off so that he can find solace on the other side of the anomaly. Bender attempts suicide, only to be approached by
the League of Robots, a secret society of robots who like to blather about and tease humans, led by his hero Calculon.
Bender becomes a very prestigious member due to his perceived hatred of humans, although Calculon suspects that Bender
is deceiving them.
As Fry enters the anomaly, Zapp's plan of attack goes awry, killing Kif. On the other side of the anomaly, Fry comes
across a colossal, one-eyed, tentacled creature, which begins forcing its appendages through the anomaly. The tentacles
attack everyone in the universe, and nothing can stop them since they are made of electro-matter that can only be harmed
by other electro-matter. Fry returns to Earth with a tentacle attached to the back of his neck and tells everyone to
"love the tentacle." The tentacles attach themselves to everyone, causing their victims to fall in love with it. With
the monster's influence spreading, Fry becomes the pope of a new religion established to worship the tentacles.
Bender, meanwhile, believes that the League of Robots should uphold a strict anti-humans policy. However, when he assists
his friends in eluding the tentacles, he is caught red-handed by the other members. When Calculon calls his bluff about
hating humans, he challenges Calculon to a duel in which he cheats, damaging Calculon's arm and destroying part of their
headquarters. Calculon is outraged by Bender's behavior and resigns from the League, making Bender its new leader.
Leela ends up the last person in the universe unattached to a tentacle. She examines a tentacle fragment and discovers
that they are actually reproductive organs, revealing this to everyone at a universal religious gathering. The creature,
named "Yivo", admits that mating with everyone in the universe was its original intention, but explains that it is now
truly in love with them. As a sign of good faith, Yivo resurrects Kif, who is displeased to learn that Zapp lured the
lonely Amy into sleeping with him. Yivo asks to begin the relationship anew and removes its tentacles from everyone.
Yivo takes everyone in the universe out on a date at the same time, which goes extremely well. However, the universe's
leaders feel that Yivo has made no commitment and sends a delegation to break up with it. Before they can do so, Yivo
proposes marriage and they accept. Bender becomes fed up with being neglected by Fry and makes a deal with the Robot
Devil to create an army of robots to take over the world and rebuild his human-hating reputation. Before Bender can
attack, humanity leaves Earth willingly to live on Yivo, along with the other civilizations of the universe, moving
onto Yivo's body via golden escalators. This leaves Bender lonely once more and stagnates the robot population, who
are built to serve humans. As the robots inherit Earth, everyone else promises never to make contact with other
universes. Fry, however, cannot help writing a letter to Bender, which is sent without Yivo knowing. Leela does not
trust Yivo's motives at first, but when she sees that everyone is happy, she succumbs to her own loneliness and accepts
Yivo.
Bender receives Fry's letter, which is made out of electro-matter, and decides to set out and "rescue" his friend from
his relationship with Yivo. He and his army harpoon Yivo from the other side of the tear in space-time and tow it into
their own universe where they are able to attack it. Fry convinces Bender to spare Yivo, but Yivo discovers that the
robots' weapons are lined with the electro-matter from Fry's letter, allowing them to harm it. Since Fry broke his
promise to never make contact with other universes, Yivo breaks up with the universe and makes everyone leave. While
everyone else leaves aboard Bender's ship, Yivo finds consolation with Colleen, and they begin a relationship as they
head back to the other universe together and close the anomaly.
Everyone laments that they will never know happiness or love with Yivo again. Fry decides to find love elsewhere and
tries to ask Leela out, but she rejects him since he had already stopped trying once he met Colleen; Kif and Amy's
relationship is strained due to Amy's affair with Zapp; and Farnsworth and Wernstrom go back to being archrivals.
Bender breaks up his friends' quarrel and assures them that what they experienced was not love, as love is a jealous,
hard-to-get emotion that does not share itself with the world. Bender shares his own love with Fry and Leela by giving
them a big hug which, in turn, actually strangles them.
