Bender's Game
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Ignoring Professor Farnsworth's orders to conserve fuel due to a rise in dark matter prices, Leela borrows the Planet
Express ship to enter in a demolition derby. As punishment, she is fitted with a shock collar to correct her violent
behavior; however, she gradually gets used to the shocks and even comes to like them. Meanwhile, Bender finds Cubert
and Dwight playing Dungeons and Dragons with their friends and wants to join in, but cannot since, as a robot, he has
no imagination. Trying with all his might, he manages to imagine himself as a medieval knight named "Titanius Anglesmith"
and enters the game. Unfortunately, he soon gets lost in his fantasy and abruptly goes on an insane rampage through the
city, resulting in his commitment to an insane asylum for robots.
Farnsworth learns that Mom is making a fortune from her dark matter mining operations and realizes that she is
controlling the world's supply for her own profit. He reveals to the crew that while working for her many years ago, he
stumbled on a way to make dark matter into starship fuel. The process created two energy crystals, with Mom keeping one
for herself and Farnsworth hiding the other, "anti-backwards" crystal. If the two crystals are ever brought together,
they will render all dark matter useless once again. Farnsworth has since forgotten where he hid his crystal, but in
reality it is being used as a 12-sided die in the kids' D&D game. Mom determines its approximate location and sends her
sons Walt, Larry and Igner to retrieve it, but Farnsworth, Fry, and Leela foil their attempt and flee the Planet Express
headquarters with it.
Reaching Mom's dark matter mine, the trio discovers the heart of the operation: thousands of captive Nibblonians,
including Leela's beloved Nibbler, forced to excrete dark matter. Igner spots them, having earlier overheard Mom telling
his brothers a secret about him, and helps them reach the main office. Here, Farnsworth tries to bring his and Mom's
crystals together, but he is ultimately forced to swallow his in order to keep it out of Mom's hands. Meanwhile, in the
robot asylum, Bender is diagnosed with insanity and is due for a "Robotomy": a painful procedure in which his imagination
processor will be removed. This action triggers a resonance in all dark matter throughout the world—including a stockpile
Bender has stored within his body—and catapults all the characters into Cornwood, the realm Bender imagines himself to be
from. The other members of the Planet Express crew (Hermes, Zoidberg, and Amy) are transported as well.
"Frydo" (Fry) and "Leegola" (Leela, now a centaur) emerge first and encounter Titanius (Bender); no one in Cornwood has
any memory of their real-world lives, except for Fry and Leela. The three are attacked by "Waltazar" (Walt), "Larius"
(Larry) and "Ignus" (Igner), who are trying to recover the anti-crystal. While fighting them off, Frydo drops the
anti-crystal, which rolls like a die and magically banishes the sons from the area. Frydo and company meet the wizard
"Greyfarn" (Farnsworth), who explains that in this world, the anti-crystal is known as the Die of Power. The evil
sorceress "Momon" (Mom) molded a set of powerful dice, but lost this one and has been trying to locate it so she can
tap its immense potential. The only way to stop Momon is to enter her lair and throw the Die into the lake of molten
plastic from which it was formed, destroying it.
As the group sets out, the intersexual, pacifist centaur "Hermaphrodite" (Hermes) bars their passage, since his/her
people are opposed to the violence that Frydo and company intend to do. However, he/she is easily pushed aside by Leela,
who leads everyone else on toward the Cave of Hopelessness. As they approach, "Gynecaladriel" (Amy), queen of the Water
Nymphos, joins their quest. Inside the Cave, a horde of "Morcs" (orcs) attacks; followed by a gigantic lobster creature
(Zoidberg), which Leegola mistakenly and brutally cuts to pieces; and the wormlike Tunneling Horror, which Frydo defeats
by rolling the Die to use its power. As Frydo becomes obsessed with the Die, Leegola renounces violence and flees to
take refuge among the peaceful centaurs. That night, Frydo makes a botched attempt to murder the other members of the
company; when foiled, he flees with the die.
The remaining travelers journey to Wipe Castle to raise an army against Momon, only to find that Roberto, as its insane
king, has already sent his men on a pointless suicide mission. The heroes are left to defend the kingdom alone as
Waltazar and Larius lay siege to it, until Leegola regains her violent nature and rallies the centaurs to help her
friends. Meanwhile, Frydo makes his way into Momon's lair, aided by Zoidberg's still-living head; Frydo cannot bring
himself to destroy the Die, so Zoidberg bites him to force him to drop it. Momon becomes a dragon and goes after the
Die, but when it stops rolling, it turns Frydo into a dragon as well. The two battle as the rest of the company arrives,
along with Ignus, who reveals a secret Momon told to his brothers: he is Greyfarn's son. Overwhelmed by this revelation,
Greyfarn falls on the Zoidberg creature (who had claimed the Die), allowing Momon to seize the Die.
The entire realm of Cornwood collapses in on itself, hurling all the characters back into the real world. Farnsworth,
realizing that Igner is his son in this world and that the latter has probably swallowed Mom's crystal in defiance,
asks to hug Igner before Mom has the Planet Express crew killed. The hunch proves correct, and the hug brings the
crystals in the two men's stomachs close enough to render all dark matter useless, breaking Mom's stranglehold on the
fuel supply. As a temporary propulsion source, the crew harnesses dozens of Nibblonians like sled dogs to pull their
ship home.
