While the professor shows everyone his latest invention - the fing-longer, they notice his What If? machine, whick answers 'what if?' questions. Bender wonders what would happen if he was 500 feet tall: An enourmous Bender is built and flies to Earth, where he makes friends with a lonely Fry. He goes on a rampage in New New York, destroying everything. Farnsworth has an enlarging ray which could help, but he needs a guinea pig. Using a guinea pig as bait, he traps Dr. Zoidberg and makes him huge. Bender and Zoidberg fight, and Zoidberg eventually wins. With his dying breath, Bender reveals his simple dream of killing all the humans.

Leela wonders what would happen if she was a little more impulsive: Having just bought some new boots on a wild impulse, Leela is told by the professor that she is his sole heir, because she's so unimpulsive. On impulse, she kicks him into a pit of man-eating anteaters. Zoidberg, having mail-order degrees in murderology and murderonomy, tries to solve the crime. Hermes finds the professor's will, which shows Leela killing him, and she kills him. Bender finds her disposing of the body, and she kills him with a microwave. She kills Amy when she insults her. At Zoidberg's exposition, it's painfully obvious who did it, but Leela keeps turning off the lights and killing people when they almost reveal this. Only Fry is left alive. He finally works it out and, to stop him from talking, Leela sleeps with him.

Fry asks what would happen if he had never come to the future: He goes to the cryogenics company, but does not fall into the chamber. A rip in space-time occurs, which his friends from the future appear in. Next day at Pannuci's pizza, Fry tells Stephen Hawking, a regular, about this and he is flummoxed. Walking home, Fry is beaten with tennis rackets and introduced to the action rangers: a group of famous nerds who protect the space-time continuum. They take him to the cryogenics company and believe he should have been killed, but murder doesn't work. They realise he should have been frozen, but he takes a mace and breaks the chamber. The entire universe is destroyed.

Quotes:

Giant Bender: I came here with a simple dream - a dream of killing all the humans, and this is how it must end? Who's the real 7 billion ton robot monster here? Not I, not I.

Farnsworth: (getting eaten by anteaters) You've killed me, you've killed me!
Leela: Oh, God! What have I done?
Farnsworth: I just told you, you've killed me!

Zoidberg: Alright, anteater #1, who are you protecting? Is it anteater #2? (Leela comes in and gets an axe) ...Don't stick your tongue out at me, I need a name! (An anteater makes a noise) What?! How do you spell that?
Hermes: (From the other room) What's that you're hacking off? Is it my torso? It is! My precious torso!
Zoidberg: Hermes, quiet, I'm deducing things!

Leela: Who are you?
Scruffy: Scruffy. Janitor.
Leela: I've never seen you before.
Scruffy: I've never seen you before niether.

Zoidberg: What's this? A letter from my good friend Bender. 'Dear Dr. Jerkberg, if you're reading this I'm already dead, the person who killed me was ...was ...oh my god, the murderer, it was-
Fry: (yawns) I'm bored. You're boring Zoidberg. I'm gonna go and watch TV.
Leela: Could you get the lights on your way out?

Fry: Where are we?
Al Gore: I don't know, but I can darn well tell you where we're not: the universe.

Seen Around the Future

Signs:
Central Park Duck Pond - Loitering permitted, but be reasonable
Kentucky Slims: Chicken Flavoured Cigarettes

The newspaper headline says 'Robot Rampage: Thousands Killed - None Injured'

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