The crew are delivering a tanker full of liquid dark matter. To avoid a toll booth, they must pass very close to a penguin reserve on Pluto, and Leela, being an enviromentalist, refuses to go. Bender is made the new captain, and Zoidberg tags along. As Leela joins up with some protestors on Pluto, Bender annoys Fry by calling him 'Wiggles' and ordering him about. When Fry walks out on him during dinner and refuses to take orders, Bender stops drinking and drives the ship wildly. He hits Pluto, and all 6000 hulls are breached, spilling dark matter all over the reserve. Bender, Fry and Zoidberg must do community service as punishment. When the cops aren't looking, Bender slips on a tux and joins the penguins. They force him into some icy cold water, and he goes unconscious. On waking up, he reconfigures into a penguin. He frolics with the others, eventually finding a mate, and is accepted into the group. It turns out that the dark matter has turned all the penguins super-fertile, and they will soon starve. The enviromentalists must hunt the penguins. Leela thinks the others are having too much fun with it, but decides it is best. She tearfully manages to shoot one, which happens to be Bender. He wakes up and goes back into human mode. He has taught the penguins to be hostile to humans, and the protestors can't shoot them. Bender and Zoidberg land the ship on some ice, tipping hundreds of penguins into the mouth of a killer whale. The crew goes home, leaving the last two penguins to shoot each other.
Quotes:
Professor: Well, Fry, or should I say captain Fry? No I shouldn't, because Bender is the new captain.
Fry: No fair! Leela was training me to be captain. She even let me sit on her lap and steer. In this comic I drew. Zoidberg: Oooh, The new one's out!
Leela: When you were palnning this peace ring, didn't you realise spaceships can move in three dimensions? Free Waterfall Sr: No, I did not.
Bender: But I suppose it's this medal I'm most proud of, Wiggles. I got for saving the children of Earth from a giant kangaroo. It was on the Australian news. You probably didn't see it.
Free Waterfall Sr: Good way to avoid frostbite, folks. Put your hands between your buttocks. That's nature's pocket. Leela: Uh, I think I'll go check on Bender. Free Waterfall Sr: Watch that he doesn't pick your pocket.
Bender: I don't know why, but whenever I look down at their cute little faces it makes me wanna puke. In a good way.
Zoidberg: Captain, I don't think we're on Pluto any longer. In fact, we may have left space as we know it. Fry: Then where are we? You said you knew how to navigate! Zoidberg: Stop yelling at me!
Bender: Life is hilariously cruel.
Seen Around the Future
Signs:
Last restroom before Proxima Centauri
Protest signs:
Save the crested spinepecker
Green Party
Give a hooto, don't pollute pluto!
Preserve our useless wasteland!
Free chilly Willy!
Go away tanker!
Think intergalactically, act interplanetarily
The captain's handbook - now with pop-up sextant!
The Professor seems to have managed to invent the fing-longer from Anthology of Interest I. Good for him!
Bender's tasks as a penguin:
-Acquire food
-Frolic
And as a human:
-Bend
-Cheese it!
The crew are delivering a tanker full of liquid dark matter. To avoid a toll booth, they must pass very close to a penguin reserve on Pluto, and Leela, being an enviromentalist, refuses to go. Bender is made the new captain, and Zoidberg tags along. As Leela joins up with some protestors on Pluto, Bender annoys Fry by calling him 'Wiggles' and ordering him about. When Fry walks out on him during dinner and refuses to take orders, Bender stops drinking and drives the ship wildly. He hits Pluto, and all 6000 hulls are breached, spilling dark matter all over the reserve. Bender, Fry and Zoidberg must do community service as punishment. When the cops aren't looking, Bender slips on a tux and joins the penguins. They force him into some icy cold water, and he goes unconscious. On waking up, he reconfigures into a penguin. He frolics with the others, eventually finding a mate, and is accepted into the group. It turns out that the dark matter has turned all the penguins super-fertile, and they will soon starve. The enviromentalists must hunt the penguins. Leela thinks the others are having too much fun with it, but decides it is best. She tearfully manages to shoot one, which happens to be Bender. He wakes up and goes back into human mode. He has taught the penguins to be hostile to humans, and the protestors can't shoot them. Bender and Zoidberg land the ship on some ice, tipping hundreds of penguins into the mouth of a killer whale. The crew goes home, leaving the last two penguins to shoot each other.