When Leela and Fry discover that Bender likes cooking shows, Hermes makes him the ship's cook, as he wasn't actually doing any work before. They go on a shopping trip to Little Neptune, a seedy area of New York, to buy slug. Fry almost sells his organs, but Leela saves him. He is angry that Leela thinks he can't look after himself. The crew go on a delivery to the planet Trisol in the Galaxy of Terror, and Fry drinks a bottle of strange liquid, thirsty from Bender's incredibly salty slug. It turns out that the planet is inhabited by a race of liquid people, and Fry has drunk their Emperor. He is crowned the new Emperor, and makes Bender his Prime Minister. Leela is extremely angry at him for drinking strange liquid and profiting from it, but Fry is confident. He finds out that, to become Emperor, he must recite the enormous inauguration speech. If he doesn't, he will be killed. Leela warns him that most of the Emperors of the planet only lasted a few weeks before they were asassinated. He doesn't want her help, and she leaves, telling him she'll never help him again. During his speech, the old Emperor glows inside Fry's body, revealing that he's still alive. The Trisolians want to kill him and extract their leader. He, Bender, Zoidberg and Amy hide out in the palace. Hearing this, Leela forgets her grudge and comes to fight the Trisolians. She is winning, but Bender pretends to Fry that they have killed her, making him start to cry out the Emperor. Leela comes up to the palace, and Fry's friends hurt him until he fully cries out the Emperor.

Quotes:

Fry: You're gonna be the ship's cook?
Bender: Yeah! We're gonna kick it up a notch. Bam!
Leela: I know you like cooking shows, but you're a robot. You don't even have a sense of taste.
Bender: Honey, I wouldn't talk about taste if I was wearing a lime green tank top.
Fry: Bam!

Guy: Ah! X-ray eyes. See through anything!
Fry: Wait a minute! This says Z-ray.
Guy: Z is good. In fact is better. Is two more than X.
Fry: Hmm I can see where that would be an advantage. Do you take cash?

Merg: This is Your Majesty's harem. You may choose any of these maidens to be your royal consort.
Fry: Umm how about that one? (Points at a random bottle)
Merg: Oooh! I didn't realise Your Majesty was into that sort of thing!
Fry: On second thought I'll take that one. (He points at another bottle)
Merg: Hey whatever you say, I'm not here to pass judgement.

Fry: If I stopped to think ahead, I wouldn't be Emperor. And I wouldn't even be here in the year 3000. It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. Then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns and also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?

Bender: I'll make you cry buddy! You're a pimple on society's ass, and you'll never amount to anything.
Fry: What do you mean? I was Emperor of a whole planet.
Bender: Good point. But here's a disturbing reminder: everyone you knew and loved in the 20th century is dead.
Fry: These things happen.
Bender: OK Fry, grab a Kleenex for this one, 'cause there's no God, and your idiotic human ideals are laughable!
Fry: Phew! That's a load off my mind.

Seen Around the Future

Signs:
Girls, girls, aliens
All-tentacle massage
Head Shop
Please put self in neutral
In AA1: THE EYE WILL COME

The washes at the bot wash:
Regular, Deluxe, Sub-Standard

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