[s1e5] Fear Of A Bot Planet May 2026

The episode begins with Bender complaining about the mistreatment of robots by humans, specifically noting their exclusion from "Blernsball," a chaotic futuristic version of baseball. Despite his protests and the invention of a fake two-week holiday called "Robonukah" to avoid work, he is forced to make a delivery to Chapek 9, a planet inhabited by radical robot separatists who kill humans on sight.

When Bender is captured as a suspected human sympathizer, Fry and Leela don crude robot disguises to rescue him. They successfully pass a "humanity test"—which requires them to choose a "properly formatted data file" over a puppy—but are eventually outed when Leela sneezes. After hiding in a cinema showing anti-human propaganda films, they find that Bender has reinvented himself as a local hero by claiming to be a prolific human-slayer. [S1E5] Fear of a Bot Planet

The crew escapes by exploiting the robots' own propaganda—Fry threatens to "breathe fire," an ability the Elders themselves aren't sure they made up. The episode concludes with Bender accidentally showering the planet with the delivered package, which contains the desperately needed lug nuts, leading the robots to celebrate their "human" saviors. "Futurama" Fear of a Bot Planet (TV Episode 1999) - IMDb The episode begins with Bender complaining about the