For our final episode of Futurama, Bender is attempting to steal a watch, when a sudden blast of light in the sky catches him off guard, and the event is subsequently talked about on the news. Farnsworth explains that the phenomenon is a white hole, and that it’s the opposite of a black hole, blowing things out instead of taking things in. Suddenly, the light forms the words Attention, and it speaks, telling them that the 12 universes can join to watch the birth of a brand-new universe, only the best among the worlds can see it.
Trying to convince Richard Nixon with bribery to let them all go, Nixon calls in Bubblegum Tate to explain Farnsworth can’t go because of his age, and because of the time acceleration. They instead send some young children to see the universe. The rocket quickly comes back to earth, before reaching the white hole, and the kids have aged 80 years from the journey. With this waste of a journey, Farnsworth becomes the new leader of the operation, with the Planet Express ship on top the new, most powerful rocket. Frozen in Carbonara to withstand the aging, the ship takes off, and into the white hole we go.
We then see the various temporary duplicates doing some maintenance, over the course of 10 million years. This includes scruffy clones cleaning and maintaining the ship, and stopping space salps from destroying the ship. After a Fry duplicate leaves out yogurt, a crack in the ship window makes the yogurt mutate into a carnivorous blob, which is eventually eaten by the Zoidberg clones. Zoidberg clone 4 becomes a monster, and is eventually stopped by the rapid aging. Finally nearing the entrance to the new universe, the duplicates are tasked with waking up the originals and cleaning them. The duplicates, enraged at the originals getting credit for their millions of years of work, go rogue and go into the bubble meant for the originals. The Planet Express ship arrives back on Earth, and despite not achieving anything, the crew get medals.
This episode was a great conclusion to the 13th season of Futurama. It was absolutely way better than the previous episode, especially with the chaotic moments involving the duplicates and their never-ending lives, their only purpose for existence being to do menial work, for only 5 minutes of life. The fact that you also don’t get to see the birth of the universe, only makes it better, because you get to experience the worthlessness of the whole journey, and, despite the pointlessness of the adventure, it was entertaining, and that’s what makes this episode great.
Rating 8.2/10