Episode 2 begins with Hermes talking about the policy with the walk-in microwave. Everyone ends up trying to sunbathe, but Farnsworth tells everyone they are going to the arctic, to examine the block of ice they dropped into the water a while ago. On the ice, the crew encounter baby polar bears on the ice, and Fry decides to adopt them. Farnsworth does his calculations, and realizes how high the global temperatures have risen, and we cut to a climate research initiative, which the planet express crew crash with the bad news.
Of course, and Orangutan scientist, Dr Banjo, tries to downplay the news, and the room doesn’t care, since it’ll be a problem for the future children to deal with. Fry attempts some more bonding with the baby polar bears, which somehow both succeeds, and fails at the same time, and with more debate between Dr. Banjo and Farnsworth, Amy suggests that they put the data into a more visual form so the people in the room understand the gravity of the situation better, and with the use of a graph, everyone finally gets it. Wernstrom suddenly appears, and while agreeing with the imminent danger, he doesn’t agree they should do anything, because it is too late.
After everyone fights, Fry gives a speech, to convince everyone to save the world, for the baby animals, and everyone unites and sings a climate anthem, which does absolutely nothing to help, and after some brainstorming, Wernstrom gets the idea to start up a volcano, to reduce the sunlight. We then head to none other than Mt Vesuvius, the volcano that destroyed Pompeii, and decide to use some sparkly substance to make the sun’s rays more reflective. With that, they drill into the volcano, and deploy the bomb glitter to activate it, but because of the glitter, it becomes too hard to see to get out. The volcano erupts, and the crew seemingly dies, and everyone that was standing in Pompeii becomes trapped in ash. Both turn out to be incorrect, as the ship escapes, and everyone just needed the dust wiped off of them.
Back at planet express, the climate is getting cooler, but Farnsworth realizes he was looking at data from 2025, and they kind of insult the people from this time, and realize the ice cube method probably would have kept working. The volcano idea ends up doing more harm than good, and the baby polar bears are reunited with their mother.
This episode was another great addition to our rebooted sci-fi show, and while not exceedingly crazy, it did have that quirkiness you come to expect when you watch Futurama. This episode definitely didn’t disappoint, and was overall, a pretty good watch.
Rating 7.7/10