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== The Story ==
== The Story ==
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=== Act I: "You humans are so scared of a little robot competition!" ===
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=== Act I
: "From up here, the entire world can seem insignificant." ===
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[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] are in the cockpit of the [[Planet Express Ship]], admiring the view. They're gazing out at a blue, ringed planet, which then splatters on their windshield.
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=== Act II
: "You humans are so scared of a little robot competition!" ===
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Fry, Leela, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]], [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] and [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] are at a [[Blernsball]] game. Fry is confused about the game rules, such as the ball attached to a thread. They start talking about great players, and Bender brings up Wireless Joe Jackson, of the now-defunct Robot League. Bender drops his beer bottle only to find a robot cleaning up the mess; he becomes enraged due to the fact that robots are used as cleaners and not allowed to play—let alone manage—in blernsball. They argue about whether it's right to exclude literal blern-hitting machines from the human league. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] then calls them back to the office for a mission to [[Chapek 9]], "a world inhabited by radical robot separatists … where humans are killed on sight" and that offers a less-than-friendly welcome to humanoid aliens. Bender tries to get out of work, citing the robot holiday of [[Robanukah]]. Bender, being asked to actually do something for the first time since working at [[Planet Express]], cries discrimination. They make him go anyway, and he is captured by the native robots after he is unmasked as someone who has had contact with humans.
Fry, Leela, [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]], [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] and [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] are at a [[Blernsball]] game. Fry is confused about the game rules, such as the ball attached to a thread. They start talking about great players, and Bender brings up Wireless Joe Jackson, of the now-defunct Robot League. Bender drops his beer bottle only to find a robot cleaning up the mess; he becomes enraged due to the fact that robots are used as cleaners and not allowed to play—let alone manage—in blernsball. They argue about whether it's right to exclude literal blern-hitting machines from the human league. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] then calls them back to the office for a mission to [[Chapek 9]], "a world inhabited by radical robot separatists … where humans are killed on sight" and that offers a less-than-friendly welcome to humanoid aliens. Bender tries to get out of work, citing the robot holiday of [[Robanukah]]. Bender, being asked to actually do something for the first time since working at [[Planet Express]], cries discrimination. They make him go anyway, and he is captured by the native robots after he is unmasked as someone who has had contact with humans.
[[File:Chapek 9 Propaganda 1.png|left|thumb|Fry and Leela disguised like robots]]
[[File:Chapek 9 Propaganda 1.png|left|thumb|Fry and Leela disguised like robots]]
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=== Act
III
: "Death to humans!!!" ===
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=== Act
II
: "Death to humans!!!" ===
Fry and Leela disguise themselves as robots and venture onto the planet to try and rescue Bender. They fool the external guards into believing that they like large, properly organized data files, though a lesser degree of approval would have been gleaned had they argued for the value of a flower as an ideal gift. However, Leela accidentally blows their cover by sneezing (after Fry's need for a washroom arouses some suspicion), and they are chased by the planet's [[Anti Human Patrol]], who force them to take refuge in a movie theatre. The movie, ''[[It Came from Planet Earth]]'', is a cheesy horror film about a human who breathes fire and eats robots. After the movie, the robots gather for their daily human hunt, where Fry and Leela finally locate Bender—who is an honored guest rather than imprisoned. Bender walks to the stage, where he declares his intention to [[kill all humans|destroy all humans]].
Fry and Leela disguise themselves as robots and venture onto the planet to try and rescue Bender. They fool the external guards into believing that they like large, properly organized data files, though a lesser degree of approval would have been gleaned had they argued for the value of a flower as an ideal gift. However, Leela accidentally blows their cover by sneezing (after Fry's need for a washroom arouses some suspicion), and they are chased by the planet's [[Anti Human Patrol]], who force them to take refuge in a movie theatre. The movie, ''[[It Came from Planet Earth]]'', is a cheesy horror film about a human who breathes fire and eats robots. After the movie, the robots gather for their daily human hunt, where Fry and Leela finally locate Bender—who is an honored guest rather than imprisoned. Bender walks to the stage, where he declares his intention to [[kill all humans|destroy all humans]].
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=== Act
IV
: "Got you, you murderous flesh piles!" ===
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=== Act
III
: "Got you, you murderous flesh piles!" ===
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After advertising [[Bender Lets Loose!|his spoken-word album]], the human hunt begins in earnest, which allows Leela and Fry to talk to Bender, who has crept away to read decomposing pornography. Bender tells them he wants to stay, but that they should leave. All three are caught when one of Bender's followers comes in on him to tell him of the album's stunning success; Bender pretends to have been in the process of capturing Leela and Fry. They are [[Chapek 9 v. Fry and Leela|
given a mock
trial for the crime of being human
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. Leela points out to their accusers that she has one eye and therefore must be non-human, but she and Fry are still sentenced by the [[Computer Judge]] to perform tedious calculations and spot-weld automobiles, in return for the performance of these slavish tasks by robots on [[Earth]]. When convicted, they are taken before a council of [[Robot Elders]] who decide Fry and Leela must be killed. The Elders
ask
Bender to kill them himself. He refuses, and they then turn on all of them. In an unusual display of cunning, Fry helps them escape by
scaring the elders,
threatening to breathe fire on
them
. This works only because the Robot Elders
do not know much about humans; they are unsure if Fry really can breathe
fire. While the crew are lifted up to the ship, the robots try to capture them by climbing onto each other's shoulders, but Bender saves Leela and Fry by dropping the package in the topmost one's hands, which he had forgotten to drop off when he was first captured. It turns out to be a box of desperately-needed lug nuts, and the robots cheer and break off their pursuit. Back on the ship, they all celebrate Robanukah, which Bender admits he made up to get out of work.
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After advertising [[Bender Lets Loose!|his spoken-word album]], the human hunt begins in earnest, which allows Leela and Fry to talk to Bender, who has crept away to read decomposing pornography. Bender tells them he wants to stay, but that they should leave. All three are caught when one of Bender's followers comes in on him to tell him of the album's stunning success; Bender pretends to have been in the process of capturing Leela and Fry. They are
given a mock
[[Chapek 9 v. Fry and Leela|trial
]]
for the crime of being human. Leela points out to their accusers that she has one eye and therefore must be non-human, but she and Fry are still sentenced by the [[Computer Judge]] to perform tedious calculations and spot-weld automobiles, in return for the performance of these slavish tasks by robots on [[Earth]]. When convicted, they are taken before a council of [[Robot Elders]] who decide Fry and Leela must be killed. The Elders
instruct
Bender to kill them himself. He refuses, and they then turn on all of them. In an unusual display of cunning, Fry helps them escape by threatening to breathe fire on
the Elders
. This works only because the Robot Elders
cannot recall whether
fire
-breathing is an actual human attribute or one they had fabricated for propaganda purposes
. While the crew are lifted up to the ship, the robots try to capture them by climbing onto each other's shoulders, but Bender saves Leela and Fry by dropping the package in the topmost one's hands, which he had forgotten to drop off when he was first captured. It turns out to be a box of desperately-needed lug nuts, and the robots cheer and break off their pursuit. Back on the ship, they all celebrate Robanukah, which Bender admits he made up to get out of work.
[[File:Robot Movie 5.png|right|thumb|Fry and Leela in the human hunt]]
[[File:Robot Movie 5.png|right|thumb|Fry and Leela in the human hunt]]
== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==
=== Trivia ===
=== Trivia ===
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*The names listed in Leela's scoring card are:
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**Karis
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**Adler
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**[[Eric Horsted|Horsted]]
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**[[Patric M. Verrone|Verrone]]
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**[[Ken Keeler|Keeler]]
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**[[J. Stewart Burns|Burns]]
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**[[David X. Cohen|Cohen]]
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**[[Eric Kaplan|Kaplan]]
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**[[Lewis Morton|Morton]]
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**Costanza
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**Maris
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**Zork
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**Zork Jr.
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**QZDJLYD (pronounced Miller)
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**[[Heather Lombard|Lombard]]
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**[[Evan Gore|Gore]]
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**Raspberry
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**{{w|Todd Jones (baseball)|Jones}} with {{w|Roger Clemens|Clemens'}} Arm
*The Robot Mayor says "that makes 146 thousand unsuccessful hunts in a row," suggesting that the robots have been on Chapek 9 for exactly 400 years if they only do one hunt a day. One of the Robots Elders says that the Robot Elders were hand-carved from meteorites over four centuries ago.
*The Robot Mayor says "that makes 146 thousand unsuccessful hunts in a row," suggesting that the robots have been on Chapek 9 for exactly 400 years if they only do one hunt a day. One of the Robots Elders says that the Robot Elders were hand-carved from meteorites over four centuries ago.
**However this assumes that the years on Chapek 9 are roughly the same length as Earth years.
**However this assumes that the years on Chapek 9 are roughly the same length as Earth years.
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*The sound the robots use to signal the start of the human hunt is the power on chord heard on {{w|Apple Inc.|Apple}} {{w|Macintosh}} computers.
*The sound the robots use to signal the start of the human hunt is the power on chord heard on {{w|Apple Inc.|Apple}} {{w|Macintosh}} computers.
*The episode contains the first reference to Leela being a Human and not an Alien.
*The episode contains the first reference to Leela being a Human and not an Alien.
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The names listed in Leela's scoring card are:
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*Adler
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*[[J. Stewart Burns|Burns]]
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*[[David X. Cohen|Cohen]]
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*Costanza
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*[[Evan Gore|Gore]]
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*[[Eric Horsted|Horsted]]
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*{{w|Todd Jones (baseball)|Jones}} with {{w|Roger Clemens|Clemens'}} Arm
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*[[Eric Kaplan|Kaplan]]
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*Karis
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*[[Ken Keeler|Keeler]]
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*[[Heather Lombard|Lombard]]
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*Maris
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*[[Lewis Morton|Morton]]
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*QZDJLYD (pronounced Miller)
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*Raspberry
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*[[Patric M. Verrone|Verrone]]
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*Zork
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*Zork Jr.
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{{chars-end}}
=== Allusions ===
=== Allusions ===
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''[The crowd cheers.]''
''[The crowd cheers.]''
'''Fry''': My God! He's become evil. ''[Leela stares at him.]'' I mean eviler!</poem>
'''Fry''': My God! He's become evil. ''[Leela stares at him.]'' I mean eviler!</poem>
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=== Goofs ===
=== Goofs ===