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Leela overhears Nixon and Brannigan discussing the true plan: while Bender was recovering, Nixon had a bomb implanted inside him; the weapon will detonate with enough force to destroy the entire planet when Bender says his most used word, "ass". Leela and Fry beat up Zapp Brannigan, steal a helicopter then fly to the negotiating hall. In the ...
Before the fake relationships are exposed, Kif calls Brannigan to the bridge; a new course Brannigan chose has endangered the ship. Brannigan pilots the ship too close to a black hole. Realizing the danger, Brannigan promotes Kif to Captain before fleeing the ship. Fry and Leela nearly kiss before they are interrupted by the ship breaking in half.
As the crew arrives in the Vergon system, they find a security cordon put in place around the planet by the starship Nimbus, which Leela recognizes as the flagship of famed space captain Zapp Brannigan. Upon docking with the ship and coming aboard, the Planet Express crew meet Zapp and his long-suffering executive officer, Lieutenant Kif Kroker.
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Fry, Bender, and Zapp stage a mutiny against Leela, and lock her in the laundry room. Brannigan decides to attack his imagined nemesis, the Neutral Planet, thinking this will make him a hero and get him reinstated as a D.O.O.P. captain. When Fry and Bender discover the plan is a suicide mission, they free Leela and she retakes command.
Brannigan later invites Leela and her friends to an exhibit of the silk treasures. The Planet Express crew each contemplate how to spend their funds. Leela uses it to swim with a whale; Fry uses the money to buy and drink one hundred cups of coffee over the course of the episode, and Bender spends his on burglary tools to steal a $10,000 cigar ...
The episode makes references to the typical 1950s B-Movie serials with Zapp Brannigan's dreams. [2] Zapp and Leela are in an Adam and Eve type planet and take on the roles while on the planet. [2] The Death Sphere is a reference to "Death Star" in Star Wars, [3] its creation and its name are a reference to V′Ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Zapp Brannigan (voiced by Billy West) is a 25-Star general in the military of the Democratic Order Of Planets (D.O.O.P.), although his title varies. Brannigan was first seen in the episode " Love's Labours Lost in Space " as Captain of the starship Nimbus , where he imprisons Fry , Leela and Bender for violating "Brannigan's Law".