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Futurama: Bender's Big Score (or Bender's Big Score) is a 2007 American animated science fiction comedy film based on the animated series Futurama. It was released in the United States on November 27, 2007. It was the first Futurama production since the original series finale "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings".
In Futurama: Bender's Big Score after Hermes was decapitated in a limboing accident, LaBarbara left him and got back together with Barbados, even going so far as to take his last name, even though they never remarried and Dwight was never adopted. After Hermes uses his bureaucratic prowess to save Earth from the scammers and wins back LaBarbara ...
Futurama: Bender's Big Score was the first DVD release for which 20th Century Fox implemented measures intended to reduce the total carbon footprint of the production, manufacturing, and distribution processes.
The title of the film is a pun on the book Ender's Game, [1] by Orson Scott Card, though the Futurama film has "very little to do with the subject material" of the book. [2] Conversely, the 1985 book also used "Bender" as a mocking pun for "Ender", but Matt Groening stated [ 3 ] this is not the original inspiration for Bender's name.
A Comedy Central teaser trailer announced the return of Futurama March 23, 2008, [151] which was Bender's Big Score divided into four episodes followed by the other three movies. On June 24, 2010, the season 6 premiere, "Rebirth", drew 2.92 million viewers in the 10:00 p.m. time slot on Comedy Central. [152]
Bender's Big Score, produced five years after "Jurassic Bark", revisits Seymour, and puts the closing scene of the episode in a much happier context. A time-traveling duplicate of Fry arrives in the year 2000 and reunites with Seymour, caring for him until 2012 when Bender blows up Fry's apartment; the blast kills and fossilizes the dog.
Futurama has returned to the theme of time travel three times since; in Futurama: Bender's Big Score, although the cause of time travel is different, in "The Late Philip J. Fry", which involves a time machine that can only travel forwards in time – to specifically avoid creating a paradox, and in "I Know What You Did Next Xmas", involving a ...
In the movie Futurama: Bender's Big Score, it is revealed that the spacecraft seen destroying the city while Fry is frozen are piloted by Bender and those chasing him after he steals the Nobel Peace Prize. [4] [5] At the end of the episode, Professor Farnsworth offers Fry, Leela and Bender the Planet Express delivery crew positions.