'The Futurama Holiday Spectacular' by Michael Rowe

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Three festive tales brought to you by Gunderson’s Unshelled Nuts

Xmas

After surviving an attack by Robot Santa on Xmas Eve, the Planet Express gang are inspired to get an old-fashioned pine tree to decorate their offices. With all fir trees now extinct, the professor vows to bring the trees back to life, and he takes his employees to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway for a rummage in their archives. However, the seeds have been contaminated by the neighbouring germ warfare vault, and once planted they spread like wildfire and cover the entire planet in pine trees. This causes the world’s oxygen to over-produce – and when Bender lights a celebratory cigar, the Earth is burnt to a cinder…

Robanukah

Bender forces the Planet Express crew to take part in his fake robot holiday of ‘Robanukah’, which is ‘traditionally celebrated’ by the ritual of two porn-floozy fembots wrestling in petroleum oil for six-and-a-half weeks. Enraged by the discovery that he has only enough oil for four- and-a-half weeks of wrestling, Bender orders the gang to drill into the Earth to find more oil – but then the pressure crushes the ship and kills everyone on board apart from him…

Kwanzaa

The Planet Express crew visit Hermes and his family to celebrate Kwanzaa. After hearing the history of the holiday from a song by Kwanzaa-Bot, Hermes's wife LaBarbara discovers that she has run out of the traditional beeswax candles required for the celebrations. Hermes and the gang set off to the space bee colony to get some more – but end up encased in beeswax as food for the Queen Bee’s larvae...

Billy West (Philip J. Fry / Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth / Doctor John Zoidberg / Richard Nixon's Head / Elf / Dick Cheney's Head / Space Bee #1), John Di Maggio (Bender [Bender Bending Rodriguez / Bending Unit 22] / Robot Santa / Barbados Slim / Space Bee #3), Katey Sagal (Captain Turanga Leela), Lauren Tom (Amy Wong / Ruth), Phil LaMarr (Hermes Conrad / Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate / Dwight Conrad / Space Bee #2), Tress MacNeille (Tinny Tim / Esther / Petunia), Maurice LaMarche (Transition Announcer / Barking Snakes / Abraham), David Herman (Sal's Friend / Space Bee #4), Coolio (Kwanzaa-bot), Dawnn Lewis (LaBarbara Conrad / Queen Bee), Al Gore (Al Gore's Head), Dan Vebber (Norwegian Seed Guard)

Directed by Ray Claffey
Produced by Claudia Katz and Lee Supercinski
Executive Producers David X. Cohen and Matt Groening

TX (US): 21st November 2010

Notes:
*Featuring Philip J. Fry, Bender, Captain Turanga Leela, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Doctor Zoidberg, Amy Wong and Hermes Conrad