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From screenjabber, Good news, Zapp Branigan fans. You all complained about the lack of screen time for your "hero" in the first Futurama movie, Bender's Big Score? Well complain no more — you get more than your fair share of the chubby idiot in The Beast With a Billion Backs, the second direct-to-DVD feature-length episode. And so does Amy, but that's jumping ahead a little.

The Beast picks up where Bender's Score left off. It's been one month "since space ripped open like flimsy human skin", as newsreader Morbo pleasantly informs us. It turns out that the cosmic anomaly is actually a gateway to another universe. But before we learn any more about the rip, it's time to move on to Plotline B in which Fry has found himself a new girlfriend, named Colleen (Murphy). Everyone's happy for him — even Zoidberg, who keeps joyfully vomiting from both his seawater and freshwater stomachs. Good news for Amy, too — Kif has asked her to be his Fonfon Ru, which I guess is kinda like a wife. Or something. After a quick side trip to Kif's homeworld of Amphibios 9 for the ceremony (conducted by the ubiquitous midwife, from the episode where Kif got pregnant) we're back on Earth where Fry decides to move in with Colleen. Even after making the horrifying discovery that he is merely one of the five boyfriends she shares her apartment with. Meanwhile, back at the anomaly, Farnsworth and his mortal enemy, Professor Wornstrom, vie for the right to send a mission to explore the thing. And in a further strand (which we'll cleverly call Plotline C) Bender discovers that the mythical League of Robots is actually real — and run by his hero, Calculon.

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