Introduction:

After a month of inactivity following the universe being ripped open in Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, people decide to go on with their lives. Amy and Kif get married, and Fry starts a new relationship with a girl named Colleen; this upsets Bender, since Fry is spending more time with Colleen than with him. He decides to move in with her despite his discovery that she has four additional boyfriends living with her. After his hectic first evening at Colleen’s apartment where she reveals she is going on a date with a 6th boyfriend, Fry is unable to accept that she cannot settle for one man and breaks up with her.

At a scientific conference, Professor Farnsworth proposes an expedition to investigate the tear/anomaly, and beats his archrival Wernstrom in a game of Deathball (a gigantic version of Labyrinth), winning the right to mount it. When Bender is sent to explore the anomaly (like a tool, much to his dismay), his touch causes the anomaly to emit a shockwave which sends the entire ship flying. Farnsworth and Wernstrom discover that only living beings can pass through the anomaly unaffected; electrical objects such as robots are either repelled or destroyed. The two team up to try and initiate another expedition, but their idea is rejected in favor of a military assault on the anomaly led by Zapp Brannigan.

Meanwhile, both Fry and Bender begin to feel alone, unwanted, and miserable. Fry, in his despair, sneaks aboard Zapp’s ship just before it takes off so that he can find solace on the other side of the anomaly; Bender, on the other hand, is approached by the fabled League of Robots, a secret society of robots who like to blather about and tease humans, led by his hero Calculon. Bender quickly becomes a very prestigious member due to his perceived hatred of humans, although Calculon suspects that he is not as hard-hearted towards humans as he leads them to believe.