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Air Date: 6 January, 2002

Once again, the crew asks three stories to the What If machine. Bender wonder how would life be if he were human; Fry asks what life would be like if it resembled a video game; and Leela wonders what would happen if she found her true home…

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Air Date: 23 December, 2001

In this Xmas episode, Santa is not as we know him. In the future, Santa is not the bearer of gifts, but an evil robot, intent on bringing terror to the holiday. Unfortunately, the crew has the mission of delivering Santa’s mail on Xmas eve. As the people on Earth lie in wait for Santa to arrive, the crew accidentally freezes Santa. This brings the opportunity for Fry to bring his “antiquated” notion of Christmas to the 21st century. To Bender falls the unenviable task of replacing Santa and discovering the wrath of yuletide cheer, until Santa returns and makes Bender his partner in Xmas crime.

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Air Date: 13 May, 2001

Fry downloads Lucy Liu’s image from nappster.com onto a blank robot and falls in love with the computerized image that is programmed to love him back. His friends, who are worried about Fry, try to shut down nappster.com, and discover that the company has actually kidnapped real celebrities. They grab Lucy Liu’s preserved head and try to escape, but nappster.com send an army of warrior Lucy Liu-bots after them.

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Air Date: 6 May, 2001

In the 30th Century, the once entertaining Harlem Globetrotters are now feared as they will humiliate any planet in the Universe who dares to play them. Feeling up to the challenge, Professor Farnsworth creates a group of mutant basketball players to go head-to-head with the Globetrotters. Farnsworth’s secret winning ingredient is chronitons, time particles found in the Tempus Nebula. However, when the Planet Express crew removes the mutants from harvesting, they tip off the Time/Space Continuum causing forward motion of time to skip ahead.

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Air Date: 22 April, 2001

Fry finds an old VW van at a construction site. Bender, while getting ready to put the Whale Oil can open, gets broken. While at the robot hospital, he finds Beck, and he invites him to sing with. They go on a tour, and Fry, Leela, Amy, and Zoidberg follow the bus in the van. The other broken robots consider him a hero, before their doom: being turned into tools. Meanwhile, the other crew is out of money, and are eating out of trash, until Zoidberg coughs up “Genuine Love Beads”, and start selling them for money. Bender, while singing, gets a check, and starts moving. After their van falls, he recovers the check and they head home.

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Air Date: 8 April, 2001

Fry and Bender are arrested for bank robbery when they get involved with one of Bender’s old robot friends, Roberto, while he’s robbing a bank. Fry and Bender are convicted of the crime and sent to an asylum for criminally insane robots. It’s a walk in the park for Bender, but Fry is tortured by being treated like a robot. When Fry is finally brain-washed into believing he is a robot, he is deemed “cured” and released. His friends back at Planet Express are horrified when Fry the robot is returned to them. Meanwhile, Roberto is busted robbing the same bank again and ends up in the asylum with Bender. He uses Bender to bust out of the asylum and accompanies his friend back to Planet Express. When the police track them down, Roberto takes the staff of Planet Express hostage. Fry turns into a battle droid and scares the mentally unstable Roberto so badly that he jumps to his death. In the battle, Fry’s arm is injured, and when he sees that he bleeds blood he comes to his senses and realizes he’s a human.

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Air Date: 1 April, 2001

At an orphanarium reunion, Leela runs into an old classmate, Adelai, that is now a plastic surgeon, and he gives her an operation to give her the appearance of two eyes. Leela revels in her newfound ordinariness and starts dating Adelai. Meanwhile, when Bender finds out that orphans come with a government stipend, he adopts twelve of them. Despite himself, he’s a good father, but when he realizes he’s losing money on the deal, he decides to get rid of them. Leela and Adelai decide to adopt an orphan of their own, so they go to Bender to take one of his kids off his hands, but they have trouble deciding. Meanwhile, Bender is arrested for child endangerment. Leela finally decides she wants to adopt Bender’s strangest looking child, a little girl with a third ear on her forehead. When Adelai says that he’ll give the child an operation to make her look normal, Leela points out that the little girl doesn’t need one, and then realizes that she didn’t need one either. Leela demands her old appearance back and breaks up with the shallow doctor, while Bender donates his orphans to a new orphanarium and bids them a sad farewell.

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Air Date: 11 March, 2001

Bad luck sends Fry underground to search for his boyhood good-luck charm, stirring memories of rivalry with his older brother, Yancy.

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Air Date: 4 March, 2001

The Professor decides to ship hazardous cargo to the outer reaches of space, but the course chartered takes the ship through some environmentally sensitive areas-including the penguin refuge on Pluto. Leela refuses to transport the dangerous cargo, so the Professor removes her from command and installs Bender as captain. While Bender is piloting the ship, he allows his attention to drift and accidentally showers the penguins with oily goop. As punishment for his crime, Bender gets 5 hours of community service helping clean up the mess.

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Air Date: 25 February, 2001

Dr. Zoidberg tries his luck at comedy, but fails miserably. He decides to ask his long lost Uncle Harold Zoid to help him out. Bender tricks Calculon into financing and staring in Harold’s film on the premise that he would be guaranteed an Oscar. However the movie is a complete flop and Calculon threatens to kill Harold Zoid if he doesn’t somehow win an Oscar.