'The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz' by Dan Vebber

NOW WITH CHUCKLELIN

When Professor Farnsworth orders the ‘Planet Express’ crew to tug a huge oil tanker to the outer reaches of space, Leela realises that the course they are taking to avoid the tollbooth will bring them perilously close to the Penguin Sanctuary on Pluto. After she refuses to fly the ship, the Professor makes Bender captain instead; but the unreliable robot soon screws up, and the penguins find themselves covered in a thick, sticky oil slick. Sentenced to community service to help clean up the mess, Bender tries to get out of his duties by putting on a tuxedo and blending in with the seabirds – but then an accidental blow to the head causes the robot to believe that he really is a penguin…

Billy West (Philip J. Fry / Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth / Doctor John Zoidberg), John Di Maggio (Bender [Bender Bending Rodriguez / Bending Unit 22]), Katey Sagal (Captain Turanga Leela), Lauren Tom (Amy Wong), Phil LaMarr (Hermes Conrad) , Phil Hendrie (Free Waterfall Senior)

Directed by James Purdum
Executive Producers Matt Groening, David X. Cohen and Ken Keeler

TX (US): 4th March 2001

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