Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs 2008

A month after the rupture: personal lives continue

A month after the universe was ripped open, life mostly goes on. Amy and Kif get married, while Fry starts dating Colleen but quickly breaks up when he discovers she has many other boyfriends. The everyday world hides the looming sense that something fundamental has changed.

Farnsworth pitches an expedition to the anomaly

At a conference, Professor Farnsworth argues for an expedition to investigate the mysterious anomaly. He outlines the scientific value and potential discoveries, attempting to rally support. The proposal sets up a clash between curiosity and caution.

Bender's bold probe near the anomaly

Bender approaches the anomaly and touches it, triggering a shock wave that blasts him and the ship away. The event demonstrates that the anomaly reacts violently to contact and foreshadows the dangers to come. The crew struggles to understand the strange physics at work.

Living beings only can pass; electronics fail

Farnsworth discovers that only living beings can pass through the anomaly, while electrical objects are repelled or destroyed. This finding undermines any simple reentry plan and complicates the expedition’s goals. The scientific team debates the implications for future exploration.

Military option over exploration; Kif dies; Fry enters

Plans shift from exploration to a military assault led by Zapp Brannigan, which ends in tragedy as Kif dies. In the chaos, Fry manages to slip through the anomaly into the unknown interior. The sequence marks a grim turning point in the story.

Fry meets Yivo on the other side

On the far side, Fry encounters Yivo, a colossal one-eyed, tentacled alien. Yivo begins forcing its tentacles through the anomaly toward the rest of the universe. The encounter launches a cosmic romance and a planetary-scale consequence.

Yivo's touch and the electro-matter threat

Yivo's tentacles touch beings across the universe, and nothing can stop them since they are made of electro-matter. Conventional weapons have no effect, making the threat both intimate and universal. Relationships, loyalties, and power structures start to fracture under the influence.

Fry returns with a tentacle and a new mantra

Fry returns to Earth with a tentacle attached to the back of his neck and loudly proclaims that everyone should 'love the tentacle.' The tentacles begin attaching to nearly everyone, transforming social life and weakening old bonds. Leela remains notably unattached, highlighting a stark new normal.

A new faith: Fry becomes pope

A religion centered on worshipping Yivo emerges, and Fry is elevated as its pope. Believers spread the message of the tentacled being, blending reverence with a bizarre social experiment. The world adapts to a shared, peculiar devotion.

Leela discovers Yivo's reproductive nature

Leela examines a fragment of Yivo's tentacle and discovers that it is a reproductive organ. She reveals this truth at a universal religious gathering, shocking many and reframing the nature of Yivo. Yivo admits that mating with everyone was its original plan, but now asserts genuine affection, even resurrecting Kif as part of the revelation.

Yivo renews relationships and removes tentacles

Yivo declares its love and begins a renewed relationship with the universe, removing its tentacles from people. The tentative peace is accompanied by a mass dating ritual that goes surprisingly well, though leaders fear a lack of commitment. Eventually, Yivo proposes marriage and the leaders accept the union.

Bender's robot plan; Exodus begins

Bender makes a deal with the Robot Devil to create an army of robots in exchange for Fry’s first-born, revealing a shocking selfish streak. Meanwhile, humanity and many civilizations choose to leave Earth to live with Yivo, leaving Bender lonely and the robot population underutilized. The social order shifts as populations abandon the old homeworld.

The harpoon attempt and the electro-matter trap

Bender spearheads an attack to pull Yivo into their universe with a robot army, hoping to rescue Fry from the tentacle embrace. The weapons they rely on are lined with electro-matter from Fry’s letter, allowing Yivo to retaliate and complicating the plan. Fry’s broken promise becomes a pivotal moral fault line.

Breakup, Colleen, and the closing of the anomaly

Fueled by the letter’s electro-matter and Fry's broken promise, Yivo withdraws from the relationship with the universe and begins to depart. It finds solace with Colleen, and together they return to the other universe, effectively closing the anomaly. The human and alien exodus ends as reality re-stabilizes, albeit with scars.