The Futurama Holiday Spectacular story

futurama6x13 · 2010-11-21

"The Futurama Holiday Spectacular", originally titled "Holiday Val-U-Pak", is the thirteenth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom Futurama and is the 101st episode of the series. It originally aired as a holiday special on November 21, 2010, before the remaining episodes of Season 7 were broadcast in 2011. The episode features three self-contained segments, sponsored by the fictitious product "Gunderson's Unshelled Nuts". The first segment is based on "Xmas", in which the long-extinct pine tree species is revived, but due to seed contamination grow out of control. The second segment is based on "Robanukah", in which Bender leads the crew on a search for petroleum oil in order for him to celebrate the holiday. In the third and final segment, the Planet Express crew go in search of beeswax, in order to create traditional beeswax candles for Kwanzaa. Directed by: Ray Claffey. Story by: Michael Rowe.

9 total · 1 major · 8 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
endangered species	major	The Planet Express team brought a pine tree out of extinction to celebrate Christmas. In another story, bees were in danger of going extinct from the colony collapse phenomenon.
biological weapons	minor	There was a biological weapons repository.
depletion of a vital natural resource	minor	Robots exhausted the world's petroleum oil supply.
disembodied head	minor	The heads of Richard Nixon, Dick Cheney, and Al Gore made appearances.
natural resource sustainability	minor	Robots exhausted the world's petroleum oil supply.
nature conservationism	minor	Norwegian seed vault was mentioned.
planet scorching atmospheric conflagration	minor	Bender lit a cigar which resulted in the ignition of Earth's atmosphere because oxygen levels had risen to 80%.
subterrene	minor	The Planet Express ship was used to tunnel deep into the Earth.
travel into the Earth	minor	The Planet Express ship was used as a subterrene to drill into the ground.