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[♪ upbeat theme music playing]

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[glass shatters]

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[♪ theme concludes]

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[♪ intense music playing]

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-Good news, everyone!
-What is it?

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I... don't remember.

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I-I'm not sure if it was even good...

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or news!

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And who's this "everyone"?

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[phone ringing]

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Dad, where are you?

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You were supposed to pick me up from
Chess Game Reenactors Club, remember?

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I got checkmated really hard today.

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Oh, uh, Cubert, I'm sorry,

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it slipped my mind.

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I'll be there as soon as
I find my car keys and car.

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[liquid dripping]

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Uh, excuse me,

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but shouldn't we find out
why the ceiling's dripping first?

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Ah, yes!

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This reminds me
that I was going to take a bath.

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In fact, it was this very bath.

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-[water sloshing]
-[faucet squeaking]

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I'm worried about the Professor's memory.

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I think it's getting wet.

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[floor crackling]

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[group screaming]

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Hello?

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[group screaming, bodies thudding]

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Good news, everyone!

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[♪ dramatic music playing]

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I'm afraid it's serious.

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He's got Absentminded Scientist Syndrome,

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A.S.S.

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Oh, no!

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So sad.

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He's got the worst A.S.S. I've ever seen.

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Cruel fate, thou hast stolen
the only treasure I have left,

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my precious memories!

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Of what?

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It's not like you were some kinda
oversexed motorcycle racer.

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I wasn't? Damn!

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Aw, don't give up hope.

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I think I heard about some
research on memory loss.

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-[hologram zapping]
-Someone studying lab rats...

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Really? Who?!

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[Amy] Let's see.

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It was... Oh, boy.

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"Professor Hubert Farnsworth."

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Eh, who?

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Oh, me! If I misremember incorrectly,

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I had set up a research facility
on Vivisectoid Alpha,

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a small planetoid unknown
to animal rights activists.

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I was trying to show that rats
confined to an annoyingly difficult maze

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would evolve enhanced brain chemistry.

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[chomping and chewing]

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I would then extract their cerebral fluid

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as a treatment for absentmindedness.

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So, have they been in the maze long enough

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for their brains to evolve?

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Oh my, yes!

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Rats reproduce like rodents
on shore leave.

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I'd say roughly a year would do it.

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And how long has it been?

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What day is it?

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-Wednesday.
-Huh.

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Then it's been 100 years.

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-[♪ dramatic sting]
-[crew gasps]

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Come on, people, we have to hurry!

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-We do?
-I guess not.

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We'll leave next Friday.

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[♪ intense music playing]

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[Planet Express swooshes]

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[ship's computer]
Approaching Vivisectoid Alpha.

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That's weird.

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The computer says the planetoid is here,
but there's nothing.

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Computer? Don't listen to that hussy!

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I'm great in the sack.

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-[loud banging]
-[yelps]

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[Leela] Meteor storm!

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[ship zooming]

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[crew exclaiming]

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[all grunting]

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[ship thudding, debris clattering]

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[ship whooshing]

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[branches rustling]

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[metal crashing]

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[♪ tense music playing]

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[crew groaning]

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"Please come, Zoidberg.

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It'll be fun," they said.

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-Nobody said that.
-I don't understand.

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If there's no planet here,
what did we land on?

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I landed on my shiny, metal ass!

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And it landed on me.

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I'll try to take off again
so we can see where we are.

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[starter rattling, energy whirring]

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[engine grumbling]

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[starter rattling]

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[engine grumbling, stops]

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Son of an Easter basket!

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We blew a critical vacuum tube.

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Unless we can find a replacement,
we're stuck here...

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forever.

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[♪ dramatic sting]

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I hate you.

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[birds chirping]

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Huh, looks like we crash-landed

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in a completely ordinary place for once.

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Even that upside-down part looks ordinary.

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[♪ majestic music playing]

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What the shmell?

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[♪ majestic music swells]

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A ring-shaped world

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shaped like a ring!

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I shall call it "Wheel World."

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Its rotation simulates gravity!

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Really?

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Let's see what happens
if I throw this rock.

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-[grunts]
-Ow!

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That's what I thought would happen.

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♪♪

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What God-like being could have built
such a colossal hoop?

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I stand humbled before the work
of an intelligence far greater than mine.

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-[bushes rustling]
-Hi there!

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[crew shrieking]

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[Dr. Vermius shrieking, gagging]

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-[♪ dramatic music playing]
-[Dr. Vermius shrieking]

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Apologies for my reaction,
but you're just so...

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[shuddering] Ugh!

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What are you?

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We're travelers from another--

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-[muffled mumbling]
-Another area.

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[sniffing] What, precisely,
are you doing here

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in the Forbidden Zone?

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Uh, nothin'.

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What are you doing in the Forbidden Zone?

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M-Me?

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I'm Dr. Vermius of Ratcliffe University.

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It is here that I gather these relics

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that predate rat civilization.

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You wouldn't happen to know
what this is, would you?

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[gasps] [lisping] Certainly not.

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I've never seen anything like that.

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Nice meeting you. We'll be on our way now.

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No, stay!

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I insist.

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My colleagues will find you fascinating.

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But Rathattan is a long journey,

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and night is rotating.

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[♪ intense music playing]

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We shall set off at sunturn.

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I bid you goodnight.

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[snoring]

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[♪ ominous music playing]

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[fire crackling]

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These so-called relics are bits and pieces
of my old lab equipment.

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And a pair of my lecturing teeth!

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I know it sounds insane,

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but, somehow,
my rat brain experiment worked.

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[gleefully giggling]

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But how can that guy
be a descendant of your dinky lab rats?

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Well, that part's barely insane at all.

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Greater brain power
necessitated a larger body size.

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Then Fatatouille over there
must be a genius.

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[chuckling]

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Your fat joke is correct.

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A larger brain has larger caloric demands.

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My joke was funnier than yours.

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In any case,
until we understand the situation,

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we must keep secret
the reason we came here.

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You mean to suck out their brain juices?
That reason?

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-[group] Shh!
-Clam it, robot!

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[♪ dramatic music playing]

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This way, this way.

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We're crossing the boundary
from the Forbidden Zone

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to the Lightly Discouraged Zone.

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♪♪

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Wow, these sunflowers are beautiful!

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I find them tacky.

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But they produce a seed
with the most exquisite,

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delicate flavor.

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[munching rapidly]

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My word!

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I see you've developed
windmill technology!

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Yes, the mill workers use it
to generate wind.

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Observe.

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Ah, vermin! Run away!

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-[yelping and panting]
-[gears cranking]

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[windmills whooshing]

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[♪ ominous music playing]

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[door creaking]

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Your appearance seems
to make my people uncomfortable,

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so I advise you to wear these prosthetics

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for the remainder of our journey.

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Why do you think this'll help?

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Why? Because they'll like you.

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Now, come on.

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We'll take the steamboat
the rest of the way.

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[♪ whimsical, old-time music playing]

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[blowing]

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-[teeth bonk]
-[high-pitched gibberish]

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[panting]

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[sighs] Whoa! Whoa!

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Whoa!

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[foghorn blasting]

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[group coughing and gagging]

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And, here we are.

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[♪ majestic music playing]

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This is Ratcliffe University,

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the finest research institute
in the western semicircle.

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You can lose your disguises now.

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The academic community
is very open-minded.

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Perhaps too open-minded. [yelps]

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[mumbling, chomping]

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Mm, like a hacky sack, but crunchier.

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[protesters] [chanting]
Free the fleas! Free the fleas!

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Yo, what gives?

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Pay these zealots no mind.

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They're just protesting my flea research.

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Damned flea-huggers.

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-[scratching]
-[protesters continue chanting]

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[mini cannon firing]

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This room is known as a "laboratory."

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Ya don't say.

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And this is my colleague, Dr. Pestia.

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Uh, charmed.

228
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What strange creatures!

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They walk and talk like naked rats.

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[giggling] Oh, you flatter me.

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Say, I notice you have a lot of primitive,
high-tech stuff there on your rat desk.

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You wouldn't happen to have
one of these, would you?

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An electrical amplification tube?

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Why, yes.

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But, I can't quite get it to not explode.

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[electricity sparking]

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[flames whooshing, fizzles]

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[coughs] Have you considered
creating a vacuum

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inside the tube, like so?

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Without air gumming things up,

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you can control much greater voltages.

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Professor, you seem strangely familiar
with scientific concepts

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such as air and gum.

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Plus, you're wearing a lab coat.

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And you're called the Professor.

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Don't forget the thick glasses!

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Do you, perhaps, know more
than you're letting on?

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Certainly not. I'm as dumb as a stump.

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But enough about me.

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Tell us about the origins
of this curious rotating ring

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to which your civilization adheres

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via centripetal force.

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[♪ soft, suspicious music playing]

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This archive contains
our most ancient records,

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written in long-paw with whisker and ink.

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The sacred book
tells of the genesis of our world.

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"In the beginning,
there was only the maze."

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[crew gasping]

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"The Evil One, in his wickedness,
condemned us there to suffer,

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"lost in its twisting passageways,

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"knowing not from whence
the next cheese would come.

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"'Twas a nightmare beyond comprehension.

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"But as generations passed,

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"we learned to comprehend it,
which was even worse.

265
00:11:50,126 --> 00:11:53,254
"'Cause then we knew
we were stuck in a maze!

266
00:11:53,338 --> 00:11:54,464
[maze cracking]

267
00:11:54,547 --> 00:11:57,342
"In due course, there came an apocalypse.

268
00:11:57,425 --> 00:11:59,677
"Cheese boiled forth from the earth,

269
00:11:59,761 --> 00:12:02,513
"and the maze was blown unto smithereens.

270
00:12:02,597 --> 00:12:03,598
[explosion bangs]

271
00:12:03,681 --> 00:12:06,893
"Yet, out of the chaos,
a glittering ring appeared,

272
00:12:06,976 --> 00:12:10,855
and we rats took refuge upon it
and flourished."

273
00:12:10,939 --> 00:12:14,651
I find myself intrigued by
the character of the "Evil One."

274
00:12:14,734 --> 00:12:18,738
Hey, Professor, don't you wanna
hear more about the Evil One?

275
00:12:18,821 --> 00:12:22,367
Well, uh, I'm sure he wasn't all bad.

276
00:12:22,450 --> 00:12:24,410
Oh, but he was.

277
00:12:24,494 --> 00:12:26,788
-[♪ dramatic music playing]
-It has been my life's work,

278
00:12:26,871 --> 00:12:29,290
the focus of all my research,

279
00:12:29,374 --> 00:12:32,001
to uncover his identity,

280
00:12:32,085 --> 00:12:36,339
-that we might exact our revenge.
-[Professor whimpering]

281
00:12:36,422 --> 00:12:39,884
Man, imagine how scared
the Evil One would be

282
00:12:39,968 --> 00:12:42,178
if he were standing here right now.

283
00:12:42,262 --> 00:12:44,889
-[Professor gulps]
-No, sir, wouldn't wanna be him.

284
00:12:44,973 --> 00:12:47,308
[laughing maniacally]

285
00:12:47,392 --> 00:12:51,479
[muffled laughter]

286
00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,567
[♪ light, ominous music playing]

287
00:12:56,651 --> 00:12:58,653
[crickets chirping]

288
00:12:59,904 --> 00:13:01,823
Night has turned.

289
00:13:01,906 --> 00:13:05,118
Dr. Pestia was kind enough
to make up the laboratory

290
00:13:05,201 --> 00:13:06,995
as a sleeping chamber.

291
00:13:07,078 --> 00:13:09,580
I hope no one's allergic
to cedar shavings.

292
00:13:09,664 --> 00:13:10,665
Okay, yep, right.

293
00:13:10,748 --> 00:13:13,376
I'm ever so tired. Yawn, yawn, yawn.

294
00:13:13,459 --> 00:13:14,585
-Goodnight!
-[slamming door]

295
00:13:14,669 --> 00:13:17,380
[yawns] Man, I'm tired, too.

296
00:13:17,463 --> 00:13:19,132
I shouldn't have eaten all that millet.

297
00:13:20,675 --> 00:13:22,093
This is no time to sleep!

298
00:13:22,176 --> 00:13:24,429
-They're onto us!
-You mean onto you.

299
00:13:24,512 --> 00:13:27,557
He said Evil "One," not Ones. Singular.

300
00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,309
Not helpful, Hermes.

301
00:13:29,434 --> 00:13:33,730
I've been waiting for a moment alone
because I recognize this relic.

302
00:13:33,813 --> 00:13:34,814
[case door squeaking]

303
00:13:34,897 --> 00:13:39,277
It's my old friend,
Orbiting Security Drone 139-B!

304
00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,613
With any luck, its recordings
will fill in some gaps

305
00:13:42,697 --> 00:13:46,409
in that crackpot creation story
we had to sit through.

306
00:13:49,037 --> 00:13:51,956
Really? Just shove it in? No romance?

307
00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:53,166
[static buzzing]

308
00:13:53,249 --> 00:13:56,169
There she is! Vivisectoid Alpha.

309
00:13:56,252 --> 00:13:58,004
[video whirring]

310
00:13:58,087 --> 00:13:59,547
[explosion booms]

311
00:13:59,630 --> 00:14:02,425
Gadzooks! The whole planet exploded!

312
00:14:02,508 --> 00:14:05,928
There must have been a pressure build-up
in the cheese cave.

313
00:14:06,012 --> 00:14:08,348
If there's one takeaway, it's this:

314
00:14:08,431 --> 00:14:11,059
always vent your cheese cave.

315
00:14:11,142 --> 00:14:14,270
-[pen scribbling]
-"Vent... cheese... cave."

316
00:14:14,354 --> 00:14:16,439
[flames whooshing]

317
00:14:16,522 --> 00:14:18,483
[Professor Farnsworth]
Oh-ho! The heat blast melted

318
00:14:18,566 --> 00:14:21,527
the planet's rocky ring
into a solid surface!

319
00:14:22,236 --> 00:14:24,072
[Hermes]
So, the rats didn't build this ring.

320
00:14:24,155 --> 00:14:25,531
They just infested it,

321
00:14:25,615 --> 00:14:27,200
like a bunch of Zoidbergs.

322
00:14:27,283 --> 00:14:28,785
Thanks for the shoutout.

323
00:14:29,786 --> 00:14:30,870
[crew exclaiming]

324
00:14:30,953 --> 00:14:33,081
As I suspected.

325
00:14:33,164 --> 00:14:34,707
-[cable whirring]
-It's not what it looks like!

326
00:14:34,791 --> 00:14:35,792
It's just sexual!

327
00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:39,379
It was obvious you were familiar
with these relics,

328
00:14:39,462 --> 00:14:41,339
but I couldn't understand why

329
00:14:41,422 --> 00:14:45,009
until I took a close look
at the Professor's doodle.

330
00:14:45,093 --> 00:14:48,554
Everyone, behold the Professor's doodle!

331
00:14:49,722 --> 00:14:53,643
How could the Professor
have such precise knowledge

332
00:14:53,726 --> 00:14:56,479
of the Evil One's torture devices?

333
00:14:56,562 --> 00:14:57,980
Unless...

334
00:14:58,064 --> 00:15:00,441
[♪ dramatic sting]

335
00:15:00,525 --> 00:15:02,568
He's... the Evil One?

336
00:15:02,652 --> 00:15:04,153
Boom! Nailed it!

337
00:15:04,237 --> 00:15:06,656
[♪ ominous music playing]

338
00:15:06,739 --> 00:15:07,740
[Fry slurping]

339
00:15:07,824 --> 00:15:09,659
As you experimented on us,

340
00:15:09,742 --> 00:15:14,414
so shall we experiment on you!

341
00:15:14,497 --> 00:15:16,749
[stammering] But, I had important reasons!

342
00:15:16,833 --> 00:15:20,461
Animal testing has led
to huge medical advances!

343
00:15:20,545 --> 00:15:22,839
What? There've been medical advances?

344
00:15:22,922 --> 00:15:25,007
Well, it's true that some lab animals

345
00:15:25,091 --> 00:15:28,219
had to be, uh... inconvenienced.

346
00:15:28,302 --> 00:15:29,554
With a brain hammer.

347
00:15:29,637 --> 00:15:32,849
But that research
benefited millions of people.

348
00:15:32,932 --> 00:15:35,518
Saved millions of lives!

349
00:15:35,601 --> 00:15:39,522
Well, now it is the rat's turn to benefit.

350
00:15:39,605 --> 00:15:42,608
Let the experiments begin.

351
00:15:42,692 --> 00:15:45,653
[♪ dramatic music playing]

352
00:15:45,736 --> 00:15:48,030
[echoing] Help! I'm lost!

353
00:15:48,114 --> 00:15:50,491
We haven't put you in the maze yet.

354
00:15:50,575 --> 00:15:52,410
[♪ curious music playing]

355
00:15:52,493 --> 00:15:54,036
-[electrical buzzing]
-[Bender grunting]

356
00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:55,121
[laughing]

357
00:15:55,204 --> 00:15:56,539
-[electrical buzzing]
-[grunting]

358
00:15:56,664 --> 00:15:58,124
-[electrical buzzing]
-[laughing]

359
00:15:58,207 --> 00:16:01,294
Strange, he never learns
to take the cheese.

360
00:16:01,377 --> 00:16:03,713
-[electrical buzzing]
-Oh yeah, I'm a bad boy, baby!

361
00:16:03,796 --> 00:16:05,256
-[electrical buzzing]
-I deserved that!

362
00:16:05,339 --> 00:16:07,008
-[panting]
-[wheel rattling]

363
00:16:07,091 --> 00:16:09,510
If you wanted to study how awesome I am,

364
00:16:09,594 --> 00:16:11,512
you could've just asked anyone.

365
00:16:11,596 --> 00:16:15,600
Before you is a test
of deduction and physical skill.

366
00:16:15,683 --> 00:16:16,893
Your goal is to--

367
00:16:16,976 --> 00:16:17,977
Yes, yes.

368
00:16:18,060 --> 00:16:19,312
[Hermes chomping]

369
00:16:19,395 --> 00:16:21,063
But, how did he do that?

370
00:16:21,147 --> 00:16:22,482
[sniffing]

371
00:16:25,359 --> 00:16:30,490
That is why you always wear
a safety collar in the lab.

372
00:16:30,573 --> 00:16:31,908
Right, Snivels?

373
00:16:31,991 --> 00:16:33,284
Yeah, I guess.

374
00:16:34,577 --> 00:16:39,123
There. We'll see how you like
having makeup tested on you.

375
00:16:39,207 --> 00:16:43,794
Ooh, my skin feels like it's being jabbed
with a thousand poison needles!

376
00:16:43,878 --> 00:16:46,714
And can you touch up my blush right here?

377
00:16:46,797 --> 00:16:48,633
-[brush swooshes]
-[Fry screaming]

378
00:16:48,716 --> 00:16:51,427
[♪ dramatic music playing]

379
00:16:51,511 --> 00:16:54,555
You were all excellent research subjects.

380
00:16:54,639 --> 00:16:55,640
[coughs]

381
00:16:55,723 --> 00:16:57,934
Excuse me, there's something going around.

382
00:16:58,017 --> 00:16:59,268
Four more dead.

383
00:16:59,352 --> 00:17:00,603
[coughs]

384
00:17:00,686 --> 00:17:01,854
[wheezing] Make it five.

385
00:17:01,938 --> 00:17:02,939
[chokes]

386
00:17:03,940 --> 00:17:05,816
[wheels rattling]

387
00:17:05,900 --> 00:17:08,110
At any rat, my experiments with you

388
00:17:08,194 --> 00:17:10,071
are essentially complete.

389
00:17:10,154 --> 00:17:11,572
[crew cheering]

390
00:17:11,656 --> 00:17:16,285
Tomorrow, we shall measure the effects
of the stimuli on your brains.

391
00:17:16,661 --> 00:17:18,579
By dissecting them.

392
00:17:18,663 --> 00:17:21,415
[♪ intense dramatic sting]

393
00:17:21,499 --> 00:17:23,000
And then we can leave?

394
00:17:24,460 --> 00:17:26,462
♪♪

395
00:17:26,546 --> 00:17:28,673
[coughing] [groaning]
Oh, dude.

396
00:17:28,756 --> 00:17:29,757
[body thuds]

397
00:17:31,676 --> 00:17:35,096
-[Bender grunting]
-[metal bars squeaking]

398
00:17:35,179 --> 00:17:36,389
[Bender grumbling]

399
00:17:36,472 --> 00:17:39,100
The robot has the right idea. Escape!

400
00:17:39,183 --> 00:17:41,227
Nah, I'm tryin' to get back
to the shock button.

401
00:17:41,310 --> 00:17:42,395
I'm in love.

402
00:17:42,478 --> 00:17:44,063
-[lights buzzing]
-Uh...

403
00:17:44,146 --> 00:17:46,148
[crew whimpering]

404
00:17:46,232 --> 00:17:48,192
There's no reason to dissect my brain!

405
00:17:48,276 --> 00:17:49,610
You won't find anything!

406
00:17:49,694 --> 00:17:51,571
I'm not dissecting you.

407
00:17:51,654 --> 00:17:52,655
[coughs]

408
00:17:52,738 --> 00:17:54,574
I'm releasing you.

409
00:17:54,657 --> 00:17:57,076
Ugh, I'm homeless again.

410
00:17:58,411 --> 00:18:00,788
Everyone's dying of humonic plague.

411
00:18:00,871 --> 00:18:03,207
[coughing]

412
00:18:03,291 --> 00:18:06,752
Here, I got this vacuum tube to work,
thanks to your doodle.

413
00:18:06,836 --> 00:18:08,379
Take it and run!

414
00:18:08,462 --> 00:18:11,424
-Thank you.
-Yes, you all go.

415
00:18:11,507 --> 00:18:12,633
But I...

416
00:18:12,717 --> 00:18:15,595
-[♪ solemn music playing]
-I shall remain here as a lab animal,

417
00:18:15,678 --> 00:18:18,639
so noble scientists like Dr. Pestia

418
00:18:18,723 --> 00:18:21,350
can test potential treatments on me.

419
00:18:21,434 --> 00:18:24,395
My life is a small price to pay

420
00:18:24,478 --> 00:18:27,690
to cure this terrible plague.

421
00:18:27,773 --> 00:18:28,858
-[♪ music stops]
-Okay, bye!

422
00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:30,067
[Zoidberg whooping]

423
00:18:30,151 --> 00:18:31,193
Are you sure?

424
00:18:31,277 --> 00:18:33,863
We'll have to infect you
with a fatal disease.

425
00:18:33,946 --> 00:18:35,823
And the cures might be worse.

426
00:18:35,906 --> 00:18:39,285
[coughs]
Also, the needle looks a little rusty.

427
00:18:39,368 --> 00:18:40,661
I'm sure.

428
00:18:40,745 --> 00:18:43,372
Hand me the needle, I'll do it myself.

429
00:18:43,539 --> 00:18:45,458
-[wet thunk]
-[♪ dramatic sting]

430
00:18:45,541 --> 00:18:47,585
Well, that was a time-saver.

431
00:18:47,668 --> 00:18:50,630
[♪ light, sneaky music playing]

432
00:18:54,425 --> 00:18:56,844
How are we ever gonna find the ship?

433
00:18:56,927 --> 00:18:58,596
I can see it right there!

434
00:18:58,679 --> 00:19:00,765
[♪ majestic music playing]

435
00:19:00,848 --> 00:19:02,808
[Leela] Oh, right. Ring!

436
00:19:02,892 --> 00:19:04,602
-[Bender yelping]
-There they are!

437
00:19:04,685 --> 00:19:06,896
-Seize them!
-Yeah, I sees 'em.

438
00:19:06,979 --> 00:19:09,482
No, you numbskull. I mean arrest!

439
00:19:09,565 --> 00:19:11,359
I don't need a rest, I just woke up.

440
00:19:11,442 --> 00:19:12,652
[General Squeakus growls]

441
00:19:12,735 --> 00:19:13,819
Hey, where'd they go?!

442
00:19:13,903 --> 00:19:16,322
[rat patrol scurrying]

443
00:19:19,742 --> 00:19:22,578
[♪ dramatic music playing]

444
00:19:23,913 --> 00:19:25,331
That was close.

445
00:19:25,414 --> 00:19:28,125
Uh-oh! The centrifugal force is too much.

446
00:19:28,959 --> 00:19:30,544
And there they go!

447
00:19:30,628 --> 00:19:32,797
Fry, quit mooning the universe.

448
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,548
Sorry. [grunting]

449
00:19:34,632 --> 00:19:36,175
[whooshing]

450
00:19:36,258 --> 00:19:38,761
Dang. At least I'll die with my pants up.

451
00:19:38,844 --> 00:19:40,012
Oh, no you won't.

452
00:19:40,096 --> 00:19:42,264
If I'm gettin' dissected, you are too!

453
00:19:42,348 --> 00:19:44,266
[arm whirring]

454
00:19:44,350 --> 00:19:45,685
[Philip] [muffled] Thank you!

455
00:19:47,019 --> 00:19:51,273
[both coughing and wheezing]

456
00:19:51,357 --> 00:19:54,068
So, this is it. Humonic plague.

457
00:19:54,151 --> 00:19:55,611
[wet coughing]

458
00:19:55,695 --> 00:19:56,904
How blown is it?

459
00:19:56,987 --> 00:19:57,988
Full.

460
00:19:58,072 --> 00:20:00,658
I've developed a number
of candidate treatments.

461
00:20:00,741 --> 00:20:03,452
To begin, I'll determine
which ones kill you

462
00:20:03,536 --> 00:20:04,745
and which ones don't.

463
00:20:04,829 --> 00:20:05,830
Good plan.

464
00:20:05,913 --> 00:20:09,458
But bear in mind, I tend to die easily.

465
00:20:09,542 --> 00:20:11,377
[♪ suspenseful music playing]

466
00:20:11,460 --> 00:20:12,920
We're home free!

467
00:20:13,003 --> 00:20:15,548
The rat patrol must be way behind us!

468
00:20:15,631 --> 00:20:17,216
-[General Squeakus] Correct!
-[♪ dramatic sting]

469
00:20:17,299 --> 00:20:19,218
So far behind that we're ahead!

470
00:20:19,301 --> 00:20:21,053
That's how rings get ya.

471
00:20:21,137 --> 00:20:22,304
Cheese it!

472
00:20:22,388 --> 00:20:26,434
-[♪ intense music playing]
-[crew panting]

473
00:20:30,896 --> 00:20:34,024
[crew groaning]

474
00:20:36,402 --> 00:20:38,154
[rat patrol groaning]

475
00:20:38,904 --> 00:20:40,948
What's holdin' me down?

476
00:20:41,031 --> 00:20:42,158
Lack of ambition?

477
00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:45,703
Our running sped up the rotation
and increased the gravity!

478
00:20:45,786 --> 00:20:47,496
Dammit!

479
00:20:47,580 --> 00:20:50,040
[straining and grunting]

480
00:20:50,166 --> 00:20:51,667
Oh, it's no use.

481
00:20:51,751 --> 00:20:53,043
Back the other way!

482
00:20:53,127 --> 00:20:56,505
[ring grinding]

483
00:20:59,091 --> 00:21:01,135
[wind whooshing]

484
00:21:01,218 --> 00:21:02,595
Get them!

485
00:21:02,678 --> 00:21:04,764
[rat patrol panting]

486
00:21:04,847 --> 00:21:06,682
[crew exclaiming]

487
00:21:08,267 --> 00:21:09,727
[rat patrol grunting, thudding]

488
00:21:09,810 --> 00:21:11,604
Oh, no! We're trapped!

489
00:21:11,687 --> 00:21:14,440
And the ship is way
on the other side of the ring!

490
00:21:14,523 --> 00:21:17,985
I've got a plan!
When I say "jump, jerks," you jerks jump!

491
00:21:18,068 --> 00:21:19,820
Could you leave out the "jerk" part?

492
00:21:19,904 --> 00:21:22,072
No, that's the best part!

493
00:21:22,156 --> 00:21:23,407
[Bender panting]

494
00:21:23,491 --> 00:21:25,534
And... jump, jerks! [grunts]

495
00:21:25,618 --> 00:21:27,453
-[crew exclaiming]
-[ring whooshing]

496
00:21:29,163 --> 00:21:32,374
[♪ dramatic music playing]

497
00:21:37,087 --> 00:21:39,799
[crew grunting]

498
00:21:40,758 --> 00:21:42,009
[crew panting]

499
00:21:42,092 --> 00:21:43,344
[seat belts clicking]

500
00:21:43,427 --> 00:21:45,513
This stupid gizmo better work.

501
00:21:47,348 --> 00:21:49,183
[engine humming, rockets roaring]

502
00:21:49,266 --> 00:21:50,726
[crew cheering]

503
00:21:50,810 --> 00:21:52,228
[Planet Express swooshes]

504
00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:54,480
[Leela] Up, up, and away!

505
00:21:54,563 --> 00:21:56,565
[ship crashing]

506
00:21:56,649 --> 00:21:57,858
[metallic thud]

507
00:21:57,942 --> 00:21:59,151
Oh, rats.

508
00:21:59,235 --> 00:22:02,613
-[neon sign buzzing]
-[rats groaning and coughing]

509
00:22:05,825 --> 00:22:10,704
[all groaning and coughing]

510
00:22:12,915 --> 00:22:14,917
I'm sorry, Dr. Pestia.

511
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:20,172
My only regret is that I have
but one life to give for science.

512
00:22:20,256 --> 00:22:22,842
Although I suppose
I could give you Fry's, too.

513
00:22:22,925 --> 00:22:24,218
Yeah, I'm fine.

514
00:22:24,301 --> 00:22:25,803
Just touchin' up my makeup.

515
00:22:25,886 --> 00:22:29,265
I'm cryin', but you can't tell
'cause my mascara's waterproof.

516
00:22:29,348 --> 00:22:30,808
Wait a second!

517
00:22:30,891 --> 00:22:32,601
[♪ suspenseful music playing]

518
00:22:34,353 --> 00:22:35,771
Of course!

519
00:22:35,855 --> 00:22:38,691
The fleas are the vector
spreading this plague.

520
00:22:38,774 --> 00:22:41,402
Fry's thick slather of foundation

521
00:22:41,485 --> 00:22:43,279
formed a protective shield!

522
00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:46,198
And the arsenic
that adds that kissable sparkle

523
00:22:46,282 --> 00:22:48,284
must be leaching into the bloodstream,

524
00:22:48,367 --> 00:22:50,452
where it kills the plague bacteria!

525
00:22:50,536 --> 00:22:51,704
Uh, arsenic?

526
00:22:51,787 --> 00:22:55,791
Shut up and inoculate me
with those hot, toxic lips.

527
00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:57,376
-[smooching]
-Me next!

528
00:22:57,459 --> 00:22:59,003
[puckering sounds]

529
00:22:59,086 --> 00:23:01,881
♪♪

530
00:23:01,964 --> 00:23:04,592
Well, now that the makeup
has cured the plague

531
00:23:04,675 --> 00:23:06,468
and enhanced my cheekbones,

532
00:23:06,552 --> 00:23:10,389
all that remains is to decide
who will dissect whose brain.

533
00:23:10,472 --> 00:23:12,433
As enjoyable as that sounds,

534
00:23:12,516 --> 00:23:14,768
I no longer need your brain juice.

535
00:23:14,852 --> 00:23:17,438
That maze you put me through got my memory

536
00:23:17,521 --> 00:23:20,649
back in tip-top shape. Farewell.

537
00:23:20,733 --> 00:23:22,359
Farewell. From now on,

538
00:23:22,443 --> 00:23:25,654
we shall curse the Evil One
with a fond smile.

539
00:23:25,738 --> 00:23:29,158
And perhaps one day,
we rats could pay a visit to your--

540
00:23:29,241 --> 00:23:30,743
We'll be in touch.

541
00:23:30,826 --> 00:23:33,329
[♪ grand music playing]

542
00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,497
[Planet Express swooshes]

543
00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:47,259
[♪ upbeat theme music playing]