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==Plot summary==
==Plot summary==
[[Image:The Beast with a Billion Backs sneak peak anamatic - Farnsworth vs Wernstrom.png|left|thumb|Farnsworth and Wernstrom competing as commanders in the game Deathball (from anamatic sneak preview released with {{eni|x1}}).]]
[[Image:The Beast with a Billion Backs sneak peak anamatic - Farnsworth vs Wernstrom.png|left|thumb|Farnsworth and Wernstrom competing as commanders in the game Deathball (from anamatic sneak preview released with {{eni|x1}}).]]
The sneak peek from the special edition of ''[[Bender's Big Score]]''<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK8vFufe_80 YouTube video] - the sneak peak</ref> exclusive to ''Best Buy'' appears to be telling the story onward from where ''Bender's Big Score'' ends, namely the rift in time and space.  Fry gets a polygamist girlfriend named Colleen, and Bender finds and joins his dream: The League of Robots. A monster named Yivo appears from the giant tear in space and sends out tentacles to connect to everyone in the world. One connects to Fry who becomes the pope of the tentacle religion. Soon it turns out that Yivo's tentacles are actually [[Coinage#G|Gentacles]] and he's been having intercourse with everyone (as it says in the trailer). Yivo reveals that he just wants to date the world, as he wants to marry it. 


[[Image:The Beast with a Billion Backs trailer - Farnsworth vs Wernstrom.png|left|thumb|Farnsworth and Wernstrom competing in as commanders in the game Deathball (from trailer).]] Yivo soon proposes to the world, and everyone moves onto Yivo, leaving Earth to the robots.  
One month after the rip opens up, people are getting less scared. Fry explains to the crew that he has got a girlfriend (they met at the viewing at the Anonomy). More gracious news, Kiff and Amy are getting married, or, getting a fonfonru. Everyone goes to Amphibius 9 for them to get married. After they get back, Farnsworth gets invited to a science convention. They are greeted by Stephen Hawking's head. Wernstrom is also there and compeits with Planet Express to see who gets to explore the Anonomy. They decide to compiete ina scientific manner... [[Deathball]]. Planet Express wins. Colleen is there to congradulate him, and [[Chu]], her ''other'' boyfriend. As Fry learns that he is not the only boyfriend of Colleen, he gets depressed. After winning in Deathball, Planet Express gets to further explore the Anonomy, much to the crew's demise. Bender's the one who has to explore the Anonomy. He moons the tear, but gets backfired (litterally). Bender is sent to the hospital. There he is met by Calculon in hopes to cheer him up. It works, but too hard. He becomes a stalker of Calculon. Calculon is the only person he can have fun with because Fry is paying too much attention to Colleen. Fry tries to have a five-way date wth Colleen and her four other boyfriends, but doesn't go well when he breaks up with her. Wernstrom and Farnsworth try to work together to explore the Anonomy. The figure out that any metalic machine can't enter. Zapp and his crew (and Fry in hopes of finding true love) are prepared to bomb the universe. Fry sends out into the universe. Kiff gets killed after trying to repair the UUM, and Zapp sends it before he got out. He gets cushed by the missile ad dies. Fry explores the other universe and meets [[Yivo]], the planet-sized alien/squid. Soon, Fry gets attracted to Yivo, and wants to make the whole universe to be attracted to Yivo. Planet Express hide form the tentacles in the building. Farnsworth makes an invention for Planet Express to protect their neaks. They open up the building, but when they do, Leela notices that Farnsworth is controlled. So is Hermies. And Wernstrom. All that's left is Amy, Leela and Zapp. They escape to an abandoned soup kitchen. After crying over Kiff, Zapp tries to cheer up Amy, and one thing lead to another, and they do it. Leela sees them, and tentacles. The tentacles control Zapp and Amy. Leela runs away from them. She rips off part of a tentacle and runs to Planet Express to find out about the tentacles. Meanwhile, Bender gets too depressed and decides to kill himself. He goes to a suiside booth, but the booth opens a trap door leading to a secret alience. The League of Robots.  


 
(continue story...)
 
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|quote=[The plot of the Beast with a Billion Backs] is an inter-universal love story about this horrible monster, played by David Cross, who has a love affair with all living beings in our universe simultaneously. It's a very futuristic love story.
|author=David X. Cohen}}


== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==

Revision as of 02:00, 16 June 2008


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Direct-to-DVD film
The Beast with a Billion Backs
The Beast With a Billion Backs
Directed byPeter Avanzino
Produced byUnknown
Written byEric Kaplan
David X. Cohen
Production number5ACV05, 5ACV06,
5ACV07, 5ACV08
Title CaptionThe Proud Result of Prison Labor
Title referenceSee trivia for debate
Opening cartoonA parody of Steamboat Willie, see list for more details.
Regular DVD release date(s)(USA) 24 June, 2008
(EU) 30 June, 2008
(AU) 6 August, 2008
Blu-ray (HD) release date(s){{{blu-ray release}}}
Running time88 minutes
Additional
IMDb profile
CommentaryTranscript[[:Category:{{{pictures}}} pictures|Pictures]]
The films
  1. Bender's Big Score
  2. The Beast with a Billion Backs
  3. Bender's Game
  4. Into the Wild Green Yonder
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This article is about a future episode.
Content may change rapidly as the broadcast date draws near.

The Beast with a Billion Backs is the second of the four Direct-to-DVD films to be released in 2008. The film will be released for region 1 on 24 June, 2008[1][2] and region 2 on 30 June, 2008[3]. Fans in region 4 will have to wait until 6 August, 2008[4].

As of 8 July, 2007 the voice acting for all the films (which includes the fifth season) is finished, according to Lauren Tom[5]. It will guest star Stephen Hawking, David Cross, Dan Castellaneta and Brittany Murphy.

According to a recent Wired article, "The Beast With a Billion Backs," can be viewed as a full-length movie about a creature that carries on a simultaneous affair with everyone in the galaxy.[6]

The story will continue from where Bender's Big Score ended.

Plot summary

File:The Beast with a Billion Backs sneak peak anamatic - Farnsworth vs Wernstrom.png
Farnsworth and Wernstrom competing as commanders in the game Deathball (from anamatic sneak preview released with Bender's Big Score).

One month after the rip opens up, people are getting less scared. Fry explains to the crew that he has got a girlfriend (they met at the viewing at the Anonomy). More gracious news, Kiff and Amy are getting married, or, getting a fonfonru. Everyone goes to Amphibius 9 for them to get married. After they get back, Farnsworth gets invited to a science convention. They are greeted by Stephen Hawking's head. Wernstrom is also there and compeits with Planet Express to see who gets to explore the Anonomy. They decide to compiete ina scientific manner... Deathball. Planet Express wins. Colleen is there to congradulate him, and Chu, her other boyfriend. As Fry learns that he is not the only boyfriend of Colleen, he gets depressed. After winning in Deathball, Planet Express gets to further explore the Anonomy, much to the crew's demise. Bender's the one who has to explore the Anonomy. He moons the tear, but gets backfired (litterally). Bender is sent to the hospital. There he is met by Calculon in hopes to cheer him up. It works, but too hard. He becomes a stalker of Calculon. Calculon is the only person he can have fun with because Fry is paying too much attention to Colleen. Fry tries to have a five-way date wth Colleen and her four other boyfriends, but doesn't go well when he breaks up with her. Wernstrom and Farnsworth try to work together to explore the Anonomy. The figure out that any metalic machine can't enter. Zapp and his crew (and Fry in hopes of finding true love) are prepared to bomb the universe. Fry sends out into the universe. Kiff gets killed after trying to repair the UUM, and Zapp sends it before he got out. He gets cushed by the missile ad dies. Fry explores the other universe and meets Yivo, the planet-sized alien/squid. Soon, Fry gets attracted to Yivo, and wants to make the whole universe to be attracted to Yivo. Planet Express hide form the tentacles in the building. Farnsworth makes an invention for Planet Express to protect their neaks. They open up the building, but when they do, Leela notices that Farnsworth is controlled. So is Hermies. And Wernstrom. All that's left is Amy, Leela and Zapp. They escape to an abandoned soup kitchen. After crying over Kiff, Zapp tries to cheer up Amy, and one thing lead to another, and they do it. Leela sees them, and tentacles. The tentacles control Zapp and Amy. Leela runs away from them. She rips off part of a tentacle and runs to Planet Express to find out about the tentacles. Meanwhile, Bender gets too depressed and decides to kill himself. He goes to a suiside booth, but the booth opens a trap door leading to a secret alience. The League of Robots.

(continue story...)

Additional Info

Teaser from Futurama Returns

Trivia

  • The title is a reference to Shakespeare's line "I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs." in the play Othello (however, use of the phrase dates back before this usage). In "Spanish Fry", the sex shop in which Fry, Bender and Leela enter is called "The Beast with Two Bucks", which is a reference to the same line.
  • It also references, The Beast With a Million Eyes. Incidentally plot of that movie involves a huge alien mind controlling the weak minded, albeit to fuel hatred rather than coerce the world into having sex with it. The movie came out in 1955, and the box art for The Beast With a Billion Backs is modeled after 1950's horror movies involving monsters.
  • A sneak peek was included in a two disc DVD of Bender's Big Score exclusive to Best Buy.
  • The official trailer (in colour) has been released and can be watched at slurmed.com.
  • Fry called DIAL-A-JOKE from Colleen's Apartment a total of 8128 times.

Characters

Characters that can automatically confirmed, and characters that have been confirmed.

Cast

The DVD

It has been reported that the DVD will contain[1]:

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Futurama-Beast-With-A-Billion-Backs/9295
  2. ^ http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Dvd-News-Reviews/Friday-Night-Lights/800034458
  3. ^ http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=777869
  4. ^ http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800280
  5. ^ http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/801/801261p1.html
  6. ^ Wired article
Futurama episodes/films
1ACV
(Season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
2ACV
(Season 2)		 "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "A Clone of My Own" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "Mother's Day" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Anthology of Interest I" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Honking" • "The Cryonic Woman"
3ACV
(Season 3)		 "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Parasites Lost" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "The Route of All Evil" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Roswell that Ends Well" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "The 30% Iron Chef"
4ACV
(Season 4)		 "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Love and Rocket" • "Less than Hero" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "Jurassic Bark" • "Crimes of the Hot" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" • "The Sting" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
5ACV
(Season 5)
Bender's Big Score The Beast with a Billion Backs Bender's Game Into the Wild Green Yonder
Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4
6ACV
(Season 6)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
7ACV
(Season 7)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama" • "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
8ACV
(Season 8)		 "The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"
Specials Everybody Loves Hypnotoad: "Amazon Adventure" • "The Lost Adventure" • "Simpsorama"
S01E
(Broadcast season 1)		 "Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots"
S02E
(Broadcast season 2)		 "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory" • "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "A Clone of My Own" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Mother's Day" • "Anthology of Interest I"
S03E
(Broadcast season 3)		 "The Honking" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Cryonic Woman" • "Parasites Lost" • "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot"
S04E
(Broadcast season 4)		 "Roswell that Ends Well" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Love and Rocket" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "The 30% Iron Chef" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
S05E
(Broadcast season 5)		 "Crimes of the Hot" • "Jurassic Bark" • "The Route of All Evil" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Less than Hero" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "The Sting" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
S06E
(Broadcast season 6)		 "Bender's Big Score Part 1" • "Bender's Big Score Part 2" • "Bender's Big Score Part 3" • "Bender's Big Score Part 4" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 2" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4" • "Bender's Game Part 1" • "Bender's Game Part 2" • "Bender's Game Part 3" • "Bender's Game Part 4" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 2" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 3" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4"
S07E
(Broadcast season 7)		 "Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular"
S08E
(Broadcast season 8)		 "Neutopia" • "Benderama" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Law and Oracle" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Möbius Dick" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
S09E
(Broadcast season 9)		 "The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama"
S10E
(Broadcast season 10)		 "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
S11E
(Broadcast Season 11)		 "The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"
Specials Everybody Loves Hypnotoad: "Amazon Adventure" • "The Lost Adventure" • "Simpsorama"
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