Transcript:Animatic:Rebirth


 * [The Hypnotoad is shown on screen.]

Maurice LaMarche: [voice over] At the count of three, You will awaken feeling refreshed, as if Futurama had never been cancelled by idiots, then brought back by bigger idiots. 1... 2... [snaps fingers]
 * ''[Scene: Exterior shot of Planet Express]
 * ''[Scene: Interior shot of Professor Farnsworth's laboratory. The Professor looks as if he's working on some sort of experiment.  Fry comes in with his hair looking like an afro just like in "Hell is Other Robots".]

Fry: Professor, my hair's all frizzy. Farnsworth: OK. Fry: That's all. [slicks his hair back to normal] [pause] Oh, also; I'm covered with severe burns. Farnsworth: So!? What of it? Fry: Well, why is– those things?
 * [Farnsworth gasps.]

Farnsworth: You mean you don't remember? Fry: Nope, nothing. It's like when I passed out in collage, except no one drew magic marker penises on my forehead.
 * [Farnsworth sighs.]

Farnsworth: I suppose it's for the best, considering those unbearable horrors you've endured. Lets never speak of it again. [time lapse] It all began a few days ago. We were interstellar fugitives on the run from the law.
 * [Flashback: On the Nimbus.]

Zapp: Fire all weapons and open a wailing frequency for my victory yodel.
 * [Cut to Planet Express ship. Laser shots.  The crew shouts and screams.  Zapp begins yodelling.  Kif sighs in the same manner as Zapp.]

Farnsworth: [voice over; flashback] And so, as you and Leela kissed goodbye in a tender display of toungesmanship, we plunged into a massive wormhole. Never to be seen again.
 * [The ship flies through the wormhole, arriving near Earth.]

Bender: Yeah, we're back.


 * [The crew cheers.]

Hermes: Sweet coincidence of Port-au-Prince, we're back at Earth! Farnsworth: Of course, that was the Panama Wormhole, Earth's central channel for shipping!
 * [Zoidberg laughs.]

Zoidberg: How humorous. Farnsworth: Yes! It's sort of a Comedy Central channel, and we're on it now! Amy: I get it!
 * [Scene: Exterior shot of the Planet Express ship, the Nimbus crawls up upon them and shoots and hits them.]
 * [Cut to interior Planet Express ship.]

Fry: We've lost power to the forward gameboard, Mario not responding! Leela: Brace for emergency landing! Farnsworth: Rodger that, activate Safety Spheres! ''[The crew activates their safety spheres, which only covers their heads. Except for Farnsworth's, which covers his entire being.]'' Also mine has air conditioning.
 * [Scene: Planet Express Headquarters exterior shot. The hangar door opens.  The Planet Express ship crashes into the road next to it.  Zapp is still yodelling.  The Nimbus crashes into the Planet Express ship.]
 * [Flashback ends.]

Farnsworth: Thanks to my trusty safety sphere, I sublimed with only trivial brain damage. Fry: And the others? Farnsworth: Right here behind this horror shield. Fry: Are they dead? Farnsworth: Oh, no no no, much worse.
 * [Farnsworth draws the horror shield away revealing the heads of the crew, Kif, LaBarbara and Zapp attached to their skeletons hanging by wires. Fry screams.]
 * [Opening credits.]