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T:. The Terrestrial is the 130th episode of Futurama and the 3rd episode of Season 10 (broadcast).

Plot

The episode starts on Omicron Persei 8 with Lrrr watching a cheesy crime drama on T.V involving angels and a man who has troubles with his memories.  In the middle of the show, Lrrr's son, Jrrr appears and asks him to help him earn merit badges for his boy scouts.  Lrrr initially and selfishly refuses until Ndnd nags him into helping his son.  Lrrr and Jrrr then flip through the scout handbook to decide on which badges needed to be claimed but Jrrr is less interested in the badges involving acts of violence and prefers skull arranging, which Lrrr calls "girly" and flips the book to planetary invasion and decides to force his son to invade earth, which is what he calls "the easiest planet to invade'.  Lrrr then takes his son to Earth and drops him off at the White House with Nixon's head and his headless clone of Agnew answering the door.  Jrrr tries to make the traditional omicronial invasion adress but messes it up and his father loses patience with it, telling him to shoot something so Jrrr could earn his badge and go back home so Lrrr can go back to watching T.V.  Jrrr tries to find something to shoot at but he accidentally pulls the trigger while in the midst of deciding what to shoot and the laser hits and disentegrates Agnew, enraging Nixon and causing Lrrr and his son to retreat

Back at Planet Express, the crew hears an adress from an angered Nixon that he is cutting off all trade with Omicron Persei 8 (which includes television much to Lrrr's chagrin).  Farnsworth then announces that he is in no mood to say his good news everyone and tells them that he needs more of a potion that he drinks to say that slogan.  He then announces that the crew must get an important ingredient for the potion, which is a herb that only grows on Omicron Persei 8. Hermes refuses to get the team to Omicron Persei 8, but after discovering the ingredient is actually Omicronian Marijuana. Immediately, Hermes oins the crew on the trip. The crew then go to that planet and easily get there by fooling Zapp Brannigan into thinking of the Planet Express ship as an Omicronian delivery ship by spraying Omicronian Express on the ship.  While on the planet, the crew is ordered to go into groups with Fry and Bender making up one group.  Fry and Bender go out to look for the herbs but Fry gets distracted and wanders off from the Crew.  The crew then escapes the planet in fear of getting caught and accidently leave Fry behind.  Fry then attempts to make his way towards safety but ends up in the garden shed on Lrrr's palace.

Meanwhile, Lrrr is still watching T.V and Jrrr comes out and asks his father to play with him but is coldly shrugged off.  Jrrr then heads outside and notices something moving in the garden shed.  He leaves a trail of what is seemingly candy to lure Fry out of the shed and Fry falls for it, eating the candy before waking up Jrrr.  Both of them initially get scared of one another but calm down.  Jrrr then tells fry that the "candy" Fry was eating was his excrement, grossing out Fry at first but he still continues to eat it.  Jrrr then leads Fry into the palace and tells him of his problems of his loneliness and his struggles of getting along with his father, who he thinks of as a terrible and selfish father as well as an incompetent ruler.  Jrrr then shows Fry a weapon called a fleem, which Fry plays with, causing him to bring back memories of Bender, saddening him.  Meanwhile on Earth, Bender has trouble dealing with Fry not being around anymore.  Leela then knocks on the apartment door and Bender tries to cover up Fry's disappearance by stealing his phone answering machine and using the messages on it to make it seem like Fry was preoccupied with getting drunk.  Bender later uses the machine at work but it still does not help him cope with Fry being gone and he goes out to the balcony while playing around with his booze bottle but he zooms in with the bottle at Omicron Persei 8 and sees and SOS message scribbled on the planet.

Fry and Jrrr try to figure out how to get Fry home with Jrrr mentioning that the phone line connecting Omicron Persei 8 with earth being cut off due to orders from Nixon.  They go by flying bicycle to a junkyard where they use the junk there to form the SOS message that Bender would see later on.  They go back to the palace to play more games but Lrrr comes into the room and finds Fry hiding in Jrrr's closet.  He brings Fry outside in a cage and decides to force Jrrr to shoot fry.  However, Jrrr shoots the cage instead, allowing Fry to escape.  Jrrr takes Fry to a nearby doctor with Lrrr and his soldiers chasing after them but they lose them.  At the doctors, Fry becomes increasingly ill and Lrrr comes in and shoots the doctors arm off.  He then  orders Jrrr to kill Fry but Jrrr angirly refuses, saying that he will never be like his father.  Lrrr is surprised at this and says that he is proud of Jrrr because he proved his manhood by standing up to his own father and says that he will kill Fry for Jrrr.  However the doctor announces that Fry is dead, which causes Jrrr to become very upset and start crying.  However, Fry comes back with a glowing light in his butt because he ate some of the herbs which turn out to be bioluminescent.  Jrrr soon starts glowing as well and becomes overjoyed by the light symbolizing his friendship with Fry.  Bender them comes in and picks up Fry.  Fry then goes back to planet express where he makes out with Leela who was still unaware of what transpired

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