Holiday Val-U-Pak is the thirteenth episode of the sixth season of Futurama.This episode will be a Anthology of Interest-style episode focusing on three seasonal stories; one based on Xmas, one on Robanukah and one on Kwanzaa.
Plot
In every story all of the crew dies, exception made for the Robanukah story in which bender survives, an the Xmas episode in which most likely every earthling dies. This kind of irregardlessness of continuity was never before experienced in the Futurama series, if not within the stories in the Anthology of Interest I and II, from which this episode also takes the three-stories setting.
Also, in every episode someone sings a song about the holiday traditions. Santa for Xmas, Bender for Robanukah (first mentioned in Fear of a Bot Planet) and Kwanzaabot for Kwanzaa.
Al Gore makes an appereance in every storyline and in the final wrap up with Amy, advertising, for the fifth time in the episode, Gundersons Nuts.
First story
The first story is about Xmas. Fry is gloomy because he still didn't understand the Xmas holyday, therefore Santa explains it in a song. When they realize they do not own a pine tree, as Xmas tradition would require they want to get one. Pine trees are extinct, therefore they go to the Svalvard Global Seed Vault in Norway, right next to the Germ Welfare Repository. They then are able to obtain a seed for the pine tree, which appears to be contaminated with germs, and Fry plants it in front of the Planet Express. One year later it is grown not more than six feet, and Nixon steals it in order to replant it in front of the white house to celebrate the annual whitehouse xmas tree lighting . And right after the lighting, the tree starts growing huge and shooting pinecones on the ground, reforestating the world. This brings very high levels of oxygen. This is when Bender says: "I don't recall doing anything for a while, but I still think I deserve a smoke!". When he lights his cigar, the oxygen in the air catches on fire transforming the whole earth in a ball of fire.