Each segment features recurring elements, including an environmental theme, a song, and ending in which most or all of the main characters either die or face certain death. Al Gore reprises his role as his own head in a jar in all three segments. Coolio reprises his role as Kwanzaabot in the third segment. Series producer David X. Cohen has compared the episode to The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" series. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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The crew all visit the Conrad family in their apartment for a Kwanzaa party, with many of the African-American supporting characters, including Barbados Slim and Bubblegum , who gives Dwight a book called The Mathketball Diaries.
At the dinner table, Dr. Zoidberg wishes that someone could tell them more about Kwanzaa's ancient traditions. To answer him, Kwanzaa-bot bursts in through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man and explains, in rap , the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Before he leaves, he reminds LaBarbara that the seven candles of Kwanzaa needs to be made of beeswax.
LaBarbara makes Hermes and his co-workers go out in the middle of the night to find some. At Petunia's Self-Serve Bee Farm , one of the few bee farms open on Kwanzaa, Petunia 's bee's have been suffering from CCD , due to the bee parasites that have attached themselves to the bees.
Since they have no beeswax, they resort to another option: finding wax from the Space Bees that almost killed Fry and Leela last time 4ACV They fly to the bees' Space Hive , equip Bender with a trans-bumblator and cautiously enter.
Inside, they discover that the bees there are also suffering from the same parasites. The Space Bee Queen explains to them that the parasites have been making her children fight with each other, and create chaos in the hive.
Although they got enough wax, Hermes thinks that the right thing to do would be to help the Queen restore order by explaining the principles of Kwanzaa. They are successful, and the parasites die. However, now that the bees are back to normal, they go back to attacking the Planet Express crew. Kwanzaa-bot reappears to help them, but is then killed by the bees.
The crew end up covered in wax and slowly burning to death as the bees use them as candles. A curtain comes down and Al Gore's head informs the audience that the crew will be back with new episodes next year, with him as Captain Lance Starman.
Amy comes in wearing a Gunderson's Nuts costume, for one last piece of advertisement. In its original American broadcast, the episode was viewed by an estimated 1. The episode was generally not well received among fans, and many called it both the season and the series ' worst episode.
Leela : What's wrong, Fry? Are you regretting another wasted year? Fry : I don't know. Something about Xmas just doesn't feel like Christmas. Farnsworth : [The alarm sounds and the red light flashes. Initiate defenses! Farnsworth : Good news! All these pine trees are fighting global warming by producing oxygen. Happy now, Gore? Al Gore : Yeah. But I'd be happier if I had a set of lungs.
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