The World is Hot Enough

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Season 10 episode Broadcast season 13 episode
The World is Hot Enough
The crew impregnate Mount Vesuvius with a glitter bomb to curb global warming.
No.	162
Production number	AACV02
Written by	Maiya Williams
Directed by	Edmund Fong
Title caption	The Fun Starts at NOW!
First air date	15 September, 2025
Broadcast number	S13E02
Title reference	James Bond film The World is Not Enough
Opening cartoon	Hell's Fire by Ub Iwerks (1934)
Special guest(s)	Bill Nye
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Season 10

"The World is Hot Enough" is the one hundred and sixty-second episode of Futurama, the second of the tenth production season and the second of the thirteenth broadcast season. It aired on 15 September, 2025, on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.

Plot

Act I

At the Planet Express office on an extremely hot day, Hermes reminds everyone about using the walk-in microwave, and Bender emerges, having forgotten to remove his shiny metal ass. Amy then arrives in a bikini, prompting a scolding from Hermes about proper business attire. Ignoring him, she opens the roof to let in the sun, and the crew quickly joins her for a sunbathing session. Hermes initially resists, but eventually gives in to the FOMO and strips down to his own speedo.

Just as the crew gets comfortable, Professor Farnsworth bursts in and announces they have to go to the Arctic to drop another massive ice cube into the ocean. The Professor explains that they've been using this method to combat global warming, but now it's "then" again—time for a new one.

The crew arrives at the Arctic and finds that the giant ice cube is shrinking. They encounter a group of adorable polar bear cubs, who, despite their cute appearance, quickly eat off one of Zoidberg's claws. The Bear Biologist arrives and tries to spray the cubs with "Bear Raid," but Leela and Fry object. The Bear Biologist laments having to study bears and leaves. Fry decides to adopt the cubs and becomes their mother.

As the crew returns to the ship, the engines accidentally melt the giant ice cube, and they fly away, leaving the cubs' mother behind. Back at the office, Fry tries to feed the cubs, but they are more interested in blubber. The Professor, meanwhile, analyzes new climate data, which causes his glasses to explode. He reveals that global temperatures are rising so fast that the crew can't possibly keep up with dropping new ice cubes. The crew panics, pointing at each other while yelling, "Doomed!"

Act II

The second act begins at the annual C.R.O.K. (Climate Research Organization Kegger) conference, sponsored by Mom's Friendly Heavy Fuel Oil. The event is a boozy, celebratory affair where no one seems to care about the climate crisis. Richard Nixon's head, the host, announces that for the 1,030th year in a row, no nation has met its climate goals—except for Aruba, which is now underwater.

Professor Farnsworth and the Planet Express crew arrive to protest. Farnsworth presents his data showing a catastrophic rise in global temperatures, which he says will lead to extinction. Mom, a major polluter, dismisses his findings and brings in a different "researcher" which she paid off, Dr. Banjo. Dr. Banjo claims Farnsworth's data is meaningless "mumbo-jumbo" and suggests that a slightly warmer planet is enjoyable. The crowd agrees, and Leela and Fry leave the debate to tend to the polar bear cubs they've "adopted."

While Fry and Leela are away, Dr. Banjo continues to discredit Farnsworth's numerical data. However, Amy intervenes and converts the same information into a visually compelling graph with bright colors and drop shadows. The audience is shocked by the dramatic red line, which clearly illustrates the imminent catastrophe. Dr. Banjo and others, including Reverend Preacherbot, immediately change their minds and apologize to Farnsworth.

With the crowd now convinced, the Professor tries to rally them to action, but his rival, Wernstrom, appears and says it's already too late. Wernstrom's pessimistic outlook causes the crowd to devolve into chaos and start looting.

Act III

The chaotic brawl at the C.R.O.K. is interrupted by Fry. He arrives riding two polar bear cubs, and his heartfelt plea to save the Earth for these adorable creatures—named Pigpig and Stupidface—moves the entire crowd. Fry suggests a feel-good anthem to inspire humanity to work together, leading to a celebrity-filled music video set to the song "Let's Do It for the Bears." The song's lyrics comically highlight humanity's hatred for each other and their families, with the sole motivation to save the planet being the polar bears.

However, the feel-good anthem does nothing to solve the actual problem. Professor Farnsworth interrupts the song, arguing that humanity is too stupid to change its ways. Dr. Banjo suggests an alternative: instead of reducing greenhouse gases, they should reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth. The Professor agrees and proposes a plan to trigger a volcanic eruption, similar to past events that caused temporary global cooling.

The crew flies the Planet Express ship to Mount Vesuvius, with Farnsworth, Wernstrom, and Dr. Banjo joining them. They land in Pompeii, which has become a tourist trap with preserved stone corpses. The Professor explains their plan: they will impregnate the volcano's lava with a sparkly substance to maximize reflectivity. After a brief argument over whether to use Wernstrom's Diamondillium, Farnsworth's Diamondium, or Hermes's cheaper Mardi Gras glitter, they decide on the glitter.

As the crew boards the ship, Fry decides to stay behind to be a parent to the bear cubs. He says an emotional goodbye to Leela before the ship takes off. The ship then drills into the volcano's magma chamber. Dr. Banjo deploys torpedoes filled with baking soda and vinegar to trigger the eruption, while Gumbo-Tron drops the Mardi Gras glitter into the lava. The plan is a success, but the glitter makes the magma chamber too sparkly for Leela to see the escape route, leaving the crew trapped inside the volcano.

Act IV

The Planet Express crew is trapped inside the volcano, broadcasting their final words to the outside world. Leela tries to confess something just before the feed cuts out, making Fry believe she's gone forever. The volcano erupts in a massive plume of black, glittery ash, successfully covering the sun and cooling the Earth. However, the ash turns anyone it touches to stone, including the mayor of Pompeii, the Channel √2 News crew, and even Fry and the bear cubs.

Just as all hope seems lost, the Planet Express ship bursts out of the volcano, battered but intact. The crew emerges, celebrating their victory. Leela finds Fry's stone likeness and, by simply blowing on it, brings him and the cubs back to normal. She reveals she was trying to tell him how much she loves the bears, not him, just before the broadcast cut out.

Back at the Planet Express building, the crew discusses their success, though the climate has become surprisingly cold. Professor Farnsworth reveals a shocking twist: he was using the wrong data. The rising temperature graph he showed everyone was from 2025, not 3025. Humanity had seen the data but did nothing, leading to the Climatastrophe of Fry's time. The real 31st-century data shows that the planet was already gradually cooling on its own, meaning the ice cube would have been enough to save the day, and they didn't need to blow up the volcano at all.

The new problem is that the black, toxic, acid-filled volcanic ash is now falling as "black snow," making the environment even more dangerous. Fry attempts to catch a snowflake on his tongue, which burns a snowflake-shaped hole right through it. The mother polar bear of the cubs then appears, having instinctively traveled thousands of miles to find her children. Fry, who gave up his career to be their parent, is heartbroken to see her, and Hermes informs him that his resume now has a "gap." The bears seem to thrive in the sooty, toxic environment, and the episode ends with them chasing Zoidberg.

Additional information

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

• Abraham Lincoln's head
• Amy
• Dr. Banjo
• Bear Biologist
• Bill Nye the Science Head
• Bender
• Debut: Billy Joel's head
• Boxy
• Bubblegum
• Calculon
• Clearcutter
• Debut: Cyndi Lauper's head
• Debut: Diana Ross's head
• Elzar
• Farnsworth
• Fishy Joe
• Fry
• Gearshift (cameo, in C.R.O.K. audience)
• Gladys Lennox
• Grover Cleveland's head
• Gumbo-Tron
• Hermes
• Hyper-Chicken
• Human Friend
• Igner
• Jackie Anderson
• Katey Sagal's head
• Debut: Kenny Rogers' head
• Larry
• Last clone of Agnew
• Leela
• Linda
• Debut: Lionel Richie's head
• Debut: Mayor McFromaggio
• Debut: Michael Jackson's head
• Mom
• Monique
• Morbo
• Ndulu
• Debut: Pigpig
• Reverend Preacherbot
• Richard Nixon's head
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg's head
• Scruffy
• Debut: Stupidface
• Talia Thinsen's head
• Debut: Tina Turner's head
• Ultra Guy
• Walt
• Wailing Fungus
• Wernstrom
• Debut: Willie Nelson's head
• Zoidberg

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