Futurama: Bender's Big Score is an Emmy Award-winning straight-to-DVD film based on the animated series Futurama. It was released in the United States on November 27, 2007. The movie was written by Ken Keeler, based on a story by Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, and directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill. The film features an extended version of the Futurama theme song, as well as introductions of all the main characters during the opening sequence.
The film features return appearances by many of the recurring and one-shot characters in the series. Several of the notable ones include: the Nibblonians, Zapp Brannigan, Kif Kroker, Fry's dog Seymour, Barbados Slim, Robot Santa, the God space entity, Hedonismbot, Al Gore (played by himself), the Robot Mafia and Coolio as Kwanzaa Bot. It also introduces Mark Hamill as the Chanukah Zombie, a character mentioned by Kwanzaa Bot in an earlier episode.
Bender's Big Score and the three follow-up films will be turned into season five of Futurama on Comedy Central, each film comprising four episodes of the broadcast season. Bender's Big Score will make its broadcast premiere on Comedy Central on March 23, 2008.
The time code seen in the bender tattoo is made of 6 columns of binary digits. The first 3 columns show the binary form of the numbers 1 to 6. The last three columns are simply the same digits as the first three in reverse order.
