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♪ electronic music, distorted vocalizing ♪

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♪ theme music playing ♪

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♪ 8-bit music playing ♪

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[ship zooming]

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[landing gear creaks]
[roof slams shut]

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- Spectacular, isn't it?

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- Probably! What is it?

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- I've created a simulation

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of the entire universe!

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♪ dramatic sting ♪

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[all gasp]

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- Oh! In that case, it stinks.

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- I keep forgetting, Professor.

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Are we in the entire universe?

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- Why, naturally!

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[beeping]

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3-PIXEL PROFESSOR:
Good news, everyone!

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We've got a delivery!

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[3-Pixel characters cheer]

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But first, roll call!

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Leela?
3-PIXEL LEELA: Here.

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3-PIXEL PROFESSOR: Fry?
3-PIXEL FRY: Present!

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3-PIXEL PROFESSOR: Scruffy?
3-PIXEL SCRUFFY: ...Yep.

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3-PIXEL PROFESSOR: Hermes?
3-PIXEL HERMES: Check.

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3-PIXEL PROFESSOR:
Bender?

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3-PIXEL BENDER:
Bite my shiny middle pixel!

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3-PIXEL PROFESSOR: Amy?
3-PIXEL AMY: Shmobviously.

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3-PIXEL PROFESSOR:
And the rest.

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3-PIXEL ZOIDBERG: Hooray!
I'm an unnamed member of the group!

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- That's amazing, Professor!

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How'd you make it so crummy?

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- It wasn't easy.
Even to achieve this level of realism

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requires vast amounts of computing power.

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[beeping]

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My Simputron uses more electricity

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than 100 bug zappers.

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Which reminds me,
I had to unplug our bug zappers.

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[mosquito buzzing]

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[grunting]

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- Ow!
- Got him!

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[mosquito buzzing]
- The mosquito is still alive.

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- There's a mosquito?

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♪ whimsical electronic music playing ♪

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3-PIXEL HERMES:
Listen up, threeple!

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Today, you'll be delivering
this package to Space Italy.

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- Space Italy?

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- I know,
it's an embarrassingly lazy name.

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But when you're creating
an entire universe from scratch,

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you can't make up a believable
name for everything.

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Sometimes, you just have
to go with "Space Italy"

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or "the Robot Planet"

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or "Dr. Zoidberg."

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- Preposterous.

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♪ upbeat 8-bit music playing ♪

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[ship zooming]

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[landing gear clicking]

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[air brakes hiss]

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[water streaming, 8-bit beeping]

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3-PIXEL LEELA:
Wow, Space Italy!

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You delivering that package, Bender?

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3-PIXEL BENDER: Up all those steps?
No grazie.

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I'll just chuck it into Trevi Fountain
for good luck.

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[giggles, grunts]

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MALE: Ooh!
[glass breaks]

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3-PIXEL BLEK: Papa pia!
He hit-a the Space Pope!

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[European police siren]
[tires screech]

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3-PIXEL ITALIAN URL: You're under arrest
for-a bonking His Holiness.

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3-PIXEL ITALIAN SMITTY: I tell-a you,
this-a Planet Express company

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is a real two-bit operation, eh?

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3-PIXEL BENDER:
More like three! [laughs]

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[handcuffs click]
[Bender screams]

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3-PIXEL LEELA:
So, um, as long as we're here,

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wanna see the sights?

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3-PIXEL FRY:
When in Space Rome...

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♪ soft, romantic music playing ♪

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[kiss]

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3-PIXEL LEELA:
Michelangelo's David! So lifelike!

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3-PIXEL FRY:
Jeez, Dave! Get a fig leaf!

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[3-Pixel Leela giggles]

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3-PIXEL GONDOLIER [singing]:
♪ La la la! ♪

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♪ La la la! ♪

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♪ La la la... ♪

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[3-Pixel Leela sighs]

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♪ music swelling ♪

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3-PIXEL LEELA: I just can't understand
how it doesn't fall dow...

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[screams]
[thuds]

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3-PIXEL FRY:
Let me give you a han...

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[screams]
[thuds]

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[both laughing]

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[both moaning, kissing]

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- Oh, mama, they're goin' at it
like two packs of gum!

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- Bender, give us a little privacy.

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[clang]
ALL: Aw...

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- So, do those people in the casserole

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know they're in a simulation,

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or do they think that they're real?

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- Of course, they think they're real.

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To them, the rules of my software

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are just their laws of physics.

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- But, we think we're real.

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Couldn't our universe
also be a simulation?

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- [laughs] Absolutely not! No chance.

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The very idea is preposterous!
- How can you be so sure?

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- Because it's computationally impossible!

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For example, every atom in the universe

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is affected whenever
one little thing moves.

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- Like my ass? [humming, grunting]

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[distorted whirring]

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Oh yeah! Come on!
[humming, grunting]

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PROFESSOR:
That's a perfect example, Bender,

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and some pretty decent twerking.
[whirring continues]

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My software can't possibly
compute the gravitational changes

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between Bender's ass
and every other particle,

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so I had to have the information
travel outward gradually,

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at a fixed speed.

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- Like the speed of light in our universe?

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- Right!

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[clears throat]

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Oh, fuff. That's just a coincidence.

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I had to cut other corners, too.

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I mean, my simulation
doesn't even keep track

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of exactly where everything is.

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- Takin' all bets!

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Find the ball, win me not punching you!

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ZOIDBERG:
My last $5 on cup number one!

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In fact, make it my last $10!

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- Another convenient example.

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My lazy software wouldn't even
decide which cup the ball's in

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until someone actually looked at it.
[distorted whirring]

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Until then, it's just sort of in both.

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[Bender giggles]
[Zoidberg groans]

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- So your programming shortcut

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is like quantum mechanics in our world?

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- Exactly like that!

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[clears throat]

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Hm, interesting.

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I guess what I'm trying to say is

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our universe is probably
also a simulation.

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[all gasp]

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- But that's the exact opposite
of what you said one minute ago!

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- New evidence was presented
and I changed my mind.

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I'm a scientist, not a...

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- Idiot?
- ...politician.

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- Man. Imagine how awful it would be

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to find out your whole personality
was just simulated,

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like Bender's.

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- Whuzzulated? Like whozer's?

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- I just mean you're
an artificial intelligence, Bender.

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Like the people in
the Professor's simulation.

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- Artificial?
- Uh-huh. Yep.

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- Why'd you have to tell me?
You just ruined my life!

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My big fat fake life! [sobs]

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- You're a walking bucket!

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- How can you say I'm not real?!

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If you prick me, do I not bleed?

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[clanging]
[grunting]

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Okay, that was a bad example!

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[pin stabbing]
- Ow! I'm bleeding!

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- Showoff.
- There, there, Bender.

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You're as real as any of us.

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The philosopher René Descartes said,

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"I think, therefore I am."

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Can you think?
- I don't think so!

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I think I might not be able to think!

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- Anyway, it was a fun little universe,

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but we're looking at
a Godzilla-sized electric bill.

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It's time to shut it down.

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- But, you can't just turn them off!

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That would be like turning me off!

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- Good idea! That'll save even more power!

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But we'll start with them.

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- No...

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BENDER:
...no...

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[grunting]

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- The plug is stuck.

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[Bender continues yelling]
Or maybe I'm just extraordinarily weak.

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- That is a possibility.

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- Oh, bother. I'll just keep
the simulation running a little longer.

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BENDER: Thanks, Professor!
[both grunting]

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- Bender, how were you leaping
through the air that entire time?

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- I wasn't!
My first leap missed by a mile,

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so I leapt again.

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But I never stopped
screaming for a second!

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♪ upbeat 8-bit music playing ♪

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3-PIXEL FRY: I feel like I've been
in existence for a while now, Leela.

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So it's time I set myself a life's goal.

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3-PIXEL LEELA: That's a great idea!
I'll be quiet and let you think.

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3-PIXEL BENDER: And I'll turn on the TV
to drown out any distracting noises.

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[click, static]

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[Hypnotoad buzzing]

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3-PIXEL FRY: That's it!
I found my life's goal!

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I, Philip J. Fry, hereby pledge

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to watch every TV show ever made.

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3-PIXEL LEELA:
Oh Lord.

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- That orange guy sure is dumb.

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- [sobs] These innocent bit bags
may be artificial,

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[gasps] like me,

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but they don't know that!

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They deserve the same respect
as any other living creature.

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- Except clams!

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To hell with clams!

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- I'm telling you they're nothing
but ones and zeros!

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They're no more alive

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than the number 10101.

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- She was my aunt!

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- Professor, I think
Bender might be right.

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- No, you don't!

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- I mean, we're nothing
more than atoms, right?

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But, somehow, we are more.

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[Bender sniffles, gasps]

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♪ melancholic music playing ♪

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- Unlike clams!

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♪

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- Professor, I will now ask of you
a solemn promise.

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Now, the feet.
- Forget the feet!

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- Alright, whatever.

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- Why are we in a robot strip club?

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♪ club music playing ♪

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- Because we had to do this in a place

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that's meaningful to me!

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Bender!

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- Here you go, hun.

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- Keep the change, toots.
- Ow!

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[gulping, belches]

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- Let the solemn ceremony begin.

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Professor, you created a world
of conscious living beings,

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so now you're responsible for them.

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I want you to swear you'll do
everything in your power

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to keep them alive.

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- I barely make any effort
to keep myself alive.

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Oof!
- Professor!

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- And you'll never let them know
they're not real! Never!

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So they won't have to go through
what I'm going through!

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- I swear nothing!

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- I said swear it!

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- [sighs] Very well. I swear it.

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But the amount of electricity...

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Why, we'd basically need our
own hydroelectric generator.

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I really don't think
there's any possible...

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[toilet flushes]

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Eureka!

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As you all know,
I do my best thinking on the toilet.

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- We know! Stop telling us!

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- I didn't even have to go.

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I was just sitting here,
wiling away a Sunday afternoon,

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when suddenly, it hit me!

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A new source of electricity!

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- Would you care to tell us about it...
in another room?

249
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- No!

250
00:10:23,081 --> 00:10:25,083
According to these old maps,

251
00:10:25,083 --> 00:10:27,503
which I use in lieu of toilet paper...

252
00:10:27,503 --> 00:10:29,171
[all gagging]
BENDER: Ew!

253
00:10:29,171 --> 00:10:31,131
- ...the main New New York sewer line

254
00:10:31,131 --> 00:10:33,926
runs directly under Planet Express.

255
00:10:33,926 --> 00:10:38,931
♪

256
00:10:41,016 --> 00:10:43,852
[rumbling]
We'll simply drill into the pipe,

257
00:10:43,852 --> 00:10:46,104
drop this turbine into the torrent,

258
00:10:46,104 --> 00:10:49,274
and voila!
Free clean power!

259
00:10:49,274 --> 00:10:52,110
- Clean?
- Oh my, no.

260
00:10:52,110 --> 00:10:54,571
[whirring, crunching]

261
00:10:54,571 --> 00:10:56,073
[growling]

262
00:10:56,073 --> 00:10:58,575
We're approaching the main pipeline.

263
00:10:58,575 --> 00:11:02,496
Can you imagine the quantity
of sewage running through there?

264
00:11:02,496 --> 00:11:03,705
- Yes!

265
00:11:07,292 --> 00:11:10,128
LEELA:
Contact in four! Three!

266
00:11:10,128 --> 00:11:12,005
Number two!
[splash]

267
00:11:12,005 --> 00:11:14,299
[all gagging, retching]

268
00:11:14,299 --> 00:11:15,801
♪ upbeat music playing ♪

269
00:11:15,801 --> 00:11:19,304
[all coughing, gagging]

270
00:11:21,265 --> 00:11:23,225
- Let's rarely speak of that again.

271
00:11:23,225 --> 00:11:27,062
- This should generate enough power
to keep the simulation running.

272
00:11:27,062 --> 00:11:29,898
And it's substantially higher resolution!

273
00:11:29,898 --> 00:11:33,193
[whirring, beeping]

274
00:11:33,193 --> 00:11:35,529
- Let's see how my guys are doing.

275
00:11:35,946 --> 00:11:37,155
[simulation beeping]

276
00:11:37,155 --> 00:11:38,824
3-PIXEL PROFESSOR:
Good news, everyone!

277
00:11:38,824 --> 00:11:41,952
We have a delivery to the King of Space.

278
00:11:41,952 --> 00:11:44,955
[simulation crew cheers]

279
00:11:45,747 --> 00:11:48,000
- Aw, they're so cute!

280
00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,585
Now I care about them!

281
00:11:49,585 --> 00:11:52,880
- Happy, Bender?
We saved your little friends.

282
00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:54,381
- I sure did.

283
00:11:54,381 --> 00:11:58,218
SIMULATED PROFESSOR: In other news,
I've made a huge breakthrough!

284
00:11:58,218 --> 00:12:00,762
- What is it, Professor?
- No, him.

285
00:12:00,762 --> 00:12:04,183
- What is it, Professor?
- After many sleepless nights

286
00:12:04,183 --> 00:12:07,769
and an equal number of
glorious sleep-filled days,

287
00:12:07,769 --> 00:12:11,106
I've completed my greatest achievement!

288
00:12:11,106 --> 00:12:12,524
[beep, whirring]

289
00:12:12,524 --> 00:12:16,195
A simulation of our entire universe!

290
00:12:17,029 --> 00:12:18,071
♪ dramatic sting ♪

291
00:12:18,071 --> 00:12:19,698
3-PIXEL PROFESSOR:
Good news, everyone!

292
00:12:19,698 --> 00:12:22,701
We have a delivery to Space Italy!

293
00:12:22,701 --> 00:12:25,078
[3-pixel crew cheers]

294
00:12:25,078 --> 00:12:26,788
[hologram crew gasps]

295
00:12:27,206 --> 00:12:28,540
[crew gasps]

296
00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:28,999
[whoosh]

297
00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,670
♪

298
00:12:33,670 --> 00:12:36,381
- Sweet facsimile of Space Italy!

299
00:12:36,381 --> 00:12:38,008
A simulation...

300
00:12:38,008 --> 00:12:39,927
- Within a simulation!?

301
00:12:39,927 --> 00:12:42,513
Where does it all end?
- Hopefully there.

302
00:12:42,513 --> 00:12:44,556
Already my head hurts.

303
00:12:44,556 --> 00:12:48,143
- Professor, if you can make
a whole simulated universe,

304
00:12:48,143 --> 00:12:50,437
isn't it possible that our own universe

305
00:12:50,437 --> 00:12:52,356
is also a simulation?

306
00:12:52,356 --> 00:12:54,024
- Absolutely not!

307
00:12:54,024 --> 00:12:56,735
You sound like a stoned freshman!

308
00:12:56,735 --> 00:13:00,322
- I mean, what if our laws of physics
are just the computer code

309
00:13:00,322 --> 00:13:03,867
of some big brilliant professor
playing god up there?

310
00:13:03,867 --> 00:13:05,536
- Nailed it!

311
00:13:05,536 --> 00:13:09,039
- Hm. Quantum mechanics
is pretty ridiculous,

312
00:13:09,039 --> 00:13:10,666
but it's a moot point.

313
00:13:10,666 --> 00:13:12,876
Even if we are living in a simulation,

314
00:13:12,876 --> 00:13:15,754
there's no possible way of knowing.

315
00:13:15,754 --> 00:13:17,089
[clears throat]

316
00:13:17,089 --> 00:13:18,382
Yes?

317
00:13:18,382 --> 00:13:20,634
- Oh, nothing.
I just had a loogie in my throat.

318
00:13:20,634 --> 00:13:23,095
Possibly a simulated loogie.
[lights flicker]

319
00:13:23,095 --> 00:13:26,265
- What's that? A g-g-g-grid overload?

320
00:13:26,265 --> 00:13:29,977
- My simulation is drawing
a lot of power for some reason.

321
00:13:29,977 --> 00:13:31,728
[whirring, beeping]

322
00:13:31,728 --> 00:13:35,691
Ah! It appears two black holes
just collided in there.

323
00:13:35,691 --> 00:13:39,528
Can you imagine how complex
that computation is?

324
00:13:39,528 --> 00:13:42,406
The Simputron is really
straining to keep up.

325
00:13:42,406 --> 00:13:45,325
[creaking, hissing]

326
00:13:45,325 --> 00:13:47,160
- Oh, my glorsh!

327
00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,539
Maybe there is a way to find out
if we live in a simulation.

328
00:13:50,539 --> 00:13:51,748
- Well, I doubt that.

329
00:13:51,748 --> 00:13:53,500
- Double doubt it!

330
00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:55,711
- If our universe is a simulation,

331
00:13:55,711 --> 00:13:58,338
then it's running on some
kind of computer, right?

332
00:13:58,338 --> 00:13:59,715
- I'm with you so far.

333
00:13:59,715 --> 00:14:02,301
Actually, I'm not.
Is this about a new soda?

334
00:14:02,301 --> 00:14:05,512
- Suppose we made something
happen that was impossible

335
00:14:05,512 --> 00:14:08,265
for that big computer to simulate.

336
00:14:08,265 --> 00:14:10,184
- It would overload!

337
00:14:10,184 --> 00:14:11,643
- Exactly!

338
00:14:11,643 --> 00:14:13,228
- Cool! And then what?

339
00:14:13,228 --> 00:14:16,940
- I don't know! Probably stuff
would pixelate and look weird!

340
00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:19,443
- The laws of physics would fail!

341
00:14:19,443 --> 00:14:23,030
- Like playing a new video game
on a crummy underpowered game system!

342
00:14:23,030 --> 00:14:24,281
- Precisely!

343
00:14:24,281 --> 00:14:26,700
- That my cheapskate grandma got me.

344
00:14:27,701 --> 00:14:30,746
- Some phenomena are so wildly complex

345
00:14:30,746 --> 00:14:34,374
that they'd be impossible
for any computer to simulate.

346
00:14:34,374 --> 00:14:37,461
For example, a collapsing magnetic star

347
00:14:37,461 --> 00:14:39,046
or magnetar.

348
00:14:39,046 --> 00:14:42,758
But such an event might not happen
for millions of years.

349
00:14:42,758 --> 00:14:46,637
- But, what if we intentionally caused
a magnetar to collapse?

350
00:14:46,637 --> 00:14:50,265
Then, we could just watch
and see if the universe glitches out.

351
00:14:50,265 --> 00:14:53,101
- Of course!
And we'd know once and for all

352
00:14:53,101 --> 00:14:55,103
if we're living in a simulation.

353
00:14:55,103 --> 00:14:57,689
[all cheering]

354
00:14:57,689 --> 00:15:01,360
- Although, I'm not sure
I wanna know the answer to that.

355
00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,154
- Me neither.
I like resting secure in the knowledge

356
00:15:04,154 --> 00:15:05,614
that I'm the real deal.

357
00:15:05,614 --> 00:15:08,742
- [imitates buzzer]
Guess again, loser. [giggles]

358
00:15:08,742 --> 00:15:10,786
[loud sobbing]

359
00:15:11,286 --> 00:15:12,955
- Let's put it to a vote.

360
00:15:12,955 --> 00:15:16,250
Who here wants to test
if we're living in a simulation?

361
00:15:16,250 --> 00:15:17,543
[all agreeing]

362
00:15:17,543 --> 00:15:20,921
And who would rather continue living
in shameful ignorance?

363
00:15:20,921 --> 00:15:22,673
[all agreeing]
- That one!

364
00:15:22,673 --> 00:15:25,217
- You all voted for two things.

365
00:15:25,217 --> 00:15:28,762
- Honestly. I wanna know
if I'm not living in a simulation,

366
00:15:28,762 --> 00:15:30,097
but not if I am.

367
00:15:30,097 --> 00:15:31,348
Does that make sense?

368
00:15:31,348 --> 00:15:34,852
- Surprisingly, yes.
Let's just forget about it.

369
00:15:35,811 --> 00:15:38,021
- Although, now we're
always gonna be wondering.

370
00:15:38,021 --> 00:15:39,356
- Let's just go.

371
00:15:39,356 --> 00:15:40,816
♪

372
00:15:40,816 --> 00:15:43,443
[ship roaring]

373
00:15:44,444 --> 00:15:45,904
- Uh-oh. Not good.

374
00:15:45,904 --> 00:15:47,823
- [spits] Not good at all.

375
00:15:47,823 --> 00:15:51,410
- My half-baked software
absolutely will not be able

376
00:15:51,410 --> 00:15:53,996
to simulate a collapsing magnetar.

377
00:15:53,996 --> 00:15:56,123
Oh, I never should have outsourced it

378
00:15:56,123 --> 00:15:58,292
to that Indian middle schooler.

379
00:15:58,292 --> 00:16:01,712
- But, the simulations will
find out they're simulations!

380
00:16:01,712 --> 00:16:05,382
You swore a strip club oath
that would never happen.

381
00:16:05,382 --> 00:16:07,885
- Alas, there'll be no hiding the truth

382
00:16:07,885 --> 00:16:10,429
when they see that magnetar glitching out

383
00:16:10,429 --> 00:16:13,932
like a big flaming ball of Microsoft Word.

384
00:16:13,932 --> 00:16:17,352
- [sniffs] Well,
if they're gonna find out anyway,

385
00:16:17,352 --> 00:16:19,354
I should be the one to tell them.

386
00:16:19,354 --> 00:16:22,274
I'm the only one who truly understands!

387
00:16:22,274 --> 00:16:24,401
Plus, I like delivering bad news.

388
00:16:24,401 --> 00:16:27,196
- Actually, that might be possible.

389
00:16:27,196 --> 00:16:29,323
Since you're basically just software

390
00:16:29,323 --> 00:16:31,783
in a greasy wad of aluminum foil...

391
00:16:31,783 --> 00:16:32,784
- Aw...

392
00:16:32,784 --> 00:16:35,579
- ...I could extract your programming,
compress it,

393
00:16:35,579 --> 00:16:38,373
and inject it into Simulated Bender.

394
00:16:38,373 --> 00:16:41,627
You'd take his place
in the simulated world.

395
00:16:41,627 --> 00:16:43,253
- But what would happen to him?

396
00:16:43,253 --> 00:16:46,215
- He'd be pushed through
to the sub-simulation.

397
00:16:46,215 --> 00:16:47,424
- And that Bender?

398
00:16:47,424 --> 00:16:50,385
- It's Benders all the way down.

399
00:16:50,385 --> 00:16:52,471
- Alright. I'm going in.

400
00:16:52,471 --> 00:16:53,847
[all gasp]

401
00:16:53,847 --> 00:16:55,474
- I must warn you, Bender.

402
00:16:55,474 --> 00:16:57,476
It'll be a one-way trip.

403
00:16:57,476 --> 00:16:59,853
There's no way of returning.

404
00:16:59,853 --> 00:17:02,147
- That's okay.
I don't wanna live in a world

405
00:17:02,147 --> 00:17:04,525
where I'm less real than everyone else.

406
00:17:04,525 --> 00:17:06,235
Those are my people in there,

407
00:17:06,235 --> 00:17:07,736
in Baloney Town.

408
00:17:07,736 --> 00:17:10,405
♪ melancholy music playing ♪

409
00:17:10,405 --> 00:17:12,866
[zap]
Ooh! [giggling]

410
00:17:12,866 --> 00:17:15,202
- In a few minutes, you should reboot

411
00:17:15,202 --> 00:17:19,039
in the simulated world
as Simulated Bender.

412
00:17:19,039 --> 00:17:20,374
Or you might die.

413
00:17:20,374 --> 00:17:24,294
- [emotionally] Goodbye,
precious friends and coworkers.

414
00:17:24,294 --> 00:17:27,673
Goodbye, sewage-stained floor tiles.

415
00:17:27,673 --> 00:17:28,882
[flatly]
Goodbye, Zoidberg.

416
00:17:28,882 --> 00:17:31,677
- How will I go on without you?

417
00:17:31,677 --> 00:17:33,971
[crank, zapping]

418
00:17:35,973 --> 00:17:38,016
[creaks, clatters]

419
00:17:38,016 --> 00:17:39,852
- I'll get a broom.

420
00:17:40,853 --> 00:17:42,855
♪ tense music playing ♪

421
00:17:42,855 --> 00:17:45,858
[ship roaring]

422
00:17:48,402 --> 00:17:51,071
- Holding outside
magnetar implosion range.

423
00:17:51,071 --> 00:17:53,031
- We'll be safe at this distance,

424
00:17:53,031 --> 00:17:55,909
even if, God forbid, we're real.

425
00:17:55,909 --> 00:17:58,620
- Then it's time to put
reality to the test.

426
00:17:58,620 --> 00:18:00,956
- I'm scared!
- I am, too.

427
00:18:00,956 --> 00:18:03,584
But it's actually kind of beautiful.

428
00:18:03,584 --> 00:18:06,295
- Would it be any less beautiful
if it weren't real?

429
00:18:06,295 --> 00:18:07,796
And we weren't real?

430
00:18:07,796 --> 00:18:09,882
- We'll find out soon enough.

431
00:18:09,882 --> 00:18:12,759
Begin monopole bombardment!

432
00:18:13,177 --> 00:18:15,512
[zapping]

433
00:18:15,512 --> 00:18:18,515
♪

434
00:18:21,894 --> 00:18:25,063
♪

435
00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:27,900
[groaning]
- You okay, buddy?

436
00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:30,027
- No! [retching]

437
00:18:30,027 --> 00:18:31,737
- Probably a bad clam.

438
00:18:31,737 --> 00:18:33,655
- I think I'm gonna reboot!

439
00:18:33,655 --> 00:18:34,656
[powering down]
Oh...

440
00:18:35,574 --> 00:18:37,701
[fizzling]

441
00:18:37,701 --> 00:18:39,411
Where-- Where am I?

442
00:18:39,411 --> 00:18:40,829
- You're right here, Bender.

443
00:18:40,829 --> 00:18:43,624
Just outside magnetar implosion range.

444
00:18:43,624 --> 00:18:45,792
- Oh... Right.

445
00:18:45,792 --> 00:18:47,085
Baloney Town.

446
00:18:47,085 --> 00:18:48,378
[muffled laser whirring]

447
00:18:48,378 --> 00:18:50,672
Guys? I have something to tell you,

448
00:18:50,672 --> 00:18:52,591
and it'll be the hardest bad news

449
00:18:52,591 --> 00:18:54,801
I've ever had the pleasure of delivering.

450
00:18:54,801 --> 00:18:57,012
- Shush, Bender!
We're about to find out

451
00:18:57,012 --> 00:18:58,931
if we're living in a simulation!

452
00:18:58,931 --> 00:19:01,725
- Right... It-it's about that. See--

453
00:19:01,725 --> 00:19:04,228
- I've been thinking
about that, too, actually.

454
00:19:04,228 --> 00:19:05,729
And you wanna know what I think?

455
00:19:05,729 --> 00:19:09,525
- Do I!
- I think it makes no difference at all.

456
00:19:09,942 --> 00:19:13,445
Either way, the laws of the universe
are way beyond our control.

457
00:19:13,445 --> 00:19:15,197
So, what can we do?

458
00:19:15,197 --> 00:19:17,074
We just make the best of it.

459
00:19:17,491 --> 00:19:20,661
I don't know what we're about to see,
Leela, but I love you.

460
00:19:20,661 --> 00:19:22,579
Now and forever.

461
00:19:22,579 --> 00:19:24,289
And that much is real,

462
00:19:24,289 --> 00:19:26,166
even if we're not.

463
00:19:26,166 --> 00:19:27,501
[sniffles]

464
00:19:27,835 --> 00:19:30,170
- Hm... The dummy's right.

465
00:19:30,170 --> 00:19:32,339
I feel, therefore I am.

466
00:19:32,339 --> 00:19:34,591
- It doesn't matter if I'm real?

467
00:19:34,591 --> 00:19:36,343
- Not one bit.

468
00:19:36,343 --> 00:19:38,428
- So what did you wanna tell us, robot?

469
00:19:38,428 --> 00:19:41,431
- Just... [sobs] thank you!

470
00:19:41,431 --> 00:19:44,017
[wailing]

471
00:19:44,017 --> 00:19:46,395
- [sighs] That's robots for you.

472
00:19:46,395 --> 00:19:49,147
Now, let's sit back and enjoy the show.

473
00:19:49,147 --> 00:19:52,150
♪ dramatic music playing ♪

474
00:19:54,236 --> 00:19:57,739
- Oh, lordy-loo.
The magnetar is about to pop!

475
00:19:57,739 --> 00:19:59,783
How's the Simputron holding up?

476
00:19:59,783 --> 00:20:02,035
[beeping, alarm blaring]
AMY: Processor overload!

477
00:20:02,035 --> 00:20:04,121
The cooling fan's on fire!

478
00:20:04,121 --> 00:20:05,247
[fire blasts]
Whoa!

479
00:20:05,247 --> 00:20:06,248
[all gasp]

480
00:20:06,248 --> 00:20:08,959
♪

481
00:20:10,460 --> 00:20:13,172
[alarm continues]
- Pull the plug! Stop the simulation!

482
00:20:13,172 --> 00:20:15,007
- No! Bender's in there!

483
00:20:15,007 --> 00:20:18,010
- There's no choice.
This building's about to go up in smoke,

484
00:20:18,010 --> 00:20:21,889
and I've got doomsday devices hidden
in every nook and cranny.

485
00:20:22,389 --> 00:20:23,849
♪ melancholy music playing ♪

486
00:20:23,849 --> 00:20:25,392
- I'm sorry, buddy.

487
00:20:25,392 --> 00:20:28,395
I know you can't hear me,
but we tried our best.

488
00:20:28,395 --> 00:20:30,439
At least you got to go out with dignity.

489
00:20:30,439 --> 00:20:32,191
[woozy groaning]

490
00:20:32,191 --> 00:20:33,483
[splat]

491
00:20:34,693 --> 00:20:36,653
- [monotone] Rebooting.

492
00:20:37,738 --> 00:20:39,656
[normal]
Where-- Where am I?

493
00:20:39,656 --> 00:20:41,617
- Right here, in the universe.

494
00:20:41,617 --> 00:20:45,162
- Oh... I had to
come tell you something...

495
00:20:45,162 --> 00:20:48,999
- Bender? How did you
possibly manage to come back?

496
00:20:48,999 --> 00:20:52,127
- Don't be rude, Professor,
Bender was speaking first.

497
00:20:52,127 --> 00:20:53,837
What did you wanna tell us, robot?

498
00:20:53,837 --> 00:20:55,297
- It's just that...

499
00:20:55,297 --> 00:20:57,674
I know how to save the simulation.

500
00:20:57,674 --> 00:21:00,219
- Oh, please. There's no possible...

501
00:21:00,219 --> 00:21:01,762
[toilet flushes]

502
00:21:01,762 --> 00:21:03,472
Eureka!

503
00:21:05,474 --> 00:21:08,268
I made the change you suggested, Bender.

504
00:21:08,268 --> 00:21:11,688
Although it took a lot of toilet time
to fully comprehend.

505
00:21:12,689 --> 00:21:14,942
We won't need nearly so much power

506
00:21:14,942 --> 00:21:17,653
now that I've under-clocked the processor.

507
00:21:17,653 --> 00:21:20,239
- But, won't the simulation run slower?

508
00:21:20,239 --> 00:21:22,115
- Oh, much slower.

509
00:21:22,115 --> 00:21:25,744
- Are we talking regular slow
or bureaucrat slow?

510
00:21:25,744 --> 00:21:27,538
- Infinitely slower than that.

511
00:21:27,538 --> 00:21:28,956
[gasps]
[glass shatters]

512
00:21:28,956 --> 00:21:31,375
- So they'll be in, like, a coma?

513
00:21:31,375 --> 00:21:32,793
- Oh my, no!

514
00:21:32,793 --> 00:21:35,003
They'll never notice any difference.

515
00:21:35,003 --> 00:21:37,965
But while they live out
one second of their lives,

516
00:21:37,965 --> 00:21:41,134
years, if not centuries, will pass for us.

517
00:21:41,134 --> 00:21:44,221
- Aw, then I guess we won't get
to spy on them anymore.

518
00:21:44,221 --> 00:21:45,764
- Spy all you like.

519
00:21:45,764 --> 00:21:49,309
But it's about to get very, very boring.

520
00:21:49,309 --> 00:21:50,811
- Not for them.

521
00:21:50,811 --> 00:21:53,814
♪ Satellite by Tea playing

522
00:21:53,814 --> 00:21:57,109
[zapping, whirring]

523
00:21:57,109 --> 00:22:00,362
[all gasping, exclaiming]

524
00:22:03,574 --> 00:22:05,576
[blasting, whirring]

525
00:22:05,576 --> 00:22:07,369
[glitching]

526
00:22:07,369 --> 00:22:09,371
[all gasp]
ZOIDBERG: Pixels...

527
00:22:09,371 --> 00:22:11,373
[gasping]

528
00:22:11,373 --> 00:22:15,085
- ♪ To make it real, really real ♪

529
00:22:15,085 --> 00:22:16,879
♪ She says ♪

530
00:22:17,462 --> 00:22:20,757
♪ You just have to be here ♪

531
00:22:20,757 --> 00:22:22,759
♪ rock guitar riff ♪

532
00:22:22,759 --> 00:22:26,305
♪ On this satellite ♪

533
00:22:26,305 --> 00:22:28,473
♪ Satellite ♪

534
00:22:28,473 --> 00:22:30,767
♪ Had to be here ♪

535
00:22:32,477 --> 00:22:35,939
♪ On this satellite ♪

536
00:22:35,939 --> 00:22:38,066
♪ Satellite ♪

537
00:22:38,066 --> 00:22:40,068
♪ Had to be here ♪

538
00:22:41,945 --> 00:22:44,615
♪ On this satellite ♪

539
00:22:45,657 --> 00:22:47,701
♪

540
00:22:47,701 --> 00:22:50,078
♪ Had to be here ♪

541
00:22:51,622 --> 00:22:54,625
♪ On this satellite ♪

542
00:22:55,250 --> 00:22:58,253
♪

543
00:23:00,589 --> 00:23:03,592
♪ song slowly fades ♪

544
00:23:03,592 --> 00:23:07,095
♪ electronic distortion ♪

545
00:23:07,095 --> 00:23:10,098
♪ soft, orchestral music playing ♪