'Zapp Gets Cancelled' by Shirin Najafi |
IF YOU CAN READ THIS, YOU’RE TOO FAR FROM THE SCREEN
Kiv finally has enough of Captain Zapp Brannigan’s egregiously disrespectful behaviour, and files a formal complaint against him. Found guilty by a DOOP council, Zapp is stripped of his rank and sent on some decidedly aggressive mandatory sensitivity training. The captaincy of Zapp’s ship, The Nimbus, goes to Leela, who has decided to leave her dead-end job at Planet Express. With Kiv taking leave to be with his family, Leela chooses her new crew: Fry as First Officer, and Bender as Science Officer. Leela’s first mission is to make first contact with the inhabitants of the planet Tactillia, whose air-based technology the DOOP want to secure for themselves. Unfortunately, the Peace Treaty ceremony is interrupted by the arrival of Zapp, whose training simulation spaceship has been hijacked by Doctor Gary Kind, one of the DOOP’s most notorious gropers, and who wants to poison the Tactillians’ valuable air supply…
Billy West (Philip J. Fry / Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth / Doctor John Zoidberg / Zapp Brannigan / Tactillian / Prime Minister), John Di Maggio (Bender [Bender Bending Rodriguez / Bending Unit 22] / Doctor Gary Kind), Katey Sagal (Turanga Leela), Tress MacNeille (Glab / Sensitivity Training Robot / Qing Airee / Sensitivity Training Chip), Maurice LaMarche (Kif Kroker / Fire Creature / The Hyper-Chicken), Lauren Tom (Amy Wong), Phil LaMarr (Hermes Conrad / DOOP Soldier), David Herman (Flashnut), Kathy Griffin (Captain Cranky)
Directed by James Kim
Produced by Claudia Katz and Ken Keeler
Executive Producers David X. Cohen and Matt Groening
TX (US):
11th September 2023
Notes:
*Featuring Philip J. Fry, Bender, Captain Turanga Leela, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Doctor Zoidberg, Amy Wong and Hermes Conrad