What can happen when you decide to mine helium from the sun? You get a disgruntled Cybertron Messiah. Find out why after the jump.

Spoilers Ahead!

This episode starts out This one starts out with a bunch of helium miners stuck in a mine on the sun. The professor gives the job to Bender, Leela and Fry, and after a funny scene with the professor using his new heat repellent on Zoidberg, the crew makes it to the helium mining station. Bender, gets pulled into saving the miners. While this is happening, where is Leela and Fry? I guess they just decided to chill in the collapsed mine for a few.

After saving all of the miners, Bender is showered with praise for saving all of the miners. This includes women, medals, and glory. The crew all thinks that Bender started all of the fires to be a glory hog, and kick him off of the crew. While he is cleaning out his locker, a flame comes out of his storage chest, and will try to take over the world by turning Earth into another sun. Bender then saves the world by taking the flame back into his chest, and going to the Arctic.

Fry goes to Bender, and tries to figure out what’s going on. He’s put off by Bender’s story of a sentient flame bent on world domination, and accuses him of starting those fires as well. Fry gets back to the Planet Express building, and the flame jumps into an oily rag container. The fire alarm goes off, and the building is getting torched. Fry is the only one in the building, and stuck. Bender flies himself back to the city with the fire extinguishers in his arms. He tries to save Fry, but just falls to the basement, where the flame was trying to get to all along. The flame jumps in, with Bender in tow. To end the episode, two Aldermen show up, capture the flame, and shower Bender with praise.

The only thing I can do to sum up this episode is shrugging. There was nothing in this episode to make it stand out from any of the similar episodes before it. Unfortunately, the same plot of Bender doing something good / nice / heroic that is out of character, gets exiled because the crew thinks he set the occurrences up, then saves Fry by doing whatever it was that he was thought of setting up in the first place. Hell, the whole catalyst for the plot was Zapp freaking Brannigan which has been done before. They introduce the heat repellent early, and then it gets thrown aside. I thought as the episode was progressing, that maybe it would get used again, then common sense kicked in while I remembered the flame talking about the Aldermen. It was an average episode that added nothing of substance to the Futurama universe, using what can amount to a best of series of plot hooks.

Overall, 6.5/10