While the crew takes a vacation skiing, Fry becomes depressed by how much Christmas has changed in the future. Besides the difference in pronunciation and the extinction of pine trees, jolly St. Nick is now a man to be feared. It's Fry's first Christmas away from home, and he has no one to share it with. Leela is also feeling lonely; growing up as an orphan has left her with no family to share the holiday. Fry is determined to cheer her up, so he goes out to find her the perfect gift. Everyone warns him to be back by sundown lest he behuged by Santa. But when Fry's gift, a pet parrot, escapes, he neglects their warning trying to capture it. Leela then learns of his absence and runs out to get Fry before Santa Claus does. The two unite to confront the Xmas enemy.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 2 Episode 8 of Futurama resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Futurama Season 2 Episodes...

• s02e01 - A Flight to Remember
• s02e02 - Mars University
• s02e03 - When Aliens Attack
• s02e04 - Fry & the Slurm Factory
• s02e05 - I Second That Emotion
• s02e06 - Brannigan Begin Again
• s02e07 - A Head in the Polls
• s02e08 - Xmas Story
• s02e09 - Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love
• s02e10 - Put Your Head on My Shoulder
• s02e11 - Lesser of Two Evils
• s02e12 - Raging Bender
• s02e13 - A Bicyclops Built for Two
• s02e14 - How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
• s02e15 - A Clone of My Own
• s02e16 - The Deep South
• s02e17 - Bender Gets Made
• s02e18 - The Problem with Popplers
• s02e19 - Mother's Day
• s02e20 - Anthology of Interest I

Futurama Show Summary

When Fry, a somewhat dim-witted 25 year-old pizza delivery boy for Panucci's Pizza is asked to make a drop at Applied Cryogenics, it's the beginning of a journey that will take him more than a thousand years into the future.

Fry falls into one of the company's capsules and doesn't emerge until the dawn of the year 3000. Here he befriends a beautiful one-eyed alien called Leela (a worker at the New York based cryogenics factory) and a degenerate robot named Bender. The trio track down Fry's great-great-great-etc. nephew, Professor Farnsworth, who hires the three to work for his intergalactic delivery service. Together they traverse the cosmos delivering goods for Planet Express, Leela serves as the ship's captain and Bender indulges in his love of booze, large cigars and pornography.