Bender attempts to become a chef, and is quickly rejected by the Planet Express crew. He then turns to the chef that inspired him, Elzar who also rejects him. Bender soon makes friends with some space hobos and, coincidently, one of them is Helmut Spargel, formerly the world's greatest chef. Helmut takes Bender under his wing and trains him to be a master chef by giving him a secret weapon -- a crystal vile containing 'the pure essence of flavor'. A now confident Bender challenges Elzar to a competition in the televised kitchen coliseum known as the 'Iron Cook' show.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 4 Episode 11 of Futurama resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Futurama Season 4 Episodes...

• s04e01 - Roswell That Ends Well
• s04e02 - A Tale of Two Santas
• s04e03 - Anthology of Interest II
• s04e04 - Love and Rocket
• s04e05 - Leela's Homeworld
• s04e06 - Where the Buggalo Roam
• s04e07 - A Pharaoh to Remember
• s04e08 - Godfellas
• s04e09 - Futurestock
• s04e10 - A Leela of Her Own
• s04e11 - 30% Iron Chef
• s04e12 - Where No Fan Has Gone Before

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.