When he arrives before the university's professors, he discovers his crew is actually throwing him a surprise party celebrating his 150th birthday.
He makes cutting remarks about Farnsworth and his inventions, which include a time travel machine and a translator which turns words into an incomprehensible, dead language (French), and the engines of the planet express ship, which Farnsworth claims to have learned to invent from a dream.
Under cover of a thunderstorm, a Grim Reaper-like hooded robot arrives and takes Farnsworth away in a hearse-type hover car.
The crew set off to rescue Farnsworth, and find the Near-Death Star, the Sunset Squad's base of operations.
The robots discover the crew, who then race back to the Planet Express Ship, Farnsworth in tow.