Guest stars include Phil Hendrie, Penn Jillette (credited with Teller), Snoop Dogg, and Seth MacFarlane, who sings the theme song.

The title itself is a reference to the U.S. Air Force Song, the main chorus of which describes reaching "Into the wild blue yonder".

[7][8] The Planet Express crew visits Amy's parents, Leo and Inez, who are destroying the "old" Mars Vegas and constructing a more extravagant one.

Farnsworth and the crew survey the site, finding an asteroid in a violet dwarf star system teeming with primordial life.

Hutch introduces Fry to the "Legion of Mad Fellows", a secret society of tinfoil hat-wearing telepaths led by the Number 9 man.

To end the sabotage, Leo enlists Zapp Brannigan and Kif Kroker, who then hire Bender to locate the eco-feministas.

Fry and Leela profess their love as the Nimbus chases the Planet Express ship toward a wormhole, which the Professor warns could take them trillions of light years away.

[2] With dark matter now useless as fuel the Planet Express ship has been modified to run on whale oil, an alternative introduced in "Bendin' in the Wind".

[2] Fry was originally frozen and brought to the future by Nibbler because a Nibblonian prophecy foresaw that he and his unique, Delta-wave-deficient mind (a consequence of him being his own grandfather) would be required to save the universe.

[9] In Yonder Fry is once again appointed for such a task (though by the Legion of Mad Fellows instead of the Nibblonians), due to his immunity from the Dark Ones' psionic attacks.

[11] The Futurama staff began working on the film in 2006, and at two different points labor issues affected the production process.

[12] The Futurama studio then received the colored film in June 2008, weeks before a proposed Screen Actors Guild strike deadline, again forcing the writers to revise the script without completely reviewing the picture.

[12] Aware that Into the Wild Green Yonder could have been the final Futurama episode at the time of writing, the writers inserted numerous references to that fact.

[13] Midway through the movie, a shot of the exterior of the Planet Express building draped with a banner reading "Going Out Of Business Forever!

Collura rated the DVD 7/10, noting the high quality of the video transfer, the image detail and depth, and the use of surround sound and low-frequency effects.

Liebman praised the film for its development of the primary characters in a way that would appeal to longtime fans and new viewers, but criticized the messy plot and haphazard pacing of the movie.

Liebman lauded the Blu-ray release for its crisp images, resolution of detail in the animation, lossless soundtrack and use of surround sound.

[17] Bruce Kirkland of Sun Media Corporation wrote that the movie was "just as good as Bender's Big Score", praising its send-ups of Las Vegas and science fiction themes and writing that it "nicely handles its environmental message with trenchant wit".

[18] Jeffrey Kauffman of DVD Talk rated the film four stars out of five, calling it "a fun and frenetic windup to a perhaps undervalued television gem".

[19] According to The Numbers, the DVD sold approximately 83,000 units for a total of $1.6 million during its initial week of release, placing it 20th in sales across the US.