While visiting the Past-o-rama theme park, Fry runs over a robot with an uncanny resemblance to Bender.
The Professor reveals an atom of the fictional element Jumbonium, which the crew is to deliver to the Miss Universe pageant on Tova 9.
With the atom recovered, and Flexo accidentally imprisoned for Bender's crime due to Barker's disinterest in his identity, the pageant concludes with a giant paramecium from Vega being crowned Miss Universe, only after Leela is mistakenly crowned first due to a miscommunication from judge Zapp Brannigan.
In its initial airing, the episode received a Nielsen rating of 4.4/8, placing it 87th among primetime shows for the week of February 14–20, 2000.
Club gave the episode a B, stating "There’s a lot of solid laughs, which is really all Futurama needs to manage to keep me watching...