Leela visits the Cookieville Orphanarium for a storytelling session with the children there, but fails to make up a good story for the orphans.
She returns to the orphanarium with her story at the same time as Abner Doubledeal, CEO of the TV station Tickleodeon, comes to pitch new television shows to the children.
She takes the Planet Express ship to her "quiet place" to write more episodes, but Bender, having stowed away to make out with a fembot from the awards ceremony, is aghast when he sees what Leela is doing: the "quiet place" is actually an unknown planet inhabited by the Rumbledy-Hump characters — "the Humplings" — who are real, and Leela's scripts are revealed to be word-for-word documentations of the Humplings' daily activities.
But despite her initial dismay, Doubledeal comes up with a solution quickly, and takes advantage of the situation by turning Rumbledy-Hump into a reality show for kids.
This proves beneficial to both the Humplings, who are paid and thus able to afford better lifestyles, and the children, who now have full-time jobs and a parent to take care of them all, even declaring that they love life on the planet Rumbledy-Hump.