One-hour animated special surrounding a surly deli owner Murray Weiner, who is forced to step into Santa’s shoes for one Christmas and bumbles his way into doing a great job.

Leela becomes an outlaw when she and a group of ecologically-minded feminists attempt to save an asteroid of primitive life forms and the Violet Dwarf star from being destroyed, while Fry joins a secret society and attempts to stop a mysterious species known as the “Dark Ones” from destroying all life in the universe.

Fresh off ripping space-time a new one at the end of “Bender’s Big Score,” the Planet Express crew is back to mend the tear in reality, or (hopefully) at least not make it worse. Beyond the tear, though, lurks a being of inconceivable…tentacularity. What will become of Earth, and indeed, our universe, when faced with the Beast with a Billion Backs?