During a noisy attack led by a Space Pirate, Bender, trying to find some peace and quiet in the torpedo tube, is launched into interstellar space beyond the reach of Fry and Leela. As they were going top speed when they fired Bender, Bender was therefore going faster than the Planet Express ship's top speed and thus is impossible to recover. After an asteroid crashes into him, a civilization of tiny humanoids, the Shrimpkins, grows on Bender and they begin worshiping him as a deity. At first, Bender enjoys his new-found status and has his followers brew what for them are vast quantities of "Lordweiser" beer. The tiny denizens living on him begin praying for rain, sun and wealth: Bender attempts to heed their prayers, failing comically and harming the Shrimpkins in the process. Eventually,