Lrrr, the fearless and terrifying leader of the planet Omricon Persei 8, has a problem - his wife thinks he's useless. To shut her up once and for all, he leads an invasion of planet Earth, but declaring the conquest of the planet during a Comic-Con convention is probably not the best way to subjugate a planet full of nerds. Emasculated, he turns to the Planet Express crew for help, and the results turn out a little better than anyone expected - for Lrrr, anyway. Everybody else wishes he and Ndnd would patch up their "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" and go home in the 11th episode of Season 6 of Futurama, and the 99th episode of the show produced and broadcast.

Lrrr's attempt to impress Ndnd by enslaving Earth has the opposite effect at Comic-Con, where everybody thinks he has a great costume (not good enough to trump Bender and his fruit-boobs, though). Dejected, Lrrr returns to Ndnd, who embeds a frying pan in his head. She kicks Lrrr out and he has to crash with the only friends he has - the Planet Express crew. After a brief period of rebellion that leads him to the costumed arms of Grrrl (Katee Sackhoff), Lrrr seeks out the saner advice of Leela, who says that they don't need a war of the worlds to solve the problem. "That's exactly what we need," says Fry. "A War of The Worlds!" Enter Orson Wells, who recreates the calamitous 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Ndnd is convinced. Unfortunately, so is the Earthican army (led by Zapp Brannigan, who promptly surrenders without a fight). Forced to keep up the pretense to appease Ndnd (and so she'll keep sleeping with him), Lrrr brings the planet under his control. Only two things can stop him: Fry's desperation to write a comic that will please Leela, and some of Professor Farnsworth's cheap knockoff disintegration guns.

"Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" allows two of the more peripheral characters of Futurama - namely Lrrr and Ndnd - to take center stage, and this works quite well. Their dysfunctional-but-still-loving relationship was always good comedy for some of the B-stories of other episodes where Fry and Leela would be the stars, and in "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences", they don't waste their moment in the sun. Along for the ride is Katee Sackhoff as the Omriconian-dressing nymphomaniac, who turns out one of the series' more memorable lines: "This is so hot!", she says, upon discovering Lrrr is a real Omriconian. "Conquer me, Lrrr! Sharpen your horns on my scaly thorax!"

Be still, my beating heart.

Maurice LaMarche turns out a phenomenal performance in this episode, voicing not just Lrrr's ruthlessness and frustration ("I am Lrrr, ruler of the planet Omricon Persei 8! May I crash on your couch?"), but also Orson Wells ("Damn, I'm good!" he says, when he sees that the Earthican army believed his reading of The War of the Worlds. "Now may I please have that cheese log?"). While the last few Futurama episodes have all dealt with science fiction concepts to one degree or another ("The Late Philip J. Fry", "That Darn Katz!" (incidentally, another episode where LaMarche turned in a brilliant voiceover job), "A Clockwork Origin" and "The Prisoner of Benda"), "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" goes straight to the humerus, and LaMarche's dual roles in this episode play a huge role in making the comedy happen.

While the first two parts of the episode work very well, they're let down by the climax: Lrrr is nagged into shooting Leela, who is saved by Fry. All well and good (well, not really), but the weapon is one of Farnsworth's disintegrators, and I can't have been the only one to have remembered the joke about them from the beginning of the episode. I'm sure that some viewers were surprised/shocked/horrified/grief-stricken/relieved with what happened as a result of the disintegrator, but I knew what was coming as soon as Lrrr pulled the trigger. Besides, you can't really kill Fry. He's the "F" in Futurama, so while Leela was on her knees, mourning his loss, I was simply left wondering when he would turn up.

It was a weak conclusion to an episode that had been set up pretty well, with the Intergalactic Comic-Con spoof ("Movie: The Videogame" and "Videogame: The Movie", as well as the streamlined cancelation of "Futurella") and Lrrr's marital woes being solved by an unexpectedly good reading of The War of the Worlds. The Comic-Con act contains the best scenes - Lrrr's conquest of Earth speech being inaudible because of a badly placed microphone, the Zapp Brannnigan blooper action figure, and Matt Groening's deadpan answer to Bender's question about the next Simpsons movie. However, it's Bender who takes the honors - the scene lasts only a few seconds, but his uncontrollably excitable "The costume contest! The costume contest!" brings it home. 4.0/5