Bender Gets Made
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| "Bender Gets Made" | |
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| Episode no. | 26 |
| Prod. code | 2ACV13 |
| Airdate | April 30, 2000 |
| Writer(s) | Eric Horsted |
| Director | Peter Avanzino |
| Opening subtitle | Simulcast On Crazy People's Fillings |
| Opening cartoon | Unknown |
| Season 2 November 1999 – December 2000 |
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"Bender Gets Made" is episode thirteen in season two of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on April 30, 2000.
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[edit] Plot
The Planet Express crew attends a taping of Elzar's television show. Bender disrupts Elzar's cooking and Elzar accidentally blinds Leela with his spice weasel. Leela is forced to wear an eye patch until her eye has healed. In order to make up for the incident, Elzar invites the entire crew to dinner at his restaurant. However, after the dinner he presents them with a hefty bill, claiming that the meal he cooked them was repayment enough but it wasn't free. In order to avoid arrest Bender agrees to work for Elzar to pay back the debt. While working at Elzar's restaurant as a bus boy Bender meets the robot mafia. When offered the chance to join them he jumps at the chance of doing something he enjoys for a living: stealing. When the target of one of the thefts turns out to be Planet Express, Bender avoids being discovered by changing his voice to king's accent and speech. The ship gets robbed and Bender remains unexposed. However, he quits the Robot Mafia after Tinny Tim gives him his fraction of the loot.
[edit] Characters
Characters who first appear in this episode are:
- Donbot
- Clamps
- Joey Mousepad
[edit] Cultural references
- Much of the episode is a parody of Gangster and Mafia movies.
- The police's batons are visually similar to lightsabers. However, they are functionally different. Instead of being used as blades for cutting, they are used as nightsticks for beating.
- The character Elzar is a reference to the television chef Emeril Lagasse as is his television program and restaurant.
- MmmTV which airs Elzar's television show is a reference to MTV.
- Leela's eye is treated at Taco Bellevue Hospital, a reference to Taco Bell. To further this reference, one of the doctors appearing there is a parody of the Taco Bell spokesman of the time, a talking chihuahua.
- Bender correctly guesses that the Robot Mafia's "private lottery" is an illegal numbers game; Clamps insists they are into "nothing fancy, only ones and zeroes", a reference to the binary numeral system used in computers.
[edit] Censorship
- Much like the episode "The Deep South", this episode's airing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim came with a very noticeable edit. When Professor Farnsworth sees the restaurant bill he exclaims, "Holy Zombie Jesus!" On the edited version, he exclaims, "Holy Zombie--" and the rest of the line is muted out. TBS's version on the "Too Funny To Sleep" marathon edits it the same way.
[edit] Continuity
- A deleted scene had Bender cross out his serial number, 3370318, and replace it with "14" as a means of hiding from the Mob. However the crossed-out serial number was Flexo's, as given 7 episodes prior in "Lesser of Two Evils" (Bender's is 2716057). This was meant to imply that at some intervening point Flexo had swapped lives with Bender. The scene was removed after the creators decided it would irk fans. (It would also render the later episode "Bendless Love", in which Bender impersonates Flexo in order to prove that Angelene still loves Flexo, entirely incomprehensible.)
- Bender comments that his food tastes good; despite the fact that other episodes claim he has no sense of taste. However, as it is "robot food", it may have been made specifically for robots to "taste".
