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Bender's serial number, 2716057, can be expressed as the sum of two cubes (952 3 + (-951 3)), which is humorous to Bender and Flexo after Flexo reveals that his serial number (3370318) has the same characteristic (119 3 + 119 3) (also, Bender’s designation 1729 is a taxicab number). [18]
At the work site, Bender's job is to lead the singing of the laborers and drink cocktails. After living this grueling life for a while, he begins to create his song. By the time Fry and Leela arrive at Bender's railroad camp to deliver explosives, Bender's song includes the main character, Jezebel, and the rambler whom she runs to. Fry is still ...
Bender oversees the construction personally, pushing the slaves on with unreasonable harshness. The statue extends into space to the point where slaves need rocket-packs and spacesuits to complete it. When it is finished, Bender is dissatisfied and orders it be rebuilt. The high priests, fed up with Bender's demands, entomb him, Fry, and Leela.
The atheists threaten war with Bender's worshipers. Bender, horrified that his previous attempts to help the Shrimpkins only harmed them, refuses to intervene. The micro-civilization is destroyed when the Shrimpkin factions launch atomic weapons out of Bender's nuclear piles. Bender continues floating through space until he encounters a cosmic ...
The name Futurama comes from a pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes , the Futurama pavilion depicted how he imagined the world would look in 1959. [ 37 ] Many other titles were considered for the series, including Aloha, Mars! and Doomsville , which Groening notes were "resoundly rejected, by everyone ...
When Spargle tries Bender's food for the first time - deeming it "acceptable" - his stomach explodes and with his dying act gives Bender a vial of liquid he claims is "the essence of pure flavour". To avenge Spargle, Bender returns to Earth and challenges Elzar to a cook-off on the TV show "Iron Cook" (a parody of Iron Chef ), where they have ...
John G. Nettles of PopMatters wrote: " 'Hell is Other Robots' is a terrific introduction to Bender and Futurama's irreverent humor, sly social satire, and damn catchy musical numbers." [ 13 ] TV Squad wrote that the series' funnier material appears in " Robot Hell – after Bender is 'born again' in the Temple of Robotology."
In Futurama: Bender's Big Score after Hermes was decapitated in a limboing accident, LaBarbara left him and got back together with Barbados, even going so far as to take his last name, even though they never remarried and Dwight was never adopted. After Hermes uses his bureaucratic prowess to save Earth from the scammers and wins back LaBarbara ...