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The laser guns the Robot Mafia uses look almost exactly like the Thompson Sub-Machine gun which is the stereotypical gun used by the original Mafia. URL refers to the " Marmaduke " newspaper cartoon. MmmTV, the channel that broadcasts Elzar's television show, is a reference to MTV .
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company and later revived by Comedy Central, and then Hulu. The series follows Philip J. Fry, who is cryogenically preserved for 1,000 years and revived on December 31, 2999.
The Robot Mafia is a small crime syndicate operating out of "Fronty's Meat Market" and "Small Bill's Laundry", who periodically dine at Elzar's, hijack shipments of Zuban cigars, arrange "accidents" for robots who act against them, as well as other unspecified Mafia-related illegal activities. They are made up of:
Bender and the Robot House members get called before Dean Vernon, who places them on dodecatuple secret probation. Robot House enters the fraternity raft regatta in a bid to lift their probation status. At the parents' reception, Fry humiliates Guenter by releasing Guenter's unintelligent, feral parents from their cage.
Bender arrives at the bending plant where Flexo is working the night shift, and starts a fight. Meanwhile, in the crane control booth, the Robot Mafia moves an unbendable girder into position above Bender and Flexo. Because they do not know that Bender was disguised as Flexo, the Robot Mafia wants Flexo dead for Bender's monetary indiscretions.
After witnessing another robot display a complete personality change after receiving the upgrade, Bender begins to have second thoughts, and mid-upgrade he changes his mind and leaps out the window. Too scared to get the upgrade but unable to face the others without it, he heads out to sea, only to wash up on an uncharted island.
The Robot Devil strikes a deal with Fry to trade hands with any robot in the world. The Robot Devil uses a carnival wheel to select which hands Fry would trade with. It stops on the Robot Devil himself, much to his disbelief and horror. With his new, nimble hands, Fry becomes a skilled holophonor virtuoso.
The "I Dated a Robot!" movie is a parody of school propaganda films such as Reefer Madness, Duck and Cover and other after-school specials.; Bender also references the 70s show All in the Family immediately following the propaganda film, he both adopts the character Archie Bunker's manner of speaking and makes a play on his "Meat head" line, quite similar to Bender's own "Meatbag".