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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 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 .
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:
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.
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.
The Masked Unit trips on Bender's oil-soaked popcorn, and is knocked out by the fall. Coincidentally, the commissioner of Ultimate Robot Fighting, Abner Doubledeal, is at the movie, and hires Bender on the spot. After training with Leela, Bender has his first fight against a chainsaw-equipped robot called The
Bender inadvertently defeats a champion robot boxer and is hired to become a member of the Ultimate Robot Fighting League. Leela agrees to train Bender to get back at her old sexist martial arts teacher Fnog. Bender becomes more popular with each fight he wins, which all turn out to be fixed, causing him to neglect his training. Soon, however ...
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".