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|image text=[[Planet Express crew|The crew]] at the [[conference table]] with thousands of [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Benders]] around.
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Revision as of 17:48, 16 June 2011

Season 6 episode
Broadcast season 8 episode
Benderama
Benderama Maths.png
The crew at the conference table examining the professor's formula.
No.105
Production number6ACV17
Written byAaron Ehasz
Directed byN/A
Title captionN/A
First air date23 June, 2011[1]
Broadcast numberS08E02
Special guest(s)Patton Oswalt
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript
Storyboard

Pictures

Season 6
  1. Rebirth
  2. In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
  3. Attack of the Killer App
  4. Proposition Infinity
  5. The Duh-Vinci Code
  6. Lethal Inspection
  7. The Late Philip J. Fry
  8. That Darn Katz!
  9. A Clockwork Origin
  10. The Prisoner of Benda
  11. Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
  12. The Mutants Are Revolting
  13. The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
  14. The Silence of the Clamps
  15. Möbius Dick
  16. Law and Oracle
  17. Benderama
  18. The Tip of the Zoidberg
  19. Ghost in the Machines
  20. Neutopia
  21. Yo Leela Leela
  22. Fry Am the Egg Man
  23. All the Presidents' Heads
  24. Cold Warriors
  25. Overclockwise
  26. Reincarnation
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"Benderama" is the one hundredth and fifth episode of Futurama, the seventeenth of the sixth production season and the second of the eighth broadcast season. It is scheduled to air 23 June, 2011, immediately following "Neutopia".[1]

Story

The Professor invents a machine that takes in any object and creates two half-sized copies, consuming matter provided to it in order to do so. He uses the machine to create a number of sweaters suited to his shrunken, old-aged self and sets Bender on the task of folding them. Bender looks for a shortcut and creates duplicates of himself using the machine to do the job for him. This soon escalates and eventually there are trillions of increasingly smaller copies of Bender creating copies of themselves until eventually they threaten to consume all of the matter on Earth.[2]

Production

According to the table read,[3] "Benderama" will feature a new episode of The Scary Door and introduce the unattractive giant monster, a character voiced by special guest Patton Oswalt.

Countdown to Futurama began releasing promotional material for the episode in May 2011. It released five items in its first run: concept art of the unattractive giant monster (together with confirmation that he will be voiced by Patton Oswalt) on 9 May, a promotional picture featuring various copies of Bender on 10 May, part of the storyboard showing the Planet Express crew prepare to deliver a package to the monster on 11 May, a promotional picture featuring three Benders riding a bicycle on 12 May, and a promotional picture featuring a fight between a giant Bender and the monster on 13 May.

In June, some pictures from the episode was shown in Comedy Central's Futurama commercial, including a picture hundreds of Benders aboard the Planet Express Ship. On 15 July, Countdown to Futurama released a 53-second video of the episode, showing the Planet Express crew by the conference table, discussing the many Benders.[4]

Promotional material


Additional Info

Trivia

Allusions

  • The title is a pun of Bender and Futurama.
  • The Scary Door narrator says "A picture of yourself in a boat on a river", a play on the first line of The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - "Picture yourself in a boat on a river".
  • Bender says, "Hi, I'm Bender, this is my robot Bender and this is my other robot Bender." This is a reference to the TV series Newhart, specifically the character of Larry and his brothers Darryl, whom he always introduced, "Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl."

Continuity

  • A new episode of The Scary Door appears. The Scary Door was first seen in "A Head in the Polls".
  • Two of the multiplied Benders are made of gold. Bender has previously shown interest of the idea of coating himself in gold, to the degree that he once flipped a coin deciding if he would do it or not. It came up tails and so he didn't do it, but to the parallel Bender in "The Farnsworth Parabox" it came up heads, and so he did it.
  • When the Professor shows the mathematical formula, showing how the Benders multiply, the only ones understanding it are Amy and Hermes. Amy has studied advanced mathematics and physics at university, and became a doctor of applied physics in "That Darn Katz!". Hermes is a bureaucrat and is often seen calculating.

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References