Hell Is Other Robots

Hell is Other Robots

Production Number: 1ACV09<br\> Title Caption: Condemned by the Space Pope<br\> First Aired: 5/18/99

The Story

Act I: "Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999... again!"

Fry, Leela, Amy, and Bender go to a Beastie Boys concert. Bender runs into Fender, an old friend who's now working for the band. After Fender gets Bender and company back-stage, he takes Bender to a party where robots are abusing electricity, or "Jacking On". After Bender's addiction leads him to wreck the Planet Express Ship, nearly killing everyone, they confront him about his problem. After a night of turmoil, he winds up in a Church of Robotology.

Leela bashes the Robot Devil over the head

Act II: "Is this another scam to get free yarmulkes"

Bender comes to work whistling a happy tune, and tells his friends about his new-found religion. Everyone is shocked, and suspicious, but gradually they reach the horrific realisation that Bender is being sincere! When his new personality starts driving them crazy, Fry and Leela take him to Atlantic City and tempt him with liquor and cheap hookerbots. While he seduces a group of fembots in a jacuzzi, the Robot Devil arrives and takes him to Robot Hell.

Act III: "Robot hell is quite real... here's our brochure"

Fry and Leela find Bender missing, and Nibbler follows his trail. It leads to an abandoned amusement park, where a funhouse mirror is a doorway into an "actual, factual Robot Hell." Meanwhile, the Robot Devil takes Bender on a musical tour of the different levels of hell. When Fry and Leela find them, they take advantage of the Fairness in Hell Act of 2275 and challenge the Robot Devil to a fiddle contest. Leela bashes him over the head with the golden fiddle and they escape with Bender.

Additional Info

Promo pic of this episode

Trivia

During the musical scene, Bender is strapped to a roulette wheel with different methods of cooking on it, intended to simulate the smell of cigars. One of the spaces on the wheel says "Pleasant Massage".

The Robot Hell Song

Robot Devil
Cigars are evil you won't miss them you'll find ways to simulate that smell
What a sorry fella rapped up in smoke like a pandella,
here on Level One of Robot Hell!
Robot Devil
Gamblings wrong and so is cheating so is forging foney I.O.U's
Lets let lady luck decide what type of tortures justify
I'm pit boss here on Level Two!
Ooh deep fried robot!

Bender
Just tell me why!
Robot Devil
Just read this 55 page warrant.
Bender
There must be robots worse than I
Robot Devil
We checked around, there really aren't.
Bender
Then please let me explain my crimes were mearly boyish pranks
Robot Devil
You stole from boy scouts, nuns and banks!
Bender
Oh don't blame me blame my up-bringing.
Robot Devil
Please stop sinning while I'm singing.

Robot Devil
Selling bootleg tapes is wrong, musicians need that income to survive.
Beastie Boys
Hey Bender, gonna make some noise
with your hard drive scratched by the Beastie Boys
Thats what ya, what ya, what ya get on Level Five!

Fry
I don't feel well.
Leela
Its up to us to rescue him.
Fry
Maybe he likes it here in Hell.
Leela
Its us who tempted him to sin.
Fry
Maybe he's back at the hotel.
Leela
Come on Fry now don't be scared
I'm sure at least one of us will be spared
So just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Fry
My ass has blisters from the slide!

Robot Devil
Fencing Diamonds, Fixing cockfights
Publishing indescent magazines
You'll pay for every crime
Knee deep in electric slime
You'll suffer till the end of time
Enduring tortures most of which rhyme
Trapped forever here in Robot Hell

Quotes

Bender: Oh, they're tormenting me with up-tempo singing and dancing!
Robot Devil: Sorry, but I hold all the cards here. There's nothing you can do. Now if you'll just sign this fiddle contest waiver...

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

Episode Credits

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