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===Act I===
===Act I===
[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] takes over the ship and makes a donut causing a vortex, which begins to pull the crew in, they manage to escape using the power from light support. Another Planet Express ship emerges and its crew teleports onboard. The other crew are look-alikes of the main crew and are called Shelia, Sly and Mender who accidentally created a vortex and were sucked in. During their time in an uninhabited dimension the crew read, exercised, repaired the ship and cloned a better [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]. When [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] sees the other crew he is thrilled, because they are the only decent crew the company has had. [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] fires [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], Bender and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], takes their [[Career Chips|career chips]] and forces them to wear Non Person shirts which means everyone has to pretend they don’t exist. The crew has the time of their lives since they can’t get in trouble and the cops can’t arrest them. However they prefer their old lives and decide to try and get them back.
Bender and Fry are playing in the holo-shed, imagining that they are saving Ed Sullivan's head from four insects called The Beetles. Leela interrupts, claiming they are under attack by a group of four flies. While trying to defeat the flies (who want in on Planet Express' shipment of manure), they damage all their working thrusters and are soon plummeting towards a class M planet. When they crash, they are invited to a peasant's house for supper. While there, the tax collector arrives and tries to take all their money. Leela scares him off, however, since it means the peasant's lives are now in danger, they must leave. While walking aimlessly around the planet, Bender decides to take up pickpocketting, and after a twist of fate in which the peasants get their tax money back, he becomes known as Robot Robin Hood.


===Act II===
===Act II===
The crew takes off their shirts and the cops banish them to the fandom zone where fans can’t stalk celebrities. If they concentrate the crew will be able to see the real world but the real world can’t see them. Only Mender can see them and reveals that the rest of his crew are holograms since he killed the real crew. Leela gets an idea to download Bender’s mind into his spare body, then use a device to bring the rest of the crew to reality. Mender teleports to his ship and escapes but is followed by the crew. Bender tricks Mender into creating strong donut/vortex, which pulls him in. The crew is about to get sucked in but use Bender’s jealousy of Mender to escape. Bender then decides that Mender is actually a role model for robots.
Leela tells Bender she needs some new parts to repair the ship so that they can fly back to Earth. Bender takes Leela and Fry to the Sherrif of Bot-tingham's castle that night, where they find money as well as the parts they need for the ship. The Sherrif arrives and finds his possessions missing. Upon discovering a bow and arrow Bender left behind, he starts an archery contest in hope of capturing Robot Robin Hood there. At the competition, Bender replaces himself with the real Robin Hood, however, Bender and his gang are still captured. Just as they are sentenced to death, King Richard the Linux-Hearted arrives and tells the Sherrif to pardon their lives. King Richard then holds a feast in their honor.
==Additional Info==
==Additional Info==
===Trivia===
===Trivia===
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*Zoidberg, once again, arrives on the planet solely to eat.


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*'''Debut:''' Peasant Farmer
*'''Debut:''' Peasant Farmer
*'''Debut:''' Peasant Robot
*'''Debut:''' Peasant Robot
*'''Debut:''' Robin Hood's Head
*'''Debut:''' Roy, Cat'O-Nine Tails
*'''Debut:''' Roy, Cat'O-Nine Tails
*'''Debut:''' Sherrif of Bot-tingham
*'''Debut:''' Sherrif of Bot-tingham

Revision as of 07:46, 22 January 2007

Robot Robin Hood

US Issue Number: 025
UK Issue Number(s): 039, 040
Title Caption: Now With More Future, Less Rama!
Published (US): May 2006

The Story

Act I

Bender and Fry are playing in the holo-shed, imagining that they are saving Ed Sullivan's head from four insects called The Beetles. Leela interrupts, claiming they are under attack by a group of four flies. While trying to defeat the flies (who want in on Planet Express' shipment of manure), they damage all their working thrusters and are soon plummeting towards a class M planet. When they crash, they are invited to a peasant's house for supper. While there, the tax collector arrives and tries to take all their money. Leela scares him off, however, since it means the peasant's lives are now in danger, they must leave. While walking aimlessly around the planet, Bender decides to take up pickpocketting, and after a twist of fate in which the peasants get their tax money back, he becomes known as Robot Robin Hood.

Act II

Leela tells Bender she needs some new parts to repair the ship so that they can fly back to Earth. Bender takes Leela and Fry to the Sherrif of Bot-tingham's castle that night, where they find money as well as the parts they need for the ship. The Sherrif arrives and finds his possessions missing. Upon discovering a bow and arrow Bender left behind, he starts an archery contest in hope of capturing Robot Robin Hood there. At the competition, Bender replaces himself with the real Robin Hood, however, Bender and his gang are still captured. Just as they are sentenced to death, King Richard the Linux-Hearted arrives and tells the Sherrif to pardon their lives. King Richard then holds a feast in their honor.

Additional Info

Trivia

  • Zoidberg, once again, arrives on the planet solely to eat.


Outside References

  • The Beatles: Songs referenced include Twist and Shout, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Magical Mystery Tour, Drive My Car, Octopus's Garden, and Taxman.

Goofs

  • The screen on the telecommunication device on board the P.E. ship appears to have a crack in it while the crew is talking to the Head Fly. It should not work if it is cracked.

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

  • Debut: The Beetles
  • Bender
  • Debut: The Flies
  • Fry
  • Debut: Iron Maid Marion
  • Debut: King Richard the Linux-Hearted
  • Leela
  • Debut: Peasant Farmer
  • Debut: Peasant Robot
  • Debut: Robin Hood's Head
  • Debut: Roy, Cat'O-Nine Tails
  • Debut: Sherrif of Bot-tingham
  • Debut: Tax Collector
  • Zoidberg

Comic Credits


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