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==The Story==
==The Story==
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When you've time travelled as much as [[Bender]] has, it can really cause a lot of wear and tear on the ol' motherboard. That's why the recently manufactured robot finds himself forced into early retirement at a nursing home for aged automatons, and unless [[Fry]] and [[Leela]] find a way to set him free, Bender's very likely to rust in peace.
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===Act I===
===Act I===
The [[Planet Express]] crew go to a carnival where [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] fails at the ring toss and a carny uses [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]'s manufacture date to cheat at guessing his age as ten. However, [[Bender's Big Score|his age is much different]], as [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] soon reveals. He also reveals that Bender is past the company's retirement age. Bender adapts to retirement quickly, using it and "senility" as an excuse to be annoying and steal things. Fry on the other hand spends his free time trying to learn the skill of ring toss. While annoying people on a bus, Bender is the first robot to be found and taken by the [[Sunset Squad Robot|Sunset Squad]] to the [[Near Death Star]], where he is soon attached to the facility's simulated Florida-like environment. Using clever cloaking devices invented by Farnsworth, Fry and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] enter the Near Death Star, but when Fry's sheet gets snagged and falls off, they are caught and are attached to the system decades early.


===Act II===
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The peaceful suburban streets have been replaced by a casino city run and designed by Bender. Bender had been bored as soon as he arrived and started up a simple card game, the elderly liked it and wanted more, which he provided, but they still wanted more and eventually the world was reduced to the current state. Fry and Leela learn where Bender is from a spruiker, but Bender no longer wants to leave. He says that he will go back only on the condition that Fry can throw a ring over his head, but Bender cheats. Despite having been addicted to the power, he soon changes his mind when Fry tells the elderly that Bender wants to hear about their grandchildren. The crew soon realise they have no idea how to get out, but then the designer of the virtual environment appears and shows them the way out, on the condition that they never return. As the begin their run from the draws to the ship, the guards appear, but Fry takes a pair of 'o's from a sign and successfully throws them over the guards, immobilising them. Back on [[Earth]], Farnsworth transfers all of Bender's memories into a new Bending Unit body, making him legally only minutes old and allowing him to return to work.
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==Additional Info==
==Additional Info==
===Trivia===
===Trivia===
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*[[Zoidberg]] is [[Sal]]'s doctor and has given him three hours to live, but meant to say decades. Given his incompetency as a doctor, these are likely to both be wrong.
*Prizes at the ring toss include:
**A [[Simpsons Connections|''Bart Simpson'']] toy
**A [[Lovey Bears|Lovey Bear]]
**A ''Mickey Mouse'' toy
**A [[Needy Newbies|Needy Newbie]]
**An ''Astro Boy'' toy
**A [[Slurms MacKenzie]] toy


===Quotes===
===Quotes===
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===Inside References===
===Continuity===
References to other things in the Futurama Universe
*The [[Needy Newbies]] return, which is a very rare thing for something originating in the comics to do.
 
*[[Lovey Bears]] also make their second appearance.
*[[Popplers]] are once again being sold.
*{{flink|Bender's Big Score}} is directly referenced, and plugged, as the plot relies on the time travel causing him to age several thousand years.
**It is currently believed that this comic, and the replacing of Bender's body with a new one, will be retconned by {{flink|Into the Wild Green Yonder}}.
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===Goofs===
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*In the second frame he appears in, the age-guessing carny's red vest changes to the green of the rest of his casing.
 
*[[Bender_Bending_Rodriguez#Age|Bender's age]] is [mis]identified as 27,203.
===Special Features===
**Additionally, carbon dating shouldn't work on a robot.
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*Leela says that robots don't believe in ghosts, but Bender clearly dos during [[The Honking]].
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===Characters===
===Characters===
(In alphabetical order)
(In alphabetical order)
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*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]
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*[[Gorgak]]
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]
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*[[Sal]]
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*[[Sunset Squad Robot]]
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]


==Comic Credits==
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*Script
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**[[Ian Boothby]]
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*Inks
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Rust In Peace
Futurama Comic 39.jpg
US Publish Number39
UK Publish Number(s)55
Written byN/A
Art byN/A
Title captionBoothby - Lloyd - Pepoy
Published (US)1 October, 2008

The Story

Act I

The Planet Express crew go to a carnival where Fry fails at the ring toss and a carny uses Bender's manufacture date to cheat at guessing his age as ten. However, his age is much different, as the Professor soon reveals. He also reveals that Bender is past the company's retirement age. Bender adapts to retirement quickly, using it and "senility" as an excuse to be annoying and steal things. Fry on the other hand spends his free time trying to learn the skill of ring toss. While annoying people on a bus, Bender is the first robot to be found and taken by the Sunset Squad to the Near Death Star, where he is soon attached to the facility's simulated Florida-like environment. Using clever cloaking devices invented by Farnsworth, Fry and Leela enter the Near Death Star, but when Fry's sheet gets snagged and falls off, they are caught and are attached to the system decades early.

Act II

The peaceful suburban streets have been replaced by a casino city run and designed by Bender. Bender had been bored as soon as he arrived and started up a simple card game, the elderly liked it and wanted more, which he provided, but they still wanted more and eventually the world was reduced to the current state. Fry and Leela learn where Bender is from a spruiker, but Bender no longer wants to leave. He says that he will go back only on the condition that Fry can throw a ring over his head, but Bender cheats. Despite having been addicted to the power, he soon changes his mind when Fry tells the elderly that Bender wants to hear about their grandchildren. The crew soon realise they have no idea how to get out, but then the designer of the virtual environment appears and shows them the way out, on the condition that they never return. As the begin their run from the draws to the ship, the guards appear, but Fry takes a pair of 'o's from a sign and successfully throws them over the guards, immobilising them. Back on Earth, Farnsworth transfers all of Bender's memories into a new Bending Unit body, making him legally only minutes old and allowing him to return to work.

Additional Info

Trivia

Quotes

  • Fry: Leela, we have to help Bender escape from a planet in another galaxy!
    Leela: That's the third time this month!

Continuity

  • The Needy Newbies return, which is a very rare thing for something originating in the comics to do.
  • Lovey Bears also make their second appearance.
  • Popplers are once again being sold.
  • Bender's Big Score
    Film
    is directly referenced, and plugged, as the plot relies on the time travel causing him to age several thousand years.
    • It is currently believed that this comic, and the replacing of Bender's body with a new one, will be retconned by Into the Wild Green Yonder
      Film
      .

Goofs

  • In the second frame he appears in, the age-guessing carny's red vest changes to the green of the rest of his casing.
  • Bender's age is [mis]identified as 27,203.
    • Additionally, carbon dating shouldn't work on a robot.
  • Leela says that robots don't believe in ghosts, but Bender clearly dos during The Honking.

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

Comic Credits

Futurama comics
Issues 1 — 20 "Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!" • "...But Deliver Us to Evil!" • "The Owner of Mars Attacks!" • "DOOP the Right Thing!" • "Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?" • "Xmas Time Is Fear" • "New Year's Rockin' Evil" • "Planet X-Press Men" • "Freaky Fry-day" • "The Big Sweep" • "The Cure for the Common Clod" • "Sideshow Fry" • "The Bender You Say" • "Six Characters in Search of a Story" • "Fry Me to the Moon" • "Kickin' It Old School" • "The Time Bender Trilogy:" (Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3) • "Bender Breaks Out"
21 — 40

"More than a Filling!" • "A Fit Worse than Death" • "The A-Team" • "Twice Told Tales of Interest" • "Robot Robin Hood" • "A Whole Lotta Leela" • "Rotten to the Core" • "Let's Twist Again" • "Downsized!" • "Fry and the Double-Bag Must-Have Item" • "As the Wormhole Turns" • "Doctor What" • "Attack of the 50-ft Amy" • "Planet Michelle" • "Son of the Sun" • "You Don't Wanna Know Jak!" • "Full Metal Racket" • "Rumble in the Jungle" • "Rust in Peace" • "Robot Santa's Little Helpers"

41 — 60

"Soldier Boys" • "Homeward Boned" • "Welcome to my Nightmall" • "The Fry and the Furious!" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Follow the Reader" • "Chitty Chitty Bend Bend" • "Claw and Order" • "Dummy Up!" • "Your Mother Wears Pilot Boots" • "Fry Cook!" • "Ro-Botox!" • "A Bump in the Flight" • "How Much is that Mutant in the Window?" • "The Trouble With Trilogies" • "Do You Want Fry with That?" • "Steampunk'd" • "Boomsday!" • "How to Secede Without Really Trying" • "The Bot Who Cried Wolf"

61 — 80

"Troop Grit" • "Lost Our Leela" • "Igner-Ance is Bliss!" • "Secret Santa" • "The Sun Also Raises!" • "The Board Game Games" • "Tartar House Five" • "Futuramarutuf" • "Don't Go Taking my Heart!" • "The Devil and Professor F." • "Pizza Wars" • "Trading Spaces" • "Night of the Automated Dead" • "What the What if?" • "Bendership Galactica" • "Captain Brannigan: The Windbag Soldier" • "New New New York" • "Little Orphan Android" • "Kif of Death!" • "Dumbsday!"

81 — 100

"A Touch of Medieval" • Futurama Comics #82

Simpsons Crossovers "Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!" • "Liquid Diamond Is Forever!" • "Slaves of New New York!" • "The Read Menace!"
Mini-comics "H.G. Blob in Revenge of the Blob" • "The Continuum Less Travelled" • "Leela & Amy in Hostile Makeover" • "Captain Zapp Brannigan in The Seven Day Itch" • "Captain Zapp Brannigan in Purple Tentacle Tour" • "Captain Zapp Brannigan in Rank Call!" • "Zoidberg Makes a House Call" • "H.G. Blob in A Funny Feeling in my Tummy" • "Breaking News"
Collections Futurama-O-Rama • Futurama Adventures • Futurama: The Time Bender Trilogy • Futurama Conquers The Universe • The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis • Futurama Comics: To Infinity!
Special issues "Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!" • "Futurama Returns" • "Delivery-Boy Man"
Comics related Bongo Comics Group • Futuramaland
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