Futurama episode
"Bender Gets Made"
Bender and The Robot Mafia take the crew hostage.
Episode no.	26
Prod. code	2ACV13
Airdate	April 30, 2000
Writer(s)	Eric Horsted
Director	Peter Avanzino
Opening subtitle	Simulcast On Crazy People's Fillings
Opening cartoon	Unknown
Season 2 November 1999 – December 2000
I Second That Emotion Brannigan Begin Again A Head in the Polls Xmas Story Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love? The Lesser of Two Evils Put Your Head on My Shoulder Raging Bender A Bicyclops Built for Two A Clone of My Own How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back The Deep South Bender Gets Made Mother's Day The Problem with Popplers Anthology of Interest I War Is the H-Word The Honking The Cryonic Woman
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"Bender Gets Made (a.k.a. Bendfellas)" is episode thirteen in season two of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on April 30, 2000. This article is about the television series. ... Image File history File links Futurama_217_-_Bender_Gets_Made. ... is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Eric Horsted is American television writer. ... Peter Avanzino is an American animation director. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... I Second That Emotion is episode one in season two of Futurama. ... Brannigan Begin Again is episode two in season two of Futurama. ... A Head in the Polls is the third episode in the second production season of Futurama. ... Xmas Story is the fourth episode in season two of Futurama. ... Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love is episode five in season two of Futurama. ... The Lesser of Two Evils is episode six in season two of Futurama. ... Put Your Head on My Shoulders is episode seven in season two of Futurama. ... Raging Bender is episode 8 in season 2 of Futurama. ... A Bicyclops Built for Two is episode nine in season two of Futurama. ... A Clone of My Own is episode ten in season two of Futurama. ... “How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back” is episode eleven in season two of Futurama. ... This article is about the Futurama episode. ... Mothers Day is episode fourteen in season two of Futurama. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Television episodes. ... Anthology of Interest I is episode sixteen in season two of Futurama. ... War is the H-Word is episode seventeen in season two of Futurama. ... The Honking is episode eighteen in season two of Futurama. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Television episodes. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... This article is about the television series. ... North American redirects here. ... is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...

Plot

The Planet Express crew attends a taping of Elzar's television show, much to the joy of Bender, who secretly wants to be a chef. Bender is so excited to meet Elzar that he continually disrupts Elzar in the middle of the show, until Elzar accidentally hits Leela in the eye with his spice weasel. Leela, who is now temporarily blinded, is forced to wear an eye patch to protect her eye until it's healed. In order to make up for the incident, Elzar invites the entire crew to dinner at his restaurant, serving them the most expensive and appetizing things he has to offer. After the dinner, he presents them with a hefty bill, claiming that though the meal he cooked them was repayment, it wasn't free. In order to avoid arrest, Bender agrees to work for Elzar to pay back the debt. Futurama is an animated United States cartoon series (March 28, 1999-2003) created by Matt Groening (who also created The Simpsons). ... Futuramas recurring characters: // The Brain Slugs are small, gelatinous, fist-sized aliens that attach themselves to human heads and act as mind-control devices, reducing their hosts to a zombie-like state. ... Bender, full name Bender Bending Rodríguez or designated Bending Unit 22, is a fictional robot character in the animated television series Futurama. ... Turanga Leela (often referred to simply as Leela) (born A.D. 2975) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ...

While working at Elzar's restaurant as a busboy, Bender meets the robot mafia, and is offered a chance to join them. He jumps at the chance of doing something he enjoys for a living: stealing. Bender works hard for the mafia, quickly becoming one of the Don-bot's favorites. Unfortunately for Bender, the whole job turns sour when the target of the mafia's long planned Zuban Cigar heist is the Planet Express Ship. In an intense space battle, Fry defends the ship and steers it at the same time but they get caught when one of the Don-bot's goons, Clamps, clamps the fuel line. Though the mafia blindfold Fry and tie him up with Leela (who is still blind), Bender realizes that if they hear him, his cover will be blown. In a crazy attempt to avoid being discovered, he changes his voice to "king's accent", and pretends to beat himself up. He's almost discovered when Leela's blindfold comes off, but since her eye is still healing she can only see a blurry silhouette. The ship gets robbed, but instead of blowing the ship up and leaving with the mafia Bender remains onboard, telling the mafia he'll take care of them. When they fly away, he ties himself up, and makes up a crazy story to remain unexposed. Back at Planet Express, Leela's eye has recovered and thinks Farnsworth was part of the mafia, for he matched the same silhouette she saw. Bender quits the robot mafia to stick to plain crime instead of organized crime, though not until after Tinny Tim gives him his fraction of the loot. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Planet Express Ship is a fictional spaceship in the animated series Futurama. ... Futuramas recurring robot characters: // Boxy is a crude, Dalek-like robot similar to the Gonk droid from Star Wars, that is capable of communicating only by beeping. ...

Characters

Characters who first appear in this episode are:

• The Robot Mafia

• Donbot
• Clamps
• Joey Mousepad

Futuramas recurring robot characters: // Boxy is a crude, Dalek-like robot similar to the Gonk droid from Star Wars, that is capable of communicating only by beeping. ...

Cultural references

• Much of the episode is a parody of Gangster and Mafia movies.
• The police batons are visually similar to lightsabers. However, they are functionally different; instead of being used as blades for cutting, they are used as nightsticks for beating.
• The character Elzar is a reference to the television chef Emeril Lagasse as is his television program and restaurant.
• MmmTV, the channel that airs Elzar's television show, is a reference to MTV.
• Leela's eye is treated at the Taco Bellevue Hospital, a reference to Taco Bell. To further this reference, one of the doctors appearing there is a parody of the Taco Bell spokesman of the time, a talking chihuahua.
• Bender correctly guesses that the Robot Mafia's "private lottery" is an illegal numbers game; Clamps insists they are into "nothing fancy, you know, ones and zeroes mostly", a reference to the binary numeral system used in computers.
• "Sammy 'the Mechanical Bull' Gravano" is a reference to real-life mobster Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, an associate of John Gotti.
• When the Don says to his crew as they are on the Planet Express ship to kill Bender, he uses the term "Plug him, then unplug him" as a reference to the Matrix Trilogy where people connected to the virtual world die when they are unplugged accidentally.

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Continuity

• A deleted scene had Bender cross out his serial number, 3370318, and replace it with "14" as a means of hiding from the Mob. However the crossed-out serial number was Flexo's, as given 7 episodes prior in "The Lesser of Two Evils" (Bender's is 2716057). This was meant to imply that at some intervening point Flexo had swapped lives with Bender. The scene was removed after the creators decided it would irk fans. (It would also render the later episode "Bendless Love", in which Bender impersonates Flexo in order to prove that Angleyne still loves Flexo, entirely incomprehensible.)
• Bender comments that his food tastes good even though other episodes claim he has no sense of taste.

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