Futurama episode
"Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV"
Episode no.	60
Prod. code	4ACV06
Airdate	August 3, 2003
Writer(s)	Lewis Morton
Director	Ron Hughart
Opening subtitle	Controlling you through a chip in your butt since '99
Opening cartoon	Unknown
Guest star(s)	Bumper Robinson as Dwight Conrad Kath Soucie as Cubert
Season 4 January 2002 – August 2003
Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch Leela's Homeworld Love and Rocket Less Than Hero A Taste of Freedom Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV Jurassic Bark Crimes of the Hot Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles The Why of Fry Where No Fan Has Gone Before The Sting Bend Her Obsoletely Fabulous The Farnsworth Parabox Three Hundred Big Boys Spanish Fry The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings
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"Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV" (other name "BSNBAOTV") ' is the sixth episode of the fourth production season of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on August 3, 2003. Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... Image File history File links Futurama_ep60. ... is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lewis Morton is an American television writer. ... Ron Hughart is an American animation director. ... Robinson as a JemHadar in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ... Kath Soucie (born February 20, 1967 in New York City) (sometimes credited as Souci or Kath E. Soucie) is an American voice actress, perhaps best known for her work as the voice of the twins Phil and Lil DeVille and their mother Betty in the popular animated series Rugrats (and... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch is the first episode in season four of Futurama. ... Leelas Homeworld is the second episode of Futuramas fourth season. ... Love and Rocket is the third episode of Futuramas fourth season. ... Less Than Hero is the fourth episode in the fourth season of Futurama. ... A Taste of Freedom is the fifth episode of the fourth production season of Futurama. ... Jurassic Bark is the seventh episode of season four of Futurama, airing November 17, 2002. ... “Crimes of the Hot” is the eighth episode of the fourth production season of the television show Futurama. ... Teenage Mutant Leelas Hurdles is the ninth episode of the fourth season of Futurama. ... The Why of Fry is the tenth episode in the fourth season of Futurama. ... Where No Fan Has Gone Before is the eleventh episode of the fourth season of the animated series Futurama. ... The Sting is episode twelve in season four of Futurama. ... Bend Her is the thirteenth episode of the fourth production season of Futurama. ... Obsoletely Fabulous is the fourteenth episode of the fourth production season of Futurama. ... “The Farnsworth Parabox” is the fifteenth episode of the fourth production season of Futurama. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Spanish Fry is the seventeenth episode of Season four of Futurama. ... The Devil’s Hands are Idle Playthings is the 18th and final episode in season four of the TV series Futurama. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Plot summary

After a robot actor on All My Circuits malfunctions, an open casting call is held for a replacement actor. Bender applies and wins the part (even though the part is that of a childbot) by booing all of his competition and by saying that he is the greatest. All My Circuits All My Circuits is a robot soap-opera set in the fictional universe of Futurama. ... Bender, full name Bender Bending Rodríguez and nickname Bending Unit 22, is a fictional character in the animated television series Futurama. ...

On the set, the writers have written a part for Bender appropriate to his acting ability, a never ending coma. Not liking the decision, Bender starts singing, dancing, drinking and smoking while the show is filming. Bender is almost fired, but the network executives reveal that Bender's reckless behavior boosted the show's ratings. The show is turned into a vehicle for Bender, and kids, such as Dwight, Cubert, The Cookieville Orphans and Tinny Tim, start to follow his example. Futuramas recurring human characters: // In the episode A Big Piece of Garbage, Ron Popeil, his severed head floating in a large jar, mentions several of his inventions including the (fictional) technology to keep human heads alive in jars, implicitly arresting the aging process. ... Cubert Farnsworth is Professor Hubert Farnsworths clone from the fictional animated television series Futurama. ... Futuramas recurring human characters: // In the episode A Big Piece of Garbage, Ron Popeil, his severed head floating in a large jar, mentions several of his inventions including the (fictional) technology to keep human heads alive in jars, implicitly arresting the aging process. ... Futuramas recurring robot characters: // Boxy Boxy is a crude, Dalek-like robot similar to the Gonk droid from Star Wars, that is capable of communicating only by beeping. ...

Professor Farnsworth and Hermes, disgusted by this, start the protest group Fathers Against Rude Television (F.A.R.T). Meanwhile, the three kids decide to rob Bender, imitating his robberies on TV. Unknowing that the safe marked "BENDER'S LOOT" whas where Bender was seleping. The kids throw a party at the Planet Express office, until it is stopped by Hermes, Farnsworth, and Bender. Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (born April 9, 2841) is the extremely elderly proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service in the fictional animated television series Futurama. ... Hermes Conrad is a character in the Futurama animated series. ... Look up Bender in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Bender may refer to one of the following. ...

Bender, annoyed that he inspired the robbery of himself, decides to lead the F.A.R.T in a crusade to get himself off TV. Invading the set, Bender is held at gunpoint by both F.A.R.T and the network executives to quit the show and shoot the scene, respectively. Bender grabs both guns and makes a statement about just "turning off the TV, sitting down with your children and hitting them".

At Planet Express, Farnsworth realizes that sometimes you just need to turn off the TV once in a while. The group continues to watch, however.

Cultural references

• One of the mothers is upset that their child has wires hanging in his compartment. She screams at him "I told you, no more hanging wires!" a reference to the 1981 film Mommie Dearest.
• One of the robots has his hands bolted onto his head, looking like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. Leela comments that he hasn't been cute since he had puberty installed, referencing Culkin's loss in appeal after he reached puberty.
• The name of Calculon's fourth evil septuplet, Sleazy Martinez, is similar to the name of the GWAR character, Sleazy P. Martini.
• Everybody Loves Hypnotoad is a reference to Everybody Loves Raymond.
• The head executive is a Mac laptop.
• Gamma Bot says "It will play in Peoria". Peoria, Illinois is often used as a test market for America at large in the entertainment industry.
• "F.A.R.T" is possibly a reference to "Americans for Responsible Television" (see Terry Rakolta). "F.A.R.T." could also be based on the Parents Television Council, which is a social conservative group lead by L. Brent Bozell III. The PTC is known for constantly protesting the FCC to remove content that they find inappropriate. "F.A.R.T" could also be based on "M.A.D.D." an abbreviation for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
• There is a reference to a device called a "cool-ometer" that measures coolness, which is measured in Megafonzies, a reference to the character Fonzie from the sitcom Happy Days. Although no such device exists in the real world, in physics a device which measures electrical charge is called a coulometer.
• This episode shows multiple issues of "Playbot" magazine, a robot version of Playboy.
• When the Execubots arrive the Red Alert sound from Star Trek: The Original Series is played.
• One of the magazines shown with Bender's picture on it is called "TV Week Monthly" and features a logo similar to that of TV Guide.
• The song playing during Bender's montage and over the credits (with the cast singing) is "TV Party" by Black Flag.
• One of the movie posters in the waiting room is for "Galaxy Wars", a reference to Star Wars.
• The scene with all the soap opera scenes references the frequent use of amnesia in soap operas.
• When Bender's mob breaks on-set, Calculon gasps "Great Shatner's ghost!", which is a reference to the Superman character Perry White who often says "Great Caesar's ghost!" when angry, exasperated or surprised. A similar reference was also made in Leela's Homeworld.

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Trivia

• Amongst the F.A.R.T members are the male cygnoid from "A Leela of Her Own", Horrible Gelatinous Blob (whose parentship was revealed in "The Route of All Evil"), and the Donbot.

The only kids at Cubert's and Dwight's party were Tinny Tim and the orphans. A Leela Of Her Own is the sixteenth episode in the third season of the animated series Futurama. ... Futuramas recurring characters: // a brain slug controlling Hermes 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. ... The Route of All Evil is the 12th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... Futuramas recurring robot characters: // Boxy Boxy is a crude, Dalek-like robot similar to the Gonk droid from Star Wars, that is capable of communicating only by beeping. ...

Continuity

• This is the second of the three episodes to have an alternate opening sequence. The first one is Mars University and the third is Spanish Fry.
• This is the first of two episodes in which the theme song is sung by Billy West and John DiMaggio. Spanish Fry is the second.
• Calculon's assistant starts to say that Bender is too old to play the role. However, in other episodes it is revealed that Bender is only four years old. However, it is possible he is referring to a programmed age as some robots appear as children, too.
• When Bender gives his rant at the end of the episode he uses the word "ask" "let me ask you a question.." instead of "aks" (pronounced axe), even though it has been established that "aks" is the correct pronunciation.
• A movie poster is shown in the audtion room featuring Harold Zoid, Dr. Zoidberg's uncle who is in the movie business.

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