Futurama episode
"Bendin' in the Wind"
Episode no.	45
Prod. code	3ACV13
Airdate	April 22, 2001
Writer(s)	Eric Horsted
Director	Ron Hughart
Opening subtitle	FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS CHANGING THE CHANNEL
Opening cartoon	unknown
Guest star(s)	Beck as himself
Season 3 January 2001 – December 2002
Amazon Women in the Mood Parasites Lost A Tale of Two Santas The Luck of the Fryrish The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz Bendless Love The Day the Earth Stood Stupid That's Lobstertainment! The Cyber House Rules Where the Buggalo Roam Insane in the Mainframe The Route of All Evil Bendin' in the Wind Time Keeps on Slippin' I Dated a Robot A Leela of Her Own A Pharaoh to Remember Anthology of Interest II Roswell That Ends Well Godfellas Future Stock The 30% Iron Chef
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"Bendin' in the Wind" is the thirteenth episode in season three of Futurama. It originally aired April 22, 2001. The title comes from the Bob Dylan song "Blowin' in the Wind". This article is about the television series. ... Image File history File links Futurama_ep45. ... is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Eric Horsted is American television writer. ... Ron Hughart is an American animation director. ... This article is about the musician. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Amazon Women in the Mood is the first episode in season three of Futurama. ... Parasites Lost is the 2nd episode in series 3 of Futurama. ... A Tale of Two Santas is the third episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Luck of the Fryrish is the fourth episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz is the fifth episode in season three of Futurama. ... Bendless Love is the sixth episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Day the Earth Stood Stupid is the seventh episode in season three of Futurama. ... Thats Lobstertainment! is the 8th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Cyber House Rules is the ninth episode in season three of Futurama. ... Where the Buggalo Roam is the tenth episode in season three of the animated television series Futurama. ... “Insane in the Mainframe” is the eleventh episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Route of All Evil is episode twelve in season three of the Futurama DVDs. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Television episodes. ... I Dated a Robot is the fifteenth episode in season three of Futurama. ... A Leela Of Her Own is the sixteenth episode in the third season of the animated series Futurama. ... A Pharaoh to Remember is episode seventeen of Futuramas third season. ... Anthology of Interest II is the eighteenth episode of the third season of Futurama. ... Roswell That Ends Well is the nineteenth episode of the third production season of the TV show Futurama. ... Godfellas is the twentieth episode of the third season of Futurama. ... Future Stock is the 21st episode in the third season of Futurama. ... “The 30% Iron Chef” is the 22nd episode in season three of Futurama. ... 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. ... is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the recording artist. ... Blowin in the Wind is a song written by Bob Dylan, and released on his 1963 album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan. ...

Plot

Fry gets a free Volkswagen microbus, excavated from the ruins of Old New York. He pushes it back to the Planet Express office, and has to fuel it with whale oil, which replaced gasoline. Bender lifts the barrel of whale oil to the can opener, and is caught by the opener's magnet and horribly damaged. Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ... The Volkswagen Type 2 (aka Transporter) was the second automotive line introduced by German automaker Volkswagen. ... Whale oil is the oil obtained from the blubber of various species of whales of the genus Balaena, as , Greenland or right whale (northern whale-oil), (southern whale-oil), Balaenoptera longimana, Balaenoptera borealis (Finback oil, Finner whale-oil, Humpback oil). ... “Petrol” redirects here. ... “Bender” redirects here. ...

Cedars-Sinewave Robot Hospital

At the Cedars-Sinewave Robot Hospital (a play off of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), the doctor informs Bender that he will never move again. Bender falls into a state of depression, which is not helped by Patch Cord Adams, but when he finds out that Beck's disembodied head is occupying the bed next to him, his spirits are lifted. Beck loans Bender a set of neck-mounted robotic mini-arms. Using the arms to scrape across his mangled body, Bender earns the position of Beck's washboard player. Image File history File links Futurama_Cedars-Sinewave_Hospital. ... Image File history File links Futurama_Cedars-Sinewave_Hospital. ... Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. ... This article is about the musician. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Bender goes on tour with Beck, and Fry, Leela, Amy, and Dr. Zoidberg pile into Fry's van to follow them. While on tour, Bender is insulted by the treatment of other broken robots. As the tour continues, Bender writes a song about broken robots. Together with Beck, he decides to put on a benefit concert in San Francisco, to help all the broken robots. Turanga Leela (referred to as simply Leela) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ... Amy Wong (born August 4, 2980) is a fictional character, one of the main characters from the FOX television animated series Futurama. ... Doctor John Zoidberg is a lobster-like alien, Decapodian, in the television series Futurama. ... A benefit concert is a concert featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis. ... “San Francisco” redirects here. ...

Fry and the crew catch up with Bender, who is relaxing in a San Francisco hotel. To everyone's shock, they discover that Bender has miraculously been fixed. To keep his music career, Bender decides to fake still being broken. The concert goes on as planned, but when the time comes to perform Bender's song, he cannot restrain himself, and dances around the stage. Bender, having been found out, runs off with the oversized benefit check in Fry's Volkswagen.

Bender, being pursued by an irate Beck, drives the microbus into the San Francisco Bay. Beck catches Bender, and recovers the check, but he does forgive him since Bender has done so much for broken robots. The crew floats back to New New York in the microbus. San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ...

The United States in 3000

In the shot of the United States map it is shown that some states have been renamed in the future including "Nukevada", "East West Virginia", "'Ucky", and "WyΩing". Ohio is called eHIO. California is split into "HighCal" and "LoCal" (which contains the San Andreas Gorge rather than a fault line) and the state of Pennsylvania has become the "Penn Republic" and "Sylvania" - a parody of Czechoslovakia splitting into the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. One state (contiguous with present-day Utah) is named, in Alienese, "Human Farm". Conflicting issues involve the fact that despite this episode, Washington D.C. is referred to as such, rather than Washington A.C. and "New New Jersey" is often referred to as just "New Jersey". Additionally, in the episode The 30% Iron Chef, Bender references Eugene, "Oregon", differing from "XORegon", also Idaho is shown as "UserID:aho" and Washington as "Washingtron". Presumably these state parodies were only thought up for this episode as they are not used at any other point in the series. San Andreas may refer to: San Andreas Fault, a geologic fault that runs through California, USA San Andreas, California, USA Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a video game by Rockstar Games for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC See also: St Andrews (disambiguation) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... “The 30% Iron Chef” is the 22nd episode in season three of Futurama. ...

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Music

• The song "My Broken Friend", performed by Beck and Bender, was written by Christopher Tyng, Eric Horsted and Ken Keeler.
• The song "Scarborough Fair" by Simon and Garfunkel.
• At one point the score of Bender's song is shown. It is actually the theme from Beethoven's 5th symphony.
• The two other songs played during the episode are "Where It's At" from the album Odelay and "Sexx Laws" from Midnite Vultures.
• While playing "Where It's At", Bender sings a mock-up of the line "I got two turntables and a microphone" by singing "Got a washboard stomach and a microphone." Also, instead of singing "That was a good drum break", Beck sings the line, "That was a washboard break."

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Cultural references

• The title is a play on the Bob Dylan song "Blowin' in the Wind".
• Beck's Tour Bus closely resembles the Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2.
• The chase scene at the end is inspired by the movie Bullitt, and the part of the chase in Chinatown could refer to a scene in the video for Beck's "Devil's haircut". The green Volkswagen Beetle that is seen throughout the chase is a reference to the green Volkswagen Beetle seen throughout the chase scene in Bullitt.
• When the Bus is dug up, Bender asks if it is one of "Those Led Zeppelins I've heard so much about." Leela later asks if it is a Jefferson Starship.
• On the map of the United States in the year 3000, Washington D.C.'s name has changed to Washington A.C. That could be reference to direct current and alternating current, or more likely rock band AC/DC, considering episode theme.
• Cylon and Garfunkel is a reference to the Cylons of Battlestar Galactica and the 1960s folk duo Simon and Garfunkel.
• The concert Bend-Aid is a reference to the famine relief effort Band Aid.
• Bender lands at "Fisherman's Worf", renamed after the Star Trek: The Next Generation character Worf. This is similar to the parody of a prison on "Commander Riker's Island" in the Season 2 Episode "Brannigan Begin Again", which is a parody of both the prison, Riker's Island, in New York, and the First Officer, Commander Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Along with the brief appearance of Jonathan Frakes, who played Riker, in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" these are some of the only references to Star Trek: The Next Generation, as the show mainly focuses on the original series. One of the others includes an ongoing internet debate about the merits of Captain Kirk versus the merits of Captain Picard in the episode "I Dated a Robot".
• The Robot "Patch Cord Adams" is a parody of Patch Adams.
• When Bender eats the chips dug up by the hole project, he defecates bricks, which is a reference to potato chips made with the fat substitute Olestra. This substance was rumored to severely upset the bowels, as well as to the phrase "sh*tting bricks".
• The name of the whale oil used is Mobil Dick, a reference to Mobil Oil and Moby Dick.
• The robot whose head exploded in the episode "A Fishful of Dollars" can be seen in the crowd of broken robots.
• When Bender holds the microphone upside down, it is a reference to what Freddie Mercury would do at live performances.
• Beck making comments in the episode like "Bender that was the best 40 minute washboard solo ever and the parts when I was awake blew my mind..." or "(referring to his song Sexx Laws) that song normally doesn't last three hours but we had a thing going on here..." is a reference to many people saying that Beck makes his songs too long sometimes.
• Beck's line "Bender that was the best 40 minute washboard solo ever and the parts when I was awake blew my mind..." is a reference to Beck being known as the "slacker" of the music bussiness.

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