Futurama episode
"Raging Bender"
Episode no.	21
Prod. code	2ACV08
Airdate	February 27, 2000
Where	United States
Writer(s)	Lewis Morton
Director	Ron Hughart
Opening subtitle	Nominated For Three Glemmys
Guest star(s)	Rich Little as himself
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 Shoulders 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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"Raging Bender" is episode 8 in season 2 of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on February 27, 2000. Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox Network. ... Image File history File links Futurama_212_-_Raging_Bender. ... February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Lewis Morton is an American television writer. ... Ron Hughart is an American animation director. ... Rich Little performing in 2004 Rich Little (born Richard Caruthers Little on November 26, 1938 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian comedian best known for his celebrity impersonations. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... I Second That Emotion is episode 1 in season 2 of Futurama. ... Brannigan Begin Again is episode 2 in season 2 of Futurama. ... A Head in the Polls is episode 3 in series 2 of Futurama. ... Xmas Story is the 4th episode in season 2 of Futurama. ... Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love is episode 5 in season 2 of Futurama. ... The Lesser of Two Evils is episode 6 in season 2 of Futurama. ... Put Your Head on My Shoulders is episode 7 in season 2 of Futurama. ... A Bicyclops Built for Two is episode nine in season two of Futurama. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: A Clone of My Own A Clone of My Own is episode 10 in season 2 of Futurama. ... “How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back” is episode eleven in season two of Futurama. ... The Deep South is episode 12 in season 2 of Futurama. ... Bender Gets Made is episode 13 in season 2 of Futurama. ... Mothers Day is episode 14 in season 2 of Futurama. ... The Problem with Popplers is episode 15 in season 2 of Futurama. ... Anthology of Interest I is episode sixteen in season two of Futurama. ... War is the H-Word is episode 17 in season 2 of Futurama. ... The Honking is episode eighteen in season two of Futurama. ... The Cryonic Woman is the 19th and last episode in series 2 of 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 American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox Network. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Plot

At the morning Planet Express meeting, the crew discovers Hermes has been assimilated by the brain slugs. To avoid Hermes' slack-jawed stare and being assimilated themselves, the rest of the staff takes off for the movies. Hermes Conrad is a character in the Futurama animated series. ... Futuramas recurring characters: Spoiler warning: // 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. ...

While watching All My Circuits, The Movie, Bender picks a fight with a robot that turns out to be Ultimate Robot Fighting champion The Masked Unit. The Masked Unit trips on Bender's oil-soaked popcorn, and is knocked out by the fall. Coincidentally, the commissioner of Ultimate Robot Fighting is at the movie, and hires Bender on the spot. All My Circuits All My Circuits is a robot soap-opera set in the fictional universe of Futurama. ... Bender, also known as Bender Bending Rodriguez or Bending Unit 22, (born 2998) is a fictional character in the animated television series Futurama. ...

After training with Leela, Bender has his first fight against a chainsaw-equipped robot called The Clearcutter. By a stroke of luck, Bender defeats his opponent, causing The Clearcutter to explode into a pile of parts. However, Bender runs into the robot backstage, and the commissioner reveals that Ultimate Robot Fighting is fixed, and that the most popular robot always wins. Turanga Leela (referred to as simply Leela) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ... A chainsaw (also spelled chain saw) is a portable mechanical, motorized saw. ...

Bender spurns further training from Leela, and proceeds to win several fights, but eventually his popularity wanes, and he is told that he can either take a dive in his new role as 'The Gender Bender', or be killed by his giant opponent, Destructor. Bender asks Leela for help, but she initially refuses. When she discovers that Destructor is being trained by Arcturan kung-fu Master Fnog, she changes her mind. The male chauvinist and sexist Master Fnog had ruined Leela's dream of competing in the Arcturan Kung-fu junior championships years ago, and Leela still holds a grudge. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with wushu. ... Chauvinism is extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group. ... Sexism is discrimination between people based on their Sex rather than their individual merits. ...

While Bender is being thrashed by Destructor, Leela discovers that Destructor is being controlled remotely (virtual reality) by Fnog. They proceed to fight and Leela wins, but when Fnog falls, so does Destructor, crushing Bender as well as the fist making a hole in the arena and immediately knocks Master Fnog out since he was directly under Destructor at that point. After the fight, Fry and Leela roll up the flattened Bender and carry him home. Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama. ...

Ultimate robot fighters

• The Masked Unit
• The Clearcutter
• Gorgeous Gorx
• Billionaire Bot
• The Foreigner (parody of foreign wrestlers who have worked for the WWE)
• The Chain Smoker
• Destructor
• Sgt. Feces Processor
• Bender the Offender/Gender Bender

Cultural references

• The title is a parody of the 1980 movie Raging Bull, and a reference to an alcohol-induced headache.
• The Ultimate Robot Fighting is a reference to the UFC, in name, although the actual product is much more similar to professional wrestling, given the characters, ring, merchandising, character changes and predetermined outcomes that are shown.
• The characters who serve as Benders opponent's are typical of many pro wrestling characters that have appeared over time on WWE. For instance, Billionaire Bot is a parody of The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase, while The Foreigner is a jab at such personified racial stereotypes as The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff.
• "RobotMania XXII" is a parody of WrestleMania.
• Bender 3:16 is a parody of a popular wrestling catchphrase Austin 3:16.
• Bender references boxing announcer Michael Buffer's most famous line: "Let's get ready to rumble!"
• When the crew goes to the movies they see movie posters and Marquee listings for a variety of movies, mostly parodies of other films:

• Planet of the Clams is a reference to Planet of the Apes about "an upside down world where lobster is slave to clam".
• Galaxy Wars is a historical documentary, the title is a reference to Star Wars.
• Quizblorg, Quizblorg, a foreign film with subtitles.
• When a Man Loves a Smizmar, a reference to When a Man Loves a Woman. Also, a Smizmar is a term used in "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" to describe the person who caused the feelings of love allowing a male of Kif's species to become pregnant.

• The television show and movie, All My Circuits is a reference to All My Children.
• The opening to All My Circuits, The Movie is a parody of James Bond films, in particular The Spy Who Loved Me.
• Rich Little is commentating at the Ultimate Robot Fighting matches and doing an impression of Howard Cosell. George Foreman is the co-host and makes reference to his George Foreman Grill.
• Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo from Mystery Science Theater 3000 appear in silhouette in the movie theater (as they normally do on their TV show). Crow's harsh demand that Fry not talk during the movie is an ironic statement since the entire crux of their show is to talk during the movie. Neither Joel Robinson nor Mike Nelson can be seen though, and Crow is not voiced by either Trace Beaulieu nor Bill Corbett.
• The ad announcing Bender's persona change to "The Gender Bender" starts with Bender standing on the planet Earth with the Earth flag waving behind him. This pose is identical to the George Reeves Superman pose at the start of each episode of the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman.
• The Loews theater the crew goes to is called the ()PLEX, a reference to the first aleph number, the least infinite cardinal number. This is an obvious continuation of a joke in The Simpsons, based on googol, or more specifically googolplex -- the Googleplex.
• Hermes' brain slug could be an indirect reference to the slug-like young ceti eels that Khan uses on Chekov and Terrell in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (although in that case, they enter through the ear, but still affected the brain).

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Production notes

• This is the first reference to smismars.
• According to the DVD commentary, Hermes was supposed to have the brain slug for the rest of the season but they decided to scratch the idea and have the later episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" instead.

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