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Benders Age (again)
correct me if im wrong but i recall when the crew went back in time Dr. Zoidburg collcected all of benders pieces into a bag after he flew out of the windshield of the planet express ship; then the goverment captured them both and they took the bag and re-assembled the "alien space craft"(or something like that) using the contents of the bag containing bender. So i bealive his body and head age should be one in the same. 68.215.174.16 05:52, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Bender and Zoidberg were reclaimed by the Planet Express crew but immediately before they jumped back to the future Bender's head fell off the ship, his body remained on the ship and the head was retrieved again in the future. This is why the head is old and the body isn't. Stardust8212 20:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
removal
"Also, Bart makes a cameo (or at least a doll of him does) in various episodes. Bender once pulled a string on the back of a Bart doll, which made it say "Eat my shorts"; Bender ate the shorts, and then, like Homer Simpson might, Bender said, "Mmmmm...shorts.""
i think someone should remove this , because i'm pretty sure zoidberg said that, didn't he?--Aaronpark 23:19, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
i was just wondering, because i haven't seen that episode in a while and it sounded more like what zoidberg would do--Aaronpark 19:44, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
it was bender. iv seen the episode a bunch of times. --Sasham43
Yeah, i forget what the episode is called, but its about the giant ball of trash about to level New New York, and they take the ship to land on the ball of trash, and Bender grabs this doll from a pile of the same bart dolls.
allright, just wanted to be sure --Aaronpark 02:14, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Misc
The item listed as "treasure chest with treasure" was actually not in bender's chest cavity, bender pulled it out of the box to, what I assume is, pirate universe--Malteseclock 00:54, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Does Bender resemble Fender from "Robots", or the other way around? Bender came first. And who argues this? I've never heard it. Not to mention any possible resemblance is physical only, since Fender was a good guy, helping everyone and such. —The preceding
The catch phrases definitely rub me the wrong way. It just seems gratuitous, that's all. Do you really feel it adds value to the article, Infrogmation? Moreover, I've watched a lot of Futurama, and those aren't even his more common catch phrases - in fact, I don't think I've heard one of them on the show! So, really, I don't see why we're keeping it. I'll remove it again, on the offchance that you agree with me now, or that the rv was an oversight. -- Yitzhak 18:26, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi. It was the removal of the
Categories links I wished to revert. I guess you had removed those by accident while making your edit. I have no strong opinion either way as to the catch phrases; just leave the categories. Sorry I wasn't more clear. Cheers, -- Infrogmation
19:03, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oops - indeed I did remove the categories... well, that's fixed, then. -- Yitzhak 19:26, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
UPDATE - I removed the new 'Quotes' section. As thought the guy before, they don't appear to add much, especially seeing as how most of them are two or three word exclamations; not really enough to have a list of a dozen of them... Sajt 02:57, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
not sure if this would be relevent but bender didn't actually fall in love with the femputer, only the fembot inside itJackacon 17:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Bender Hardware
In the main page there's some discrepency about the episode where all the crew regress to their childlike forms, with Bender regressing all the way to a CD-ROM and finally a manual, versus Bender's canonical construction on an assembly line. I am not sure how to make this distinction plain but I believe Bender regressed through the various stages of his design, rather than construction. Thus his RNA (Robotic Nucleaic Acid) encodes every phase in the design, or evolution, of his construction. —The preceding
At one point during the same episode, I believe, he also regresses to a smaller (child like) version of himself so I am not sure this comparison is entirely accurate. Stardust8212 18:54, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, robots are accepted to be built for "hillarious" purposes, such as Professor Farnsworth building a robot capable of successfully applying for a boat loan, so it's conceivable that they would design a toddler bending robot and a rebellious teenager bending robot. —The preceding
-Bending turning into a fembot has been mentioned twice in the introduction, scince the first mentioning in the article goes into greater detail, I will take out the second mentioning.
Breakfast club
Is there a reference from Matt Groening or somebody to back up that idea that Bender's name originates from The Breakfast Club? Or is this just some fan's theory? It never came up on any of the commentary tracks on the DVDs -- PaulHammond 12:30, Jan 19, 2005 (UTC)
208.57.68.160 17:38, 28 March 2006 (UTC)I submit that the trivia section of IMDB is not a reliable source. I still think citation is needed here. - Ben
I agree that IMDB is not a reliable source, since info there is provided by users. I'm removing this theory until someone can provide a reference. CPitt76 02:43, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
I've also removed the bit about his name possibly being a pun based on the definition of the word "bender". I happen to agree with this, and think it's a pretty obvious reference, but I can't find a source for this either. It has to stay out until someone can provide a reference. CPitt76 02:46, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Most frequently/least frequently used words
Antiquing is not Bender's least-used word. It's actually “from the list of words [he] almost never” says. This list, at the end of episode 2ACV17 (“War is the H-Word”), also includes “thanks”, “sorry”, “funderful”, “non-alcoholic”, “compassion”, and “shrimp toast” (yes, I know that's technically two words, but that's what's in the episode), but the words are not given in any particular order, unlike the top 10 words, which are presented in a Letterman-like countdown.
I think the sentence “The word he uses least is antiqueing [sic].” at the end of the quotes section should either be modified to contain all the least-used words mentioned in that episode, or removed entirely. Since the words are not given in any particular order, I don't think it quite fits with the top 10 used words and should be deleted. Also note that “antiquing” was spelled wrong (there is no ‘e’). I have corrected the misspelling and will eventually remove the sentence entirely unless someone objects.
-- The closed captioning reads "antiquing". I couldn't tell what he said either until I turned them on. 65.95.157.80 06:21, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
"Bending Rodriguez"
I saw an episode the other day where Bender said "Bending's my middle name!" Fry asked if it actually was and he said, "Yep, my full name is Bender Bending Rodriguez." It sounded like a one-off joke. Has Bender's "full name" been used since then? - furrykef (Talk at me) 08:59, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
It has. At the end of The Cyber House Rules, Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium is renamed the Bender B. Rodriguez Orphanarium. The numerous references to Bender being Mexican don't explicitly support it, but they don't contradict it either. -- Cyrius|✎ 16:18, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
In an early interview with Matt Groening, Groening says "And Bender is a pretty cool robot. Uhm. He's a bender. His full name is Bender Unit Number 22. He's programmed to bend girders..." This was an EARLY interview so I am not sure if his name was changed or not. But, from the horse's mouth his name is Bender Unit Number 22. --Odie5533 18:14, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Magnet's effect on Bender's head
In the DVD commentary for the Titanic Parody episode, one of the writers mentioned that it seems the magnetic bowtie on Bender's neck doesn't screw up his "inhibition unit". The other writers suggested that it needs to be a strong enough magnetic field near his head to actually accomplish that task. And yes, I know about how Bending units don't have necks (ref: introduction of Flexo). Calyth 19:40, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
>It is implied in the commentary that any magnets in the general region of Bender's 'chin' do >not effect his inhibition unit. Note: Bender also wears a magnetic beard while posing as >Flexo in "Bendless Love". —The preceding
He said meatbag in the first episode while waiting in line for the suicide booth. Reub2000 10:56, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
There's another episode (I don't know which one) in which Bender says to Fry, "I'll miss you, Meatbag" to which Leela concurs, "Me too, Meatbag". —The preceding
The episode where Bender and Leela say the words "Meatbag" is episode Amazon Women In The Mood, where the crew end up on a planet inhabited by large amazonian women. Fry, Kif and Zap Brannigan and sentenced to "death by snu-snu", hence the "I'll miss you meatbag" quote.
Kill All Humans
There should be some way this article refers to Bender's desire to kill all humans (except Fry). —The preceding
A section of text says "Bender has periodically stated a desire to kill all humans, and has made several remarks (asleep or otherwise) indicating a repressed bloodlust. It should be noted that in the episode "The Sting", in which Fry is thought to be dead, Bender reveals that every time he stated that he wished to kill all humans, he would then whisper "except one," the one being Fry. This may not be canon, as this scene is part of a realistic dream Leela had while she was in a coma."
If we're going to refute a statement, why don't we just remove it? Prometheus-X303- 03:41, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Improving the "Inspiration?" Segment
Even though I seem to have discovered it accidentally in some comic book cover guide... Would anyone amongst the crowd herein be interested in hunting up more information to detail this segment of the article?
...Or perhaps offer other alternative inspirations that may have given rise to the robot we know as Bender..? DrWho42 06:19, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't think that it was the inspiration of bender. The body, the limbs everything is different except the head shape and the antenna which are both very general in appearence. I'm sure if you asked most people to draw a robot they would draw something close to what bender looks like, he pretty much a clean cut robot. I think this part of the article should be removed as there is no citation or proof to confirm it and original research is against the policy of wikipedia. PrettyMuchBryce 20:26, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
This section sounds like "original research" to me which, as my understanding goes, doesn't belong in Wikipedia. What is the source for this information? Also why is the trip to Roswell "coincidental" is that similar to what occours in the comic? Stardust8212 00:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
It has to do with a secret phrase. "He just $h!7 a brick." Pretty much just a inside gag from the writers (Listen to the audio commentary for SP3000). --WillMak050389 16:48, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Serial Code
Bender's serial code is 2716057, incidentally expressible as a sum of two cubes. Bender mentions this in the episode Lesser of Two Evils.
I saw this had been adeed and thought "Hey it'd be great to include which two numbers cubed", and then I tried to calculate it and didn't find an answer. Did I do the math wrong? Is the number here wrong? Is it an inside joke that should be noted? If someone could double check one or all of these possibilities I would greatly appreciate it. Stardust8212 18:42, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
It is mentioned in the
Hardware section of the page: ((952)³ + (-951)³) = 2716057. Note that the second number is negative. Manuel Cuevas
23:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Could there be some signifigance to these numbers? 65.95.157.80 06:26, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Appearances outside of Futurama
Since "Trivia" was getting kinda big, and I had another Bender cameo in addition to the Simpsons', I created a new section "Appearances outside of Futurama". It's a clumsy name, feel free to improve it! rewinn
Maybe "Cameos". 65.95.157.80 06:26, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Trivia
I don't think the trivia section was too big at the moment. In fact, compared to other paged its pretty lite! So maybe we can take the tag off the top of the page now. BethEnd 03:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)