Benders sense of taste

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In the episode "A fistful of dollars" Bender tried anchovies and spat them out with everyone else, there he was capable of tasting them and disliking them. However in what I believe is the next episode "My three suns", he becomes a chef and Leela says he doesn't have a sense of taste. If he didn't have a sense of taste how would he dislike anchovies, or the converse: if he disliked the anchovies how could he not have a sense of taste. As a side note of non-contuinity in the first episode when Fry asked why he drank he replied with "I don't need to drink", however later on we learn he needs to drink to fuel his power cells. Theres less discrepancy in that however since his reply could have been just mere sarcasm.

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Its a tv show set in the future.
Its called "Futurama".
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama

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so thats your version of the wizard did it?

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Bender spit out the anchovies because everyone else was doing it. He just wanted to be popular.

As for in SP3K with the not needing to drink. At that point the writers had come up with the idea that alcohol fuels his power cells. It was the pilot not everything was worked out. By I, Roommate they had decided that Bender needed alcohol to kee his fuel cells charged.

A 2 episode gap between deciding to have the alcohol serve a purpose. Or you can stick with the wizards excuse.

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yes thats what i thought, however I just like being a nerd about meaningless non contuinty =p

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Same here. I hate when the continutity of a show gets screwy.

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I know, they can plan far enough to include nibbler in the freeze scene but they can't work out these details.

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They had the Nibbler thing planned from the beginning unlike the other stuff. They decided later that they wanted to make a joke or something so they either forgot or ignored what they said earlier since it was just a side note or something.

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Guess I can't blame them, it must be hard to get everything straight when you're starting a show off.

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Yep but at least they kept with the Nibbler stuff.

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Yeah alot of stuff is messed up in season 1.

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Yeah but what ya gonna do? What's done is done.

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Originally posted by Frisco17:
Yeah alot of stuff is messed up in season 1.

yet season one is one of the best seasons imo

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Yes it is a good season.

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Oh yeah, Its the best one after the almighty season 2.

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Originally posted by Frisco17:
Oh yeah, Its the best one after the almighty season 2.

I concur

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Season 3 is better.

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In "Mother's Day," Greeting Card mentions that "Liquor is the opiate of the human bourgeoisie" and that "In the glorious robot workers' paradise, there will be no liquor. Only efficient synthetic fuels." So it looks like robots don't NEED to drink at all.

As for the taste thing, that's always bothered me too. I think there's a thing with smell, too.

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Robots have noses they just don't use them. Well at least Bender has one according to Bender Gets Made.

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Originally posted by JackedOn:
As a side note of non-contuinity in the first episode when Fry asked why he drank he replied with "I don't need to drink", however later on we learn he needs to drink to fuel his power cells.

Waiter: "Would monsieur care to see the wine list?"
Bender: "No poison for us, thanks. I'll stick with good old mineral oil. Ah, functional."

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In BBS Bender uses something that functions and slurps like a tongue. He may have the hardware (like standard robot mouth assembly RM-017-A or something) for tasting but not the software and/or tasting chip. It might be considered useless in a bending unit and make it more expensive.

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i like futz explanation, its technical and makes some what sense

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your right JackedOn its weird

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Sometimes I wonder how Bender tastes beer.  Considering robots have no sense of taste.

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The rate Bender drinks at, it'd be a miracle if he could taste it, even IF he had 'taste buds'. 

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What's also weird is that in Bender gets Mad he eats food and says it tastes good if he has no sense of taste.

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also why does he smoke?/

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Because cigars make him look cool.

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yeah your right he does look cool smoking a cigar

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how come in raging bender when he kicked and wrapped his foot around his neck he couldn't breathe, he's a robot they don't need to breathe ><

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idk its weird but i was just watching that episode 2day

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Originally posted by chanukahzombie:
In "Mother's Day," Greeting Card mentions that "Liquor is the opiate of the human bourgeoisie" and that "In the glorious robot workers' paradise, there will be no liquor. Only efficient synthetic fuels." So it looks like robots don't NEED to drink at all.

I was under the impression that only Bender Units needed to drink.   

And another thing...Bender says to Fry "I don't have anything else to do...let's get drunk!" in "Space Pilot 3000", yet it seems that the only time Bender displays human-like inebriation is when he doesn't drink ("Bender! You're blind stinking sober!" ). Curious...

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He's drunk when he's sober and sober when he's drunk.

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JackedOn - Fuel cells need oxygen. I do wonder where he intakes it though since he doesn't use his nose.

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futz- perhaps his mouth? He is able to inhale cigars, however I doubt they effect him in any way since he doesnt have blood or lungs.

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Yeah, remember in the Anthology ep-
Bender: "Wow! This is great!"
(don't remember right now): "You drank and smoked before, Bender!"
Bender: "Yeah, but now its bad for me!"

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Bender: "GOODBYE MODERATION!"

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Bingo. So there are multiple examples in the show showing how our dear Bender can, indeed, taste. Leela is just a crazy *CENSORED*.

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Originally posted by Futurama Llama:
Yeah, remember in the Anthology ep-
Bender: "Wow! This is great!"
(don't remember right now): "You drank and smoked before, Bender!"
Bender: "Yeah, but now its bad for me!"

ha ha what a great reason to try someting.