Blooper in Godfellas

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Early in the episode, when Bender flies through the asteroid field, a small asteroid punches a hole in his head.  A minute later, and the hole's disappeared.  Any explanations?

[Reply #1 on:]

Just like the thing he carved into his chest, It was probably a deliberate mistake for the sake of a joke.

[Reply #2 on:]

Space Wizard.

[Reply #3 on:]

Maybe... a space cow wizard! That'd be totally awesome.

[Reply #4 on:]

Let's not forget the holes Bender had in previous episodes. Like in "Fry & The Slurm Factory" and "Insane in The Mainframe".

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The hole in Bender's head is discussed several times in the following threads if you want more information and conjecture.

 Thread 1

 Thread 2

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[Reply #6 on:]

Bender is made of a special metal which "heals" itself when damaged.


or maybe it's a cartoon and it happens all the time

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I'll say its all just good cartoon logic    If everything was really serious and perfect it wouldn't be as funny maybe   

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Bender seems to be more of a parody of a robot than an actual robot. I mean why would a robot be able to feel pain unless it was programmed that way? Simple... if Bender was an ordinary robot, he would be boring. His human-like character makes him funny.

[Reply #9 on:]

I couldn't have put it better myself Archie 

[Reply #10 on:]

"I am Bender. Please insert girder."

[Reply #11 on:]

Show some respect, he's BENDING UNIT 22

[Reply #12 on:]

Actually, he's Bender Bending Rodriguez.

[Reply #13 on:]

actually, he's Bender Bending Rodriguez Unit 22

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Maybe he has a robotic healing factor much like the Bender in issue (I forget) of the Futurama comics.

[Reply #15 on:]

A mutant healing factor and an adamantium skeleton!

[Reply #16 on:]

Well.. maybe he contains a self-repairing nanobot mechanism?

[Reply #17 on:]

space worms!

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Originally posted by yokurt:
space worms!

*cough* ->robotic<- space worms, if so.   

[Reply #19 on:]

Fry's worms in Parasites Lost were technologically advanced--they had a public transportation system, medical lasers, and everything--so could they not produce their own robot race, just as Earthlings made a robot race that resembled themselves? Not a big deal, but amusing to think about.

In a deleted scene from The Series Has Landed, The Crushinator suggests to "Paw" that she is carrying Bender's child. Oh Glod, how does THAT work? Does Bender have a couple of nanite colonies living in his, um, groin region? 

[Reply #20 on:]

Maybe they cut it out because they decided that the concept seemed too incredible? Rather than just lack of time? 

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It would seem that Zed 85 has the most likely solution.

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Robot children are the result of programming interfacing, a blend of the two personality cores is stored inside the 'female' robot, but they need to go to a factory to have a body made for them.

A Robot body would not work for the worms, they are parasites and therefore need to parasatise an organic host.

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Ah, but Fry's worms, in spite of the episode title, were not really parasites! From Dictionary.com:

par·a·site: An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host.

Fry's space-worms repaired what should have been a fatal wound and were very, very beneficial to Fry in many ways, regardless of his concerns about how they affected his relationship with Leela. All they wanted in return was a warm colon in which to live and three square meals a day.   

Were they to build robot duplicates, they would act according to their programming, which would probably be: (1)protect the host; (2) reproduce and spread.

(Yessir, spendin' WAY too much time thinkin' about this...)

[Reply #24 on:]

Yes, that would be an example of mutualism, not parasitism.

Still, I think "Parasites Lost" is a great title.

[Reply #25 on:]

"Symbiotes Lost" just doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

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It's not a pun either.

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Originally posted by Archie2K:
Bender seems to be more of a parody of a robot than an actual robot

Three years after it's debut, Archie2K finally gets the point of Futurama.

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Bender: "I'm..a..robot?"

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Originally posted by PCC Fred:
 Three years after it's debut, Archie2K finally gets the point of Futurama.

I don't get it.

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Futurama is a parody of science fiction; almost everything in the show is a parody of some form of science fiction, be it book, tv show, or movie.  Many people just see the show as "the simpsons in space", or believe it to be a science fiction television show (like star trek, or farscape).

The entire point of futurama is not to be just another science fiction series but to parody it, so with the statement, "I think bender is more a parody of a robot than an actual robot", you struck what the entire show is about.  Leela isn't an alien babe, she is a parody of an alien babe; PE ship is not a spaceship, it is a parody of a spaceship, etc.

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Said on the DVD:

"If you love sci-fi, you'll love Futurama for all the little references we put in. If you hate sci-fi you'll love Futurama because we poke fun of all those other sci-fi-series."

(Typed from memory, don't quote me on it)

But I loved what David Cohen said about the origin of Zoidberg: He's a parody of "Bones" McCoy, but the other way around. McCoy is a human doctor, that performs surgery on aliens who have vastly different anatomy than humans. If he (Cohen) was Mr. Spock he didn't want to have McCoy perform surgery on him. Zoidberg is an alien doctor performing surgery on humans.

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Originally posted by Teral:

But I loved what David Cohen said about the origin of Zoidberg: He's a parody of "Bones" McCoy, but the other way around. McCoy is a human doctor, that performs surgery on aliens who have vastly different anatomy than humans. If he (Cohen) was Mr. Spock he didn't want to have McCoy perform surgery on him. Zoidberg is an alien doctor performing surgery on humans.

This explains a lot about 'Enterprise'. IT'S A PARODY OF STAR TREK! Although now I think about it, a lot of people have been saying that ever since they heard that a song used in Patch Adams was going to be the theme tune...