Meh, pretty average episode. Had a few funny moments - but not enough to hold the episode's weight in my opinion.

I saw it on Sunday night, but I'll do a more detailed review if I watch it again.

"Good news, everyone! I've taught the toaster to feel love!"

That's one of my favorite Professor quotes ever. 

Overall, though, the episode is pretty average. Not bad, but not my favorite. I'd give it a B.

Ah, another classic.
"They don't make movies like this anymore."

Judging from my avatar, you can tell I'm a big fan of this episode  This episode deserves mention just for Fnog's appearance. Also loved the brain slugs. Good stuff!

No girl has the will of the warrior. You have the will of a housewife or at best, a school mom.

It was a pretty entertaining episode this one, especially the cinema sequence, but did anyone else think that the concept of Ultimate Robot Fighting was somewhat weak? It was like an uncomfortable mixture of wrestling and boxing elements that was neither here nor there and whilst some of the pro-wrestling satire they did was spot-on (The Foreigner, Bender's sudden change in gimmick), other aspects like the other robot fighters and Adner Doubledeal had a comparatively tenuous link to the real-life sport.

 I'm probably over-analysing this, but I just felt this stopped the episode from being a classic and left it as being merely a funny episode here and there

I watched it on DVDs just a minture ago.

Classic. Chockfulla laughs, one of the best Bender centered eps.  There were so many hialrious moments, and we get to learn a tiny bit about Leela's past and her martial arts story. 

Random quote: "Why Zoidberg, there's a wonderful picture of you in here. " 

Solid A

Really hilarious one with loads of great jokes. Not the best, and the plot wasn't great, but I'd say it was one of the better Bender eps. The stuff with the movie was great, but it lost a little steam and got a bit dull during the bulk of Bender's wrestling plot. Great quotes:

"Two robots enter, one leaves. Then, later, the other robot leaves, having been declared the winner."
"That doesn't sound so bad."
"Did I mention the crippling agonizing pain? I'm pretty sure I did, oh, hmmm, yes, difinately."

"I WILL DESTROY YOU! ...And stop calling me."

B

Lew Morton was the writer.

I love this ep, one of the better ones from S2....I saw it for the first time the same day I got the new wrestling game for my Playstation....so at the time it was quite cool heh-heh

Lots of funny stuff, Bender's little "Go Bender, Go Bender" makes me laugh every time....
The wrestling parody worked well....and seeing Leela's troubled childhood was cool....

I love Destructor, and the little twist at the end....but in subsequent eps he doesn't seem to be controlled by Fnog....??
The brain slug on Hermes for the whole ep, and the part with Fry was funny, why do you guys hate it....? Baaahhh....

the best part, i think, is where, just after bender's first fight, where you see hermes about to put a brain slug on the little boy's head. i just love that.

I thought it was a pretty decent ep.  I did like the wrestling parody, with the various gimicks and rivalries and all that (one of my best friends is a big wrestling fan, so I got a little introduction to that in real life).  I really liked the movie theatre scene, especially when the masked unit (is that his name?  I can't remember!) begins to show his true form.
Bender: "Ah, ha ha ha ha...oh, I'm boned."

I also like Leela's last line.

"The important thing is I got to beat up someone who hurt me in high school."

Now who hasn't felt like that before?

The line about Fry's brain slug gave me a little chuckle...wasn't a great line (a little too predictable...I mean, who didn't see that shot at Fry comming from, say, Omicron Persei 8), but it didn't exactly make me cringe or anything.

Anyways, decent episode.  Not one I watch on a daily basis or anything, but still good.  B+/A- range.

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floozies: "we love you bender".
bender(pimp stylee): "shut up baby, i know it".

best line ever!

yes, i knew that........honest. i was just thinking of bender in his pimp fur coat and it made me remember.

Yep, that line (very funny it was too) was featured in "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" I think.

Although if the male Bender had worn the cowboy-hat ensemble that Coilette was wearing at one point in "Bend Her" he would look decidely pimp-ish as well.

 

Originally posted by Bushmeister:
Although if the male Bender had worn the cowboy-hat ensemble that Coilette was wearing at one point in "Bend Her" he would look decidely pimp-ish as well.

 Well, that's actually shows just how much range Bender has: he's been a pimp and a ho. He's done it all, y'know? 

Yeah, I just realised that's one of two Lew Morton episodes with a plot involving sexism (the other, of course, being AWITM). His eps always seem to have some sort of social commentary as a theme.

i like bender's random opponents, the foreigner- 'im not from here, i have my own customs- look at my CRAZY passport'

it was okay, not great, not bad. I loved the movie part and the commentary and the deleted scenes from it, but it was nothing special. I dont use the second disc of the second season that much because besides a clone of my own, it was a pretty mediocre one.
B-