Fall Madness Finals: Bender Bending Rodriguez vs Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

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In the Final match-up of Fall Madness 2011, we have Bender versus the Professor.

Bender has a fairly easy road to the finals, with his hardest match-up being last round against Fry. Will this round be as easy as all the others?

The Professor has proved himself in his road, defeating favorites Scruffy, Zoidberg, and the Robot Devil to reach the Finals. Can he conquer one more favorite?

So who will win FMMMXI? Discuss now, the polls will open tomorrow just after noon EST and will remain open until Friday at noon EST.

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Sweet Christ this is a tough one...

Professor can realy make me laugh out loud, Bender has his LOL moments too, but he's more of an awesome, cool, respected character. Personality wise, Bender wins. The Professor can be a douche at times, but God damn he is hilarious. Plus Bender used to be my fave character. I'll have to think about this....

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I don't want to live on this planet anymore

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Do you want to live IN this planet instead?

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This isn't even difficult for me. The Professor is more thought-provoking, more interesting as a character (with the backstory and all), and simply funnier.

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Spira verbalised my thoughts brilliantly.

Seeing as Zoidberg is out of the competition, Professy all the way.

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Bender. Don't even need to think about it.

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The Professor is more thought-provoking, more interesting as a character (with the backstory and all), and simply funnier.

See, I think Bender is the more thought-provoking character; most of the deeper, more philosophical episodes are based around him. Issues like mortality ("A Pharaoh to Remember" and "Lethal Inspection"), faith ("Godfellas"), and friendship ("I, Roommate," "Jurassic Bark," "The Beast With a Billion Backs") have all been explored in a really touching, human way--but with a robot as the point-of-view character. And, I don't know, I just think that's neat.

When he's serving as a vehicle for these thought-provoking, poignant stories, I really adore Bender. He has his moments of of nearly-irredeemable antagonism (can I mention just one more time how much I loathe "Ghost in the Machines"?), but he is also capable of these incredibly sweet and humane gestures (a recent example: "Overclockwise").

Farnsworth is a great character, and I wouldn't be upset if he won. But I have to go with Bender; he's the character in whom I'm more emotionally-invested. And, as a weepy, touchy-feely young woman, of course all I care about is which character tugs at my heartstrings more.

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See, I think Bender is the more thought-provoking character; most of the deeper, more philosophical episodes are based around him. Issues like mortality ("A Pharaoh to Remember" and "Lethal Inspection"), faith ("Godfellas"), and friendship ("I, Roommate," "Jurassic Bark," "The Beast With a Billion Backs") have all been explored in a really touching, human way--but with a robot as the point-of-view character. And, I don't know, I just think that's neat.

I completely agree that this is very neat and is one of the best things Futurama has done. But all of that (with the exception of LI, which was dependent on Hermes) was dependent on Fry in order to get the point across. Which isn't a bad thing at all in terms of the show being good, but for the purposes of deciding which individual character is better than the other, that makes me lean away from Bender a bit.

I am probably being picky. Bender's excellent, he's just too much of an ass for me to be really emotionally invested in him. I do love it when he shows his softer side, though.

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Please, triplets, don't make me choose!
I love Bender very much for the reasons you mentioned, Gorks. The writers tend to use him very effectively to explore very human issues. However, the professor is an honorary Globetrotter, and that's one thing that Bender will never be.
Professy it is!

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Professor Farnsworth by far, too many annoying Bender episodes for him to deserve this...
 

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The Professor is more thought-provoking, more interesting as a character (with the backstory and all), and simply funnier.

See, I think Bender is the more thought-provoking character; most of the deeper, more philosophical episodes are based around him. Issues like mortality ("A Pharaoh to Remember" and "Lethal Inspection"), faith ("Godfellas"), and friendship ("I, Roommate," "Jurassic Bark," "The Beast With a Billion Backs") have all been explored in a really touching, human way--but with a robot as the point-of-view character. And, I don't know, I just think that's neat.

When he's serving as a vehicle for these thought-provoking, poignant stories, I really adore Bender. He has his moments of of nearly-irredeemable antagonism (can I mention just one more time how much I loathe "Ghost in the Machines"?), but he is also capable of these incredibly sweet and humane gestures (a recent example: "Overclockwise").

Farnsworth is a great character, and I wouldn't be upset if he won. But I have to go with Bender; he's the character in whom I'm more emotionally-invested. And, as a weepy, touchy-feely young woman, of course all I care about is which character tugs at my heartstrings more.

That was Bender's purpose as a character from the very beginning.  You could throw him away as a deviant character, but no one would care because he's not human.  Then you could double back to have a deeper inspection on the human condition with him precisely because he is the embodiment of the observer.

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I have to go with the man who wanted to put the brain of Adolf Hitler into a great white shark!

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If you need me, I'll be in the Angrydome.

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Age before beauty.

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So Bender? He's at least a few million years old...

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After watching a clone of my own last night, I will have to go with the professor this time.

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If my candidate loses, I'll be joining him in the angry dome.

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Hubey all the way.

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Wow, this will be a tough one.  I think in the end, I will vote for the professor.

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Poll will close soon, no?


Bumped in case someone forgot to vote.

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Me! Thanks Bend-err.

Sweet Christ I really don't know who to choose...

Bender it is. Sorry Professor.

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See, helped again... don't forget to vote for me in the PEELies now

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The tension is killing me! I'm feeling good about this one, as in the Professor better win or there'll be trouble...

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Farnsworth WINS!

I'm not surprised by the outcome, but I am surprised by the margin.

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I agree with SpaceMaN, that's a way higher win than I expected. But with some of the Season 6 episodes Farnsworth definitely deserves the win.

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Awesome outcome, very pleased with this. The Professor has remained great, Bender is hit and miss. Twice as many votes as Bender too, decent margin!...

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Also you can see all results in text and in bracket for on the Fall Madness 2011 page, brought to you by yours truly!

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YES YES YES.
This result is as it should be.

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Well, that was fun.

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Thank fucking goodness this is over.

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What a large margin of victory! An excellent result.