Bender gets made

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Hi, I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but in "bender gets made" when he is talking to Tinny Tim at the oil-ade stand you can see the masked unit in the background!
Ok, its not really that amazing but i wondered if I was a. right b. hallucinating or c. going blind
can someone tell me please?

[Reply #1 on:]

I'll have an immediate look... *has an immediate look*

Yeah, that looks like him. Or it. 

[Reply #2 on:]

thanks, its nice to know im NOT going mad 

[Reply #3 on:]

Certainly looks like him 

[Reply #4 on:]

good noticed 

[Reply #5 on:]

There's actually an animation goof in that very same scene, although it might've been mentioned before, where Bender drinks that oil-aid (or whatever it is) but in the next shot the glass is full again.

[Reply #6 on:]

I think The Masked Untit also appears in 'Crimes of the Hot' too, at the robot party 

[Reply #7 on:]

Nice going catindisguise, I always miss these things.

[Reply #8 on:]

I don't notice those little things.

[Reply #9 on:]

I noticed it....*creates another thread to discuss it* 

[Reply #10 on:]

where?

[Reply #11 on:]

Is stuff like this in alot of episodes. ive never noticed any

[Reply #12 on:]

It's so great, all these tiny details. Also in the opening sequence... all those characters flying through those transportation tubes... Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Kif, Hermes, Amy, that cop... 

[Reply #13 on:]

Well they've kinda got reuse something... might as well be the deceased Masked Unit.....

[Reply #14 on:]

Cunning observation skills, CATINDISGUISE...I never noticed it before...

[Reply #15 on:]

if any of you have the 2004 calendar, that gold robot bhind Bender is a pirate robot on one of the calendar months, I just noticed that!

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I was wrong actually, the glass isn't full again...



...it just completely vanishes. 

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I thought the masked unit is dead though? or is that episode AFTER that one.

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The Masked Unit fell down and switched off but he was never completely destroyed or anything so there is no reason why he couldn't have been fixed in time for BGM. In fact, in the same episode The Clear Cutter's head exploded and he was back to normal a few minutes later, this sort of thing is probably built into Ultimate Robot Fighters.

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That full glass thing... That reminds me of commercials. When people drink stuff in commercials, there is often a cut when they put the glass down. After the cut it will probably be full again (at least in Denmark)

[Reply #20 on:]

I think the most blatant example of the glass thing is in The Cyber House Rules when Amy drops her wine glass, which breaks, and is seen in a couple of shots time holding a full glass again.

[Reply #21 on:]

RE: Broken wine glass
Ref: "The Cryonic Woman" - Reforming glasses exist in future.

Also, she could have just, you know, picked up another glass. Unless that technology was lost in the 1000 year gap.

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Well I didn't hear any reforming glass sounds! 

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I posted about the Oil-ade thingy about a month ago. Anyway,  "Raging Bender" came BEFORE this episode, and I think (and I'm sticking to this theory) that TMM (Masked Unit) was only knocked out. (I haven't seen RB in a while, so tonight I'll pop in the DVD and watch again. Edits will be made. Punch will be served.)
 

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Originally posted by Prof. Wernstrum:
The Masked Unit fell down and switched off but he was never completely destroyed or anything so there is no reason why he couldn't have been fixed in time for BGM. In fact, in the same episode The Clear Cutter's head exploded and he was back to normal a few minutes later, this sort of thing is probably built into Ultimate Robot Fighters.

That's true. I mean, if Malfunctioning Eddy can be repaired after exploding a countless number of times, I'm sure they can revive The Masked Unit.

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It's more of a practical reason than that though - it's not realistic to ask the layout artists to redesign a whole new set of robots for each episode so that you don't ever see a repeat.  In Mothers Day, Insane in the Mainframe, Crimes of the Hot and pretty much any other place you need a big crowd of robots, the vast majority of them are repetitions of designs that already exist in the model pack.

Commentary for Mother's Day

Show spoiler

Lew Morton: Isn't that Destructor from the other episode?
Rich Moore: You're gonna see just about every robot we've done in this episode.
Brian Sheesley: And then you're going to see some even duplicated and recolored.
Rich Moore: You're gonna see Destructor's green brother.
Chris Tyng: How many robots are there?
Brian Sheesley: Well, when we were working on this episode there were about 110 in the model packet. We're well over 200 by now.

So there!
 

 

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should probably be a new topic, but i'l just tack it on here. what is you're favourite robot from any episode? i love the rabbai robot, i cant remember what episode. 'we believe that he existed and was a ver well programmed robot, but he was not our messiah'

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Favorite robot. Favorite robot, Mark II

iHawk pwns the all.