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PrinceDaniel
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Zoidberg also ate a live raccoon inside his shell, attacked Fry, and is an incompetent doctor. But i believe he is pure because that comes naturally after all the abuse he receives from the Planet Express crew.
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Ride The Walrus
Crustacean
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I'm glad to see some response to this query. Zoidberg is a pretty tough character to suss out because of his transient nature. However, I think we can all agree that he has his fair share of inadequacy issues. Zoidberg never gets a chance to do anything, so when he's presented with a opportunity, (pretty much any opportunity), he participates. His poor impulse control shows clearly in some of his snap judgements and decisions. (Like eating Vinnie the bully and trading controlling stock of Planet Express for a sandwich). Most times, however, he reflects on his decisions, shows genuine remorse and tries to make up for his wrongdoings. His behavioral learning curve is painfully slow due to the fact that the crew of Planet Express generally ignores and ridicules him. This leaves him no recourse but to figure out his mistakes on his own. Zoidberg has a strong, pervasive desire to lead and to be indispensable, so he gets a little wacky in those rare moments when he's given the chance.
One last thought; in "The Cryonic Woman", Zoidberg goes to Fantasy Planet and gets a chance to choose a fantasy he'd like fulfilled. He chooses to be a grandmother. "Subjugated, yet honored." A clear sign if any that Dr. John Zoidberg is capable of keeping his dark side in check, and that his desires are not so grandiose.
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TomAllen
Bending Unit
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See, now, some folks would say Zoidberg got the pogo stick just so Robot Santa could be defeated. Bubkus! Bubkus, I say.
Robot Santa invariably judges every Earthling naughty, be they as clever as Leela or as dumb as Fry. (Am not!)
However, Zoidberg is not a human. Robot Santa's tolerances are set to human standards, by which no human is nice. But Zoidberg? He's a Decapodian. And a schmuck. No wonder Robot Santa can't process him as naughty in the human way. So his programming probably faltered and judged Zoidberg pogo-worthy.
In fact, were the question ever to come up, I bet Nibbler (the Nibblonian) would be judged nice as well. After all, Nibblonians are so, so, sooooo cute. Though not, of course, if you ask the Brain Spawn.
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Shiny
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What confuses me is that earlier in the very same episode Zoidberg did something naughty: pushed Hermes down the bobsled run and laughed about it. I guess Robot Santa doesn't catch EVERYthing on that viewer of his....
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TomAllen
Bending Unit
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Silence! I don't think the robots on that planet were too keen on any humanoid lifeform. Yes, Leela protested, but to robots -- human or humanoid or Decapodian, hey, what's the difference?
Silence! I mean, recall Bender's reaction in "Crustacean in Love."
Bender: Please, he's no different from the rest of you organisms; shooting DNA at each other make babies. I find it offensive. (From Neutral Planet script.)
Silence! Oh, nothing. I just wanted to say "Silence!" Like, you know, an alien, or a robot, or an alien robot.
Yet Robot Santa never said, "Silence!" Makes you think, doesn't it? It does? Hurrah!
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Shiny
Professor
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Originally posted by Sk8PrO: ...I based my tought on [Leela's] comments in Fear of a Bot Planet, when she's assuming that she is not human. but it could only be a way to avoid being killed. At the time of that episode, she still believed herself to be an alien, abandoned by non-Earthling parents of an unknown galaxy. The episode where she found her parents and discovered she was really a mutant was much, MUCH later in the show.
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Shiny
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Ummm...are you implying that sex is inevitably fatal? Or just that if we had sex lives, we wouldn't bother with those of fictional characters? Because that's true for me, but my three roommates have had lots of sex and were STILL fans before, during, and after said relationships (both long and short term, and no, they didn't end because of fandom! )
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