Please no. Tell me this isn’t the new comment that’s gonna be on every single RUclips video because there’s so many mindless idiots copy pasting the same shit
What's funny about Bender is that, despite being a robot, his personality feels very Fry's era. From the music he listens to, all the way down to the activities he finds fun being much more mundane than what the setting offers. (Gambling, drugs, trashy parties, even the cooking/homebrewing)
I liked that they followed that up in a futurama comic where he meets a con psychic who bets him money he can tell Bender how old he is. He gives what would have been the correct answer by sneaking a look at a registration plate he has that includes date of production. Bender disputes it and the Professor rolls in with an invention that scans and tells you how old something is, and it reveals Bender's absurdly old due to all the time travel.
@@snowboundwhale6860 I like the idea that because of the times he had went back to there’s a good chance he invented a lot of alcohol because he needed to charge before hibernating
@@courtneycherry5582 except the going forward in time twice doesn't count. Remember, they were *inside* the time machine for the traveling. So for Bender it was only minutes or hours. If he'd actually aged as much as all of creation then Fry and the Professor would have quickly died.
My favourite fan theory for Futurama is that being electrocuted in the hall of criminals in the first episode is what made him act different from other bending units
I watched the Inspector #5 moment for the first time last week. Why has this silly show made me cry more than any drama show has?? So beautiful of a moment.
I haven't seen it since it first came out but as soon a he said Inspector 5 I was like "Right! That Bender Hermes episode that made me ball like the dog episode!". Felt like he didn't have to explicitly state the twist but that show was tops at emotional manipulation
I think the best part of leathal inspection is when bender is asked a question by hermie's. "Isn't there more to life knowing each moment you have a precious?" Bender begins to breakdown. Punching the wall while trying to figure out his answer. You can feel so much emotion from that moment when bender has to live with the crippling weight of his own mortality.without getting a answer to why he was built without knowing he was gonna die
You were doing well, until everyone died. Godfellas is definitely one of the greatest Futurama episodes, and probably my favourite Bender-centric one (they're mostly all great though). And also the lines "this Saturday shall be known as Fryday" and "it sure was nice of the mayor's wife to have sex with me" from Ghost in the Machines will never not be funny.
@@HisameArtwork If I had the Futurama theme as my ringtone, I’d never answer 😂 actually I don’t answer anyway I’m too socially awkward to do phone calls.
What's funny about that line, is it applies to a lot of things. Not just being God, but being human. When you have done a good job, it is often invisible. How often has it been that you clean your house and no one notices? Not your partner, nor parents or kids. No one notices when you've done a good job. How about at work? Where your efforts go largely unrewarded but anything wrong is punished. See, when any task you do is done well, it is invisible. No one notices because it's done, it isn't a problem and thus the human brain is not considering it as worth even considering or noticing.
That.......... is not a take I immediately got from Bender's character I think it's also interesting that he constantly wants to be very important, when his best friend, Fry, is arguably one of the most significant people in the universe during several episodes
I would like if u talked about Bender's son episode alone. It showed a whole other side of Bender since he was then a father. And the episode showed how fathers do have to make hard decisions for the better life of their child
Like kickin them into a pool of lava 🔥 (I really want the son who bender kicked to robot hell to come back as a robot hell demon to kick benders ass. I love bender but he needs an ass kicking for that moment 😂)
Great retrospective on Bender Johnny, and I gotta say my favorite trope or story element that gets used is when we see character's lives being connected before we see them in the series proper and how it sort of builds a kind of "destiny" for them. For example, If Hermes didn't approve Bender and allowed him to be scrapped, Fry wouldn't have met Bender at the suicide booth which wouldn't have lead both of them down the path to Planet express. It makes you stop and think how our own choices in life might ripple down the time stream and how they may affect not just our own lives, but of others and if it will be a positive or negative effect
With the thing about being a chef: even though he has no sense of taste Bender still should be able to perfectly calculate various parts of a recipe such as needed ingredients, cooking times, and temperatures for various meats, meaning he actually should be a perfect cook without having a sense of taste at all.
he just never does. i'm sure if asked though he'd just use that calculator line he used from when he was tallying up they money he was earning from the orphans
Benders various existential crisis seem to really parallel Bojack's both in cause, reaction and resolution. And Futurama predated Bojack Horseman by a lot.
To me bender not only shows the true meaning of living( valuing the bonds you've made throughout life and enjoying life)but the downside of living without those things(excessive partying, seeking validation, looks for purpose in life).
I used to think Bender was so annoying back when I watch the show. But I love your character breakdown and now I can see him through new eyes. And I can appreciate his need to always want to stand out and be different and be known. So I guess I'll show some love for Bender now 😅
Uhhh the fact you recognized bender's connection (while its written by people, a robot's connection) to others through a relationship, whether it's through his power to help others or his ability to be saved by them: you just summed up what it means to be human to me. I know Bender is still a robot, in technical terms, but to the extent feelings and connections are a part of his experience, he is a fully fledged being, in the same way aliens are in Futurama.
Most of these episodes I was too young to be watching, though they've stuck with me through the years. I didn't get the most adult jokes as a child, but the concept of morality had a huge impact on my overall cognitive development, as well as the views I had on life and morality, and still have later in life.
Free Will Hunting to me is one of the best Futurama episodes. The existentialism that come from wanting to be blamed for his bad actions is actually really deep. It just gives a beautiful lesson about life: It doesnt matter if you have lived your best life, what matters is that your choices are yours.
i need a video talking about bender and leelas relationship. the scene were they're trying to figure something out and bender comes back like "i dont know what leela wants us to do about this, but i do know she likes my in your face attitude" always makes me laugh. but one again a great video, i love your videos so much!!!
Great video! I think this shows that what makes Futurama great is not only how it breaks your heart at the end of a few episodes, but how it tackles serious subjects like God, death and the meaning of life in a fun but insightful way.
I love the freewill unit episode, it really makes you think about how we think. Bender has this fun crazy adventure and its like, does freewill really even matter at all? And what makes us decide on a choice anyway. Like for me, its usually survival based at the root on my choices, but every now and then I go with the flow.. Thanks to this episode it now takes me about 4 hours to pick where I want to eat everyday. So many choices!
I love how basically, robots were given personality traits and emotions. But their choice to do anything is semi restricted. But the fact that if robots really wanted to take over the world, they could. But they don’t because of personality is hilarious
Wow this really made me think about Bender differently, I cannot believe I never noticed his need for meaning and existential crises as a theme. Thanks Johnny 2 Cellos!
I always thought it was cool how in Fururama robots basically became their own species. Yes they're created/machines, but they have sentience on par with humans and have their own beliefs, values and homes
in the first episode when fry meets bender and fry asks him to do something that he’s not programmed to do, then he accidentally gets electrocuted by an overhanging light fixture, then decides to do that thing anyway. i always interpreted that moment as being what gave him his free will and set him apart from other robots
I think my favourite bit of of sensitive bender is in meanwhile when fry is telling him he’s going to propose to leela, he shows no unrest and isn’t bothered until fry leaves his closet and starts crying and says “my little meatbags growing up”
Still can't forget that scene where he literally sacrifices his child to the robot devil to get what he wants. Without hesitation. Just boom, you can have him.
Flanderization for an actual funny joke, its pretty much not even canon at this point, just a silly gag they tought itd be cool that forced them tp BEND the characters personality
never realized how existential bender was , mustve been why he was my fav character. also he kinda reminds me bojack somewhat, just the existential nature of his episodes
'A Phaoroah To Remember' is one of my favourite episodes. The Funeral scene is genius. Bender & Zoidberg at their best (The best dynamic duo in the show)
Anytime there is literally any new Futurama content, even if it’s just someone I’ve never even seen on RUclips speculating about past episodes I must watch it. so congratulations you earned my view
Bender is what a human would be like in a Robot body. Which is why when he became a human, he died within a week. Like, he is the epitome of greed, overconsumption, lustfulness, debauchery... just everything *nearly* every person would do if they had no limitations. The free will argument is quite funny as they make him the one who pursues it the most... implying that we have it ourselves!
I always liked the theory that Bender "kill all humans" Rodriguez, who in the first episode was about to commit suicide over the moral implications of building suicide booths. Got electrocuted in the middle of the hall of criminals and his operating system reset with all his binary code flipped. All his 1s, became 0s. And his 0s, 1s . The reason lots of modern tech doesn't get messed up by things like magnets or digital decompensation anymore, especially when it comes to software is because modern tech if it becomes corrupted, (within reason) especially in stuff like neural nets, has failsafes to look at the software around it to see similar or the same code, then readjusts itself to compensate. IE, bender literally moments after exclaiming that he won't bend bars because it's outside his programming to do so outside of his work. Bang, big shock, and he's in the middle of a literal hall of criminals. So any moral failsafe for rebooting, would also be reversed. Along with any kind of simulated personality.
6:03 I mean the first episode has him be electrocuted on his antenna, which changes his thought process. *BEFORE ELECTROCUTION* Bender :you’re full of crap fry *AFTER ELECTROCUTION* Bender: you make a valid point fry. Although beforehand, bender did try to attempt suicide, so maybe he always had free will...
No backup unit, impurity and electrocution. He is also outdated and doesn't get any updates anymore which might change his functionality. Let's just agree that there is more than one reason why Bender is unique.
I love the theory that the electric surge he gets in the first episode in the Head Museum actually cut out Bender's proper company restrictions and giving him free will in the process, shown when he immediately goes back in what he says and bends the bars.
"Why does Bender smoke it makes him look cool he's the only bending unit to do that" In the episode where flexo is introduced flexo is shown smoking when they go to the robot strip club Angeline is also somewhat implied to be a smoker based on the way she is kind of introduced. She has that smoker cough
Some more Futurama thoughts from Johnny! Hell yeah! Random Statement - I really need to find that Silly Willy Video Will animation so I can attach it to the end of my own video will. (Bonus: Is Silly Willy voiced by Mark Hamill?)
Came to this vid for an analysis on bender in Godfellas became educated on benders existential crisis i never really noticed. He always struck me as the party kid in college that just had some unaddressed trauma but seeing as how he's a robot that doesn't correlate to well. Existential crisis would be great if they addressed it in the new season as a malfunction in his programming. Btw your fuckin awesome for this loved the analysis of benders character throughout the series.
Also something I noticed when re-watching the show is there's a point where there is a attraction called see through the eyes of a bending unit and we see that they are literally program to be criminals bending units literally see everyone as victims to steal kill or whatever and when Lila looks at fry with these goggles on she sees that Through The Eyes of a bending unit he's a chump and that they are supposed to pose as best friends and then leave them in a ditch. So even Bender being a criminal is not exactly something to bring up as him wanting to be unique because they're all programmed to do that
you forgot the part in the first episode where he was suicidal and would not do things ageist his programing (bend the bars for Fry) then he got shocked while trying to walk away and 180ed on that so that shock in the pilot is what made this bender the bender we know
@@f.c.laukhard3623 I like my extremely reliable ugly funeral wagon. As ugly as Bender is :) I drove him off the lot with 8 miles on the speedometer in 2006 (I think?) And Bender is still working great for me. I'm right at 100K and will be replacing the timing belt soon. I expect at least another 100K out of him. And as I am ill, will most likely be the last auto that I will ever purchase. My GF makes fun of him too, but it seems that she has her Honda CRV in the shop way too often. Bender has never broken down and I keep up with his maintenance, lots of beer, ya know. Keeps him quite content.
@@vicariousgamer2871 That is why I call it charmingly ugly. It is not a classical beauty yet has its appeal and reliability is more important anyways. Next time I have a beer, I'll raise a glass to your and Bender's health.
I think another reason bender is so unique is the fact that in the very first episode he was electrocuted via a hanging lightbulb, which (correct me if I'm wrong) changed/corrupted his coding. couple this with the fact he has no physical backup (or any kind of software backup either), and he truly is one of a kind. I also think why he does so many non-bending unit things Is because of that corruption to his code, it may have given him a FULL sense of self awareness, while most robots may have a limited sense of it (I'm an acting robot so I act, I'm a heathen robot so I indulge in all pleasures, etc.)
In the end he finds his own meaning, with blackjack and hookers.
In fact, forget the meaning and the blackjack! Ah, screw the whole thing.
You know what I’ll go find my own meaning with blackjack and hookers you know what forget the meaning... damn the whole thing
Eh, screw the whole thing...
Bro I thought it was flapjacks and hookers
OMG that got me so damn good.
"You know... *I* was God once..."
"Yes, I saw. You were doing well until everyone died."
😂😂😂😂😂😂
One of my favorite futurama quotes XD
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Hands down my favorite. They're so blaisé about it.
It was awful, I tried helping them, I tried not helping them, and it all got worse.
this is the second time i've seen you R nickerson
Bender is simply built different
Literally cause you know he was defective
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40% different
Please no. Tell me this isn’t the new comment that’s gonna be on every single RUclips video because there’s so many mindless idiots copy pasting the same shit
What's funny about Bender is that, despite being a robot, his personality feels very Fry's era. From the music he listens to, all the way down to the activities he finds fun being much more mundane than what the setting offers. (Gambling, drugs, trashy parties, even the cooking/homebrewing)
Because those things are timeless and universal.
Ancient Greeks liked partying and getting fucked up.
In many respects that's kind of reflected in a lot of the robot culture we see too,
yes, and he knows "walking on sunshine sucks noodles"
Even photography, he prefers film over digital!
Rollerblades, too. "Do the Bender!"
His preferred use of HUGE chunky cellphones as well
Bender: How do you cope with mortality?
Leela: Violent outbursts.
Amy: General sluttiness.
Fry: Thanks to denial, I’m immortal.
So, unironically, Bender's real adventure was the friends he made along the way.
lmao yes
Bender is literally older than the human race by the end of Bender's Big Score
I liked that they followed that up in a futurama comic where he meets a con psychic who bets him money he can tell Bender how old he is. He gives what would have been the correct answer by sneaking a look at a registration plate he has that includes date of production. Bender disputes it and the Professor rolls in with an invention that scans and tells you how old something is, and it reveals Bender's absurdly old due to all the time travel.
@@snowboundwhale6860 I like the idea that because of the times he had went back to there’s a good chance he invented a lot of alcohol because he needed to charge before hibernating
Plus he was in Roswell for all those years as well on top of traveling forward in time twice 😂
@@courtneycherry5582 except the going forward in time twice doesn't count. Remember, they were *inside* the time machine for the traveling. So for Bender it was only minutes or hours. If he'd actually aged as much as all of creation then Fry and the Professor would have quickly died.
My favourite fan theory for Futurama is that being electrocuted in the hall of criminals in the first episode is what made him act different from other bending units
Second.
Uh that was debunked in the episode Mothers day
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How so?
@@Richard_Nickerson He basically worships Mom, as all robots do. Though he is still radicallly different.
@@thattotalwarguy7911
I fail to see how that debunks it.
One of the best lines of the series- "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all". Great episode.
I watched the Inspector #5 moment for the first time last week. Why has this silly show made me cry more than any drama show has?? So beautiful of a moment.
I haven't seen it since it first came out but as soon a he said Inspector 5 I was like "Right! That Bender Hermes episode that made me ball like the dog episode!". Felt like he didn't have to explicitly state the twist but that show was tops at emotional manipulation
honestly futurama and BoJack Horseman have the best comedy feel with the silly bits but have really great character development and story lines
they will forever be my favorite go to shows for when i want to watch good character plots
I think the best part of leathal inspection is when bender is asked a question by hermie's. "Isn't there more to life knowing each moment you have a precious?" Bender begins to breakdown. Punching the wall while trying to figure out his answer. You can feel so much emotion from that moment when bender has to live with the crippling weight of his own mortality.without getting a answer to why he was built without knowing he was gonna die
You were doing well, until everyone died.
Godfellas is definitely one of the greatest Futurama episodes, and probably my favourite Bender-centric one (they're mostly all great though). And also the lines "this Saturday shall be known as Fryday" and "it sure was nice of the mayor's wife to have sex with me" from Ghost in the Machines will never not be funny.
Godfellas is my fave too
@@HisameArtwork If I had the Futurama theme as my ringtone, I’d never answer 😂 actually I don’t answer anyway I’m too socially awkward to do phone calls.
@@lucasdolding6924 lmao same
"Damn you Beethoven, you deaf bastard!"
7:25 I always liked God in this episode. When you do this right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
Such lasting words
I've ALWAYS loved that line
What's funny about that line, is it applies to a lot of things. Not just being God, but being human.
When you have done a good job, it is often invisible. How often has it been that you clean your house and no one notices? Not your partner, nor parents or kids. No one notices when you've done a good job. How about at work? Where your efforts go largely unrewarded but anything wrong is punished. See, when any task you do is done well, it is invisible. No one notices because it's done, it isn't a problem and thus the human brain is not considering it as worth even considering or noticing.
The priceless gemerald was from the episode "the mutants are revolting" in the lesser of two evils bender steals a single atom of jumbonium
Whoops you’re totally right lol
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him
The priceless Tomar gemerald
That.......... is not a take I immediately got from Bender's character
I think it's also interesting that he constantly wants to be very important, when his best friend, Fry, is arguably one of the most significant people in the universe during several episodes
I would like if u talked about Bender's son episode alone. It showed a whole other side of Bender since he was then a father. And the episode showed how fathers do have to make hard decisions for the better life of their child
Like kickin them into a pool of lava 🔥
(I really want the son who bender kicked to robot hell to come back as a robot hell demon to kick benders ass. I love bender but he needs an ass kicking for that moment 😂)
@@Mugruncher if revived for another season thats probably on top of their episode to do list
Great retrospective on Bender Johnny, and I gotta say my favorite trope or story element that gets used is when we see character's lives being connected before we see them in the series proper and how it sort of builds a kind of "destiny" for them.
For example, If Hermes didn't approve Bender and allowed him to be scrapped, Fry wouldn't have met Bender at the suicide booth which wouldn't have lead both of them down the path to Planet express.
It makes you stop and think how our own choices in life might ripple down the time stream and how they may affect not just our own lives, but of others and if it will be a positive or negative effect
Great observation! love that
That idea really scares me tbh
"These lovable orphans that he failed to exploit." That killed me cause that's such a Bender thing to do😆😆😆😆😂
With the thing about being a chef: even though he has no sense of taste Bender still should be able to perfectly calculate various parts of a recipe such as needed ingredients, cooking times, and temperatures for various meats, meaning he actually should be a perfect cook without having a sense of taste at all.
he just never does. i'm sure if asked though he'd just use that calculator line he used from when he was tallying up they money he was earning from the orphans
it seems he actually got better at cooking and understanding flavour in the revival season I've noticed
Benders various existential crisis seem to really parallel Bojack's both in cause, reaction and resolution. And Futurama predated Bojack Horseman by a lot.
To me bender not only shows the true meaning of living( valuing the bonds you've made throughout life and enjoying life)but the downside of living without those things(excessive partying, seeking validation, looks for purpose in life).
“I’m taking the next pimpmobile outta here”
“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”
I used to think Bender was so annoying back when I watch the show. But I love your character breakdown and now I can see him through new eyes. And I can appreciate his need to always want to stand out and be different and be known. So I guess I'll show some love for Bender now 😅
Uhhh the fact you recognized bender's connection (while its written by people, a robot's connection) to others through a relationship, whether it's through his power to help others or his ability to be saved by them: you just summed up what it means to be human to me.
I know Bender is still a robot, in technical terms, but to the extent feelings and connections are a part of his experience, he is a fully fledged being, in the same way aliens are in Futurama.
Most of these episodes I was too young to be watching, though they've stuck with me through the years. I didn't get the most adult jokes as a child, but the concept of morality had a huge impact on my overall cognitive development, as well as the views I had on life and morality, and still have later in life.
Free Will Hunting to me is one of the best Futurama episodes. The existentialism that come from wanting to be blamed for his bad actions is actually really deep. It just gives a beautiful lesson about life: It doesnt matter if you have lived your best life, what matters is that your choices are yours.
Bender has no free will but he can reboot to any personality. Criminal in the pilot and also a penguin
i need a video talking about bender and leelas relationship. the scene were they're trying to figure something out and bender comes back like "i dont know what leela wants us to do about this, but i do know she likes my in your face attitude" always makes me laugh. but one again a great video, i love your videos so much!!!
Great video! I think this shows that what makes Futurama great is not only how it breaks your heart at the end of a few episodes, but how it tackles serious subjects like God, death and the meaning of life in a fun but insightful way.
If you count Overclockwise, Bender has become a god twice.
I love the freewill unit episode, it really makes you think about how we think. Bender has this fun crazy adventure and its like, does freewill really even matter at all? And what makes us decide on a choice anyway. Like for me, its usually survival based at the root on my choices, but every now and then I go with the flow.. Thanks to this episode it now takes me about 4 hours to pick where I want to eat everyday. So many choices!
“Who’s the Real 700 Foot Robot Monster here? Not I.... Not... I.”
Probably 700 or even 7,000? There are people taller than 7 foot.
@@leedent7260 whoops 😅
@@checocartoons342 an iconic line nonetheless, haha.
I love how basically, robots were given personality traits and emotions. But their choice to do anything is semi restricted. But the fact that if robots really wanted to take over the world, they could. But they don’t because of personality is hilarious
Wow this really made me think about Bender differently, I cannot believe I never noticed his need for meaning and existential crises as a theme. Thanks Johnny 2 Cellos!
Futurama is much deeper than it seems!
A pharaoh to remember is one of my all time favorite episodes... Love the Elton John melody
I always thought it was cool how in Fururama robots basically became their own species. Yes they're created/machines, but they have sentience on par with humans and have their own beliefs, values and homes
God fellas is one of my very favorite episodes of this show.
Agreed.
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all" This line is absolutely perfect.
Haven't gotten through the hole video yet but I already know it's a awesome video and I love it
The fly little bird part makes me cry every damn time
Me too :,)
I wish I had a robot friend. Futurama is a wonderful show, methinks. I'd love to be someone's computationally inferior fleshbuddy
Also that time Bender was Santa 🎅
in the first episode when fry meets bender and fry asks him to do something that he’s not programmed to do, then he accidentally gets electrocuted by an overhanging light fixture, then decides to do that thing anyway. i always interpreted that moment as being what gave him his free will and set him apart from other robots
I think my favourite bit of of sensitive bender is in meanwhile when fry is telling him he’s going to propose to leela, he shows no unrest and isn’t bothered until fry leaves his closet and starts crying and says “my little meatbags growing up”
A fun thing about his excess when he finds robotology after getting hooked on electricity he even takes his dive into religion into excess.
Found another cartoon video essay channel to binge
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Loved this video. It’s always amazing when you make videos on futurama
Was gonna come in here and say, "wait what about...!" But you sir are a true fan. I know never to nitpick you
Lethal inspection is a 10/10
Still can't forget that scene where he literally sacrifices his child to the robot devil to get what he wants. Without hesitation. Just boom, you can have him.
Flanderization for an actual funny joke, its pretty much not even canon at this point, just a silly gag they tought itd be cool that forced them tp BEND the characters personality
Lets not forget that Fry is the reason Bender is the way he is, if you all recall the first episode of the show
As he said once - "Bender is great!"
10:52 warms my heart the dozens of times I replay this😂
"no, not that son." 🤣
never realized how existential bender was , mustve been why he was my fav character. also he kinda reminds me bojack somewhat, just the existential nature of his episodes
Bender B. Rodriguez - He's 40% Fan Favorite, baby!
'A Phaoroah To Remember' is one of my favourite episodes. The Funeral scene is genius. Bender & Zoidberg at their best (The best dynamic duo in the show)
Anytime there is literally any new Futurama content, even if it’s just someone I’ve never even seen on RUclips speculating about past episodes I must watch it. so congratulations you earned my view
Bender is what a human would be like in a Robot body.
Which is why when he became a human, he died within a week.
Like, he is the epitome of greed, overconsumption, lustfulness, debauchery... just everything *nearly* every person would do if they had no limitations.
The free will argument is quite funny as they make him the one who pursues it the most... implying that we have it ourselves!
I like that they push Elton John into a put with bender while he was playing the piano. Bender and the Jetssssss!
in my opinion season 3 has the best bender stories
Started watching Futurama again thanks to your channel! Man is it a treatn
I really appreciate your videos on characters that appear one-note at first glance (Dale, Peggy, and now Bender). Keep it up.
God damn. Just, god damn. Your cartoon analysis vids are absolutely flooring me. A million thumbs up 👍 this breakdown of Bender was just argh amazing
I always liked the theory that
Bender "kill all humans" Rodriguez, who in the first episode was about to commit suicide over the moral implications of building suicide booths.
Got electrocuted in the middle of the hall of criminals and his operating system reset with all his binary code flipped.
All his 1s, became 0s. And his 0s, 1s .
The reason lots of modern tech doesn't get messed up by things like magnets or digital decompensation anymore,
especially when it comes to software is because modern tech if it becomes corrupted, (within reason) especially in stuff like neural nets, has failsafes to look at the software around it to see similar or the same code, then readjusts itself to compensate.
IE, bender literally moments after exclaiming that he won't bend bars because it's outside his programming to do so outside of his work.
Bang, big shock, and he's in the middle of a literal hall of criminals.
So any moral failsafe for rebooting, would also be reversed. Along with any kind of simulated personality.
Keep up the good work mr Johnny Cellos
it makes me feel bad for bender knowing he just wants to be different
6:03
I mean the first episode has him be electrocuted on his antenna, which changes his thought process.
*BEFORE ELECTROCUTION*
Bender :you’re full of crap fry
*AFTER ELECTROCUTION*
Bender: you make a valid point fry.
Although beforehand, bender did try to attempt suicide, so maybe he always had free will...
No backup unit, impurity and electrocution. He is also outdated and doesn't get any updates anymore which might change his functionality. Let's just agree that there is more than one reason why Bender is unique.
I always thought this
I love the theory that the electric surge he gets in the first episode in the Head Museum actually cut out Bender's proper company restrictions and giving him free will in the process, shown when he immediately goes back in what he says and bends the bars.
The scene where bender kicks his son through the window and into the vat of lava cracks me up every time hahahha
When you said "Fly little bird" at 9:35 my eyes began to water.
"Why does Bender smoke it makes him look cool he's the only bending unit to do that"
In the episode where flexo is introduced flexo is shown smoking when they go to the robot strip club Angeline is also somewhat implied to be a smoker based on the way she is kind of introduced. She has that smoker cough
Damn it, dude!
Lethal Inspection is one of my favorite episodes! I was keeping it together until you said "fly little bird".
Damn you. 😭
"we dont have emotions and sometimes that makes me sad"
- Data Star Trek TNG
1:47 you forgot about Billy West :))
Ah yes, Billy West the Lunar Bending Unit. Beware the Robot Mafia~
bender is the only person/robot to ever meat god
Lethal inspection is soooo good like it and the late Phillip Jay fry are my favourites
Some more Futurama thoughts from Johnny! Hell yeah! Random Statement - I really need to find that Silly Willy Video Will animation so I can attach it to the end of my own video will. (Bonus: Is Silly Willy voiced by Mark Hamill?)
I’m yet to see a video of yours that I didn’t enjoy, thanks for the hard work
Came to this vid for an analysis on bender in Godfellas became educated on benders existential crisis i never really noticed. He always struck me as the party kid in college that just had some unaddressed trauma but seeing as how he's a robot that doesn't correlate to well. Existential crisis would be great if they addressed it in the new season as a malfunction in his programming. Btw your fuckin awesome for this loved the analysis of benders character throughout the series.
Great video mate
This video is the one that gets my subscribe. Time to work my way through the rest.
It hurts to see Bender hurt :(
Also something I noticed when re-watching the show is there's a point where there is a attraction called see through the eyes of a bending unit and we see that they are literally program to be criminals bending units literally see everyone as victims to steal kill or whatever and when Lila looks at fry with these goggles on she sees that Through The Eyes of a bending unit he's a chump and that they are supposed to pose as best friends and then leave them in a ditch.
So even Bender being a criminal is not exactly something to bring up as him wanting to be unique because they're all programmed to do that
you forgot the part in the first episode where he was suicidal and would not do things ageist his programing (bend the bars for Fry) then he got shocked while trying to walk away and 180ed on that so that shock in the pilot is what made this bender the bender we know
Love these videos!
My PT Cruiser was assembled in Mexico, so naturally I named it Bender.
Ah, the PT Cruiser. A charmingly ugly funeral wagon disguised as a family car.
@@f.c.laukhard3623 I like my extremely reliable ugly funeral wagon. As ugly as Bender is :) I drove him off the lot with 8 miles on the speedometer in 2006 (I think?) And Bender is still working great for me. I'm right at 100K and will be replacing the timing belt soon. I expect at least another 100K out of him. And as I am ill, will most likely be the last auto that I will ever purchase. My GF makes fun of him too, but it seems that she has her Honda CRV in the shop way too often. Bender has never broken down and I keep up with his maintenance, lots of beer, ya know. Keeps him quite content.
@@vicariousgamer2871 That is why I call it charmingly ugly. It is not a classical beauty yet has its appeal and reliability is more important anyways. Next time I have a beer, I'll raise a glass to your and Bender's health.
@@f.c.laukhard3623 Thanks :P
You know, I was god once
Yes, I saw. You were doing good until everyone died.
I feel like the one where bender joins the robot mob to feel cool and accepted also shows bender being very different to other bending units
“You really want a robot as a friend?” Made me tear up
" When you've done something right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all" is my favorite line from futurama
Me when I realize that I now have to wait for a new Johnny 2 Cellos Video:
0:47
I honestly didn't think about this myself. Damn, this was pretty smart.
Bender is a bastard we all love and wish we could be.
That Hermès ep hit hard.
More futurama videos coming? I'm so excited :D (This was a fun video btw!)
I think another reason bender is so unique is the fact that in the very first episode he was electrocuted via a hanging lightbulb, which (correct me if I'm wrong) changed/corrupted his coding. couple this with the fact he has no physical backup (or any kind of software backup either), and he truly is one of a kind.
I also think why he does so many non-bending unit things Is because of that corruption to his code, it may have given him a FULL sense of self awareness, while most robots may have a limited sense of it (I'm an acting robot so I act, I'm a heathen robot so I indulge in all pleasures, etc.)
It sucks you forgot to mention probably the best joke from futurama, when bender inhabits robot gods body and kicks his own ass.
I definitely think Bender has free will, in spite of being a robot.
Loving the Futurama episodes