Bender creates duplicates of himself, who in turn create duplicates of themselves, until they threaten to consume all of the matter on Earth.
WAR
38.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Benderama” ranks #93 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.9 — Great. The episode packs 53 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Bender landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bender: Maybe I did. Or maybe I rescued one last mini-Bender to fold stupid, ugly sweaters while I laughed at him.
Bender Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dr. Zenus: If only I'd programmed the robot to be more careful what I wished for. Robot, experience this tragic irony for me.
Fry · Bender: You mean you'll do two things, and I only have to do one thing? Yeah. Just save the world. Sucker.
Fry Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry · Leela: Man, I wish we had a robot to do stuff. I know, right?
Fry Leela Irony/Sarcasm Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Scruffy: It appears to be giving you the finger, sir. Enjoy.
Scruffy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Dr. Zenus: If only I'd programmed the robot to be more careful what I wished for. Robot, experience this tragic irony for me.
Fry · Bender: You mean you'll do two things, and I only have to do one thing? Yeah. Just save the world. Sucker.
Fry Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Maybe I did. Or maybe I rescued one last mini-Bender to fold stupid, ugly sweaters while I laughed at him.
Bender Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 53 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Hermes: Due to budget cutbacks, we will no longer be offering free squid guts in the kitchen. (Sobbing)
Hermes Absurdist Character Comedy Fry: I like how it's not killing us so far.
Fry Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor Farnsworth: You see, as I age, I've been shrinking and feeling colder. So I now need twice as many sweaters, in a smaller size.
Fry: So that's where baby sweaters come from.
Fry Observational Wordplay/Pun Scary Door Narrator: That's 'eerie' with two e's.
Scary Door Narrator: Dr. Daniel Zenus, an inventor with a terminal case of 'the lazies.'
Fry · Leela: Man, I wish we had a robot to do stuff. I know, right?
Fry Leela Irony/Sarcasm Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: I'm sorry, do you see a robot in this room named 'folder'?
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Professor Farnsworth: Bender, would you mind 'bending' my new sweaters?
Bender: You want me to do two things? Man, I'd call my lawyer if dialing a phone wasn't such a hassle.
Bender Escalation Character Comedy Bender: Razza frazza two things. Ooh. Razza frazza duplicator.
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Mini Bender: Howdy, fellas. I'm Bender. Go to hell, old man!
Bender: I like your attitude. Let's party.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Mini Benders: Both: I'm sorry, do you see a robot in this room named 'folder'?
Leela: Does that mean they only do 60% of the work you do, or that they actually do more work because they're only 60% as lazy?
Leela Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Bender: Aw, and one regular-sized condom. All that and a small wiener? This guy's got it goin' on!
Bender Observational Cringe/Discomfort Leela Visual Gag Reaction Beat Leela: I hope that's vanishing cream, 'cause that needs to go away.
Leela Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort Mini Bender: Oh, that's cold-blooded!
Bender: You so ugly, when trick-or-treaters come to your house, they give you candy.
Bender Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Bender: You so ugly, when you go to the bank, they ask you to put on a ski mask!
Bender Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Bender: You so ugly, you cracked the daily mirror. It's a newspaper!
Bender Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Leela: Don't feel bad, sir. It's not your fault. You probably just inherited your appearance from your mother.
Leela Setup/Punchline Misdirection Fry: Oh, God, shield your eyes! It's like Edward James Olmos on IMAX!
Bender: And that's the story of how one of me became two, and two became four, making seven total. The end.
Bender Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Mini-Benders · Bender: One thing each? Sounds fair. Wait, make that four cigars. Both: You want us to do four things?
Tiny Bender: Which way to the tiny hookers?
Scruffy: It appears to be giving you the finger, sir. Enjoy.
Scruffy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tiny Bender: Help me, help me! I'm too lazy to escape!
Professor Farnsworth · Hermes: It's non-convergent! Oh, dip!
Bender · Leela: Wait, does that include me? (Shot fires, Bender groans)
Leela: Too bad he didn't have his own Bible. Just 2,045 more to go.
Leela Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Leela · Doll: Wait, this isn't a real Bender. It's a talking doll from when Bender had that sitcom about the city robot who moves back to the farm. Shut your pumpkin, bumpkin.
Leela: All right, so I let one measly Bender get away. How much harm can one infinitely self-reproducing robot do?
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Micro Bender: Bite my tiny metal ass!
Amy: Like the Kardashians.
Linda: I can no longer face my children!
Linda Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Professor Farnsworth: I was lying here snoozing, dreaming, oddly enough, about bathing in champagne with six of the world's most distinguished scientists
Bender: It's like fine cognac with a hint of aged scrotum.
Bender Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Bender: Oh, no! What will I mix with my scotch?
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection Morbo: Water is now.... now booze, and everyone's tiddy much protally fit-shaced.
Morbo Physical/Slapstick Wordplay/Pun Morbo: There were no survivors.
Morbo Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Zapp Brannigan: That's your penis. That's my boy.
Fry: You're so stinky, you need right guard and left guard.
Fry Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Fry: Your face has been declared a weapon of mass disgusting.
Bender: If we all pitch in, we each only have to do one quintillionth of a thing.
Bender Observational Character Comedy Bender: Yeah, if you're into gray dust.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Visual Gag Bender · Giant: How, by making me look at you? No. By making you look at... my mama!
Bender: think how also we might defeat the monsters of poverty and disease and unliteracy.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Micro Bender: Come on, let's go someplace where we don't have to do one quintillionth of a thing all the time.
