Benderama story
"Benderama" is the seventeenth episode of season six of the animated sitcom Futurama, and originally aired June 23, 2011 on Comedy Central. The episode was written by Aaron Ehasz and directed by Crystal Chesney-Thompson. American comedian Patton Oswalt guest stars in the episode, voicing an "unattractive giant monster". In the episode, Bender duplicates himself into two smaller copies in order to avoid work. However, the duplicates also want to avoid work, so they create their own smaller duplicates, resulting in a vast number of increasingly smaller copies of Bender ultimately threatening to consume all of the matter on Earth. Directed by: Crystal Chesney-Thompson. Story by: Aaron Ehasz.
11 total · 5 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| humanoid robot | major | There were countless Benders running around. |
| laziness | major | The point of the story was that Bender is lazy. |
| robot helper | major | Bender objected to being a robot helper so made robot helper duplicates of himself. |
| self-replicating gray goo consuming the world | major | Benders were reproducing without limit and were poised to consume the entire world. |
| self-replicating nanomachines | major | Benders were self-replicating on an atomic scale. |
| anger management issues | minor | The gentle giant confessed that he has anger issues. |
| childish bullying | minor | Everyone bullied the gentle giant until he turned into a monster. |
| giant person | minor | A very ugly, giant person went on a rampage in New New York City. |
| interstellar space travel | minor | The Planet Express crew made a delivery to a giant living on a far away planet. |
| lookism in society | minor | Everyone made fun of the gentle giant for his hideous looks. |