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"Please stop! I'm not worth it!"
Angleyne
"Probably not. But I love you And I'm gonna kick his ass 'til I win you back."
Bender

Bendless Love is the sixth episode of the third season of Futurama. It was written by Eric Horsted and directed by Swinton O. Scott III

Plot

Bender is discovered to be sleep bending, bending everything in sight, even the Professor. Until he can satisfy his pent up lust for bending he is forbidden from returning to Planet Express. Bender finds work at a factory where all the workers are on strike. After securing a job Bender is introduced to his co-workers, an attractive fembot; Angelyne and Flexo. Bender falls in love with Angelyne and the two get along fine until he makes a shocking discovery; Flexo and Angelyne are divorced. Naturally Bender perceives Flexo as a threat to his romance and attempts to find out who Angelyne loves by taking her to The Hip Joint posing as Flexo. After a passionate kiss leads to Bender's disguise being foiled, he takes off to the factory to kill Flexo. Unfortunately the Robot Mafia too, want to kill Flexo which they attempt by dropping an unbendable girder on him. Angelyne arrives on the scene too late, but she rushes to crippled Flexo's side professing her love for him. Bender, wanting to make Angelyne happy, decides to bend the girder to save Flexo. After succeeding Bender returns to Planet Express, his bend lust satisfied, but gets irate after being bugged to de-bend the Professor, so he simply bends him 180 degrees much to the dismay of his co-workers.

Quotes

Flexo: (Bender hits him) Hahaha! I really appreciate that buddy... Nah, I'm joshin' ya that was quite annoying!
Bender: You call yourself divorced? You are violating the latest robot rule!
Flexo: What?

Bender: Flexo?
Flexo: Bender?
Bender: Hey, buddy, sorry you were sent to that Turkish South American Prison instead of me!
Flexo: You bastard! They treated me like an animal, and that's what I became!............hahahaha! Nah I'm just kiddin' your great!

Robot Crowd: No more bending no more work! Give us a raise you big fat jerk!
Sal: Nevers!

Proffesor: It's just like in the song I wrote. "We all need a new angle on life, you got to bend away all your troubles and your strife, (continues...)
Leela: Bender, you gotta help us!
Bender: I try to get out but they keep pullin' me back in!
Proffesor: You've gotta dangle, have a new angle, wangle a new dangle on life (Bender bends him the wrong way and he screams and stops)
Amy: No, Bender! The other way!
Bender: I like him better THIS way.
Proffesor: I'm sad now!
Leela: Eh, it's fine!

Debut Appearances

Trivia

  • The title of this episode is a reference to both the 1981 film Endless Love, and the song by the same title.
  • The "L-unit" in the beginning is made of "340 pounds of Tonka-tough steel."
  • Zoidberg says, "Well gang, looks like we have another mystery on our hands!". This line is frequently said at the beginning of episodes from the original Scooby-Doo series.
  • After the group watches Bender bend the Professor, Zoidberg yells at him, "J'accuse!" (even though in "A Clone of My Own," it was implied that French is a dead language in the 31st century).
  • In order to bend the unbendable girder Bender applies "Bendgay"; this is a reference to Bengay pain relieving cream.
  • At one point, Hermes mutters "Haile H. Selassie!" This is a reference to Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, spiritual leader of the Rastafari movement. Selassie is considered by many Rastafarians to be God incarnate, and therefore the phrase can be considered analagous to the exclamation "Jesus H. Christ!"
  • Bender, Flexo and Fry go to a robot strip joint named Electric Ladyland, a reference to the album and song by Jimi Hendrix.
  • Professor Farnsworth sings a song, the tune of which is from the end of Monty Python's "The Life of Brian".
  • Bender uses the line, "I try to keep out but they keep pulling me back in", an adaptation from Michael Corleone's line in The Godfather Part III.


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