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  • When Bender over-clocks himself, he reads a series of books akin to how Johnny Five does in Short Circuit. The books he reads include: Calculus, Advanced Calculus, Decline and Fall of the Romulan Empire, Anti-Gravity's Rainbow, The Oxford English Pictionary, NNYC Phone Book, Wuthering (Something - Gatt***), The Mathketball Diaries, Advanced Calculus (again), Every Translation of the Iliad, How to Kill a Mockingbird, Ventriloquism for Dummies, Dante's Life in Hell, Connecticut Tax Law, Google Book, Big Book of Tumbleweeds, Guinness Book of Parallel World Records, VCR Repair, The Collected Wisdom of Braino, How I Conquered Your Planet, Complete Simpson Episode Guide, All the Presidents' Heads, Shakespeare Typed by Monkeys: Volume 78, The Sithal War, Calculon on Calculon, Ayn Rand Mcnally's Atlas Shrugged, Some of the Digits of Pi, and Genome of the Flatworm: Vol. 12.
  • The X-Cube 360 is reference to the Xbox 360 and its accessory Kinect.
  • Bender X-Cube 360 game ID is "BenderIsGreat34".
  • In the video game World of World War II 3, Fry, Cubert, and the German soldiers are shown with M1 Carbines and MP40s, real firearms which were used extensively during World War II. However, Bender is equipped with an M16A1 - A major anachronism, as the M16 was conceived in the 1960s, and was put in service much later during the Vietnam War.
  • Bender's choice to be at Niagara Falls is likely a reference to a famous quote about supercomputers, "The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required." — Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University
  • Among the identified members of the jury at the trial of Cubert and Professor Farnsworth are "Sweet" Clyde Dixon, Angleyne, April, "Fishy" Joseph Gilman, Number 9 man, Petunia, and Vyolet.
  • The flying robots sent to retrieve Bender are references to the Sentinels from the Matrix trilogy.
  • Judge Whitey's line, "That'll do pig!", is a reference to the 1995 film Babe.
    Bender runs on AMD
  • When Cubert is about to overclock Bender you can see he runs on a AMD Athlon II processor.
  • When Mom sends her robots to retrieve Bender, she tells them "Bring me the clock of Bender Rodriguez!" in reference to the film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.
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