| "Fear of a Bot Planet" | |
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| Futurama episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 5 |
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| Written by | Evan Gore Heather Lombard |
| Production code | 1ACV05 |
| Original air date | April 20, 1999 |
| Episode features | |
| Opening caption | Featuring Gratuitous Alien Nudity |
| Opening cartoon | Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny in "A Corny Concerto" (1943) |
"Fear of a Bot Planet" is the fifth episode in the first season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 20, 1999. The episode was written by Heather Lombard and Evan Gore and directed by Peter Avanzino and Carlos Baeza with co-direction by Ashley Lenz and Chris Sauvé. The episode focuses on a delivery the Planet Express Crew must make to a robot planet named Chapek 9. The robot inhabitants hate all humans and Bender decides to join them because he is tired of robots being treated like second class citizens. The episode is a light-hearted satire on racism, an idea reinforced by the title reference.[1]