"Benderama" | |
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Futurama episode | |
Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 17 |
Directed by | Crystal Chesney-Thompson |
Written by | Aaron Ehasz[1] |
Production code | 6ACV17 |
Original air date | June 23, 2011 |
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Opening caption | Others ask, "What if?" We ask, "Why if." |
Opening cartoon | "Hollywood Capers" (1935) |
"Benderama" is the seventeenth episode in the sixth season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 105th episode of the series overall. It 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.
The premise of "Benderama" is the grey goo theory, an end-of-the-world scenario in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all matter on Earth while building more of themselves. "Benderama" received mostly positive reviews from critics, many of whom praised Patton Oswalt's guest appearance and noted that it was an improvement over the preceding episode "Neutopia".