A Pharaoh to Remember

Season 4, Episode 7, Aired
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Fry, Leela, and Bender have to deliver a giant sandstone to Osiris 4, a planet resembling ancient Egypt. Once there they are enslaved to work on pharaoh Hamenthotep's pyramid. After the pharaoh dies, Bender tricks everyone into thinking that he's the next prophesied pharaoh.
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  • Worst Episode Ever!

    0.3
    "None"
    By cwmevo, Jun 30, 2010 Report Abuse
    I hate to write a bad review for a grand show like Futurama, but this was just awful. Bender is in full-on jackass mode, the plot is very patchy, the self-referential jokes get tiring...Add some good jokes, make the plot better, and dump Bender's characterization, fix up the plot holes, and don't make everything Leela says in the whole episode an in-joke, then maybe you'd have a start. The only thing that's saving me from giving it a negative grade is the joke right at the end and Fry and Leela pretending Bender doesn't exist near the end. Thankfully there were only two other duds in this season ("A Leela of Her Own and "30% Iron Chef"), and "Roswell" and "Godfellas" more than make up for this shoddy episode.moreless

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  • hillarious episode

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    By Blind_Legend, Jun 24, 2008 Report Abuse
    Bender's funeral was hilarious especially when Farnsworth catches the bouquet and Amy says "I know whose funeral we'll be attending next professor and Fry's speech, knowing what Bender's favourite mode of death was and Hermes describing the type of robot Bender is, Bender clearly being outraged by Zoidberg's speech. After that, the episode keeps getting better with Bender tricking the planet into thinking he was the new Pharaoh, letting a whole new wave of cruelty wash over the planet. This was a very good Bender episode as we see just how cruel Bender can be but also showing that he does have an emotional side. REMEMBER ME!moreless

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  • A great parody of ancient Egypt

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    By Iverson82094, Feb 19, 2008 Report Abuse
    Bender grows concerned that he will be doomed to obscurity, and sets off to rectify the situation. One of these schemes includes spraying graffiti on the side of a building, saying "Bender Lives Large and Kicks Butt." The building is demolished, and his phrase is reduced to "Bender Licks Butt". Bender returns to the office to find out that the crew had staged a "funeral" for him, to show that he will be remembered, but it ends badly. The Professor assigns the crew a new mission: deliver a giant sandstone block to the planet Osiris IV.

    Upon their arrival, they find a desert world whose society is modeled after ancient Egypt and who they claim introduced interstellar travel to them. The crew is enslaved to work on the building of the funeral pyramid of Pharaoh Hamenthotep. Their job is to work alongside the other slaves, moving heavy stone blocks manually. Bender, impressed by the Osirin Pharaohs' method of ensuring their place in history, becomes a workaholic, working so fast the slavedrivers can't even keep up with him.

    Pharaoh Hamenthotep arrives to inspect his newly completed pyramid, and as he was about to set everyone free, he is killed when the nose falls off a giant statue of himself. The priests entomb Hamenthotep, and the next day they consult their wall of prophecy to select the new pharaoh. While the slaves partied over their few hours of freedom, Bender sneaks out and makes a few surreptitious modifications to the wall, therefore, declaring him the new pharaoh.

    Newly crowned Pharaoh Bender demands a statue of himself, one billion cubits tall, so that he will be remembered forever. Construction proceeds, with Bender quickly establishing himself as an excessively dictatorial and ruthless pharaoh, and the massive statue is soon completed. Nonetheless, when it is unveiled, Pharaoh Bender announces that he is displeased with it, and wants it to be torn down and rebuilt. The high priests, disgusted and tired with Bender, wrap him for burial, and toss him into the tomb, along with Fry and Leela at Bender's request.

    Fry and Leela want to blast their way out using the explosive Schnapps from the tomb's distillery; but Bender objects, worried that he won't be remembered if the statue is destroyed. Fry and Leela make a show of not remembering Bender, and he relents. After blasting a crack in the statue's foot, Fry, Leela, and Bender escape and run back to the ship. As the ship departs from Osiris IV, the statue explodes in a gigantic fireball. Bender is distraught, but Leela consoles him with the knowledge that his reign of terror will be remembered longer than any statue. Satisfied, Bender tells the crew to set course for Earth. As the ship approaches an Earth-like planet, Bender begins to laugh evilly. Leela points out that the planet isn't Earth and Bender stops laughing. The ship flies away from the planet, ostensibly towards Earth.moreless

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  • Bender become the tyranical leader of an entire civilisation

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    By mataletea, Jan 29, 2007 Report Abuse
    After delevring a huge stone block to an Egyptian like world Fry, Leela and Bender are captured and forced into slavery to build the Pharaoh's tomb. While giving the speech at the completion of building of his tomb the Pharaoh is killed when the nose falls off crushing him.

    As is the society norm, the next Pharoah is chosen by reading from the wall of prophecy, Bender having made none too subtle changes to the wall is elected ruler.

    Bender sets the slaves to begin the construction of his own tomb, the size of which makes all others tiny in comparison. Bender soon enrages the populous to entomb Bender before his death.moreless

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  • This is a sweet episode.

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    By ian_ralph12345, Jul 02, 2006 Report Abuse
    This episode is really funny. Bender is a pharaoh.

    Bender is worried that he won't be remembered when he died. Everyone throws Bender a surprise funeral, but he hates it. Then Leela, Bender and Fry deliver a giant sand stone that is about 15 feet high to Osiris 4. When they get there, they get kidnapped and become slaves. They have to build a huge statue. When it's done, the nose falls off and kills the pharaoh. Bender makes a print of his face into the sacred wall. The next morning, Bender becomes pharaoh. He says that he wants a statue of him that's one billion blocks high. All of the slaves build it. When it's finished, Bender thinks it's to big so he damands to tear it down and rebuild it. The slaves wrap Bender up like a mummy and say he's dead. They throw him in his grave. It's huge. Leela and Fry get thrown in to because that what Bender insisted before they faked his death. There is a bunch of stuff in his grave like schnapps. After convincing Bender, Leela blows up the schnapps. They get out of the grave and fly away in there space ship. Leela says that Bender will be remembered as a pharaoh. Bender's happy with that.

    I give this episode is a 9.4 out of 10.moreless

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  • Trivia

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    • The Australian from How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back appears as one of the slaves. You can see him in the scene just before Hermenthotip dies. Edit
    • Opening theme promotion: PSST... BIG PARTY AT YOUR HOUSE AFTER THE SHOW. Edit
    • Proving that not every planet is the same as Earth, the Egyptian world has a green sky. Edit

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    • Alien code: When the priests go to look at the ancient markings, you can see Alien Code #1 written within the symbols. When translated they read: "Rock On! Eddie Rosas 22." Eddie Rosas appears in the final credits as a "Character Layout Artist". The "22" appears because Bender is a "Bender Unit 22." Edit

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    • Leela: Bender, I understand your desire to be remembered. But you don't need a statue for that. Bender: I don't? Leela: No. You have your legacy as a brutal, tyrannical dictator, and that will outlive any monument. Bender: You really think they'll remember me? Fry: Absolutely. Bender: Well in that case. One planet down! Helmsman... set course for Earth! Leela: That's not Earth. Bender: Oh. Edit
    • Leela: You jerk. Why'd you have to drag us along? Bender: I wanted to watch you remember me. Edit
    • Fry: Bender, I really hope that's you. 'Cause if it isn't... we're in trouble! Edit

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    • The Australian man is an allusion to the movie character "Crocodile" Dundee

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    • An Affair to Remember The title of this episode is a play on An Affair to Remember, a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Edit
    • The concept of the Ancient Egyptians knowing about space travel is based on actual theories about alien connections to Ancient Egypt. The theories stem from unusual rocket-like hieroglyphs, a Mars crater resembling Nefertiti, the cosmic alignment of the pyramids of Giza to Orion's belt, etc. Edit

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