Bend Her

Season 5, Episode 13, Aired
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Bender faces his greatest challenge when he tricks his way into the 3004 Earth Olympian and wins several events, but he must endure the final and most revealing test to receive his medals. When Bender has a date with a major robot celebrity, Calculon, he sees this as an opportunity to be wined and dined like never before. When Bender realizes there's an inequity of feelings, he enlists Fry's and Leela's help to stage a "soap opera death".moreless
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  • David Herman

    Mayor Poopenmayer, Professor Ogden Wernstrum, Scruffy, Toronga Morris, Larry, Dwayne, Various

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    Katey Sagal

    Turanga Leela, Various

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    Billy West

    Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Dr. John Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Leo Wong, Various

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  • funny episode

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    By Blind_Legend, Jul 02, 2008 Report Abuse
    well futurama is a great show and everyone who watches it loves it because of the non-sense involed in the simple dialog and obviouls flaws because everyone loves a sci-fi cartoon and its great because becoming a fem-bot bender wants to stay after he meets calculon and doesnt want to hurt his fellings but in the end as in all shows like this like when stewie loved lois he goes back to a male robot and starts hating everyone again so in the end it is a good one but something your kind of already expecting when will all these shows take a lead off from one another?moreless

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  • A wierd episode: a sex change!!!!!

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    By Iverson82094, Feb 19, 2008 Report Abuse
    While watching robots compete at the Olympics Bender gets the urge to compete himself. But his hopes are quickly dashed when he sees the feats of the manbots and realizes he will not be able to compete with them. So he disguises himself as a fembot to win their events.

    Bender asks the professor to transform when he discover he will have to undergo testing. Testing that would reveal him to be a manbot and his medal would be stripped from him.

    As the fembot 'Coilette' Bender becomes very successful and popular as he appears on countless magazines and even begins dating Calculon who eventually asks Coilette to marry him. Realising that he is unable to go through with it he plans to fake his own death.moreless

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  • bender was buff!!!

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    By Kas_dude, Jun 10, 2007 Report Abuse
    so, its the 3004 olympics, and hermes screws up with his big comeback to limboing because of his old nemesis (and Labarbaras old husband) Barbados Slim. Bender watches the Bending athletes Bending, and both him and zoidberg notice that their dreams can never come true! but then bender decides to cheat, and enter the fembot tournament, which he totally kicks a$$ in!1 so he's all happy, but then he finds out that they do a gender check- so bender does the one thing that he can do... get the professor to make a woman out of him ("no thanks, i think its best if we stay friends") and becomes Coilette, a fembot from Robonia.

    then after collecting his medals and disgracing women all over the world, just as bender is about to change back, he gets a date- with Calculon. so he goes along with it, and tries to scam calculon off, but in the end gets engaged to him. So everyone tries to get bender off the hook in the only way calculon knows- by Dramatizing!!!

    this ep was awesome!!!!!moreless

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  • it was good

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    By chu_chu_12, Apr 10, 2007 Report Abuse
    it was very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very good.moreless

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  • Bender bends his gender!

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    By kitty_girl_123, Feb 28, 2007 Report Abuse
    At the 3004 Earth Olypics, Bender wants to win a Bending challenge. But when he sees that the men's challenge is too hard for him, he sneaks into the women's challenge. Bender does an amzing job, and wins all the challeges with perfect scores! But when they have to do an oil check, Bender flips out. Then Professor gives Bender (Coilette) a sex change so he can get his or her medals. Then Bender/Coilette gets to be a guest star on a late night show where he meets Calculon. Calculon falls in love with Bender/Coilette, and ask him/her out on a date. Then Bender/Coilette start taking things more serous, the others start to worry. But Bender/Coilette says that he'll find a way out of the relationship, like most famous people do. But when Calculon tells him/her that he's in love with her/him. Bender/Coilette needs a way out of the weddng by a dramic 'soup opera death.' Eventhough it was done very cheesy, Calculon bought it, and made a movie based on Coilette. Everyone was watching it while Bender was turning back into a man. Towards the end of the end of hte show, Bender cries when he sees hte ending of the Coilette movie. Then quickly covers it up!moreless

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  • Trivia

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    • The banner the crew holds up in support of Hermes reads, "You the Mon!" Edit
    • The song that plays during Coilette's date with Calculon is Tom Jones' She's a Lady. Edit
    • We learn that, prior to being married to Hermes, LaBarbara was married to Barbados Slim. Edit

  • Notes

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    • Several scenes were deleted from this episode, including a few that didn't even make it to animation. Most were about terrorism at the Olympics, which were taken out after 9/11/01. The few animated ones can be found on the Season 4 DVD. Edit

  • Quotes

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    • Coilette: Hail, Hail, Robonia. A land I didn't make up. Edit
    • Fry: So who should I root for America or one of those countries I learned about at the food court? Amy: How about those guys? Leela: No, They are from the republic of French sterotypes everybody hates them Edit
    • Bender: Goodnight Calculon. Leela: What did you say? Bender: I said you two don't dress trampy enough. Edit

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    • Stella Walsh Bender competing at the 3004 Olympics as a female is a callback to Stella Walsh, the Polish athlete, who won gold at the 1932 Olympics and came in second at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. A well renowned athlete and record holder, upon her death, an autopsy revealed that she had ambiguous genitalia. Edit
    • Hedonism-Bot is a play on Dom Deluise's Ceasar (from Mel Brooks' History of the World, pt.1), the fat, always eating and drinking emperor of Rome. That's what's with the grapes. Edit
    • Brandi Chastain
      Bender taking off his shirt and dancing is also in reference to Brandi Chastain's celebration after winning the World Cup. Edit

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