Futurama

Godfellas

Season 4, Episode 8, Aired 3/17/02

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When the Planet Express Ship is attacked by space pirates, Bender, sleeping in a torpedo tube, gets launched into space. He speeds through an asteroid field and accidentally accumulates a microscopic civilization on his stomach, who declare him God, and worship him despite his constant inability to provide for their needs.moreless

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David Herman

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

Turanga Leela, Various
Billy West

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

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By hrtonslv, Aug 15, 2008 Report Abuse

The line "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all" is my "signature" on all my outgoing emails. I get a lot of positive feedback on it. The episode is magnificent. It has a perfect mixture of comedy and intelligence to it. Keeler and I are quite similar in our views on religion. Mostly that it is all fantasy. Perhaps that is why I love the script so much. The "Don't depend on God for all your answers" theme is something I live my life by and found it refreshing to see it on a great show like Futurama.moreless

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By Blind_Legend, Jun 24, 2008 Report Abuse

At the start of this episode the Planet Express ship is attacked by space pirates while Bender is trying to take a nap. Not happy with the commotion Bender decides to find some peace and quiet by taking a nap in a torpedo tube.
Bender is shot through space as that tube is fired sending him hurtling through space.

Unfortunately for Bender the ship can not catch him as he is moving too fast. Bender picks up a few tiny passengers when he passes through a region a space when he is bombarded with debris. Bender becomes a god like figure to the tiny creatures as he attempts to guide them through life with disasterous results. bmoreless

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BENDER ALMIGHTY!

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By chovez, May 02, 2008 Report Abuse

Oh my, my, my... GOD!!! This is an epiphany.
BEST EPISODE EVER.
This only shows how massively underrated FUTURAMA is.
The messages of this episode are pretty much Everywhere, it just gives me creeps how deep it was.
This episode is WOW! People in this site obviously didn't get it at ALL. What do I care about the rating, for this episode it should be disabled and keep it at a 10.00 forever.
I'm going to omit many funny stuff, because there was a lot more going on.
This episode got me hooked the whole time, because at the beginning it was completely to laugh out loud, Bender put himself two ears and then covered them to sleep, HAHA. Then he takes out a torpedo out of its storing, and Leela launches it, shooting Bender and destroying the Spaceship pirate. Leela tells Fry that Bender is doomed to drift through space for the eternity. Then, Bender takes out a little piano out of his chest, since there it was full of subtle and direct references to God. While Bender gets into asteroids, there was one where shrimpkins lived, one of them Malachi was the devoted one who gave the one commandment to the people "God needs booze". Bender became the Metal Lord, everyone prayed at him. Bender starts doing miracles, but not all of them were so accurated. Then, Malachi tells Bender, people in his ass is going to start a war. Everyone died. Next, Bender encounters with God, having a small talk. He was cloudy and coloured and spoke binary. God looked uninterested. Bender doesn't know where Earth is.
Meanwhile, Fry misses Bender a lot, he goes to "first amalgamated church", the priest says he should pray, Fry replies: -"Is there anything useful I can do?" Priest: -"No."
Then the oracle machine, tells him there is a sect at the top of the Himalaya in search of God with a telescope to look through space. Both Leela and Fry go there meeting the monks, Fry insists to use the telescope saying they have the whole time to find God, while he just needs one life to find Bender. There was lot of funny stuff until this point, specially with the monks.

The last scene made this episode, is so creepy!: After some time, Fry gives up looking for Bneder. God reaches the message from Fry after the machine "luckily" reaches him. God sends Bender back to Earth, he lands with a parachute, Fry hugs him while Bender was in flames. Fry says the monks are locked up but their God was going to save them. Then Bender replies: "Fat chance! You can't count in God for jack! He pretty much told me so himself. If we don't save those monks, nobody will." The camera flies through space, until it gets to the cloudy God. God: -"Hahahaha, Sometimes when you do the right things, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." Ends with a sound that it just gives you goosebumps.
I was perplexed, I was like "Daaaaaaaamn!". Pay attention to every quote, pretty much if you are christian, this episode gets you deeply.
My brother was watching it with me, he just said: "That was powerful." I said "yeah..."moreless

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Another great episode from this great seaosn!

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By Iverson82094, Feb 19, 2008 Report Abuse

During a noisy space pirate attack, Bender-trying to find some peace and quiet in the torpedo tube-is launched into interstellar space beyond the reach of Fry and Leela (As they were going top speed when they fired Bender, Bender was therefore going faster than the ship's top speed). After an asteroid crashes into him, a civilization of tiny humanoids ("Shrimpkins") grows on Bender and they begin worshipping him as a god. At first, Bender enjoys his new-found status, and has his followers brew what for them are vast quantities of "Lordweiser" beer (Bender needs alcohol to fuel his power cells). The tiny denizens living on him begin praying for rain, sun, and wealth, and Bender attempts to heed their prayers -- failing comically and harming the Shrimpkins in the process. Eventually, the Shrimpkins who migrated to his backside feel their prayers are unheeded and become atheists. The atheists on Bender's backside threaten war with Bender's loyal worshipers on his chest. However, Bender is horrified at how his earlier attempts to help the Shrimpkins only harmed them, and he refuses to intervene again. The micro-civilization is ultimately destroyed when the front-side and back-side factions launch atomic weapons out of Bender's nuclear pile.

Bender soon meets a cosmic entity who may be the real God. When Bender mentions his experiences with the Shrimpkins, God responds, "I saw... you were doing well until everyone died." He notes that the best way to deal with worshipers is to use a light touch so they will neither lose hope nor become dependent on supernatural intervention.

During this time, Fry and Leela search for a way to contact Bender, which leads them to a sect of secretive monks who use a giant radio telescope to search for God in space. Leela overpowers the monks, and Fry spends the next three days searching for Bender, while the imprisoned monks eat their own shoes for sustinence. Fry finds God by accident, and God flings Bender back to Earth, just as Fry and Leela are leaving the monastery. Bender quickly recounts his tale (simply saying, "first I was God, then I met God") and Fry boasts they "climbed up a mountain and locked up some monks", which reminds Leela that they never let them out. Fry is reluctant to return to the monastary and claims that as monks, God will surely help them (or at least provide them with more shoes to eat.) Bender however, tells them that God cannot be counted on for anything, and demands they rescue the monks themselves. The show cuts back to God, who then chuckles and repeats the advice he gave to Bender: "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."moreless

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When Bender Becomes GOD!!!!

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By NarutoAMVx7, Feb 01, 2007 Report Abuse

In this episode the crew gets attacked by space pirates and while this is going on benders is sleepin in a torpedo tude they fire at the pirates with Bender and he gets launched into space. While Bender is floating out in space he gets hit by what he thinks is just a small rock. Time goes by and the rock turns into a civilization and little people come out and they woreship him as God. The people suspect him to give them mircles but ever time Bender tried he failded and caused alot of the people to die. Then he supposly meets the real god while floating out in space and he tells Bender that if you do thing right no one will know if you ever did anying at all. While all this is happening Leela and Fry have been trying to find Bender with the Professers smelling scope(it can smell stuff really faraway on different plaints. Then Bender ends of getting a push from God and falls back to earth.moreless

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- Nitpick: Bender has no atmosphere, yet on him there are living organisms such as the tiny people and plants. Although it's possible that they can survive in the space vacuum, there can also be seen some planes and other aircraft flying around Bender, and some explosions on him too. Edit
- After a few shots, the carving on Bender's chest disappears with no explanation. Edit
- Whilst flying through space, Bender puts a Rolex watch on his wrist, but in the next shot, it's gone and isn't seen again. Edit
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- To clear things up, Billy West (doing his best impression of Vic Perrin, the Control Voice from the Outer Limits) is the voice of God. Edit
- The coin Bender gives to the Shrimpkins has Coolio on the side. A quick shout-out to him for doing the voice of Kwanzabot in A Tale Of Two Santas. Edit
- The writer of this episode, Ken Keeler, won the 55th Annual Writers Guild Awards (WGA) on March 9th 2003. He won for "Outstanding achievement in Writing". Edit
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- Space Pirate: Too Late, I realize, that me children are me only real treasures. (Spaceship blows up) Edit
- Bender: Fat chance! You can't count on God for jack. He pretty much told me so Himself. Edit
- Bender: Guys, you'll never believe what happened. First I was God, then I met God! Fry: We climbed a mountain and locked up some monks. Edit
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- Bender: "I only know enough binary to ask where the bathroom is." Many non-spanish speaking people in the south west only know enough spanish to ask for the bathroom. Edit
- The etching Bender carves on his body is very similar to the plaques attached to the real NASA Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecrafts. Edit
- Bender's line "Ask not for whom the bone bones, it bones for thee!" is a rewrite of a line from the 17th century poem "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" by John Donne, which was also used by Ernest Hemingway in his book, "For Whom the Bell Tolls": "Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee". Edit

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