Bendless Love

• January hooks

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Bender - head over heels ( Original title: Bendless Love ) is an episode of the American science fiction animated television series Futurama. Your Original Air Date was on 11 February 2001 at the U.S. FOX; the German dubbed version was released on ProSieben on 8 July 2002. The work was awarded with an Annie Award.

Action

The robot Bender, originally built for bending steel beams, this provision survived in the delivery company Planet Express, where he works now, no longer. This means that he uncontrollably things straight when sleepwalking. Even Prof. Farnsworth, his boss, bend Bender. He can not continue to work until he has his " bending Lust" satisfied.

Bender hires as strike breakers in an operation to be bent in the steel beam. There also work Benders "twin " Flexo, an identical model, which differs only by a beard of Bender, and the robot lady Anglelyne, Flexos ex-wife. Bender and Anglelyne fall in love and become a couple. As Bender sees flexo and Anglelyne in a restaurant, he gets jealous. He meets, disguised by a magnetic beard as flexo, with it in order to catch red-handed with itself. In the Date Bender throws money around and so attracts the anger of the robot mafia to himself or flexo. Just when Bender manages to seduce Anglelyne, flying his camouflage on, and she recognizes him.

Because Anglelyne the wrong Flexo has seduced, Bender wants to kill Flexo. The Robot Mafia, Bender held the flexographic wants to kill him. In the showdown between Bender and Flexo mafiosi drop a " unbiegbaren " steel beams to flexo. Under effort of all its powers Bender bends them and thus saving Flexo. This brings him Anglelynes recognition, but not their love. Anglelyne flexo and come together again, and Bender, whose desire is satisfied to turn now, returns to his work at Planet Express.

Production

Bender - up to his ears was made ​​as the sixth episode of the third production season and is therefore in the order of production the 38th episode overall. The screenplay was written by Eric Horsted and directed by Swinton O. Scott III. In addition to the speakers of the main characters Tress MacNeille and Maurice LaMarche are heard in supporting roles. Both had had multiple characters of the series lent her voice and were later adopted in the main cast. The role of Anglelyne said the American actress January hooks.

Publication

The episode was released by the U.S. television channel FOX on 11 February 2001. FOX gave way at the first showing of the series of the order and scale division of the production from (see Original from Futurama ), so the episode was shown as a sixth of the third transmission season and thus in the order of first publication of the 35th Futurama episode as a whole.

The German dubbed version was first broadcast on 8 July 2002 on ProSieben.

Awards

For his services as a speaker Benders and the figures Flexo, Sal, Joey Mousepad and Elzar in this episode was John DiMaggio 2001 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in a Animated Television Production.