Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Futurama S1 E9, “Hell Is Other Robots”, scores 3/5 for violence, 2/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 3/5 — Preview first — about 11+. Bender is sent to Robot Hell for all of his sins.
Across the episode we counted 18 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Porn / strippers / sex work (2); Violence & injury (4); Swearing (5); Alcohol & drugs (6). Every moment below is either a direct quote from the episode transcript or a short description of what happens on screen, so you can decide before you press play.
Watch for — every moment, theme by theme
Sex & hookups 1 moment
How Sex & hookups shows up in Futurama S1 E9:
- Scene: Room. Fender presses a button, a door slides open and in the room are three robots hooked up to a machine which discharges electricity. It shocks them and they groan.
Porn / strippers / sex work 2 moments
How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Futurama S1 E9:
- Bender
Hey, what kinda party is this? There's no booze and only one hooker.
- Leela
Bender, we didn't mind your drinking, or your kleptomania, or your pornography ring.
Violence & injury 4 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S1 E9:
- …Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"
- …Hot Enough" • "Fifty Shades of Green" • "The Numberland Gap" • "Scared Screenless" • "Wicked Human" • "Murderoni" • "Crab Splatter" • "The Trouble with Truffles" • "The White Hole"
- Cut to: Outside Ship. Bender stands on top of it in front of the gun turret, waving his arms.
- She elbows someone in the face, kicks someone else, punches someone else the does a full circle flying kick and knocks everyone around her over.
Swearing 5 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S1 E9:
- …• "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo…
- …"Law and Oracle" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Möbius Dick" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"
- Hell Is Other Robots Written byEric Kaplan Transcribed byThe Neutral Planet
- Preacherbot
'Cause if you're a sinner, he's gonna plug his infernal modem in the wall, belchin' smoke and flame. And he's gonna download you straight to Robot Hell!
- Bender
Aw, crap, singing. Mind if I smoke?
Alcohol & drugs 6 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S1 E9:
- Bender
Hey! Do I preach to you when you're lying stoned in the gutter? No! So beat it!
- Bender
Can I get anybody a beer?
- Bender opens his chest cabinet and uses his antenna to pump some beer into a cup. He hands it to Fry and Fry takes a gulp.
- Fry
Come on, it'll be fun! Maybe we could even drink a little fortified wine.
- Bender
What? Drinking wine is a sin. Even if it is deliciously fortified.
- Fry
Well he didn't check out. The ashtray's still here. [Nibbler yelps.] Look, Nibbler's caught the scent of vodka and motor oil! Go, boy. Follow that stench.
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