Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Futurama S5 E15, “Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television”, 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 becomes a star on his favorite soap opera by forgetting his lines and reverting to character, but becomes concerned about the effect he is having on the audience.
Across the episode we counted 17 flagged moments in 6 themes: Nudity & bodies (1); Affairs / cheating (1); Violence & injury (5); Swearing (5); Alcohol & drugs (3); Slut-shaming (2). 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
Nudity & bodies 1 moment
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Futurama S5 E15:
- Monique
[on TV] Nude rocks bands, big piles of what I assume is talcum powder. It's quite a birthday party, Calculon.
Affairs / cheating 1 moment
How Affairs / cheating shows up in Futurama S5 E15:
- Dramatic music plays. The "previously" montage fades to a bedroom where Monique has another passionate affair with Boxy. Enter Calculon. Monique pulls the sheets over her.
Violence & injury 5 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S5 E15:
- …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"
- Network President
Then you don't quit. [His CD-ROM drive opens and one of the Execubots puts a gun in it and connects it to him.] I think you'll be finishing the scene now, Mr. Bender. And don't skimp on the nasty.
- Farnsworth
I'm a cold-blooded punk!
- Bender yoinks the guns from their hands.
Swearing 5 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S5 E15:
- …• "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"
- Bender
[shouting; from outside] Awful! Boo! This kid sucks! We want Bender! Boo!
- Linda
[on TV] A new protest group, Fathers Against Rude Television, says "Hell, yes!"
- …Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm…
Alcohol & drugs 3 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Futurama S5 E15:
- Bender
Cram a ham in it, you twerps! [He throws his beer bottle at them, it misses and hits Fry, who squeals.] Sorry!
- Calculon
[on TV] Oh, Monique, why did we wait so many years to bathe in champagne?
- Bender
[He stands up on the bed and starts dancing.] C'mon, baby! [He hums and takes a cigar out of his chest cabinet and takes a few puffs then follows with a gulp of beer.] Come on!
Slut-shaming 2 moments
How Slut-shaming shows up in Futurama S5 E15:
- Scene: Planet Express: Meeting Room. A "Happy Growth-Scraping Day" banner has been hung up along the back wall. LaBarbara and Amy fly up to the ceiling on rocket packs and hang streamers. Enter Zoidberg in tramp garb.
- Zoidberg
Look who's here, everyone! It's Zoidberg, the lovable tramp!
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