Content guide
Preview first — about 11+
Futurama S6 E16, “Ghost in the Machines”, scores 3/5 for violence, 3/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 3/5 — Preview first — about 11+. When Bender dies, his disembodied software haunts the Planet Express building.
Across the episode we counted 21 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (2); Nudity & bodies (2); Violence & injury (8); Suicide & self-harm (2); Swearing (7). 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 2 moments
How Sex & hookups shows up in Futurama S6 E16:
- Fry
It sure was nice of the Mayor's wife to have sex with me. [Fry sees something before him, stops, and blinks.] Huh?
- Fry is sleeping with a smile on his face, holding on to the sacramental firewall.
Nudity & bodies 2 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Futurama S6 E16:
- Dr. Cahill
I'm afraid your heart has suffered a lot of damage, Mr. Fry. And my cleavage isn't helping.
- Robot Devil
She's naked, but unharmed. And now, Bender, it's time to fulfil your end of the deal.
Violence & injury 8 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Futurama S6 E16:
- Professor Farnsworth, Hermes, Fry, Leela, Zoidberg, and Amy are gathered around a table with Bender's corpse on it, mourning his death.
- Hermes removes Bender's head from the corpse, places it on the floor, steps on Bender's teeth, which causes the head to open, and dumps garbage from a simpler trash can into it. Bender's ghost laughs.
- Bender's ghost
I know, right? I'd murder him good if only I was still alive.
- …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"
- Fry
[as he is slapped] Ow! Ow! Ow!
- White Robot
Hey, what are you— [Bender's ghost's arms emerge from the white Robot's sides and punch him.] Ow! Hey, stop that! I command you, you jerk! [The white Robot sighs.] Just get out.
- Fry
Woo! I've been through the adventure of a lifetime. [Fry is slapped by Bender's arm.] Ow!
Suicide & self-harm 2 moments
How Suicide & self-harm shows up in Futurama S6 E16:
- Hermes
Yeah. Last time you went to the suicide booth, you ended up dating it for six months.
- Bender enters a suicide booth with CHEAP!
Swearing 7 moments
How Swearing shows up in Futurama S6 E16:
- …• "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's ghost
Why can't anybody hear my witty remarks? This is Hell!
- The Robot Devil is reading a magazine entitled LIFE IN HELL that has his face on it.
- Bender's ghost: Crap!
- Bender's ghost
Okay! I'll do it, I'll do it. Just stop the damn music!
- Bender's ghost
Survived the heart attack?! Damn you, Obamacare!
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