Futurama is a hilarious and incredibly quotable, show. However, no character is more quotable than Bender Bending Rodriguez. He’s a foul mouthed criminal and party animal, but he’s also a robot, which makes him that much more funny and awesome. Every fan of Futurama know that you could make an extensive list of great Bender quotes, but we’ve narrowed it down to 20 of the best. We chose not to include his iconic catchphrase, “Bite my shiny metal ass,” nor his second most commonly used word, “daffodil.”
1. On Priorities
“I hope he didn’t die. Unless he left a note naming me his successor, then I hope he did die.”
Bender makes this announcement in “A Clone of My Own” after Professor Farnsworth disappears. He musters a modicum of concern for Farnsworth—provided it doesn’t get in the way of bettering his own life. Bender always has his priorities straight, and priority number one is always Bender.
2. On Home Brewing
“We’re making beer. I’m the brewery!”
In the future, home brewing beer will evidently still be popular. It’ll just take place within the chest cavity of a sassy robot. What really makes this such a memorable quote is how chipper Bender is when he says it.
3. On Peer Pressure
“Well, if jacking on will make strangers think I’m cool, I’ll do it.”
By inventing “jacking on” in “Hell is Other Robots,” Futurama gave itself an avenue for drug jokes and masturbation jokes. Here, Bender imparts a valuable lesson on peer pressure. Always do something that will make you seem cool. Being cool is to be prized over everything else.
4. On Embarrassment
“I’m so embarrassed. I wish everybody else was dead.”
Bender may be a hard drinking, cigar smoking, carousing robot, but he still has self-esteem. When something punctures that self-esteem, he gets embarrassed. When he’s embarrassed, he wishes he could be all by himself. The most logical way to make that happen, of course, is for everybody else to do him a favor and die.
5. On Parenting
“Have you ever tried simply turning off your TV, sitting down with your child, and hitting them?”
Bender knows he isn’t a good role model for children. So when kids start watching him on All My Circuits and mimicking him, he knows the time has come to impart a lesson to the parents out there. This is the bulk of Bender’s advice.
