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%%** "'''ME WANT ENGULF BENDER!''' '''''RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!'''''"
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Its his car he is looking for, not the key's.


* Digby's ship in "Game of Tones" crawls towards planets over a matter of weeks, constantly repeating a series of tones that eventually grow so loud they cause the entire planet to ''shatter.'' The tones are incredibly unsettling to hear as they take the form of a discordant DroneOfDread. Even worse, it turns out that this destruction is just a ''side-effect'' of Digby [[ItMakesSenseInContext looking for his keys.]]

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* Digby's ship in "Game of Tones" crawls towards planets over a matter of weeks, constantly repeating a series of tones that eventually grow so loud they cause the entire planet to ''shatter.'' The tones are incredibly unsettling to hear as they take the form of a discordant DroneOfDread. Even worse, it turns out that this destruction is just a ''side-effect'' of Digby [[ItMakesSenseInContext looking for his keys.car.]]
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** Not to mention the reason why the human asylums are full : the judge White has declared that ''poverty'' is a mental illness, and so use them to lock poor people away. And he did this enough to fill each asylum in the New New York State. Between the act in itself, and the fact that White is still in charge, that no other magistrate deemed necessary to put an end to this, and that the laws (be the one of New New York or the Earth government) weren't modified to prevent those kind of juridical abuse, this is a strange mixted horror, of both unrealistic satire toward conservative judges and realistic apathy from judicial and legislative authorities toward the poorest people.

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** Not to mention the reason why the human asylums are full : the judge White Judge Whitey has declared that ''poverty'' is a mental illness, and so use them to lock poor people away. And he did this enough to fill each asylum in the New New York State. Between the act in itself, and the fact that White Whitey is still in charge, on the bench, that no other magistrate deemed necessary to put an end to this, and that the laws (be the one of New New York or the Earth government) weren't modified to prevent those kind of juridical abuse, this is a strange mixted horror, of both unrealistic satire toward conservative judges and realistic apathy from judicial and legislative authorities toward the poorest people.
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** It's PlayedForLaughs, but the sight of an elderly man's corpse sitting sprawled where Santa killed him, flesh largely (but not completely) rotted away, dead eyes staring into eternity, is ''very'' disturbing.
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** The creepiest {{Yandere}} of all, though, has got to be ''[[RoboticPsychopath Bender himself]]''; fail to give him [[AttentionWhore the attention he craves]] and he may literally ''[[MurderTheHypotenuse kill your pet]]'', attempting this with regard to ''both'' Leela and Fry, flushing Nibbler down the toilet and dunking Fry's fossilized dog in lava before he could clone it; the latter incident showed some character development for the better in that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he repented his actions]] and [[ActOfTrueLove saved the fossil at great personal risk]], but it's no less nightmarish to imagine [[PsychopathicManchild having a friend who'd act on his first murderous impulse and ask questions later]], ''[[LoveMakesYouCrazy all because he loves you]]''.

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** The creepiest {{Yandere}} of all, all though, has got to be ''[[RoboticPsychopath Bender himself]]''; fail himself]]''. Fail to give him [[AttentionWhore the attention he craves]] and he may literally ''[[MurderTheHypotenuse kill your pet]]'', attempting this with regard to ''both'' Leela and Fry, Fry: flushing Nibbler down the toilet and dunking Fry's fossilized dog in lava before he (Fry) could clone it; the it. The latter incident showed at least shows some character development for the better in that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he repented Bender actually regrets his actions]] and [[ActOfTrueLove saved saves the fossil at great personal risk]], but it's no less nightmarish to imagine [[PsychopathicManchild having a friend who'd act on his first murderous impulse and ask questions later]], ''[[LoveMakesYouCrazy all because he loves you]]''.



-->'''Zoidberg:''' ''I'M'' A DOCTOR.

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-->'''Zoidberg:''' ''I'M'' A DOCTOR.DOCTOR!!
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** Not to mention the reason why the human asylums are full : the judge White has declared that ''poverty'' is a mental illness, and so use them to lock poor people away. And he did this enough to fill each asylum in the New New York State. Between the act in itself, and the fact that White is still in charge, that no other magistrate deemed necessary to put an end to this, and that the laws (be the one of New New York or the Earth government) weren't modified to prevent those kind of juridical abuse, this is a strange mixted horror, of both unrealistic satire toward conservative judges and realistic apathy from judicial and legislative authorities toward the poorest people.
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Horror averted in the eleventh season

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**** Fortunately the writer of the eleventh season took it in consideration. The characters remember what happened and the time-line was only slightly altered. It took 10 years IRL, but this horror was finally averted.
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** Beyond that, there's plenty of RealismInducedHorror of the episode-- what decent step-mother hasn't been horrified by the thought of their children rejecting them, or worse, being taken away due to factors completely outside of their control?
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** The lead-up is also pretty ominous — the Grand Midwife declares that they're about to start "the Winnowing" and that Amy and Kif might want to avert their eyes. When Amy asks what that means, Kif sadly responds with "it means don't start naming them yet…"
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* While it's played for DarkHumor, there's something undeniable uncomfortable about "The Winnowing" in "Children of a Lesser Bog". Kif and Amy essentially have to watch all but three of their hundreds of children be devoured by swamp creatures ([[BewareTheNiceOnes and Zoidberg]]) as they emerge twenty years later. While not commented upon in the episode, Amy has to look away in horror.

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* While it's played for DarkHumor, there's something undeniable uncomfortable about "The Winnowing" in "Children of a Lesser Bog". Kif and Amy essentially have to watch all but three of their hundreds of children be devoured by swamp creatures ([[BewareTheNiceOnes and Zoidberg]]) and]] ''[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Zoidberg]]'' [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all people]]) as they emerge twenty years later. While not commented upon in the episode, Amy has to look away in horror.

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