History Recap / FuturamaS1E9HellIsOtherRobots

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the end of the episode, Fry and Leela get Bender back, and he vows to be neither too good or too evil again--he'll just be himself. When Leela asks if he can't just be slightly less evil than that, Bender asks if she can survive a seven hundred foot fall.

* DefensiveWhat: Bender, charred and blackened and with his legs melted into a puddle by the electrical storm he forced the crew's ship into in search of a bigger high, gives one of these when Leela, Farnsworth, and Hermes all glare at him after Amy chisels him off the hull.

** While this is the first episode that establishes Hermes' contempt for Zoidberg, the latter reacts angrily to first being accused of stealing electricity, and then having his salt water cooler taken away on cost-cutting grounds. In later episodes, Zoidberg's depicted as being so pathetic that he'd probably have been flattered that Hermes even remembered he ''exists''.

* EvilerThanThou: Bender tries to invoke this on himself, but the Robot Devil merely responds "we've checked around, there really aren't."

* StatusQuoIsGod: Bender starts jacking on and gets worse about the habit. He finds religion and it makes him a better person. He decides to screw the religion and becomes more evil than he was before. The experiences in Robot Hell eventually lead him to adopt his original, slightly-jerkish personality without much changing from the events.

** A hellish amusement park in NJ that tortures and injures the people who show up? If you're a Gen-Xer from the tri-state area, you're probably thinking of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park Action Park]], aka Class Action Park, aka Traction Park.

* AbandonedArea: Robot Hell is situated inside of an old, abandoned amusement park called "Reckless Ted's Funland." Fry remembers the place from his pre-freezing days, claiming to Leela (and Nibbler) that the park was forced shut down after a bunch of people (somehow) contracted salmonella from the park's log flume ride.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the end of the episode, Fry and Leela get Bender back, and he vows to be neither too good or too evil again--he'll just be himself. When Leela asks if he can't just be less evil than that, Bender asks if she can survive a seven hundred foot fall.

* AnAesop: Bender's lesson: Be humble, don't get too addicted to drugs or religion or other bad things, and, most of all, BeYourself.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: More like "Singing Is a Free Action". While Leela and Bender are still on a long slide trip during the "Robot Hell" song, Fry complains that he doesn't feel well, but she replies that they both have to rescue Bender because they were the ones who "tempted him to sin" in the first place. Fry has doubts and tries making excuses such as "Maybe [Bender] likes it here in hell" and "Maybe he's back at the motel." She reassures him not to be scared and that either she or Fry may be spared. It then ends in a LampshadeHanging:

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: From Leela; "Time for the drum solo."

* AbandonedArea: Robot Hell is situated inside of an old, abandoned amusement park called "Reckless Ted's Funland." Fry remembers the place from his pre-freezing days, claiming to Leela (and Nibbler) that the park was forced shut down after a bunch of people (somehow) contracted salmonella from the park's flume ride.

** A hellish amusement park that tortures and injures the people who show up? If you're a Gen-Xer from the tri-state area, you're probably thinking of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park Action Park]], aka Class Action Park, aka Traction Park.