History Recap / FuturamaS1E9HellIsOtherRobots

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness:

* BaitAndSwitch: When Bender stands before Starky's Den and turns to see the neon sign of the church, he proclaims "Maybe there's another way". Cut to him hooking onto the neon sign's power source.

* CirclesOfHell: The Devil's musical numbers sees him narrate the various tortures Bender will go through in the robotic, ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]''-esque "levels" of Hell. Circles include those for smoking, gambling, and digital piracy.
* CuttingTheKnot: When it's Leela's turn to play the golden fiddle, she ultimately uses it to beat up the Robot Devil so she, Fry and Bender can escape Robot Hell.
* 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.

* EvilerThanThou: Bender tries to invoke this on himself, but the Robot Devil merely responds “we’ve checked around, there really aren’t.”
* FantasticDrug: Electricity is this for robots. Bender getting hooked on it is the LeadIn.

* TheLastStraw: As Leela put it, the rest of Planet Express were willing to put up with Bender's other vices, his electricity addiction nearly got Fry and Leela killed.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Fry and Leela. Bender turns his life around from an addicting habit that nearly got his friend killed and even stopped his other bad habits such as stealing and slacking off at work. The only problems caused by his new ways are that he becomes [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace over-friendly]] at times. For this, Bender becomes an object of scorn for his co-workers, who then try to pressure him into leaving his religion. Even when he pleads with them to leave him alone and states he's found inner peace, they merely scoff and ridicule him further.

'''Bender:''' Your mama! Now shut up and drive me to work!

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Leela finds Bender in the bathroom and asks, "Bender, are you jacking on in there?", in reference to drug addiction and/or [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]] (jacking ''off'' in the latter case).

* 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 six hundred foot fall.

''Condemned by the Space Pope''

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: The Robot Devil [[LargeAndInCharge looms over]] Fry, Leela and Bender in this episode whereas in all future appearances they're the same height.

%%* FantasticDrug: Electricity is this for robots.

%%* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The Robot Devil. Several times.

* EasyRoadToHell: The religion Bender joins will tolerate absolutely no sin. Do it once, and it's off to Robot Hell. It might have more to do with Bender outright tearing off their symbol and hocking it into the trash, as it start sending out the signal to send him to hell, after that, but not when he actually sinned.

* FantasticDrug: Electricity is this for robots.

-->'''Leela:''' Who would've thought hell would actually exist... and that it would be in New Jersey?
-->'''Fry:''' [[TakeThat Actually...]]

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The Robot Devil. Several times.

-->'''Fry:''' Who was that guy?
-->'''Bender:''' Your mama! Now shut up and drive me to work!

* AbandonedArea: Robot Hell is situated inside the closed Funland park.

* 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. When Leela asks if he can't just be less evil than he was, Bender asks if she can survive a six hundred foot fall.

* CuttingTheKnot: When it's Leela's turn to play the golden fiddle, she uses it to beat up the Robot Devil instead.

* FantasticDrug: Electricity, but only for robots.

* HollywoodDensity: A {{lampshade|Hanging}} gets hung on this when Fry and Leela are going to have a fiddle contest with the Robot Devil where the prizes are Bender's soul and a solid gold fiddle. When Fry (of all people) asks "Wouldn't a solid gold fiddle weigh hundreds of pounds and sound crummy?" the Robot Devil admits that it's mostly for show, then (being a robot) takes it and plays a complicated piece on it. When Bender flies to escape with Fry and Leela, he suggests ''dropping'' the gold fiddle if they want to get away.

* TakeThat: Atlantic City, where the crew trick Bender into going to so as to get him sinning again, is depicted as a terrible place. Not only that, but apparently New Jersey is where Hell is located.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: The crew, especially Leela and Fry, with Bender once he finds religion.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Leela finds Bender in the bathroom and asks, "Bender, are you jacking on in there?", in reference to drug addiction and/or [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]].

* HollywoodDensity: A {{lampshade|Hanging}} gets hung on this when Fry and Leela are going to have a fiddle contest with the Robot Devil where the prizes are Bender's soul and a solid gold fiddle. When Fry (of all people) asks "Wouldn't a solid gold fiddle weigh hundreds of pounds and sound crummy?" the Robot Devil admits that it's mostly for show, then (being a robot) takes it and plays a complicated piece on it.

* 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.

* TakeThat: Atlantic City, where the crew trick Bender into going to so as to get him sinning again, is depicted as a terrible place.