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* MuggingTheMonster: Bender acts like a complete jackass to a robot sitting in front of him at the theater. Eventually, the robot hits his limit, picks a fight, revealing himself to be the Masked Unit. "I'M GONNA OPEN A FILE OF '''WHUP-ASS!!''"


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* WorstSeatInTheHouse: While at the movie's, Bender finds himself sitting behind a taller robot which blocks his view of the screen.
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* TakeThat: This line from Fry:
-->'''Fry:''' Man, I thought Ultimate Robot Fighting was real, like pro wrestling, but it turns out it's fixed, like boxing.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Leela manages to defeat her mentor, Phnog, by having his controlled robot punch him.
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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Once Farnsworth "teaches the toaster to feel love", it barks and pants like a playful puppy.

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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Once Farnsworth "teaches the toaster to feel love", it barks and pants like acts a playful puppy.puppy--barking, yipping, and using its lever handle to "pant".
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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Once Farnsworth "teaches the toaster to feel love", it barks and pants like a playful puppy.

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* AndIMustScream: Hermes spends most of the episode with a Brain Slug on his head, courtesy of a stopover at the Brain Slug planet while on vacation. Everyone figures it out, but they're in no hurry to save him. Bender accidentally manages to dislodge the Brain Slug, but then it gets immediately put back on.

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* AndIMustScream: AndIMustScream:
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Hermes spends most of the episode with a Brain Slug on his head, courtesy of a stopover at the Brain Slug planet while on vacation. Everyone figures it out, but they're in no hurry to save him. Bender accidentally manages to dislodge the Brain Slug, but then it gets immediately put back on.on.
** {{Lampshaded}} when George Foreman says, "As a head without a body, I envy the dead."
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** The scene where Bender fires Leela is very reminiscent of ''Film/RockyV''.
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* BankruptcyBarrel: Parodied with one of Bender's opponents, "Billionaire-Bot". After Billionaire-Bot is defeated, Bender puts a barrel over him labeled "Very Poor".
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* CrackVictory: Leela lost a martial arts match after beating up the other competitors because she lacks the 'will of the warrior'. In other words, she's female.

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* CrackVictory: CrackDefeat: Leela lost a martial arts match after beating up the other competitors because she lacks the 'will of the warrior'. In other words, she's female.



** Phnog is based on [[Franchise//TheKarateKid Mister Miyagi]].

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** Phnog is based on [[Franchise//TheKarateKid [[Film/TheKarateKid Mister Miyagi]].



** Among the movies the gang consider seeing are ''[[Franchise//PlanetOfTheApes Planet of the Clams]]'' and ''[[Franchise/StarWars Galaxy Wars]]'' (the latter appears to be a documentary).

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** Among the movies the gang consider seeing are ''[[Franchise//PlanetOfTheApes ''[[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes Planet of the Clams]]'' and ''[[Franchise/StarWars Galaxy Wars]]'' (the latter appears to be a documentary).
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* HypocriticalHumor: The [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo and Crow]] ShoutOut.

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* HypocriticalHumor: The [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo and Crow]] ShoutOut.
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* HypocriticalHumor: The [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo and Crow]] ShoutOut.
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** Phnog is based on [[Film/TheKarateKid Mister Miyagi]].
*** And a fair amount of [[StarWars Yoda.]]

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** Phnog is based on [[Film/TheKarateKid [[Franchise//TheKarateKid Mister Miyagi]].
*** And a fair amount of [[StarWars [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda.]]



** Among the movies the gang consider seeing are ''[[Film/PlanetOfTheApes Planet of the Clams]]'' and ''[[Franchise/StarWars Galaxy Wars]]'' (the latter appears to be a documentary).

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** Among the movies the gang consider seeing are ''[[Film/PlanetOfTheApes ''[[Franchise//PlanetOfTheApes Planet of the Clams]]'' and ''[[Franchise/StarWars Galaxy Wars]]'' (the latter appears to be a documentary).
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* CrackVictory: Leela lost a martial arts match after beating up the other competitors because she lacks the 'will of the warrior'. In other words, she's female.
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** A fan at one of Bender's fights has a sign that reads "[[StoneColdSteveAustin Bender 3:16]]."

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** A fan at one of Bender's fights has a sign that reads "[[StoneColdSteveAustin "[[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Bender 3:16]]."
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* StayInTheKitchen: The attitude of Leela's sexist martial arts instructor, Phnog.

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* StayInTheKitchen: The attitude Master Fnog refused to send Leela, his best student, to the Junior Karate Championships, instead sending the two students she ''defeated'' in the qualifiers, because he claimed she did not have the Will of Leela's sexist martial arts instructor, Phnog.the Warrior - which according to him, only men can possess. Later, Leela encounters him during Bender's final bout in the Ultimate Robot Fighting League as the trainer of a new star, Destructor. She eventually uncovers Fnog was cheating and though he still taunts her for being a woman, she gets to beat him.
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*** And a fair amount of [[StarWars Yoda.]]

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* SpoofAesop: Bender loses his match, but as Leela says, the important thing is that she beat a guy who hurt her feelings in high school.



* SpoofAesop: Bender loses his match, but as Leela says, the important thing is that she beat a guy who hurt her feelings in high school.
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Bender joins the Ultimate Robot Fighting League and quickly becomes the champ--as the fight's are rigged so the most popular robot wins. But when Bender's popularity drops and he's ordered to lose to the devastating newcomer, the titanic Destructor. Leela decides to help Bender defeat Destructor when she discovers the other robot's trainer is her former, despised karate instructor, Phnog.

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Bender joins the Ultimate Robot Fighting League and quickly becomes the champ--as the fight's are rigged so the most popular robot wins. But when Bender's popularity eventually drops and he's ordered to lose to the devastating newcomer, the titanic Destructor. Leela decides to help Bender defeat Destructor when she discovers the other robot's trainer is her former, former despised karate instructor, Phnog.
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* ButtMonkey: Bender in the second-half of the episode.

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* AndIMustScream: Hermes spends most of the episode with a Brain Slug on his head, courtesy of a stopover at the Brain Slug planet while on vacation. Everyone figures it out, but they're in no hurry to save him. Bender accidentally manages to dislodge the Brain Slug, but then it gets immediately put back on.



* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Bender fights one of these.

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* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Bender fights one of these.these, called The Foreigner.


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** The opening to ''All My Circuits: The Movie'' is a spoof on every Franchise/JamesBond opening ever, complete with similar guitar riff.
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: The Masked Unit was [[ExtremeDoormat very patient]] until Bender [[BullyingADragon pushed him too far.]]


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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Written by Writing Unit 5, Writing Unit 12 and [[TokenHuman Joe Eszterhas]].
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* CaptainObvious: When describing Ultimate Robot Fighting:
-->'''Farnsworth''': There are no rules. Two robots enter, one robot leaves. Then later the other robot leaves after being declared the winner.
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* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
--> '''Bender:''' Final boarding call for Flight 406 -- Non-stop service to pain!
--> ''[[NoSell (Dink!)]]''
--> ''' Bender:''' Now boarding standby passengers... ''[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown (Wham!)]]''


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* ThereWasADoor: Destructor's entrance.
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Bender joins the Ultimate Robot Fighting League and quickly becomes the champ- because the fight's are rigged so the most popular robot wins. But when Bender's popularity drops and he's ordered to lose to the devastating newcomer, the titanic Destructor.

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Bender joins the Ultimate Robot Fighting League and quickly becomes the champ- because champ--as the fight's are rigged so the most popular robot wins. But when Bender's popularity drops and he's ordered to lose to the devastating newcomer, the titanic Destructor.
Destructor. Leela decides to help Bender defeat Destructor when she discovers the other robot's trainer is her former, despised karate instructor, Phnog.



** Among the movies the gang consider seeing are ''[[Film/PlanetOfTheApes Planet of the Clams]]'' and ''[[Franchise/StarWars Galaxy Wars]]''. (The latter appears to be a documentary)
** Inside the movie theater, Fry makes a sarcastic comment about a newsreel. Next to him, [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo and Crow]] tell him not to talk during the movie. Also HypocriticalHumor, as making sarcastic comments about crummy movies was the hook of ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''.
** The title references ''Film/RagingBull''. Also, there's a HomageShot to the famous HitStop scene.

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** Among the movies the gang consider seeing are ''[[Film/PlanetOfTheApes Planet of the Clams]]'' and ''[[Franchise/StarWars Galaxy Wars]]''. (The Wars]]'' (the latter appears to be a documentary)
documentary).
** Inside the movie theater, Fry makes a sarcastic comment about a newsreel. Next to him, [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo and Crow]] tell him not to talk during the movie. Also HypocriticalHumor, as making sarcastic comments about crummy movies was the hook of ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''.\n
** The title references ''Film/RagingBull''. Also, there's There's also a HomageShot to the famous HitStop scene.



* SquashedFlat: Bender at the end of the match with Destructor.

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* SquashedFlat: Bender at the end of the his match with Destructor.
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* SeeYouInHell: Parodied.
-->'''Phnog:''' See you in Girl Hell. I'll be in Boy Hell, much nicer!
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** A fan at one of Bender's fights has a sign that reads "[[StoneColdSteveAustin Bender 3:16]]."
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** The title references ''Film/RagingBull''. Also, there's a HomageShot to the famous HitStop scene.
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** Inside the movie theater, Fry makes a sarcastic comment about a newsreel. Next to him are [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 two familiar robots]] who tell him not to talk during the movie.

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** Inside the movie theater, Fry makes a sarcastic comment about a newsreel. Next to him are him, [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 two familiar robots]] who Tom Servo and Crow]] tell him not to talk during the movie.movie. Also HypocriticalHumor, as making sarcastic comments about crummy movies was the hook of ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''.
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* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Bender fights one of these.
-->"I'm not from here! I have my own customs! Look at my craaaaaazy passport!"
* TheGiant: Destructor.
* GorgeousGeorge: Bender is forced to take the persona of Gender Bender, complete with pink tutu uniform, for his last match.
* ShoutOut:
** Phnog is based on [[Film/TheKarateKid Mister Miyagi]].
** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour "It's Benderin' time!"]]
** Among the movies the gang consider seeing are ''[[Film/PlanetOfTheApes Planet of the Clams]]'' and ''[[Franchise/StarWars Galaxy Wars]]''. (The latter appears to be a documentary)
** Inside the movie theater, Fry makes a sarcastic comment about a newsreel. Next to him are [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 two familiar robots]] who tell him not to talk during the movie.
* SquashedFlat: Bender at the end of the match with Destructor.
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Bender joins the Ultimate Robot Fighting League and quickly becomes the champ- because the fight's are rigged so the most popular robot wins. But when Bender's popularity drops and he's ordered to lose to the devastating newcomer, the titanic Destructor.

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* SpoofAesop: Bender loses his match, but as Leela says, the important thing is that she beat a guy who hurt her feelings in high school.
* StayInTheKitchen: The attitude of Leela's sexist martial arts instructor, Phnog.
-->'''Phnog:''' No girl has the will of the warrior. You have the will of a housewife, or at best, a schoolmarm.
* TheMovie: The PE team goes to see ''[[SoapWithinAShow All My Circuits: The Movie]]'' at the beginning.
* YourBrainWontBeMuchOfAMeal: When Fry gets a brain slug, we soon see that it apparently starved to death. The creator's commentary admit that this is the oldest joke.

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