History Recap / FuturamaS6E6LethalInspection

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Hermes opens up the filing cabinet, he winds up knocking Bender the ground... which seemed to be a little too deliberate to have been an accident... There was also when they were at Hermes' cubicle at the Central Bureaucracy and Hermes said how only the assigned bureaucrat could get into the computers. When they are in Tijuana, he is able to get into Inspector #5's computer and disable the Kill bots.

** Hermes was the one who inspected Bender at the Tijuana manufacturing plan. Years later, they both happened to end up working at Planet Express.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Bender really does. The fact that he can't upsets him to no end (even though, as a robot, he still has millions of years left to live).

** Paul Lynde and Hollywood Squares gets a shot out when he Hermes goes to his cubicle.

* SeriesContinuityError: The episode ends with a flashback showing a baby Bender being approved by Hermes, when in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E6BendlessLove Bendless Love]]", Bender says that he remembers his own birth, being only four years old at the time, and is shown being built with his usual adult body.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Parodied when Bender thinks he's going to die due to lacking a backup unit.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Bender really does. The fact that he can't upsets him to no end.

* HeroicBSOD: Bender breaks into tears when he learns he's built without a backup unit and is willing to die once he comes to accept his newfound mortality (plus he still has a billion years to live).

* HeroicBSOD: Bender breaks into tears and is willing to die once he comes to accept his newfound mortality.

* BigNo: Bender shouts this when he learns that he's built without a backup unit.

''[[CouchGag Made you look!]]''

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* BodyBackupDrive: Robots have a wireless backup unit that save a copy of them every day, so if their bodies get killed, they'd just download into another body. With the exception of Bender, of course, which kicks off the plot.

* PetTheDog: Though [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mom]] is the closest thing the show has to a BigBad, she gets a small moment during the flashback sequence. When Hermes angrily resigns from her company, she has a sad (as opposed to angry) frown on her face and seems genuinely upset as she summons a donkey to kick him out. It makes sense that, given her ruthlessness, she would appreciate--and thus hurt to lose--a hard-working and dedicated employee like Hermes.

* BodyBackupDrive: Robots built in Futurama have a wireless backup unit that save a copy of them every day, so if their bodies get killed, they'd just download into another body. With the exception of Bender, of course, which kicks off the plot.

* ContinuityNod: Bender mentions that he was in Italy last week, a nod to the previous episode aired a week prior, "The Duh-Vinci Code".

* ShoutOut: The Sith-il War (punning on the Civil War), to Franchise/StarWars.

* HeroicBSOD: A memorable one by Bender once he comes to accept his newfound mortality.
** RoaringRampageOfRevenge: A less notable one by Bender before he comes to accept his newfound mortality.