History Recap / FuturamaS3E17APharaohToRemember

* BadBoss: Once he becomes Pharaoh, Bender really gets into this territory. Consider the below exchange (which takes place while [[TooImportantToWalk he sits on a throne]] [[KickTheDog Fry and Leela have to carry on their backs]]:

Bender fears that he will not be remembered when he dies, and schemes to ensure his legacy. When the PE crew are enslaved on the {{Ancient Egypt}}ian-like Osiris-4, Bender quickly scams his way into the pharaoh's throne, starting a reign of terror that will likely not be forgotten.

* AfterlifeOfService: When the Osirians throw Bender into his own tomb he demands servants to attend to him in the afterlife. Fry and Leela are immediately tossed in with him to fill this role.

* BadBoss: Once he becomes pharaoh, Bender really gets into this territory. Consider the below exchange (which takes place while [[TooImportantToWalk he sits on a throne]] [[KickTheDog Fry and Leela have to carry on their backs]]:

-->'''Second slave''': Mighty pharaoh, it hurts when I breathe.

* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: "Ladies and gentlemen, the pharaoh ... [[BlatantLies suddenly died]]."

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even the slave-driving Osirians find Bender too much, hence why they depose him so quickly.

* GloriousDeath: Bender's favorite cause of death is "being crushed by a runaway semi driven by Franchise/TheIncredibleHulk," Fry using it as Bender's own cause of death during his mock-funeral.

* ItsAllAboutMe: This is Bender at his most selfish. The crux of the episode is that he falls into depression because he doesn't think anyone will remember him after he dies (simply because a heist of his was incorrectly attributed to a human criminal), and goes so far as to become a ''slave-driving tyrant'' of an entire planet just to make a name for himself.
* JokeOfTheButt: One gag has Bender spray-paint graffiti on a building so that it depicts him flexing his arms and accompanied by a caption reading "Bender lives large and kicks butt", afterwards Sal demolishes the building so that the depiction of Bender turns into a giant bottom (with a literal butt crack) and the caption becomes "Bender licks butt".
* KarmaHoudini: After all he's done to all the slaves and his friends, Bender goes back to his job in Planet Express after securing the legacy he sought so hard to achieve.
* KickTheDog: Once he's pharaoh, Bender treats Fry and Leela just as badly as the other slaves, and in one way even worse, demanding they be buried alive in his pyramid.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The man playing the piano at the old pharaoh's funeral is obviously based on Music/EltonJohn.

* PoorCommunicationKills: The pharaoh of Osiris-4 plans to free all the slaves, but because of Bender's impatience he never manages to get the words out.

* RuleOfThree: When describing the famous pharaohs he remembers, Bender lists two, but on the third he's forgotten the guy's name. He still somberly adds that "Whatshisname" was the greatest of all.

** The pianist playing at the pharaoh's funeral looks and sounds suspiciously like Music/EltonJohn. The performance is specifically a parody of “Candle in the Wind 1997,” which John performed at the funeral of Princess Diana.

* SurroundedByIdiots: Leela expresses this view after the Osirians crown Bender as the new pharaoh.

-->'''Bender:''' Citizens of me! [[HopeSpot The cruelty of the old pharaoh is a thing of the past.]] Let a whole ''new'' wave of cruelty wash over this lazy land!
* VillainsDyingGrace: This is attempted, but unfortunately fails. When the old pharaoh is fatally injured, he tries to order the slaves be freed before he dies, but Bender's impatience means he can't get the words out before he expires.

* BadBoss: Once he becomes pharaoh, Bender really gets into this territory. Consider the below exchange (which takes place while [[TooImportantToWalk he's sat on a throne]] [[KickTheDog Fry and Leela have to carry on their backs]]:

* FanService: Amy and Leela at Bender's "funeral."

* Bouquet Toss: Parodied. Bender tosses the bouquet at his mock funeral, and it lands in the Professor's hands. Amy [[MoodDissonance excitedly]] responds with "I know whose funeral we'll be attending next!"

** The pianist playing at the pharaoh's funeral looks and sounds suspiciously like Music/EltonJohn. The performance is specifically a proxy of “Candle in the Wind 1997,” which John performed at the funeral of Princess Diana.

** The pianist playing at the pharaoh's funeral looks and sounds suspiciously like Music/EltonJohn.

* AncientAstronauts: The Osirians visited Earth during Ancient Egypt and based their entire civilization on them, in something of an inversion of how the trope usually plays. (They even learned space travel from the Egyptians, [[FridgeLogic however that works out]][[invoked]].)
* ArkhamsRazor: The most logical explanation for the pyramids is that the Egyptians built them. The less logical one is AncientAstronauts. The least logical one is that the AncientAstronauts came, and learned how to build pyramids from the Egyptians--so of course, it's the one they go with.

* BadBoss: Once he becomes Pharoah, Bender really gets into this territory. Consider the below exchange (which takes place while [[TooImportantToWalk he's sat on a throne]] [[KickTheDog Fry and Leela have to carry on their backs]]:

-->'''Second slave''': Mighty Pharaoh, it hurts when I breathe.
-->'''Bender''': [[NoSympathy Well, what do you think you should stop doing?!]] Crawl pigs! [''Whips Fry and Leela to get them moving'']

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The third act opens with one slave talking with a man advertising a way to lose weight. The man at the desk puts it [[BrutalHonesty bluntly]]: "What we do is we starve ya to death."

* KickTheDog: Once he's Pharaoh, Bender treats Fry and Leela just as badly as the other slaves, and in one way even worse, demanding they be buried alive in his pyramid.
* LegacySeeker: Bender's motivation in the episode is to be remembered after he's gone. When the crew is enslaved by an alien civilization based on Ancient Egypt, Bender manipulates himself into becoming their new Pharaoh, and commissions a gigantic statue of himself. Unfortunately, he is betrayed by his followers for being... well, himself, and is buried alive under the statue. Fry and Leela help him escape, but only after they make him apologize for his behavior, and sacrifice the statue during their rescue.

* PlanetOfHats: Osiris-4, a planet with a culture like Ancient Egypt ... or, rather, TheThemeParkVersion of Ancient Egypt.

* SignsOfDisrepair: Bender paints graffiti on the side of a building that reads "Bender lives large and kicks butt", along with a picture of himself. Moments later, the building is demolished, and the pieces fall so that the graffiti now reads "Bender licks butt", while the picture of Bender becomes a butt.