Line #22 Recap/FuturamaS2E13BenderGetsMade


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3	''[[CouchGag Simulcast On Crazy People's Filings]]''
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5	Bender gets the job of a lifetime--working for the Robot Mafia. His loyalties are tested when their next heist is robbing a crate of expensive cigars from Planet Express.
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7	!!Tropes:
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9	* AcePilot: Fry actually manages to fly the Planet Express ship better than Leela, while at the same time having a gunfight with the Robot Mafia. Using ''string''.
10	* ActingForTwo: In-universe with Bender in this episode.
11	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Bender tries scamming the Donbot, and as Joey Mousepad and Clamps advance, Donbot laughs, impressed by Bender's ball-bearings.
12	* AxCrazy: Clamps is a bit [[{{Understatement}} weird about clamps]].
13	* BaitAndSwitch: When asked to help out with the heist, Bender stares off into the distance, declaring "it's funny, until now I always wanted to be a gangster..." and then says he'll help.
14	* BlindMistake: Once blinded, Leela makes a few of these... which would be hilarious, if they didn't continue while she was piloting.
15	* {{Bowdlerization}}: Once again, Creator/CartoonNetwork and TBS cut out one of the professor's lines. This time, it's "Holy Zombie Jesus!" after he sees the restaurant bill. And similar to "The Deep South," Cartoon Network muted out the "Jesus" part while TBS just cut the entire line while the [=DVD=]s, Netflix, Hulu, the original FOX version ([[ScheduleSlip if anyone managed to see it]]), Comedy Central, and [=SyFy=] Channel have it uncut.
16	* BriefAccentImitation: Bender gives himself a British accent in order to make sure the blindfolded Fry and Leela don't recognize him.
17	* CaptainObvious: Joey Mousepad, on seeing Leela flying toward the Robot Mafia's car.
18	-->'''Joey:''' They's headed toward our general proximity! Maybe you should give 'em the clamps, Clamps!
19	-->'''Clamps:''' [[SarcasmMode Gee, ya think?]] Ya think I should use these clamps, that I use ''every day'', at ''every opportunity''? Yer a freaking genius, ya idiot!
20	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Bender goes to the door and finds Tinny Tim waiting. He believes the Robot Mafia has sent a helpless child to finish him off, and kicks the kid's leg off. Tim's just there to deliver his cut from the heist.
21	* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: The robot mafia operate out of a freezer of a local butcher shop.
22	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Joey declares that the heist "may involve some death killin'". He also recommends the Mafia "shoot bullets out of our guns."
23	* DineAndDash: Elzar thinks this is what the Planet Express crew want to do after they refuse to pay the expensive bill (even though he said it was his treat) so he had them arrested. Bender works in the kitchen in order to pay off their debt.
24	-->'''Smitty:''' The old dine-and-dash, huh? My daddy owned a restaurant and it's punks like you who kept it from going regional. That's why I became a cop.
25	-->'''URL:''' Now it's payback time. Aw, yeah!
26	* DisproportionateRetribution: Poor Fry.
27	-->'''Smitty:''' He's making a break for it! Get 'im.
28	-->'''Fry:''' No, no, I was just picking my nose.
29	-->'''Smitty:''' He's picking his nose! Get 'im.
30	* DramaPreservingHandicap: Under normal circumstances, [[ActionGirl Leela]] would likely have beaten the Robot Mafia singlehandedly in a fight or easily escaped using her [[AcePilot piloting skills]]. Thus, she's blinded early on to make sure she can't use either of her abilities.
31	* EasilyForgiven: Despite the main characters racking up a $1,200 bill at Elzar's, he doesn't seem to care too much when Bender walks away from working off the debt after what's implied to only be a half-day or so of menial jobs. Though this can probably be justified as Elzar not wanting to cross the Robot Mafia, since Bender leaves him to work for them (either that, or Elzar just pays his staff obscenely well). It's also possible he found Bender hanging around so annoying that he decided to let the whole thing go.
32	* EveryoneHasStandards: Bender has no qualms about doing all manner of illegal things under the Robot Mafia but draws the line at killing Fry and Leela.
33	* EyeScream: Leela gets spice weasel spice Bammed into her eye, blinding her for days.
34	* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Exaggerated. Though Leela's blindness factors in predominantly in the second half, the Elzar plot is quickly abandoned the moment the Robot Mafia arrive on the scene. ''How'' quickly?
35	-->'''Bender:''' Hey, Elzar! I quit!!!
36	-->'''Elzar:''' (''off-screen'') 'Kay!
37	* HaveAGayOldTime: Upon being asked if he wants to work for the Donbot as a hired goon, Bender happily exclaims "I have always wanted to break into gooning!" That, uh, [[RagingStiffie doesn't quite mean the same thing 20 years later.]]
38	* HonorBeforeReason: Leela insists on doing her usual AcePilot job despite being blind. This causes a number of {{Blind Mistake}}s.
39	* ImmediateSelfContradiction:
40	-->'''Bender:''' Hey, who are they?
41	-->'''Elzar:''' Let's just say they're very good customers and I'm not answering any more questions.
42	-->'''Bender:''' Are they the Robot Mafia?
43	-->'''Elzar:''' Yes.
44	* KickTheDog: After Leela inadvertently destroys the roof of the Planet Express building, Hermes looks at the damage, then turns to Zoidberg and says, "That's coming out of your pay!", reducing Zoidberg to tears.
45	* KillItWithFire: The Donbot's idea to deal with Planet Express after stealing the cigars: Burn down the ship and burn down ''the crew''.
46	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: The poor sap who can't pay his rent gets shot full of holes as a warning... and then walks away. Justified because he's a robot.
47	* MisplacedRetribution: When Leela smashes the Planet Express ship through the ceiling shutters, Hermes takes the repair charges out of [[ButtMonkey Zoidberg]]'s pay.
48	* MultipleGunshotDeath: Subverted. The poor robot that couldn't afford the week's payment gets riddled with bullets but survives because he's a robot.
49	* NotSoAboveItAll: Leela usually serves as Fry's voice of reason whenever he lets something go to his head. However, when blinded she practically thinks she's Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} (with the expected but not unwelcome chaotic results).
50	* OddlySmallOrganization: "We're the Robot Mafia. The ''entire'' Robot Mafia."
51	* OverlyLongGag: Bender's oil SpitTake when he sees the Robot Mafia's next target is the Planet Express ship. It lasts about 10 seconds.
52	* PaperThinDisguise[=/=]NewspaperThinDisguise: Smitty and URL hanging out on a street corner in plain clothes over their normal uniforms, reading ''Non-Cops News''.
53	* PetTheDog: Donbot lets his client off with just a warning after he was unable to pay the monthly protection fees. Yes, he had his goons riddle the sap with bullets but being a robot, was no more effective than a verbal reprimand.
54	* PoliceBrutality: Smitty and URL give Fry a good beating for no reason and pull Bender over for an "illegal search".
55	* RefugeInAudacity: Bender's attempt to pocket The Donbot's change outrages his goons at first, but when Bender tells the guy, ''to his face'', that he's trying to steal from a dangerous mafioso, The Donbot considers it funny.
56	* RiddledAndRattled: The Robot Mafia inflicts this on a poor robot who can't afford his [[ProtectionRacket protection payments]]. Being a robot, having dozens of holes shot into him isn't enough to kill him, nor is that even the intention. While he topples over as soon as the shooting stops, he just gets straight back up again afterwards. To the Robot Mafia, that act was simply a warning.
57	* ShapedLikeItself: The Donbot tells Bender that they'll be committing "crimes that may be illegal".
58	* SophisticatedAsHell: Bender's British accent doesn't change his vocal patterns, resulting in "I say, get the hell off."
59	* SpitTake: After realizing that the ship the Robot Mafia is going to attack is none other than the Planet Express Ship, Bender does a full ''ten second'' spit-take after drinking some oil up until the commercial break. On the DVD commentary they say that if they had been able to, they would have still had him doing it after coming ''out'' of the commercial break.
60	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The sign on the wall of Fronty's Meat Market reads, "Not a front since 2997."
61	* TookALevelInDumbass: Leela, on being blinded. It's not in the sense that she actually becomes less intelligent, but because she stubbornly insists on still trying to fulfil her usual duties despite being blind, something that proves beyond her typical hyper-competency.
62	* WorkOffTheDebt: Even though it was supposed to be as restitution for blinding Leela, Elzar charges the crew a small fortune for the meal, with Bender volunteering to work it off.
63	* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Averted. "You flatter me, kind goon."

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