DiMaggio describes Bender's voice as a combination of a sloppy drunk, Slim Pickens and a character his college friend created named " Charlie the sausage-lover ".

As Bender's memory contains an adult form, the episode's content suggests that the character might actually be recalling a transfer to an adult body, rather than the moment of creation.

This God appears to be distinct from the more ambiguous, universal ' God ' character that appeared in " Godfellas " and " Bender's Big Score ", who may or may not have been representative of the Gods of all religions, and / or a machine.

The character / entity returned, albeit briefly, in the first of the direct-to-DVD installments, Bender's Big Score.

The pottery wheel scene is very well known and often parodied, most notably in Saturday Night Live, Family Guy (" The Story on Page One "), All's Well, Ends Well, Naked Gun 2½, Loaded Weapon 1, The Penguins of Madagascar, Futurama (" Bendless Love " and " Bender's Game "), Community (" Beginner Pottery "), Victorious (" Survival of the Hottest "), Wallace & Gromit (" A Matter of Loaf and Death "), 6teen (" Unhappy Anniversary ") and Ellen (" Alone Again ...

All of this is especially intriguing, as Bender's ideal in life is to quit the Soviet Union for good.

Ostap Bender's origins are mysterious ; he mentions only that his father was " a Turkish subject " and that his full name is Ostap-Sulayman-Berta-Maria-Bender-Bey ( Остап-Сулейман-Берта-Мария-Бендер-Бей ).

Initially he worked under the idea that all robots would have square heads in 3000 ; however, it was later decided that Bender's head should be round, a visual play on the idea that Bender is a " round peg in a square hole ".

Bender's factory-set height is ; a little over with antenna.

Bender's serial number is 2716057, which can be expressed as the sum of 2 cubes .< ref > Specifically, 952 < sup > 3 </ sup > + (- 951 )< sup > 3 </ sup > with Flexo's serial number 3370318 = 119 < sup > 3 </ sup > + 119 < sup > 3 </ sup >.

The scope of Bender's functionality is immense and impressive as he often acts as if he was a multifunctional gadget rather than a simple, single-task bending machine.

Even when Bender's body is seemingly destroyed or completely detached from his head, it has no effect on Bender's ability to think and communicate, indicating that his electronic brain is located in his head.

Bender's hardware is controlled by a factory-loaded operating system, which reboots upon incidental shutdown and automatically adjusts its settings to the environment detected at the time of rebooting.

Although consumption of booze is necessitated by Bender's design and should not be generally viewed as a vice for alcohol-fueled robots, he apparently drinks far more than he needs for energy conversion.

The fact that Bender's ghost is an incorporeal program rather than a soul is further supported by the fact that the " spirits " on " The Honking ", where actually mere holograms of an old computer folder.

West also voices Lars Fillmore in Futurama: Bender's Big Score, who is a time travel duplicate of Fry with an injured larynx, and therefore, a slightly altered voice.

" In Bender's Game, he stated that he is 165 years old.

It is revealed in Bender's Game that the Professor is the biological father of Mom's youngest son Igner — ironically ( or not ), the one that the Professor despises the most.

In " Ghost in the Machines ", Bender's ghost is sent to an equivalent robot Heaven monitored by a Robot God whose streamlined design is reminiscent of EVE in the Pixar animated film Wall-E.

Jesus is referenced several times throughout the show, the most notable being on " A Tale of Two Santas ", where all of the crew dress up as Santa and Zoidberg dresses up as " his friend Jesus " to attempt to stay Bender's execution.

Catholicism is shown to still exist in some form in the 31st century, as the show makes several references to the " Space Pope ": in the opening titles of " Hell is Other Robots " ( stating that the show has been " Condemned by the Space Pope "); in " A Bicyclops Built for Two ", with Bender's rhetorical question " Is the Space Pope reptilian?

Bender's excessive drinking contributes to his characterization as an alcoholic (" Hell Is Other Robots " reveals that robots can function equally well on mineral oil instead of alcohol, also contributing to the perception of Bender's alcohol use as a vice ).

The plot device of having Bender's head being lost for many years on Earth while the rest of the crew returns to their own time also alludes to " Time's Arrow ", a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, and to the robot Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, who is left waiting for his masters for millions of years until the end of the Universe.

You can also see him in a soup line in " Bender's Big Score ".

Bender's works have also been published in Granta, GQ, Harper's, Tin House, Opium Magazine, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, and several anthologies.

He also wrote the direct-to-DVD Futurama movies Bender's Big Score and Into the Wild Green Yonder.

Because interrogatories are so heavily used in American discovery, there are two major compilations of generic interrogatories covering almost every conceivable type of legal case: Bender's Forms of Discovery: Interrogatories ( published by LexisNexis ) and Pattern Discovery ( published by West ).

Each of the proposed higher-order groups has been rejected by other researchers: Greenberg's Chari – Nile by Bender and Blench, Bender's Core Nilo-Saharan by Dimmendaal and Blench, and Ehret's Sahelian etc.

Fox were particularly disturbed by the concept of suicide booths, Doctor Zoidberg, and Bender's anti-social behavior.

Due to imperfect design by Professor Farnsworth, the energy conversion process inside Bender's body produces inordinate amount of waste gases and heat.

Though never addressed, an explanation to this seeming contradiction can be found on the fact that, as noticed by the Robot Devil himself, Bender's spirit existes on a universal wireless that allowed him to travel in the physical world while trapped in a Limbo-like loop.

Although he regularly frustrates the group, they have demonstrated a certain affection for him as well ; during " How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back " the entire crew traveled to the Central Bureaucracy to recover his brain after Morgan Proctor downloaded it onto a disc and sent it away, Hermes Conrad subsequently risking his bureaucratic license to locate the disc with Bender's brain on it by sorting the entire pile in just under four minutes.

Proof was then shot by the bouncer Mario Etheridge, Bender's cousin.

In Bender's Big Score, Hermes limbos under one sword that nicks his belly, but as he begins to gloat he is accidentally decapitated by another sword ( which was crossed with the first one over the Planet Express ' fireplace ).

Bender's political career eventually became clouded by allegations of corruption in his ties to the Teamsters ' Union.

The analysis of finite simple groups by means of the structure and embedding of the generalized Fitting subgroups of their maximal subgroups was originated by Helmut Bender and has come to be known as Bender's method.

Baltimore's collapse to a 47 – 107 record, 40 games out of first, was overshadowed only by the collapse of Bender's former team who went from a 99 – 53 league championship season to a dismal 43 – 109 record, 58½ games out of first in 1915.

It was a three-hour block of party-themed music sponsored by Bender's On George, a local nightclub, hosted by Mike Campbell and later Micky T ( Thomas ).

LaMarche has appeared in many films, including dubbing the voice of Orson Welles over Vincent D ' Onofrio's on-camera performance in Ed Wood ; Pepe Le Pew in Space Jam ; supplying the voice of the Alec Baldwin puppet in Team America: World Police, and reprising his roles from Queer Duck and Futurama in the direct-to-video films Queer Duck: The Movie and Futurama: Bender's Big Score, respectively.

Fry and the Professor are usually the only ones to refer to Zoidberg as a friend, as in Bender's Big Score, in which Zoidberg says, " He was the only one of you who never struck me!

Viewers are informed, through the character's own testimony, of Bender's prejudice against non-robots and his dialogue often contains anti-human expressions, such as " kill all humans ".

Exceptions who are not subject to Bender's prejudicial attitude are those individuals on his " Do Not Kill " list, such as his best friend, Fry, Hermes, Amy, Leela and Dr. Zoidberg.

However its location inside Bender's body and purpose are not specified.

Assuming the pieces are the remnants of a flying saucer, the military " reconstructs " Bender's body as such.

As the crew leaves Earth's atmosphere, Bender's head accidentally falls off the ship and they are forced to leave it behind in 1947.

Bender's levels are platformer-oriented, based on the Crash Bandicoot series, while Leela's revolve around hand to hand combat.