Bender's body parts host a number of input / output devices.

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 human-like character is also reinforced by his ability to display many traits that are often regarded as exclusive to humans, such as whistling, snoring, having bloodshot eyes, crying, feeling at the least physical attraction, being tickled, dreaming, and belching.

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?

Following Bender's victory at the Olympic Games ( which he won after disguising himself as a woman to enter the women's division ), he sings " Hail, hail Rob-on-i-a, a land I didn't make up!

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!

One of the decisions which Matt Groening found to be particularly difficult was whether Bender's head should be square or round.

Futurama has returned to the theme of time travel twice since ; in Futurama: Bender's Big Score, although the cause of time travel is different, and in " The Late Philip J. Fry ", which involves a time machine that can only travel forwards in time-to specifically avoid creating a paradox.

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 ).

A segment of Walker's song " 30 Century Man " appears in the 2007 animated feature Futurama: Bender's Big Score, in which a short animated sequence illustrates Walker's lyric " shakin ' hands with Charles de Gaulle.

The only aspects of Roosevelt's agenda that escaped Bender's censure were certain humanitarian New Deal programs, notably the Works Progress Administration, which he accepted only as a temporary measure.

In the Futurama film Bender's Big Score, Cartman's head can be seen in a jar at the Head Museum while Lars and Leela feed Charles de Gaulle on their date.

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 ).

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.

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

Examples of the evil goatee's appearances in other media include Bender's " evil twin " Flexo in Futurama and a 2009 episode of The Colbert Report featuring Stephen Colbert and Dan Maffei wearing fake goatees while pretending to be evil versions of themselves.

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.

Because of a manufacturing error that left Bender without a backup unit, Bender's memory cannot be transferred to another robot.

On inspection of his body, it appears to be empty, though devices like the F-Ray reveal that, despite appearing hollow, Bender's body contains gears and other robotic components.

It was again severely damaged in Bender's Big Score, only to be repaired within the month and return fully operational in The Beast with a Billion Backs.

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.

She temporarily leaves Hermes for Barbados Slim in Bender's Big Score within minutes of his being decapitated, believing he would be unable to properly provide for the family as a mere head, only to return to him after Hermes utilizes his thinking skills to save Earth from a hostile takeover.

When Comedy Central committed to sixteen new episodes, it was decided that four straight-to-DVD films — Bender's Big Score ( 2007 ), The Beast with a Billion Backs ( 2008 ), Bender's Game ( 2008 ) and Into the Wild Green Yonder ( 2009 )— would be produced.

Bender returned to the program as a full-time host after the network closed down, but announced on December 11, 2010, that he was again stepping away from the program ; Seder announced on The Majority Report podcast December 17, 2010 that he would be Bender's replacement.

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.

Highlights of Bender's career have included an outstanding performance in the Pacers ' 2004 playoff series with the Celtics, where he led the Pacers in scoring in game 3, and set personal playoff career bests in rebounds and minutes in game 2.

In one of Bender's earliest performances with the band they played the Masonic Temple in Detroit on October 12, 1973 with a young Aerosmith opening the show.

LaMarr reprised his role as Hermes Conrad in the Futurama movies Bender's Big Score, The Beast with a Billion Backs, Bender's Game, and Into the Wild Green Yonder.

In " Proposition Infinity ", Bender's secret affair with Amy Wong leads to a referendum that approves legalization of robosexuality.

Bender's relationships with the crew of Planet Express vary from person to person, although he treats nearly all biological organisms with disdain.

In " Jurassic Bark " he states that he loves Fry " the way a human loves a dog " and in " I Second That Emotion " when Bender gets jealous of Nibbler and flushes him down the toilet, a distraught Leela asks how he would feel if she did the same to Fry, effectively describing Fry as Bender's pet ( Bender responds with an apathetic " Only one way to find out .").

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.

In the film Futurama: Bender's Big Score Leela falls in love with a seemingly perfect man, Lars, and they soon become engaged.

The crew returns to Roswell's ruins with a metal detector where they find Bender's head, none the worse for wear and saying he had been enjoying the centuries, and reattach it to his still-mangled, hovering, " UFO " body.

Hermes ' wife LaBarbara Conrad was once married to Slim ; she temporarily gets back together with him ( twice ) in Bender's Big Score.

Other animated movies Tom has voiced include Mulan II, Kim Possible: The Secret Files, Kim Possible Movie: So The Drama, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker and the four Futurama movies: Bender's Big Score, The Beast with a Billion Backs, Bender's Game and Into the Wild Green Yonder.

Shared story credits: " The Day the Earth Stood Stupid " and the Futurama made-for-DVD movies " Bender's Big Score ", " The Beast with a Billion Backs, " Bender's Game " ( both story and part 4 of the teleplay ) and " Into the Wild Green Yonder ".