Bender "Bending" Rodriguez! In the first half of the one hour season premiere of Futurama season 7, we got to see what it would be like if Bender had a child with Wanda Sykes (if Wanda Sykes was a vending machine that sells radioactive slurm loko). The result was Ben "Vending" Rodriguez an adorably hapless little robot whose only wish is to be able to bend like his father. However, due to the fact that his mother had no arms, Ben is unequipped with the necessary software to bend and the only way that he can get it is by replacing his memory chip thus eliminating all memories of growing up with his father. The most tragic part about this is that Bender, despite all his crude personality traits, loved his son. At first he was willing to renounce his son until he realized how poorly Ben was being treated by his neglectful mother. He even went as far as to kidnap his son back after his mother had one a custody battle. And in the end Bender was willing to erase his sons memory to allow for him to follow through with his dream to become a bending unit. This was probably the most touching episode of Futurama not involving the Fry and Leela love affair. As far as the rest of the episode goes, it wasn't so great. Fry became addicted to slurm loko and then eventually started glowing radioactively. No member of the Planet Express crew did anything to try and help Fry with his new addiction, instead they cast him out of the Planet Express team and only went back for him when they needed his radioactively glow to guide them through the smog (like rudolph) in order to get Ben to university in time for registration. All in all, Futurama is back for the summer and all is right with the jungle.
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