Godfellas

"Godfellas"
Futurama episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 20
Directed by	Susie Dietter
Written by	Ken Keeler
Production code	3ACV20
Original air date	March 17, 2002
Opening caption	"Please Turn Off All Cell Phones and Tricorders"
Opening cartoon	"Censored" (1944)
Season 3 episodes
January 2001 – December 2002 "Amazon Women in the Mood" "Parasites Lost" "A Tale of Two Santas" "The Luck of the Fryrish" "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" "Bendless Love" "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" "That's Lobstertainment!" "The Cyber House Rules" "Where the Buggalo Roam" "Insane in the Mainframe" "The Route of All Evil" "Bendin' in the Wind" "Time Keeps On Slippin'" "I Dated a Robot" "A Leela of Her Own" "A Pharaoh to Remember" "Anthology of Interest II" "Roswell That Ends Well" "Godfellas" "" "The 30% Iron Chef"
List of Futurama episodes

"Godfellas" is the 20th episode in the third production season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 17, 2002. The episode was written by Ken Keeler and directed by Susie Dietter. It features Bender becoming the god of a tiny civilization, and explores various religious issues. The episode won the first Writers Guild of America Award for animation.

During a space pirate attack, Bender—trying to find some peace and quiet in a torpedo tube—is accidentally fired into space. Because Bender was launched when the ship was at its top speed, it is impossible to catch up with him. After an asteroid crashes into Bender, a civilization of tiny humanoids ("Shrimpkins") grows on him and worships him as a god. Bender enjoys his new-found status, picking a prophet named Malachi and having Malachi bring "The One Commandment" ("God Needs Booze") to the Shrimpkins, who brew what for them are vast quantities of "Lordweiser" beer. The Shrimpkins begin praying for rain, sun and wealth, and Bender attempts to heed their prayers—failing and unintentionally harming the Shrimpkins in the process. Malachi tells him that the Shrimpkins who migrated to his feel their prayers are unheeded and have become atheists. The atheists threaten war with Bender's worshippers. Bender, horrified that his previous attempts to help the Shrimpkins only harmed them, refuses to intervene. The micro-civilization is destroyed when the Shrimpkin factions launch atomic weapons out of Bender's nuclear piles.

Bender continues floating through space until he encounters a cosmic entity. During their time together, the entity tells Bender that it has had much the same experience with helping those who pray to it, and has given up on directly interfering in its worshippers' lives. It now uses a "light touch", which it compares to safecracking, pickpocketing, or insurance fraud. Bender asks if he can be sent back to Earth, but the entity claims that it does not know where Earth is.

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